CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
71 Canada (British Columbia) 56.39.14 N -- 130.25.44 W Eskay Creek Au; Ag; Zn; Cu; Pb
 
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): Eskay Creek (deposit name)
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: British Columbia
NTS map data: 104B09 (John Peaks)
Deposit clan (type): Volcanogenic massive sulphide
Deposit (sub) types: Bimodal felsic; 4
Epithermal; Epithermal characteristics
Deposit status: past producer
Geologic province: North Cordilleran
Geologic subprovince: Intermontane Belt
Geologic district: Stikine terrane
Commodities: Au; Ag; Zn; Cu; Pb
Geological ages: Jurassic (host rocks)
Radiometric ages: Age - Ma: 150; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: approximate age reported in SEG Centennial Volume appendix
Links to other databases: BC MINFILE; Key value: 104B 008
References:
Anonymous, 2015
MINFILE/www Search
Ministry if Energy and Mines, Government of British Columbia, Internet

Roth, T.; Taylor, B. E., 2000
Sulphur Isotope and Textural Zoning of Pyrite in Mudstone above the Polymetallic Eskay Creek Deposit, Northwestern British Columbia, Canada
in Volcanic Environments and Massive Sulfide Deposits, Edited by Gemmell, J. B.; Pongratz, J., Special Publication , Centre for Ore Deposit Research (CODES), Univerrsity of Tasmania, Society of Economic Geologists, Univerrsity of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas., 3, 234 p, p. 177 - 180

Resource data:
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3.348 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.8 percent
Pb: 2.9 percent
Zn: 5.6 percent
Au: 45.97 grams/metric ton
Ag: 2,224 grams/metric ton
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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