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Mackinawite from
Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mackinawite
Formula:FeS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mackinawite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:650270
Long-form Identifier:1:3:650270:6
GUID (UUID V4):c4bb4ca0-62ad-401c-a8b2-a0eef40d893b
Localities for Mackinawite in this Region
Deep Copper Zone, Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Nearest other occurrences of Mackinawite
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘMorrison deposit, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
5.5km (3.4 miles) ⓘDeep Copper Zone, Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
31.1km (19.3 miles) ⓘLindsley Mine, Blezard Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Element Deposition, Sudbury Igneous Complex Contact, Onaping-Levack area, Ontario Catharine E. G. F a...Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada With 5 Figures Received September 17, 1991;...element deposition in the Onaping-Levack area of the North Range of the Sudbury Structure. Two significant alteration...to Cu-rich veins in the Deep Copper Zone of Strathcona mine and the nearby Barnet property, and amphibole...pentlandite + pyrite _ quartz + magnetite in the Fraser mine Epidote Zone. The concentrically zoned Epidote Zone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Strathcona Mine and Its Bearing on the Origin of the Nickel-Copper Ores of the Sudbury District...District, Ontario by A. J . NALDRETT1 and G. KULLERUD Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington...ABSTRACT The Strathcona iron-nickel-copper sulfide ore deposit lies at the base of the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive...Irruptive along the north rim of the Sudbury basin. In the vicinity of the deposit the main body of the...455 REVIEW OF THE SUDBURY LITERATURE 456 General geologic setting The Sudbury Nickel Irruptive Marginal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ElementsfromSome Copper-NickelDepositsof the SudburyArea,Ontario Lou‱s J. CABRIANDJ. H. Abstract A detailedmin...samplesfrom nine depositsgeographically encircling the Sudbury basin. This study has resulted in the identification...LONGVACK X"--‱ COLEMANIBIGLEVACK SHAFT ;APRE ‱ STRATHCONA VICTOR X X NICKEL RIM LE‱CK MACLENNAN ...FALCON BR I DGE GARSON ERRINGTON MINE X(Zn,Cu,‱) STOBIE McCONNEL‱ MINE k‱ quartz norire and norire ... (Zn,Cu,PD) TR‱ COP‱R CUFI sUDBURY CONISTON ß ‱j transition ‱] micropegmotite RAMSEY< .AKE ICOPPER CLIFF
Report (issue)
earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic...earth-science and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic...Mines and Resources (EMR), Geological Survey of Canada; Gabriele I. C. Schneider, South African Department...August 1986, the development of a major new platinum mine was announced in South Africa (E.C.I. Hammerbeck
Report (issue)
earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic...earth-science and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic...by 0. Roger Eckstrand, EMR, Geological Survey of Canada; Brian G. Elliott, Australian Bureau of Mineral...-------3. Nickel deposits in the Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada-----------------------4. Nickel districts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Element Deposits, Copper Cliff North Area, Sudbury, Canada KRISZTIÁN SZENTPÉTERI,† Department of Mineralogy...Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 FERENC MOLNÁR, Department of Mineralogy...Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract Three deposits (the offset...Violet deposit) in the Copper Cliff North mine area, Sudbury, were sampled with the aim of defining the...the 100, 120, and Lady Violet deposits in the Sudbury South Range. Formation of primary PGE-bearing sulfarsenides
Report (issue)
corresponding to Pt1.00 (Bi1.35 Sb0.57 )Σ=1.92 . (2) Sudbury, Canada; by electron microprobe; corresponding to (Pt0...deposit, South Africa); in Cu–Ni sulfide ore (Sudbury, Canada). Association: Pentlandite, cubanite, hessite... altaite, argentopentlandite, chalcopyrite, mackinawite, niggliite, froodite, parkerite, galena, sphalerite...In the Coleman mine, Sudbury, and the Strathcona mine, Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada. At Fox Gulch, Goodnews...discovered. Type Material: Ottawa, Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 10400; Canadian Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Voisey’s Bay Ni-Cu-Co Deposit, Northern Labrador, Canada: Influence of Oxidation State on Textures and Mineral...of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B1 Abstract The Voisey’s Bay Ni-Cu deposit...one of the most significant discoveries made in Canada in the last 30 yr. Known reserves, plus indicated...community of Nain on the east coast of Labrador, Canada. Ryan (1990) and Ryan et al. (1995) have described...chalcopyrite, with subordinate amounts of cubanite, mackinawite, sphalerite, and members of the linnaeite group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orebodiesor the ore shootsare erite, galena, mackinawite,valleriite, skutterudite, generally subparallelwith... are continuousacrossthe entire grain and are Ontario, was practicallyindistinguishable from boundedby...MosaboniMine, elongatepyrite bearing pyrrhotite and mackinawite from chalcograinsproduce a distinctlineationparallelwith...metamorphosed chalcopyrite. Long needlelikebodiesare mackinawite (Mc) (in oil). North Badia. Fro. 12. Shredsof...Such intrusives, however, have not (Fig. 11). Mackinawite veinletshavealsodeveloped. been found elsewhere
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundantwith no apparentsystem- phasegrains. Mackinawite also occursintergrown with chalcopyritebut not...mostabundantintercumulusphasein the graphand Kullerud, 1967). Mackinawite is intergrown ite-rich zones,the majority of...7 39.1 Sudbury average 55.5 6.0 38.5 54.4 6.3 38.3 55 6.5 38 Giant Nickel mine average...average (Muir, 1971) Strathcona 0.3 mine average (Naldrett, 1969) 47.8 atomicpercentFe. A possibleexplanationf(...absenceof pyrite rett's National Research Council of Canada Grant indicatethat the sulfur fugacityin the maglnawas
Book (edition)
Diaphorite Isocubanite yes Bravoite Eucairite Mackinawite Wittichenite Reflection Colour & Ø Reflectance... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL
Report (issue)
Platinum-Group Elements Edited by Louis J. Cabri Ottawa, Ontario Published for the Geological Society of CIM as...de Maisonneuve Boulevard West Montréal, Québec, Canada H3Z 3B8 ISBN 1-894475-27-5 Papers in this volume...Petroleum, Special Volume 54, p. 483-506. PRINTED IN CANADA by Marc Veilleux Imprimeur Inc. Preface Background...in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or so years, colleagues...to and immediately following my retirement from Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Resources (CANMET)
Book
made, they are mounted onto a glass slide with Canada Basalm or Cement so that they can be demounted...during mining and milling, are introduced into mine concentrates and mill products. Often they have...acanthite and altered argentopyrite. Tynebottom Mine, North Pennines, Britain le galena. Cabagal effect...sphalerite and carborundum grit. Settlingstones Mine, North Pennines, Britain Islands. Britain A dried...cohenite, niningerite, alabandite, pentlandite, mackinawite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and Much of the investigated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydroxychloride in the Deep Copper Zone of the Sudbury Complex (Springer, 1989), hibbingite was characterized...analyses of fresh hibbingite from the Duluth, Sudbury, and Noril'sk Complexes and from the Korshunovskoye...hibbingite-kempite; Fr - froodite; MT - magnetite; MK - mackinawite; URV - urvantsevite; CB - cabbriite; CP chalcopyrite;...(Fe,(O,OH)~6CI<2; Post and Buchwald, 1991) in Sudbury hibbingite. Mode of formation The occurrences...i distinct from those found in the Duluth and Sudbury Complexes because of their formation inside sulphide
Journal (volume)
zincian chromite, ilmenite, hematite, troilite, mackinawite, cubanite, sphalerite and gersdorffite also occur...Gersdorffite Tell urobismu thi,te Chromite Magnetiote Mackinawite Gold Standard troilite millerite { cobaltiote...the plan and cross sections are in meters. mackinawite occur as inclusions in the chalcopyrite. There...Finland, Bulletin 315 peridotites and basalts in Canada, South Africa and Western Australia (Nesbitt and...chondritic trend for komatiites and tholeiites in Canada, South A f rica and Australia. No such trend has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also have a sulphur content close to that of mackinawite 51 (Fel+xS, with 0.04 < x < 0.07, i.e. 48.3-49...3-49.0 atm% S) or troilite (FeS). Mackinawite is a metastable low-temperature mineral that can incorporate...structure. Vaughan [37] found up to 18.7 wt% Ni in mackinawite in basic rocks and Clark [38] up to 8% Ni. M6ssbauer...have yielded conflicting results on whether mackinawite possesses a magnetic structure [39,40]. Troilite...FeS phase, mackinawite, greigite and finally pyrite are formed. Amorphous FeS, mackinawite and greigite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ores containing bornite, anhydrite, magnetite, mackinawite (3–5 wt % Ni), valleriite, calcite, ankerite...ingrowths of froodite (white). Microveinlets of mackinawite with anhydrite (black) and parkerite metacrysts...Oktyabrsky– Taimyr deposit. lar pyrrhotite, mackinawite, marcasite, bornite, low chalcocite, wĂŒrtzite...abundant bornite, anhydrite, secondary magnetite, mackinawite, valleriite, calcite, native silver 1.99 2.00...Vol. 50 No. 8 2008 bornite chalcopyrite mackinawite 100 ”m Fig. 7. Backscattered electron images
Report (issue)
COLLECTOR Ann P. Sabina Sudbury to Winnipeg I.I Energy, Mines and Resources Canada E:nergie, Mines et...et Ressourees Canada Canada THE ENERGY OF OUR RESOURCES THE POWER OF OUR IDEAS COVER Left: Amethyst...Amethyst - Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specimen measures 4.5 cm across the base. National Mineral Collection specimen... Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 49 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Sudbury to Winnipeg... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1991 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cristallisation d'assemblages sulfur6s riches en mackinawite. L'augmentation du degr~ de serpentinisation...reactions as soon as the degree of serpentinization is greater than 5 - 1 0 % by volume of the host rocks (Lorand...partly-serpentinizedsamples;Fig. 2D shows coarse-grained mackinawite (medium grey) within pentlandite (light grey)...devoid of pyrite and bornite but contain abundant mackinawite coexisting with the predominant pentlandite and...intergranular assemblages. On the other hand, mackinawite which occurs as tiny wisps, 5-10/am across, lying
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
style of occurrence has many points in common with Sudbury, but with a somewhat different ore mineral assemblage...cover up to 180 m thick). pyrite, marcasite, mackinawite, cubanite, millerite, valleriite, chrome spinel...norites, which show a certain analogy with the Sudbury sulfide deposits as regards magma features, the...associated with the famous Sudbury. copper-nickel intrusion. The Sudbury ores show a discrepancy between...there are various hypotheses on the origin of the Sudbury ores [ 1 6 ] , most researchers agree that the
Report (issue)
(K) Molengraaffite Montasite Namaqualite Ni-mackinawite Ni-Mg olivine Nickel ludwigite Oxymagnite Po...Na-Ca-enstatite ‱ Nb-er-Mg-ilmenite Nb-Cr-rutile Nickel-mackinawite Palladic platinum Pd-electrum Potassium richterite...California, U.S.A. (Switzer and Bailey, 1953); Mihara mine, Okayama Prefecture and at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture...crystals in one mineralised pocket in the Wessels mine, Farm Wessels 227, Hotazel district, Northern Cape...allanite-(La) is described from Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada (Pan and Fleet, 1991 ). Another recently documented
Report (issue)
Histograms of copper and nickel content ol drill core and mine-tunnel samples ................................... medium-grained (1-5 mm), and coarse-grained (greater than 5 mm). Locally, terms such as "finer medium"...the proportion of postcumulus materials to be greater in the Basal zone than in the Ultramafic zone....the norite near the base of the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive in the Strathcona ore deposit (Naldrett and Kullerud...produced small amounts of bravolite, violarite, mackinawite, marcasite, pyrite, cuprite, and native copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Other sulfidemineralsare cubanite,pyrite, and mackinawite. The Pt/Pd ratio of 0.8 for mineralized anorthositeat...ilmenite (Ilm). Note the small exsolutionbody of mackinawite (dark flame) in the chalcopyrite. describe...lamellarexsolutionbodiesof pyrrhotite. Sphalerite and mackinawite,where present,occuras small exsolutionbodiesin...of the Strathcona mine and its bearing on the origin of the nickel-copperores of the Sudbury district...district, Ontario: Jour. Petrology, v. 8, p. 453-531. Ramdohr, Paul, 1969, The ore minerals and their intergrowths:
Book (edition)
15-20 Pentlandite II/B.16-10 Miassite II/B.16-80 Mackinawite II/B.17-10 Godlevskite II/B.17-20 VI Page 84...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...sample - photo A), dolomite (dark grey); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, VĂ€rmland, Sweden [j]; Nic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă  Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QuĂ©bec, Canada, G7H 2B1 AND MARK J. SEVERSON Natural Resources...GĂ©ologique de QuĂ©bec, Charlesbourg, Quebec, G1H 6R1, Canada. Vol. 95, 2000, pp.929–943 0361-0128/00/3070/929-15...footwall rocks created significant 92o 91o 90o Ontario N 48o 9 10 8 4 3 2 7 6 5 ? SKI Lake Superior...minor amounts of 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 mackinawite, talnakhite, bornite, digenite, chalcocite, covellite...mineralogy, the PGE-rich sulfides generally contain greater proportions of chalcopyrite, cubanite, and pentlandite
 
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