CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
12 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.59.00 N -- 060.57.30 W Jubilee; Little Narrows 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): Jubilee; Little Narrows
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia; Nearest community: Little Narrows (2 km SE)
NTS map data: 011F15 (Grand Narrows)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Geologic subprovince: River Denys sub-basin
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: discordant collapse breccia cement
Geological ages: Early Mississippian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:limestone
Host rock stratigraphy:Macumber formation
Mineralogy: pyrite, marcasite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, calcite, barite, anhydrite, gypsum, fluorite
References:
Fallara, F.; Savard, M. M.; Paradis, S., 1998
A Structural, Petrographic, and Geochemical Study of the Jubilee Zn-Pb Deposit, Nova Scotia, Canada and a New Metallogenic Model
Economic Geology, Volume 93, p. 757 - 778

Leach, D. L.; Sangster, D. F.; Kelley, K. D.; Large, R. R.; Garven, G.; Allen, C. R.; Gutzmer, J.; Walters, S., 2005
Supplement to sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits: A global perspective
Appendix, in One hundreth anniversary volume 1905-2005, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Ecomomic geology, Society of Ecomonic Geologists, 1136 p

Leach, D. L.; Sangster, D. F.; Kelley, K. D.; Large, R. R.; Garven, G.; Allen, C. R.; Gutzmer, J.; Walters, S., 2005
Sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits: A global perspective
in One hundreth anniversary volume 1905-2005, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Ecomomic geology, Society of Ecomonic Geologists, 1136 p, p. 561 - 607

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1979; 0.9 million short tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: indicated
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 5.2 percent
Pb: 1.4 percent
Reference: Fallara, F.; Savard, M. M.; Paradis, S., 1998: A Structural, Petrographic, and Geochemical Study of the Jubilee Zn-Pb Deposit, Nova Scotia, Canada and a New Metallogenic Model; Economic Geology, Volume 93, p. 757 - 778
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Associated group(s): Jubilee District (17)

Generated 2015-02-06 15:01:01 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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