 | | Report (issue) | | Mining in Greenland GEOLOGY AND ORE The Black Angel lead-zinc mine at Maarmorilik in West Greenland No....The Black Angel lead-zinc mine at Maarmorilik in West Greenland View from north-west of the Angel mountain...mountain with the Greenland Inland Ice in the background. The former mining town of Maarmorilik was situated...the right. Summer 1992. Canada Greenland ian Rink lt be Maarmorilik Foxe ▲ Inland Ice ▲ Hudson...500 km ▲ The Black Angel mine took its name from a pelite outcrop that forms a dark angel-like figure |  | Guarnieri, Pierpaolo, Thiele, Sam, Baker, Nigel, Sørensen, Erik, Kirsch, Moritz, Lorenz, Sandra, Rosa, Diogo, Unger, Gabriel, Zimmermann, Robert (2022) Unravelling the Deformation of Paleoproterozoic Marbles and Zn-Pb Ore Bodies by Combining 3D-Photogeology and Hyperspectral Data (Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland) Minerals, 12 (7) 800 doi:10.3390/min12070800 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3D-Photogeology and Hyperspectral Data (Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland) Pierpaolo Guarnieri 1, *, Sam...3D-Photogeology and Hyperspectral Data (Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland). Minerals 2022, 12, 800. https://doi...Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark;...Correspondence: pgua@geus.dk Abstract: The Black Angel Zn-Pb ore deposit is hosted in folded Paleoproterozoic...terrain of the Rinkian Orogen, in central West Greenland. Drill-core data integrated with 3D-photogeology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ores at the Paleoproterozoic Black Angel deposit, central West Greenland S. Horn 1 & A. Dziggel 1 &...Abstract The Black Angel deposit represents the most important base metal deposit in Greenland, having produced...inclusions in sphalerite indicates that the Black Angel deposit may be host to an hitherto unrecognized...briartite has been previously documented. Keywords Black Angel deposit . Carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag deposit ...element composition of sulfides . Briartite . Greenland Introduction Editorial handling: T. Monecke Electronic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Qaarsukassak formations, Karrat Group, West Greenland C.A. Partin a, *, Y.M. DeWolfe a, b, T. Magee...Keywords: Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits Proterozoic Black Angel deposit MVT Sulfur isotopes Pb isotopes Sediment-hosted...West Greenland. The timing and model of mineralization of the historical PbZn Black Angel Mine in the...(SEDEX) mineralization model. The Mârmorilik (Black Angel) mineralization represents the oldest documented...West Greenland, hosts one of the largest Precambrian Pb-Zn mines in the world, the Black Angel Mine, which |  | | Report (issue) | | in Greenland No. 23 - October 2013 GEOLOGY AND ORE 23 / 2013 Mineral potential in Greenland Geologically...geographically Greenland is closely related to northern Canada and Scandinavia. Greenland, the largest...kilometre thick Inland Ice covers some 80% of Greenland; the ice-free zone around the Inland Ice is up...Germany (357,000 km2). Mineral potential in Greenland The mineral occurrences in a region are determined...global plate tectonic scenarios through time. Greenland spans most of the Earth’s geological history and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to increases in the waste/metal production ratio. Mine wastes deposited on-land in so-called tailings dams...environmental issues that need to be addressed (e.g., acid mine drainage formation due to sulphide oxidation, geotechnical...is a suitable alternative for mine waste. Keywords: tailings; acid mine drainage; waste management; marine...mining, the formation of acid mine drainage (AMD). AMD occurs, when sulphidic mine waste is exposed to atmospheric...and mine tailings storage areas and in underground workings or on the walls of an open pit mine. Due |  | | Report (issue) | | 1/4/10 1:28 PM Page 2 GEOLOGY AND ORE 16 / 2009 Greenland and its geological environments favourable for...mining Shield formation and cratonisation in Greenland, created by the formation of continental and oceanic...southern West Greenland. Ultramafic to mafic intrusions in greenstone belts occurred in Greenland as major...the Pitufiik area, Melville Bugt, North-West Greenland. The width of the banded iron formation varies...Exploration and development of mineral resources in Greenland, as a ‘greenfield’ region with rather high exploration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral exploration in Greenland in the 1990s Downloaded by [Purdue University Libraries] at 20:36 21...The main exploration and research activities in Greenland in the 1990s fell into the following categories:...Tertiary Skaergaard intrusion. It continued in South Greenland, where all the gold occurrences in the Ketilidian...Prospecting for diamonds on the west coast of Greenland revealed occurrences of both micro- and macro-diamonds—in...large amounts of data from the AEM and AEROMAG Greenland programmes and the drainage surveys will form |  | Kolb, Jochen, Keiding, Jakob K., Steenfelt, Agnete, Secher, Karsten, Keulen, Nynke, Rosa, Diogo, Stensgaard, Bo M. (2016) Metallogeny of Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews, 78. 493-555 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.03.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Metallogeny of Greenland Jochen Kolb, Jakob K. Keiding, Agnete Steenfelt, Karsten Secher...Rosa, Diogo, Stensgaard, Bo M., Metallogeny of Greenland, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Metallogeny of Greenland JOCHEN KOLB1, JAKOB K. KEIDING1,2, AGNETE STEENFELT1...Economic Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...TE D MA Corresponding author: jkol@geus.dk Greenland is the largest island on Earth, with 80% of its |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MassiveSulfideOre of the BlackAngel Mine, Central West Greenland F. D. PEDERSEN Laboratoriet for Endooen...Fe-Zn-Pb-sulfide orebodies of the Black Angel mine, central West Greenland, occur in evaporite-bearing marbles...Formation. A studyof the structuralsettingof the Angel zone orebodyhas shownthat this sulfide layer has...differential mobilization and remobilization of quartz and ductile sulfides (galena,tennantite,sphalerite...Formation in central West Greenland (Fig. 1). At present two orebodies,the Angel zone and the Cover zone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Massive Sulphide Ore of the Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland F. D. Pedersen Geological Institute...sulphide sheets constituting the Angel Zone ore body of the Black Angel Mine, show evidence of three phases...growth. INT R O D U C T I O N The Black Angel Mine, central West Greenland, is developed in two massive Fe-Zn-Pb...ore bodies, the Cover Zone in the east and the Angel Zone in the west. The ore bodies occur in the lower...reflected in the mesoscopic structures of the Black Angel Mine area, though within the sulphide ores the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mesoscale observations and may be derived from mine plans and sections. Evidence substantiating the...Singhbhum copper belt (India). From the Mesaboni Mine, they recorded elongate pyrite grains defining a...routinely recorded and described in the course of mine and outcrop mapping. They are, therefore, the most...been recognized in silicate Fig. 2(a). Nymagee mine (N.S.W., Australia). Elongate pyrrhotite ( replaced...defining a steeply pitching lineation. (b) Shuttleton mine (N.S.W., Australia). Strongly disseminated pyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the geologic frameworks of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the seafloor north of Iceland, Norway...the giant late Paleozoic Red Dog zinc-polymetallic mine and associated deposits (currently the world’s largest...early Tertiary Juneau gold belt, the early Tertiary Quartz Hill MoS2 deposit, and the Late Triassic Greens... Kolb et al. summarize the metallogenesis of Greenland. Despite remoteness, lack of infrastructure, and...Blyklippen, Josva, 467 468 BOOK REVIEWS and Black Angel during the 20th century. Graphite was mined at |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | convincing example is recorded for the Elizabeth Mine in Vermont (McKinstry and Mikkola, 1954; Howard...within isoclinally folded intermediate-grade mica-quartz schist and amphibolite units. Brecciation is most...provided by Pedersen (1980) for the Black Angel Mine in western Greenland. Here, a stratabound massive sulfide...Fig. 1. Contours of Fe and Pb grades, Black Angel Mine, Greenland (from Pedersen, 1980). Fe is mainly present...seem to be those of Froese (1969) on the Coronation Mine in Canada; Bachinski (1976) describing a group of |  | Bortnikov, N. S., Lobanov, K. V., Volkov, A. V., Galyamov, A. L., Vikent’ev, I. V., Tarasov, N. N., Distler, V. V., Lalomov, A. V., Aristov, V. V., Murashov, K. Yu., Chizhova, I. A., Chefranov, R. M. (2015) Strategic metal deposits of the Arctic Zone. Geology of Ore Deposits, 57 (6) 433-453 doi:10.1134/s1075701515060021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Yukon, Northwestern Territory, Nunavut), and Greenland. The Scandinavian sector embraces the Faroe Islands...million 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 Greenland Finland Sweden Norway Canada United States...with refractory gold Sn – 0.22–0.24% Cassiterite– quartz Deputatskoe, (A + B + C1)–198.3 Sn – 1.15% Russia...lybdenite–pyrite Norway, 2010 granite stock ~400 m in diame quartz veinlets ter and more than a kilometer in depth...stock Stockwork bodies Athey et al., 2014; and quartz veins Fort Knox …, 2015; ing orogenic belt of Late |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite marbles from the Marmorilik Formation, West Greenland. Precambrian Res., 8: 183--199. The Marmorilik...Marmorilik Formation, Rinkian mobile belt, West Greenland, is a large, Lower Proterozoic carbonate-rock sequence...sedimentary rocks of the Isua area, South-West Greenland (Allaart, 1976) and in the Archaean schist belts...is erratic. In the Precambrian of central West Greenland there is a large Lower Proterozoic carbonate-rock...Formation, which is best known as the host of the Black Angel lead-zinc sulphide deposit which is being mined |  | Kamber, Balz S., Ewart, Anthony, Collerson, Kenneth D., Bruce, Michael C., McDonald, Graeme D. (2002) Fluid-mobile trace element constraints on the role of slab melting and implications for Archaean crustal growth models. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 144 (1) 38-56 doi:10.1007/s00410-002-0374-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to 20 km south of the Isua greenstone belt (SW Greenland). The geology of this area has been described...Godthabsfjord area and the Isua dome in West Greenland. These samples belong to a relatively late suite...granodioritic Black Angel gneisses from the Mount Isa Block in NE Australia. The Black Angel gneisses have...the type-Amı̂tsoq gneisses (13.64), and the Black Angel gneisses (12.67) are in good agreement with bulk...typeAmı̂tsoq gneisses 0.75, and that of the Black Angel gneisses 0.445, which compare well with average |  | Zhang, Yajing, Sun, Fengyue, Li, Bile, Huo, Liang, Ma, Fang (2014) Ore textures and remobilization mechanisms of the Hongtoushan copper–zinc deposit, Liaoning, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 57. 78-86 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.09.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | across the stratigraphy. Quartz–sulfide veins, composed predominantly of quartz, muscovite, chlorite, carbonate...and electrum. Gangue minerals are dominated by quartz, plagioclase, and biotite, with less biotite, gahnite...sphalerite. Quartz– sulfide veinlets, if present, fill cracks in the sulfides and contain sulfide, quartz, chlorite...contain inclusions of spherical plagioclase and quartz. Pyrite porphyroblasts are fragmented, and fissures...remobilized chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, and quartz. In the disseminated ores, pyrite is usually subhedral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | book comprises nine chapters: Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sea-floor massive sulphide deposits...one main section and related sub-sections? 3. Greenland (Jochen Kolb, Jakob K. Keiding, Diogo Rosa, Kristine...Kristine Thrane) In this chapter, the whole of Greenland (above and below the Arctic Circle) is considered...Mesoproterozoic (South, Southern West Northern, and East Greenland terranes is given by Jochen Kolb. The same author...ca. 3.7 Ga Isua Algoma-type BIF deposit. The Black Angel Zn-Pb deposit is given a half page write-up, |  | | Book | | Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc., Healy, Alaska — Doyon, Limited, Fairbanks, Alaska — Valdez Creek Mine, Cambior Alaska...profound. Thus, the challenges of developing an arctic mine are immense. All arctic mining projects have similar...fundamental and timely material of high quality for new mine development in the arctic. We hope you agree that...that most interests you, be it mine design, geomechanics or arctic mine environment. As program chairmen... Dr. John EM.Sims, Vice President Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc., Alaska Echo Bay Alaska, Juneau, Alaska |  | | Journal (issue) | | Narssarssuk, Greenland. Photo by R. Bode. TITLE PAGE: The most common mineral in Greenland: ice —making...up the typical Arctic icebergs, ubiquitous in Greenland waters; photo by B. L. Nielsen. This special...AMMASSALIK (ANGMAGSSALIK) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF GREENLAND NUUK (GODTHAB) PAAMIUT (FREDERIKSHAB) ARSUK...Paleozoic and Mesozoic North Greenland platform and fold belt East Greenland Caledonian fold belt P rote...Archaean i 500 km i i i i PREFACE Throughout Greenland there are many interesting mineral localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Arctic at the Black Angel and Polaris lead and zinc mines located in west Greenland and northern Canada...Canada respectively, and the Lupin gold mine in Canada's North West Territories. This chapter continues...developing the hypothetical Dufek platinum metals mine. Chapters Three and Four describe trie growing demand...cash-flow from the fictitious Dufek platinum metals mine. An annotated bibliography, fourteen pages of references...throughout (normative olivine is excluded and minor quartz is present even in rocks with SiO2 as low as 45 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluid-Assisted Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Mine, NY Peter Matt, Wayne Powell, Ryan Mathur, William...Fluid-Assisted Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Mine, NY, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...Fluid-Assisted Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Mine, NY Peter Matt (1), Wayne Powell (1,2), Ryan Mathur...character of six individual ore bodies at the Balmat mine in an effort to provide additional evidence for...the Carthage-Colton line northwesterly towards Black Lake. 2.2 Stratigraphy The Balmat massive sulfide |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Arctic at the Black Angel and Polaris lead and zinc mines located in west Greenland and northern Canada...Canada respectively, and the Lupin gold mine in Canada's North West Territories. This chapter continues...developing the hypothetical Dufek platinum metals mine. Chapters Three and Four describe trie growing demand...cash-flow from the fictitious Dufek platinum metals mine. An annotated bibliography, fourteen pages of references...throughout (normative olivine is excluded and minor quartz is present even in rocks with SiO2 as low as 45 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | expanding body of work on solution transfer in quartz and carbonate at lowgrade to submetamorphic temperatures...Schutjens, 1991). It would seem that, for fine-grained quartz or carbonate, solution transfer is the rate-controlling...conditions in the presence of an aqueous fluid phase, quartz-rich, carbonate and sulphide rocks will have similar... path on deformationmechanism maps for galena, quartz and pyrite (Siemes et al., 1991 ). Of particular...but grossly different, strain rates for galena, quartz and pyrite over the 200 °-400°C temperature range |
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