CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
12 Canada (Nunavut) 75.23.00 N -- 096.57.00 W Cornwallis Lead-Zinc 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 group name(s): Cornwallis Lead-Zinc District
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Nearest community: Resolute Bay (150 km NW)
NTS map data: 068H08 (Riddle Point)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit group status: producer
Geologic province: Arctic Platform
Geologic subprovince: Franklinean Shelf
Geologic district: Cornwallis Fold Belt
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Geological ages: Late Ordovician (host rocks)
Late Devonian (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal platform; Formal name: Franklinean Shelf (host rocks)
Coincident features: stratigraphy (breccia in dolomite); Coincident feature name: Thumb Mountain Formation
shale basin boundaries (unconformity between Thumb Mountain and Dissapointment Formations); Coincident feature name: Cape Phillips Formation Shale Basin
regional uplift (basement controlled faults, fractures and anticlines); Coincident feature name: Boothia Bay Uplift
Regional tectonic structure: regional uplift Tectonic structure name: Boothia Bay Uplift
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Host rock stratigraphy:Thumb Mountain Formation
References:
Christensen, N.; Halliday, A. N.; Kesler, S. E., 1996
Rb-Sr Dating of Sphalerite and the Ages of Mississippi-Valley-Type Pb-Zn Deposits
6, Section Dating of Mineralization, 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. 527 - 535

Gibbins, W. A., 1995
Central Arctic: Cornwallis Lead-Zinc District
Chapter 4, Section Arctic Islands Region, in Mineral Industry Report, 1988-1989, Northwest Territories, Edited by Beales, P., Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Government of Canada, 271 p, p. 30 - 31

Randell, R. N., 1994
Geology of the Polaris Zn-Pb Mississippi Valley-Type Deposit, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Geology, 13 maps.

Sharp, R. J.; Ste-Marie, C. P.; Lorenzini, C.; Leigh, K. E.; Dewing, K.; Heroux, Y.; Chagnon, A., 1995
A Field Guide to the Geology of the Polaris Mine, Little Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories, Canada
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. 19 - 37

Symons, D. T. A. ; Sangster, D. F., 1992
Late Devonian Paleomagnetic Age for the Polaris Mississippi Valley-Type Zn-Pb Deposit, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 29, p. 15 - 25

Associated deposit(s): Polaris (6)

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