CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
18 United States (Tennessee) 36.04.48 N -- 085.56.35 W Central Tennessee District Zn; Pb
 
Database name: World Mississippi Valley-type deposits
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: D. F. Sangster
Release date: 2015-02-06
   
Deposit name(s): Central Tennessee District
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Tennessee
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: producer
Deposit object located: centroid of district
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: discordant collapse breccia cement; disseminated; veins
Geological ages: Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:limestone
Alteration signatures: silicification: silicification; What was altered: limestone
dolomitization: dolomitization; What was altered: limestone
Mineralogy: sphalerite, dolomite, calcite, fluorite, barite, galena, quartz
Radiometric ages: Object dated: ore; Age - Ma: 249; +9; -9; Dating method: Paleomagnetism; Concentrate: Whole ore; Source rock: ore; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Lewchuk, M. T.; Symons, D. T. A., 1996: Paleomagnetism and Mississsippi Valley-Type Ore Genesis in the Ordovician Knox Supergroup of Central Tennessee; in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Volume, Edited by Sangster, D. F., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 4, 664 p, p. 567 - 576

Object dated: mineralogy(3); Age - Ma: 260; +42; -42; Dating method: Th-Pb; Concentrate: calcite; Source rock: ore; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Brannon, J. C.; Cole, S. C.; Podosek, F. A.; Misra, K., 1995: Radiometric Dating of Ancient Calcite: Th-Pb and U-Pb Isochrons for Ore-Stage and Late-Stage Calcite from the Central Tennessee Zinc District, an Appalachian-Ouachita Age MVT Deposit; in Abstracts With Programs, Geological Society of America, Edited by Anonymous, Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, 27, p. A-118

Object dated: mineralogy(3); Age - Ma: 35; +14; -14; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: calcite; Source rock: ore; Event dated: post-ore mineralization; Interpretive comment: Post-ore calcite dated ; Reference: Brannon, J. C.; Cole, S. C.; Podosek, F. A.; Misra, K., 1995: Radiometric Dating of Ancient Calcite: Th-Pb and U-Pb Isochrons for Ore-Stage and Late-Stage Calcite from the Central Tennessee Zinc District, an Appalachian-Ouachita Age MVT Deposit; in Abstracts With Programs, Geological Society of America, Edited by Anonymous, Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, 27, p. A-118
References:
Gaylord, W. B.; Briskey, J. A., 1983
Geology of the Elmwood and Gordonsville Mines, Central Tennessee Zinc District
in Tennessee Zinc Deposits Field Trip Guide Book, March 9-11, 1983 , Edited by Anonymous, Guide Book, Virginia Tech Department of Geological Sciences, Society of Economic Geologists, 9, p. 116 - 151

Gaylord, W. B., 1995
Geology of the Elmwood and Gordonsville Mines, Central Tennessee Zinc District - An Update
Part IV, Section Fluorite and Zinc Deposits, Illinois and Tennessee, in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Fluorite-Barite Deposits of North America, Society of Economic Geologists 75th Anniversary Guidebook, June 3-6, 1995, Edited by Misra, K. C., Guidebook Volume, Society of Economic Geologists, Cirizen Printing Co., Inc., 1309 Webster Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 22, 254 p, p. 173 - 205

Associated mine(s): Elmwood (1), Gordonsville (2), South Carthage (3)
Associated group(s): Central Tennessee District (7)

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