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Wurtzite from
Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wurtzite
Formula:(Zn,Fe)S
Comments:None found in X-ray study
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wurtzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:21895
Long-form Identifier:1:3:21895:5
GUID (UUID V4):dac5bc31-0501-48a7-81ed-77316339a9b5
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonate-HostedZn-Pb-Ag Deposit. Nanisivik, Barfin Island, Canada D.C. ARNE,* Department of Geology...Geology,Lakehead University,Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 L. W. CURTIS, LaurenceCurtis and Associates...CanadaP7B 5E1 Abstract Zn-Pb-Agoresat Nanisivik,northwestBa‱n Island,are hostedby upperProterozoiclaminateddolostone...Inlet ‱1111111 1984). Detailed undergroundmappingof mine workings by one of the authors(Curtis, 1984) has...HACHURED) F](:;. 1. Regional geology of northwest Baffin Island: A --Eclipse trough, B -- Milne Inlet trough
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in a Proterozoic Dolostone, Northern Barfin Island, Canada R. A. OLSON Trigg, Woollett,OlsonConsultingLtd...OlsonConsultingLtd., 10504-103Street,Edmonton,Alberta T5H 2V4, Canada Abstract EconomicallyimportantMississippiValley-type...Territories, of genesisfor the zinc-leadsulfide Canada, are MississippiValley type. That is, they anda...summarizesthe pertinentstratigraphyof northernBafl]n Island, describesin greater detail the stratigraphy a...currentlymost economicallyimportantdepositexistsat Nanisivik, which is about 385 km southeast of Resolute,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolostone and the age of the Nanisivik zinc deposits, BafÂźn Island, Canada Received: 9 January 1999 /...within the hydrothermal zone surrounding the Nanisivik zinc deposits retain a stable characteristic remanent...postulated Cretaceous remagnetization event in the region. Introduction The original aim of this study,... initiated in 1989, was to date the Nanisivik Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) zinc deposits (Fig. 1). The...University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada e-mail: dsymons@uwindsor.ca Tel.:+1-519-2533000
Report (issue)
(Trzebionka mine), A. Kozlowski (University of Warsaw), D. Symons (University of Windsor, Canada), and D...D. Sangster (Geological Survey of Canada). These studies are intended to provide new information on the...Formation. During Early to Middle Jurassic, the region remained above sea level. In Cretaceous through...fluid transmissivity, either at the district or mine scale, that allows the focusing of fluid flow and...1982). This also was documented in the Trzebionka mine (Pawlowska and Szuwarzynski, 1979). Higher fracture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manchester Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production...number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that state’s leading...tiemannite. Sphalerite is trimorphous with matraite and wurtzite. Pseudomorphs of sphalerite after galena, tetrahedrite...sphalerite (variety marmatite) on siderite from the Eagle mine, Gilman, Colorado. The 8.4-cm specimen is in the...in Connecticut pegmatites, including the Tolgate mine at Middletown where masses to 25 cm across occurred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
acidity in the formation of marcasite (FeS2) and wurtzite ( ZnS). Amer. J. Sci. 38, 393-42 1, Brock K. J...(1986) Morphology of Pyrite from the Nanisivik Mine, Baffin Island. Northwest Territories. Canadian Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sands and the host dolomites. Sphalerite I and wurtzite, followed by silverbearing zoned sphalerite II...in the early 1980s. Jabali was the largest silver mine of the Islamic world between the 1st and 3rd centuries...centuries A.H. (7th-9th centuries A.D.), with the old mine workings covering an area of about 10 ha where cavities...04 baroque dolomit e Sphalerite I (and former wurtzite), pyrite, marca site 02 ferroan dolomite enclosing...microtexture reminiscent of a pseudomorph after wurtzite (Fig. 13), remnants of which were revealed through
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distribution between cadmium concentration in sphalerite/wurtzite and that in coexisting galena has been well studied...with Zinc Deposits Mineral Cd (ppm) Sphalerite/wurtzite 15-50,000 Smithsonite 80-45,500 Boulangerite...α-ZnS endmember (sphalerite), hexagonal ÎČ-ZnS (wurtzite) and hexag­ onal ÎČ-CdS (greenockite). The rare...from cubic (sphalerite lattice) to hexagonal (wurtzite lattice) with increasing cadmium content according...greenockite are used. Substituting sphalerite by wurtzite would not change the results significantly. In
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfide were deposited, as either sphalerite or wurtzite, at the rate of approximately 0.2 / x m / a (Barnes...colloform, radiating-bladed habit characteristic of wurtzite. Its habit suggests that the zinc sulfide was...was sometimes originally deposited as wurtzite (hexagonal ZnS) which subsequently inverted to sphalerite...individual crystals bearing no resemblance to wurtzite; zinc sulfide with these habits was evidently...originally deposited as sphalerite rather than as wurtzite. The common euhedral forms indicate that sphalerite
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Diablo, Arizona. 12 x 13 cm. (Geological Survey of Canada specimen) By studying meteorites such as this one...P L AT E 8 Chalcopyrite and Calcite. Groundhog mine, Vanadium, New Mexico. 4 x 5 cm. Thesecrystals formed...lava from the Roccamonfina volcano in the Campania region of Italy, which last erupted in A.D. 2 76, and...(Photograph by Michael Hamilton, Geological Survey of Canada) Diffirentiation of magma caused compositional...formed by dfferendation of alkalic magmas. 40 Island, Quebec. Unlike most carbonatites, those in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization of the Ems district and the MuÈhlenbach mine (Fig. 1) yielded 12.6 Mt ore with 0.75 Mt Zn and...paragenesis includes colloform sphalerite and wurtzite (schalenblende), galena, marcasite, melnikovite...postVariscan vein-type deposits occurring in the same region is very characteristically di€erent: methane is...Viburnum Trend (SE Missouri, USA) and at Pine Point, Canada (Powell and Macqueen 1984; Leventhal 1990). In...siderite-bearing base metal mineralization of the Apollo mine at Raubach (Siegerland; Fig. 1) and the post-Variscan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with tetrahedrally-coordinated Zn and S ions. Wurtzite and matraite are hexagonal and trigonal ZnS polymorphs...respectively. Relationships between sphalerite and wurtzite may be complex, with the two minerals occasionally...matraite, much rarer than either sphalerite or wurtzite, may not be a distinct mineral, but rather (1...Polhemusite (Zn,Hg)S P4/n 4/m Wurtzite group (Hexagonal, P63mc) Wurtzite (Zn,Fe)S P63mc Greenockite CdS...crystals adopt the wurtzite structure or contain separate domains of sphalerite and wurtzite, with solid solution
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 by P. Tarassoff...annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: CANADA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chairman:...matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in this issue on this famous
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard...Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur Roe Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Abraham Rosenzweig...C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ..............................................383...COVER: WULFENITE group, 6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner
Journal (issue)
Titanite and epidote deposits of the Capelinha Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil ........................... only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription... | w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly...greenmountainminerals.com BA R I T E 12 X 8” Parkside Mine, Frizington Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK Photo...TITANITE AND EPIDOTE DEPOSITS OF THE CAPELINHA REGION, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL Andrea Bartorelli1 Carlos
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Pezzotta and Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the
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~"' - ..\, . ~ / 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
Journal (issue)
fluorite crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection;...province, department of Huanuco Huanzala mine Mercedes mine Chiurucu mine Uchucchacua district, Dos de mayo...mayo province, department of Huanuco Hercules mine, Ticapampa district, Recuay and Aija provinces, department...Carrion province, department of Pasco Colquijirca mine, Cerro de Pasco province, department of Pasco Atacocha...Huarochiri province, department of Lima Santa Rita mine, Morochocha district, Yauli province, department
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Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced,...Sphalerite Structure 68 Axial Relationships 72 Wurtzite, a Polymorph of Sphalerite 74 The Fluorite Structure...Compounds 7 Figure 4 A sample of ïŹ‚uorite (Elmwood Mine, Tennessee). The transition elements (see Figure...sample of cuprite on native copper from the Ray Mine, Arizona. This is the octahedral habit for cuprite...more the cation pulls electron density into the region between the atoms, the more electron density is
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Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced,...Sphalerite Structure 68 Axial Relationships 72 Wurtzite, a Polymorph of Sphalerite 74 The Fluorite Structure...Compounds 7 Figure 4 A sample of ïŹ‚uorite (Elmwood Mine, Tennessee). The transition elements (see Figure...sample of cuprite on native copper from the Ray Mine, Arizona. This is the octahedral habit for cuprite...more the cation pulls electron density into the region between the atoms, the more electron density is
Journal (issue)
Jr & J. S. White, Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California.......................article “on the chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.” Two of the plates show 21...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...gem fields. Sapphire deposits on windswept Hainan Island are under in­ vestigation. In 1976 the first major...Changma in Shandong Prov­ ince. Here the Victory No. 1 mine annually produces 1500 carats of gem quality diamonds
Journal (issue)
Roberts Geol. Surv, of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...complex base-metal assemblage from the Sterling mine, New Jersey ......................................Misiur Famous mineral localities: The French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania.........Dickinson Famous mineral localities: The Burra Burra mine, Burra, South Australia ..........................Saddle-shaped rhodochrosite crystals from the Foote mine, North Carolina ...............................
Journal (issue)
Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...Aldanskogo raiona (Post-Jurassic intrusions of the Aldan Region) [1], which was included in the series Petrografiya...Kolyma gold-bearing region, started his labour and scientific career in this region. He visited Aldan for...latter. This was a fresh view of the geology of the region and was based on tens of routes and on hundreds...mines. The latter are fairly numerous over this region, but production at those deposits is now suspended
 
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