CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
4 United States (Missouri) 37.36.03 N -- 090.13.09 W Fredericktown Sub-district 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): Fredericktown Sub-district
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Missouri; Nearest community: Fredericktown, Missouri (5 mi NE)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit group status: past producer
Geologic district: Southeast Missouri District
Deposit object located: centroid of sub-district
Commodities: Pb
Geological ages: Late Cambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Host rock stratigraphy:Bonneterre Formation
Mineralogy: marcasite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, siegenite, bravoite, galena, sphalerite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, dickite
References:
Pignolet, S.; Hagni, R. D., 1983
Cobalt-Nickel Mineralization Associated with Lead-Zinc-Copper Mineralization in the Mississippi Valley-Type Deposits at Fredericktown, Missouri
in International Conference on Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Deposits: Proceedings Volume, Edited by Kisvarsanyi, G.; Grant, S. K.; Pratt, W. P.; Koenig, J. W., University of Missouri-Rolla, 603 p, p. 187 - 194


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