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dc.contributor.authorCloutier, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorPiercey, Stephen J.
dc.contributor.authorLode, Stefanie
dc.contributor.authorVande Gutche, Michael
dc.contributor.authorCopeland, David A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-13T00:31:53Z
dc.date.available2018-01-13T00:31:53Z
dc.date.issued2017-04
dc.identifier248982587
dc.identifier67522308-af92-46a4-87e3-fe5ce6599dcf
dc.identifier85009942081
dc.identifier000397361900009
dc.identifier.citationCloutier , J , Piercey , S J , Lode , S , Vande Gutche , M & Copeland , D A 2017 , ' Lithostratigraphic and structural reconstruction of the Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, Tally Pond group, central Newfoundland, Canada ' , Ore Geology Reviews , vol. 84 , pp. 154-173 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.01.010en
dc.identifier.issn0169-1368
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9432-9880/work/29708389
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/12472
dc.descriptionFinancial support for this project was provided from a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development Grant to S.J. Piercey. Additional funding was provided by the NSERC-Altius Industrial Research Chair in Mineral Deposits (supported by NSERC, Altius Resources Inc., and the Research and Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador) and an NSERC Discovery Grant to S.J. Piercey.en
dc.description.abstractThe Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit (1.24 Mt grading at 0.58% Cu, 5.38% Zn, 1.19% Pb, 1.01g/t Au, and 59.17g/t Ag) is a bimodal-felsic VMS deposit hosted within the Late Cambrian ($513–509 Ma) Tally Pond group of the Exploit Subzone in central Newfoundland, Canada. The deposit is hosted by andesitic volcaniclastic and volcanic rocks with subordinate dacite flows. The mineralisation is hosted by the dacites and is overlain by pillowed and massive basalts.Four structural breaks offset the local stratigraphic sequences including: 1) the LJ syn-volcanic shear zone; 2) the KJ syn-volcanic shear zone; 3) the Lemarchant thrust; and 4) the Bam normal fault. Deformation of the Lemarchant likely occurred during the Penobscot orogeny (486–478 Ma). Early deformation is marked with the local deformation of the LJ and KJ syn-volcanic shear zones during NW-SE compression which coincided with the development of the Lemarchant thrust. A late (<465Ma) east trending normal fault, the Bam fault, affected the central portion of the Lemarchant area and down-faulted the southern portion of the study area relative to the northern portion.Immobile element systematics of all the sequences from the Lemarchant deposit are tholeiitic with transitional Zr/Y ratios (1.9–6.6), Lan/Smn ratios <1 (normalised to upper crust), and have primitive mantle extended rare earth elements profiles with slight light rare earth element (LREE)-enriched pat- terns with flat heavy REE (HREE), and weak to strong negative Nb, Zr, and Ti anomalies. Together, these geochemical features, coupled with an FIIIa signature, and existing mineralogical and Nd-Pb iso- tope data, are consistent with the rocks at the Lemarchant deposit having formed within a shallow (<1500 m) arc or migrating cross-arc seamount chain located within a young peri-continental rifted arc along the margin of Ganderia, within the Iapetus Ocean. The estimated shallow water emplace- ment of the deposit likely allowed boiling near or at the rock-sea water interface, ultimately resulting in precious metal enrichment of the Lemarchant deposit. It is suggested that cross-arcs within rifted arc environments may represent favourable exploration targets for precious metal-enriched VMS deposits.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofOre Geology Reviewsen
dc.subjectPrecious metal enriched VMS depositsen
dc.subjectLemarchant depositen
dc.subjectTally Ponden
dc.subjectStratigraphic reconstructionen
dc.subjectStructural reconstructionen
dc.subjectAppalachian tectonic evolutionen
dc.subjectEconomic Geologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.titleLithostratigraphic and structural reconstruction of the Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, Tally Pond group, central Newfoundland, Canadaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Earth and Environmental Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.01.010
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-01-12


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