6294 28 archive 285 disk0/00/00/62/94 2008-07-10 11:18:27 2008-07-18 10:55:26 2008-07-16 17:21:11 article show Ross.Large@utas.edu.au Cooke DR David.Cooke@utas.edu.au Bull SW S.Bull@utas.edu.au Large RR Ross.Large@utas.edu.au McGoldrick PJ P.McGoldrick@utas.edu.au pub 040310 260104 restricted © 2000 Society of Economic Geologists. A two-fold subdivision for stratiform sediment-hosted Pb-Zn (sedimentary exhalative, sedex) deposits is proposed, based on fundamental differences in the chemistry of the mineralizing brines. The type of sedimentary basin from which the ore fluids are derived, and the litholOgies contained within the basin, control these differences in fluid chemistry. The two discrete brine types capable of transporting Zn and Pb are oxidized brines and reduced, acidic brines. McArthur-type depOSits (e.g., McArtJ1Ur River, Mount 1sa, Hilton) precipitate from oxidized (SOJpredOminant), acidic to near-neutral brines that evolve from sedimentary basins dominated by carbonates, evaporites, and hematitic sandstones and shales. Selwyn-type depOSits (e.g., Sullivan, Rammelsberg, sedex deposits of the Selwyn basin) precipitate from acidic, reduced (H2S-predominant) connate brines that evolved in reduced siliciclastic and shale basins. Temperature decrease and dilution (fluid mixing), addition of H2S, and pH increase can all be effective depOSitional processes for Zn and Pb from reduced (Selwyn-type) brines. In conb'ast, sulfate reduction ancVor addition of H2S (via fluid mixing or interaction with earlier formed pyrite) may be the important processes for sphalerite and galena depOSition from oxidized (McArthur-type) brines. McAlthur-type sedex depOSits are intimately associated with siderite or ferroan carbonate alteration halos and most l.ikEJy precipitate from lower temperature brines than Selwyn-type deposits. The redox state of the mineralized blines (sulfate or sulfide predominant) is impOltant for controlling minor element associations in the two classes of sedex deposits. Weakly acidic to weakly alkaline oxidized brines CaIl precipitate sidelite but are incapable of carrying Significant gold, tin, and barium in solution, and as such, McArtllw-type deposits do not contain anomalous concentrations of these elements. Reduced, acid brines can cany high concentrations of baJium, explaining the common association with barite in these deposits. If reduced sulfur concentrations were sufficient in the mineralizing brines, individual Selwyn-type deposits may contain anomalous or ore-wade gold. 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