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Electrum from
McCreedy East Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold var: Electrum
Formula:(Au,Ag)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Electrum data
Locality Data:Click here to view McCreedy East Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:731433
Long-form Identifier:1:3:731433:9
GUID (UUID V4):f115f7f6-1d1e-4e79-aafe-b0928667ea45
Nearest other occurrences of Electrum
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘDeep Copper Zone, Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
5.2km (3.3 miles) ⓘMcCreedy West Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
25.6km (15.9 miles) ⓘLockerby Mine, Denison Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
25.6km (15.9 miles) ⓘCreighton Mine, Creighton-Davies Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
26.0km (16.2 miles) ⓘBroken Hammer Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
27.8km (17.3 miles) ⓘVermilion Mine, Denison Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
30.3km (18.8 miles) ⓘFrood Mine, McKim Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
32.2km (20.0 miles) ⓘTotten No. 2 Mine, Worthington Offset Dike, Worthington area, Drury Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the sulfide minerals from the McCreedy East deposit, Sudbury, Canada, and the origin of PGE in pyrite...investigated. The Ni– Cu–PGE ores from the South Range of Sudbury are unusual in that sulfarsenide PGM, rather than...comparison, the North Range deposits of Sudbury, such as the McCreedy East deposit, have As-poor granites in...show that in the pyrrhotite-rich ores of the McCreedy East deposit Os, Ir, Ru, Rh (IPGE), and Re are concentrated...555 bld. de l’UniversitĂ©, Saguenay, PQ, G7H 2B1, Canada e-mail: sasdare@hotmail.com H. M. Prichard : P
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of Cu-Rich Ores from the McCreedy East Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit (Sudbury, Canada): Implications for the Behavior...555 bld. de l’UniversitĂ©, Saguenay, PQ, G7H 2B1, Canada of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University...group element ore deposits. At the McCreedy East deposit, Sudbury, they constitute a classic magmatic...galena. In contrast to much of the previous work at Sudbury, which has invoked the role of late-magmatic and/or...deposits, such as Noril’sk-Talnakh (Russia) and Sudbury (Canada), are formed by partitioning of chalcophile
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...contact zone of the 1.85 Ga age Sudbury Igneous Complex with the Archean Levack Gneiss footwall in the North...North Range of the Sudbury structure revealed textural, mineralogical, and fluid inclusion systematics of...of post-Sudbury Igneous Complex hydrothermal processes that affected the various lithologies. At late
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NORTH AND SOUTH RANGE Cu-Ni-PGE DEPOSITS, SUDBURY STRUCTURE, ONTARIO CATHARINE E.G. FMmOW,*DAVIDH. WATKINSON...CarletonUniversity,Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre,Ottawa,Ontario,CanadaKiS 5B6 GeologicSettingof the Deposits The...depositshas continued footwall units at the base of the Sudbury Igneous since early this century (Wandke and Hoffman...maficto felsic gneissesand migmatiteswith domiof the Levack Gneiss 1979). A magmaticoriginisnowwell established...microscope zone (Hoffman et al., 1979), and McCreedy East (SEM). The identificationof fluid inclusionswithin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ni-Cu-Platinum-Group Element Sulfide Deposit, Sudbury, Canada: Early Crystallization of PGE-Rich Sulfarsenides...Chicoutimi, 555 Bld. de l’UniversitĂ©, Saguenay, QuĂ©bec, Canada G7H 2B1 of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University...minerals (PGM) in Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits. At Sudbury, it appears that the majority of PGE are hosted...Creighton deposit located on the South Range of Sudbury. These predominantly pyrrhotite-rich sulfides,...collected in troughs and embayments at the base of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, and formed small pendants of ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phases, North Range footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada Received: 5 October 2004 / Accepted:...element)–Au deposits at the Fraser Mine (North Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex). Evidence for coentrapment...University of Toronto, 22 Russell Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3B1 E-mail: hanley@geology.utoronto.ca Tel...volatiles were carriers of precious metals in the Sudbury environment over a wide range of temperatures....clearly part of a single, continuous process in the Sudbury footwall. The exsolution of H2O-poor volatiles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Creighton Ni–Cu–PGE sulfide deposit, Sudbury, Canada, and the origin of palladium in pentlandite...Chicoutimi, 555 bld. de l’UniversitĂ©, Saguenay, PQ, Canada G7H 2B1 e-mail: sasdare@hotmail.com chalcopyrite...predominantly in discrete accessory minerals such as electrum (Au–Ag alloy), hessite (Ag2Te), michenerite (PdBiTe)...group elements . Sulfides . Sulfarsenides . Sudbury . Canada . Laser ablation ICP-MS . Palladium enrichment...of the Creighton Ni–Cu–PGE sulfide deposit, Sudbury, Canada. The sulfide assemblage is dominated by pyrrhotite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Norilsk (Barnes et al. 2006, Spiridonov 2010), Sudbury (Fleet 1977), and others. Platinum-group elements... However, several deposits (e.g., Wellgreen in Canada, Sakatti and Kevitsa in Finland) are characterized...et al. (2006) in the Medvezhiy (Medvezky) Creek Mine (Norilsk ore district). However, in some cases,...a total of 158 MGM grains were studied. Rare ‘‘electrum’’ grains were found in all samples (Fig. 6e)....sopcheite hessite paolovite telargpalite taimyrite ‘‘electrum’’ Pt-Sn-Te-Bi Total UL Lower horizon SB Ccp
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (Canada): Amy Lake PGE zone, East Range Györgyi Tuba & Ferenc...the East Range footwall of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex occurring in a 100m-wide Sudbury Breccia...multi-source, multi-stage Sudbury-related hydrothermal system. The two major stages of syn-Sudbury hydrothermal activity...Ames Geological Survey of Canada, 750-601 Booth Street, K1A 0E8 Ottawa, Canada A. Péntek Wallbridge Mining...Company Ltd, 129 Fielding Road, P3Y 1L7 Lively, Canada D. H. Watkinson : P. C. Jones Department of Earth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mass minerals (platinum-group minerals (PGM), electrum and Pb-rich minerals) and their relationship to...microscope data reveal abundant PGM assemblages, electrum, galena and Pb-chloride minerals associated with...ores at Noril’sk (Genkin & Evstigneeva 1986) and Sudbury (Dare et al. 2014). Trace element analyses of pyrrhotite...geochemistry of Cu-rich ores from the McCreedy east Ni-Cu-PGE deposit (Sudbury, Canada): implications for the behavior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(PMM) including hessite (Ag2Te), Pd-Ag tellurides, electrum, and native Au are observed in the Santa Rita...tellurides accompanied by Ag tellurides, minor electrum, and native Au in both the Santa Rita ore zone...zone (modified after Inwood et al., 2011). The west-east geologic section, representative of the central...west and an upper mafic sequence exposed to the east (Fig. 2). Individual layers become progressively...described the silicate mineralogy and chemistry in greater detail. Interstitial sulfide blebs (typically ~1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă  Chicoutimi, Saguenay, QuĂ©bec, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Accepted...ores (e.g., Copper Cliff and Creighton Mines in Sudbury, Huminicki et al., 2005 and Dare et al., 2010a...(LA-ICP-MS) at UniversitĂ© du Quebec a Chicoutimi (UQAC), Canada. The following isotopes were monitored 29 Si, 33S... Holwell and McDonald, 2007; and Creighton Mine, Sudbury, Dare et al. 2010a). Unlike Re, IPGE and Rh...Ni–Cu–(PGE) sulïŹde ores (e.g., Kelly Lake deposit, Sudbury, Huminicki et al., 2005; Merensky Reef, Bushveld
Book
ELEMENTS DEPOSITS Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Series Volume 35 Edited by James...delivered on behalf of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in Oulu, Finland, 6-7 August 2005. ii TABLE...BASE-METALDOMINANT 8. Sudbury Cu-(Ni)-PGE Systems: Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky...Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub, K.M. Stevens 359-368...Dyke, Zimbabwe - Case Study of the Hartley Platinum Mine A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown 409-429 20. The Platinova
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)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anorthosites (Hulbert 1983; Smith et al. 2011). To the east of the N–S trending Grasvally Fault (Fig. 2), the...Stibiopalladinite Sperrylite Kotulskite Hessite Moncheite Electrum Sudburyite Hollingworthite Isomertieite Testibiopalladite...tellurides (9 %) with Au and Ag minerals such as electrum and hessite constituting only 2 %. It is important...due to the presence of laurite (RuS 2 ) and the greater proportion of PGE sulfarsenides, principally hollingworthite...hosting primary textured sulfides, the PGM show greater preference to BMS than chromite (Table 3 and Fig
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)
abundance of the BMS is Miner Deposita much greater and so both may host considerable quantities of...largest Ni deposit in the world after Noril’sk and Sudbury. It has ore reserves of 500 million metric tons...three magma subchambers; the west, west-central, and east subchambers which host ore bodies 24, 1, and 2,...JC-26. JC-24 contains two electrum ave. 2×1 ÎŒm and JC-29 contains one electrum 1×0.5 ÎŒm JC-54 JC-30 JZ-02...example, irarsite, being slightly larger, has a greater percentage of the total PGM calculated by area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1974, Cabri et al. 1979, Godel & Barnes 2008), Sudbury (Cabri & LaïŹ‚amme 1976, Huminicki et al. 2005, Dare...des Iles (Djon & Barnes 2012), and Wellgreen in Canada (Barkov et al. 2002); Jinchuan (Yang et al. 1992)...Mineral altaite chalcopyrite chromite cooperite ‘‘electrum’’ galena hollingworthite isoferroplatinum magnetite...from some copper-nickel deposits of the Sudbury area, Ontario. Economic Geology 71, 1159–1195. CABRI,...mineralization, Ferguson Lake deposit, Nunavut, Canada. Mineralium Deposita 47(4), 441–465. CAWTHORN,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Quebec G7H 2B1, Canada Group NL, Suite 1 183 great Eastern Highway, Belmont...Dundonald Beach South in the Abitibi Subprovince, Ontario, Canada (Hanley, 2007). At Dundonald Beach South, arsenide-rich...Proterozoic sedimentary rocks Waterloo Nickel mine Windarra LAVERTON 50 km Major fault Present study...at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC, Canada) using a Thermo X7 ICP-MS coupled with a New Wave...cobaltites from the Creighton Ni-Cu±PGE deposit at Sudbury (Dare et al., 2010b) are plotted as a comparison
Book
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)
analysis of sulfides in the Skaergaard Intrusion, east Greenland David A. Holwell1 · Reid R. Keays2 · Iain...The Platinova Reef, in the Skaergaard Intrusion, east Greenland, is an example of a magmatic Cu–PGE–Au...4RY, UK Introduction The Skaergaard Intrusion in east Greenland is host to the Platinova Reef, which is...(Prendergast 2000), the Coldwell Complex in Ontario, Canada (Barrie et al. 2002), the Kotelainen Intrusion...within the Skaergaard Intrusion. a Location map of east Greenland; b schematic stratigraphic section of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associations from three Au deposits in the north-east of Russia. The unique nature of our approach was... Cpy, Sph, Rut, Au 6 Lodestar, Newfoundland, Canada Magmatic-hydrothermal ~425 ◩ C Py, Asp, Cpy... New Brunswick, Canada 13 14 No Deposit, Location 10 Campbell, Ontario, Canada 11 Type * Au Content...deposits. The deposits are located in the north-east of Russia (Magadan region, Tenkin ore district)...deposits. The deposits are located in the north-east of Russia (Magadan region, Tenkin ore district)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UK d Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, On K1A 0E8, Canada b c A R T I C L E I N F...et al., 2011, 2014), the Lac Des Iles Complex, Canada (Djon and Barnes, 2012; Duran et al., 2015), Aguablanca...of cubanite increases at Style 3 to proportions greater than 1% and is at its highest in Style 5, where...Pt-Pd-tellurides (e.g. telluropalladinite; Pd9Te4), electrum 4 Ore Geology Reviews xxx (xxxx) xxx–xxx D... This highlights the loss of both S, and to a greater extent, Fe, in the earliest styles of PMC alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
border of the state of Kansas, USA as north as Ontario, Canada and then southeast-bound to the state of Michigan...occasionally intergrown with or accompanied by electrum and hessite (Ag2Te); however, their small size...Mungall (2002) and Mungall & Su (2005) in the Sudbury Igneous Complex. In sample MA-8 (Fig. 5A-C) sulfide...footwall-type vein mineralization in the vicinity of the Sudbury PT Igneous Complex (Farrow & Watkinson, 1997;...Inclusions: Analysis and Interpretation. Miner Assoc Canada MA Dixon JE. Degassing of alkalic basalts. Am
Book (volume)
Cavities of the Khokhoy Gold Ore Field (Aldan Shield, East Russia) Reprinted from: Minerals 2020, 10, 139,...Aldan-Stanovoy auriferous province (Aldan shield, East Russia). This was the ïŹrst time the relationships...Arsenopyrite with excess As over S has a tendency to have greater abundance of Pt, Ru and Pd. Sulfur deïŹciency was...Cavities of the Khokhoy Gold Ore Field (Aldan Shield, East Russia). Minerals 2020, 10, 139. [CrossRef] Petersen...; Burke, M. Formation and aggregation of gold (electrum) nanoparticles in epithermal ores. Minerals 2017
 
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