CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
87 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.12.20 N -- 064.02.25 W Walton Ba; Pb; Zn; Cu; Ag
 
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): Walton
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 021H01 (Wolfville)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit (sub) types: Irish-type; combined sedex and MVT characteristics
Deposit status: past producer
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Meguma Terrane
Geologic district: Maritimes Basin
Commodities: Ba; Pb; Zn; Cu; Ag
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate (sideritized, evaporitic basin)
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Windsor group, Macumber formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: mineralization) Stratabound discordant lens of barite with minor sulphides underlied by an irregular lens of sulphides lying within brecciated zone of fault and limb of fold.
References:
Paradis, S.; Hannigan, P.; Dewing, K., 2007
Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits
in Mineral Deposits of Canada: a synthesis of major deposit types, district metallogeny, the evolution of geological provinces, and exploration methods, Edited by Goodfellow, W. D., Special Publication, Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada, No. 5, 1061 p, p. 185 - 203


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