CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
22 United States (Missouri) / United S 37.05.00 N -- 094.30.00 W Tri-State District 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): Tri-State District
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Missouri
United States; Province or state: Kansas
United States; Province or state: Oklahoma
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: past producer
Deposit object located: centroid of district
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: concordant collapse breccia cement; veins
Geological ages: Early Mississippian - Late Mississippian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Warsaw formation

(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Keokuk formation
Alteration signatures: silicification: silicification; What was altered: limestone
dolomitization: dolomitization; What was altered: limestone
Mineralogy: sphalerite, dolomite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite, marcasite, calcite, chert, quartz
Radiometric ages: Object dated: ore; Age - Ma: 265; +20; -20; Dating method: Paleomagnetism; Concentrate: Whole ore; Source rock: Disseminated sulphide; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Pan, H.; Symons, D. T. A.; Sangster, D. F., 1990: Paleomagnetism of the Mississippi Valley-Type Ore and Host Rocks in the Northern Arkansas and Tri-State Districts; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 27, p. 923 - 931

Object dated: mineralogy(7); Age - Ma: 251; +11; -11; Dating method: Th-Pb; Concentrate: calcite; Source rock: ore; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Brannon, J. C.; Cole, S. C.; Podosek, F. A. ; Ragan, V. M.; Coveney, Jr., R. M.; Wallace, M. W.; Bradley, A. J., 1996: Th-Pb and U-Pb Dating of Ore-Stage Calcite and Paleozoic Fluid Flow; Science, Volume 271, p. 491 - 493
References:
Brockie, D. C.; Hare, Jr., E. H. ; Dingess, P. R., 1968
The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
20, 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. 399 - 430

Production data: Report period: from 1850 until 1964; 500 million short tons ore; Provisional entry?: no; Yearly or summary?: S
Weight-commodity information:Zn: 11,631,000 short ton
Pb: 2,825,000 short ton
Reference: Brockie, D. C.; Hare, Jr., E. H. ; Dingess, P. R., 1968: The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma; 20, 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. 399 - 430
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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