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

Latitude: 61°27'55"N
Longitude: 139°31'39"W
A Copper-nickel-platinum group minerals deposit in the Quill Creek complex.

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

References

- 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.

Mineral List

Altaite
Argentopentlandite
Arsenopyrite
Baryte
Breithauptite
Chalcopyrite
Chromite
Cobaltite
Covellite
Epidote
Froodite ?
Galena
Gersdorffite
Geversite
Gold
var: Electrum

Hessite
Hexatestibiopanickelite
Hollingworthite
Ilmenite
Iridium
Isoferroplatinum
Kotulskite
Laurite
Magnetite
Marcasite
Matildite ?
Melonite
var: Palladoan Melonite

Merenskyite
Mertieite-II
Michenerite
Moncheite
Nickeline
Owensite (TL)
Pentlandite
Platinum
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Rutile
'Serpentine Group'
Siegenite
Sobolevskite
Sperrylite
Sphalerite
Stibiopalladinite
Sudburyite
Talc
Testibiopalladite
Tetraferroplatinum
Titanite
Ullmannite
'Unnamed (Ir-Os-Ru-Re alloy)'
Violarite


52 entries listed. 46 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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