Volcanic-hosted massive sulphide

Bailes, A.H. Galley, A.G., 1999. Evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Snow Lake arc assemblage and geodynamic setting for associated volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits, Flin Flon Belt, Manitoba, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 1789-1805. 

Leistel, J.M., Marcoux, E., Thieblemont, d., Quesada, c., Sanchez, a., Almodovar, G.R., Pascual, e. Saez, R. 1997. The volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt Review and preface to special issue, 33, 2-30. 

Zone, a volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposit, Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick Exploration and Mining Geology, 15, 177-199. 

Galley, A.G. 1995. Target vectoring using lithogeochemistry Applications to the exploration for volcanic hosted massive sulphide deposits. ClM Bulletin, 88, 15-27. 

Lentz, D.R. 1998. Petrogenetic evolution of feisic volcanic sequences associated with Phanerozoic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide systems the role of extensional geodynamics. Ore Geology Reviews, 12, 289-327. 

Scott, 1997). Where these deposits are relatively large, such as at the TAG mound on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, they resemble ancient volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VMS) deposits like those presently found in ophiolites (Rona Scott, 1993 Humphris etal., 1995 Mills, 1995 Goulding etal., 1998 Scott, 1997). Some of the metals at hydrothermal vents are discharged as black smoke along with gases and other dissolved ions, and are expelled into plumes above and away from the vents (see Section 2.4). 

The Big Lake Cu-Zn-Ag-Au voicanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) occurrence is hosted in mafic-ultramafic strata of the Schreiber-Hemio greenstone belt near Marathon, Ontario (Fig. 1). This VMS is unusual in that it is one of a few documented VMS occurrences in sequences lacking felsic volcanic or volcaniclastic rock. 

The case study ore deposit is a lens of massive sulphide and associated disseminated breccia and stringer sulphides, located in the Abitibi region of the province of Quebec, Canada. The orebody is hosted within a series of volcanic rocks, primar-... 

The Halfmile Lake deposit consists of massive, breccia, and stockwork Zn-Pb-Cu sulfide mineralization hosted by volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Ordovician Tetagouche Group (Mireku Stanley 2006 Adair 1992). The main sulphide minerals in the deposit are... 

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