CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
40 Australia (Northern Territory) 16.36.40 S -- 136.09.58 E Coxco Zn; Pb
 
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): 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 carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
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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