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Smithsonite from
Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:144588
Long-form Identifier:1:3:144588:6
GUID (UUID V4):2ccc6964-adef-4fe3-a439-e6b067c8b0c7
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; NaĀ­ tional Museum of Canada photo and specimen (NMNS51066). figure 2 (leftI:...classified numerous deposits and mining districts in Canada and in other parts of the world as belonging to...Valley-Type Galena Locations Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada The Pine Point district is located near...south shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The first mineralized outcrops were...property to this day through its subsidiary, Pine Point Mines. Galena specimens from this deposit, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ontario Museum 100 Queenā€™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 Tysonsā€™...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)
four times that of sphalerite. Smithsonite and hemimorphite Smithsonite and hemimorphite are secondary...carbonate rocks in association with sphalerite. Smithsonite is a carbonate, ZnCO3 and hemimorphite (also...calamine is used as an alternative name for smithsonite) is a silicate, H2Zn2SiO5 which, Dana (1958)...gossan over McArthur River, Northern Territory. Smithsonite has a specific gravity of ~4.3 and hemimorphite...electrical Crystal 80.3 52.1 Carbonate Smithsonite ZnCO3 varies ~6.0 35.7 58.7 Oxide Zincite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE GENESIS OF THE LEAD-ZINC DEPOSITS AT PINE POINT, GREAT SLAVE LAKE2 j. MACKINTOSH BELL. CONTENTS...to be described in this paperare situated near Pine Point on the southwesternshore of Great Slave Lake...divisible as follows' 4 Middle Devonian (ā€¢) Pine Point Formation. Soft gray shaly limestone, blue to...in placessandy,dolomitic limestone. (3) Slave Point Formation. Gray shaly limestone. 2 Lausen, Carl...foldsuntilit passes entirely below theoxierlying Slave Point formation. So far there has been no drilling in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
predominantly east-northeast-west-southwest and west-northwest-east-southeast. A later, differ- entiateduplift...permeable beds (Bathonian,Callovian-Oxfordian, smithsonite,azurite, anglesite,wulfenite, hydrozinLusitanian)...nonmineralized ones. Faults in the east-west,northwest-southeast,and N northeast-southwest directionslimit...directionslimit the depositpolygon. West-northwest-east-southeast-trending faults inclined60Ćø to 80Ćø occurnotablywhere...proportionof the mined ore. In the to 19 m. northwest,the depositcontainsweak Cu mineralization of chalcocite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the hanging wall of the Padaeng fault, a major northwest-trending structure that was active through Cretaceous...with minor smithsonite and hydrozincite. Strata-bound ore zones occur within a northwest-dipping, deeply...stratigraphic section to precipitate hemimorphite and smithsonite. Fluids were channeled by permeable dolomitic...stress and dextral movement on a number of major northwest-trending strike-slip faults, accompanying dextral...north by the Mae Ping fault, one of the major northwest-trending, strike-slip structures of late Mesozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zinc-lead carbonate mineralization is composed of smithsonite and cerussite, with laminated, massive, veined...euhedral smithsonite; (2) yellowish to reddish, fine- to coarse- and subhedral to euhedral smithsonite; (3)...(3) light-colored veined smithsonite; (4) white coarse-grained, xenomorphic cerussite; (5) colorless euhedral...hydrothermal sedimentary smithsonite mineralization; (2) hydrothermal replacive smithsonite mineralization; (3)...(3) vein-type smithsonite mineralization; (4) open space filling and replacive cerussite mineralization;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
484 North Carolina, Spruce Pine Show, 220 Northwest Territories, Pine Point district, 12 Nosean, Arkansas...Serpentine, Arkansas, 321 Shows and Symposia, Spruce Pine, North Carolina, Host to Long-running Mineral and...Mineral Collector: An Annotated List, 375-385 Smithsonite, Arkansas, 291 Sodalite, Arkansas, 307, 321 Some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the basis of Zn scavenging by crystallizing smithsonite. Introduction THE ECONOMIC SCENARIO for cadmium...usually is accompanied by zinc carbonĀ­ ate (smithsonite), which may have up to 4.5 wt% Cd (Vlasov, 1966)...Mineral Cd (ppm) Sphalerite/wurtzite 15-50,000 Smithsonite 80-45,500 Boulangerite 500-3000 Tetrahedrite... 1 1 1 1 1 2 12 Azerbaijan Canada Canada Canada Canada Chile Chile Finland Finland India...United States Australia Australia Canada Canada Canada Canada Finland Germany Germany C M M
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the most important in the area nates from the Pine Point deposit. He tization of the early limestone (beige...case of two samples of late calcite vanadinite, smithsonite, malachite, and travertine, younger than oxidized...from in the Mesozoic cover deposits to be the Pine Point lead-zinc ore deposits. older in age than Tertiary...origin of the ore-forming fluids at Pine Point Northwest Terr&tories, Canada, from fluid inclusion studies
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two of us can work inside. Hard to tell at this point the size of the pocket, but there seems to be no...because they were doubly terminated and showed no point of attachment. In all, approximately 10,000 kilograms...ā€œfloaterā€ with deep smoky color and no visible point of attachment. The longest crystal found, though...Mineralogical Record, Eureka Supplement MALCOLM ALTER Smithsonite (copper-rich), 11 cm, from the 79 mine, Gila...of the best smithsonite finds from the 79 mine. We had two 6-foot tables of smithsonite for the split
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zinc deposits and are predominantly composed of smithsonite. *Corresponding author. Email: nurullah@istanbul...oxidized into carbonate Pbā€“Zn minerals, mainly smithsonite and cerussite, but some sulphidic ore minerals...KĆ¼Ć§Ć¼ksuā€“Asar Tepe is predominantly cerussite, smithsonite, galena, sphalerite, and haematitelimonite with...Hadimā€“Bozk0r region are largely changed into smithsonite and cerussite by carbonatization of primary sulphide...comprises a white, dense, 25ā€“60 cm-thick compact smithsonite layer concordant to the bedding of recrystallized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals such as mimetite (zincian), pyromorphite, smithsonite, and traces of hemimorphite. Calcite and quartz...Galena (Gn) Barite (Ba) Fluorite (F) Calcite (Ca) Smithsonite (Sm) Hemimorphite (Hm) Pyromorphite (Pr) Diagenesis...post-ore stage composed of secondary minerals (smithsonite, hemimorphite and pyromorphite). Barite 2 Galena...numerous MVT ore deposits worldwide (e.g., Pine Point, Canada (Rhodes et al., 1984), Ozarks, USA (Leach...Lantos, J.A., Webb, R.J., Owens, D.C., 1984. Pine Point orebodies and their relationship to the stratigraphy
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
Book
Ā© 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blende Agā€“Pbā€“Zn deposit, Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada Micheal Moroskat & Sarah A. Gleeson & R. J. Sharp...Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3 e-mail: sgleeson@ualberta.ca R. J. Sharp...Inc., 60 Hawkmount Hts. NW, Calgary, AB T3G 3S5, Canada C. J. Gallagher Eagle Plains Resources Ltd., Suite...Suite 200, 44-12th Ave. S., Cranbrook, BC V1C 2R7, Canada A. Simonetti Department Civil Engineering and Geological...inset is a political map of Canada indicating location of the Yukon within Canada. The Blende is located approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada A. Matthews MMG Minerals and Metals Group, Southbank...hematite II calcite willemite II hemimorphite smithsonite sauconite Fig. 7 Simplified paragenetic sequence...& Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta (Canada). Primarily, this served as a test of the utility...content of about 4% beryllium can be inferred. Smithsonite, hemimorphite and sauconite (Zn-smectite) are...sulphide deposits in Phanerozoic rocks, e.g. Pine Point (Gleeson and Turner 2007), Irish-type deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minor minerals like geocronite, tennantite, smithsonite, and hemimorphite. The paragenetic sequence of...as in the unaltered bitumen-related sulphur at Pine Point and oil-related sulphur along the Cincinnati...Nanisivik lead-zinc deposits, Northwest Territories, Baffin Island, Canada: Economic Geology, v. 85, p...ores and organic matter sulfate reactions at Pine Point, Canada: Science, v. 224, p. 63ā€“66. Selby, D., Creaser...migration: A test case from the Polaris MVT deposit, Canada: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 235, p
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
younger mineralization ages from Southeast to Northwest indicate the collision follows the same direction...sutures (Fig. 1a). They occur in, from southeast to northwest, the Lanping Basin, the Changdu area, the Yushu... MA critical link between the southeast and northwest parts of the Sanjiang Metallogenic belt. We describe...mudstone. The Bolila Formation extends from the northwest to the southeast of the mine and overlies the...minor quartz. Some secondary minerals including smithsonite, cerusite, anglesite, hydrozincite, and native
Book
Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River...Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in...Molybdenite), and in a second roadcut, about I km to the northwest of the first, he collected good specimens of schorl...specimens, but the site is in fact about 75 km northwest of the town of Arendal (Moore, 1991). Simdeled...operated in the region of the Subpolar Urals, northwest of Saranpaul, to which the famous Dodo and Puiva
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1986). The Kheis province is situated along the northwest margin between the Namaqua province and the Kaapvaal...fracture zones that strike predominantly north-northwest. Fluids could have exploited these features, and...alteration has not been uniform. Sphalerite and smithsonite are intimately associated with amygdale and vein...in the amygdales within the DA. Sphalerite (Ā± smithsonite) is usually associated with calcite, and occasionally...chalcopyrite are common. These sulphides exhibit smithsonite and malachite haloes respectively. Galena is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ON K7L 3N6, Canada Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada; beth.mcclenaghan@canada...sheets [8]. Over the last 2 million years, most of Canada was glaciated leaving only 10% of its bedrock surface...surface exposed as outcrop [9]. Approximately 80% of Canada is covered primarily by glacial and related sediments...the past 30 years, indicator mineral methods in Canada have advanced such that they can now be used to...12, 59 2 of 27 from the glaciated terrain of Canada, and in particular for tillā€”the optimal indicator
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Regina, Regina S4S 0A2, Canada c Key Laboratory on Nuclear Resources and Environment...complex assemblages of anglesite, cerussite, smithsonite, jarosite, limonite, hematite and malachite with...characterized by a mineral assemblage of cerussite, smithsonite, anglesite, jarosite, limonite, hematite and...Arqiale skarn Zn-Pb deposit, Western Tianshan, Northwest China. Ore Geology Reviews, 106, 79-96. Deng,...basement-interacted fluid in the N81 deposit, Pine Point PbZn district, Canada: Sr isotopic analyses of single dolomite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
majorstructuralfeaturesin the area with predominant northwest-southeast trendsparallelto the main Zagrosthrust...and dendritic manerals are barite, dolomite, smithsonite, and minor ganit.e. Veinsandfractures:Coar...tzmin size are common.Sucrosicdolomite ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ Smithsonite Bitumen 2. At the contactwith the ore zonecoarsecrystalline...Sulfurisotopesandthe Pine fluids,in Barnes,H.L., ed., Geochemistry of hydrothermalore Point lead-zincmineralization:ECONOMIC...eralization model from the Devonian strata of the Pine Point area,Canada:ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, v. 78, p. 1367-1374
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sphalerite Galena Pyrite Phyllosilicates Quartz Smithsonite Calcite and ankerite Total Sr: 0.12ā€“0.37 ppm...from initial 87Sr/86Sr heterogeneity, but may also point to two-component mixing at the time of ore formation...sphalerites, because our investigations clearly point out that silicate and carbonate inclusions in sphalerite...sulfide ores formed in Oligocene time and thus point to an epigenetic origin relative to their Jurassic-Cretaceous...unlikely, because the Rb-Sr isotope systematics point to a source of the mineralizing fluids with more
 
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