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Wellgreen Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, Kluane District, Whitehorse Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada

Ref.:
- Cabri, L.J., Hulbert, L.J., Laflamme, J.H.G., Lastra, R., Sie, S.H., Ryan, C.G., and Campbell, J.L. (1993): Process mineralogy of samples from the Wellgreen Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd deposit, Yukon. Explor Mining Geol. 2, 105-119.
- Barkov, A.Y., Laflamme, J.H.G., Cabri, L.J., and Martin, R.F. (2002) Platinum-group minerals from the Wellgreen Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, Yukon, Canada. Canadian Mineralogist: 40: 651-669.

A Copper-nickel-platinum group minerals deposit in the Quill Creek complex.

Discovered in 1952, briefly mined in the early 1970s.





Map Reference: 61°27'55"N , 139°31'39"W

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Mineral List:
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Breithauptite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Cobaltite
  • Epidote
  • Froodite ?
  • Galena
  • Gersdorffite
  • Geversite
  • Hollingworthite
  • Iridium
  • Isoferroplatinum
  • Kotulskite
  • Laurite
  • Magnetite
  • Marcasite
  • Melonite
    var: Palladoan Melonite
  • Merenskyite
  • Mertieite-II
  • Michenerite
  • Moncheite
  • Nickeline
  • Owensite (TL)
  • Pentlandite
  • Platinum
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrrhotite
  • Rutile
  • 'Serpentine Group'
  • Sobolevskite
  • Sperrylite
  • Stibiopalladinite
  • Sudburyite
  • Talc
  • Testibiopalladite
  • Tetraferroplatinum
  • Ullmannite
  • 'Unnamed (Ir-Os-Ru-Re alloy)'
  • Violarite


    39 entries listed. 35 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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