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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Ice
Formula:H2O
Comments:Crystal pockets are full of ice. One mines the rock around the ice and then lets the ice melt to reveal the treasures

See Postings by Holger Hartmaier and Dave Joyce at http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,62,371225,371509#msg-371509
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Extremely common
Special Storage/
Display Requirements:
Storage below 273 K is required.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ice data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:6417
Long-form Identifier:1:3:6417:0
GUID (UUID V4):2e19d1b3-a318-4893-84e3-8bbaa71876f9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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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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
Report (issue)
but fairly familiar finds—boleite from the Amelia mine, Baja California, Mexico; zunyite from Quartzsite...from the Kouroudiako iron deposit, Tambacounda region, Senegal. The Arkenstone specimen and photo. Speaking...Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Santander Province (region of 4 ========================================...classic—witness (below) the galena from the Dörnberg mine, Ramsbeck district, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany...recent finds on the dumps of the old La Vidale lead mine, Bréziès, Asprières, Aveyron, France, there is this
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Gypsum Crystals in Canada G ypsum is an important industrial mineral in Canada, with large mines in...are found in the dumps of the Pleasant Valley coal mine as well as in the glaciolacustrine sediments around...resemble Christmas trees. Bluebell Mine, Riondel This lead-zinc mine produced some interesting gypsum crystals...{120} terminations—to 13 cm were collected at the mine (Grice and Gault 1977). Fort St. John/Peace River...waters of the retreating glaciers during the last ice age. Crystals and aggregates are found at the surface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
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...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. ... Period Cambrian StratigraphicSuccessionat Nanisivik (after Olson, 1977) Formation Thickness(m) 0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@sympatico.ca M CGILL...of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island (Dawson 1855). Figure 3. From left: Redpath Museum...Pinch Medal from the Mineralogical Association of Canada. VISITOR INFORMATION Address: Redpath Museum,...Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C4, Canada Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday, 11...Montreal founded in 1827, and the Geological Survey of Canada established in 1842. All three museums were available
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
Report (issue)
(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...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...1982). This also was documented in the Trzebionka mine (Pawlowska and Szuwarzynski, 1979). Higher fracture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fyk£7rMw Susan Robinson Box 90 Manotick, Ontario Canada K0A2N0 f ININGINVOL VES THE EXTRACTION of ores...her works reside in private collections in both Canada and the United States. Carl Bentley (b. 1941)...the beauty of minerals with his interest in old mine buildings by portraying a well-known mineral specimen...specimen along with a detailed scene of the mine from which it came. His spare time is spent searching...Bloomfield, Connecticut. A pen-and-ink of the Quincy mine building at Hancock, Michigan, appears in figure
Report (issue)
viz. a skidoo–sledge expedition using the fjord ice. Primary targets were the reported gossans and sulphide...Street, West Vancouver, British Columbia V7V 4M8, Canada Chief editor of this series: Peter R. Dawes Scientific...Esben W. Glendal Critical readers: Don F. Sangster (Canada) and Stig A. Schack Pedersen (Denmark) Drawing...Basin that extends through the Arctic Islands of Canada and across northern Greenland. Its discovery is...Street, West Vancouver, British Columbia V7V 4M8, Canada. 5 6 Introduction The Citronen Fjord massive
Book
Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc., Healy, Alaska — Doyon, Limited, Fairbanks, Alaska — Valdez Creek Mine, Cambior Alaska...Mining Corporation (a subsidiary of Cook Inlet Region, Inc.) — Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
temperature and precipitation gradient on Baffin Island in the eastern Canadian Arctic. D/H ratios of plant...The dominant control on dDFA variations on Baffin Island is temperature. However, changing eFA-ppt result...calibration to existing dDFA records from Baffin Island produces much more realistic changes in late Holocene...produce long-chain leaf waxes) are absent because of ice scouring of the littoral zone. Studies of hydrogen...from a series of well-characterized lakes on Baffin Island in the eastern Canadian Arctic. These data provide
Book
AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL ARCTIC - KEEWATIN REGION RECENT TRENDS AND FUTURE SITUATION WITH AND WITHOUT...AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL ARCTIC - KEEWATIN REGION RECENT TRENDS AND FUTURE SITUATION WITH AND WITHOUT...pipeline. The area is a frontie r region of mineral activity in Canada. There ar e presently no operating...deposit of Arvik Mines Ltd . , on Little Cornwallis Island, is a feasible proposition and its development...to encouraging continued effort in this remote region. Since no all-weather roads exist in the area,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rocks & Minerals 1994.69:90-103. Ice im ’t just about snow ~ e s cancelled , school days, and skating...School 1951 Delta Avenue West Branch, Iowa 52358 ICE IS A FAMILIAR ENOUGH substance to anyone who lives...air as snow. But is ice a mineral? To the surprise of many, a close look at ice reveals that it conforms...(Roberts, Campbell, and Rapp 1990), contain entries for ice, complete with physical properties, crystallographic...identification. Ice can even be considered collectible! Chemical and Physical Properties Ice is the solid
Book
© 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...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department
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78.4 and 116.6~ in sample Rd5. Final melting of ice (Tin) was observed between - 6.0 and - 8.8 ~ (Rd2)...and - 5.5 and - 9.0 ~ (Rd5). The first melting of ice (Tfm) could only be measured within two FI of sample...show Th values between 128 and 140 ~ Tfm values of ice are observed at -- 30 to - 28 ~ (indicating NaC1CaC12...crystallization rhythmites" at the Nanisivik Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Baffin Island, Canada. Mineral. Deposita 24 : 230-232...stratification in the Triassic of the Cracow-Silesian region. Ann. Soc. Geol. Pol. 43 : 285-300 Canaval, R.
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2019 THE NEW COLD WAR THE CARBON THREAT AS THE ICE MELTS, OLD RIVALS SCRAMBLE FOR POSITION THAWING...This map shows the sea ice extent—the amount of ocean surface area covered by ice —in September 2012, its...since recordkeeping began in 1979. NATIONAL SNOW AND ICE DATA CENTER; GREEN MARBLE P R O O F E M B A R K........... P. 116 The Threat Below Eyes on the Ice Before It Melts Permafrost is thawing fast, releasing...com or call 1-800-647-5463. Outside the U.S. or Canada call +1-515-237-3674. We occasionally make our
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Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Mineral Deposits of Canada: A Synthesis...and Exploration Methods Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, Special Publication...1. Ore deposits--Canada. 2. Metallogeny--Canada. 3. Physiographic provinces--Canada. 4. Mines and niineral...niineral resources--Canada. 5. Prospecting--Canada. I. Goodfellow, Wayne D. (Wayne David), 1949Il. Geological...Association of Canada III. Series: Special publication (Geological Association of Canada. Mineral Deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NL, Canada Dept. of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada c Dept...87801, USA d Aurum Exploration Services Canada, Whitby, ON, Canada b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Labrador, PO Box 8700, St. John's, NL, A1B 4J6, Canada. Tel.: +1 709 729 4014. E-mail address: jamesconliffe@gov...located within the Torngat Mountains National Park of Canada. The current study presents a detailed description...et al., 1991; Mengel and Rivers, 1994). In this region the Ramah Group can be subdivided into two main
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
packaged Mesoproterozoic carbonate ramp in northern Canada A.G. Sherman*, G.M. Narbonne, N.P. James Department...Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Received 20 March 2000; accepted 9 October...sea-level ¯uctuations accompany rapidly changing ice volumes affected by Milankovitch orbital forcing...ramp; Sequence stratigraphy; Glacio-eustasy; Baf®n Island; Proterozoic; Bylot Supergroup 1. Introduction...based on 22 sections at eight localities: one at Nanisivik (Fig. 1), and seven west of Tremblay Sound (Fig
 
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