Key controls, age, source of metals, and role of organic matter on the origin of Laisvall-type Pb-Zn deposits and their relationship to calcite-fluorite-Zn ± Pb sulfide vein-type mineralization in Baltica Basement (Sweden)

Saintilan, Nicolas

doi:10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:73725

Doctoral thesis

English

Key controls, age, source of metals, and role of organic matter on the origin of Laisvall-type Pb-Zn deposits and their relationship to calcite-fluorite-Zn ± Pb sulfide vein-type mineralization in Baltica Basement (Sweden)

ContributorsSaintilan, Nicolas

DirectorsFontboté, Lluis; Stephens, Michael B.

Defense date2015-03-19

Abstract

A multi-disciplinary approach was used to study the Pb-Zn sulfide ore deposits hosted by Ediacaran to Cambrian sandstone at Laisvall (64 Mt at 4.0% Pb, 0.6% Zn, and 9.0 g/t Ag) and Vassbo (3.2 Mt, 5.7% Pb, 0.3% Zn, 18 g/t Ag) along the erosional front of the Caledonian orogen, Sweden. The aim was to refine the genetic model of the Laisvall deposit and, by extension, propose a model for mineralization at Vassbo. New data presented in five chapters show that these epigenetic strata-bound sandstone-hosted Pb-Zn deposits have the key characteristics to classify them as a sub-type of Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) Pb-Zn deposits.

Keywords

Laisvall
Sandstone
Pb-Zn
Cambrian
Organic geochemistry
Sphalerite
Rb-Sr
Vein
Baltica
Caledonian

Affiliation entities

Faculté des sciences / Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement / Département des sciences de la Terre

Research groups

Mineral Resources and Geofluids

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation - Fluids and ore forming processes in the continental crust (cont) [146353]
Autre - Boliden Mineral AB Sweden
Autre - Geological Survay Sweden

Citation (ISO format)

SAINTILAN, Nicolas. Key controls, age, source of metals, and role of organic matter on the origin of Laisvall-type Pb-Zn deposits and their relationship to calcite-fluorite-Zn ± Pb sulfide vein-type mineralization in Baltica Basement (Sweden). Doctoral Thesis, 2015. doi: 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:73725

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PID : unige:73725
DOI : 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:73725
URN : urn:nbn:ch:unige-737253
Thesis number : Sc. 4793

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