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Exploration and Mining Geology; January 2004; v. 13; no. 1-4; p. 109-118; DOI: 10.2113/gsemg.13.1-4.109
© 2004 Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum
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The Setting and Age of the Bermuda Zn-Pb Showing, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island: Implications for MVT Mineralization in the Canadian Arctic

IAIN MITCHELL and ROBERT L. LINNEN

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

ROBERT A. CREASER

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3

The Bermuda Zn-Pb showing is hosted by dolomitized Blue Fiord Formation of Devonian age, located east of the Ensorcellement dome on the Grinnell Peninsula of Devon Island. Fluid inclusions in hydrothermal calcite indicate that the mineralization precipitated from low-temperature, highly saline brines. The {delta}34S compositions of sphalerite, galena, and marcasite range from 16.1{per thousand} to 35.2{per thousand}. Consequently, the Bermuda showing is interpreted to be Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) mineralization. The apparent age of mineralization has been determined by the Rb-Sr method from sphalerite separates, and a Late Devonian age of 357 ± 50 Ma (MSWD=65), with an initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.7083 ± 0.0020 is indicated. This date, within error, is the same as the Polaris deposit. This suggests that the mineralization formed during the Ellesmerian Orogen, although it is also possible that mineralization is associated with extension, related to the opening of the Sverdrup basin. The strontium and sulfur isotopes and fluid inclusion analyses indicate the involvement of a brine that acquired its salinity from interaction with evaporites, lower in the stratigraphic succession. The Polaris mine is the type deposit in the Cornwallis Zn-Pb district and is hosted by the Thumb Mountain Formation. The results of this study are significant because they demonstrate that regional brine movement is more widespread than previously recognized, and that MVT mineralization in the Cornwallis Zn-Pb district is not restricted to the Thumb Mountain Formation.






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