CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
86 Canada (Quebec) 45.40.35 N -- 072.40.15 W Upton Ba; Zn; Pb; Cu; Ag; Cd
 
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): Upton
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Quebec
NTS map data: 031H10 (Saint-hyacinthe)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: occurrence; Status comments: developed prospect
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Humber Zone
Geologic district: external Humber Zone
Commodities: Ba; Zn; Pb; Cu; Ag; Cd
Geological ages: Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Middle Ordovician - Late Ordovician (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Host rock stratigraphy:Upton group, Upper Limestone unit
References:
Paradis, S.; Lavoie, D., 1996
Multiple-stage diagenetic alteration and fluid history of Ordovician carbonate-hosted barite mineralization, southern Quebec Appalachians
Sedimentary Geology, Volume 107, p. 121 - 139

Paradis, S.; Hannigan, P.; Dewing, K., 2007
Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits
in Mineral Deposits of Canada: a synthesis of major deposit types, district metallogeny, the evolution of geological provinces, and exploration methods, Edited by Goodfellow, W. D., Special Publication, Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada, No. 5, 1061 p, p. 185 - 203


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