Bacteria were responsible for the magnitude of the world-class hydrothermal base metal sulfide orebody at Navan, Ireland

Economic Geology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 885-890

  Fallick, A E ^a   Ashton, J H ^a   Boyce, A J ^a   Ellam, R M ^a   Russell, M J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMALS;

BACTERIA; LEAD; SEAWATER; SULFUR; ZINC;

GEOLOGY;

BACTERIUM; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; REDUCTION; SEAWATER; SULFATE; ZINC;

IRELAND;

EID: 0035388397     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.96.4.885     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Preliminary sulphur isotope data of diagenetic and vein sulphides in the lower Palaeozoic strata of Ireland and Southern Scotland: Implications for Zn + Pb + Ba mineralization
2. Ore depositional processes in the Navan Zn-Pb deposit, Ireland
3. The geology of the Navan Zn-Pb orebody
4. The Navan orebody-discovery and geology of the South West extension: Europe's base-metal deposits
5. Hydrothermal alteration of graywacke by brine and seawater: Roles of alteration and chloride complexing on metal solubilization at 200°C and 350°C
6. Textural and stable isotopic evidence for the genesis of the Tynagh base metal deposit, Ireland
7. Lead isotope variation in the Tynagh, Silvermines and Navan base-metal deposits, Ireland
8. Formation of fossil hydrothermal chimneys and mounds from Silvermines, Ireland
9. 34S study of lower Palaeozoic rocks under the Navan Zn + Pb deposits: A source of hydrothermal sulphur
10. Detailed sulphur isotope studies of lower Palaeozoic-hosted pyrite below the giant Navan Zn + Pb mine, Ireland: Evidence of mass transport of crustal S to a sediment-hosted deposit
11. A hydrothermal vent tube worm in the Ballynoe baryte deposit, Silvermines, Ireland: Implications for timing and ore genesis
12. Late proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies
13. 34S-depleted sulfide during bacterial disproportionation of elemental sulfur
14. A review of lead and sulphur isotope investigations of Irish sediment-hosted base metal deposits, with new data from the Keel, Ballinalack, Moyvoughly and Tatestown deposits, in Geology and genesis of mineral deposits in Ireland
15. The age curves for sulfur and oxygen isotopes in marine sulfate and their mutual interpretation
16. Sulphur and sulphate-oxygen isotopes and the origin of the silvermines deposits, Ireland
17. A combined pathway of sulfur compound disproportionation in Desulfocibrio desulfuricans
18. The Northgate base-metal deposit at Tynagh, County Galway, Ireland: A preliminary study
19. Basement geology and tectonic evolution of Ireland as deduced from Pb isotopes
20. Elemental sulfur and thiosulfate disproportionation by Desulfocapsa sulfoexigens sp. Nov., a new anacrobic bacterium isolated from marine surface sediment
21. Sulfur isotope fractionation during bacterial sulfate reduction in organic-rich sediments
22. A thiosulfate shunt in the sulfur cycle of marine sediments
23. Origin of a giant orebody at Navan, Ireland
24. Age and postulated source rocks for mineralization in Central Ireland, as indicated by lead isotopes
25. Chemical processes of ore formation
26. Sulphur isotopic investigation of lower carboniferous vein deposits of the British Isles
27. 32S analyses from sulphides by combustion with cuprous oxide
28. Structural controls of base-metal mineralization in Ireland in relation to continental drift
29. Lithogeochemical environment of the Tynagh base-metal deposit, Ireland, and its bearing on ore deposition
30. Downward-excavating hydrothermal cells and Irish-type ore deposits: Importance of an underlying thick Caledonian prism
31. World class base and precious metal deposits-A quantitative analysis
32. Structural and palaeotopographic controls of lead-zinc mineralisation in the silvermines orebodies, Ireland
33. Silvermines orebodies, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
34. Bacterial disproportionation of elemental sulfur coupled to chemical reduction of iron or manganese
35. Recent developments in the understanding of ore genesis in the Irish Zn-Pb-Ba orefield
36. Hypersulfidic deep biosphere indicates extreme sulfur isotope fractionation during single-step microbial sulfate reduction