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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Siderite
Formula:FeCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Siderite data
Locality Data:Click here to view McArthur River Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1207634
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1207634:3
GUID (UUID V4):b0d1ed1d-6d08-4050-8e13-ec231913eee4
Nearest other occurrences of Siderite
45.5km (28.3 miles) ⓘCigar Lake Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
71.3km (44.3 miles) ⓘKey Lake Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
87.5km (54.4 miles) ⓘRoughrider deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
92.1km (57.3 miles) ⓘMcLean Lake 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)
Brines and Uranium Deposition at McArthur River, Saskatchewan, Canada: A Raman and Laser-Induced Breakdown...The richest U deposit in Saskatchewan, Canada, occurs in the McArthur River area, in the vicinity of...of quartz cementation and U deposition at the McArthur deposit. Introduction UNCONFORMITY-TYPE uranium...have been discovered in the Athabasca basin, northern Saskatchewan, Canada (Fig. 1), since the Rabbit...unconformity-type uranium deposits in the Athabasca basin (modified from Ruzicka, 1986). 1529 1530
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Dufferin Lake Zone, south-central Athabasca Basin, Canada: implications for graphite loss and uranium...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 Abstract The Athabasca Basin (Canada) contains the highest grade unconformity-type...uranium deposits in the world. Underlying the Athabasca Group sedimentary rocks of the Dufferin Lake Zone...fluids are interpreted to be derived from the Athabasca Basin. The circulation of carbonic fluids and brines...of the Athabasca Basin, whereas the brines circulated after the deposition of the Athabasca Basin. These
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alteration at the Wheeler River Area, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada: Insights into the Apparently... Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Abstract Previous studies on Athabasca basin unconformity-related...mineralization processes. A paragenetic study of the Wheeler River area reveals the presence of minerals that formed...diagenetic stage consists of early quartz overgrowths, siderite, rutile, hematite, and abundant dickite in the...substage was observed only at zone K of the Wheeler River area and is characterized by the precipitation of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrogenesis of the Proterozoic Athabasca Basin, northern Saskatchewan, Canada, and its relation to diagenesis...WO,Canada Received 18 March 1993; revision accepted 1 September 1994 Abstract In the Athabasca Basin...assemblage of clay, silicate and oxide minerals in the basin and basement rocks. Altered sandstones and the underlying...evolution of Sr isotopic compositions of fluids in the basin and basement rocks, as reflected by the 87Sr/86Sr...address: AECL Research, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ont. KOJ 1JO, Canada. 0009-2541/95/$09.50 0 1995
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE MCARTHUR RIVER AND SUE ZONE URANIUM DEPOSITS, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA MOSTAFA FAYEK§ Department...Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada LEE R. RICIPUTI Oak Ridge National Laboratory...unconformity-type uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, demonstrates that at the microscale...geochronology, fluid-circulation events, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. § E-mail addresses: mfayek@utk.edu...discordants d’uranium du bassin d’Athabasca, au Saskatchewan, dĂ©montre qu’à un Ă©chelle microscopique, ces
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Barren and Mineralized Systems in the Athabasca Basin, Canada PAUL ALEXANDRE,1,† KURT KYSER,1 AND DAN...Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 2 Cameco Corporation, 2121–11th Street West Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7M 1J3...situated on the northwest rim of the Athabasca Basin, northern Saskatchewan, are hosted by the sandstones and...conglomerates of the Fair Point Formation of the Athabasca Group. Macroscopic observations indicate two different...unconformity-type uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Canada, account for about one-third of the global
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Russia Echo Bay, Canada Bois NoirsLimoazat, Forez, France Rabbit Lake, Atabaska, Canada Ukraine Rabbit...Rabbit Lake, Atabaska, Canada Bois NoirsLimoazat, Forez, France Margnac and Fanay, France Oklo, Gabon, Africa...Mistamisk Valley of the Labrador Trough, Quebec, Canada Schwartzwalder, Colorado, USA North Canning, Owl...Gabon, Africa Rabbit Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Cluff Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Cottonwood Wash, Utah, USA...Capitan Mountains, New Mexico, USA Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada U, V U U U, V U U U U, Ni, Ag,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE DUFFERIN LAKE ZONE, SOUTH-CENTRAL ATHABASCA BASIN, SASKATCHEWAN: CONSTRAINTS ON GRAPHITE FORMATION AND...University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2, Canada TOM KOTZER‡ Cameco...OfïŹce, 1503 Fletcher Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7M 5S5, Canada DAN JIRICKA¶ D.E Jiricka Enterprises...Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7V 1A1, Canada ABSTRACT Unconformity-type uranium deposits from the Athabasca Basin...rocks of the basin in the Dufferin Lake zone, south-central Athabasca Basin (Saskatchewan, Canada). Up dip
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UNCONFORMITY-TYPE URANIUM DEPOSITS (ATHABASCA BASIN, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA). PART 2. REGIONAL-SCALE SPATIAL...SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE ATHABASCA GROUP SANDSTONE MATRIX MINERALS P HILIPPE K ISTER 1, *, E MMANUEL L AVERRET...France 3 Saskatchewan Research Council, 15 Innovation Blvd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 2X8, Canada 4 COGEMA...matrix minerals present in the middle-Proterozoic Athabasca Group sandstone (kaolin, illite, sudoite, dravite...regional scale in the Shea Creek region (Saskatchewan, Canada), in which two epigenetic unconformity-type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unconformity-related U deposits (Athabasca Basin and Basement, Canada) Antonin Richard 1 & Michel Cathelineau...Heidelberg 2015 Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Athabasca Basin (Canada) hosts numerous giant unconformity-related...brines that circulated at the base of the Athabasca Basin and in its crystalline basement before, during...complement previously published data for the McArthur River deposit. In all of the deposits investigated...Large-scale circulation of the brines in the Athabasca Basin and Basement was therefore a key parameter
Report (issue)
BULGARIA BURKINA FASO BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA...particular the contributions of the late K. Kyser (Canada). The IAEA officer responsible for this publication...members ......................... 28 2.2.3. The Athabasca Basin Type area for classification................................................. 33 2.2.5. McArthur River deposit ................................................................ 63 2.3.2. Canada (Athabasca Basin) .....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation of a giant U ore deposit such as McArthur River (Canada). The duration of the mineralizing event...U with an average grade of 20 wt% U at McArthur River, Canada) and have been extensively studied for...basins including the Athabasca and Thelon basins of Canada and the Kombolgie Basin of Northern Australia...uranium ore deposit equivalent to McArthur River (Athabasca, Canada), through two diïŹ€erent simple scenarii...size of McArthur River (Canada). a b JeïŹ€erson et al. (2007). Cui et al. (2012). McArthur River deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
further information on the thermal regime in the basin and shows that clay formation was controlled not...compositions suggest the illite interacted with deep-basin hypersaline brines that were composed of evaporated...seawater and/or highly evolved meteoric water. Siderite is the most abundant iron-rich gangue phase in...suggests that the ore siderite formed at temperatures of 120° to 150°C, whereas siderite and ankerite in the...of extensive 18O- and 13C-depleted ankerite and siderite alteration in Desert Creek is related to the high
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
events and uranium prospectivity in the Cariewerloo Basin, Gawler Craton, South Australia S. R. Beyer, K....events and uranium prospectivity in the Cariewerloo Basin, Gawler Craton, South Australia, Australian Journal...events and uranium prospectivity in the Cariewerloo Basin, Gawler Craton, South Australia S. R. Beyer a ...Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada; bIndependence Group NL, South Perth, WA 6151,...Australia ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY The Cariewerloo Basin formed in the Mesoproterozoic following assembly
Report (issue)
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada kyser@geol.queensu.ca and Michel Cuney G2R, Nancy-UniversitĂ©...engineered. Once an ore deposit is discovered, a mine is developed and U extracted by a variety of mining...Major deposits occur in the Athabasca Basin in Canada and the Alligator River region of Australia and these... the Paterson Basin in Western Australia (McKay & Miezitis 2001) and the Thelon Basin in 6 300000...extensional basins Rift/back arc basins Arc/Marginal Basin Alkaline complexes Rift/back arc basins Intracratonic
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UNCONFORMITY-TYPE URANIUM DEPOSITS (ATHABASCA BASIN, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA). PART 1. SPATIAL VARIATION OF ILLITE... France 3 Saskatchewan Research Council, 15 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 2X8, Canada...Canada 4 COGEMA, Business Unit Mines, 2, rue Paul Dautier, BP 4, 78141 Velizy Cedex, France 5 Centre...further recycled after interaction into the overlying basin. Variations of the illite structural and textural...proximity to mineralization. Key Words ÐAthabasca Basin, Crystal Chemistry, Crystal Form, Crystal Structure
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Courbevoie, France d Orano Canada Inc. 817 45th Street West, S7K 3X5 Saskatoon, Canada Received 17 August 2019;...the Cigar Lake uranium deposit (Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada), our results show that rammelsbergite...Canadian Shield, including in the area of the Athabasca Basin. This study therefore suggests a new hypothesis...in unconformity-related U deposits of the Athabasca Basin. More broadly, the successful application of...the Cobalt-Gowganda silver mining areas (Ontario, Canada) (Petruk, 1971), the ïŹve-element deposits of the
Book
Carbonates Sulfides Silicates Geochemistry Pyrite-siderite Chamosite-glauconite Oxides and hyroxides Stable...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unconformity-related Cigar Lake U deposit (Saskatchewan, Canada) Pierre Martz, Julien Mercadier, Michel...unconformity-related Cigar Lake U deposit (Saskatchewan, Canada). Chemge (2017), doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018...unconformity-related Cigar Lake U deposit (Saskatchewan, Canada) SC RI PT Pierre Martz a, Julien Mercadier...Resources Canada Inc. 817 45th Street West, S7K 3X5, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, MA Canada ED Abstract...is studied in the Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic Athabasca Basin and its underlying basement. This specific
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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 (chapter)
Zn) and secondly those in nearshore to offshore basin or platform sites (Pb, Zn). The movement of metallic...metallic fluids out of basinal shales and into basin margin facies, often up growth faults, is described...the potential metal fertility of any sedimentary basin is noted. Despite the i m p r e s s i o n t h a...marginal facies, using the Pine Point district in NW Canada as an example and predicted the metal source migrating...migrating out of the 'offshore' basinal shales to the basin margin during dewatering. In effect the metal source
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada Kyle D. Reid,1,† Kevin Ansdell,1...University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5E2, 2 Cameco 3 Saskatchewan Corporation...Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7M 1J3 Geological Survey, Ministry of the Economy, Government of Saskatchewan, 200-2101...200-2101 Scarth Street, Regina, SK, Canada S4P 2H9 Abstract The Centennial unconformity-related uranium deposit...tectonic zone in the south-central part of the Athabasca Basin. The deposit is associated with a steeply WNW-dipping
 
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