CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Fletcher
Longitude / Latitude: -91.09972 / 37.48306
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Missouri; Nearest community: Bunker, Missouri (6 mi ENE)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: producer
Geologic district: Southeast Missouri District
Commodities: Pb; Zn; Cu
Mineralization styles: disseminated; discordant collapse breccia cement
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
Mineralogy: galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, siegenite, pyrite, marcasite, dolomite, dickite, calcite, quartz
References:
Childers, G. A.; Paarlberg, N. L.; Evans, L. L., 1995
Geology of the Fletcher Mine, Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri
in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Fluorite-Barite Deposits of North America, Society of Economic Geologists 75th Anniversary Guidebook, June 3-6, 1995, Edited by Misra, K. C., Guidebook Volume, Society of Economic Geologists, Cirizen Printing Co., Inc., 1309 Webster Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 22, 254 p, p. 99 - 111

Hagni, R. D., 1995
The Southeast Missouri Lead District
in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Fluorite-Barite Deposits of North America, Society of Economic Geologists 75th Anniversary Guidebook, June 3-6, 1995, Edited by Misra, K. C., Guidebook Volume, Society of Economic Geologists, Cirizen Printing Co., Inc., 1309 Webster Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 22, 254 p, p. 44 - 78

Paarlberg, N. L.; Evans, L. L., 1977
Geology of the Fletcher Mine, Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri
Economic Geology, Volume 72, p. 391 - 397


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