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Sphalerite from
Cigar Lake Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cigar Lake Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:262289
Long-form Identifier:1:3:262289:7
GUID (UUID V4):8e0b57fd-dc18-4d53-b23b-3af3599bba39
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
42.0km (26.1 miles) Roughrider deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
48.3km (30.0 miles) McLean Lake deposit, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
50.5km (31.4 miles) Rabbit Lake Mine, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
81.4km (50.6 miles) George, Foster River, Saskatchewan, Canada
References
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Journal (issue)
FALL & WINTER THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SASKATCHEWAN MINING ASSOCIATION Publication Mail Agreement...29 #TIMETODIGDEEPER Producing more potash in Canada is better for the world—and you. Fewer emissions...mobile phone to visit the website Yet, one-sided Canada only extra costs are making it increasingly difficult...Publication of The Saskatchewan Mining Association ORE is produced solely by the Saskatchewan Mining Association...HEAD OFFICE Suite 610 2220-12th Avenue Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 0M8 Telephone: (306) 757-9505 Email: admin@saskmining
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) .................................................
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...sandstones (Cigar Lake, Key Lake, Collins Bay A, B and D zones, Midwest, McClean, Cluff Lake D in Canada). 2...Sossego in South America; Michelin and Sue-Dianne in Canada. 4. Quartzpebble conglomerate deposits: Detrital
Report (issue)
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY AND HELD IN SASKATOON, CANADA, 1-3 SEPTEMBER 1987 A TECHNICAL DOCUMENT ISSUED...1987 in Saskatoon, Canada. The meeting took place in the University of Saskatchewan, hosted by the Department...with Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. Thirtysix technical papers were presented to a...and deposits and their geological framework in Canada and the USA, with analogies from other parts of...the University of Saskatchewan and Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada for hosting the meeting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unconformity-type ore mineralization as observed in the Athabasca uranium field. The results of solubility calculations...most unconformity-type uranium deposits in the Athabasca district, appreciable decreases in the above variables...Particularly, uranium fields of the Athabasca district in Canada and the Alligator Rivers district in...solutions is still uncertain in the case of the Athabasca uranium mineralization, and most previous studies...unconformity-type uranium mineralizations in the Athabasca district, Canada. Solubility calculation For the purpose
Book
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)
with the bbull’s-eyeQ aggregates are marcasite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, bornite, clausthalite...quartz Microcrystalline quartz Pyrite Marcasite Sphalerite Clausthalite Galena Chalcopyrite Bornite Hematite...minerals include uraninite, pyrite, marcasite, sphalerite, clausthalite, galena, chalcopyrite, bornite...chalcopyrite (Cp). (e) Intergrowth of galena (white) and sphalerite (dark gray). (f) Intergrowth of chalcopyrite...chalcopyrite (center, gray-white) with surrounding sphalerite (margin, gray). (For interpretation of the references
Book
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)
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada kyser@geol.queensu.ca and Michel Cuney G2R, Nancy-Université...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
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 500 EXPLORING FOR MINERALS IN ALBERTA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA GEOSCIENCE...GEOSCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS, CANADA-ALBERTA AGREEMENT ON MINERAL DEVELOPMENT (1992-1995) Edited by R - W. Macqueen...SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 500 EXPLORING FOR MINERALS IN ALBERTA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA GEOSCIENCE...GEOSCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS, CANADA-ALBERTA AGREEMENT ON MINERAL DEVELOPMENT (1992-1995) Edited by R. W. Macqueen...Queen in Right of Canada, 1997 Catalogue No. M42-500E ISBN 0-660-16725-5 Available in Canada from Geological
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
natural analogue studies: Pocß os de Caldas, Cigar Lake, Maqarin, El Berrocal, Oklo and Palmottu. To...mineralisation (Chapman et al., 1993);  Cigar Lake (Canada), a 1.3-billion-year-old uranium deposit...reactor systems located in a Precambrian sedimentary basin (Louvat et al., 1998); and  Palmottu (Finland)...(Switzerland), Harwell (UK) and Atkins (UK). Cigar Lake: MBT (Spain). Maqarin: AEA (UK), Chalmers University... Sandstone– clay media: Oklo (Gabon) and Cigar Lake (Canada);  Alkaline volcanic media: Poc ßos de Caldas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit on the northeastern coast of the Ladoga Lake remains a single manifestation of uranium mineralization...6 12 Fig. 1. Schematic map of the Pasha–Ladoga Basin, after Novikov et al. (2001) and stratigraphic column...GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS Vol. 54 No. 1 2012 Basin without any relations to mineralization. These processes...processes of catage netic type in the Pasha–Ladoga Basin are ubiquitous. 44 ANDREEVA W E (a) R m –100...elsewhere in barren parts of the Pasha– Ladoga Basin. The dispersed iron oxides and hydrox ides, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Africa, and the Blind River-Elliot Lake uranium deposit in Canada (Villaça, 1976; Frimmel and Hennigh...detrital origin for the gold in the Witwatersrand basin. Moreover, the Os contents of Witwatersrand gold...high-grade U ores, such as those in the Athabasca basin, Canada. Main characteristics of this deposit type...deposits. For instance, one can distinguish between basin- or basement-hosted deposits, depending on where...Skirrow et al., 2016). Some basins, such as Athabasca, have both basin- and basementhosted deposits. While consensus
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LEUCOGRANITES IN THE WOLLASTON DOMAIN, NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA: MINERAL COMPOSITIONS AND CONDITIONS OF...University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada Irvine R. ANNESLEY...Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, and JNR Resources...204–315 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 0G6, Canada Kevin M. ANSDELL Department of Geological...University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada Abstract The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been discovered in lower horizons of the Athabaska basin, in the S a s k a t c h e w a n Province of the...C a n a d i a n Shield (McClean, Rabbit Lake, and Cigar Lake deposits) (Hoeve and Silbald, 1978; Wallis...discovered on the periph­ ery of the Middle Proterozoic basin in the Alligator Rivers area of the North Australian...1). Ulkansky and Urchyrsky Basins The Ulkansky basin formed during the Early Proterozoic (Gamaleya, 1968;...part of the basin and 200 to 400 m thick in the northern part. The central part of the basin c o n t a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are recorded at the Rožná uranium deposit (total mine production of 23,000 t U, average grade of 0.24%...part of the Rožná-Olší uranium ore district, total mine production of 23,000 t U) located 45 km NW of Brno...243% U and a cut-off grade of 0.04% U. The annual mine production is about 284 t U. Numerous unpublished...were measured in siderite, calcite, quartz, and sphalerite of various paragenetic stages using a Chaixmeca...determinations were carried out by Actlabs Laboratories, Canada. The extractable organic matter (EOM) of solid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MA 1 Training Network (CREAIT), St. John's, Canada AC CE D-55128 Mainz, Germany D Johannes G...processes. Suitable field areas such as the South East Basin in France (Aquilina MA et al. 2011), the Moroccan...Brooke Range (Leach et al. 2004), the Athabasca Basin in Canada (Richard et D al. 2016; Martz et al...et al. 1995) , the St. Lawrence Rift System in Canada (Carignan et al. 1997), the Otavi Mountainland...related to rifts and unconformities (e.g. Athabasca Basin; Richard et al. 2016; Yukon Territory, Rio
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Center for NanoBioEarth, Department of Geosciences...collected from a U mill and mine tailings at Key Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. The tailings material contains...have been most likely formed in the sedimentary basin of the U-ore deposit and contain low amounts of...waste barrier systems such as in constructed Uranium mine and mill tailings facilities (Bouazza et al., 2002;...products in an U mill and mine tailings at Key Lake site, Saskatchewan, Canada under near neutral pH conditions
Book
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...deposits and banded iron formations of Hamersley Basin, massive sulphide deposits of Broken Hill and Mount
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have been studied are hosted by sandstone in Cigar Lake, Canada, by quartz muscovite schist in Koongarra...pitchblende are: pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and hematite. The gangue minerals are: microcrystalline-quartz...Sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in northern Saskatchewan as natural analogs to nuclear fuel waste disposal...for nuclear fuel waste disposal. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Report AECL-10291, 109 pp. Cramer, J.J., Smellie...report of the AECLrSKB Cigar Lake analog study. Whiteshell Laboratories, Canada, pp. 50–62. Cramer, J
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...fault and the McArthur River uranium deposit, Athabasca Basin ............................................Lakes Zone B uranium-thorium-REE deposit, Saskatchewan, Canada: 3D GOCAD modeling to initiate a NI 43-101...Bayinwula roll front-type uranium deposit, Erlian Basin, NE China. . . ..................................schist in the Dufferin Lake Zone, south central Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada .................
Report (volume)
Geological Survey of Canada, Canada P. T. BOBROWSKY British Columbia Geological Survey, Canada G. E. M. HALL...Survey of Canada, Canada & S. J. COOK Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Co. Ltd., Canada 2001 Published...glaciated terrain of Canada 83 Lake sediment geochemistry COOK, S. J. & MCCONNELL, J. W. Lake sediment geochemical...from the Swayze greenstone belt, northern Ontario, Canada 165 Case Histories I - Geochemical exploration...in the western Abitibi Greenstone Belt, central Canada 201 EARLE, S. Application of composite glacial
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gabon, and unconformable U-deposits within Athabasca Basin, Canada (e.g., Kotzer and Kyser, 1993; Janeczek...of As in uraninite from the widely cited Nopal I mine (Janeczek et al., 1996; Finch and Murakami, 1999)...Colorado, is in the Rocky Mountain and Intermountain Basin Uranium Province, USA (Dahlkamp, 1993; Finch, 1996)...different ages for the rock units at the Lookout Mine: 94, 99, and 203 Ma using the U–Pb method, and suggested...(Fig. 1). Samples were collected from the Lookout Mine No. 22, where a high-grade ore formed by complete
 
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