| | Report (issue) | Mining in Greenland GEOLOGY AND ORE The Black Angel lead-zinc mine at Maarmorilik in West Greenland No....The Black Angel lead-zinc mine at Maarmorilik in West Greenland View from north-west of the Angel mountain...mountain with the Greenland Inland Ice in the background. The former mining town of Maarmorilik was situated...the right. Summer 1992. Canada Greenland ian Rink lt be Maarmorilik Foxe ▲ Inland Ice ▲ Hudson...500 km ▲ The Black Angel mine took its name from a pelite outcrop that forms a dark angel-like figure | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and Qaarsukassak formations, Karrat Group, West Greenland C.A. Partin a, *, Y.M. DeWolfe a, b, T. Magee...Keywords: Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits Proterozoic Black Angel deposit MVT Sulfur isotopes Pb isotopes Sediment-hosted...West Greenland. The timing and model of mineralization of the historical PbZn Black Angel Mine in the...between 0‰ and +6.9‰ on sulfide minerals (pyrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite); isotopic fractionations...(SEDEX) mineralization model. The Mârmorilik (Black Angel) mineralization represents the oldest documented | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ores at the Paleoproterozoic Black Angel deposit, central West Greenland S. Horn 1 & A. Dziggel 1 &...Abstract The Black Angel deposit represents the most important base metal deposit in Greenland, having produced...Paleoproterozoic Karrat Group. The ore consists of sphalerite, pyrite, and galena, with minor amounts of chalcopyrite...euhedral grains and is commonly surrounded by sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite. Deformation textures...(Cu2(Zn,Fe)GeS4) inclusions in sphalerite indicates that the Black Angel deposit may be host to an hitherto | | Guarnieri, Pierpaolo, Thiele, Sam, Baker, Nigel, Sørensen, Erik, Kirsch, Moritz, Lorenz, Sandra, Rosa, Diogo, Unger, Gabriel, Zimmermann, Robert (2022) Unravelling the Deformation of Paleoproterozoic Marbles and Zn-Pb Ore Bodies by Combining 3D-Photogeology and Hyperspectral Data (Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland) Minerals, 12 (7) 800 doi:10.3390/min12070800 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 3D-Photogeology and Hyperspectral Data (Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland) Pierpaolo Guarnieri 1, *, Sam...3D-Photogeology and Hyperspectral Data (Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland). Minerals 2022, 12, 800. https://doi...Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark;...Correspondence: pgua@geus.dk Abstract: The Black Angel Zn-Pb ore deposit is hosted in folded Paleoproterozoic...terrain of the Rinkian Orogen, in central West Greenland. Drill-core data integrated with 3D-photogeology | | | Report (issue) | potential in Greenland No. 21 - February 2012 21 / 2012 The zinc potential in Greenland GEOLOGY AND...numerous in Greenland. In particular, the Palaeozoic Franklinian Basin, North Greenland, which extends...through the Canadian Arctic Islands and northern Greenland, and is dominated by geological settings favourable...important Greenlandic zinc source, namely the Black Angel mine. However, zinc is also known from several...East Greenland. Introduction A workshop on the 'Assessment of the zinc potential in Greenland' was arranged | | | Report (issue) | 27/02/18 10.08 Side 1 The zinc potential in Greenland GO_30_NY.qxp_GO 30 27/02/18 10.08 Side 2 GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY AND ORE The zinc potential in Greenland - Assessment of undiscovered sediment-hosted zinc deposits...numerous in Greenland. In particular, the Palaeozoic Franklinian Basin, North Greenland, which extends...through the Canadian Arctic Islands and northern Greenland, is considered to carry a large potential for...important Greenlandic zinc source, namely the Black Angel mine. However, zinc is also known from several | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | to increases in the waste/metal production ratio. Mine wastes deposited on-land in so-called tailings dams...environmental issues that need to be addressed (e.g., acid mine drainage formation due to sulphide oxidation, geotechnical...is a suitable alternative for mine waste. Keywords: tailings; acid mine drainage; waste management; marine...mining, the formation of acid mine drainage (AMD). AMD occurs, when sulphidic mine waste is exposed to atmospheric...and mine tailings storage areas and in underground workings or on the walls of an open pit mine. Due | | Kolb, Jochen, Keiding, Jakob K., Steenfelt, Agnete, Secher, Karsten, Keulen, Nynke, Rosa, Diogo, Stensgaard, Bo M. (2016) Metallogeny of Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews, 78. 493-555 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.03.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Metallogeny of Greenland Jochen Kolb, Jakob K. Keiding, Agnete Steenfelt, Karsten Secher...Rosa, Diogo, Stensgaard, Bo M., Metallogeny of Greenland, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Metallogeny of Greenland JOCHEN KOLB1, JAKOB K. KEIDING1,2, AGNETE STEENFELT1...Economic Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...TE D MA Corresponding author: jkol@geus.dk Greenland is the largest island on Earth, with 80% of its | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MassiveSulfideOre of the BlackAngel Mine, Central West Greenland F. D. PEDERSEN Laboratoriet for Endooen...Fe-Zn-Pb-sulfide orebodies of the Black Angel mine, central West Greenland, occur in evaporite-bearing marbles...Formation. A studyof the structuralsettingof the Angel zone orebodyhas shownthat this sulfide layer has...quartz and ductile sulfides (galena,tennantite,sphalerite,chalcopyrite)took place in the orebodyduring...Formation in central West Greenland (Fig. 1). At present two orebodies,the Angel zone and the Cover zone | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the Massive Sulphide Ore of the Black Angel Mine, Central West Greenland F. D. Pedersen Geological Institute...sulphide sheets constituting the Angel Zone ore body of the Black Angel Mine, show evidence of three phases...growth. INT R O D U C T I O N The Black Angel Mine, central West Greenland, is developed in two massive Fe-Zn-Pb...ore bodies, the Cover Zone in the east and the Angel Zone in the west. The ore bodies occur in the lower...reflected in the mesoscopic structures of the Black Angel Mine area, though within the sulphide ores the | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mesoscale observations and may be derived from mine plans and sections. Evidence substantiating the...Singhbhum copper belt (India). From the Mesaboni Mine, they recorded elongate pyrite grains defining a...recorded fractured pyrrhotite healed by ductile sphalerite, and suggested this took place at < 250 ° C....to be less ductile than both chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Similarly, pyrrhotite from the Golden Grove...degree of reerystallization than chalcopyrite and sphalerite, but locally retains a primary nodular growth | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | convincing example is recorded for the Elizabeth Mine in Vermont (McKinstry and Mikkola, 1954; Howard...fractured, pulled apart and mechanically mixed with sphalerite-rich bands, which appear to have behaved in a...provided by Pedersen (1980) for the Black Angel Mine in western Greenland. Here, a stratabound massive sulfide...sulfide deposit containing pyrite, sphalerite and galena as the major minerals has been subjected to three...tend to move with the galena are tennantite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. The phenomenon discussed above | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | on the geologic frameworks of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the seafloor north of Iceland, Norway...the giant late Paleozoic Red Dog zinc-polymetallic mine and associated deposits (currently the world’s largest... Kolb et al. summarize the metallogenesis of Greenland. Despite remoteness, lack of infrastructure, and...Blyklippen, Josva, 467 468 BOOK REVIEWS and Black Angel during the 20th century. Graphite was mined at...however, there has been no mineral production in Greenland since 2014. The Isua Algoma-type iron deposit | | Zhang, Yajing, Sun, Fengyue, Li, Bile, Huo, Liang, Ma, Fang (2014) Ore textures and remobilization mechanisms of the Hongtoushan copper–zinc deposit, Liaoning, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 57. 78-86 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.09.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pyrite and pyrrhotite, with less chalcopyrite and sphalerite, and minor cubanite, magnetite, galena, rutile...minerals have been replaced by chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Quartz– sulfide veinlets, if present, fill cracks...in a matrix of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite. Pyrite porphyroblasts contain inclusions of...filled with remobilized chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, and quartz. In the disseminated ores, pyrite...other generation, together with chalcopyrite and sphalerite, fills fissures in cataclastic pyrite and replaces | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Fluid-Assisted Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Mine, NY Peter Matt, Wayne Powell, Ryan Mathur, William...Fluid-Assisted Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Mine, NY, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...Fluid-Assisted Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Mine, NY Peter Matt (1), Wayne Powell (1,2), Ryan Mathur...fluids. Measurements of Zn isotopic composition of sphalerite from six Balmat ore bodies that originated from...syn-tectonic isotopic fractionation recorded in Balmat sphalerite is interpreted to have resulted from the interaction | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | dolomite-marbles, overlain by amphibolite, show a striking sphalerite mineralization, occurring in quarries near Kochholz...Sequence” (“Bunte Serie”) of the Bohemian Massif. Sphalerite is the only ore mineral in Kochholz, in Lichtenau...pyrite occurs in essential amounts and in Winkl sphalerite forms a paragenesis with galena. In all three...which is used for a genetic characterization, sphalerite could best be assigned to the SEDEX-type. The...tholeiitic basalts agrees with the assignment of the sphalerite mineralization to the volcano-sedimentary (SEDEX-) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pyrite commonly occurs are: pyrrhotite, 230-318; sphalerite, 218-227; chalcopyrite, 187-203; and arsenopyrite...600 0. 1000 m 0o0 400 Y~/to ~m ~');'o SPhalerite 2O0 I I i 100 200 300 Temperature, i ...paragenesis of some pyrites. been observed forming at black smoker sites along oceanic spreading centres (Edmond...the massive pyrrhotite-pyrite ore in the Cherokee Mine, Ducktown, Tennessee, U.S.A. The largest exceeded...raised sufficiently for amphibole growth (Cherokee Mine, Ducktown, Tennessee, U.S.A.; width of field is | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mid-lateDevonian 'Black clastics' Low greenschist Not found Cirque Mid-late Devonian 'Black clastics' ...greenschist Not found Tom Mid-lateDevonian 'Black clastics' Low greenschist Faro Early Cambrian...Barite,pyrite, sphalerite and galena Barite,pyrite, sphalerite and galena Barite,sphalerite, galena, and...and pyrite Pyrite, sphalerite, galena, barite, pyrrhotite, magnetite and chalcopyrite Pyrrhotite, pyrite...pyrite, sphalerite and galena Upper greenschist Upper greenschist Feeder zones at the western part of the | | | Report (issue) | GEOLOGY OF GREENLAND SURVEY BULLETIN 179 · 1998 The Citronen Fjord massive sulphide deposit, Peary Land...Land, North Greenland: discovery, stratigraphy, mineralization and structural setting Frank W. van der...OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY 1 Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin...Cambro-Silurian, Franklinian Basin, Peary Land, North Greenland, massive sulphides, gossans, starved basin, carbonate... Industrivej 2, P.O. Box 1601, DK-3900 Nuuk, Greenland Greg Z. Mosher Consulting geologist, 1820-29th | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | a general tendency toward cataclasis whereas sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite exhibit a variety of...1984 approximately 120 million tonnes of "run-of-mine", containing 5 % - 9 % Zn, 0.5%-1.5% Pb, 1 0 % -...located to the east of the Aya pluton, e.g., Modesta mine (Pesquera and Velasco 1979; Demange and Heuschmidt...mineralization. The major mineral paragenesis includes sphalerite, galena, fluorite, barite, siderite, calcite...opaque minerals associated to primary sulfides. Sphalerite, siderite, and quartz are dominant minerals in | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | sulphides (galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite, but not pyrite) evolve from cataclasis to dislocation...G. =galena, P o = p y r r h o t i t e , Sp = sphalerite, Cp = chalcopyrite, Py = pyrite, Y = Yule Marble...finegrained galena-quartz, galena-sphalerite and galena-sphalerite-quartz ores. They indicated that the...(galena) is mixed with a higher viscosity phase (sphalerite), the viscosity contrast will be preserved, but...values of the discrete phases (Table 3, item 1). Sphalerite added to a galena host increases the effective | | | Journal (issue) | Narssarssuk, Greenland. Photo by R. Bode. TITLE PAGE: The most common mineral in Greenland: ice —making...up the typical Arctic icebergs, ubiquitous in Greenland waters; photo by B. L. Nielsen. This special...AMMASSALIK (ANGMAGSSALIK) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF GREENLAND NUUK (GODTHAB) PAAMIUT (FREDERIKSHAB) ARSUK...Paleozoic and Mesozoic North Greenland platform and fold belt East Greenland Caledonian fold belt P rote...Archaean i 500 km i i i i PREFACE Throughout Greenland there are many interesting mineral localities | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pollutants responsible for the generation of acid mine-waste runoff, for production of acid rain, and for...chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite are disseminated throughout sphalerite. This texture was long interpreted as resulting...Zn, Cu, Pb, Sb, As, Ag, and S) of pyrite (py), sphalerite (sph), galena (gn), tetrahedrite (ttd), and proustite...pyrite (py) – sphalerite (sph) – galena (gn) ore in (b), from the Black Angel mine, Greenland, will easily...The brighter grain of gold (a) from the Homestake mine, South Dakota, lies along the boundary of an arsenopyrite | | Bortnikov, N. S., Lobanov, K. V., Volkov, A. V., Galyamov, A. L., Vikent’ev, I. V., Tarasov, N. N., Distler, V. V., Lalomov, A. V., Aristov, V. V., Murashov, K. Yu., Chizhova, I. A., Chefranov, R. M. (2015) Strategic metal deposits of the Arctic Zone. Geology of Ore Deposits, 57 (6) 433-453 doi:10.1134/s1075701515060021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (Yukon, Northwestern Territory, Nunavut), and Greenland. The Scandinavian sector embraces the Faroe Islands...million 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 Greenland Finland Sweden Norway Canada United States...kt WO3 345 t MoS2 Mactung, Canada Malmberg, Greenland 181.5 t Au Courageous, Canada Back River, Canada...complex of alkali granitic rocks in Paleogene East Greenland Province Tombstone oro genic belt. Eastern margin...the United States (Alaska), 23 to Canada, 8 to Greenland, 6 to Norway, 9 to Sweden, and 3 to Finland (Table | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | calcite marbles from the Marmorilik Formation, West Greenland. Precambrian Res., 8: 183--199. The Marmorilik...Marmorilik Formation, Rinkian mobile belt, West Greenland, is a large, Lower Proterozoic carbonate-rock sequence...sedimentary rocks of the Isua area, South-West Greenland (Allaart, 1976) and in the Archaean schist belts...is erratic. In the Precambrian of central West Greenland there is a large Lower Proterozoic carbonate-rock...Formation, which is best known as the host of the Black Angel lead-zinc sulphide deposit which is being mined |
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Black Angel Mine, Maarmorilik, Avannaata, Greenland