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Limonite from
McArthur River Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view McArthur River Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1207635
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1207635:2
GUID (UUID V4):b5d0f5eb-3aa0-4691-8c57-081addf83069
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
32.5km (20.2 miles) ⓘGryphon deposit, Wheeler River Project, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
87.5km (54.4 miles) ⓘRoughrider deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Unconformity-Related McArthur River Zone 4 Orebody in the Athabasca Basin, Canada: Implications of a Silicified...University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Abstract The McArthur River unconformity-related uranium deposit...margin of the Proterozoic Athabasca basin in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, contains both basement-hosted...with the intrusion of the Mackenzie dikes into the basin, followed by alteration of uraninite to coffinite...into the overlying strata. Introduction The McArthur River unconformity-related uranium deposit is situated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contact uranium prospect, Kiggavik project, Nunavut (Canada): tectonic history, structural constraints and...Contact uranium prospect, Kiggavik project, Nunavut (Canada): tectonic history, structural constraints and...Contact uranium prospect, Kiggavik project, Nunavut (Canada): tectonic history, structural constraints and...France b AREVA Resources Canada Inc. 817-45th St West Saskatoon. SK S7L 5X2. Canada c UMR Geops, Université...area, on the eastern border of the Thelon basin (Nunavut, Canada), hosts significant uranium resources within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium mineralization in the Camie River deposit (Otish Basin, Québec, Canada) M. Lesbros-Piat-Desvial, G....uranium mineralization in the Camie River deposit (Otish Basin, Québec, Canada), Ore Geology Reviews (2017)...uranium mineralization in the Camie River deposit (Otish Basin, Québec, Canada) M. Lesbros-Piat-Desvial, G....avenue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada G1V 0A6 marion.lesbros-piat-desvial.1@ulaval.ca...avenue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada G1V 0A6 georges.beaudoin@ggl.ulaval.ca Julien Mercadier
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reasons for the approach taken Mineral deposit or mine? A genetic model as the basis for exploration The...Northern Territory, Australia and Northern Saskatchewan, Canada Sandstone-hosted uranium deposits of the...iron-formation Enriched haematite ore deposits The Hamersley Basin - an example of banded iron-formation and associated...many geologists who have given their time during mine visits and responded to our queries. We have benefited...Decline Doline A downward inclined tunnel into a mine or potential ore body. A funnel-shaped depression
Report (issue)
setting of Jabiluka, Australia and Cigar Lake, Canada ......... 16 2.1.3. Ore geometry and metallogenesis...Uranium resources and production in Witwatersrand basin................. 39 Vein type (granite related U...basement hosted (McArthur River, Rabbit Lake, Eagle Point, McClean Lake, Dominique-Peter in Canada; Jabiluka...and D zones, Midwest, McClean, Cluff Lake D in Canada). 2. Sandstone deposits: Sandstone uranium deposits...Sossego in South America; Michelin and Sue-Dianne in Canada. 4. Quartzpebble conglomerate deposits: Detrital
Report (issue)
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY AND HELD IN SASKATOON, CANADA, 1-3 SEPTEMBER 1987 A TECHNICAL DOCUMENT ISSUED...1987 in Saskatoon, Canada. The meeting took place in the University of Saskatchewan, hosted by the Department...with Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. Thirtysix technical papers were presented to a...and deposits and their geological framework in Canada and the USA, with analogies from other parts of...the University of Saskatchewan and Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada for hosting the meeting
Report (issue)
BULGARIA BURKINA FASO BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA...Description of a selected deposit: The Denison mine deposit (Canada) ....... 304 Surficial deposits ..........Charlebois Lake, Canada); (b) Disseminations in migmatitic rocks (Nipissing Lake, Canada); (c) Veins in...(Australia); Port Radium, Ace–Fay–Verna, Gunnar (Canada); Shinkolobwe (former Zaire); Jachymov (former...quartz-pebble conglomerates) (Blind River district (Canada); Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa)); (iii) Deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geological evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Roraima Basin, Guyana: Links to tectonic events on the Amazon...Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin...390 Bay Street #806, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2Y2, Canada b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Amazon Craton Guiana Shield Roraima Supergroup Basin analysis Unconformity-related uranium deposits ...Venezuela and Brazil that ïŹlled the extensive Roraima Basin on the Amazon Craton. Sequence stratigraphy, mineral
Report (volume)
Geological Survey of Canada, Canada P. T. BOBROWSKY British Columbia Geological Survey, Canada G. E. M. HALL...Survey of Canada, Canada & S. J. COOK Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Co. Ltd., Canada 2001 Published...diamond exploration in the glaciated terrain of Canada 83 Lake sediment geochemistry COOK, S. J. & MCCONNELL...from the Swayze greenstone belt, northern Ontario, Canada 165 Case Histories I - Geochemical exploration...in the western Abitibi Greenstone Belt, central Canada 201 EARLE, S. Application of composite glacial
Report (issue)
BULGARIA BURKINA FASO BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA...techniques in mine development at the Millennium uranium deposit, Northern Saskatchewan, Canada ............O. Skalskyi, V. Riazantsev, D. Bugai Uranium ISR mine closure — general concepts and model-based simulation...simulation of natural attenuation for South-Australian mine sites ............................................development of a new uranium production facility, be it a mine or a processing plant. Also since 2005, the uranium
Book
Discussion Part n. Clastic-Hosted Deposits Sullivan McArthur River Discussion 195 196 196 199 203 181 183 188...the degree of exchange between the water in the basin and the open sea. If exchange is rapid and complete...bacteria will reduce all of the S coming into the basin, resulting in positive values close to coeval seawater...are relatively positive (Fig. 1-6). The closed-basin effect seems to be important for the shales of the...effect for the uraniferous shales of the Appalachian Basin (Chapter 6). Most geologists are familiar with equilibrium
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...with the P2 fault and the McArthur River uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin ............................Lakes Zone B uranium-thorium-REE deposit, Saskatchewan, Canada: 3D GOCAD modeling to initiate a NI 43-101...Bayinwula roll front-type uranium deposit, Erlian Basin, NE China. . . ..................................Dufferin Lake Zone, south central Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada ..............................
Report (issue)
the Carswell structure on the Athabasca Plateau (Northern Saskatchewan) - Comparison with other deposits... M. Moreau, F. Tona The Pandanus Creek uranium mine, Northern Territory, Australia ......... 77 B...Geology and genesis of uranium deposits at the Pitch Mine, Saguache County, Colorado .......................th- Carswell structure on the Athabasca Plateau (Northern Saskatchewan) - Comparison with other deposits...ONickcl A longitudinal section of the Jaduguda Mine. in biotitc schists, chlorite-biotite schists
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 500 EXPLORING FOR MINERALS IN ALBERTA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA GEOSCIENCE...GEOSCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS, CANADA-ALBERTA AGREEMENT ON MINERAL DEVELOPMENT (1992-1995) Edited by R - W. Macqueen...SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 500 EXPLORING FOR MINERALS IN ALBERTA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA GEOSCIENCE...GEOSCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS, CANADA-ALBERTA AGREEMENT ON MINERAL DEVELOPMENT (1992-1995) Edited by R. W. Macqueen...Queen in Right of Canada, 1997 Catalogue No. M42-500E ISBN 0-660-16725-5 Available in Canada from Geological
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1055 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V7X 1L2 BRENDA CAUGHLIN, ALS Chemex, 212 Brooksbank...Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V7J 2C1 AND MARY E. DOHERTY ALS Chemex, 994 Glendale...boxworks. In other cases, quartz and iron oxides, limonite, goethite, and jarosite exist as pseudomorphs...alteration mineralogy, particularly assemblages of limonite minerals, may be used to predict the copper grade...in the Tom and Howards Pass deposits in Yukon, Canada (Goodfellow, 2004), and at the Sullivan deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxygen Isotope Halo in Carbonates Related to the McArthur River (HYC) Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, North Australia: Implications...dolomite in the Barney Creek Formation of the McArthur basin demonstrates the presence of an extensive isotope...the central tectonic element of the southern McArthur basin, the Batten fault zone. The deposit consists...FIG. 2. Stratigraphic column of the southern McArthur basin (modified after Pietsch et al., 1991). 036...array of mineralized dolomite from HYC in the McArthur basin (solid triangles) with the fitted theoretical
Book
Robertson J.A. (Blind River-Elliot Lake, Canada), Ruhrmann G. (Saskatchewan, Canada), Ruzicka V. (CSFR)... USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid M....Uranium Deposits (Type 1, Chap. 4): Athabasca Basin Region, Canada......................................Deposits in Not-Albitized Metasediments: Alligator River Uranium Field, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . ...in Albitized Metasediments: Uranium City Region, Canada........................................ 137 5
Book
block I experienced recently when visiting a gold mine in virtually unmetamorphosed ground. A fault cuts..."common sense" observations described from the gold mine with the chert and the organic matter. Another potent...Alterations of Conglomeratic Uranium Ores, Pronto Mine, Ontario, Canada E.Wm. Heinrich (With 1 Figure). . . . ....Galenas in the Uranium Ores at Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada W. Scott Meddaugh, H.D. Holland, and N. Shimizu...Observations on Ore Rhythmites of the Trzebionka Mine, Upper Silesian-Cracow Region, Poland L. Fontbote
Book
large project, Iron-Formations of 5 the Hamersley Basin and Analogous Basins of IronFormation Deposition...ratios, were originally deÂŹ scribed from the Komati River section in the BarÂŹ berton Mountain Land by M. J...base of the Complex (Vermaak, 1976). At the Atok mine, platinoid minerals tend to occur at the boundaries...oldest of these deposits, in the Abitibi belt of Canada, and the youngest, the Kuroko in the Miocene of...particularly evident in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Canada (e.g., Boldy, 1968) and at Jerome, Arizona (Anderson
Book
Hill Hall. Oxford 0X3 OBW. England CANADA Pergamon Press Canada Ltd.. Suite 104. 150 Consumers Road...Road. Willowdale. Ontario M2J 1 P9. Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.. P.O. Box 544. Potts...prior to the meeting and the Sludyanka phlogopite mine at Irkutsk afterwards. Precambrian Mineral Deposits...studies in beneficiation and metallurgy, design of mine and process plant, and, last but not least, the...evidence on the origin of the Shamrock v 11 N o copper mine, Rhodesia", Min. Deposits« > « 3 , pp. 298-310.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structurally beneath the Zn-Fe-Mn orebody at the Franklin mine. Marble host rocks are interlayered at Fe and Zn-Fe-Mn...that were deposited synchronously in a back-arc basin developed on the eastern margin of Laurentia between...the west limb of the Zn orebody at the Franklin mine, that was discussed previously by Frondel and Baum...Triassic to Early Jurassic rocks of the Newark basin. Along the western border of the Highlands, Mesoproterozoic...succession is interpreted as having formed in a back-arc basin inboard of the Losee arc above thinned and extended
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocksformlarge-scale inliersthatprotrude from the central McArthur basin to the southern limits of through Phanerozoic...searchpapersdealingwiththe metallogeny of thatminerals McArthur basin province. In particular, thepapersareintended...gion(Plumbet al., 1990).The centralportionof the basin is dominated by the carbonateandevaporiteogyandregional...thatdeveloped in a stratigraphy rich sequence of the McArthur Group. This contains the series oflatePaleoproterozoic...ingandalkalimetasomatism under diagenetic conditions in the McArthur basinstratigraMountIsa (McDonaldet al., 1997)
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sites for which global pressures may require us to mine in pristine environments such as the deep sea-floor...turn of the last century it was only possible to mine deposits with high grades that were close to the...utilisation of modern techniques, it is possible now to mine ore with as little as 0.5% Cu. And with the economy...greater than the value of the metal extracted from the mine. Then from 2005 onwards, as the copper price increased...Improvements in technology, which made it possible to mine and refine the ore more efficiently, aiding the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and collisional tectonic settings. The Hamersley Basin is endowed with largest Fe resources in the world...developed between ca. 1700 and 1500 Ma in the McArthur River-Mount Isa and Broken Hill rift systems. These...propose discharge of hydrothermal ïŹ‚uids along major basin faults, syn-sedimentary exhalations of these ïŹ‚uids...The next stages saw the development of the McArthur River-Mount Isa, Broken Hill, Georgetown rift systems...world (e.g. Telfer Au, Olympic Dam Fe–Cu–Au–U; McArthur River-Mount Isa Zn–Pb–Ag). About 50% of the value
 
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