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Electrum from
Deep Copper Zone, Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine Zone
Classification
Species:Gold var: Electrum
Formula:(Au,Ag)
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Electrum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Deep Copper Zone, Strathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1073060
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1073060:5
GUID (UUID V4):476b03f0-866c-4192-a22f-a17eb3150a9a
Nearest other occurrences of Electrum
1.0km (0.6 miles) ā“˜McCreedy East Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
6.1km (3.8 miles) ā“˜McCreedy West Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
25.4km (15.8 miles) ā“˜Broken Hammer Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
26.4km (16.4 miles) ā“˜Creighton Mine, Creighton-Davies Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
26.6km (16.5 miles) ā“˜Lockerby Mine, Denison Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
28.8km (17.9 miles) ā“˜Vermilion Mine, Denison Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
30.6km (19.0 miles) ā“˜Frood Mine, McKim Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
33.2km (20.6 miles) ā“˜Totten No. 2 Mine, Worthington Offset Dike, Worthington area, Drury Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NORTH AND SOUTH RANGE Cu-Ni-PGE DEPOSITS, SUDBURY STRUCTURE, ONTARIO CATHARINE E.G. FMmOW,*DAVIDH. WATKINSON...CarletonUniversity,Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre,Ottawa,Ontario,CanadaKiS 5B6 GeologicSettingof the Deposits The...depositshas continued footwall units at the base of the Sudbury Igneous since early this century (Wandke and Hoffman...maficto felsic gneissesand migmatiteswith domiof the Levack Gneiss 1979). A magmaticoriginisnowwell established...1992). Furtherstableandradiogenicisotopicstudies copper-richveinsin zonesof Sudburybrecciadevelhave shownthat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the McCreedy East Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit (Sudbury, Canada): Implications for the Behavior of Platinum...555 bld. de lā€™UniversitĆ©, Saguenay, PQ, G7H 2B1, Canada of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University...Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom Abstract Copper-rich massive sulfides are an important source of...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
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 Niā€“ Cuā€“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 lā€™UniversitĆ©, 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)
Ni-Cu-Platinum-Group Element Sulfide Deposit, Sudbury, Canada: Early Crystallization of PGE-Rich Sulfarsenides...Chicoutimi, 555 Bld. de lā€™UniversitĆ©, Saguenay, QuĆ©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)
mineralization in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (Canada): Amy Lake PGE zone, East Range Gyƶrgyi Tuba...Berlin Heidelberg 2013 Abstract The Amy Lake PGE zone is a ā€œlow-sulfide-typeā€ Cu-(Ni-)PGE mineralization...footwall of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex occurring in a 100m-wide Sudbury Breccia belt that coincides...coincides with an impactrelated major fracture zone (Bay Fault zone). Detailed hydrothermal alteration mapping...multi-source, multi-stage Sudbury-related hydrothermal system. The two major stages of syn-Sudbury hydrothermal activity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Creighton Niā€“Cuā€“PGE sulfide deposit, Sudbury, Canada, and the origin of palladium in pentlandite...Chicoutimi, 555 bld. de lā€™UniversitĆ©, Saguenay, PQ, Canada G7H 2B1 e-mail: sasdare@hotmail.com chalcopyrite...predominantly in discrete accessory minerals such as electrum (Auā€“Ag alloy), hessite (Ag2Te), michenerite (PdBiTe)...group elements . Sulfides . Sulfarsenides . Sudbury . Canada . Laser ablation ICP-MS . Palladium enrichment...of the Creighton Niā€“Cuā€“PGE sulfide deposit, Sudbury, Canada. The sulfide assemblage is dominated by pyrrhotite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Footwall Units of the North Range, Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada, and Implications for the Genesis of...Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract Systematic regional sampling along the contact zone of the 1.85...85 Ga age Sudbury Igneous Complex with the Archean Levack Gneiss footwall in the North Range of the Sudbury...mineralogical, and fluid inclusion systematics of post-Sudbury Igneous Complex hydrothermal processes that affected...lithologies. At late stages of emplacement of the Sudbury Igneous Complex and formation of magmatic Fe-Ni-Cu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present and is dominated by sperrylite, irarsite and electrum with subordinate merenskyite, michenerite and...from a NiAs liquid. Late-stage, cross-cutting, electrum-bearing chalcopyrite veins are consistent with...magmatic sulphide mineralization such as in the Sudbury Igneous Complex (e.g. Farrow and Lightfoot, 2002)...Komarova et al., 2002) and the Wellgreen deposit, Canada (Barkov et al., 2002). These ore bodies are typically...Mineralogical Society signiļ¬cant Ni- and As-rich zone that is substantially enriched with respect to Pt
Report (issue)
Platinum-Group Elements Edited by Louis J. Cabri Ottawa, Ontario Published for the Geological Society of CIM as...de Maisonneuve Boulevard West MontrƩal, QuƩbec, 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)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
solution (iss) to form Pt and Pd tellurides and electrum around the margins of the sulfide grains. Tiny...UK e-mail: HolwellDA@cf.ac.uk of the mineralized zone within the footwall, however, the overall lack of...and gabbronorites generally assigned to the Main Zone of the Complex (Fig. 1). The increase in exploration...m thick zone of pyroxenite deep into the gneisses (sample OY387ā€“ 384), which is of Lower Zone affinity...single, though large, grain of atokite (Pd3Sn). Electrum (Au,Ag) is common and makes up 22% of the whole
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Columbia (Copper Mountain, Galore Creek), Allard Stock, La Plana Mountains and Copper King Mine in USA [12... at the Acme Laboratories Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada. Detection limits are 0.1 ppm for Ag, Cu, Pb, Ni...large (30 g) samples, at the Acme Laboratories Ltd, Canada. This method allows for complete dissolution of...between merenskyite (Pd,Pt,Bi)Te2, hessite (Ag2Te), electrum and Cu-minerals (bornite and chalcopyrite) (Figure...with electrum (el) and hessite (hs), and (d) chalcopyrite with (Pd,Pt)-tellurides and electrum. Table
Book
ELEMENTS DEPOSITS Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Series Volume 35 Edited by James...delivered on behalf of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in Oulu, Finland, 6-7 August 2005. ii TABLE...Persistence and Redistribution in the Main Sulfide Zone of The Great Dyke, Zimbabwe T. OberthĆ¼r, F. Melcher...BASE-METALDOMINANT 8. Sudbury Cu-(Ni)-PGE Systems: Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky...Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean, K.H. Straub, K.M. Stevens 359-368
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B1 2 Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada...host significant but as yet unexploited nickel-copper-platinum group element (PGE) mineralization within...by carbonate alteration, the PGM are present in greater abundance and larger size. We suggest that palladium...km to the north in the Donaldson, Katinniq, and Zone 2 orebodies of the Raglan deposit. In those studies...grading into a diabasic-textured gabbronorite contact zone. Along the higher portions of the contact of the
Report (issue)
Nb-Cr-rutile Nickel-mackinawite Palladic platinum Pd-electrum Potassium richterite Pt-Sb-sobolevskite Pyrandine...California, U.S.A. (Switzer and Bailey, 1953); Mihara mine, Okayama Prefecture and at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture...crystals in one mineralised pocket in the Wessels mine, Farm Wessels 227, Hotazel district, Northern Cape...allanite-(La) is described from Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada (Pan and Fleet, 1991 ). Another recently documented...recorded from the Two Duck Lake intrusion, Ontario, Canada (Watkinson and Ohnenstetter, 1992). Allanite-(La)
Book (edition)
colours once they occur in their oxidised states: Copper minerals then show green, blue, and sometimes red...tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native copper and cuprite are less common in this suite. Right...strong internal reflections strong, vivid blue to deep violet and brown complex twins, lamellar Pyrargyrite...strong, silverwhite, dark, pink, deep blue isotropic common Djurleite deep lamellar blood-red dark red...14 brown- to blue-grey indigo-blue; marked, 11.31 deep blue to bluegrey brownish to blu- brownish ish grey;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
veins, and impregnations mainly in the lower contact zone of igneous rocks and in the adjacent wall rocks...(Spiridonov et al., 2000). Numerous occurrences of copperā€“zeolite mineralization related to burial metamorphism...of hessite (dark gray), froodite (white), and electrum (light gray). 758 SPIRIDONOV et al. Table...bismuthides and tellurideā€“bismuthides, hessite, electrum, and kĆ¼stelite (Figs. 1a, 4, 5, 6). These rims...Evstigneeva, ā€œMinerals of Chalcopyrite Group from Copperā€“Nickel Ores of the Norilā€™sk Deposit,ā€ Geol. Rudn
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
South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada 190 3.4.3. Parami-Etendeka dykes 192 3.5 Intracontinental...systems 6.3.1. Anorogenic metamorphism in the Central Zone ofthe Damara Orogen, Namibia 6.3.2. Anorogenic metamorphism...Cambridge University Press. Jacobs, J. A., (1992) Deep interior ofthe Earth. Chapman Hall, London. Orovetskii...(1999) Flood basalts and !arge igneous provinces from deep mantle plumes: fact, fiction, and fallacy. Tectonphysics...from the 3 Ga Lumby 1ake greenstone be1t, Ontario, Canada. Geo1ogy, 26: 719-722. PARTONE CHAPTERONE
Book
of Surveying that he may be able to estimate how deep a shaft should be sunk to reach the tunnel which...incurred in the machinery and the working of the mine. Sixthly, his learning must comprise Architecture...emerged in 1982 consists of eight sections: General Mine Design Considerations, Stopes Requiring Minimum...Financial Considerations, Foundations for Design, and Mine Ventilation. It has been nearly 20 years since the...acknowledged. includes revised sections on general mine design, mining methods, and foundations for design
Book
8 The East Kemptville Sn Greisen, Nova Scotia, Canada . 4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems...Scheelite Dome, an Intrusion-Related Au Deposit, Yukon, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...(Siberia) and Northwestern Mongolia (Yustid Rift Zone) . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 Hydrothermal Systems Associated...Complexes. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold-Rare Earth Elements-Uranium Mineral Systems... 5.4.2 Geothermal Systems of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
originally given at an international workshop on deep ocean mineral resources beyond the limits of national...Technology, Germany MD Hannington, Geological Survey of Canada International Seabed Authority 7 Polymetallic...mound which commonly is underlain by a stockwork zone. It has been widely established that circulating...circulating seawater which is modified in a reaction zone close to a subaxial magma chamber is the principal carrier...tonnes) and often carry high concentrations of copper (chalcopyrite), zinc (sphalerite), and lead (galena)
Book (edition)
All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. Reproduction or translation or any part of this...Ercit: Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California...Denmark. Joseph A. Mandarino: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. Olaf Medenbach: Institut fur Mineralogie...non-crystallographic symmetry. 4) Miller Indices and Zone Symbols (KH, Ch. 2) The Miller indices of a crystallographic...function of the first two such that i= -ā€”(h+k).) Zone symbols, enclosed in square brackets, [uvw], are
Book
e sequence at Dwars River in the Upper Critical Zone of the Bushveld Complex. Chromitite layers in anorthosite...interstitial liquids, metasomatism, constitutional zone refining, solidification contraction, Ostwald ripening...outer parts is thought to occur through a marginal zone of crystal-liquid mush. As magmas crystallize and...effectively transferred through the crystal mush zone, so that crystallization at margins results in differentiation...outer parts is thought to occur through a marginal zone of crystal-liquid mush with the percentage of liquid
Book
Tunnicliffe, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Minerals Other than Polymetallic Nodules of the...the Development of Seafloor Massive Sulphides on deep-sea hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems 273 S. Kim Juniper...Comparison of Possible Economic Returns from Mining Deep Seabed Polymetallic Nodules, Seafloor Massive Sulphides...Petroleum Potential and Development Prospects in Deep-Sea Areas of the World 487 Vladimir Vyotsky and...the Authority has focused on the exploration for deep seabed polymetallic or ferromanganese nodules that
 
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