MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD-ZINC DEPOSITS

Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits are epigenetic, stratabound, carbonate-hosted sulphide bodies composed predominantly of sphalerite, galena, iron oxides (pyrite, marcasite), and carbonates (calcite, dolomite). MVT deposits are important Zn and Pb reserves and resources in the world. Silver, ba...

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Main Authors: Suzanne Paradis, Peter Hannigan, Keith Dewing
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Nanisivik
Pine Point
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.471.1780
http://www.dwexploration.ca/resources/deposit_synthesis_mvt.paradis.pdf
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Summary:Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits are epigenetic, stratabound, carbonate-hosted sulphide bodies composed predominantly of sphalerite, galena, iron oxides (pyrite, marcasite), and carbonates (calcite, dolomite). MVT deposits are important Zn and Pb reserves and resources in the world. Silver, barite, gypsum, and fluorite may also be econom-ically recovered from these deposits. Major world MVT deposits are found in Canada (Pine Point, Polaris, Nanisivik

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