| Title | The south Newfoundland granophile mineral district: features and opportunities for research on blind deposits |
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| Author | Kerr, A |
| Source | TGI 4 - Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation; by Rogers, N (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7843, 2015 p. 383-401, https://doi.org/10.4095/296478  Open Access |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in TGI 4 - Intrusion Related
Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| NTS | 1M |
| Area | Connaigre Peninsula |
| Lat/Long WENS | -56.5000 -55.0000 48.0000 47.5000 |
| Subjects | economic geology; geochronology; metallic minerals; porphyry deposits; porphyry copper; mineral exploration; mineralization; alteration; tungsten; molybdenum; tin; bismuth; mineral deposits; granitic
rocks; magmatic deposits; granophile deposits; fluorspar; uranium lead dates; radiometric dates; hydrothermal alteration; Tickle Point Formation; Furby's Cove Intrusive Suite; Connaigre Bay Group; Simmons Brook Intrusive Suite; Harbour Breton
Granite; Hardy's Cove Intrusive Suite; Grole Intrusive Suite; Long Harbour Group; Young's Cove Group; Pass Island Granite; Cinq Isles Formation; Great Bay de L'Eau Formation; Poole's Cove Formation; Old Woman Stock; Paleozoic; Devonian |
| Illustrations | location maps; photographs; plots; histograms; Concordia diagrams |
| Program | Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) Intrusion/Porphyry Ore Systems |
| Released | 2015 06 11; 2023 03 17 |
| Abstract | The south coast of the island of Newfoundland is a diverse and potentially important district of granophile mineral deposits, in which several mineralized intrusive complexes span contrasting
tectonostratigraphic zones of the Appalachian Orogen. In addition to molybdenum and tungsten deposits that represent potential producers, the district includes one of the world's largest producing fluorspar deposits, at St. Lawrence. The settings of
mineral deposits vary, as do their associated commodities, but there is a common magmatic thread throughout the district. All major deposits are associated with evolved, alkali-calcic, siliceous granitoid rocks emplaced within a short time interval
from ca. 388 Ma to ca. 375 Ma. Coherent U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology links these deposits to spatially associated plutons, even where direct physical connections are lacking. There are common geochemical themes that link prospective magmas, but these
are not always easily visible through the geochemical and isotopic diversity connected to the contrasts in basement terranes along the belt. There is a dire need for other types of diagnostic data (e.g., Pb isotopes, accessory mineral chemistry) that
can better unravel the respective contributions of magma sources, contaminants and fractionation histories to regional prospectivity.
There are contrasts in the erosional levels revealed in individual complexes, from endocontact disseminated
mineralization in high-level granites, to sheeted vein complexes and related hydrothermal lodes associated with hidden subsurface plutons. The Grey River - Moly Brook area provides the best example of the latter setting, and has all of the expected
characteristics of a large zoned hydrothermal system. This area is of particular interest in the context of exploring such blind systems, because high-resolution geophysical data provide potential 3D information to augment the direct data from
drilling. Exploring for targets associated with hidden intrusions is never going to be easy, so examples such as this, for which multiple data sets exist, are obvious priorities for expanded research. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) is a collaborative federal geoscience program that provides industry with the next generation of geoscience
knowledge and innovative techniques to better detect buried mineral deposits, thereby reducing some of the risks of exploration. This volume summarises research activities completed under the TGI 4 Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project that
focused on porphyry-style ore systems related to the Cu- and Cu-Mo deposits of South-Central British Columbia and the Sn-W-Mo-In deposits in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296478 |
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