CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
58 Austria 47.21.36 N -- 011.27.00 E Lafatsch 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): Lafatsch
Political location(s): Austria
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: deposit
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: discordant collapse breccia cement
Geological ages: Late Triassic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: unknown (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:limestone
Alteration signatures: dolomitization: dolomitization; What was altered: limestone
Mineralogy: sphalerite, galena, calcite
References:
Klau, W.; Mostler, H., 1983
Alpine Middle and Upper Triassic Pb-Zn Deposits
Section Invited Major Papers, in International Conference on Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Deposits: Proceedings Volume, Edited by Kisvarsanyi, G.; Grant, S. K.; Pratt, W. P.; Koenig, J. W., University of Missouri-Rolla, 603 p, p. 113 - 128

Maucher, A.; Schneider, H.-J., 1967
The Alpine Lead-Zinc Ores
in Genesis of Stratiform Lead-Zinc-Barite-Fluorite Deposits in Carbonate Rocks (The So-Called Mississippi Valley Type Deposits): A Symposium, Edited by Brown, J. S., (Symposium, New York, N. Y., March 3-5, 1966), The Society of Economic Geologists, UNESCO, IUGS and The John Lindsley Foundation, The Economic Geology Publishing Company, 443 p, p. 71 - 89

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1983; 1 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: unstated
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 6 percent
Pb: 1 percent
Reference: Klau, W.; Mostler, H., 1983: Alpine Middle and Upper Triassic Pb-Zn Deposits ; Section Invited Major Papers, in International Conference on Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Deposits: Proceedings Volume, Edited by Kisvarsanyi, G.; Grant, S. K.; Pratt, W. P.; Koenig, J. W., University of Missouri-Rolla, 603 p, p. 113 - 128
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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