Kidd Creek mine, Kidd Township, Timmins Area, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada

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A mine at least 2000 m deep!
The mine exploits a massive sulphide deposit.

References

- Pringle, G.J. & Thorpe, R.I. (1980): Bohdancwiczite, junoite and laitakarite from the Kidd Creek mine, Timmins, Ontario. Can. Mineral. lE, 353-360.
- Thorpe, R.I., Pringle, G.J. & Purr, A.G. (1976): Occurrence of selenide and sulphide minerals in bornite ore of the Kidd Creek massive sulphide deposit, Timmins, Ontario. Geol. Sun, Can. Pap. 76-lA,
311-331.
- Canadian Mineralogist (1984) 22, 227-232. [http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/cm/vol22/CM22_227.pdf]
- Econ Geol (1988) 83: 1-17.

Mineral List

Acanthite Actinolite Albite Ankerite Arsenopyrite Berthierine Bismuth Bismuthinite Bohdanowiczite Bornite Cadmoselite Calcite Carrollite Cassiterite Cattierite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Clausthalite

Clinochlore Cobaltite Colusite Cubanite Digenite Dolomite var: Ferroan Dolomite Enargite Epidote Eucairite Fischesserite Fletcherite Fluorite Galena Gold var: Electrum Graphite Junoite Kesterite

Kiddcreekite (TL) Klockmannite Laitakarite Magnetite Mawsonite Monazite-(Ce) Muscovite var: Sericite Naumannite Nickeline Paragonite Phlogopite Pyrite var: Cobaltoan Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Rhodochrosite Roquesite

Scheelite Siderite Silver Sphalerite Stannite Stannoidite Stilpnomelane Talc Tennantite Tetrahedrite var: Argentian Tetrahedrite 'Tourmaline' Tungstenite Vaesite Vinciennite Wolframite Xenotime-(Y)

70 entries listed. 63 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).