CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
73 Ireland (County Tipperary) 52.45.14 N -- 007.44.53 W Lisheen Zn; Pb; Fe; 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): Lisheen
Political location(s): Ireland; Province or state: County Tipperary
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit (sub) types: Irish-type
Deposit status: producer; Status comments: Prod'n began in 2000
Commodities: Zn; Pb; Fe; Ag
Mineralization styles: disseminated; colloform banding; massive replacement
Geological ages: Courceyan (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:dolomitized micrite ("Black Matrix Breccia")
Host rock stratigraphy:Waulsortian Limestone member

(2) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:oolitic grainstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Ballysteen Limestone member
Mineralogy: pyrite, marcasite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, tennantite, silver, sulphominerals, barite, siderite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, illite
Radiometric ages: Object dated: Alteration Signature; Age - Ma: 350; Dating method: Ar-Ar; Concentrate: muscovite; Source rock: sandstone; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: Detrital muscovite in altered Old Red sandstone beneath Lisheen orebody; Reference: Hitzman, M. W., 1994: Argon-Argon Stepheating Studies of Muscovite in the Upper Devonian Old Red Sandstone: The First Absolute Dates for the Age of Irish Zinc-Lead Mineralization; in Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle,October 24-27, 1994, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America

Object dated: Alteration Signature; Age - Ma: 315; Dating method: Ar-Ar; Concentrate: muscovite; Source rock: sandstone; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: Detrital muscovite in altered Old Red sandstone beneath Lishhen orebody; Reference: Hitzman, M. W., 1994: Argon-Argon Stepheating Studies of Muscovite in the Upper Devonian Old Red Sandstone: The First Absolute Dates for the Age of Irish Zinc-Lead Mineralization; in Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle,October 24-27, 1994, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America

Object dated: Alteration Signature; Age - Ma: 340; Dating method: Ar-Ar; Concentrate: muscovite; Source rock: sandstone; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: Detrital muscovite in altered Old Red sandstone beneath Lisheen orebody; Reference: Hitzman, M. W., 1994: Argon-Argon Stepheating Studies of Muscovite in the Upper Devonian Old Red Sandstone: The First Absolute Dates for the Age of Irish Zinc-Lead Mineralization; in Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle,October 24-27, 1994, Edited by Anonymous, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America
References:
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

Shearley, E.; Redmond, P.; Goodman, R.; King, M., 1995
A Guide to the Lisheen Zn-Pb Deposit
in Irish Carbonate-Hosted Zn-Pb Deposits, Commemorating the SEG 75th Anniversary, Guidebook for Field Conference May 13-19, 1995, Edited by Anderson, K.; Ashton, J.; Earls, G.; Tear, S., Guidebook Series, Society of Economic Geologists, Citizen Printing Co. Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 21, 296 p, p. 123 - 137

Production data: Report period: from 2001-01-01 until 2001-06-30; 0.555 million metric tons ore; Provisional entry?: no; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 12.2 percent
Pb: 2.7 percent
Reference: Verbruggen, K., 2001: A Review of Mining and Mineral Exploration in Ireland in 2001; in Irish Association for Economic Geology Annual Review 2001, Edited by Slowey, E., Annual Review, Irish Association for Economic Geology , 160 p, p. 49 - 53
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1995; 22.2 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: unstated
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 11.5 percent
Pb: 1.9 percent
Fe: 16 percent
Ag: 26 grams/metric ton
Reference: Shearley, E.; Redmond, P.; Goodman, R.; King, M., 1995: A Guide to the Lisheen Zn-Pb Deposit; in Irish Carbonate-Hosted Zn-Pb Deposits, Commemorating the SEG 75th Anniversary, Guidebook for Field Conference May 13-19, 1995, Edited by Anderson, K.; Ashton, J.; Earls, G.; Tear, S., Guidebook Series, Society of Economic Geologists, Citizen Printing Co. Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 21, 296 p, p. 123 - 137
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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