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Acanthite from
Terra mine, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:Adit
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Terra mine, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1469557
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1469557:7
GUID (UUID V4):42aec6e7-ad70-4217-b80d-ba99c51a2936
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘSilver Bear mine (Terra mines; North mine; Terra Mining and Exploration Company mine), Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
6.2km (3.8 miles) ⓘSilver Bay Mine, Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
6.3km (3.9 miles) ⓘNorthrim Mine, Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
7.0km (4.4 miles) ⓘNorex Mine, Camsell River area, Northwest Territories, Canada
44.5km (27.7 miles) ⓘEl Bonanza Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
44.6km (27.7 miles) ⓘBonanza prospect, Dowdell Point, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
45.7km (28.4 miles) ⓘContact Lake Mine (B.E.A.R. deposit), Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
53.4km (33.2 miles) ⓘEldorado Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
53.6km (33.3 miles) ⓘNo. 1 Shaft (Port Radium mine), Eldorado Mine, Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
55.4km (34.4 miles) ⓘEcho Bay Mine (Cross Fault shaft), Port Radium District, Great Bear Lake, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
References
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Thesis/Dissertation
STUDIES ON THE ECHO BAY SILVER DEPOSIT, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA. BY BRIAN WILLIAM ROBINSON, B. Sc...'Studies on the Echo Bay Silver Deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada' submitted by Brian William Robinson...within fracture zones in the western part of the Great Bear Province. Proterozoic granites, granodiorites...Carbonates occur mainly in the sulphide stages where acanthite, marcasite, chalcopyrite, bornite, galena and...R.D.Morton for initially suggesting the Echo Bay Mine as a thesis area and his guidance during the course
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the polymetallic veins at Port Radium, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Canadian Shield Sunil S. Gandhi, Eric...the polymetallic veins at Port Radium, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Canadian Shield, Ore Geology Reviews...the polymetallic veins at Port Radium, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Canadian Shield Sunil S. Gandhi1, Eric...Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1V 9T3, deceased 2 Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0E8, eric.potter@canada.ca * Corresponding author 3 Department of Geological
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Arsenide Mineralisation, Camsell River, N. W. T. Canada j . P. N. BADHaM Southampton, E n g l a n d Polymetallic...sulphide-impregnated volcanic rocks of the Aphebian Great Bear Batholith. Large, NE-trending strike-slip faults...Introduction Silver mineralisation was discovered at Great Bear Lake in 1929, and has been intermittently mined...last decade. Deposits are or have been mined at Terra, N o r e x and Silver Bay, and uneconomic showings... i\/\\ t~ 4 / \ // f ) y : ~ ~a! ~ i " ,;/ SLAVE' ",'..\" ,~, '/ ~~ i ÂŁ5,?,' PROVINCE'(-\" ,',~{
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SilverArsenideVein Depositsof the Cobalt and Great Bear Lake Areas, Canada RALPH THORPE Abstract Silver veins...the thick Nipissing diabasesheet,and thoseat Great Bear Lake, N.W.T., are also, in part, associatedwith...cks, and diabase, while host rocks in the Great Bear Lake area are intermediate and felsic 'volcanicrocks...the Great Bear Lake and Cobalt veins, respectively,whereas the pitchblendeU-Pb age for the Great Bear...Bear Lake veins is about 1,445 m.y., and the apparentRb-Sr age for the Cobalt veins is about2,160 m.y. An
Thesis/Dissertation
TITLE OF THESISQ MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NORTHRIM MINE AND A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE GENESIS OF VEINS OF...UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NORTHRIM MINE AND A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE GENESIS OF VEINS OF...thesis entitled MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NCRTHRIM MINE AND A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE GENESIS OF VEINS OF...either studied directly by the writer at the Northrim Mine or gained through interpretation of the available...remarkably similar to the ones of the Norex and Terra veins in the Camsell River district and of the 21dora
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada ......................................typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...commonality: They can be very dangerous. Each year mine rescue specialists and conventional search and rescue
Report (issue)
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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photo March/April: Fluorite, Dow Scar vein, Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England; Jesse Fisher specimen... quartz, and albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen,...September/October: Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen...JoaquĂ­n Folch Girona specimen, Joan Rosell photo A Acanthite, Colorado, 423 Actinolite, New York, 221, 454...329; Ohio, 153 Beginning of Mineralogy in Eastern North America and Minerals from New York State in the
Book
~"' - ..\, . ~ / Geological Association of Canada g,A Mineral Deposits Divioon . I\ ~ I ORE...approximately 5 cm taii and is from the Eagle's Nest mine, Piacer County, California. Ross Beaty Collection...Mauthner. f I: ; It' !I National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data it I~ !I I I!...Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Oivis,on - L'Association geaogiQue du Canada, Division des gites...carolyn Diane (1959-) IV. Geological Association of Canada Mneral Deposits Division QE390.M37 2004 553 C2004-902030-7
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 72-32 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR THE ALASKA HIGHWAY;...by mail from Information Canada, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and...and Information Canada bookshops in HALIFAX - 1687 Barrington Street MONTREAL - 640 St. Catherine Street...Price subject to change without notice Informa tion Canada Ottawa 1973 - iii CONTENTS Page Abstract/Resume.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Churchill Mine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Report (Issue volume)
GE and Economic Minerals of Canada PART A NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE THOMAS J. BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY...AND ECONOMIC MINERALS OF CANADA © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1976 Available by mail from...Printing and Publishing Supply and Services Canada Ottawa, Canada K1A 0S9 or through your bookseller Catalogue...Catalogue No. M43-1/1976-1-7 Price: Canada: $8.00 ISBN 0-660-00553-0 Other countries: $9.60 Price subject..., Altona, Manitoba, Canada Contract No. OKX6-0236 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA ECONOMIC GEOLOGY REPORT
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