CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
20 Canada (Newfoundland) 50.16.37 N -- 057.28.04 W Newfoundland Zinc District Zn
 
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): Newfoundland Zinc District
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland
NTS map data: 012I06 (Bellburns)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Humber Zone
Commodities: Zn
Geological ages: Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Middle Devonian (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Host rock stratigraphy:Catoche Formation
References:
Lane, T. E., 1990
Dolomitization, Brecciation and Zinc Mineralization and their Paragenetic, Stratigraphic and Structural Relationships in the Upper St. George Group (Ordovician) at Daniel's Harbour, Western Newfoundland
PhD Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Earth Sciences, 262 p.

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

Associated deposit(s): Newfoundland Zinc (15)

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