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Biotite from
Broken Hammer Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Broken Hammer Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:573668
Long-form Identifier:1:3:573668:3
GUID (UUID V4):05e9d510-e04e-4694-b4d2-877f26a0cf4e
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
9.6km (6.0 miles) Moose Mountain Mine, Hutton Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
15.7km (9.8 miles) Amy Lake zone, Capreol Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
16.5km (10.2 miles) Capre Lake Mine, Capreol Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
25.6km (15.9 miles) Frood Mine, McKim Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
25.9km (16.1 miles) Fraser Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
27.3km (17.0 miles) Murray Mine, McKim Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
27.4km (17.0 miles) Falconbridge Mine, Falconbridge Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
28.9km (18.0 miles) Dolmac Mine, Rathbun Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
30.1km (18.7 miles) Copper Cliff North Mine, McKim Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
30.2km (18.8 miles) Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization in the Broken Hammer Area, Wisner Township, North Range, Sudbury Structure ATTILA PÉNTEK...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...promising occurrences were also discovered in Wisner Township of the North Range. In this paper we report
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey of Canada, 750-601 Booth St., Ottawa, ONT, K1A 0E8, Canada f GFZ German Research...relative to Ni in footwall-type deposits in the Sudbury District and the growth of large sperrylite crystals...mineralization are well known, e.g. at the Cobalt District, Canada (Marshall and Watkinson, 2000), Kongsberg, Norway...(Peltonen et al., 2008), and the giant epithermal Ag deposit at Imiter, Morocco (Cheilletz et al., 2002). Furthermore...(platinumgroup element)-Au prospect, Selwyn Basin, Canada (Hulbert et al., 1992), several localities in the
Journal (issue)
in Sakangyi mine, Myanmar. New sperrylites from Canada Bradley S. WILSON INTRODUCTION S. Rudolph specimen...crystals was made in 2011 at the Broken Hammer zone near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Fine crystals as large as...The Broken Hammer zone is a platinum group element-copper-nickel deposit, located in the Sudbury region...camp as old and as heavily explored and mined as Sudbury, an important new mineral discovery can still be...km southwest of the Broken Hammer zone. GEOLOGY OF THE SUDBURY STRUCTURE Sudbury is home to a world-class
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consisting of quartz, chloritized remnants of biotite (probably originally annite), and extensively albitized...earlierformed red genthelvite overgrowths with Fe greater than Mn to the more Fe-depleted late-stage beige...and A. Hatem, Box 95551, Newmarket, ON L3Y 8J8, Canada. One of us (DKJ) recently came into possession...pieces of chalcopyrite from the Broken Hammer deposit, Sudbury, Ontario. From external examination of exposed...Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada. The Wind Mountain Laccolith, located
Book
Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Utah Geology and Exploration Progress at the Resolution Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit, Arizona...Evolution of the Giant Pebble Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Deposit with Implications for Exploration in Southwest...Zonation of the Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit, South Australia Geology of the Tenke-Fungurume... Geology of the Los Pelambres porphyry copper deposit, Chile: Economic Geology, v. 68, p. 1–10. Sillitoe...exploration of a molybdenum-rich porphyry copper deposit at Mocoa, Colombia: Economic Geology, v. 79, p
Book
Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River...Discm•t•ries, /960--20/ 5 ONTARIO Bentley Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall...vein-dike consists of ilmenite. magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and..."jacupirangite" found in the Jacupiranga carbonatite deposit is ilmenite, in lustrous, flattened crystals to...ASIA PAKISTAN FORMER SOVIBT UNION RUSSIA Dodo deposit near Saranpaul, Subpolar Urals, Tyumen Oblast.
 
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