A petrographic and fluid inclusion comparison of silver-poor and silver-rich zinc-lead ores,N.E. Washington State |
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| Authors: | Philip E Brown Gaafar A Ahmed |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, 53706 Madison, Wisconsin;(2) Present address: Geological and Mineral Resources Dept., Ministry of Energy and Mining, P.O. Box 410, Khartoum, Sudan |
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| Abstract: | Many of the zinc-lead deposits of NE Washington State are poorly known examples of Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) mineralization. This study compares inclusion fluids from the Josephine Breccia ores with the later cross-cutting sulfide-bearing quartz veins. The breccia ores are cemented mainly by open space fillings of dolomite, sphalerite, quartz, galena, jasperoid and calcite. Replacement is of minor importance. Ore and gangue deposition occurred over the range 150–250 °C with most of the temperatures less than 200 °C. The aqueous brines typically contain 17–23 equivalent weight percent NaCl with often substantial amounts of Ca and/or Mg chlorides. Homogenization temperatures do not delineate any cooling or paragenetic sequence. The cross-cutting vein quartz contains CO2-rich inclusions with overall densities usually less than 0.7 g/cc and homogenization temperatures from 250–325 °C. Sulfur isotope analyses yield two populations with the quartz vein ores being lighter (<13 permil CDT) than the average for the conformable ores. The later veins are not remobilized MVT sulfides but represent a separate, high-silver period of mineralization. |
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