CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
22 Canada (Northwest Territories) 61.33.00 N -- 124.46.00 W Prairie Creek Zn; Pb; Ag
 
Database name: World Mississippi Valley-type deposits
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: D. F. Sangster
Release date: 2015-02-06
   
Deposit group name(s): Prairie Creek
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 095F10
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit (sub) types: Irish-type
Geologic province: Canadian Cordillera
Geologic subprovince: Mackenzie Mountains
Geologic district: Prairie Creek Embayment
Commodities: Zn; Pb; Ag
Geological ages: Late Ordovician - Early Devonian (host rocks)
Silurian - Mississippian (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental marginal platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
(2) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-siltstone-chert
References:
Fraser, S. C., 1996
Geology and Geochemistry of the Prairie Creek Zn, Pb, Ag Deposits, Southern Mackenzie Mountains, N.W.T.
M. Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta

Morrow, D. W.; Cook, D. G., 1987
The Prairie Creek Embayment and Lower Paleozoic Strata of the Southern Mackenzie Mountains
Memoir, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 412, 195 p., 1 maps.

Associated deposit(s): Prairie Creek (84)

Generated 2015-02-06 15:20:41 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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