CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
18 Canada (Nova Scotia) 45.02.00 N -- 063.21.50 W Gays River District 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 group name(s): Gays River District
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nova Scotia
NTS map data: 011E03 (Shubenacadie)
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Geologic province: Meguma terrane
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Geological ages: Early Mississippian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Host rock stratigraphy:Gays River Formation
References:
Chagnon, A.; St. Antoine, P.; Savard, M. M.; Heroux, Y., 1998
Impact of Pb-Zn Sulfide Precipitation on the Clay Mineral Assemblage in the Gays River Deposit, Nova Scotia, Canada
Economic Geology, Volume 93, p. 779 - 792

Kontak, D. J., 1992
A Preliminary Report on Geological, Geochemical, Fluid Inclusion and Isotopic Studies of the Gays River Zn-Pb Deposit, Nova Scotia
Open File Report, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Publication code 92-014, 223 p.

Associated deposit(s): Gays River (13)

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