CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
85 Canada (Yukon Territory) 60.21.00 N -- 127.24.00 W Mel Ba; 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): Mel (deposit name)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Yukon Territory
NTS map data: 095D06
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit (sub) types: Irish-type; ???
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Cordillera
Commodities: Ba; Zn; Pb
Geological ages: Cambrian - Ordovician (host rocks)
Devonian (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary
Mineralogy: barite, sphalerite, galena
Qualified comments: (Applies to: mineralization) It is uncertain whether mineralization is syngenetic and sedimentary exhalitive, or epigenetic, possibly both.
Links to other databases: Yukon MINFILE; Key value: 095D 005
References:
Anonymous, 2013
Yukon MINFILE
YGSIDS - Occurrence Details, Internet

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1995; Component: Main zone; 6.78 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: historical resource
Grade-commodity information:barite: 54.69 percent
Zn: 7.1 percent
Pb: 2.03 percent
Reference: King, H. L., 1995: Report on diamond drilling, Mel property, Yukon (Jean 8, Sam 5, 7, 44, 46, 48 claims); Yukon Mining Assessment Report, International Barytex Resources Ltd., Yukon Geological Survey, Publication code 093353, 64 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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