CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
25 Australia (Western Australia) 19.14.00 S -- 122.17.00 E Admiral Bay Zn; Pb; 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): Admiral Bay
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Western Australia
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: deposit
Commodities: Zn; Pb; Ag
Mineralization styles: massive replacement; disseminated
Geological ages: Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Late Silurian (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental basin-intracratonic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Goldwyer formation

(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Nita formation
Alteration signatures: dolomitization: dolomitization; What was altered: dolostone
Mineralogy: galena, barite, fluorite, calcite, quartz, pyrite, marcasite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, siderite, dolomite
References:
Connor, A. G., 1990
Admiral Bay Zinc-Lead Deposit
in Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea (2 Volumes), Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 14, 1828 p, p. 1111 - 1114

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

McCracken, S. R.; Etminan, H.; Connor, A. G.; Williams, V. A., 1996
Geology of the Admiral Bay Carbonate-Hosted Zinc-Lead Deposit, Canning Basin, Western Australia
in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Volume, Edited by Sangster, D. F., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 4, 664 p, p. 330 - 349

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1996; 120 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: inferred
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 6.4 percent
Pb: 2.3 percent
Ag: 32 grams/metric ton
Additional resourcesEstimate date: 1996; 20 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: inferred
Grade-commodity information:Pb: 16.9 percent
Zn: 0.4 percent
Ag: 57 grams/metric ton
Reference: McCracken, S. R.; Etminan, H.; Connor, A. G.; Williams, V. A., 1996: Geology of the Admiral Bay Carbonate-Hosted Zinc-Lead Deposit, Canning Basin, Western Australia; in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Volume, Edited by Sangster, D. F., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 4, 664 p, p. 330 - 349
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Reference: McCracken, S. R.; Etminan, H.; Connor, A. G.; Williams, V. A., 1996: Geology of the Admiral Bay Carbonate-Hosted Zinc-Lead Deposit, Canning Basin, Western Australia; in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Volume, Edited by Sangster, D. F., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 4, 664 p, p. 330 - 349
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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