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Granite from
Nunavut, Canada


Locality type:Territory
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nunavut, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1094720
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1094720:5
GUID (UUID V4):27dbf5c0-7677-4818-8a2d-4466c689c566
Localities for Granite in this Region
Kiggavik area, Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada
Sandybeach Lake, Nueltin Lake project, Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada
Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
References
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plutonic complex, western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada Simon Hanmer ∗ , Subhas Tella, James J. Ryan...Berman Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1A 0E8 Received 21 January 2005;...Tectonomagmatic reworking; Western Churchill; Nunavut; Canadian Shield 1. Introduction The western Churchill...Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity Post-kinematic granite veins Deformation, ENE trending folds, lineation...∌1.2–1.0 Gpa, S-plunging folds? South Channel granite and veins Deformation, foliation, lineation and
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Contact uranium prospect, Kiggavik project, Nunavut (Canada): tectonic history, structural constraints...Contact uranium prospect, Kiggavik project, Nunavut (Canada): tectonic history, structural constraints...Contact uranium prospect, Kiggavik project, Nunavut (Canada): tectonic history, structural constraints...France b AREVA Resources Canada Inc. 817-45th St West Saskatoon. SK S7L 5X2. Canada c UMR Geops, Université...on the eastern border of the Thelon basin (Nunavut, Canada), hosts significant uranium resources within
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of the Bong Uranium Deposit, Thelon Basin, Nunavut, Canada Ryan Sharpe,1,† Mostafa Fayek,1 David Quirt...125 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 Resources Canada Inc., P.O. Box 9204, 817 - 45th Street...Saskatchewan, Canada S7K 3X5 3 Geological Survey of Canada, Room 659 - 601 Booth, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A...K1A 0E8 Abstract The Thelon basin, Nunavut, shares many similarities with the uranium-producing Athabasca...understood. The Kiggavik project area (AREVA Resources Canada) is located near the northeastern terminus of the
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U-Pb geochronology of the Aberdeen Lake area, Nunavut: new insights into the Neoarchean tectonic evolution...U-Pb geochronology of the Aberdeen Lake area, Nunavut: new insights into the Neoarchean tectonic evolution...U-Pb geochronology of the Aberdeen Lake area, Nunavut: new insights into the Neoarchean tectonic evolution...of Mines, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont., Canada P3E 2C6 b Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences...Edmonton, Alb., Canada T6G 2E3 c Cameco Corporation, 2121 11th Street West, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada S7M 1J3
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magmatism at 1.75 Ga in the western Churchill Province, Canada Tony D. Peterson a,∗ , Jeffrey M.J. Scott a,b ...a b Natural Resources Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A0E8, Canada Department of Earth Sciences...1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...23 February 2015 Keywords: Kivalliq Anorogenic granite MaïŹc dyke swarm Proterozoic Nuna Churchill Province...Igneous Suite (1.77–1.73 Ga) includes the Nueltin Granite intrusions; gabbro and anorthosite intrusions;
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metamorphism in the Committee Bay belt, Rae Province, Nunavut: insights from 40 Ar–39Ar cooling ages and thermal...CAMACHO3 1 Geological Survey of Canada, 615 Booth St, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0E9 (rberman@nrcan.gc.ca)...Newfoundland and Labrador, PO Box 8700, St JohnÕs, NL, Canada A1B4J6 3 Department of Geological Sciences, University...University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ABSTRACT Regional-scale 40Ar–39Ar data presented...the Committee Bay belt (CBb), Rae Province, Nunavut, Canada, that complement variations in observed monazite
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Resources, 200-2101 Scarth Street, Regina, SK, Canada S4P 2H9 Department of Mining Technology, British...Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5G 3H2 Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences...Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3 d Department of Geology, University of Regina...Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2 e Cameco Corporation, 2121-11th Street West, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7M 1J3 b...Lake Group of the lower Dubawnt Supergroup in Nunavut. Widespread lamprophyre dykes of the type that
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pyroxeneabsent, granites are also common (ie. Beed granite and correlatives, see below). Geochemistry A sampling...higher SiO2 samples (Beed Granite), plot near the boundary of rift-related granite fields. All samples are...the Rae domain are sparse. Two major suites of granite are exposed along the southeastern margin of the...(Fig. 2; Mahan et al., 2003). Data from the Fehr Granite (Koteas et al., 2010) plot collinearly on Harker...subdomain (Fig. 5). The Fehr granite also plots in the volcanic arc granite field on tectonic discrimination
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FACIES, LONGSTAFF BLUFF FORMATION, BAFFIN ISLAND, CANADA Simon GAGNɧ, Rebecca A. JAMIESON and Robert MacKAY...Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada Natasha WODICKA and David CORRIGAN Geological Survey of Canada, 588 Booth Street...Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E9, Canada Abstract Electron-microprobe data were obtained from monazite along...turbiditic rocks exposed on Baffin Island, northern Canada, and metamorphosed at conditions of the upper greenschist...metamorphism, electron-microprobe dating, Baffin Island, Canada. Sommaire Nous nous sommes servis d’une microsonde
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from Canada Downloaded by [Florida International University] at 19:52 23 August 2013 C anada is home...from emerald to sapphire, Canada has it all. Yet, for most of its history, Canada has been regarded as a...species have been found at one time or another in Canada (fig. 1). Some gem localities, such as those for...have been discovered; occurrences of sapphire in Nunavut, emerald in the Yukon and Ontario, and peridot...S. WILSON PO Box 352 Kingston, Ontario K7L 4W2 Canada brad@alpinegems.ca   96*2: 405,9(3: The
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at the BIF-Hosted Meliadine Gold District, Nunavut, Canada* Christopher J.M. Lawley,1,† Robert A. Creaser...Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8, Canada 2 Department...2E3, Canada Naturelles Canada, Commission GĂ©ologique du Canada, QuĂ©bec G1K 9A9, QuĂ©bec, Canada 4 Agnico-Eagle...Chemin de la mine Goldex, Val D’Or, QuĂ©bec J9P 4N9, Canada Abstract The gold endowment of the western Churchill...Neoarchean granite-greenstone terranes (e.g., Yilgarn, Australia; Superior Province, Canada). The world-class
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1Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, B2Y 4A2, *dawn...Survey of Canada (Central), Ottawa, ON, Canada, Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YK, Canada 4University...Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 5University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Keywords: Canadian Shield...of compositions from gabbro to alkali feldspar granite, but quartz diorite, granodiorite and monzogranite...well as foliated to gneissic granodiorite, and granite (Martel et al., 2018). The narrow, northeast-trending
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the Kiggavik-Andrew Lake structural trend, Nunavut, Canada Thomas Riegler 1 & Dave Quirt 2 & Daniel Beaufort...France 2 AREVA Resources Canada Inc., P.O. Box 9204, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3X5, Canada and (3) hydrothermal...been studied in the Thelon and Horny Bay basins in Canada (Gall and Donaldson 2006) as well as in the underlying...the Kiggavik-Andrew Lake structural trend, Nunavut, Canada. The main goals are (1) to determine the paragenetic...Lake, Nunavut. All the deposits (Kiggavik, End, and Andrew) and most of the prospects (Bong, Granite, and
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Barrier: The Quartz Breccia in the Kiggavik Area (Nunavut, Canada) and Its Control on Uranium Mineralization...atrave@ub.edu Orano Canada Inc., 817 45th Street, West Saskatoon, SK S7L 5X2, Canada; patrick.ledru@orano...  Abstract: In the Kiggavik area (Nunavut, Canada), major fault zones along, or close to, where...Uranium (U)-rich district of the Kiggavik area (Nunavut, Canada): The so-called hydrothermal Quartz Breccia...Thelon Basin (ca. 1670–1540 Ma, [32,33]) in Nunavut, Canada, within the Churchill province. The Churchill
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Grunsky Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OE8 art ic l e i nf o...– Paleoproterozoic tectonic domain, in northern Canada. The results indicate that meaningful predictive...analysis of digital images. The Geological Survey of Canada under the Remote Predictive Mapping (RPM) project...Resources Canada, has the mandate to produce up-to-date geoscience maps of portions of northern Canada (Harris...Geological Survey of Canada – 601 Booth Street, Room 479, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OE8. E-mail address:
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Around the Huritz Group and Nueltin Suite, Nunavut, Canada G. McKay1 and J. R. Harris2,3 Received 2 April...focus for mineral exploration companies across Canada for much of the last century. There are four main... Ottawa, ON K1H 8J6, USA. Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, USA. 3 To whom...prospectivity maps of a large territory in southern Nunavut, Canada. Interpolated lake sediment, geologic structural...Location of study area—Hearn Geologic Province, Nunavut, Canada. The geology of the Hearne study area (Fig
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a a Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8 b Saskatchewan Geological...Geological Survey, Canada Received 4 January 2007; received in revised form 16 April 2007; accepted 24...the CHSB. In contrast, a 2681 ± 3 Ma foliated granite dyke that intrudes the tonalite gneiss contains...southeastern margin of the Rae province. The Jones Lake granite, dated at 1.86 ± 0.02 Ga, yielded metamorphic monazite...± 38 Ma), and coincide with the peak of Hudson granite emplacement in the Western Churchill craton. A
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SAPPHIRE (CORUNDUM) NEAR KIMMIRUT, BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA PHILIPPE M. BELLEY§, TASHIA J. DZIKOWSKI*,...Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada MOSTAFA FAYEK Department of Geological Sciences...University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada GASTON GIULIANI Université de Lorraine, IRD and...Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0, Canada ABSTRACT Gem-quality corundum...Box 11108, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E 3P3, Canada Current address: Dept. of Geological Sciences,
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THE RAE DOMAIN, WESTERN CHURCHILL PROVINCE, NUNAVUT, CANADA: INSIGHTS FROM STRUCTURAL, METAMORPHIC AND...Geological Survey of Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E9, Canada ABSTRACT New constraints...of the Rae domain, western Churchill Province, Nunavut, are provided through a linked structural, metamorphic...Committee Bay, Rae domain, Arrowsmith orogeny, Nunavut. SOMMAIRE De nouvelles contraintes sont maintenant...secteur ouest de la Province de Churchill, au Nunavut; on se sert d’études intĂ©grĂ©es des aspects structuraux
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Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1A 0E8 b Canada-Nunavut...626 Tumitt Building, P.O. Box 2319, Iqaluit, NU, Canada X0A 0H0 Received 19 June 2003; accepted 6 February...the Rankin-Ennadai greenstone belt, is a major granite-greenstone terrain with a strike length of over...intrusion of 2666.4 ± 1.1 Ma post-deformational granite (Group 3), 2659 Ma carbonatite [Can. J. Earth Sci...Disconformable, locally post-dates ∌2690 Ma deformation Granite Metasedimentary 2667 ∌2680 <2681 Group 1 Plutonic
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o s Cumberland batholith, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Canada: Petrogenesis and implications for Paleoproterozoic...Jackson Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A OE8 a r t i c l e i n...2010 Available online 21 February 2010 Keywords: Granite petrogenesis Paleoproterozoic Nd–O isotopes SHRIMP...Cumberland batholith (CB) of the Trans-Hudson Orogen in Canada, are major components of Paleoproterozoic orogenic...geological mapping by the Geological Survey of Canada. Those collected most recently were generally of
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evolution of the Committee Bay belt, Rae Province, Nunavut R.G. Berman a,∗ , M. Sanborn-Barrie a , N. Rayner...c Geological Survey of Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E9, Canada Geoscience Australia, PO...Labrador, P.O. Box 8700, St. John’s, NL A1B 4J6, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...history of the Committee Bay belt, Rae Province, Nunavut, Canada. Rare ca. 2.58 Ga monazite inclusions in garnet...at: Geological Survey of Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E9, Canada. Fax: +1 613 995 9273. E-mail
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Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposits: Kiggavik Project (Nunavut, Canada) David Quirt 1, *,† 1 2 * † and Antonio Benedicto... University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada DĂ©partement de Sciences de la Terre, UniversitĂ©...blquirt@gmail.com Formerly with Orano Canada Inc., Saskatoon, SK S7L 5X2, Canada. Received: 30 April 2020; Accepted:...Kiggavik project area (west of Baker Lake, NU, Canada) are basement-hosted, contain several generations...Thelon region (ca. 80 km west of Baker Lake, NU, Canada; Figure 1) are not sandstone-hosted; rather, they
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greenstone belts, northeast Slave craton, NWT, Canada H. Mvondo, D. Lentz, M. Bardoux, C.M. McFarlane...greenstone belts, northeast Slave craton, NWT, Canada, (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.06.012 This is...greenstone belts, northeast Slave craton, NWT, Canada T H. Mvondo1*, D. Lentz1, M. Bardoux2, C.M. McFarlane2...Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada 2 Barrick Gold Corporation, Montreal, BC, Canada 3 Department of Geological...Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, CR US ON, Canada IP 1 AN ____________________ AC CE PT ED
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of the Repulse Bay block, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut Crystal LaFlamme a,∗ , Chris R.M. McFarlane a ...Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3 Geological Survey of Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0E9 a...Repulse Bay block (RBb) of Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, reveal that the block is composed of ca. 2.86...forming the Canadian Shield are largely preserved as granite-greenstone belts (e.g., Abitibi, Yellowknife, Hope...Western Churchill Province, occurring in central Nunavut, is comprised of two main crustal divisions: the
 
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