Database name: |
World Mississippi Valley-type deposits |
Custodial agency: |
Geological Survey of Canada |
Compilers: |
D. F. Sangster |
Release date: |
2015-02-06 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Duncormick |
Political location(s): |
Ireland; Province or state: County Wexford |
Deposit clan (type): |
Mississippi Valley-type |
Deposit status: |
occurrence; Status comments: No grade-tonnage data available |
Commodities: |
Zn |
Mineralization styles: |
cavity fill; bedded replacement; veins |
Geological ages: |
Courceyan (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental platform (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marineIndividual lithologies: | dolomitized calcilutite | Host rock stratigraphy: | Upper Dolomite member |
(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marineIndividual lithologies: | dolomitized calcarenite dolomitized calcsiltite | Host rock stratigraphy: | Lower Dolomite member |
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Mineralogy: |
sphalerite, galena, pyrite |
References: |
Carter, J. S.; Wilbur, D. G., 1986 |
The Geological Setting of Zn Mineralization near Duncormick in the Wexford Permo-Carboniferous Outlier |
in Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland, Edited by Andrew, C. J.; Crowe, R. W. A.; Finlay, S.; Pennell, W. M.; Pyne, J. F., Irish Association for Economic Geology, Cahill Printers, Ireland, 711 p, p. 471 - 474 |
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