CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
70 Ireland (County Wexford) 52.13.16 N -- 006.37.24 W Duncormick 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): Duncormick
Political location(s): Ireland; Province or state: County Wexford
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: occurrence; Status comments: No grade-tonnage data available
Commodities: Zn
Mineralization styles: cavity fill; bedded replacement; veins
Geological ages: Courceyan (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:dolomitized calcilutite
Host rock stratigraphy:Upper Dolomite member

(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:dolomitized calcarenite
dolomitized calcsiltite
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Dolomite member
Mineralogy: sphalerite, galena, pyrite
References:
Carter, J. S.; Wilbur, D. G., 1986
The Geological Setting of Zn Mineralization near Duncormick in the Wexford Permo-Carboniferous Outlier
in Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland, Edited by Andrew, C. J.; Crowe, R. W. A.; Finlay, S.; Pennell, W. M.; Pyne, J. F., Irish Association for Economic Geology, Cahill Printers, Ireland, 711 p, p. 471 - 474


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