Embury Lake

Overview

Massive and disseminated or stringer ores. North Zone has upper and lower lenses of massive sulfide and disseminated ores, South Zone has a stacked group of four lenses, two at approximately the same hangingwall horizon with the other two at different horizons to the footwall. Widths of lenses 1.5-25 m, strike length 100-200 m, depth 80 to 400 m. Beneath 80 m of lake water and cover rock. Island arc tholeiite.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-mafic in oceanic arc

Resources & Operations

Production Start: 1982

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS