2013
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-013-0499-7
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The Key Tuffite, Matagami Camp, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada: petrogenesis and implications for VMS formation and exploration

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“…On this flank, the Watson Lake Group comprises a dacite unit overlain by rhyolite. It is separated from the overlying basaltic Wabassee Group by the Key tuffite, which is a thin (0.6-6 m) andesitic tuff with a minor hydrothermal component (Genna et al 2014). The VMS deposits located on the southern flank of the anticline occur at the stratigraphic level of the Key tuffite horizon, and indicate that formation of the ore bodies is linked to the underlying Watson Lake Group.…”
Section: Massive Sulphide Deposits Matagami Abitibi Greenstone Beltmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…On this flank, the Watson Lake Group comprises a dacite unit overlain by rhyolite. It is separated from the overlying basaltic Wabassee Group by the Key tuffite, which is a thin (0.6-6 m) andesitic tuff with a minor hydrothermal component (Genna et al 2014). The VMS deposits located on the southern flank of the anticline occur at the stratigraphic level of the Key tuffite horizon, and indicate that formation of the ore bodies is linked to the underlying Watson Lake Group.…”
Section: Massive Sulphide Deposits Matagami Abitibi Greenstone Beltmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…The fluids were discharged onto the sea floor above and around discharge vents where they encountered cooler ocean water, which caused the precipitation of sulphides that accumulated as the sulphide lenses. The Key tuffite horizon may have been created by volcanism and chemical precipitation in the waning stages of hydrothermal activity during volcanic quiescence (Calvert et al 2003;Genna et al 2014). Two high-resolution Lithoprobe seismic reflection lines were acquired on the southwest flank of the Galinée anticline near known VMS deposits.…”
Section: Massive Sulphide Deposits Matagami Abitibi Greenstone Beltmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Given the great thickness of the Wabassee Group, the lithologic succession is dominated by mafic to intermediate flows with a smaller proportion of felsic flows. Mineralization in the South Flank is mainly found at the level of the Key Tuffite (e.g., Adair, 2009;Genna et al, 2014), the main marker horizon in the South Flank. At McLeod, the Key Tuffite and the ore zones are sandwiched between the Watson Lake Rhyolite (footwall) and the Bracemac Rhyolite (immediate hangingwall).…”
Section: Geological Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In some drillholes, there is also intense alteration just above the mineralized lenses in the lower part of the Bracemac Rhyolite. Moving laterally away from the mineralization, chlorite alteration becomes less intense (Genna et al, 2014), sericite increases, and Na increases, both in the footwall and in the hanging wall.…”
Section: Geological Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only two significant VMS deposits, Lemoine and Scott Lake, are known so far in the Chigougamau district. Further west, the Matagami district, which has a very similar geology and age, contains 20 known VMS deposits, including the Mattagami Lake (Roberts 1975) and Bracemac-McLeod deposits (Genna et al 2014;Debreil et al 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%