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Sericite from
Millenbach Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Millenbach Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:752468
Long-form Identifier:1:3:752468:4
GUID (UUID V4):a9a04420-3d99-49ac-bdec-bf0f0fe56b96
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Amulet Mine (Waite Amulet Mine), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
5.6km (3.5 miles) Don Rouyn Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
6.3km (3.9 miles) Horne Mine (Noranda Mine), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
7.4km (4.6 miles) Ansil Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
8.8km (5.5 miles) Gallen deposit (West MacDonald deposit), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
13.8km (8.6 miles) Mobrun Mine (Bouchard-Hébert Mine), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
20.1km (12.5 miles) Robb-Montbray Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
28.5km (17.7 miles) Hunter Mine, Abitibi-Ouest RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
42.7km (26.6 miles) Kerr-Addison Mine (Kerr Mine), McGarry Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
62.2km (38.6 miles) Rémigny armenite occurrence, Témiscamingue RCM, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda – Val-d’Or, Ontario...Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/77E ISBN 0-660-19062-1 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfide Deposits in the Archean Rouyn-Noranda District, Quebec, Canada Gilles Bellefleur,1,5 Eric de Kemp...Geological 2 Ministère Survey of Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E9 des Ressources naturelles...Faune du Québec, 70 avenue Québec, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada J9X 6R1 3 Xstrata Zinc Canada, 8801 Route...Saint-Laurent, Québec, Canada H4S 1Z6 4 SEISServ Inc., 3883 Montrenault, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada G1X 4H9...reflection profiles acquired by Xstrata Canada in the Noranda mining camp were reprocessed and interpreted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
U-Pb Geochronology of the Blake River Group, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Quebec, and Implications for Base...Geological 2 Ministère Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8 des Ressources naturelles...70 Avenue, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada J9X 6R1 3 Geological 4 Institut Survey of Canada, 490 rue de...de la Couronne, Québec, Canada G1K 9A9 national de la recherche scientifique, centre Eau Terre Environnement...Environnement, 490 rue de la Couronne, Québec, Canada G1K 9A9 5 Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
424-444 Wall-Rock Alteration at the Millenbach Cu-Zn Mine, Noranda,Quebec GER^n•)R•wR• ^•) C. J^¾Ho•)Gso•...Archcan volcanogenic Cu-Zn ore lenses at the Millenbach mine. The rocks and mineralization have been metamorphosed...core which graded laterally and vertically into a sericite-rich outer zone and finally into unaltered rocks...alteration the map unitsmineralogically TI•E Millenbach copper-zincmine is a typical Ar- types,then characterize...initial step in interpretation has beento the Abitibi greenstonebelt of the CanadianShield. reconstruct
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada Consultant, 34 Wallford Way, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6B6, Canada c Jack Satterly Geochronology...Toronto, 22 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1, Canada b A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords:...within the Neoarchean Rouyn-Noranda mining district, in the Abitbi greenstone belt, Canada. It was previously...River Group (McNicoll et al., 2014) strata of the Noranda volcanic complex and spatially associated with...discordant mineralized breccia bodies within the Rouyn-Noranda mining district (Fig. 1) were not considered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exploration: An Example from the Blake River Group, Abitibi Greenstone Belt*,** Russell Rogers,1 Pierre-Simon...Couronne, Québec, QC, Canada G1K 9A9 2Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune (Québec), 70 avenue...avenue Québec, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada J9X 6R1 3Geological Survey of Canada, 490 rue de la Couronne...Couronne, Québec, QC, Canada G1K 9A9 Abstract An innovative approach to enhance volcanogenic massive sulfide...study in the Archean Blake River Group within the Abitibi greenstone belt of Quebec and Ontario. The Blake
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volcanogenic Featuresof the Vauze SulfideDeposit, Noranda,Quebec C. D. SP•.•cE Abstract The Vauze massive...Archcan volcanic and sedimentaryassemblage of the Abitibi belt. Stratiform sulfidelenses,in one case overlying...Archcanandesitesand rhyolitesin a belt trending north from Noranda, Quebec. It wasdiscovered in 1957by drilling,followinga...Lickus (1965). The depositsare 12 milesnorth of Noranda,Quebec, and onemile north of the earlierworkedWaitegram...proposedseparately that of all known depositsof this type in Noranda were syngenetic. early1964when,dueto the exhaustion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metatholeiitic Dacite Lava of the Timmins Area, Ontario, Canada: A New Archean Facies Formed from Superheated Melts...University of Ottawa, 140 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Canada K1N 6N5 and Ottawa Carleton Geoscience Centre ...superheated melts. Introduction THE TIMMINS area of the Abitibi subprovince of Ontario has been a prolific gold...most of the large, prolific veins at the McIntyre mine occur along flow contacts marked by carbonaceous...angular porcelainic fragments or shards. The McIntyre mine geologists (Griffis, 1962) divided the V10 into
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Assemblage,Four Corners Cu-Zn Prospect, Quebec, Canada S. PARRY AND R. W. HUTCHINSON Departmentof Geology...TheUniversityof WesternOntario,London,OntarioN6A5B7,Canada Abstract Three types of hydrothermal alteration...Group of greenschist facies metavolcanic rocks,Noranda, Quebec, were studied. Alteration was mapped around...to amphibolSINCEbase metal mining began in the Noranda ire facies, but greenschistfacies is the most comdistrict...the volcanic rocks of the ration geologistsin Noranda to use alteration as Four Corners property. Here
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Central Blake River Group, western Abitibi subprovince, Canada: implications for VMS prospectivity Received:...volcanic rocks within the southern zone of the Abitibi greenstone belt. It contains a number of silicic...centers of different size, including the large Noranda volcanic complex, which is host to 17 past-producing...past-producing volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. The Noranda complex consists of a 7- to 9-km-thick succession...activity (cycle III) and the formation of the Noranda cauldron. Hydrothermal alteration in these rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistryof Hydrothermally Altered Rocks at the Horne Mine, Noranda, Quebec* W. H. MACLEAN Departmentof GeologicalSciences...Hornevolcanogenie massive sulfidedepositare alteredto quartz-sericite-chlorite-albite (quartz-sericitezone)andchlorite...freshestrhyolite,blSo= 6.6 to 11.6 per rail for quartz-sericite zonerocks,andblSo-- 3.9 to 4.4 per mil for chloritezonerocks...duringthe mineralization event. Introduction THE Horne mine, ownedby NorandaMinesLtd., exploiteda volcanogenie...massivesulfidedepositin Archcangreenstones of the Abitibi belt at Norandain northwesternQuebec(Fig. 1). The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mines Virginia, 300 Saint-Paul, Suite 200, Québec, Canada G1K 7R1 2 Consortium de Recherche en Exploration...Exploration Minérale (CONSOREM), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Département des Sciences Appliquées...Chicoutimi, Canada G7H 2B1 3 Centre d’études sur les Ressources minérales (CERM), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi...Appliquées, 555 Boul. de l’Université, Chicoutimi, Canada G7H 2B1 Abstract The CONSONORM_LG method provides...destroyed by an alteration process. For example, the sericite-albite index (Kishida and Kerrich, 1987), the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfide Deposit, Matagami Mining District, Quebec, Canada Samuel Pierre,1,†, Michel Jébrak,1 Stéphane Faure...2 and Gilles Roy3 1 Université 2 CONSOREM du Québec à Montréal, Département des Sciences de la Terre...Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada Consortium de Recherche en Exploration Minérale, Université du Québec à Montréal...Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada 3 Glencore Canada Corporation, 8801 route Transcanadienne...Transcanadienne, Saint-Laurent, Québec H4S 1Z6, Canada Abstract The Perseverance volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal alteration of andesite at Buttercup Hill, Noranda District, Quebec C. M. LESHER**‘, H. L. GIBSON**...Toronto-Erindale. Mississauga, Ontario LSL lC6. Canada **Ottawa-Carleton Center for Geoscience Studies... Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario KlS 5B6. Canada (Recciwd May 28, 1985; accepted in wvi.red_iimn...IS 64th Street, Delta, British Columbia V4K 4EZ, Canada. ’ Prewnr addre.ss: Research School of Earth Sciences...alteration was so pervasive in the Matagami and Noranda mining districts that original basaltic or andesitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zone Cu-Zn Massive Sulfide Deposit, Noranda District, Quebec, Canada J. R. Ikingura, K. Bell, a n d D....Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada With 7 Figures Received January 22, 1988; accepted...sulfide lenses in the D-68 Zone Cu-Zn deposit, Noranda. Alteration pipes are mineralogically zoned and...heavier (~lSO = 8.6 per mil) than that from the sericite alteration zone (~180 = 6.4 per rail), suggesting...respectively. The fluid in equilibrium with quartz and sericite had 61sO and 6D values of about - 0 . 5 _+ 2 per
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MassiveSulfideDepositand IntracauldronDepositsof the Mine Sequence,Noranda,Quebec DAVIDJ. KEPm Departmentof Geological...massivesulfidedepositsof the Rouyn-Noranda areaare associated with rhyolite and andesitcflows of the Mine sequenceand...inferredmarginof the subsidence structureandareseparatedfromthe Mine sequence by the HorneCreekfault.Traditionally,the...structuralpermeability.The three major sulfidedepositsat the Horne mine are muchlarger (20-150 Mt) and formedin a fault-bounded...mayhaveformedat differentstages in theevolution of the Noranda cauldron. Introduction their environmentsof formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 Received November 19, 1992 / Accepted September...years after volcanism. Monazite from Kidd Creek mine is 2659 __ 3 Ma old, in agreement with spatially...schist at Geco mine gives a similar age of 2661 _+ ! Ma. However, monazite from a sericite schist, which...which hosts the ore at Geco mine, is 2675 _+ 2 Ma old. Abraded large monazite grains from three units in...Ma, approximately the same as monazite in the sericite schist at Geco. Data points from allanite fractions
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 73-30 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR, KIRKLAND LAKE - NORANDA - VAL...by mail from Information Canada, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and...and Information Canada bookshops in HALIFAX - 1683 Barrington Street MONTREAL - 640 St. Catherine Street...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Price: $3. 00 Catalogue No. M44-73-30 Price...Price subject to change without notice Information Canada Ottawa 1974 CONTENTS Page Abstract/Resume .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minnesota55812 AND J. M. FRANKLIN GeologicalSurveyof Canada,601 BoothStreet,Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaKIA OE8...listsexamplesof the two depositstypes. Noranda-TypeDeposits Introduction Noranda-type deposits arecharacterized...Gibsonet al., 1983; Alteration pipes beneath Noranda-typedeposits Groves,1984). The alterationpipesmay...descriptivepur- sericite and quartz with or without minor chlorite poses,have been termed the Noranda and Mattabi...listedin rocks, and volcanic environments. Table 2. Noranda-typedeposits(namedfor the manymassivesulfidedepositsin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
subaqueous Blake River Megacaldera Complex, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada W.U. Mueller a , R. Friedman b , R...(CERM)/Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555, Boul. de l’Université, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada G7H 2B1 Pacific...British Columbia. 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Caldera complex Blake River Group Archean tectonics Abitibi Greenstone Belt Geochronology a b s t r a c t...t The Archean Blake River Group of the Abitibi greenstone belt represents a megacaldera complex which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fromthe AnsilDeposit,Rouyn-Noranda, Canada A.G. G^LL•¾, Geological Surveyof Canada,Ottawa,Ontario,CanadaK1AOE8...Surveyof Canada,Ottawa,Ontario,CanadaKIA OE8 ^NI• G. R•WR•N IntmetCorporation, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec...located approximately 14 km north-northwest of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, withintheBlakeRiverGroupof theArchcan...itesphalerite-pyrite, andthewallrockalteredto sericite-quartz, withfinelydisseminated sphalerite andpyritepyrrhotite...00 2006 SUBSEA-FLOOR FORMATION,ANSIL DEPOSIT,CANADA Introduction THISpaperpresents fieldandpetrographic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Delbridgedepositbe accordinglychanged. (a) The "Mine" unit is not a nodular-bearing pyritic black shalebut...depositsof the Nor- has disregardedthe work of yearsby mine and field anda district of Quebec. geologists, in...many of the deposits the Horne and Delbridge, on Noranda have already been stated in papers in of the camp...cussionof schistosity,or his postulatedorigin of the Millenbach,Amulet, XVaite,Norbee,and Vauze. 314 DISCUSSIONS...a stratigraphicfeature. This is so not only in Noranda. The suggestionthat banding in pyrite-sphalerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6 c ISTO Géosciences, Université dTOrléans...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3 e Mine Draa Sfar, Marrakech, Morocco Received 4...argillite is characterized by a modal increase of sericite relative to chlorite. A calcite–quartz–muscovite...sympathetic lateral change from predominantly sericite to chlorite alteration within the footwall argillite...280–306 Fig. 2. Geological map of the Draa Sfar mine area showing the surface projection of the Tazakourt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
changes in the alteration zone at the Norbec mine, Noranda, Quebec N.A. Shriver* and W.H. MacLean Department...Sciences, McGill University,Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7 Canada Received: May 1, 1992/Accepted: December 18, 1992...below massive sulphide Zn-Cu ores at the Norbec mine in northwestern Quebec was outlined from drill core...size and shape of the alteration pipe at the Norbec mine generally is well defined by exploration drilling...Norbec and other massive sulphide deposits in the Noranda district. Both depletions and enrichments in K
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RhyoliteFormation,Noranda,Quebecø H. L. GIBSON, Corporation Falconbridge Copper,Noranda,Quebec J9X 5B4,Canada D. H...K1S 5B6, Canada AND C. D. A. COMBA Kidd Creek Mines Ltd., Timrains, Ontario P4N 7H9, Canada Abstract...alternatewith basaltandesitcformationsto form the central Noranda volcaniccomplex.Most of the economic, volcanogenic...featuresreflectedin the alignmentof the Amulet and Millenbach orebodies.Silicifiedandesitesof the Amulet Rhyoliteformationare...altered andesites.A model is prometal depositsin the Noranda area are interpreted posedto explainsilicificationand
 
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