Deposit group number | Country | Location | Names | Commodities |
22 | Canada (Northwest Territories) | 61.33.00 N -- 124.46.00 W | Prairie Creek | 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 group name(s): | Prairie Creek | ||||||
Political location(s): | Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories | ||||||
NTS map data: | 095F10 | ||||||
Deposit clan (type): | Mississippi Valley-type | ||||||
Deposit (sub) types: | Irish-type | ||||||
Geologic province: | Canadian Cordillera | ||||||
Geologic subprovince: | Mackenzie Mountains | ||||||
Geologic district: | Prairie Creek Embayment | ||||||
Commodities: | Zn; Pb; Ag | ||||||
Geological ages: | Late Ordovician - Early Devonian (host rocks) Silurian - Mississippian (mineralization) | ||||||
Tectonic setting: | continental marginal platform (host rocks) | ||||||
Host rocks: | (1) sedimentary; carbonate (2) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-siltstone-chert | ||||||
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Associated deposit(s): | Prairie Creek (84) |