Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc Sulphide Deposits: Attributes and Models of some Major Deposits in India, Australia and Canada

Comprises thirteen chapters contributed by renowned economic geologists from three continents. This book highlights the recent advances made in the understanding of the temporal and tectono-stratigraphic distribution of sediment-hosted Pb-Zn sulphide ores and processes governing their genesis.. The first section deals comprehensively with some of the most important deposits of this class in Canada and Australia, emphasizing their genetic models. It also contains a paper on geoenvironmental model', which concerns the environmental behaviour of this deposit type and other massive sulphides a) prior to mining, and b) resulting from mining, mineral processing and smelting. In the second section proterozoic crustal evolution of the mineralized terranes in the state of Rajasthan, northwest India, hosting three major sulphide deposits, along with their resource base latest geochronological constraints, geological setting and recent concepts on genesis are discussed. The book is profusely illustrated with both black and white and colour photographs.. Table of Contents. * Preface* Section I: Australian and Canadian Deposits: Proterozoic Stratiform Sediment-Hosted Zn-Pb-Ag Deposits of Northern Australia-Ross Large et. al.* Geology, Genesis and Exploration of SEDEX Deposits, with Emphasis on the Selwyn Basin, Canada-Wayne D. Goodfellow* Geology of the Belt-Purcell Basin and the Sullivan deposit-John W. Lydon* Genetic models for Sullivan and other SEDEX deposits- John W. Lydon* Geoenvironmental Models for Massive Sulphide Deposits with an Emphasis on Sedimentary-Exhalative Lead-Zinc Deposits-Robert R. Seal II* Section II: Indian Deposits: Precambrian terranes of Rajasthan, India and their linkages with plate tectonics-controlled mineralization types and metallogeny-S. Sinha-Roy* Geochronological Constraints in the Precambrian Geology of Rajasthan and their Metallogenic Implications-M.Deb et al.* Grade and Tonnage Relationships in Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn Sulphide Deposits of Rajasthan, India-S.K. Haldar* Tectonostratigraphy of the Lead-Zinc-bearing metasedimentary Rocks of the Rampura-Agucha Mine and its neighbourthood, District Bhilwara, Rajasthan: Implications on Metallogeny-A.B. Roy et al.* Rampura-Agucha, a remobilized SEDEX deposit, southeastern Rajasthan, India-Nalin Shah* Geology and Genesis of the base metal sulphide deposits in the Dariba-Rajpura-Bethumni belt, Rajasthan, India, in the light of basin evolution-M. Deb et. al.* Carbonate-hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits of Zawar, Rajasthan, in the context of the World scenario S.C. Sarkar et al.* Analysis of the Sedimentary Succession Hosting the Paleoproterozoic Zawar Zn-Pb Sulphide Ore Deposit, Rajasthan, India-H.N. Bhattacharya