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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Melonite
Formula:NiTe2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Melonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:813137
Long-form Identifier:1:3:813137:9
GUID (UUID V4):7b4e4756-98b0-47d5-8afd-bca47cc806aa
Nearest other occurrences of Melonite
4.4km (2.7 miles) ⓘEpidote Zone, Fraser mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘMcCreedy East Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
7.5km (4.7 miles) ⓘBarnet Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
22.6km (14.0 miles) ⓘLockerby Mine, Denison Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
22.7km (14.1 miles) ⓘCrean Hill Mine, Denison Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
24.3km (15.1 miles) ⓘCreighton Mine, Creighton-Davies Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
30.2km (18.8 miles) ⓘBroken Hammer Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
30.2km (18.8 miles) ⓘCopper Cliff South Mine, Snider Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
40.4km (25.1 miles) ⓘGarson Mine, Garson Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
45.3km (28.2 miles) ⓘFalconbridge Mine, Falconbridge Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfide minerals from the McCreedy East deposit, Sudbury, Canada, and the origin of PGE in pyrite Sarah A. S...investigated. The Ni– Cu–PGE ores from the South Range of Sudbury are unusual in that sulfarsenide PGM, rather than...rocks. In comparison, the North Range deposits of Sudbury, such as the McCreedy East deposit, have As-poor...555 bld. de l’UniversitĂ©, Saguenay, PQ, G7H 2B1, Canada e-mail: sasdare@hotmail.com H. M. Prichard : P...important in concentrating PGE in the North Range of Sudbury. Palladium is present in pentlandite and, together
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization in the Broken Hammer Area, Wisner Township, North Range, Sudbury Structure ATTILA PÉNTEK,† FERENC MOLNÁR...Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract Footwall-type Cu-Ni-PGE (Platinum-group...are a major focus of recent exploration in the Sudbury mining camp, owing to their higher Cu and precious...orebodies situated along the lower contact of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. The most important footwall-type...footwall-type orebodies occur in the Onaping-Levack area of the North Range, but economic deposits are found along
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...quantitiesin cobaltite,gersdorffite,insizwaite,maucherite,melonite,moncheite, nickeline,and niggliite; Pt occursin...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the McCreedy East Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit (Sudbury, Canada): Implications for the Behavior of Platinum...555 bld. de l’UniversitĂ©, Saguenay, PQ, G7H 2B1, Canada of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University...element ore deposits. At the McCreedy East deposit, Sudbury, they constitute a classic magmatic assemblage...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
Report (issue)
Melonite NiTe2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group:...265 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Robb-Montbray mine, Canada. 2.82 (100), 1.549 (60), 2.06 (50), 1.918 (50)...Stanislaus mine, California, USA; corresponding to (Ni0.99 Ag0.02 )ÎŁ=1.01 Te2.00 . (2) Strathcona mine, Canada;...Mineral Group: Forms a series with merenskyite. Melonite group. Occurrence: With other tellurium minerals...Calaveras Co., and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne Co.; in Colorado, at the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sweden (Sverige) Gladhammar mine, nickel-rich carrollite, 737 Harstig mine, Pajsberg, sarkinite, 681 Norr6...Norr6, arrojadite (hiihnerkobelite), 23o Sjo mine, Grythytte Parish, Orebro, xantharsenite, polyarsenite...Court farm, Ramsgate, Kent, chalk, i6o Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, arsenical marcasite, gersdorffite...kidwellite, 952 WALES(Cymrul Dyfed, illite, 857 Parc mine, Gwynedd, hydrozincite, nickeloan hydrozincite,...Germany (Deutschland) Clara mine, Black Forest, cuprotungstite, 448 Friedrich mine, hauchecornite, 875 Hagendorf
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...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...BMS in Ni–Cu–PGE deposits. The Sudbury Igneous Complex in Ontario, Canada, is host to one of the largest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the 800 and 810 Orebodies, Copper Cliff South Mine, and P-T-X Conditions during the Formation of Platinum-Group...University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada Abstract The 800 and 810 orebodies are...are two major deposits in the Copper Cliff South mine, located at opposite contacts between the quartz...metapelite of the McKim Formation. The Copper Cliff South mine is one of the richest Cu-Ni- platinum-group elements...platinum-group mineral (PGM) in the Copper Cliff South mine is sperrylite (PtAs2). It occurs in every textural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization Within the Footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada ATTILA PÉNTEK,1,† FERENC MOLNÁR...Mining Company Ltd., 129 Fielding Road, Lively, Ontario, Canada P3Y 1L7 2 Geological 3 Department Survey...Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract We present new results and review...mineralizing processes in the contact aureole of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. At the basal contact of the igneous...sulfides occurred. In the deeper footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, similar footwall granophyres occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (Canada): Amy Lake PGE zone, East Range Györgyi...footwall of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex occurring in a 100m-wide Sudbury Breccia belt that coincides...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)
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)
Magazine, June 2017, Vol. 81(3), pp. 695–705 Melonite from Kingash and Kuskanak, Eastern Sayans, Russia...Russia, and the extent of Bi-for-Te substitution in melonite and synthetic Ni(Te,Bi)2–x ANDREI Y. BARKOV1,*...University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada Czech Geological Survey, GeologickĂĄ 6,...3450 University Street, Montreal, QuĂ©bec H3A 0E8, Canada [Received 27 February 2016; Accepted 16 May 2016;...ABSTR ACT We describe occurrences of palladoan melonite in intimate intergrowths with cobaltite-gersdorffite
Report (issue)
Pd0.28 )Σ=0.88 (Te1.56 Bi0.44 )Σ=2.00 . (2) Impala mine, Transvaal, South Africa; by electron microprobe...97 Bi0.03 )Σ=2.00 . Mineral Group: Occurrence: Melonite group. Typically in small amounts in Pt–Pd-bearing...Cu–Ni sulfide deposits. Association: Merenskyite, melonite, sobolevskite, michenerite, kotulskite, froodite...Tundra, Kola Peninsula [TL]; and at the Oktyabr mine, Noril’sk region, western Siberia. In South Africa...Cu–Ni mine, Medicine Bow Mountains, east of Encampment, Albany Co., Wyoming; at the Key West mine, east
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1960.This work included tion. In the Abu Swayel mine the mafic-ultramafic rockis a deepening theshaftto...granites Shear zone Mylonitic rocks Abu Swayel mine area Quaternaryalluvium Marble Hornblendeschists...F‱c;. 2. Simplified cross section of theAbuSwayel mine. wallrocks.A zoneof fill the interstices between...hydrosilicates arestrongevidence for palladian bismuthian melonite; asfracturefillingsin porphyr- metamorphic hydrothermal...leastat stage.In manydeposits with FIG. 5. The melonite(NiTe2)-merenskyite (PdTe2)-moncheite (PtTe2) the
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization, Ferguson Lake deposit, Nunavut, Canada Nelson O. Campos-Alvarez & Iain M. Samson & Brian...Ni–Cu–Co–platinum-group element (PGE) deposit in Nunavut, Canada, occurs near the structural hanging wall of a metamorphosed...Environmental Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada N9B-3P4 e-mail: campos.nelson@gmail.com Bi rich...dispersion of PGE. Keywords Ferguson Lake . Nunavut (Canada) . Hydrothermal remobilization . Magmatic sulfides...overlapping low-energy peaks are separated by greater energy differences and appear as single peaks.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits (Lightfoot et al. 1990) in Russia, Sudbury in Canada (Lightfoot and Farrow 2002), and Jinchuan...study. Parnazo 400 W Retiro Section break by greater fault 204 1017 53 70 Fifteen half-drill cores...[Pd(Te, Bi)], moncheite [Pt(Te,Bi)2], Pt/Pd-bearing melonite [(Ni, P t , P d ) ( Te , B i ) 2 ] , a n u n k...hollingworthite in the Limoeiro deposit. Pt-bearing melonite also occurs in composite grains with sperrylite...Sperrylite Sperrylite Sperrylite Sperrylite Kotulskite Melonite Merenskyite Merenskyite Merenskyite Merenskyite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sperrylite, testibiopalladite, and Pd-bearing melonite. All grains of the cobaltite–gersdorffite solid...identifiĂ©s: sperrylite, testibiopalladite, et melonite palladifĂšre. Tous les grains de solution solide...sudburyite, omeiite, michenerite, Pd- bearing melonite, and two unnamed PGM: (Ni,Pd)2(Sb, Bi,Te) and...sperrylite, testibiopalladite, and Pd-bearing melonite. Accessory PGM, including sudburyite, michenerite...475 Only a few anhedral grains of milk-white melonite, embedded in pyrrhotite and pentlandite grains
Journal (issue)
Rocks and Minerals of Ontario -- H f ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS Honourable...and Minerals of Ontario By D. F. HEWITT Chief, Industrial Mineral Section Ontario Department of Mines... (Courtesy The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited). Centre left: Eurypterus lacustris, an...about 400 m.y. ago; Welland County. (Courtesy Shell Canada Ltd.). right: left: — — — Centre right: Archaeocrinus...are common in Paleozoic limestones throughout Ontario. A large crinoid reef extended along presentday
Journal (issue)
with the printers ... Gem topaz from the Sakangyi mine, Myanmar; 5.1 cm high. M. Zinn collection. INTRODUCTION...in the big pocket in Sakangyi mine, Myanmar. New sperrylites from Canada Bradley S. WILSON INTRODUCTION...in 2011 at the Broken Hammer zone near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Fine crystals as large as 15 mm were...deposit, located in the Sudbury region, that is currently being considered for mine development by Wallbridge...camp as old and as heavily explored and mined as Sudbury, an important new mineral discovery can still be
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 (edition)
dicular to elongation Hongshiite Aurostibite Melonite Sobolevskite polysynthetic Stannopalladinite... 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)
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)
bld. de l’Université, Chicoutimi, PQ G7H 2B1, Canada 4 Instituto de Geociencias (UCM-CSIC), c/José...of abundance, of merenskyite (PdTe2), palladian melonite (NiTe2), michenerite (PdBiTe), moncheite (PtTe2)...LabMaTer, Université du Quebec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Canada, using LA-ICP-MS. The UQAC laser ablation system...proposed for pyrite in some Sudbury and Lac des Iles deposits in Canada (Dare et al., 2011; Djon & Barnes...samples from the McCreedy East deposit in Sudbury, Canada. The zoning of these pyrites is very similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arsenopyrite group: - Nickeline group: - Pyrite Group: - Melonite Group: Cobaltite group: osarsite and ruarsite...malanite-cuproiridsite-cuprorhodsite 8. moncheite-merenskyite-melonite 9. platinum-iridium 10. osmium-ruthenium 11. ...Tellurides: altaite (PbTe), hessite (Ag2Te) and melonite (NiTer), unidentified species #1 (Ni2T%), #2 (Ni3Te4)...existing PG-minerals; these include melonite-merenskyite and melonite-moncheite. The presence of up to 7...Cobaltite Copper Gersdorffite Gold Hessite Maucherite Melonite Nickeline Pentlandite Pyrrhotite Rammelsbergite
 
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