| Titre | Geological and structural controls on hydrothermal alteration and W-Mo mineralization in the Sisson deposit, New Brunswick |
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| Auteur | Lang, J R; Duncan, R; Lentz, D R; Zhang, W; Bustard, A; McFarlane, C R M; Thorne, K G |
| Source | TGI 4 - Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation; par Rogers, N (éd.); Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 7843, 2015 p. 327-341, https://doi.org/10.4095/296474  Accès ouvert |
| Liens | Canadian Database of Geochemical Surveys, downloadable files
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| Année | 2015 |
| Éditeur | Ressources naturelles Canada |
| Document | dossier public |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4095/296474 |
| Media | en ligne; numérique |
| Référence reliée | Cette publication est contenue dans TGI 4 -
Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation |
| Référence reliée | Cette publication est reliée à Geological and
structural controls on hydrothermal alteration and W-Mo mineralization in the Sisson deposit, New Brunswick |
| Formats | pdf |
| Province | Nouveau-Brunswick |
| SNRC | 21J/02; 21J/03; 21J/06; 21J/07 |
| Région | Mount Pleasant; Sisson |
| Lat/Long OENS | -67.1667 -66.8333 46.5000 46.1667 |
| Sujets | gisements porphyriques; cuivre porphyrique; prospection minière; dépôts glaciaires; minéralisation; tungstène; molybdène; étain; bismuth; cuivre; or; caractéristiques structurales; altération
hydrothermale; gisements minéraux hydrothermaux; Dépôt de Mount Pleasant ; géologie économique; Paléozoïque; Dévonien; Silurien; Ordovicien |
| Illustrations | cartes de localisation; diagrammes stéréographiques tournant de wulff; photographies; coupes transversales; blocs-diagrammes; photomicrographies |
| Programme | Initiative géoscientifique ciblée (IGC-4) Étude des gîtes porphyriques |
| Diffusé | 2015 06 11; 2023 03 17 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
The Sisson deposit is a Late Devonian, structurally-controlled, intrusion-related W-Mo deposit located in west-central New Brunswick. Resources are estimated at
383 Mt grading 0.067 % WO3 and 0.021 % Mo (measured/indicated) and 178 Mt grading 0.051 % WO3 and 0.021 % Mo (inferred). Host rocks to Sisson include quartz diorite and gabbro phases (432 Ma; U-Pb on titanite) of the Howard Peak intrusion on the
west, which are in fault contact across the vertical, north-trending Sisson shear zone with north-northwest-striking, steeply eastdipping metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Cambrian to Ordovician Tetagouche and Miramichi Groups on the
east. Re-Os dates of ca. 378 Ma on molybdenite overlap U-Pb dates on zircon from narrow granite dykes within the deposit, which are likely related to the Late Devonian Nashwaak Granite batholith located immediately northwest of the deposit. The
deposit is cut by narrow, undeformed, barren granite porphyry dykes dated at ca. 364 Ma (U-Pb on zircon).
The Sisson deposit obliquely straddles the Sisson shear zone. Hydrothermal activity comprises: (1) early, weakly to unmineralized amphibole
veinlets with albite alteration envelopes and small, erratically-distributed zones of biotite± pyrite alteration; (2) quartz- scheelite veinlets with biotite envelopes; (3) quartz-molybdenite±scheelite veinlets with sericite envelopes; (4) mostly
late but possibly long-lived, larger and more continuous, polymetallic quartzshear veins with broad sericite envelopes and associated sulphide-rich veinlets, which also introduced minor Cu, Bi, Sb, As, Pb and Zn to the deposit; and (5) rare endoskarn
with scheelite mineralization of uncertain timing in narrow granite dykes intersected only at depths of >400 metres. Alteration is mostly restricted to the envelopes which enclose veinlets. Scheelite mineralization occurs primarily in quartz veinlets
and their alteration envelopes, molybdenite is restricted to quartz veinlets, and minor ferberitic wolframite, mostly replaced by scheelite, occurs in some quartz-scheelite veinlets and in most quartz-shear veins.
Veins throughout the deposit form
a sheeted array with consistent northwest strike and steep to moderate southwest dips. The nature and geometry of the vein sets are most compatible with formation during crustal extension, which was synchronous with sinistral, syn-hydrothermal
displacement across the north-trending Sisson shear zone. The structural plumbing system focused ascent of W-mineralizing fluids from intrusions at depth, the presence of which is indicated by syn-hydrothermal granite dykes within the deposit.
Precipitation of W and Mo mineralization resulted from chemical interactions between hydrothermal fluids and wall rock at a low fluid to rock ratio, and from changes in sulphur and oxygen fugacity. |
| Sommaire | (Résumé en langage clair et simple, non publié)
L'Initiative géoscientifique ciblée (IGC-4) est un programme géoscientifique fédéral de collaboration qui fournit à l'industrie les
connaissances géoscientifiques et les techniques novatrices de prochaine génération dont elle a besoin pour mieux détecter les gîtes minéraux enfouis, réduisant ainsi certains risques liés à l'exploration. Ce volume résume les activités de recherche
effectuées dans le cadre du projet de minéralisation lié à des intrusions de l'Initiative géoscientifique ciblée 4 qui était axé sur des systèmes minéralisés porphyriques associés aux dépôts de Cu et de Cu-Mo dans le centre-sud de la
Colombie-Britannique et aux dépôts de Sn-W-Mo-In au Nouveau-Brunswick, en Nouvelle-Écosse et à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296474 |
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