Deposit number | Country | Location | Names | Commodities |
22 | United States (Missouri) / United S | 37.05.00 N -- 094.30.00 W | Tri-State 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): | Tri-State District | ||||||||
Political location(s): | United States; Province or state: Missouri United States; Province or state: Kansas United States; Province or state: Oklahoma | ||||||||
Deposit clan (type): | Mississippi Valley-type | ||||||||
Deposit status: | past producer | ||||||||
Deposit object located: | centroid of district | ||||||||
Commodities: | Zn; Pb | ||||||||
Mineralization styles: | concordant collapse breccia cement; veins | ||||||||
Geological ages: | Early Mississippian - Late Mississippian (host rocks) | ||||||||
Tectonic setting: | continental platform (host rocks) | ||||||||
Host rocks: | (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
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Alteration signatures: | silicification: silicification; What was altered: limestone dolomitization: dolomitization; What was altered: limestone | ||||||||
Mineralogy: | sphalerite, dolomite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite, marcasite, calcite, chert, quartz | ||||||||
Radiometric ages: | Object dated: ore; Age - Ma: 265; +20; -20; Dating method: Paleomagnetism; Concentrate: Whole ore; Source rock: Disseminated sulphide; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Pan, H.; Symons, D. T. A.; Sangster, D. F., 1990: Paleomagnetism of the Mississippi Valley-Type Ore and Host Rocks in the Northern Arkansas and Tri-State Districts; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 27, p. 923 - 931 Object dated: mineralogy(7); Age - Ma: 251; +11; -11; Dating method: Th-Pb; Concentrate: calcite; Source rock: ore; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Brannon, J. C.; Cole, S. C.; Podosek, F. A. ; Ragan, V. M.; Coveney, Jr., R. M.; Wallace, M. W.; Bradley, A. J., 1996: Th-Pb and U-Pb Dating of Ore-Stage Calcite and Paleozoic Fluid Flow; Science, Volume 271, p. 491 - 493 | ||||||||
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Production data: | Report period: from 1850 until 1964; 500 million short tons ore; Provisional entry?: no; Yearly or summary?: S
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0% |