CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2 South Africa (Cape Province) 27.26.00 S -- 024.16.00 E Pering 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): Pering
Political location(s): South Africa; Province or state: Cape Province; Nearest community: Kimberley (160 km NNW)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: producer
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: discordant collapse breccia cement; concordant collapse breccia cement
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Host rock stratigraphy:Reivilo formation
Mineralogy: sphalerite, galena, calcite, dolomite, pyrite, chalcopyrite
(supergene): limonite, anglesite, cerussite, descloizite, smithsonite, galena
References:
Leach, D. L.; Sangster, D. F.; Kelley, K. D.; Large, R. R.; Garven, G.; Allen, C. R.; Gutzmer, J.; Walters, S., 2005
Supplement to sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits: A global perspective
Appendix, in One hundreth anniversary volume 1905-2005, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Ecomomic geology, Society of Ecomonic Geologists, 1136 p

Leach, D. L.; Sangster, D. F.; Kelley, K. D.; Large, R. R.; Garven, G.; Allen, C. R.; Gutzmer, J.; Walters, S., 2005
Sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits: A global perspective
in One hundreth anniversary volume 1905-2005, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Ecomomic geology, Society of Ecomonic Geologists, 1136 p, p. 561 - 607

Southwood, M. J., 1986
The Mineralogy of the Pering Lead-Zinc Deposit, Cape Province, with Special Reference to Supergene Alteration
in Mineral Deposits of South Africa, Volumes I and II, Edited by Anhausser, C. R.; Maske, S., Geolgical Society of South Africa, Johannesburg, 2335 p, p. 875 - 889

Wheatley, C. J. V.; Whitfield, G. G.; Kenny, K. J.; Birch, A., 1986
The Pering Carbonate-Hosted Zinc-Lead Deposit, Griqualand West
in Mineral Deposits of South Africa, Volumes I and II, Edited by Anhausser, C. R.; Maske, S., Geolgical Society of South Africa, Johannesburg, 2335 p, p. 867 - 874

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1986; 18 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: proven
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 3.6 percent
Pb: 0.6 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Zn+Pb: 2 percent
Reference: Wheatley, C. J. V.; Whitfield, G. G.; Kenny, K. J.; Birch, A., 1986: The Pering Carbonate-Hosted Zinc-Lead Deposit, Griqualand West; in Mineral Deposits of South Africa, Volumes I and II, Edited by Anhausser, C. R.; Maske, S., Geolgical Society of South Africa, Johannesburg, 2335 p, p. 867 - 874
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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