CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
10 Canada (Northwest Territories) 60.47.00 N -- 114.35.00 W Pine Point 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 group name(s): Pine Point District
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories
NTS map data: 085B15 (Breynat Point)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Geologic province: Interior Platform
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Geological ages: Middle Devonian (host rocks)
Late Cretaceous (mineralization)
Late Devonian - Early Carboniferous (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Host rock stratigraphy:Pine Point Formation

(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Host rock stratigraphy:Sulphur Point Formation
References:
Arne, D. C., 1991
Regional Thermal History of the Pine Point Area, Northwest Territories, Canada, from Apatite Fission Track Analysis
Economic Geology, Volume 86, p. 428 - 435

Nakai, S.; Halliday, A. N. ; Kesler, S. E. ; Jones, H. D.; Kyle, J. R.; Lane, T. E., 1993
Rb-Sr Dating of Sphalerites from Mississippi Valley-Type (MVT) Ore Deposits
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 57, p. 417 - 427

Rhodes, D.; Lantos, E. A.; Lantos, J. A.; Webb, R. J.; Owens, D. C., 1984
Pine Point Orebodies and their Relationship to the Stratigraphy, Structure, Dolomitization, and Karstification of the Middle Devonian Barrier Complex
Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 991 - 1055

Symons, D. T. A.; Pan, H.; Sangster, D. F.; Jowett, E. C., 1993
Paleomagnetism of the Pine Point Zn-Pb Deposits
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 30, p. 1028 - 1036

Associated deposit(s): Pine Point (4)

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