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Gabbro from
Merry Widow Mine, Port McNeill, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Gabbro
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gabbro data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merry Widow Mine, Port McNeill, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1613488
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1613488:5
GUID (UUID V4):b169b2e9-28af-430e-87e7-84842adc7835
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correspondance with Giles Peatfied Identification: Visual Identification
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Book (volume)
Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island LIDAARY Digitized by the Internet...Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island Rick Hudson OrCA BOOK PUBLISHERS...mineral sites of British Columbia Includes index. Contents: Vol. I, Vancouver Island ISBN 1-55143-057-6...and mineral resources — British Columbia. 2. Prospecting — British Columbia. I. Title TN27.B7H82 1996...Printed and bound in Canada Orca Book Publishers PO Box 5626, Station B Victoria, BC Canada V8R 6S4 GE) 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGNETITE BRITISH G. E. ON VANCOUVER COLUMBIA ISLAND, • P. EASTWOOD ABSTRACT Magnetite on Vancouver Island...resultsof a fieldstudyof severalmagnetite depositson Vancouver Islandandconsiders possible originsof the magnetite...pastdozenyearsmagnetite mininghasblossomed alongthe coastof British Columbia. The individualdeposits are relativelysmall...narrowingthe search. Magnetite depositson the British Columbia coast have been examined at varioustimesduring...Resources. 124 REPLACEMENT MAGNETITE I' ON VANCOUVER ISLAND ' 125 [ FIG. 1. VancouverIsland. Areas
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and Petrology of Iron Skarnsin Western British Columbia, Canada LAWRENCE D. MEINERT Departmentof Geology...Most of thesedeposits were formed in an oceanic island-arc environment and were later accreted to continental...of six calciciron skarn depositsin western British Columbia documentsseveralimportant differencesfrom...andgeometries. calcic iron skarns which form in oceanic island-arc As a groupthesedepositssharethe generalfeatures... '"l7 , ...., Geology and Tectonic Setting British Columb •?•'i)) . Iron Crown .a Iron Hill
Report (volume)
complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...In recent years, a significant proportion of the mining industry's interest has been centered on discovery...found in Paleozoic and Cenozoic orogenic-belt and island-arc settings and are associated with felsic to... INTRODUCTION Gold exploration efforts of the mining industry in the last few years have centered on...Company; Edward I. Bloomstein of Santa Fe Pacific Mining, Inc.; Gail M. Jones of Western Geologic Resources
Report (issue)
1987 INTRODUCTION A significant proportion of mining industry's interest in the last few years has been...Goosly), British Columbia; Salsigne, France; Pamlico, Nevada; Red Cloud, Nevada; Island Copper, British Columbia;...Bi-bearing skarns (Stormant) are known in the Moina Mining District, Tasmania, Australia, which is largely...Gold Company; and Edward I. Bloomstein of Santa Fe Mining. GEOLOGIC DESCRIPTION Deposit type: Other Names:...setting: In North America, mostly cordiHeran and island-arc settings; some in rifted craton. Emplacement
Report (issue)
of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits... by Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....County,. showing area included in this report and mining districts and areas separately described . . .
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other adjacent islands, and Hawaii, Guam, and other island possessions, but not the trust territories of the...Washington, D. C. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York...-Arkansas Resources and Development Commission, Division of Geology Bulletin; Information Circular. Little...Breviora. Cambridge, Mass. British Columbia Dept. Mines Ann. Rept.; BulL-British Columbia Department of Mines...Mines Annual Report; Bulletin. Victoria, British Columbia. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. BulL-Buffalo Society of
Report (volume)
Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Published for the Geological Society...Society of CIM as VOLUME 46 by the OF MINING, METALLURGY SPECIAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE NORTHWEST COMMUNITY...PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT © 1995 BY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM Suite 1210, 3400 de Maisonneuve...Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3Z 3B8 ISBN 0-919086-56-X PRINTED BY HARPELL’S...PRESS COOPERATIVE Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada Preface CIM Special Volume 46 is organized into
in the field ~“ Various geological locations iin Canada© Physical properties of minerals and rocks, and...surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development...publishing activities. Ss Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada vw ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts. and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial suppo1t of the Government of Canada through the Book Pubbshing lndus!Jy Development...publishing activities. Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada PA ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL...CONSEIL DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Grice, Joel Beginner's...Key How to Tdentify a Rock Geological Regions of Canada 6 6 6 7 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 Metallic Minerals
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evaluation: Church, C. C., 2. Alaska, Blashke Island ultrabasic Geiger and scintillation counters, complex:...species: Link, T. A., A., 9. 13. British Columbia ores, zoning: Geology in Canada: Hume, G. S., Gunning, H....the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson...G. P., 3. 1951: Moody, C. L., 2. Zoning in British Columbia ores: Gunning, H. C. , 5. Scientific side:...United Alaska, evaluation of soil and States and Canada: Levorsen, permafrost conditions: Frost, A. I.
Journal (issue)
Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...," or the already formed crystal itself. Such division is natural from a genetic point of view, because...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...graduating from the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Mining Institute. Working here for nearly a year, the
Report (volume)
17 Climate and vegetation. 18 _._ History of mining and present conditions___________________ 20 ...68 Syenitic rocks___________________________ 68 Gabbro _____________________________ 69 Diabase _________________..._______________ . Placers __ _ Mineralogy ____________ Mining districts, camps, and properties. Helvetia district_..._______________ _____ Ore deposits _ . Copper World mine ____ _____ _____ Location and topography _ _ History..._____ Black Horse mine _ Leader mine_ '. Isle Royal mine Heavy Weight mine Old Dick mine _______________
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adjacent islands, and also Guam and other Pacific island possessions but not the trust territories of the...possessions of the United States, the provinces of Canada, and well-known areas like the Atlantic Coastal...are: ALABAMA, ALBERTA, CANADA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, NEVADA, and UNITED STATES. CANADA and UNITED STATES are...gas potentialities would be indexed only under CANADA and not under each province discussed in the paper...and have not been searched completely. A.I.M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Abs. Tech. Papers;
Report (volume)
install or use our processes in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Cuba (without direct written sanction...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
Book
are of considerable aid to the exploration and mining geologist in areas of known mineralization, but...advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, and to mining and exploration geologists. lowe no small debt................... . Porphyry Copper Deposits in Island Arcs .. . The Panguna Porphyry Copper Deposit,...the BathurstNewcastle District, New Brunswick, Canada Discussion of Tectonic Environments ....... Discussion...Deposits ................ . 4.5.2 The Homestake Gold Mine, South Dakota .. 4.5.3 Pre-Metamorphic Stratiform
Report (issue)
S. Bureau of Mines maps depicting locations of mining claims were used extensively. Cobb's and the AMRAP...from general usage. In some cases more than one mine or prospect are grouped under the same map number...duplicate and generally less valid names for the mine or prospect preceding the parentheses. MAP COORDINATES...use. CATEGORY The terms mine, prospect, and occurrence are used as follows: Mine a mineral deposit with...known from recent U.S. Geological Survey or Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys field investigations
Book (edition)
to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay
Journal (volume)
"^'^^S'''^^^''^ 107 V, '^'^M^i^ JULY TO DECEMBER 1913 Mining and 429 MARKET STREET Scientific Press SAN FRANCISCO...Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, Editorial. Accident...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules, Copper...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...apreciatlon. On fissure veins i Ahmeek Copper Mining . . . Co., . .F. . . 620 386 366 1 978
Report (issue)
Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources of Mining and (Socorro) or the libraries at New Mexico Institute...5,000-150,000 1,450,000 North Saskatchewan, Canada Marjaniemi and Basler,l972; Rich and others, 1975;...Dahlkamp and Adams, 1 9 8 1 450,000 Blind River, Canada Houston and Karlstrom, 1979 600,000 Rossing...and others, Armstrong, 1974 and:;1975 Bancroft, Canada Adams and others,1980 Plutonic-Metamorphic O...the libraries at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (.Socorro) and Universityof New
Journal (volume)
Mil' i I ';> ?mii Wmmh 11181 \ lMINING / DEPAfiTtriEiT Of Library Numbrr; M / Return...SD^al loan. / permJssie INDEX TO) VOLUME Mining and I imiin n ni 1920 it^!/f/vt n nun t...161 Science and industry. Allen, A. moving from mine-hoists Signaling Allen, C. A 232 cages 645 Allis-Chalmers...Consolidated Gold Fields of South 881 Africa 747 American Mining Congress Editorial. 752. 790, 826 Ditto 215 Co...book review Assaying methods at the Globe & Phoenix mine 4 51 H. R. Edmands. 108 Association of Accountants
Book
and Sherman P. Marsh 775 Electrical Methods in Mining Geophysics.Gerald W. Hohmann and Stanley H. Ward...profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated in...With the engineering and commercial aspects of mining, Economic Geology will not be directly concerned...vironments by generating long chains of volcanic island arcs around the margins of the conti¬ nents, and...cop¬ pers. Whether their habitat is continental or island arc, their alignment parallel to consuming plate
Journal (volume)
. 15 W. M. Brewer 485 793 177 Mexican Gold Mining Company 193 Alfred H. Brooks. Progress in 493 Yukon...American Institute of Mining Engineers. .F. L. Clerc... 346 Institute of Mining Engineers, OflUcerg of...Amparo Mining Company, Etzatian 731 Amur Region, Steam-Shovel In the Broken Hill Silver Mine.... 158...Agreement of 179 Assessment Work California State Mining Bureau.... 347 Aubury, L. E Blast-Furnace Tuyere...Tuyere. .. 392 Austin, L. S 893 Costs at the Osceola Mine Ditto 592 Ditto Costs of Lake Superior Smelting
Journal (issue)
Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa PL Associate.......................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ........................................ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................from a single locality: smithsonite from the Kelly mine. Probably ever since the 1860’s, when “Old Hutch”...prepare one for us; it covers not just the Kelly mine but the Mag­ dalena district as a whole. This is
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPORT 1 i y 1966...TROXEL, mining geologist California Division of Mines and PAUL K. MORTON, and Geology mining geologist...geologist California Division of Mines and Geology County Report f Ferry Building, San Francisco 1962...WILLIAM DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION DeWITT NELSON, DIVISION OF MINES IAN CAMPBELL, Director AND GEOLOGY...Acknowledgments Glossary of selected geologic and mining terms . GEOLOGIC FEATURES 19 19 General features
 
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