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Preview Map - Department of Natural Resources

LEGEND
55° 00′
10′
32
42
42
Mo 86
47° 50′
47
47a
47b
10
20′
MAP 98-02
GEOLOGY OF THE CONNAIGRE PENINSULA
AND ADJACENT AREAS, SOUTHERN NEWFOUNDLAND
Pyr
10
(Parts of NTS 1M/5, 6, 11, 12 & 14 and 11P/8 & 9)
10
10
R
HE
32
13
13b
403 +5-4
26
7
30
31
Passage
29
csil
31
672 ± 3
34
Gaultois
Piccaire
Harbour
HE
RM
G
I TA 2
E
3
Pyr 4
6
2a
Pyr 3
Pyr 2
2
3
2
7
3
7
3
6
2
3
2
12
Cu,Mo
Fe
15b
10
15b
14
7
Mo 60
Mo 35
10
10
15
6
7
46
12
6
35
30′
7
6
7
Mo
10
9
Great
Harbour
Cu
7
7
7
12
12
9
Seal Cove
6
Basse Terre
Point
6
Deadman’s
Bight
35
Harbour
Breton
9
7
10
14
14
39
38
38
6
570 ± 3
37
6
Lst 16
GR
Eastern
Head
19
Cu
28
25a
47
44a
Stn
T
EA
Y
BA
DE
L’
U
EA
47
Furey, D. and Strong, D.F.
1986a: Geological map of the Harbour Breton Complex, Fortune Bay Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada, Open
File 1404.
1986b: Geological map of the Belleoram Pluton, Fortune Bay,
Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1405.
26
47b
25
27
F
44
44
47° 20′
1977: Harbour Breton miscellania, Newfoundland. In Report of
Activities. Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy,
Mineral Development Division, pages 2-5.
Williams, H.
1971: Geology of the Belleoram map area, Newfoundland.
Geological Survey of Canada Paper 70-65, 39 pages.
O’Brien, S.J., O’Driscoll, C.F., and Tucker, R.D.
1992: A reinterpretation of the geology of parts of the Hemitage Peninsula, southwestern Avalon Zone, Newfoundland. In
Current Research: Newfoundland Department of Mines and
Energy, Geological Survey Branch, Report 92-1, pages 185-194.
Widmer, K.
1950: The geology of the Hermitage Bay area, Newfoundland.
Unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Princeton University, Princeton,
New Jersey, 439 pages plus map.
18
27
U
Fe
F
28
18b
44
30
Coombs
Cove
44
Boxey
47b
45
Pb
45
25
English Harbour
West
I.D. No.
44
57
47b
50
Pb
44
28 F
F
40
45
44
45
44
45
44
44
Boxey Point
47b
47b
27
26a
25
Rock and Mineral Abbreviations
Island
23
23
25
24
23b
22
22
23
21
21
ba
bo
bs
by
ca
cas
carb
cco
ch
choc
cp
csil
dol
ep
fl
barite
bornite
bismuthinite
beryl
calcite
cassiterite
carbonate
chrysocolla
chlorite
chalocite
chalcopyrite
calc-silicate
dolomite
epidote
fluorite
gn
gr
hem
lst
mag
mal
mo
mu
po
py
q
sp
U
wof
Commodity Abbreviations
galena
granite
hematite
limestone
magnetite
malachite
molybdenite
muscovite
pyrrhotite
pyrite
quartz
sphalerite
uranium-bearing minerals
wolframite
Ba
Be
Cu
Fe
Fl
Lst
Mo
Pb
Pyr
Sia
Sn
Stn
U
W
Zn
18
22
21
18a
23
18
23a
Barium
Beryllium
Copper
Iron
Fluorine
Limestone
Molybdenum
Lead
Pyrite
Silica
Tin
Building stone
Uranium
Tungsten
Zinc
1
2
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
NMI Number
1M /12/Stn002
1M /12/Pyr009
1M /12/Pyr011
1M /12/Cu 003
1M /12/Cu 002
1M /12/Cu 001
1M /12/Pyr023
1M /12/Pyr012
1M /12/Zn 004
1M /12/Cu 004
1M /12/Pyr013
1M /12/Pyr014
1M /12/Pyr015
1M /12/Zn 001
1M /05/L st001
1M /12/Pyr008
1M /12/Zn 005
1M /12/Pyr007
1M /12/Pyr004
1M /12/Zn 006
1M /12/Pyr006
1M /12/Pyr005
1M /12/Cu 005
1M /05/L st002
1M /12/Pyr016
1M /05/Fe 001
1M /12/Cu 010
1M /12/M o 010
1M /05/U 001
1M /12/Pyr021
1M /12/Zn 002
1M /05/Pb 001
1M /12/M o 009
1M /12/M o 001
1M /12/Pyr022
1M /12/L st001
1M /12/Cu 011
1M /12/Zn 003
1M /05/U 002
1M /12/M o 011
1M /12/Fe 001
1M /12/Cu 006
1M /12/Pyr001
1M /12/Fe 006
1M /12/Cu 007
1M /12/Stn001
1M /12/Fe 002
1M /12/Fe 003
1M /05/Pb 002
1M /12/Pyr002
1M /12/M o 003
1M /12/Fe 004
1M /12/Pyr017
1M /12/Pyr018
1M /12/M o 002
1M /05/Pb 003
1M /12/Pyr003
1M /12/Pyr019
1M /12/M o 007
Deposit Name
Seal Cove
Hermitage East
Connaigre Head #2
K ippens Harbour Southwest
Great Harbour North
Great Harbour Bight East
Frenchman Cove West
Frenchman Cove South
Frenchman Cove
Harbour Breton Road
Harvey Hill #1
Harvey Hill #2
Harvey Hill #3
Frenchman Head
White Point
Connaigre Bay "C"
Olive Cove South #2
Connaigre Bay "B"
Olive Cove South #1
Olive Cove South #3
Connaigre Bay "A "
Connaigre Bay M ain
Shoal Brook
L ittle Bay Head
Hardy’s Cove East
Coomb’s Cove Iron
Winter Hill West
Taylor Bay Hills
Coomb’s Cove
Red Cove Head
Winter Hill
Blunder Cove
Rattling Brook West
Shoal Cove
Bald Point
Wreck Cove
Winter Hill North
Winter Hill East
Boxey Point Northwest
Bald Cove Northeast
Old Bay West
Net Point
Salmonier Cove
Bufford Cove North
Pig Point South
Old Bay Quarry
Salmonier Cove Southeast
Salmonier Cove East
Open Cove
English Harbour Hills
Salmonier Pond #2
Salmonier Pond #3
Country Road #1
Country Road #2
Salmonier Pond #1
Boxey Harbour Head
Salmonier Pond #5
Country Road #3
Furey’s Find
Status
1
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
7
7
7
7
5
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
6
7
7
7
5
6
7
7
7
6
6
6
7
7
6
7
7
7
7
3
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
BO
AR
H
Minerals and/or
Rocks Present
gr
py, q
py, q
choc, ep, ca
choc, ca, ep
choc, ca, ep
py
py, dol, csil
sp, py, sc
cp, ca, ep
py, csil
py
py
sp, gn, cp, py, q, ch
lst
py
sp, py
py
py
sp, py
py
py
(cp), py, ep, ch
lst
py, lst
hem, ca
cp, py
mo
(U)
py
sp, gn, cp, mal, cco, csil
gn, ca, fl, sp, py
mo
mo, q
py
lst, ca
cp, sp, mag
sp, gn, py
(U)
mo
mag, hem
bo, hem, mag, fl, mal
py
mag
cp, gn, py, ma
gr
mag
mag
gn, ca
py
mo, q
mag
py
py
mo, q
gn
py
py
mo, q
I.D. No.
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
NMI Number
1M /12/Fl 001
1M /12/M o 006
1M /12/Pyr020
1M /12/M o 004
1M /12/M o 008
1M /12/M o 005
1M /12/Fe 005
1M /06/Ba 001
1M /06/Fe 001
1M /11/Ba 003
1M /11/Ba 002
1M /14/Sia003
1M /11/Stn001
1M /11/Pyr002
1M /11/Fl 019
1M /11/Fl 018
1M /11/Pb 005
1M /11/M o 007
1M /14/Pyr016
1M /14/Pyr017
1M /14/Pyr018
1M /14/Pyr020
1M /14/Pyr019
1M /14/M o 004
1M /11/M o 001
1M /14/M o 003
1M /11/M o 006
1M /14/Be 002
1M /11/M o 002
1M /11/M o 008
1M /14/W 001
1M /11/M o 003
1M /11/Pb 004
1M /11/M o 004
1M /11/Pyr001
1M /11/M o 005
1M /11/Pb 002
1M /11/Pb 001
1M /11/Pb 003
1M /11/Fl 005
1M /11/Fl 006
1M /11/Fl 007
1M /11/Fl 015
1M /11/Fl 014
1M /11/Fl 016
1M /11/Fl 017
1M /11/Fl 013
1M /11/Fl 003
1M /11/Fl 008
1M /11/Fl 020
1M /11/Fl 001
1M /11/Fl 021
1M /11/Fl 012
1M /11/Fl 004
1M /11/Fl 009
1M /11/Fl 002
1M /11/Fl 011
1M /11/Fl 010
1M /11/Ba 001
18
Bird Island
10′
56° 00′
50′
Unseparated, black and dark-green to grey, mediumto coarse-grained gabbro and grey, medium-grained,
locally banded, quartz diorite and diorite; minor granodiorite and pink granite, the latter mainly as net-veins
11
Dark-grey, green, black and black-and-white, mediumto coarse-grained and pegmatitic gabbro
10
Grey, medium-grained, equigranular, hornblende-biotite
granodiorite and tonalite; minor gabbro
9
Dark-grey to green, fine- to medium-grained diorite
Units 6, 7 and 8 listed in increasing stratigraphic order; units 4
and 5 may include rocks that pre-date the Connaigre Bay Group
Downs Point Formation
40′
30′
20′
Red to purple, graded and cross-bedded sandstone and
and pebble to cobble conglomerate; red laminated silttone; 8a pink to purple, massive rhyolite and felsic
lithic-crystal tuff and fine-grained breccia
Doughball Point Formation
Grey to green, massive andesite and basalt; green
mafic tuff and agglomerate; minor felsic flows and finegrained pyroclastic rocks; includes unseparated hornfels
Sam Head Formation
Grey and green, well-bedded and laminated siltstone
6
and sandstone; grey and minor red, polymictic pebble
to boulder conglomerate at or near the base of the
formation; minor limestone
CONNAIGRE BAY GROUP ? (Units 5 and 6)
MINERAL OCCURRENCES
60
MINERAL OCCURRENCE SYMBOLS
Brunette
Grey, micaceous siltstone and thin-bedded siliceous
sandstone; also contains minor red siltstone, pink
quartzitic arkose, grey micaceous sandstone, shalepebble conglomerate and shale, and rare, grey limestone lenses; 25a hornfels
25
25a
7 - Indication ..................................
Otter Cove
Point
Pink-to orange, medium-grained, equigranular granite;
13a buff to grey granodiorite and minor unseparated
felsite; 13b grey to green, medium-grained diorite
12
7
26
25
23a
13
13a
13b
Chapel Island Formation
47
Smith, S.A. and Hiscott, R.N.
1984: Latest Precambrian to Early Cambrian basin evolution,
Fortune Bay, Newfoundland: fault-bounded basin to platform.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 21, pages 13791392.
Smith, B.L. and White.
1954: Geology of the Rencontre East area. Unpublished report and map, Geological Survey of Canada.
White, cross-bedded orthoquartzite; minor red and grey
shale and siltstone; 26a fine- to medium-grained, cross
bedded, brown-weathering flaggy sandstone
26
26a
25
27
Harbour Breton type area, Jerseymans Harbour and
Northeast Arm bodies: pink, medium- to coarse-grained,
mainly equigranular, biotite granite; 14a pink to red,
medium- to coarse-grained, porphyritic hornblende biotite granite
5
Unnamed volcanic-clastic sequence: unseparated darkgrey and green, massive to layered mafic tuffs and grey
and green tuffaceous sandstone; minor basalt
4
Unnamed metamorphic sequence: metasedimentary
and metavolcanic rocks, including psammite, massive
to foliated amphibolite and rare mylonitic paragneiss;
minor unseparated granodiorite and diorite
F
O’Brien, S.J., O’Driscoll, C.F., Greene, B.A., and Tucker, R.D.
1995: Pre-Carboniferous geology of the Connaigre Peninsula
and the adjacent coast of Fortune Bay, southern Newfoundland.
In Current Research: Newfoundland Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Branch, Report 95-1, pages 267297.
Greene, B.A.
1975: Harbour Breton, Newfoundland. Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division,
Open File Map.
30′
5 - Prospect ...................................
47
25
14
14a
8
8a
47a
25
Taylor Brook Stock of Harbour Breton Granite: pink,
medium- to coarse-grained, mainly equigranular, biotite
granite; 15a K-feldspar porphyritic hornblende granite;
15b fine-grained, plagiophyric monzogranite
CONNAIGRE BAY GROUP
Red and green shale containing minor quartzose sandstone beds near the base; minor grey shale and grey
and pink limestone in the upper part
6 - Showing ...................................
69
Pink-to purple, massive, banded and autobrecciated
rhyolite, and locally, unseparated grey to green mafic
tuffs and agglomerate; 16a purple to green and black
basalt and andesite; 16b pebble conglomerate sandstone and argillite; 16c hornfels
15
15a
15b
Black shale and minor grey, fine-grained sandstone
Random Formation
3 - Past Producer-dormant ............
St. Jacques
Grey slate, siltstone and sandstone; 17a purple tuffaceous sandstone, pebble conglomerate and agglomerate at base; 17b rhyolite
SIMMONS BROOK INTRUSIVE SUITE (Units 9 and 10)
Chamberlains Brook Formation
25a
Ba 68
44
27 47b
F
29
Unseparated grey, green or pale-pink, fine- to coarsegrained paragneiss and dark-green, fine- to mediumgrained amphibolitic gneiss
MIDDLE CAMBRIAN
Status:
47b
Mose
Ambrose
44
26a
Light-grey, medium-grained, tonalitic orthogneiss
4 - Past Producer-exhausted .........
44
26
30
27
73
Mainly green and purple basalt flows, and minor mafic
pyroclastic rocks, locally containing unseparated tuffaceous sedimentary rocks; includes unseparated
pillowed flows on the islands south of Brunette Island;
18a pink rhyolite flows and fine to coarse-grained
pyroclastic rocks; 18b dark green to purple amygdaloidal basalt. 18c purple and red sandstone; grey slate
and sandstone
GROLE INTRUSIVE SUITE (Unit 12)
Friar Head
FORTUNE BAY
47
47b
O’Brien, S.J. and O’Driscoll, C.F.
1994: Geology of the western Connaigre Peninsula, Newfoundland. Newfoundland Department of Natural Resources,
Geological Survey, Map 94-243.
25
18a
2- Developed Prospect .................
Fe 48
18
18a
18b
18c
LITTLE PASSAGE GNEISS (Units 29 and 30)
F 113
1 - Producer ...................................
Fe
U
Sagona
Island
SILURIAN AND EARLIER
28
47b
F
O’Driscoll, C.F.
1977: Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the Hermitage
Peninsula, southern Newfoundland. Unpublished M.Sc thesis,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 144 pages.
H
EARLY CAMBRIAN
19b
44a
F
1987: Hungry Grove Pond, Fortune Bay District, Newfoundland.
Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division, Open File Map 87-056.
e
F 76
51
47b
44
F
m
16
F 107
16
m
Fe
Belleoram
44a
25
REFERENCES
Dickson, W.L.
1983: Geology, geochemistry and mineral potential of the
Ackley Granite and parts of the North West Brook and Eastern
Meelpaeg Complexes, southeast Newfoundland (Parts of map
areas 1M/10, 11, 14,15,16; 2D/1,2,3 and 7). Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division,
Report 86-3, 129 pages.
Conne
117
Foliated, biotite-rich, pink-K-feldspar megacrystic granite
31
16
r.
Island
Ba 71
6
Colman-Sadd, S.P., Greene, B.A. and O’Driscoll, C.F.
1979: Gaultois map area. Newfoundland Department of Mines
and Energy, Mineral Development Division, Open File Map
79-104.
F
Ba119
Salmonier Cove Formation
16c
28
18
Connaigre
Head
F
16a
Chapel
25
F 75
Purple conglomerate; minor sandstone and siltstone
(forms the base of the Rencontre Formation in the
northern Fortune Bay area, where it lies conformably
on the Mooring Cove Formation and disconformably on
the Belle Bay Formation); 19a unseparated, red and
purple, locally micaceous, sandstone, siltstone and
conglomerate; minor grey sandstone and siltstone; 19b
hornfels
YOUNGS COVE GROUP (Units 25-28)
Pyr 74
47
19
19a
19b
HARDY’S COVE GRANITE
CAMBRIAN
Fe 49
46
Foliated, medium-grained, equigranular, biotite- and
muscovite-biotite granite; includes unseparated, foliated,
pink muscovite granite of the Northwest Cove Granite
LATE CAMBRIAN
16c
Pyr
47b
7
116
77
47
Pb33
39
39
6
Pb,Zn
18a
16c
47b
Lst
7
6
14
43
32
GAULTOIS GRANITE
16
F118
Big
19b
44
37
37
14
F
115
24
47a
44a
Hr.
Breton
12
F
F 110
F 101
F,Ba111
108
17a F
F 106
F103
16
F 105
F 104
114
24
19b
19b
Wreck Cove
38
40
Fe67
Unseparated, equigranular and K-feldspar porphyritic
biotite and muscovite-biotite granite
18b
19
Red to purple, medium- to coarse-grained sandstone
SILURIAN
16
F 112
Ba 70
16
37
40
Bay
Jersey
Hr.
6
Lst 37
40
14
35
35
19
551 ± 6
25a
Mo52
25a
F
40
Little
14a
16
20
HARBOUR BRETON GRANITE
33
16a
19
Stone’s Cove
18a
46
19
Cu,Fe
14a
9
35
12
Fe 53
25
41
14
7
F 100
19
19
25a
46
Pyr 44
9
CONNAIGRE BAY
Pass
Island
16
19
45
25
10
35
Pass
Island
BELLE BAY
17
F 109
Anderson’s
Cove
19
24
Grey and black, thin-bedded siltstone; fine-grained grey
sandstone and black shale; rare grey limestone lenses;
contains minor red siltstone and sandstone on the north
coast of Fortune Bay
16
16a
16b
16c
Pale-pink, medium-grained, equigranular biotite granite
18a
18a
18b
18c
Fe
41
14
Stn1
Pyr
31
Pyr 36
rth
7
12
18b
17a
17a
Pyr 58
Po n d Mo 56
25
No
12
Cu 6
16a
18
20
21
16c
O ld
11
eas
Sandyville
25
Mo 64
Sa
t A
rm
6
21
19
43
17
F102
Corbin
25a
41
7
Rencontre
East
23
F
25a
46
6
Grole
46
42
47
1
14
626 ± 3
17a
16
18a
24
16
25a
Pyr 13
12
csil
7
19
Pink, medium- to coarse-grained, biotite-hornblende
granite
35
NORTHWEST BROOK COMPLEX AND ASSOCIATED
INTRUSIONS (Units 32 and 33)
16
16
43a
19
9
12
567 ± 3
Mo
9
10
7
16a
16
16a
18a
16
65
37
Pyr 14
7
22
16
24
i
21
Belle Bay Formation
SILURIAN AND/OR DEVONIAN
16a
17
47a
1
1
24
Mo66
46
34
Mo
Cu11
6
rb
Co
Red and grey, thin-bedded siltstone, and fine-grained
sandstone and interbedded buff, coarse-grained, cross
bedded quartzitic arkose; minor bright-red shale and
green-grey and black-grey and black siltstone
17
17a
17b
Red to orange, medium-grained, leucocratic biotite
granite
34
20
18c
Stn 47
20
21
25
25
22
Andersons Cove Formation
18
17b
62
Pink, buff-weathering, medium- to coarse-grained,
cross-bedded, quartzitic arkose and granule to pebble
conglomerate; locally contains red siltstone; 23a red
pebble conglomerate; 23b quartzitic arkose as in 23,
containing minor amounts of red siltstone
Red micaceous sandstone, red and grey quartz-pebble
conglomerate, red shale, red and grey limestone
PICCAIRE GRANITE
18
23
43 19
40′
16
18b
24
43
Mo 29
7
16a
25
F 61
7
18b
18
18b
18
19
Mo,Cu 78
18
18
18
18b
5
nB
Red arkosic sandstone, containing thin beds of pebble
conglomerate; red conglomerate, extensively developed
in the lower half of the unit in the northwest part of the
area
PASS ISLAND GRANITE
16
16a
16a
16
22
ay
23
23a
23b
Mooring Cove Formation
DEVONIAN ?
16a
16
16a
16a
16
16
18b
18c
24
44
38
16
16
18
552 ± 3
F
25
15
10
7
12
15
9
7
8
Cu 5
6
sB
Pyr 63
41
14
12
3
14
37
41
9
3
Hermitage
17
1
8
1
2
3
Pyr
6
7
2
2
2
2a
10′
8
6
7
10
10
14
18a
19
43
5
7
2
nq
25
7
Pyr 23
Pyr 22
Pyr 19
7
2a
2
1
6
1
3
Ci
37
I
sle
ay
10
10
8
2
2
2
7
1
2
18a
18a
24
Furby’s
Cove
3
41
15a
5
3
3
9
14
681 ± 3
16
18b
42
10
4
18b
18
19
37
Lally
Head
16a
17
16a
16
43
4
7
6
1
2
2
34
11
10
16
16
16 Pb 99
16a
16
16a
16a
16a
18c
15
9
14
8
8
3
3
4
7
5
8a
9
567 ± 3
9
Pb,Cu 97
16a
16a
18b
18
7
20
8
5
10
18
16
9
1
Pyr
Pyr
9
19
18b
18b
11
15
r
31
11
9
7
28
7
21
15
ie
30
10
Pyr,Zn
Y
BA
30
29
Zn,18
Pyr
30
Little
31
31
4
16
18a
16
Lally Cove
11
14
9
14
Zn,Pyr
9
Red, pebble and locally boulder conglomerate
36
16a
16b
621 ± 3
16a
Doctor’s Hr.
16a
15
5
3a
38
39
17
16
Pb,98
Zn,Cu
16a
16a
16
16
16
16b
16
16b
Buff to pink and pale-orange arkosic sandstone and
pebble conglomerate
16a
16a
16
16a
16a
9
on
29
29
15
Pyr,Zn,
Cu,Pb
Pyr,Zn,
Pb 39
16
16a
41
37
Pyr 59
15
lm
30
32
30
29
O live
C ove
5
10
16
16
55
Pyr
Bay
31
Pyr,Cu
3a
30
50′
5
1
6
9
Mag,Cu,38 9
Zn
13
1
13
1
15
40
INDIAN POINT GRANITE
16a
16a
16a
Poole’s Cove
37
5
Zn,Cu,Pb32
11
1
30
1
Cu 24
1
6
16a
16
Turnip Cove
10
Boulder conglomerate: buff to pale orange in the northeast and dark-weathering, deep red to grey in the
southwest part of the area
37
16a
17a
16a
1
1
16
16c
16
Red micaceous siltstone and interbedded, buff-weathering, quartzitic arkose and pebble conglomerate
CINQ ISLES FORMATION
Mo 89
Mo85
41
38
1
5
13
568 ± 2
13b
13
41
Pyr 95
25
Bay
5
6
13
1
1
1
1
1
1
32
1
13
1
11
35
9
5
5
37
Pink, massive, coarse-grained and locally mediumgrained, leucocratic, K-feldspar porphyritic granite
Mo 94
92
NG
13
Pyr 54
13
37
Mo
19b
38
North
Dark-green, locally brown-weathering pyroxenite and
gabbro; 43a diorite and quartz diorite
16
43
19a
13a
31
12
15
1
7
13b
31
13 Lst,Pyr
35
5
15
43
43a
16
Pb 93
41
38
Bay du Nord
10
13
32
Hardy’s
Cove
29
Bay
37
13b
31
42
38
31
31
40′
38
East
13
13a
16
Mo 90
Mo
10
32
36
37
96
1
31
56° 00′
10
32
Geological base digitized at 1:50 000 by J.S. Ash; further digital compilation by J.S. Ash and S.J. O’Brien.
16
9
31
Recommended citation:
O’Brien, S.J. (compiler), 1998: Geology of the Connaigre Peninsula
and adjacent areas, southern Newfoundland. Geological Survey, Department of Mines and Energy, Open File Map NFLD/2660; 1:100 000
scale.
Incorporates unpublished data of S.J. O’Brien, C.F. O’Driscoll and
B.A. Greene, and U-Pb geochronology of R.D. Tucker (Washington
University) and G.R. Dunning (Memorial University of Newfoundland).
Geology, geochronology and stratigraphic nomenclature reviewed in
O’Brien et al., 1992 and 1995.
9
LO
Mineral occurrences compiled from the above sources and from the
Mineral Occurrence Data System.
9
31
31
Red, purple and buff, pebble to boulder conglomerate;
minor green conglomerate and red and blackshale;
44a hornfels
568 ± 3
Mo 87
19b
River
Compiled by from the following sources:
Digital cartography by J.S. Ash and T. Paltanavage.
10
10
10
44
44a
POOLS COVE FORMATION (Units 38 to 41)
377 ± 3
9
rd
A
IT
M
31
Pyr 79
No
GE
9
R
kilometres
Mo 84
Sia72
Du
33
Grey mafic sills and flows
42
U
30′
Widmer, 1950; Smith and White, 1954; Williams, 1971; Greene, 1975,
1977; O’Driscoll, 1977; Colman-Sadd, Greene and O’Driscoll, 1979;
Dickson, 1983, 1987; Smith and Hiscott, 1984; Smith and White, 1954;
Furey and Strong, 1986a,b; O’Brien and O’Driscoll, 1994.
10
y
8
45
ACKLEY GRANITE
19b
Y
BA
Ba
6
25
Pyr 80
l
4
31
42
W,Sn 91
Ma
2
9
Ba y
SCALE 1:100 000
19b
25
42
32
24
19b
25
F
31
(Units 19 and 20 occur only in the northern Fortune Bay
area; Unit 22 occurs only on Brunette Island)
GREAT BAY DE L’EAU FORMATION (Units 44 and 45)
9
83
Pyr 82
9
LT
AU
33
0
Pyr 81
32
Pink, medium- and coarse-grained, porphyritic biotite
granite; minor aplite
46
42
37
31
OLD WOMAN STOCK
Be 88
37
Rencontre Formation (Units 19 to 24)
Grey to pink, medium- and fine-grained equigranular
granite containing many small, dark-grey and green
to black inclusions; 47a red felsite and fine-grained
granite, developed locally at pluton’s margin; 47b
pink-to brown quartz-feldspar porphyry (Red Head
Porphyry)
31
32
LONG HARBOUR GROUP (Units 16 to 24)
BELLEORAM GRANITE
32
31
LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC
MIDDLE PALEOZOIC
DEVONIAN
10′
Deposit Name
Status
Barren #1
Road Cut
Bottom Brook East
L eonard’s Find
Southeast Brook #2
Southwest Brook #1
Salmonier Pond East
M ose A mbrose Barite
Blue Pinion Iron
Three M ile Pond
Barasway Hill
Bay du Nord River South
Belleoram
Iron Head Pyrite
Chapel Island #2
Chapel Island #1
Chapel Island L ead
Belle Island
East Bay Fault #1
East Bay Fault #2
L ittle Blue Hill Pond #1
L ittle Blue Hill Pond #3
L ittle Blue Hill Pond #2
Spout Pond
M otu
Big Blue Hill Pond
Frank’s Pond
Big Blue Hill Pond East
A ckley City
North Hill M olybdenum
Rencontre Brook
Crow Cliff
Dunphey Brook L ead
Dunphey Brook M olybdenum
M al Bay Northwest
Wylie Hill
M al Bay #2
M al Bay #1
M al Bay #3
Stones Cove
L ong Harbour #2
L ong Harbour #3
L obster Cove Point #3
L obster Cove Point #2
L obster Cove Point #4
L obster Cove
L obster Cove Point #1
L obster Cove North
L ong Harbour #4
L ong Harbour #6
Old Baldy
L ong Harbour #7
Friar Head
L ong Harbour #1
L ong Harbour #5
L ittle Conne
Conne Big Head
Big Conne
Trammer Cove
7
7
7
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
7
6
6
5
6
6
6
6
6
7
5
7
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
fl, q
mo, q
py
mo, q
mo
mo, q
mag
ba, q
mag, hem
ba
ba
q
gr
py
fl
fl
gn, sp
mo, q, cp, fl, py, carb, ba,
py
py
py
py
py
mo
mo, py, q, mu
mo, bs
mo, q
by
mo, sp, cp, py, po, fl, ba,
mo, q
wof, cas
mo, q
gn, sp, py, fl
mo, q
py, q
mo, py, q
gn, sp
sp, gn, cp, py, carb, ch, q,
gn
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl, ca
fl
fl
fl, ba, q, ca
fl
fl
fl,q
fl
fl,q
fl
fl
ba
58
52
Minerals and/or
Rocks Present
52
54
56
52
2M
12P
St. Anthony
51
51
NEWFOUNDLAND
12I
0
2L
FURBYS COVE INTRUSIVE SUITE (Units 2 and 3)
150
km
3
50
50
12G
49
12B
2F
2E
12H
49
Corner
Brook
Stephenville
2
Gander
2C
2D
12A
2a
48
48
Port aux Basques
11O
11P
Hr. Breton
1N ✪ St.
1M
John’s
St. Lawrence
11I
46
58
56
1
1K
1L
54
Pink to white, equigranular, blue-quartz-bearing granite,
locally forming narrow sheets; minor unseparated,
mafic plutonic and related hybrid rocks; 3a granite
porphyry
Medium-grained, green to dark-grey minor quartz
diorite; minor unseparated, granite and hybrid rocks;
also includes unseparated, mafic and felsic dykes and
locally, screens of volcanic rocks; 2a diabase, felsite,
and blue-quartz-phyric granitic dykes, containing narrow screens of country rocks
TICKLE POINT FORMATION
47
47
60
3a
46
52
INDEX MAP
Buff- to brown-weathering, pink to purple and green,
felsic volcanic rocks, including massive and banded
rhyolite flows and crystal- and crystal-lithic felsic tuffs;
minor basalt and andesite flows and interlayered, tuffaceous sedimentary rocks; locally contains unseparated diorite sills and plugs
SYMBOLS
47° 20′
Geological contact (defined, approximate, assumed, gradational) ......
Unconformity ........................................................................................
Fault (defined, approximate, assumed) ................................................
Bedding, tops known (inclined) ............................................................
Bedding, tops unknown (inclined) ........................................................
Fold axis (anticline, syncline with direction of plunge) .........................
Published macrofossil occurrence ......................................................
F
U-Pb (zircon) geochronology site (age in millions of years) .................
552 ± 3