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Pentlandite from
Key Lake Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pentlandite
Formula:(NixFey)ÎŁ9S8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pentlandite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Key Lake Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1239245
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1239245:4
GUID (UUID V4):93b7be81-8f71-4380-90bb-abe1e1543e1c
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogical characterization of As, Fe, and Ni in uranium mine tailings Joseph EssilïŹe-Dughan a,⇑, M. Jim Hendry...Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5E2 b Canadian Light...Source Inc., University of Saskatchewan, 101 Perimeter Road, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 0X4 c Cameco Corporation...Corporation, 2121-11th Street West, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7M 1J3 Received 23 November 2011; accepted in revised...Tailings Management Facility (DTMF), northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Backscattered electron images of the tailings
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disseminated to massive sulfide F'rinted in Canada / Imprime au Canada (greater than 50% total sulfide). Mineralized...polydymite or pyrite + polydymite + vaesite. Pentlandite and pyrrhotite appear locally as blebs within...deposits (Cyprus type) or with a pyrrhotite + pentlandite + chalcopyrite + pyrite assemblage that characterizes...close proximity to arc volcanoes in a marginal basin. All of these rock units were metamorphosed to greenschist... 745 CARTEN AND TAYEB Millerite Vaesite Pentlandite Number of samples 14 10 3 4 Ni 55.69 (1.41)
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Unconformity-Type Uranium Deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Canada P. ALEXANDRE,†,* K. KYSER, P. POLITO, Department...Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 AND D. THOMAS Cameco Corporation, 2121...2121, 11th Street West, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7M 1J3 Abstract Unconformity-type uranium deposits...deposits at Rabbit Lake, Dawn Lake, and McArthur River, in the Athabasca basin of Canada, which are hosted...uranium from the overlying sandstones of the Athabasca Formation and transported it into the basement
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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
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...2.3. The Athabasca Basin Type area for classification................... 31 2.2.4. Cigar Lake deposit.............................. 63 2.3.2. Canada (Athabasca Basin) .......................................................... 64 2.3.3. Canada (other basins) .................................................
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Robertson J.A. (Blind River-Elliot Lake, Canada), Ruhrmann G. (Saskatchewan, Canada), Ruzicka V. (CSFR), Saucier... USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid M....Uranium Deposits (Type 1, Chap. 4): Athabasca Basin Region, Canada......................................in Albitized Metasediments: Uranium City Region, Canada........................................ 137 5...Granite-Related Vein Uranium Deposits: Schwartzwalder Mine, Front Range, USA .............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada and their integration in the evolution of the basin Paul Alexandre...sediment-hosted unconformity-related deposits in the Athabasca Basin, Canada. Post-peak metamorphic cooling during the...Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6 e-mail: alexandre@geol.queensu.ca K. Kyser...Corporation, 2121, 11th Street West, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7M 1J3 D. Thomas e-mail: dave_thomas@cameco.com...maximum age for the formation of the overlying Athabasca Basin. Pre-ore alteration occurred simultaneously
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area is a frontie r region of mineral activity in Canada. There ar e presently no operating mines and exploration...have to be close to tidewater (such as Arvik) or mine minerals which in concentrate form could be flown...Mineral Industry Companies!/ Aquitaine Company of Canada Limited Arvik Mines Limited BP (Alaska) Limited...Limited Cominco Limited Denison Mines Limited Diapros Canada Limited (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.) Eldorado... Giant Yellowknife Mines Limited Gulf Minerals Canada Limited Hudson Bay Exploration and Development
Report (issue)
Geologic 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...(McArthur River, Rabbit Lake, Eagle Point, McClean Lake, Dominique-Peter in Canada; Jabiluka, Ranger, Nabarlek...(Cigar Lake, Key Lake, Collins Bay A, B and D zones, Midwest, McClean, Cluff Lake D in Canada). 2. Sandstone...Sossego in South America; Michelin and Sue-Dianne in Canada. 4. Quartzpebble conglomerate deposits: Detrital
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block I experienced recently when visiting a gold mine in virtually unmetamorphosed ground. A fault cuts..."common sense" observations described from the gold mine with the chert and the organic matter. Another potent...Alterations of Conglomeratic Uranium Ores, Pronto Mine, Ontario, Canada E.Wm. Heinrich (With 1 Figure). . . . ....in Galenas in the Uranium Ores at Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada W. Scott Meddaugh, H.D. Holland, and N....Observations on Ore Rhythmites of the Trzebionka Mine, Upper Silesian-Cracow Region, Poland L. Fontbote
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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 (issue)
United States of America........................... Canada............................................. Mexi...quartz-pebble conglomerate at the Elliot Lake-Blind River area, Canada (average grade 0.12 percent U30s), and...and at the Witwatersrand basin area in the Republic of South Africa (average grade 0.025 percent U308)...cobalt and silver in the Northwest Territories of Canada, for radium and vanadium in Colorado, and for silver...1943) (e.g., Blind River-Elliot Lake area and other areas in Canada; Greenland, Australia, Africa, India
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...uraninite. Major deposits occur in the Athabasca Basin in Canada and the Alligator River region of Australia... 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
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viii Marcasite Millerite Molybdenite Niccolite Pentlandite Platinum Proustite Psilomelane Pyrargyrite Pyrite...Johan 1982) from pp. 28-34; Geological Survey of Canada for tables 4.6 Sc 4.9 (McLeod Sc Cham­ berlain...Tetrahedrite Green Yellow Tetrahedrite Pyrite, pentlandite (in comparison with adjacent minerals) 3. ...Light grey Brown-grey Native copper Native gold Pentlandite Galena Pyrite, native silver Native platinum...within it. Samples which have been collected in a mine or open pit exhibit more abundant reflections as
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COLIN E. DUNN Consulting Geochemist Sidney, BC, Canada Amsterdam  Boston  Heidelberg  London  New...and semi-arid . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern basin and range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...47 48 49 50 51 52 52 52 VI Contents Southern basin and range, and desert of the southwestern USA and.... . . . . . . . . . Canada: La Ronge and Glennie Domains, Northern Saskatchewan . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rod Zone – Jolu Mine – La Ronge Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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disseminating the information, the mine geologists and mine managers who have made the mine visits a rewarding experience...concentration required to achieve the break-even point for a mine in terms of revenue and costs. Any detailed exploration...Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia Manitoba. Canada Ni-sulfide (Kambalda) Ni-sulfide (Preservance)...Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia Dore Lake Complex, Canada Ni-sulfide (Carr Boyd) 1 . Intrusions...Complex, USA Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Sudbury Complex, Canada Chromite, Ni-Cu sulfide, Pt-Pd ore Pt-Pd ore Chromite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines and intensity of ACCEPTED...colonialism, modern economic booms (Belich, 2009). Active mine numbers and sizes skyrocketed during two World Wars...rapidly growing number of mineral discoveries and mine establishment was partly driven by the discovery...of conquests and non-military acquisitions. But mine importance and fame did not necessarily correspond...(super) giant fields of the world (minus those in Canada and the TE United States) and recorded a steady
Report (issue)
BULGARIA BURKINA FASO BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA...Description of a selected deposit: The Denison mine deposit (Canada) ....... 304 Surficial deposits ..........Charlebois Lake, Canada); (b) Disseminations in migmatitic rocks (Nipissing Lake, Canada); (c) Veins...(Australia); Port Radium, Ace–Fay–Verna, Gunnar (Canada); Shinkolobwe (former Zaire); Jachymov (former...conglomerates) (Blind River district (Canada); Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa)); (iii) Deposits located
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Hill Hall. Oxford 0X3 OBW. England CANADA Pergamon Press Canada Ltd.. Suite 104. 150 Consumers Road...Road. Willowdale. Ontario M2J 1 P9. Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.. P.O. Box 544. Potts...prior to the meeting and the Sludyanka phlogopite mine at Irkutsk afterwards. Precambrian Mineral Deposits...studies in beneficiation and metallurgy, design of mine and process plant, and, last but not least, the...evidence on the origin of the Shamrock v 11 N o copper mine, Rhodesia", Min. Deposits« > « 3 , pp. 298-310.
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F.G. Martyshev: Pond Fisheries R.N. Burukovskii: Key to Shrimps and Lobsters V.M. Novikov (editor): Handbook...Majithia ISBN 90 6191 990 8 Distributed in USA and Canada by: A.A. Balkema Publishers, Old Post Road, Brookfield...48 ST 62 72 General Characteristics Krivoy Rog Basin Ladoga-Bothnian Belt Mount Isa Inlier Pine Creek...Characteristics Witwatersrand Basin Hamersley Basin Kodaro-Udokan Basin Yudomo-Maya Trough 121 q 2...Tectonometasomatic Zones of the Kirovograd Block Athabasca Basin and its Framing REGIONS OF TECTONOMAGMATIC
Report (issue)
de Maisonneuve Boulevard West MontrĂ©al, QuĂ©bec, Canada H3Z 3B8 ISBN 1-894475-27-5 Papers in this volume...Petroleum, Special Volume 54, p. 483-506. PRINTED IN CANADA by Marc Veilleux Imprimeur Inc. Preface Background...in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or so years, colleagues...to and immediately following my retirement from Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Resources (CANMET)...volume is that the authors come from ten countries: Canada, People’s Republic of China, Denmark, England,
Report (issue)
deposits. I n the foreground i s a grid of causeways on Lake Lefroy. Diamond drilting from these causeways has...Hunt shoots which plunge south-southeast under the lake. In the middleground the township of Kambalda East...currently provides about 7 per cent of the world‘s mine production of nickel (1978).It is the third largest...of sulphide nickel, supplying some 12 per cent of mine production, and possessing nearly 15 per cent of...30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. World and Australian mine production of nickel, 1900-1979 ...............
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 2B4, Canada Carl, N., M. Sc. Environmental Science Division...Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. KIS 5B6, Canada Foster. C. B., Dr. Western Mining Corp. Ltd., Petroleum...Geological Survey of Canada, 3303-33rd St. N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A 7, Canada von Gehlen, K., Prof...Geological Survey of Canada, 3303-33rd St. N.W., Calgary. Alberta T2L 2A 7, Canada List of Contributors...Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A OE8, Canada Mossman, D. J., Prof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; colleen.atherton@stantec.com (C.A.); liannasm@uwaterloo...University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; lsmith@eoas.ubc.ca Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada; richardamos@cunet.carleton.ca Department of Civil...Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada; dbarsi@ualberta.ca (D.R.B.); dsego@ualberta.ca...tonnes per year [1]. Poor quality effluent from mine wastes is an extremely difficult problem to mitigate
Journal (volume)
of the key issues in modern mining is the sustainable management of extractive wastes. The key challenges...quality measured from waste facilities at Finnish mine sites. In addition, the use of reactive transport...substances, for example, as a cover material in mine closure. Moreover, different mineral processing...environmental performance of arsenic-containing sulphide mine tailings, and the effects of these modifications...tools for the prediction of drainage quality from mine wastes.........................................
 
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