CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
68 Ireland (County Kildare) 53.16.12 N -- 006.51.39 W Harberton Bridge Zn; Pb; Ag
 
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): Harberton Bridge
Political location(s): Ireland; Province or state: County Kildare
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: deposit; Status comments: Drill only
Commodities: Zn; Pb; Ag
Mineralization styles: disseminated; fracture fill; discordant collapse breccia cement
Geological ages: Courceyan - Arundian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:micrite
Host rock stratigraphy:Waulsortian limestone member

(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:limestone (crinoidal)
limestone (pelsparite)
Host rock stratigraphy:Lower Pelsparite Unit member

(3) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:micrite
Host rock stratigraphy:Micrite Unit member
Mineralogy: marcasite, sphalerite, galena, pyrite, calcite, dolomite, barite, fluorite, pyrobitumen
References:
Emo, G. T., 1986
Some Considerations Regarding the Styles of Mineralization at Harberton Bridge, County Kildare
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. 461 - 469

Holdstock, M. P., 1982
Breccia-Hosted Zinc-Lead Mineralisation in Tournaisian and Lower Visean Carbonates at Haberton Bridge, County Kildare
in Mineral Exploration in Ireland: Progress and Developments 1971-1981 (Wexford Conference 1981), Edited by Brown, A. G., Irish Association for Economic Geology, Folens Printing Ltd., Dublin, 179 p, p. 83 - 91

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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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: 1991; 3.91 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: unstated
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 8.1 percent
Pb: 1.21 percent
Ag: 10 grams/metric ton
Reference: Andrew, C. J., 1990: Irish Zinc Deposits - Style and Process in an Orefield Context; Minerals Industry International, Bulletin, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Volume 1001, p. 9 - 16
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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