CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Blende
Longitude / Latitude: -134.67250 / 64.41083
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Yukon Territory; Nearest community: Keno (60 km NE)
NTS map data: 106D07 (Williams Creek)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit (sub) types: Irish-type
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Canadian Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Mackenzie platform
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: veins; fracture fill; breccia cement
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Early Mesoproterozoic (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental platform
Regional tectonic structure: fault (trends approximately 110 and appears to coincide with the trends of mineralized zones)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Internal host rock structures:stromatolites
Individual lithologies:siliceous dolostone
Host rock stratigraphy:Upper Gillespie Lake group
Mineralogy: galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, freibergite
(alteration / quartz vein rims): brucite
Links to other databases: Yukon MINFILE; Key value: 106D 064
References:
Anonymous, 2013
Yukon MINFILE
YGSIDS - Occurrence Details, Internet

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

Price, B. J., 2011
2011 technical report, Blende Project, Beaver Creek area, Nash Creek map area, Yukon Territory
NI 43-101 Technical Report, B. J. Price Geological Consultants Inc., Blind Creek Resources Ltd., Publication code 2011-05-12, 110 p.

Robinson, M.; Godwin, C. I., 1995
Genesis of the Blende Carbonate-Hosted Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, North-Central Yukon Territory: Geologic, Fluid Inclusion and Isotopic Constraints
Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 369 - 384

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1991; Component: West and East zone open pits; 19.6 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: historical resource
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 3.04 percent
Pb: 2.81 percent
Ag: 56 grams/metric ton
Reference: Price, B. J., 2011: 2011 technical report, Blende Project, Beaver Creek area, Nash Creek map area, Yukon Territory; NI 43-101 Technical Report, B. J. Price Geological Consultants Inc., Blind Creek Resources Ltd., Publication code 2011-05-12, 110 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1991; Component: east zone underground; 4,318,896 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 3.05 percent
Pb: 1.31 percent
Ag: 0.44 troy ounces/short ton
Reference: Price, B. J., 2011: 2011 technical report, Blende Project, Beaver Creek area, Nash Creek map area, Yukon Territory; NI 43-101 Technical Report, B. J. Price Geological Consultants Inc., Blind Creek Resources Ltd., Publication code 2011-05-12, 110 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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