CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
467 Japan 34.24.42 N -- 135.25.44 E Besshi-Iimori Cu
 
Database name: World Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits
Custodial agency: Society of Economic Geologists & Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: J. M. Franklin, H. L. Gibson, I. R. Jonasson, and A. G. Galley
Release date: 2015-03-23
   
Deposit name(s): Besshi-Iimori (deposit name)
Political location(s): Japan
Deposit clan (type): Volcanogenic massive sulphide
Deposit (sub) types: Pelitic mafic; 3
Geologic province: Japan arcs (Tethyan)
Geologic subprovince: Besshi
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Albian (host rocks)
Radiometric ages: Age - Ma: 105; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: approximate age reported in SEG Centennial Volume appendix
References:
Slack, J. F.; Foose, M. P.; Flohr, M. J. K.; Scully, M. V.; Belkin, H. E., 2003
Exhalative and Subseafloor Replacement Processes in the Formation of the Bald Mountain Massive Sulfide Deposit, Northern Maine
in Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick and Northern Maine, Edited by Goodfellow, W. D.; McCutcheon, S. R.; Peter, J. M., Monograph, Society of Economic Geologists , Society of Economic Geologists, Inc., Littleton, Colorado, 11, 930 p., 1 disks, p. 513 - 547

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.

2.54083 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.3 percent
Reference: Franklin, J. M.; Gibson, H. L.; Jonasson, I. R.; Galley, A. G., 2005: Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits; Appendices on CD-ROM, Section [Franklin] Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits, in Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Special Volume, Society of Economic Geology, 1146 p., 1 disks
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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