CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
81 Spain 40.22.00 N -- 000.34.00 E Avecillia 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): Avecillia
Political location(s): Spain
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: past producer
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: fault breccia cement; veins
Geological ages: Early Aptian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift; Formal name: Maestrat Basin (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:dolomitized calcarenite
Mineralogy: sphalerite, galena, dolomite, calcite, barite
Radiometric ages: Object dated: Mineralogy; Age - Ma: 62.58; +0.68; -0.68; Dating method: U-Pb; Concentrate: calcite; Source rock: ore; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Grandia, F.; Asmerom, Y.; Getty, S.; Cardellach, E.; Canals, A., 2000: U-Pb Dating of MVT Ore-Stage Calcite: Implications for Fluid Flow in a Mesozoic Extensional Basin from Iberian Penninsula; Journal of Geochemical Exploration, Volume 69-70, p. 377 - 380
References:
Grandia, F.; Cardellach, E.; Canals, A., 1999
Fluid Mixing Evidence in MVT Zn-Pb Deposits Related to Rift Stage Carbonates of the Maestrat Basin, Eastern Spain
in Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing; Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial SGA Meeting and the Tenth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, London, Aug 22-25, 1999, Edited by Stanley, C. J., Proceedings (Two Volumes), Society ofr Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Rotterdam ; Brookfield, VT : A.A. Balkema, 1999, V 2, 1468 p, p. 861 - 864


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