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Molybdenite from
Casino Mine, Coffee Creek, Whitehorse mining district, Yukon, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Age information
Maximum recorded age:75.05 Ā± 0.28 Ma
Minimum recorded age:74.36 Ā± 0.28 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
174.38 Ā± 0.28 MaLate/Upper Cretaceous - Re-Os
274.36 Ā± 0.28 MaLate/Upper Cretaceous - Re-Os
374.69 Ā± 0.28 MaLate/Upper Cretaceous - Re-Os
475.05 Ā± 0.28 MaLate/Upper Cretaceous - Re-Os
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Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Casino Mine, Coffee Creek, Whitehorse mining district, Yukon, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:622859
Long-form Identifier:1:3:622859:0
GUID (UUID V4):1910f9aa-3b48-40b5-b1a6-e6b2e93c3e52
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
8.1km (5.0 miles) ā“˜Zappa/Koffee occurrence, Whitehorse mining district, Yukon, Canada
11.1km (6.9 miles) ā“˜Idaho Creek occurrence, Whitehorse mining district, Yukon, Canada
27.8km (17.3 miles) ā“˜Pattison Occurrence, Whitehorse mining district, Yukon, Canada
71.5km (44.4 miles) ā“˜Cash Cu deposit, Whitehorse mining district, Yukon, Canada
81.7km (50.7 miles) ā“˜Minto Mine, Whitehorse mining district, Yukon, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Signatures of the Casino Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Deposit, Yukon, Canada M. B. McClenaghan,1,ā€  C. E...2Harquail Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8, Canada School of Earth Sciences...P3E 2C6, Canada 3Yukon Geological Survey, 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2B5, Canada Abstract...indicator methods to stream sediment samples around the Casino calc-alkaline porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit in the...west-central Yukon, Canada. It is one of the largest porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposits in Canada and is hosted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfidation epithermal environments in Yukon Territory, Canada R. J. Chapman 1 & M. M. Allan 2 & J. K...around calcalkaline porphyry deposits in Yukon (Nucleus-Revenue, Casino, Sonora Gulch, and Cyprus-Klaza) have...extremely weak or (most commonly) absent in both Yukon orogenic gold and gold from orogenic settings worldwide...corresponding inclusion suites observed in samples from Yukon. However, the Bi-Te association repeatedly observed...V6T1Z4, Canada 3 Radius Gold, Suite 650, 200 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C V6C 3L6, Canada Porphyry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auā€“Ag mineralization at the Mountain Freegold (Yukon, Canada): constraints from Arā€“Ar and Reā€“Os geochronology...Bailey Drive Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B5A3, Canada e-mail: thierry.bineli@unb.ca M. Chiaradia DĆ©partement...Miller Hall, Queenā€™s Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada R. A. Creaser Department of Earth and Atmospheric...Sciences, University of Alberta, Alberta T6G2E3 Canada quartz vein, which has Ī“34S values between āˆ’8...Arā€“Ar plateau age of 76.25Ā±0.53 Ma. Likewise, molybdenite Reā€“Os model ages range from 75.8 to 78.2 Ma,
Report (volume)
Columbia, Canada Published for the Geological Society of CIM as VOLUME 46 by the OF MINING, METALLURGY...PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT Ā© 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 HARPELLā€™S...PRESS COOPERATIVE Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada Preface CIM Special Volume 46 is organized into...regional overviews of Washington, British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska; Part B ā€” porphyry copper (+ Au+Mo)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lithologically controlled invisible gold, Yukon, Canada Doug MacKenzie & Dave Craw & Craig Finnigan...2014 Abstract The newly discovered Cretaceous Coffee orogenic gold deposit (>4 Moz resource) consists...Science, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada fuchsite and magnesite alteration. Near-surface...deposits were relatively simple exploration and mining targets which were important sources of gold for...2011). As a result of these developments in the mining sphere, modern exploration programmes are increasingly
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY COPYRIGHT (1986) BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY...400, 1130 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2M8 ISBN 0-919086-15-2 PRINTED BY HARPELL'S...of a symposium held December 5-7, 1983, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Co-sponsored by the Geology Division of CIM...Division (MDD) of the Geological Association of Canada and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern...Stratiform, Sediment-hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits in Yukon and Northeastern British Columbia J.G. ABBOT, S
Book
diagrams were drafted by Emma Carrillo of Newmont Mining, Barbara Procher of Amax Exploration and Ray Agnew...Research Limited, Rexdale, Ont. Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited, Toronto, Ont Department of...Most of British Columbia and more than half of the Yukon were repeatedly covered with glacial ice. Evidence...some fringe areas of the Yukon. There is, however, a large area in the Yukon which escaped glaciation...into the United States, and northward into the Yukon. It also extruded through passes in the Rockies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition of biotite from the Casino porphyry Cuā€“Auā€“Mo mineralization, Yukon, Canada: evaluation of magmatic...Sciences, Uniƕersity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 Received 30 October 1998; accepted 1 March...batholith and the Casino, porphyry-style Cuā€“Auā€“Mo occurrence, Yukon Territory, Canada. Biotite from the...propylitic, phyllic and potassic alteration zones of the Casino occurrence possesses higher X Mg , Al 2 O 3 , SiO...hydrothermal fluids associated with potassic alteration at Casino were similar to those associated with phyllic alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal fluids of porphyry Cu-Au-Mo systems, Yukon, Canada DAVID SELBY,1,* BRUCE E. NESBITT,1,ā€  ROBERT...University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University...University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, Canada (Received January 9, 1999; accepted in revised form August...Cretaceous porphyry Cu occurrences, west central Yukon, suggest a nonmagmatic fluid component was present...(87Sr/86Sri) isotopic values for the plutons are 0.7055 (Casino), 0.7048 (Mt. Nansen), and 0.7055 (Cash). The 87Sr/86Sri
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 From Glacial Grave to Gaming Casino:_ The Odyssey of a Float Copper from the Keweenaw...destined for a nine hour trip to the Four Winds Casino in South Bend, Indiana where they would be put...BobMascottphoto(June2009). (Continues on page 2) Molybdenite Climax Mine, Lake County, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet...werner@lcturbonet.com The Climax Mine, located in Lake County, Colorado (Fig. I), is perhaps the world's...molybdenum occurs in the form of the sulfide mineral, molybdenite (MoS 2), sometimes locally known as "molybedamnite"
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic-hydrothermal and hydromag- the Cabeza de Vaca district (Sillitoe and Sawkins, matic processesand therefore...deposit Childs-Aldwinklepipe in the Copper Creek district typesare generallyabsentfrom arc terranes,amag-...thoughthe absenceof examplesin Table 2 younger Creek districtis underlainby a mineralizedopenfisthan...No. of pipes (total/ Locality Tribag, Ontario, Canada Chadbourne, Ontario, Can- Host rocks Granite...Golden Sun- light, Montana Victoria, Nevada Copper Creek, Calcareous sedi- ments,latite porphyry Limestone
Report (issue)
........................................... P20 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ P25 Mine Closure...................................................... P11 Pie chart showing world rhenium mine production in 2012, by country and percent of world...present as a substitute for molybdenum in molybdenite. Annual world mine production of rhenium is about 50 metric...rhenium produced by mining rather than through recycling) is as a byproduct of copper mining, and about 80
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
particular segmentsof the Cordillera,include (1) Alaska-Yukon, passinginto (2) British Columbia-Washington, (3)...Rate (t.p.d.)x BritishColumbia 1967 46,000,000 Mine Alice (B. C. Molybdenum) 8,000 Company British...Columbia Molybdenumā€¢.Ltd., Kitsault, British Columbia,Canada (KennecottSubsidiary) Endako British Columbia...1030 W. Georgia St., Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada Boss Mountain British Columbia 1965 4,000,000...Ltd., Box 247, 100 Mile House,British Columbia,Canada (Noranda Subsidiary) Urad- Colorado 13,000,000
Book
Published by Society of Mining Engineers of The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum... Copyright Ā© 1978 by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. ...EXAMPLES ... BC Moly (Lime Creek), British ree : The Urad-Henderson Molybdenite Deposits. Boss Mountain...Deposits in the Sreia ity of # LE65 BC Moly (Lime Creek). ; eee et a 54 Ā¢ General Geologic Map of the BC...process is the 3.3 m.y. (million years) old Dry Creek occurrence in the Aleutian arc (this volume). On
Report (issue)
Format) formats, and the mineral-deposit and placer district tables in dBase 3/4, FileMaker Pro 2.0, and tab-delineated...GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA SIGNIFICANT METALLIFEROUS AND SELECTED NON-METALLIFEROUS...Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks 3-Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver 4-Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan...Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks; '-Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver; 4-Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan;...9-U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage INTRODUCTION Mine. A site where valuable minerals have been extracted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Journal Pre-proof Hydrogeochemistry in the Yukon-Tanana Upland region of east-central Alaska: Possible...Kelley, K.D., Graham, G.E., Hydrogeochemistry in the Yukon-Tanana Upland region of east-central Alaska: Possible...by Elsevier Ltd. 1 2 Hydrogeochemistry in the Yukon-Tanana Upland region of east-central Alaska: Possible...occurrences with epithermal-style characteristics in the Yukon-Tanana upland region of eastern Alaska. Surface...samples for the entire ~9 km length of 13 McCord Creek, which drains the Taurus deposit, and those from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB Canada E3B5A3 a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...dykes (Sarcheshmeh porphyries) in the Sarcheshmeh mine area. Fig. 3 shows the Sarcheshmeh porphyry, several...of the Sarcheshmeh mine Samples from intrusive rocks outside of the Sarcheshmeh mine have been collected...difļ¬cult to discriminate clearly the host rocks in the mine due to pervasive alteration. Waterman and Hamilton...Petrography of igneous rocks inside of the Sarcheshmeh mine Samples collected from the intrusions close to deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
whereas a wide range of minerals including molybdenite, bornite and various Bi and Te- bearing species...gold districts e.g., Klondike, Yukon [11] and the Cariboo Gold District, British Columbia [9]. Similarly...undertaken in Ecuador [12], British Columbia [13] and Yukon [14]. The same principles were applied to infer...of small scale metalliferous mining [20]. In Perthshire, historic mining was undertaken for lead and silver...historically only been produced as a by-product of mining other metals, some fairly notable alluvial mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
v. 102, pp. 1129ā€“1155 Bald Mountain Gold Mining District, Nevada: A Jurassic Reduced Intrusion-Related...Colorado 80209 Abstract The Bald Mountain mining district has produced about 2 million ounces (Moz) of...with exhumation made them amenable to open-pit mining and processing using cyanide heap leach methods...deposits (Fig. 1A) include the Battle Mountain district (Theodore, 2000) and the world-class Bingham deposit...porphyry-related Cu deposit at the small Victoria mine in the Dolly Varden Mountains (Atkinson et al.,
Report (issue)
AGES OF ROCKS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA AND WESTERN YUKON TERRITORY by Shawn V. Dadisman Open-File Report...ages of rocks in south-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory..................... Table 2. Explanation...ages of rocks in south-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory by Shawn V. Dadisroan This report is a...radiometric ages from south-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory. prior to June 1979 was utilized. Only...ages of rocks in south-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory SS Anchorage 61 00.2N 149 39.6W ANCH-2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Southwestern Grenville Province, Renfrew area, Ontario, Canadaā€”S. Salvi 77 CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY...composition of biotite from the Casino porphyry Cu-Au-Mo mineralization, Yukon, Canada: Evaluation of magmatic...and seismogeological boundaries of the Pechenga district in the Baltic Shield and the adjacent part of...potential-field imaging of the Guichon Creek batholith, British Columbia, Canada, to delineate structures hosting...Carbonate-mineral/water interactions in sulfide-rich mine tailingsā€” Tom A. Al, Chris J. Martin, and David
Report (issue)
Mineralogy and Paragenesis of the Pride of America Mine, Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colorado by Richard........... Geology of the mine area..................................... Mine workings and production history...MINERALOGY AND PARAGENESIS OF THE PRIDE OF AMERICA MINE, LAKE CITY, HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO By Richard...and Hugh O'Brien ABSTRACT The Pride of America Mine exposes two classic fissure-type veins in the Eureka...of the Sapinero Mesa Tuff. This small mine in the Galena District principally produced Ag, which occurs
Report (Issue volume)
greisens and stockworks at Wilsons Downfall, Back Creek and in the Tenterfield-Wallangarra area. They have...orebodies suitable for underground or open cut mining. The Clarence-Moreton Basin and associated underlying...Paddys Flat, Pretty Gully, Lunatic and Macleod Creek area have been major gold producers and retain significant.................. 12 Central, Coffs Harbour, Emu Creek and Beenleigh Blocks .................................................................... 18 Emu Creek Formation .....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, New Mexico...Hedlund (1977) mapped 34 latite dike bodies in the district that post-date quartz monzonite emplacement (Dunn...nate and sulfides (pyrite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite). Primary K-feldspars are white to vitreous gray...of sericite. 95 Pyrite, chalcopyrite, and molybdenite are disseminated and/or hosted by veinlets in...Stegen, 2012, and references therein). 105 106 3. District Mineralization 107 108 Additional mineral deposits
Report (issue)
the Malala district of Sulawesi (Taylor and Van Leeuwen, 1980). Magnetite and molybdenite form fracture...the Canadian Cordillera: Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Special Volume 15, p. 245-263. Chaffee...current production and reserves: Trans. Society of Mining Engineers of AIME, v. 262, p. 199-209. Sillitoe...Unconventional metals in porphyry deposits: Society of Mining Engineers of AIME, preprint no. 82-63, 13 p. Sinclair...silver grades of porphyry-type deposits in western Canada, Ā±n_ Levinson, A.A., ed. t Precious metals in the
 
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