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Galena from
Black Angel Mine, Maarmorilik, Avannaata, Greenland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphaleriteⓘ1 photo of Galena associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Angel Mine, Maarmorilik, Avannaata, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:123339
Long-form Identifier:1:3:123339:1
GUID (UUID V4):b8e1ccfa-316d-46c1-8a9f-b9eb498ec7ae
References
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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 â–Č Inland Ice â–Č Hudson...500 km â–Č 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...+6.9‰ on sulfide minerals (pyrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite); isotopic fractionations and geothermometry...reduction processes. Isotopic analysis (Pb-Pb) of galena from ore zones hosted by the Mârmorilik Formation
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...Group. The ore consists of sphalerite, pyrite, and galena, with minor amounts of chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite...grains and is commonly surrounded by sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite. Deformation textures such as...tetrahedrite-freibergite and galena are enriched in Ag and represent the main Ag carriers. Galena also hosts substantial
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
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
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...remobilization of quartz and ductile sulfides (galena,tennantite,sphalerite,chalcopyrite)took place in...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...metamorphic grades. Sphalerite aggregates in a galena matrix may show evidence of brittle deformation...to a partitioning of strain into highly ductile galena, whereas the sphalerite, because it is unable to...(recovery) but were not subsequently annealed. Galena Galena typically displays evidence of' ductile deformation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
convincing example is recorded for the Elizabeth Mine in Vermont (McKinstry and Mikkola, 1954; Howard...such a way that certain minerals - and especially galena -. tend to be concentrated along the crests of...provided b y M c D o n a l d (1970), who documented galena enrichment in fold crests at Mt. Isa, and by Juve...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
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...character of six individual ore bodies at the Balmat mine in an effort to provide additional evidence for...the Carthage-Colton line northwesterly towards Black Lake. 2.2 Stratigraphy The Balmat massive sulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Marshall and Gilligan, 1987 ). Most of the sulphides (galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite, but not...(modified from Marshall and Gilligan, 1987). G. =galena, P o = p y r r h o t i t e , Sp = sphalerite, Cp...exist for pyrite (McClay and Ellis, 43 1983) and galena (McClay, 1991). There is also a rapidly expanding...perature path on deformationmechanism maps for galena, quartz and pyrite (Siemes et al., 1991 ). Of particular...accelerating, but grossly different, strain rates for galena, quartz and pyrite over the 200 °-400°C temperature
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
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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...sphalerite and galena Barite,pyrite, sphalerite and galena Barite,sphalerite, galena, and pyrite Pyrite...Pyrite, sphalerite, galena, barite, pyrrhotite, magnetite and chalcopyrite Pyrrhotite, pyrite, sphalerite...sphalerite and galena Upper greenschist Upper greenschist Feeder zones at the western part of the ore body
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tendency toward cataclasis whereas sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite exhibit a variety of microstructures...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...major mineral paragenesis includes sphalerite, galena, fluorite, barite, siderite, calcite, and quartz...minerals in the eastern mineralized zone, whereas galena, fluorite, and calcite are predominant in the west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and sphalerite, and minor cubanite, magnetite, galena, rutile, and electrum. Gangue minerals are dominated...Abitibi Belt, Canada: Sangster, 1972; Black Angel Mine, Greenland: Pedersen, 1980; Broken Hill, Australia:...This work was funded by the Countrywide Critical Mine Backup Resources Prospecting Program (20089940)...D.J., 2001. Partial melting of the Broken Hill galena–sphalerite ore: experimental studies in the system...Remobilization of the massive sulïŹde ore of Black Angel Mine, central West Greenland. Econ. Geol. 75 (7), 1022–1041
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)
(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)
(Guest-Editors), Geochemislry of Metalliferous Black Shales. Chem. Geol., 99: 165-188. Stratiform sediment-hosted...Aberfeldy, Scotland, U.K. Rosh Pinai, Namibia Black Angel, Greenland Lower Cambrian Upper Proterozoic ~ 600...finely laminated (or "stratiform") sphalerite, galena, pyrite a n d / o r pyrrhotite interbedded with...Zn-Pb deposit. The stratiform sulphide deposit (black) includes an upper (UH) and lower (LH) stratiform...Russia (e.g., K h o l o d n i n a ) , and Greenland (e.g., Black Angel). Late Proterozoic deposits ( 8 0 0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
paragenesis of some pyrites. been observed forming at black smoker sites along oceanic spreading centres (Edmond...right) Polycrystalline pyrite where interstitial galena has been trapped as lens like and triangular masses...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...with pyrite crystals as large is the Black Angel Mine in Greenland (K. McClay, pers. comm.); unfortunately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and in Winkl sphalerite forms a paragenesis with galena. In all three localities, the sphalerites are characterized...Mineralisation) nach BAUER et al. (2019) und aus der ‚Black Angel‘-LagerstĂ€tte in West-Grönland, BLA (Proterozoikum)...an Karbonate gebundenen, metamorph ĂŒberprĂ€gten ‚Black Angel‘LagerstĂ€tte (W-Grönland) angefĂŒhrt. Die Zinkblenden...Hg-Gehalten mit den Daten von Zinkblenden der ‚Black Angel‘-LagerstĂ€tte in WGrönland. Dabei handelt es sich...ores at the Paleoproterozoic Black Angel deposit, central West Greenland. – Miner. Dep., 54, 507-524.
Book
Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc., Healy, Alaska — Doyon, Limited, Fairbanks, Alaska — Valdez Creek Mine, Cambior Alaska...profound. Thus, the challenges of developing an arctic mine are immense. All arctic mining projects have similar...fundamental and timely material of high quality for new mine development in the arctic. We hope you agree that...that most interests you, be it mine design, geomechanics or arctic mine environment. As program chairmen... Dr. John EM.Sims, Vice President Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc., Alaska Echo Bay Alaska, Juneau, Alaska
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
t ore type. The The m i c a s - (both white and black) o r e - b e a r i n g CFm d e v e l o p s rather...sometimes the m a r g i n a l parts of the ore bodies (black quartzites). ORE M I N E R A L O G Y The main ore...p a r t s of the CFm are pyrite, sphalerite and galena, with s u b o r d i n a t e pyrrhotite, 522 ...grains show p r e s s u r e shadows filled up with galena. I n c r e a s i n g g r a i n size of the ore...layers; (b) highly deformed ore-bearing limestones. Mine drawings. I: dolomites; 2: limestones; 3: massive
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containing 50–75% vol. pyrrhotite, with sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite as the...the predominant foliation observable in the Hajjar mine; and iv) finally, a post-kinematic thermal event...Massif. In the Oriental Guemassa, in which the Hajjar mine is located, the N’Fis block appears to present a...by sub-surface structural data from underground mine of the foliation/shear planes is also supported...by sub-surface structural data from underground mine works (cf. infra). Note that the S1 trajectories
Report (issue)
silver-containing batteries 80 Table 10 United Kingdom mine production of silver: 1851-1982 83 Table 11 United...86 Table 13 World mine production of silver: 1821-1981 87 Table 14 World mine production of silver...of world silver mine production: 18661870 and 1980 89 Table 16 World and UK mine production of silver...of world total requirements. About 75% of world mine production of silver is obtained as a by-product...consumption and new, "under the ground'' production (mine production) of silver is made up mainly from scrap
 
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