Colombian-style emerald mineralization in the northern Canadian Cordillera: integration into a regional Paleozoic fluid flow regime

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Hewton, M.L., Marshall, D.D., Ootes, L., Loughrey, L.E., Creaser, R.A.
• Other Authors: Hanley, Jacob
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2013
• Subjects: Dee; Diablo; Mackenzie mountains
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2012-0128; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2012-0128; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2012-0128

Emerald in the Mackenzie Mountains is hosted in extensional quartz–carbonate veins cutting organic-poor Neoproterozoic sandstones and siltstones within the hanging wall of a thrust fault that emplaced these strata above Paleozoic rocks. Isotopic compositions of water extracted from emerald are typic...