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): Newfoundland Zinc; Daniel's Harbour
Longitude / Latitude: -57.46778 / 50.27694
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Newfoundland
NTS map data: 012I06 (Bellburns)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: past producer
Geologic province: Appalachian Orogen
Commodities: Zn
Mineralization styles: veins; disseminated
Geological ages: Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Middle Devonian - Early Mississippian (mineralization)
Middle Devonian (mineralization)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Host rock stratigraphy:Catoche formation
Alteration signatures: dolomitization: dolomite; What was altered: dolostone
Mineralogy: sphalerite, galena, dolomite
Radiometric ages: Object dated: ore; Age - Ma: 380; +7; -7; Dating method: Paleomagnetism; Concentrate: Whole ore; Source rock: Massive sulphide; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: Pan, H.; Symons, D. T. A., 1993: Paleomagnetism of the Mississippi Valley-Type Newfoundland Zinc Deposit: Evidence for Devonian Mineralization in the Northern Appalachians; Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 98, p. 22415 - 22427

Object dated: mineralogy(1); Age - Ma: 375; +75; -75; Dating method: Rb-Sr; Concentrate: sphalerite; Source rock: Disseminated sulphide; Event dated: mineralization; Reference: 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
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.

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

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

Paradis, S.; Hannigan, P.; Dewing, K., 2007
Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits
in Mineral Deposits of Canada: a synthesis of major deposit types, district metallogeny, the evolution of geological provinces, and exploration methods, Edited by Goodfellow, W. D., Special Publication, Mineral Deposits Division, Geological Association of Canada, No. 5, 1061 p, p. 185 - 203

Production data: Report period: from 1975 until 1990; 7.2 million short tons ore; Provisional entry?: no; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 8 percent
Reference: 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.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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