CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
55 Poland 50.24.00 N -- 019.20.00 E Silesia District; Silesia Cracow 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 name(s): Silesia District; Silesia Cracow District
Political location(s): Poland
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit object located: centroid of district
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Geological ages: Middle Triassic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Mineralogy: sphalerite, galena, marcasite, pyrite, dolomite, calcite, barite
Radiometric ages: Object dated: ore; Age - Ma: 46; +20; -20; Dating method: Paleomagnetism; Concentrate: Whole ore; Source rock: Disseminated sulphide; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Symons, D. T. A.; Sangster, D. F.; Leach, D. L., 1995: A Tertiary Age from Palomagnetism for the Mississippi Valley-Type Zinc-Lead Mineralization in Upper Silesia; Economic Geology, Volume 90, p. 782 - 794
References:
Leach, D. L.; Viets, J. G.; Kozlowski, A.; Kibitlewski, S., 1996
Geology, Geochemistry and Genesis of the Silesia-Cracow Zinc-Lead District, Southern Poland
2, Section District or Thematic Overviews, in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Volume, Edited by Sangster, D. F., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 4, 664 p, p. 144 - 170

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1996; 500 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Zn+Pb: 5 percent
Reference: Leach, D. L.; Viets, J. G.; Kozlowski, A.; Kibitlewski, S., 1996: Geology, Geochemistry and Genesis of the Silesia-Cracow Zinc-Lead District, Southern Poland; 2, Section District or Thematic Overviews, in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Volume, Edited by Sangster, D. F., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 4, 664 p, p. 144 - 170
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1995; 208.3 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: indicated
Weight-commodity information:Zn: 8.14 million metric tons
Pb: 3.6 million metric tons
Reference: Przenioslo, S., 1996: Mineral Resources of Poland 1995; Polish Geological Institute, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Energy, 92 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1995; 45.7 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: proven
Weight-commodity information:Zn: 2 million metric tons
Pb: 0.83 million metric tons
Reference: Przenioslo, S., 1996: Mineral Resources of Poland 1995; Polish Geological Institute, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Energy, 92 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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