Database name: |
World Mississippi Valley-type deposits |
Custodial agency: |
Geological Survey of Canada |
Compilers: |
D. F. Sangster |
Release date: |
2015-02-06 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Coxco |
Political location(s): |
Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory |
Deposit clan (type): |
Mississippi Valley-type |
Deposit status: |
deposit |
Commodities: |
Zn; Pb |
Mineralization styles: |
veins; cavity fill; discordant collapse breccia cement |
Geological ages: |
Middle Proterozoic (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental basin-intracratonic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonatesIndividual lithologies: | dolostone |
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Mineralogy: |
pyrite, sphalerite, galena, marcasite, quartz, dolomite |
References: |
Walker, R. N.; Gulson, B.; Smith, J., 1983 |
The Coxco Deposit - A Proterozoic Mississippi Valley-Type Deposit in the McArthur River District, Northern Territory, Australia |
Economic Geology, Volume 78, p. 214 - 249 |
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