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Voisey's Bay Ni-Co-Cu deposit, Voisey´s Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Magnetite
Voisey's Bay Ni-Co-Cu deposit, Voisey´s Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Photo: smm 2012
Complex deposit :
- Eastern Deeps: disseminated and massive sulfides along the intersection of a feeder sheet and troctolite intrusion
- The Ovoid: massive sulfide lens underlain by a feeder sheet
- Discovery Hill zone: disseminated and massive sulfides in the troctolite feeder
- Reid Brook zone: intersection of a feeder sheet and a deep level intrusion.

Mineral List

Chalcopyrite
Corundum
Cubanite
Hercynite
Hypersthene
Magnetite
'Olivine'
Pentlandite
Pyrrhotite
Pyrrhotite
var: Nickeloan Pyrrhotite

Troilite


11 entries listed. 8 valid minerals.

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References

- Chusi Li and Naldrett, A.J. (1999) Geology and Petrology of the Voisey's Bay intrusion: reaction of olivine with sulfide and silicate liquids. Lithos: 47: 1-31.
- Chusi Li, Lightfoot, P.C., Amelin, Y., and Naldrett, A.J. (2000) Contrasting petrological and geochemical relationships in the Voisey's Bay and Mushuau intrusions, Labrador, Canada: implications for ore genesis. Economc Geology: 95: 771-799.
- Evans-Lamswood, D.M., Butt, D.P., Jackson, R.S., Lee, D.V., Muggridge, M.G., Wheeler, R.I., and Wilton, D.H.C. (2000) Physical controls associated with the distribution of sulfides in the Voisey's Bay Ni-Cu-Co deposit, Labrador. Economic Geology: 95: 749-770.
- Lambert, D.D., Frick, L.R., Foster, J.G., Chusi Li, and Naldrett, A.J. (2000) Re-Os isotopic systematics of the Voisey's Bay Ni-Cu-Co magmatic sulfide system, Labrador, Canada. II. Implications for parental magma chemistry, ore genesis and metal redistribution. Economic Geology: 95: 867-888.
- Chusi Li and Naldrett, A.J. (2000) Melting reactions of gneissic inclusions with enclosing magma at Voisey's Bay, Labrador, Canada: implications with respect to ore genesis. Economic Geology: 95: 801-814.
- Chusi Li, Naldrett, A.J., and Ripley, E.M. (2001): Critical factors for the formation of a nickel-copper deposit in an evolved magma system: lessons from a comparison of the Pants Lake and Voisey's Bay sulfide occurrences in Labrador, Canada. Mineralium Deposita 36, 85-92.

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