CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
69 Ireland (County Longford) 53.35.44 N -- 007.57.47 W Newton Cashel 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): Newton Cashel
Political location(s): Ireland; Province or state: County Longford
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: occurrence; Status comments: No grade-tonnage data available
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: breccia cement; fracture fill; disseminated in primary porosity
Geological ages: Courceyan (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate (Mixed lithologies); Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:micrite
quartz sandstone
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Mixed Micrite Unit member

(2) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:quartz sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Basal Clastics Unit member

(3) sedimentary; quartzite-sandstone; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:quartz sandstone (calcareous matrix; contains shale interbeds)
Host rock stratigraphy:Upper Sandstone Unit member
Mineralogy: pyrite, sphalerite, galena, dolomite, barite, calcite, dolomite
References:
Crowe, R. W. A., 1986
The Structural and Stratigraphic Setting of Zn-Ba-Pb Mineralization at Newtown Cashel, Co. Longford
in Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland, Edited by Andrew, C. J.; Crowe, R. W. A.; Finlay, S.; Pennell, W. M.; Pyne, J. F., Irish Association for Economic Geology, Cahill Printers, Ireland, 711 p, p. 331 - 340


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