Baie Verte Peninsula

The Baie Verte Peninsula is a large peninsula on the north east coast of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Baie Verte Peninsula
Location of Baie Verte Peninsula in Newfoundland

The Baie Verte Peninsula is a geologically complex area on the northwest coast of Newfoundland. The region is composed of multiple geological domains and has undergone extensive tectonic activity, uplift, and deformation, producing multiple unconformity surfaces. In addition, multiple phases of intrusion, some with volcanic cover sequences, add to the complexity of the geological model.[1] The peninsula is home to many communities, the largest is Baie Verte where it gets its name.

The Rambler area, of the Baie Verte Peninsula, has a long history of mineral exploration dating back to 1903 when local prospector Enos England first discovered the ‘England Vein’.[2] The peninsula also contains valuable volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, some of which have elevated gold concentrations, up to several grams per tonne locally.[3]

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Copper mine, Tilt Cove, Baie Verte peninsula. When the mine was booming, over 5,000 people lived in the community but now only a few families live in the area.

References
  1. Slavinski, Heather; Morris, Bill; Ugalde, Hernan; Spicer, Bill; Skulski, Tom; Rogers, Neil (2 June 2014). "Integration of lithological, geophysical, and remote sensing information: a basis for remote predictive geological mapping of the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland". Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 36 (2): 99–118. doi:10.5589/m10-031.
  2. Spicer, B.; Morris, B.; Ugalde, H. (September 2011). "Structure of the Rambler Rhyolite, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland: Inversions using UBC-GIF Grav3D and Mag3D". Journal of Applied Geophysics. 75 (1): 9–18. Bibcode:2011JAG....75....9S. doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.06.013. ISSN 0926-9851.
  3. Kerr, Andrew; Selby, David (30 July 2011). "The timing of epigenetic gold mineralization on the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada: new evidence from Re–Os pyrite geochronology". Mineralium Deposita. 47 (3): 325–337. doi:10.1007/s00126-011-0375-2.


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