Stratabound copper-lead-zinc mineralisation in the Permo-Triassic of central East Greenland
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https://doi.org/10.34194/bullggu.v143.6685Abstract
Stratabound and stratiform copper-lead-zinc-mineralised horizons confined to specific sedimentary fades in the Permo-Triassic Jameson Land Basin of East Greenland were revealed during recent exploration and sedimentological studies. The occurrences are divided into fault-bounded-stratabound and stratabound-stratiform mineralisation. The first group comprises lead-zinc-copper mineralisation in Upper Permian limestone; the remaining mineralisation falls in the second group which is subdivided into mineralisation hosted in mudstones, in sandstones with mudflasers and in sandstones and conglomerates. A lithogeochemical programme helped to define the mineralised horizons in the Triassic. During the interpretation of the geochemical data an empiric statistical function was introduced which is an estimate of how anomalous the 95 per cent fractile is for individual elements compared with the frequency distribution around the median. The Upper Permian sediments host copper in basal shoreline conglomerates, zinc-lead-copper in lagoonal mudstones and lead-zinc-copper in carbonate buildup and shelf fades. The Lower Triassic contains copper-lead mineralisation in alluvial fan sediments, the Middle Triassic hosts lead-zinc-copper in sandy shoreline limestones and lagoonal mudstones and copper-lead-zinc in gypsiferous lacustrine sandstones and mudstones while the Upper Triassic contains copper in both dolomitic lacustrine sandstones and mudstones and in overlying carbonate-rich fluvial channel sandstones.
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