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Sphalerite from
Thunder Bay Mine, MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Thunder Bay Mine, MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:868527
Long-form Identifier:1:3:868527:8
GUID (UUID V4):7bea58f5-3ef3-4a8f-85bb-43db1a252329
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
3.9km (2.5 miles) ⓘShuniah Mine (Duncan), McIntyre Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
13.5km (8.4 miles) ⓘSilver Harbour Mine (Beck Mine; Three A Mine; 3 A), MacGregor Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
29.2km (18.1 miles) ⓘParesseux Rapids occurrence, Paipoonge Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
29.6km (18.4 miles) ⓘPie Island (Pic Island), Spar and Victoria Islands Area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
30.2km (18.7 miles) ⓘParsons Mine (Lily of the Valley Mine), Paipoonge Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
30.8km (19.1 miles) ⓘKeefer Point occurrence, Spar and Victoria Islands Area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
31.5km (19.6 miles) ⓘFederal Mine (Copeland's vein), Paipoonge Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
31.6km (19.6 miles) ⓘSilver Islet mine, Silver Islet, Sibley Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
33.8km (21.0 miles) ⓘKawene intrusive, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
33.9km (21.1 miles) ⓘMcKellar Island (South McKellar Island), Spar and Victoria Islands Area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
References
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Report (issue)
AMETHYST DEPOSITS OF ONTARIO by M.A. Vos Geological Guidebook No. 5 ONTARIO DIVISION OF MINES MINISTRY...could afford to wear the purple coloured robes. Ontario has recently1 chosen amethyst, the purple variety...has been designated as part of the symbolism of Ontario, for this province has had a long association with...establishment of many settlements in northern Ontario and the development of the arterial transportation...expressed in a large number of place names across Ontario, from the utilitarian aspect of quartz remembered
Report (issue)
GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content... . ; Ontario Geological Survey, ...670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free:...(inside Canada, United States) Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 (inside Canada, United
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Energy, Mines and Resources Canada E:nergie, Mines et Ressourees Canada Canada THE ENERGY OF OUR RESOURCES...POWER OF OUR IDEAS COVER Left: Amethyst - Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specimen measures 4.5 cm across the base...no. 17206. GSC 204971-1 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 49 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1991 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication Group - Publishing Ottawa, Canada KIA OS9 and from. Geological
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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...Early Precambrian pillow lavas; Munekun Lake, District of Kenora. (Courtesy L. D. Ayres). Lower right:... (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
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the AMETHYST MINES in the Thunder Bay Area Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Figure 1 View of the North...North Shore of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay from Amethyst Harbour. DANIEL E. KILE 5176 Black Bear Run Littleton...subsurface inclusions of hematite from the Thunder Bay Amethyst mine, collected in 1978. Specimen 14.4 cm wide...town of Thunder Bay and nearby mines; map prepared by William Besse. T he Thunder Bay district in Ontario...Ontario, Canada, is noted for spectacular amethyst clusters that are often distinctive due to microscopic
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Price 75 cents 1963 GEOLOGICAL SUR VEY CANADA OF CANADA PAPER 63-18 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR:... DEPARTMENT MINES AND OF TECHNICAL SURVEYS CANADA - i - CONTENTS Page Introduction . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Falcon gold mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McMillan Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Massey mine .. .. . . . . . . . ..... ... .. . . . . . . .
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New York Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario .......................................Donald Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt...Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa:...Rubellite Tourmaline on Albite from the Itatiaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Rubellite crystal measures...from the Thunder Bay Region, Ontario by Donald G. Elliott P.O. Box 253 Thunder Bay, Ontario P7C 4V8 Canada
Report (issue)
ANDD OOTHE HEAVY Ma ZZ 229 Al Ferguson, Ontario float, ZZ Stewart A. occurrences placer 229...229 gold, of and Al Ferguson, Ontario float, Stewart A. occurrences of placer gold, and NATURAL...February, 1975). ine Ontario Geological Survey Mineral Deposits Circular 17 ONTARIO OCCURRENCES OF FLOAT...Ferguson and E.B. Freeman 1978 Reprinted (57) Ontario by Ministry of Northern Development and Mines...0-7743-5522-0 Printed in Canada Reprinted with corrections Reprinted 1988 of the Ontario Geological Publications
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B.Freeman 7 ame B25 CLE) veed Ferguson, Ontario float, Be. Stewart A. occurrences of placer...placer gold, and Be9 wihth Ferguson, Ontario float, Stewart A. occurrences placer gold, of and...February, 1975). II Ontario Geological Survey Mineral Deposits Circular 17 ONTARIO OCCURRENCES OF FLOAT...Ferguson and E.B.Freeman 1978 Reprinted by , Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines Sean...Printed in Canada Reprinted with corrections 1982 Reprinted 1988 Publications of the Ontario Geological
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sulfide and native copper deposits of the White Pine mine area, and Cu-Ni sulfide deposits in the Duluth Complex...Martineau ( 1989 ) Great Lakes nickel deposit, Ontario disseminated po, cpy, cub, pt sulfides in gabbro...Eckstrand and others ( 1989 ) Coldwell Complex, Ontario disseminated cpy, po, cub, pt ( + PGE) in gabbro... Coldwell and Killala Lake Alkalic Complexes, Ontario accessory phases apatite and pyrochlore in gabbro...syenite Sage (1988) Prairie Lake carbonatite, Ontario accessory apatite and pyrochlore in carbonatite
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enOLOGIOAT SURVEY OF CANADA. AALFRED R C.SELWYN, C. M. G., LL.D. F.RS., Director GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...17 20 v1 GEOLOGICAL TABLE OF SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS— Continued. OXYGEN saLTs—Continued... TABLE METALS oe AND OF THEIR SURVEY OF CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. ORES—Continued. . Tron...and silver ores—above). Silver ores from the Thunder Bay mining region, Lake: Superior) Ontapioas aah...sory wb AS 113 SURVEY GEOLOGICAL MINERALS CANADA. CONTENTS—Continued. OF TABLE OF AND TO COMMON
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PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
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GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content... . ; Ontario Geological Survey, ...670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free:...(inside Canada, United States) Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 (inside Canada, United
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Mineralization in the Lac des Iles Intrusive Complex, Ontario, Canada M. L. Djon,1,† D. C. Peck,1 G. R. Olivo,2 J...American Palladium Ltd, 10th Avenue, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 2R2, Canada University, Department of Geological...and Geological Engineering, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada 3 Department of Geological Sciences, University...des Iles Complex, located in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The results reveal that the North Lac des...Stone and Davis, 2006), is located in northwestern Ontario (Fig. 1A) and represents one of several Archean
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GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed...indicated, copyright is held by the King’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content...form: Ontario Geological Survey 2022. Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 2022; Ontario Geological...Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 2022, Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6390, p.31-1...670-5691 Toll-Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Pubsales.ndm@ontario.ca The Purchase
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graduate work at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, w i t h the famous mineralogist and crystallographer...extensively in the Grenville rocks o f New Y o r k , Ontario, and Quebec at such localities as Pierrepont, Rossie...Bancroft, and Thunder B a y in Ontario; and the Yates in salmon calcite from the Yates Uranium mine, Otter...Otter Lake, uranium mine and the Payne property in Quebec. He has Quebec. visited and collected at various...collection o f minerals from the Grenville Province in Ontario, Quebec, and New Y o r k . Combining the specimens
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CONTENTS PAGE Cosalite from Ontario, by T. L. Walker - - An Examination of Lillianite...Animikite and Macfarlanite from Silver Islet, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, by A. L. Parsons and E. Thomson...Dyscrasite from Cobalt, Ontario, by T. L. Walker Rammelsbergite from Cobalt, Ontario, by A. L. Parsons A...43 - 46 Calcite from Shangoinah Island near Thunder Cape, Lake Superior, by A. L. Parsons 51 - 54...Gersdorffite) - Dumortierite, - 69 COSALITE FROM ONTARIO BY T. L. WALKER (Presented, Mineralogical Society
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GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content...form: Ontario Geological Survey 2020. Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 2020; Ontario Geological...gold database; in Summary of Field Work, 2020, Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6370, p.10-1...670-5691 Toll-Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Pubsales.ndm@ontario.ca The Purchase
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PARAGENESIS ISLET OF MINE, THE LAKE CHARLES ORES THUNDER OF THE SILVER BAY REGION, SUPERIOR. ... CHADBOURN. INTRODUCTION. . The Silver Islet Mine developsa vein 'which crossesa small rockyisletin...Superior,abouta mile off shorefrom Thunder Cape, Ontario, Canada. The Silver Islet veinwasdiscovered...maximum elevation of IO feet above Lake Superior. The mine was partially dewateredduring the summerof I92O...found to be madeup of silver,niccolite, galena,sphalerite,and chalcopyrite embedded principallyin dolomite
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publication of Contributions to Canadian Mineralogy in Canada. fn order to preservethe continuity and integrity... Cripple Creek (Colorado), and Kirkland Lake (Ontario), and all of these are also important gold producing...342 TELLUKIDE MINERALS AND THEIR OCCURRENCE IN CANADA 343 erals of the Transylvanian deposits have been...telluride localities have been almost confined to Ontario and Quebec. The discovery ol a number of bismuth...study of these minerals and their occurrencein Canada. Mnr,Eoos on Srunv The study of a speciescommencedwith
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Report (Issue volume)
ieod ad 11tt~ e~ i# {1anada Volume II ONTARIO and QUEBEC Ann P. Sabina MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued...Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa $1.65 © Crown...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada. Price $ l.65 Catalogue No . M41-8 / 8-2 Price...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 Page ‱ INTRODUCTION 2 ‱ A note on Canadian
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Island, Canada D . C . Arne * and S.A. Kissin Department of Geology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario...Ontario, Canada P7B 5El The presence of a series of particular ore textures has in the past been used...sparry dolomite (Fig. 2) that defines an internal mine stratigraphy (Arne 1985). This banding is generally...the Nanisivik Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Baffin Island, Canada 231 minor sulfide remobilization and stretching...probably involved multiple pulses of fluid into the district at both a small scale, to produce banding of sulfides
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chief host of mercury in zinc concentrates is sphalerite, the mercury content of which varies depending...ZlNC SMELTERS release several hundred tons of Sphalerite and Common Sulfide Minerals 1 mercury into the...with low concentra­ tions of mercury. Mineral Sphalerite Wurzite Tetrahedrite Stibnite Pyrite Marcasite...1985). Zinc deposits with cinnabar therefore Sphalerite is the chief host for mercury in can be regarded...been synthesized at 250 to 280°C (Tauson and sphalerite also is documented for most mercury Abramovich
Report (issue)
Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6000 Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 1999 1999...1999 ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open File Report 6000 Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 1999...Subprovince, northwestern Ontario; in Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 1999, Ontario Geological Survey...Printer for Ontario, 1999 © Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 1999. Open File Reports of the Ontario Geological...at the regional Mines and Minerals office whose district includes the area covered by the report (see below)
 
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