CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
29 United States (Pennsylvania) 40.33.48 N -- 075.22.44 W Friedensville Zn
 
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): Friedensville
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Pennsylvania; Nearest community: Bethlehem (4 mi SSW)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: past producer
Commodities: Zn
Mineralization styles: breccia cement; massive replacement
Geological ages: Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Host rock stratigraphy:Beekmantown formation
Alteration signatures: dolomitization: dolomitization; What was altered: dolostone
Mineralogy: dolomite, quartz, calcite, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite
(supergene): smithsonite, calamine
References:
Callahan, W. H., 1968
Geology of the Friedenville Zinc Mine, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
5, in Ore Deposits of the United States, 1933-1967: The Graton-Sales Volume, Edited by Ridge, J. D., American Insitute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Vol 1, 1880 p, p. 95 - 107

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

Production data: Report period: from 1958 until 1964; 2.859 million short tons ore; Provisional entry?: no; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 6.5 percent
Reference: Callahan, W. H., 1968: Geology of the Friedenville Zinc Mine, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; 5, in Ore Deposits of the United States, 1933-1967: The Graton-Sales Volume, Edited by Ridge, J. D., American Insitute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Vol 1, 1880 p, p. 95 - 107
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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