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Silver from
El Bonanza Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Comments:Etched from calcite with purple fluorite and and tiny pyrosmalite hexagons
Habit:Arbourescent growths to several cm
Colour:Bright white metallic on etching , tarnishing black.
Luminescent properties:none
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Common
Special Storage/
Display Requirements:
Airbourne S will tarnish it . Should be kept covered with Sulfur free container.
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluoriteⓘ10 photos of Silver associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Calciteⓘ3 photos of Silver associated with Calcite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ3 photos of Silver associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view El Bonanza Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (36 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46464
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46464:2
GUID (UUID V4):f15245e5-8c5a-41de-a50f-13dd1cb4da8b
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘBonanza prospect, Dowdell Point, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
9.0km (5.6 miles) ⓘEldorado Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
11.3km (7.0 miles) ⓘEcho Bay Mine (Cross Fault shaft), Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
12.5km (7.8 miles) ⓘContact Lake Mine (B.E.A.R. deposit), Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
44.5km (27.7 miles) ⓘTerra mine, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
44.7km (27.8 miles) ⓘSilver Bear mine (Terra mines; North mine; Terra Mining and Exploration Company mine), Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
45.5km (28.3 miles) ⓘSilver Bay Mine, Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
45.6km (28.3 miles) ⓘNorthrim Mine, Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
46.4km (28.8 miles) ⓘNorex Mine, Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
47.2km (29.3 miles) ⓘSmallwood Mine (Smallwood Lake mine), Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada ...........................typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...years old. They produced every­ thing from gold and silver to base metals, coal, uranium and nonmetallic minerals
Thesis/Dissertation
ALBERTA STUDIES ON THE ECHO BAY SILVER DEPOSIT, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA. BY BRIAN WILLIAM ROBINSON...entitled 'Studies on the Echo Bay Silver Deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada' submitted by Brian William...within fracture zones in the western part of the Great Bear Province. Proterozoic granites, granodiorites...pitchblende stage, Co-Ni-arsenide stage with native silver and early, late sulphide stages. intermediate...vein-structures commonly associated with native silver and the Co-Ni arsenide minerals, are thought to
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pp. 7, 263-4 Reprinted from The Fur Trade in Canada by H. A. Innis, by perÂŹ mission of University of...Society of Toronto. P-21 Reprinted from Son of the North by Charles Camsell, by permission of The Ryerson...or through the electronic mass media. Printed in Canada by Web Offset Publications Limited Casebound edition...Associates Limited 35 Britain Street, Toronto, Canada M5A 1R7 United Kingdom: 17 Cockspur Street, London...sentatives of the people of Yellowknife have given me a great deal of encouragement, rightly or wrongly they have
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shores of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. This is the story of Eldorado and the mine whose...developed Eldorado Gold Mines Limited to produce radium. Thought to be the miracle cure for cancer, the...certainty and the company established a radium refinery at Port Hope, Ontario, in 1933. But manipulation...supplies into Port Radium, NwT, and the difficulties in extracting _ radium from ore at Port Hope prevented...brothers had become entangled with international radium interests in Belgium, and at a crucial moment the
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15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE
Report (issue)
PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
Thesis/Dissertation
TITLE OF THESISQ MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NORTHRIM MINE AND A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE GENESIS OF VEINS OF...UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NORTHRIM MINE AND A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE GENESIS OF VEINS OF...thesis entitled MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NCRTHRIM MINE AND A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE GENESIS OF VEINS OF...either studied directly by the writer at the Northrim Mine or gained through interpretation of the available...literature include the Camsell River, Echo Bay (Port Radium) and Cobalt-Gowganda districts. references to
Report (issue)
Map of North America: A Numerical Listing of Deposits Preliminary Metallogenic Map of North America:...Virgin Islands---------------------------------Canada -------------------------------------------------Alberta...an-------------------------------------Northwest Territories ----------------------------Franklin Di...District_____________________________ Mackenzie District---------------------------Yukon Territory ---...ican Republic -----------------------------------El Salvador ---------------------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu-Bi-Co-Au-Ag-U-W Mineralization in the Great Bear Magmatic Zone, NWT, Canada* P. Acosta-GĂłngora,1,† S. A. Gleeson...University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G2E3, Canada of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University...N9B3P4, Canada Territories Geoscience Office, 601b 52nd Avenue, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories X1A 2R3...2R3, Canada 4Geological Survey of Canada, 490 rue de la Couronne, QuĂ©bec, QC G1K9A9, Canada Abstract...Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Great Bear magmatic zone is the focus of ongoing exploration for iron oxide coppergold
Journal (issue)
Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
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: i ye "Pe 7 a pre \ 2 , ' : 8 lilbap el ' ae “ay oe ar DISCARDED Gems« Minerals Richmond...© 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait, Kimberly. Tait...States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography: Brian Boyle, MPA, FPPO, and Miguel
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written permission of the Publisher. Ontario, Canada. First printing Publisher Cataloging-in-Publication...8 dc22 QE392.T358 2011 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait Kimbeny T Gems...C32T67 2011 Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. Buffalo, New York Richmond...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Illustrations: Crowle Art Group Note: For illustrative...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxide-Dominated NICO Au-Co-Bi (±Cu±W) Deposit, NWT, Canada P. Acosta-GĂłngora,1,† S. A. Gleeson,1 I. M. Samson...Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University...Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 3 Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada... 4 Geological Survey of Canada, 490 rue de la Couronne, QuĂ©bec, QC, Canada G1K 9A9 Abstract The NICO...Au-Co-Bi(±Cu±W) deposit is located in the Great Bear magmatic zone, NWT, Canada, where numerous polymetallic, iron
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Report (issue)
__ :_. ': _-:: Preliminary. Metallogenic Map of North America: ·:·.·:·.··:':··:.·_.·: : .: ::·..::··,:_...of Deposits Preliminary Metallogenic Map of North America: An Alphabetical Listing of Deposits By...Virgin Islands--------------- VIVI _________ _ 72 2 Canada ------------------------------------------------2...Saskatchewan------------------- CASA ________ _ 21 8 Northwest Territories ---------------------~-----Franklin District___________...Dominican Republic----------------- DRDR________ _ 25 El Salvador --------·------------------ ESES ________
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. 796 by W. E. Wilson Mineral evolution, the great oxidation event, and the rise of colorful minerals...Hazen The best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec ........ .......................1972, and considered to be the finest known Jeffrey mine grossular specimen. Marco Amabili collection; James...described 243 species.) Sinkankas's Gemstones of North America went into even more detail, but only for...species having gem value, and only those found in North America. Mineral collectors who can still remember
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