The zinc potential in Greenland

Lars Lund Sørensen; Per Kalvig; Kristine Thrane; Diogo Rosa

doi:10.22008/gpub/38320

The zinc potential in Greenland

Lars Lund Sørensen
, Per Kalvig
, Kristine Thrane
, Diogo Rosa

Department of Mapping and Mineral Resources

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Abstract

Zinc showings and occurrences are numerous in Greenland. In particular, the Palaeozoic Franklinian Basin, North Greenland, which extends for more than 2,500 km E–W through the Canadian Arctic Islands and northern Greenland, is considered to carry a large potential for hosting undiscovered zinc deposits. Until now Palaeo-proterozoic sedimentary rocks have been the most important Greenlandic zinc source, namely the Black Angel mine. However, zinc is also known from several occurrences in the Archaean, and the Meso- to Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic sedimentary environments of West and East Greenland.

Original language	English
Number of pages	12
Journal	Geology & Ore
Issue number	30
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22008/gpub/38320
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2018

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