CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
33 United States (Missouri) 37.22.25 N -- 091.06.15 W ASARCO Sweetwater; Ozark Lead; Frank R. Milliken Pb; Zn; Cu; Ag; Cd
 
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): ASARCO Sweetwater; Ozark Lead; Frank R. Milliken
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Missouri; Nearest community: Bunker, Missouri (7.5 mi SE)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: producer
Geologic district: Southeast Missouri District
Commodities: Pb; Zn; Cu; Ag; Cd
Mineralization styles: bedded replacement; disseminated; discordant collapse breccia cement; veins
Geological ages: Late Cambrian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Mineralogy: galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, bornite, siegenite, millerite, polydymite, pyrite, marcasite, dolomite, calcite, quartz, dickite
References:
Hagni, R. D., 1995
The Southeast Missouri Lead District
in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Fluorite-Barite Deposits of North America, Society of Economic Geologists 75th Anniversary Guidebook, June 3-6, 1995, Edited by Misra, K. C., Guidebook Volume, Society of Economic Geologists, Cirizen Printing Co., Inc., 1309 Webster Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 22, 254 p, p. 44 - 78

Mouat, M. M.; Clendenin, C. W., 1977
Geology of the Ozark Lead Company Mine, Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri
Economic Geology, Volume 72, p. 398 - 407

Walker, W. B., 1989
Geology of the Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri
in Mississsippi Valley-Type Mineralization of the Viburnum Trend, Missouri, Field Conference Guidebook November 9-11, 1989, Edited by Hagni, R. D.; Coveney, R. M., Jr., Society of Economic Geologists, Volume 5, 193 p, p. 111 - 131

Walker, W. B., 1995
Geology of the Asarco Sweetwater Deposit, Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri
in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Fluorite-Barite Deposits of North America, Society of Economic Geologists 75th Anniversary Guidebook, June 3-6, 1995, Edited by Misra, K. C., Guidebook Volume, Society of Economic Geologists, Cirizen Printing Co., Inc., 1309 Webster Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 22, 254 p, p. 123 - 131

Associated group(s): Viburnum Trend (1)

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