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Dolostone from
Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada


Locality type:Mine
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Type:Dolostone
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolostone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1208456
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1208456:4
GUID (UUID V4):32f9782d-7465-40d0-ba04-99380ab83daa
References
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the Nanisivik Zinc-Lead Mississippi Valley-Type Deposit, Northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada* ROSS...L. SHERLOCK,† Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office, P.O. Box 2319, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada X0A 0H0 JAMES...Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 AND BRIAN L. COUSENS Earth Sciences,...Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract The Nanisivik mine is located on Borden Peninsula, northern Baffin Island...with north-south–trending axes. The sulfides at Nanisivik are hosted in petroliferous dolostones of the
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in the Mesoproterozoic Borden Basin (Nanisivik District), Nunavut ELIZABETH C. TURNER† Department of Earth...Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6 Abstract Field mapping of carbonate-hosted...Inlet graben of the Mesoproterozoic Borden basin, Nunavut, has identified the main geologic settings for...in the district that hosts the past-producing Nanisivik deposit. All known showings are associated with...volumetrically impressive mineralization (1) for example, Nanisivik orebody, is spatially constrained by erosional
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Mesoproterozoic deep-water carbonate mounds (Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut) K.E. Hahn, E.C. Turner, D.J. Kontak...Mesoproterozoic deep-water carbonate mounds (Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta...Mesoproterozoic deep-water carbonate mounds (Nanisivik zinc district, Nunavut) K.E. Hahn1,I, E.C. Turner1, D.J....Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Rd, Sudbury ON, Canada, P3E 2C6 2 Department of Geological Sciences,...University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg MB, Canada, R3T 2N2 *Corresponding author: katherine.hahn@ontario
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of the Mesoproterozoic-hosted Nanisivik Zn-Pb deposit, Nunavut, Canada: Evidence for early diagenetic...of the Mesoproterozoic-hosted Nanisivik Zn-Pb deposit, Nunavut, Canada: Evidence for early diagenetic...of the Mesoproterozoic-hosted Nanisivik Zn-Pb deposit, Nunavut, Canada: Evidence PT for early diagenetic...the past-producing Nanisivik carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb PT deposit in Nunavut, Canada, have been controversial...fluids. Re-Os pyrite analysis shows that the Nanisivik deposit formed ca. 1.1 Ga, broadly similar to
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crystallization rhythmites" at the Nanisivik Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Baffin Island, Canada D . C . Arne * and S.A. Kissin...Geology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5El The presence of a series of particular...is the Nanisivik Pb-Zn-Ag deposit located on northwest Baffin Island (Fig. 1). The Nanisivik orebodies...excess of 200 °C. The presence of ore textures at Nanisivik identical to DCRs described elsewhere brings into...sparry dolomite (Fig. 2) that defines an internal mine stratigraphy (Arne 1985). This banding is generally
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Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada LODE, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History...Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada re -p e Keywords: Re-Os geochronology; LA-ICPMS;...from Zn-Pb mineralization at Hawker Creek, Nunavut, Canada was produced from massive pyrite that displays...Lisheen from Ireland, and Hawker Creek from Baffin Island in Canada. These samples were chosen because previous...geochronology. The Hawker Creek prospect from Baffin Island consists primarily of massive pyrite and is
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PROTEROZOIC AND DOLOSTONE, STtLATA-BOUND NORTHERN DEREK ZINC-LEAD SULFIDE BAFFIN ISLAND, CANADA--A DEPOSITS...is i m deep, 350 m wide, and in the vicinityof Nanisivik,BaffinIsland.In it he pro- horizontal. posesa...tubes that have been much enlarged during bodyat Nanisivik,termedthe "Main Ore" by Clayton emplacement;they...MammothCave-typelargepassages developfromthe I visited the mine in 1981 and 1982 when the Main Ore was open for...horizontalcor- depth ratiosare lower than at Nanisivik. rosionbevel up to 100 m wide, which cuts across
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Sulfide Deposits in a Proterozoic Dolostone, Northern Barfin Island, Canada R. A. OLSON Trigg, Woollett,OlsonConsultingLtd...OlsonConsultingLtd., 10504-103Street,Edmonton,Alberta T5H 2V4, Canada Abstract EconomicallyimportantMississippiValley-type...Territories, of genesisfor the zinc-leadsulfide Canada, are MississippiValley type. That is, they anda...summarizesthe pertinentstratigraphyof northernBafl]n Island, describesin greater detail the stratigraphy a...currentlymost economicallyimportantdepositexistsat Nanisivik, which is about 385 km southeast of Resolute,
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Carbonate-HostedZn-Pb-Ag Deposit. Nanisivik, Barfin Island, Canada D.C. ARNE,* Department of Geology...Geology,Lakehead University,Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 L. W. CURTIS, LaurenceCurtis and Associates...CanadaP7B 5E1 Abstract Zn-Pb-Agoresat Nanisivik,northwestBa•n Island,are hostedby upperProterozoiclaminateddolostone...Inlet •1111111 1984). Detailed undergroundmappingof mine workings by one of the authors(Curtis, 1984) has...HACHURED) F](:;. 1. Regional geology of northwest Baffin Island: A --Eclipse trough, B -- Milne Inlet trough
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carbonate gangue at the Nanisivik zinc-lead deposits, northern Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada FereydounGhazbaY...L&Y 4M1, Canada bGeography Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. L&Y 4K1, Canada (Received...carbonate gangue at the Nanisivik zinc-lead deposits, northern Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada. Chem. Geol. (Isot...associated with lead-zinc mineralization at Nanisivik, N.W.T. Canada. Ore stage WSD and late stage carbonates...(Kessen et al., 1981) and the Pine Point deposits in Canada (Medford et al., 1983) have revealed that gangue
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carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada Jordan Mathieu, Elizabeth C. Turner, Daniel J....carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada, Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10...carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada Jordan Mathieua,*, Elizabeth C. Turnera, Daniel...Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada b Department of Geological Science, University...University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada c Juniata College, Huntingdon, PN 16652, USA *jy_mathieu@laurentian
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Mesoproterozoic alkaline lake, Borden Basin (Nunavut, Canada) Katherine E. Hahn a,∗ , Elizabeth C. Turner...University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON, Canada P3E 1R9 Department of Geology, Museum Building...Borden Basin contains extremely large, deep-water dolostone seep mounds (Ikpiarjuk Formation) whose distribution...large, isolated, mound-shaped accumulations of dolostone related to fluid seepage along synsedimentary faults...column and then settled to the sea-floor (pelagic dolostone), and a clotted texture that was probably produced
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Society Cliffs dolostone and the age of the Nanisivik zinc deposits, Baf®n Island, Canada Received: 9...within the hydrothermal zone surrounding the Nanisivik zinc deposits retain a stable characteristic remanent...is considered to date recrystallization of the dolostone host rocks in the halo around the hydrothermal...postulated Cretaceous remagnetization event in the region. Introduction The original aim of this study,... initiated in 1989, was to date the Nanisivik Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) zinc deposits (Fig. 1). The
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well-roundedslip-offslopesand 2. Certain features at Nanisivik are like those of cutbankswere beveledacrossthe...destroyed by the morevigorouspartsof the rangeat Nanisivik, of relativelyrapiderosionof wall androofrock...argument by analogy.It is not strictlyrelevantto the Nanisivik Main Ore deposit. In hissummation(p. 1098) Olsonhimselfdiscusses...Clayton,R. H., andThorpe,L., 1982, Geologyof the Nanisivik zinc-leaddeposit:Geol.Assoc.CanadaSpec.Paper25...Reportuponkarsticfeaturesof the sulphide depositsat Nanisivik,BarfinIsland:Toronto,StrathconaMineral ServicesLtd
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0 Ga) Angmaat Formation, Bylot Supergroup, Baffin Island. The Angmaat Formation consists of unmetamorphosed...Angmaat Formation, Bylot Supergroup, northern Baffin Island, in order to understand the range of preservation...the fault-bounded Borden basins of the northern Baffin and Bylot The Bylot Supergroup contains ~6 km of...within the fault‐bounded basins of the northern Baffin and Bylot islands Group, [54–57]. record Three...1993–1994 field season to northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada. (B) Chert during a 1993–1994 field
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hares (Lepus arcticus) inhabiting a former lead-zinc mine in the Canadian high Arctic: A preliminary study...Amuno c, J. Attitaq d a Nunavut Impact Review Board, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada Department of Biology...Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada c School of Engineering and ICT, University of Tasmania...Hunters and Trappers Association, Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada b H I G H L I G H T S G R A P H I C A L ...Elevated levels of metals were noted in soils of the mine area compared to reference location. • Tissue metal
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NanisivikLead-Zinc Deposits,Northwest Territories, BaffinIsland, Canada FEREYDOUN GHAZBAN, HENRY P. SCHWARCZ, GeologyDepartment...result of reduction of sulfate, either at the The Nanisivik Pb-Zn Deposits The depositsare locatedin northernBaffinIsland...Territories of Canada, near the northern 0361-01œ8/90/1047/360-1653.00 360 SULFATEREDUCTION, NANISIVIK Pb-ZnDEPOSITS...SocietyCliffsFormationnearArctic Bay(25 km westof Nanisivik)and also in the southeasternBorden basin (Geldsetzer...lower SocietyCliffs Formationon Bylot Island, 150 km east of Nanisivik (Jacksonand Cumming, 1981). At Nanisivikonethin
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(Trzebionka mine), A. Kozlowski (University of Warsaw), D. Symons (University of Windsor, Canada), and D...D. Sangster (Geological Survey of Canada). These studies are intended to provide new information on the...(in press) are: 1) they occur principally in dolostone, rarely in limestone or sandstone; 2) ore is epigenetic...Formation. During Early to Middle Jurassic, the region remained above sea level. In Cretaceous through...fluid transmissivity, either at the district or mine scale, that allows the focusing of fluid flow and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DOLOMITE FROM THE NANISIVIK DEPOSIT, BAFFIN ISLAND, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA K]. MCNAUGHTON AND...Geology,Universityof Windsor,Windsor,Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada Introduction 3 km, but the maximumdepth of burial...sulfur,and the heat, the strataboundwithin a dolostone(SocietyCliffsFor- methodof transportof the metalsandthe...initiated as a Neohelikian aufluids from which the Nanisivik deposit formedand lacogenin theNorthBaitlnrift... Zone AreaLocation FIC. 1. Location of the Nanisivik orebody and the regional geologyof the area.
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The late Mesoproterozoic Arctic Bay Formation, Nunavut Malcolm S.W. Hodgskiss a,∗ , Pierre Sansjofre b...Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Mesoproterozoic Arctic Bay Formation (Borden Basin, Nunavut, Canada) is up to ∼1130 m-thick and contains a significant...Bylot Supergroup on northernmost Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada (modified from Hodgskiss et al., 2018)....of the Bylot Supergroup, Nunavut, Canada (Fig. 1) may represent one such region, comprising a notably thick
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Neoproterozoic mafic sill at Kiatak, Northumberland Island, Northwestern Greenland Yawooz Kettanah, Marcos...Neoproterozoic mafic sill at Kiatak, Northumberland Island, Northwestern Greenland, Ore Geology Reviews (2016)...Neoproterozoic mafic sill at Kiatak, Northumberland Island, PT Northwestern Greenland Yawooz Kettanah1,...Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4J1, CANADA; zentilli@dal.ca 3 Department of Geology, St. Mary’s...Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, B3H-3C3, CANADA jacob.hanley@smu.ca; fergus.tweedale@smu.ca MA ABSTRACT
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ores deposits are that they are hosted mainly by dolostone and limestone in platform carbonate sequences...setting of some CD deposits (i.e., Sullivan deposit, Canada, in continental rift setting, and Mount Isa, Australia...(Ansdell et al., 1989) deposits in the Selwyn basin, Canada. Ansdell et al. (1989) reported fluid inclusion...(<100°−400°C) are reported for the Sullivan deposit, Canada (Leitch and Lydon, 2000). However, uncertainties...Kuangshanchang, Qilinchang, Lisheen, Silvermines, Nanisivik, Bushy Park, Pering, Robb Lake, Monarch-Kicking
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The 813C- and 81SO-values of the altered host dolostone and hydrothermal carbonates, and the carbon isotope...sampling, including outcrops in surface and in the mine, and drill-cores. This study reports results of...Sur; AC = Afloramiento Campana; SV = San Vicente mine; AR = Arcopunco; MA = Machuyacu; PA = Palmapata;...v,, I/ I t'- // / / r/ Vltoc JSan Vlcente mine Legend ~ E~;~J Pucar&Group / / / ' ~ -11o15' [...Paleozoic Chlll~ /"Major tectonic lineament~_~ ¥, Closed mine 0 MV'I ore occurrences • Other studiedoccurences
in the field ~“ Various geological locations iin Canada© Physical properties of minerals and rocks, and...surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development...publishing activities. Ss Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada vw ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL
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minerals and associated phases are hosted by both dolostone and limestone lithologies along stylolitized bedding...Pb isotopic pattern of galena suggests a source region with U / P b ( = µ) lower than the crustal average...Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3J5. † Present address: BHP Iron Ore, PO Box...O"Shea 1981). A simplified geological map of the region is presented in Fig. 1. The Buchan Group has been...faults occasionally offset the contact between dolostone and Downloaded by [University of Cambridge]
 
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