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Anhydrite from
Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Anhydrite
Formula:CaSO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anhydrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:358384
Long-form Identifier:1:3:358384:5
GUID (UUID V4):21812c0c-2f43-436c-983d-52fbc4dfd2a3
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evidence on dolomitization, Devonian of Western Canada* KATHY L. AULSTEAD’,RONALDJ. SPENCER’and H. ROY...Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 2Department of Physics, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N...Lower and Middle Devonian Formations ofthe Elk Point Basin (Presau’ile) and the Mackenzie Shelf (Manetoe)...phases,‘in order of paragenesis, include huorite, anhydrite, barite, calcite, quartz, sphaletite and galena...the Manetoe and Presqu’ile Facies in the western Canada sedimentary basin (Fig. la). The Presqu’ile and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 andrewl@rom.on.ca Downloaded by [North...Alberta Museum 12845 102nd Avenue, Edmonton Alberta, Canada T5N 0M6 ron.mussieux@gov.ab.ca ROD TYSON Tysons’...Minerals, Inc. 10549 133rd Street, Edmonton Alberta, Canada T5N 2A4 tysonsminerals@ tysons-minerals.com Figure...at Pine Point. D. Bodington/NWT Archives. minerals minerals of of the the pine pine point point lead-zinc...lead-zinc deposits deposits northwest northwest territories territories canada canada Unless otherwise noted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MississippiValley-typelead-zincore depositsat Pine Point occurin dissolutionvugs,caverns,andbreccias,whichpreviouslywere...andbrecciasthat hostMississippi Valley-type ore depositsat Pine Point are filled with laminateddolomites,saddledolomites...andbrecciasthat hostMississippi Valley-typeore depositsat Pine Point appearto be related to hydrothermalbrines,not...updip movement,all of whichmay havebeen activeat Pine Point. Introduction barrier in the Western Canadasedimentarybasin...world'slargestMississippi type lead-zinc ore deposits at Pine Point (Fig. 1). The tain Mississippi Valley-typelead-zincore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
either as a liquid or as a solid. Its freezing point of 116—119 °C can be decreased to 90 °C in the presence...in Devonian/Carboniferous reservoirs of western Canada (Krouse et al. 1988). The authors describe greater...(letters A—D refer to samples) from Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada, show that d34S-values in bitumens...(unaltered: #4.6&) ore deposit at Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada (Fig. 2). Their data indicate...fluid inclusions in calcite as the extent of anhydrite alteration to calcite increases with progressive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Devonian strata from the MacKenzie Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada Hilary Corlett ⁎, Brian Jones 1-26 Earth...Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...July 2011 Editor: M.R. Bennett Keywords: Devonian Canada Eustasy Epicontinental MacKenzie a b s t r a c...Basin, which is located in the southern Northwest Territories, Canada. These strata record an almost consistent...initiated a seaway through the Northwest Territories and into western Canada. This incursion initiated clastic
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA | BULLETIN. 522; MIDDLE DEVONIAN BRACHIOPODS, CONODONTS, STRATIGRAPHY, AND...CYCLES, PINE POINT AREA, SOUTH OF GREAT SLAVE LAKE, DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES PART I:...Ressources naturelles Canada a, ; Canad a| GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 522 MIDDLE DEVONIAN...CYCLES, PINE POINT AREA, SOUTH OF GREAT SLAVE LAKE, DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES PART...faunas Uyeno NORTHWEST COMMUNITY COLLEGE faunas ŠHer Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, Catalogue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
64, 1969, pp. 718-730 Sulfur Isotopesand the Pine Point Lead-ZincMineralization A•:ii•^ S^s^•:• ^•r•...elementalsulfur and pyrobitumen,in and contiguousto the Pine Point lead-zinc ore field. Sulfur in the sulfidesof...evaporitic anhydrites of the Middle Devonian Elk Point basin which the ore-bearing dolomitizedPresqu'ile...compositedata, the most plausiblesourceof the Pine Point sulfur appears to be the Middle Devonian sea-water...and Jensenand Dessau Su•.Ft:Risotopedataof the Pine Point lead-zincores (1967). were initiallyreportedby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada in London, Ontario, May 16, 1984. caprock sulphur...concluded that the Pine Point lead-zinc mineralization, Northwest territories, Canada, was the result of...elemental sulphur was produced by the interaction of anhydrite and hydrogen sulphide at 130°C according to the...River deposits and Powell and Macqueen (1984) for Pine Point mineralization. (2) We cannot assume that reaction...by exchange. Acid-volatile 35S was formed when anhydrite and 35S-labelled sulphuric acid were heated for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RegionalFluid Flow in the Genesisof the Pine Point Deposit, Western Canada SedimentaryBasin GRANT GARVEN Departmentof...genesisof the carbonate-hosted lead-zincdepositsat Pine Point. The numerical modelingis performedalonga v...100øC.Underthesepossible site conditions,the Pine Point depositscouldhave formed over a time interval...White basalaquiferstowardthe basinmargins,has long Pine copper deposit in northern Michigan. Sharp been...hostedlead-zincdepositsat Pine Point, Northwest have extendedthe compactionmechanismanalysis Territories. The quant
Report (issue)
abundant gypsum-anhydrite, was exposed to vadose weathering that leached much gypsum-anhydrite and developed...1970, 1974, 1976). The Chitistone occupies a northwest-trending belt along the southern flank of the...calcite-filled vugs are interpreted as pseudomorphs after anhydrite. Kinsman (1966, 1969), Kinsman and Park (1976)...seaward part of the coastal plain. Abundant anhydrite is precipitated inter- stitially in mid and inner...the coastal plain, above the water table. The anhydrite is nodular in form. Kendall and Skipwith's (1969
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Pine Point Lead-Zinc District H. SKALL Abstract The lithologies of the Devonian Pine Point barrier...about 400 feet of the Muskeg Formation in the Pine Point area. During this time the barrier, separating...developmentand marked the end of the barrier in the Pine Point area. During late Givetian,a marinetransgression...sediments of the Watt Mountain and lower Slave Point Formations which later, with a more widespread...by shallow platform depositsof the middle Slave Point. Different rates of subsidencebetween adjacent areas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin of the Ore-FormingFluids at Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada, from Fluid Inclusion Studies...Studies EDWIN ROEDDER Abstract Although the Pine Point ore is relatively poor in useablefluid inclusions...PAGE TI-i•. large depositsof zinc and lead at Pine Point have been describedin some detail by Campbell...deposit.......................... 444 large Elk Point evaporitebasinto the southfrom the Structural evidence........................... 444 openoceanto the northwest. Campbellalsoshowed Isotopic evidence .......
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization: Evidence from East Tennessee and Pine Point FREDERICK M. HAYNES AND STEPHEN E. KESLER Departmentof...MascotJeffersonCity zinc district of East Tennesseeand the Pine Point lead-zincdistrict of the NorthwestTerritoriesrevealsthat...decrepitates fromsphaleriteandore-associated dolomiteat Pine PointcontainappreciableS, occasionally in amountsequalto...andS togetherin the Pine Pointfluid inclusions andthe absence ofdaughter anhydrite requiresthatmostSwasreduced...Mascot-JeffersonCity districtof EastTennesseeand the Pine crepitation.Inclusions in PinePointsphalerite,
Report (chapter)
the Devonian Prairie Evaporite karst in Western Canada: impact on the overlying Cretaceous Athabasca Oil...Broughton & Associates, PO Box 6976, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 2G2 broughton@shawcable.com Abstract: The Middle...to 200 m of halitedominated beds across Western Canada in a salt basin extending from northern Alberta...resulted in the removal of 100–150 m of halite–anhydrite beds. A second salt dissolution trend removed...overlying Cretaceous McMurray Formation point bar complexes. Fluvial point bars up to 6 km long and tens of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EconomicGeology Vol. 79, 1984, pp. 991-1055 Pine Point Orebodiesand Their Relationshipto the Stratigraphy...Columbia V6C 1T2, Canada E. A. LANTOS,J. A. LANTOS, Pine PointOperations,ComincoLtd., Pine Point,NorthwestTerritoriesXOE...NorthwestTerritoriesXOE OWO,Canada R. J. WEBB, GeologyDepartment, Universityof Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L...N2L 3GI, Canada AND D. C. OWENS Polaris Mine, Cominco Ltd., Little Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories...Territories XAO OYO,Canada Abstract The Pine PointMinespropertycoversthe easternportionof a Mississippi Valley-typeore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with carbonates as principal host rocks. The Pine Point deposits are cited for their close association...tribute to Renfro’s audacity, but we discover at what point we must abandon or modify his simplistic modei....carbonates in Northern Alberta, downdip from the Pine Point ore body, were simiiar in composition to fluid...Kupferschiefer deposits, Creta Lake. Oklahoma, Angola, Pine Point. NWT. and associations involving cryptic evaporites...Permian Kupferschiefer (S,) underlies the Werra anhydrite. which belongs to the first of the four cycles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universityof Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 3G1, Canada (Received December 5, 1990; revised and accepted...evidence indicates that the CH4 reacted with anhydrite cement to form distinctive calcite cements and...(Michigan, U.S.A.), and in Athabasca oil sands (Canada), provides field support that silica-organic complexing...University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. N2L, 3G1, Canada.. variety of ways that organic compounds directly...contained beneath the thick Zechstein halite-anhydrite beds. Distinct mineral bands parallel to the veinlets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
address: Chevron Standard Ltd., Calgary, Alta. (Canada). 224 K. JONES AND Da'~l.HIRST available for...Sands and Breccias Upper Anhydrite Rotten Marl Billingham Main Anhydrite Hartlepool and Roker Dolomites...Limestone) Post-reef dolomites and Hartlepool Anhydrite Reef-dolomiteand lagoonal and off-reef equivalents...limestone and dolomite with minor gypsum and anhydrite. Following the deposition of the transitional...calcite, dolomite, gypsum and anhydrite. In central Durham, no anhydrite and only trace amounts of gypsum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada during TSR are other organic compounds. The best...of western Canada), Manzano (1995) and Manzano and Machel (1995) (Devonian of western Canada), as well...wrote a generic reaction for TSR (Reaction 1): anhydrite 1 hydrocarbon gases 3 calcite 1 H2S 1 H2O 6 CO2...reactant and developed a number of arguments from this point, in particular, that the proportion of methane consumed...2). They also stated that ‘‘The replacement of anhydrite by calcite and methane by H2S during TSR has been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof theWaltonCheverieArea, Nova Scotia,Canada R. W. BOYLE,R. K. WANLESS,ANDR. D. STEVENS Abstract...The economicdepositsof the area are gypsum and anhydrite in sedimentarybeds and epigeneticbarite and sulfide...to --42.07o,. All of the sulfates, including anhydrite and gypsum in the evaporites, barite in epigenetic...depositoriginatedmainly by replacementof beddedgypsumand anhydrite (Ba 2+ for Ca2+) becauseof similarities in the...the Deposits Walton-Chever.ie area, Nova Scotia, Canada. The The followingsummarizesthe salientgeological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universityof BritishColumbia,Vancouver,BritishColumbia,Canada V6T 1Z4 Abstract The Blendezinc-lead-silverdeposit...134 ø 40' W, elev 1,130tioned to Billiton Metals Canada,Inc., for a 50 percent 1,875 m). It is the lar...;-•DIORITE SILLS •. • • • • (. NORTHWEST • • ) TERRITORIES PGL GILLESPIE LAKE GROUP Po OUARTET...gray-weatheringsiltstone,mudstone, the Northwest Territories (Roots, 1990). Only Protero- succession...Group BLENDEZn-Pb-Ag DEPOSIT,YUKONTERRITORY, CANADA 371 FIG. 2. Blendeproperty geology,YukonTerritory
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OrganicGeochemistry of the Pine Point Lead-ZincOre Field and Region,NorthwestTerritories,Canada* R. W. MACQUEEN...Universityof Waterloo,Waterloo,OntarioN2L 3G1, Canada AND T. G. POWELL Institute of Sedimentaryand PetroleumGeology...PetroleumGeology,GeologicalSurveyof Canada, 3303 33 Street N.W., Calgary,Alberta T2L 2A7, Canada Abstract Indigenous...the Middle Devonianbarriercomplexwithin whichthe Pine Pointlead-zincore field is located.A studyof the...Macqueenand Thompson,1978), the host rocksat Pine Point have a relatively simpletectonichistory--they
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization in the Redstone Copper Belt, Northwest Territories, Canada: Cupriferous Fluid Flow Late in the...British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4 2 Department of Earth and Atmospheric...Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 3 GFZ 4 Institute 5 Northwest 6 Department German Research...Germany 12249 Territories Geological Survey, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada X1A 2L9 of Geosciences...copper belt in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada, is composed of a series of sediment-hosted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
districts (see Figure 1) and the Pine Point district (Northwest Territories, Canada). Consequently,this paper...deposits formed in this way. For example, in the Pine Point district there are no reports of textural evidence...1980, 1981, Roedder 1968a,b). The studies of Pine Point demonstrate that the typical ore textures are...to explain the origin of the mineralization at Pine Point, as advocated by Anderson (1975, 1983), Beales...Wisconsin Arch (see summaries in Heyl et al 1974). At Pine Point, the average sulfur isotopic compositions of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1980; WRIrnT, 1985). Seawater concentrated to the point of evaporite mineral precipitation would be expected...the classic examples of TSR at Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada (POWELLand MACQUEEN, 1984) and...+6.9%o, respectively. In contrast, native S, anhydrite, and celesite are enriched in 34S and have a mean...belt is controlled by a change in facies from anhydrite to non-evaporitic shale in the overlying Buckner...and organic matter: Sulfate reactions al Pine Point, Canada. Science 224, 63-66. SASSEN R. (1988) Geochemical
 
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