CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Goz Creek
Longitude / Latitude: -132.54639 / 64.42861
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Yukon Territory
NTS map data: 106C07 (Goz Creek)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Canadian Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Mackenzie platform
Commodities: Zn; Ag
Mineralization styles: disseminated; concordant collapse breccia cement; veins
Geological ages: Neoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Host rock stratigraphy:Risky formation

(2) sedimentary; quartzite; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Internal host rock structures:primary porosity
disseminated
Individual lithologies:quartz sandstone
Alteration signatures: silicification: silicification; What was altered: Dolostone
Mineralogy: pyrite, marcasite, sphalerite, boulangerite, galena
(supergene): smithsonite, hydrozincite
Links to other databases: Yukon MINFILE; Key value: 106C 020
References:
Anonymous, 2013
Yukon MINFILE
YGSIDS - Occurrence Details, Internet

Blythe, M., 2008
Massive zinc mineralization at Goz Creek
Tarsis Resources Ltd., news releases at www.tarsis.ca/index.php/news5/, Internet

Cordilleran Engineering Limited, 1974
Summary Report on the Goz Creek Property
Property Report, Cordilleran Engineering Limited, 1418-355 Burrard St., Vancouver, B. C., 54 p.

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

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1974; 8 short ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: historical resource
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 11.25 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Zn: 2 percent
Also containingEstimate date: 1974; 4.1 million short tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: estimated
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 5 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Zn: 2 percent
Reference: Cordilleran Engineering Limited, 1974: Summary Report on the Goz Creek Property; Property Report, Cordilleran Engineering Limited, 1418-355 Burrard St., Vancouver, B. C., 54 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

Estimate date: 1974; 1.5 million short tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: indicated and infer
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 13.1 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Zn: 2 percent
Reference: Cordilleran Engineering Limited, 1974: Summary Report on the Goz Creek Property; Property Report, Cordilleran Engineering Limited, 1418-355 Burrard St., Vancouver, B. C., 54 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Reference: Blythe, M., 2008: Massive zinc mineralization at Goz Creek; Tarsis Resources Ltd., news releases at www.tarsis.ca/index.php/news5/, Internet
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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