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Plagioclase from
Whistle Mine, Norman Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Whistle Mine, Norman Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:568670
Long-form Identifier:1:3:568670:4
GUID (UUID V4):d365db29-c245-48d2-ac55-337072095415
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
0.6km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Podolsky Mine, Norman Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
42.6km (26.5 miles) ā“˜Morrison deposit, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
42.9km (26.7 miles) ā“˜Wanup Quarry, Dill Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
54.8km (34.1 miles) ā“˜Larcher Project Exploration Pit, Dana Township, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Mineralization, and Emplacement of the Whistle-Parkin Offset Dike, Sudbury* A. J. MURPHY AND J. G. SPRAYā€  Planetary...Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract The Whistle-Parkin dike is a 12-km-long radial offset...sector of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury impact structure. The dike is connected to the Sudbury Igneous Complex via...via a 0.5-km-long, 250-m-wide embayment. The Whistle segment of the dike narrows to a width of approximately...the dike lithologies are representative of bulk Sudbury Igneous Complex melt. We propose a multistage emplacement
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intrusions in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex: origin of the Sudbury impact melt sheet and its associated...intrusions in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex: origin of the Sudbury impact melt sheet and its associated...intrusions in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex: origin of the Sudbury impact melt sheet and its associated...Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada Abstract The majority of the mafic intrusions...intrusions and volcanic rocks in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), which is believed to have
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Giant Sudbury Polymetallic Mining Camp, Ontario, Canada D. E. AMES,ā€  Geological Survey of Canada, 601...Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada A. DAVIDSON, 3259 Margaret Rd., Regina, SK S4V 1B2, Canada AND N. WODICKA ... Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada Introduction Geologic Setting...Canadaā€™s most prolific mining camp, the world-class Sudbury structure with total past production and current...preserved impact craters. The new map of the Ni-Cu-PGE Sudbury district (after Ames et al., 2005) is included
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nlrlocaterlithos Evolution of the sublayer of the Sudbury Igneous Complex: geochemical, Smā€“Nd isotopic and...Centre (MERC), Laurentian Uniƕersity, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6 b INCO Technical Serƕices Limited...Limited, Highway 17 West, Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada P0M 1N0 Received 25 January 1999; accepted 28 January...Abstract The mineralized sublayer at the base of the Sudbury Igneous Complex ŽSIC. consists of two variants...characterized by hornfels recrystallization of the plagioclase, and is geochemically and isotopically identified
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structure: Implications for Ni-Cu-PGE Exploration at Sudbury* M. BOAST AND J. G. SPRAYā€  Planetary and Space...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract A ~2.0-km-wide metamorphic aureole has...margin of the 2.5-km-thick Sudbury Igneous Complex of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury impact structure. The aureole...previously undetected thrust faults between the Sudbury Igneous Complex and the Archean footwall. We demonstrate...compression. Overthrusting of the footwall by the Sudbury Igneous Complex may conceal sublayer, footwall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relationships between the Hess and Foy offset dikes at the Sudbury impact structure E. A. PILLES 1* , G. R. OSINSKI...Exploration, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy...Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 3 Wallbridge Mining Company Limited...Limited, 129 Fielding Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1L7, Canada * Corresponding author. E-mail: epilles@uwo...aroundā€”and extending radially outward fromā€”the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), which represents an ~3 km
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
groundwater in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada: New evidence from bulk rock geochemistry...Scotia, Canada Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada c Department...northern margin of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), Canada, a volumetrically minor rock type...irregular bodies of a quartzā€“alkali feldsparā€“plagioclase intergrowth that are most abundant near footwall-style...the northern margin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), Ontario, Canada, Niā€“Cuā€“platinum-group element
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Footwall Units of the North Range, Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada, and Implications for the Genesis of...Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract Systematic regional sampling...sampling along the contact zone of the 1.85 Ga age Sudbury Igneous Complex with the Archean Levack Gneiss footwall...footwall in the North Range of the Sudbury structure revealed textural, mineralogical, and fluid inclusion...inclusion systematics of post-Sudbury Igneous Complex hydrothermal processes that affected the various lithologies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Emplacement of the Whistle Dike, the Whistle Embayment and Hosted Sulfides, Sudbury Impact Structure,...University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada Abstract The Sudbury impact structure is one of the few multi-ring...mantle component. The impact melts formed the Sudbury Igneous Complex and also were emplaced as radial...the target rocks. The Whistle dike, one of the radial ā€œoffsetā€ dikes in the Sudbury impact structure, is...is connected to the Sudbury Igneous Complex by the Whistle embayment structure, which is composed of noritic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Rathbun Offset Dike of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (Ontario, Canada) Alexander Kawohl,1,ā€  Wesley E... Toronto, Ontario M5C 1P1, Canada Bite Geological Ltd., 144 Kuusisto Rd., Sudbury, Ontario P3E 4N1, Canada...Canada Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa Abstract...dioritic impact melt dikes around the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex, locally referred to as offset...dikes proximal (<6 km) to the main mass of the Sudbury Complex are mineralized at an economic grade and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by magnetic sorting of Niā€“Cu ore at Whistle mine, Sudbury, Canada M. T. Vatcha, L. B. Cochrane and D....industry. During the early development of the Sudbury Niā€“Cu deposits in the late 1800s and early 1900s...to install a magnetic separator at the Whistle open-pit mine,3 a relatively low-grade (0.98% Ni and 0...approximately 40 km northeast of Sudbury (Fig. 1). Mining operations The Whistle deposit, owned by Inco, Ltd...In 1987 the deposit was reassessed; an open-pit mine was designed with twelve 10-m benches. Mining began
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inclusions in the sublayer of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario A.S. Cohen b a,) , O.M. Burnham...Technical Serƕices, Highway 17 West, Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada POM 1NO Received 5 August 1998; accepted 15...Sublayer of the Sudbury Igneous Complex ŽSIC. at Whistle Mine, 30 km NNE of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Six S-poor...Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Sudbury Igneous Complex; Rhenium; Osmium; Ultramafic inclusions;...1. Introduction The Niā€“Cuā€“PGE deposits of the Sudbury Igneous Complex ŽSIC. form the largest economic
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Sulfide Mineralization in the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada PETER C. LIGHTFOOT,ā€  Inco Technical...Services Ltd., Highway 17 West, Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada P0M 1N0 REID R. KEAYS, Mineral Exploration...University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6 AND WILL DOHERTY Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth...Booth Street, Ottawa, Canada K1A OE8 Abstract The Sudbury Igneous Complex is widely believed to be the result...the range of quartz diorite from the different Sudbury offsets, and we believe that all of these rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SudburyIgneousComplex,Ontario F. CO}ā€¢FU Department of Geology, RoyalOntarioMuseum, 100Queen's Park,Toronto, Ontario,CanadaM5S2C6...MineralDeposits Section, OntarioGeological Suruey, Sudbury, Ontario,CanadaP3E6B5 Abstract Cu-Nisulfide deposits...complexes belonging to the 2.2 GaNipfootwallof the Sudbury IgneousComplex(Morrison,1984; issing suite,the2...beenregarded Sudbury asa featureof heavilymineralized sublayer rocks(Pattison, The Sudbury IgneousComplex...IncoExploration, Highway17West,CopperCliff,On- Sudbury tario, Canada P0M 1N0. 0361-0128/96/1869/1263-755.00
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Highway17 West,Engineering Building,CopperCliff,Ontario,CanadaPOM1NO REID B. KEAYS, Department of EarthSciences...EarthSciences, Laurentinn University, Sudburā€¢j, Ontario,CanadaP3E2C6 GORDON G. MORRISON, INCO Exploration...Highway17 West,Engineering Building,CopperCliff,Ontario,CanadaPOM1NO ANDY BITE, INCO Exploration, Highway17...Highway17 lVest,Engineering Building,CopperCliff, Ontario,CanadaPOM1NO AND KEITH P. FARRELL Department...Department of EarthSciences, LaurentiaaUniversity, Sudbury, Ontario,Canda P3E2C6 Abstract More thanhalf of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization, and Emplacement of the Foy Offset Dike, Sudbury Impact Structure* M. G. TUCHSCHERER AND J. G. SPRAYā€ ...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract The Foy offset dike is the longest of...known radial dikes associated with the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex. The Foy dike extends for at least...Archean and Proterozoic footwall rocks of the Sudbury impact structure. The dike ranges in width from...from 400 m, where it connects to the Sudbury Igneous Complex, to 50 m at its most distal known exposure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 289-307 Geochemical Relationships in the Sudbury IgneousComplex: Originof the MainMassandOffsetDikes...CopperCliff,Ontario,CanadaPOM1NO REID R. KEAYS, Department of Geology, Laurentiaa University, Sudbury, Ontario...Highway17 WestEngineering Building, CopperCliff,Ontario,CanadaPOM1NO AND KEITH P. FARRELL Department...Department of Geology, LaurentiaaUniversity, Sudbury, Ontario,CanadaP3E2C6 Abstract Petrological models relating...relating thedifferent rocktypesconstituting the1.85Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex areconstrained withextensive newgeochemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Niā€“Cuā€“Platinum Group Element sulfide mineralization in the Sudbury Impact Melt Sheet R. R. Keays1 and P. C. Lightfoot2...Research Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada, and VIEPS, School of Geosciences, Monash...Australia 2 Inco Exploration, Copper Cliff, ON, Canada Received May 23, 2003; revised version accepted...Niā€“Cuā€“Platinum Group Element (PGE) sulfide deposits of the Sudbury Structure have provided a major portion of the...studies seeking to explain the formation of the Sudbury Structure have now converged on a genetic model
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CATHODOLUMINESCENCE AND TRACE-ELEMENT CHEMISTRY OF QUARTZ FROM SUDBURY OFFSET DIKES: OBSERVATIONS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND...University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada ABSTRACT Offset dikes, radial and...important hosts of Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization in the Sudbury area. To better understand their emplacement and...examined in quartz diorite from the Foy, Trill, Whistle, Hess, Parkin (North Range), and Copper Cliff (South...indicate that quartz from the Foy, Trill, and Whistle offsets is enriched in Al (30ā€“600 ppm) and Ti (50ā€“520
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anatexis in breccia formation: Southern Sudbury impact structure, Canada Carol-Anne GeĢneĢreux *, Douglas K...Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Rd., Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C...Range Sudbury impact structure The ca. 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) in Ontario, Canada, represents...cratering processes are not fully unĀ­ derstood. Sudbury is an excellent natural laboratory to study impact...its impact melt sheet, now crystallized as the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) (Grieve et al., 1991), and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
melt sheet with adjacent target rock, Sudbury impact structure, Canada 1 1 ā‚¬ ā‚¬ Paul L. GOLLNER , Torben WUSTEMANN...Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond...Richmond Street N., London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 4 Present address: Department of Geology, University of...accepted 12 February 2019) Abstractā€“The 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) and its thermal aureole are...by viscous relaxation of crust underlying the Sudbury impact structure, or both. The magnitude of target
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mechanisms in the contact sublayer of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada S. A. Prevec Hugh Allsopp Lab, University...Ni-Cu-PGE sulphide-mineralized contact sublayer of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) is critical to our understanding...crystallization of any main mass composition produces plagioclase compositions consistent with those observed in...Kontakt-``Sublayer'' des magmatischen Komplexes von Sudbury, Canada Der Ursprung ultramaĀ®scher Einschl usse in...mineralisierten ``Sublayer'' des magmatischen Komplexes von Sudbury ist von grundsatzlicher Bedeutung f ur das Verstandnis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin and emplacement of Offset Dykes in the Sudbury impact structure: Constraints from Hess CHRISTINA...Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada *Correspondence author's e-mail address: k474sBunb...north of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury igneous complex (SIC) within the 200-250 km diameter Sudbury impact structure...Diorite: a term used for all the Offset Dykes of the Sudbury impact structure. Rare earth element data shows...Diorite phase of the dyke comprises a quartz + plagioclase + hornblende + biotite ? clinopyroxene 2 orthopyroxene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lead Isotope and Trace Element Evidence from the Sudbury Igneous Complex Indicate a Complex Origin of Associated... 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6 Abstract The Sudbury Igneous Complex is the...contrasts between the North and South ranges of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. This study presents an extensive...implications for the source of sulfide in the Sudbury Igneous Complex. First, North Range sulfide ores...target rock type also in the North Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. Second, there is significant variability
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
study of the Foy Offset Dike at the Sudbury impact structure, Canada Eric A. Pilles a,āˆ— , Gordon R. Osinski...Exploration, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy...Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada Wallbridge Mining Company Limited...Limited, 129 Fielding Road, Sudbury, ON P3Y 1L7, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Available online xxxx Editor: W.B. McKinnon Keywords: Sudbury Offset Dike impact crater ļ¬‚ow differentiation impact
 
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