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Magnetite from
North Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view North Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:882635
Long-form Identifier:1:3:882635:0
GUID (UUID V4):5ca96d1e-3ec7-47ce-b6a7-a19fa9b9512b
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
0.9km (0.6 miles) ⓘFecunis Lake Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘFraser Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘMcCreedy East Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
1.9km (1.2 miles) ⓘLevack Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
2.7km (1.7 miles) ⓘColeman Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
2.7km (1.7 miles) ⓘCraig Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
3.3km (2.1 miles) ⓘLongvack Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
3.5km (2.1 miles) ⓘStrathcona Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
3.6km (2.2 miles) ⓘOnaping Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
4.1km (2.5 miles) ⓘBarnet Mine, Levack Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
References
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Report (issue)
GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content... . ; Ontario Geological Survey, ...670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free:...(inside Canada, United States) Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 (inside Canada, United
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
heterolithic breccia in the basement of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada A . D e u t s c h , R. L a k o m y...samples originating from Levack Township in the North Range of the Sudbury Structure. The granitic to...metamorphism of the Footwall Breccia by the 1.85 Ga old Sudbury Igneous Complex, which had caused temperatures...whole-rock samples was only partly disturbed by the Sudbury Igneous Complex. The data points scatter around...parameters of the Footwall Breccia matrix near Levack show little variation: c~r = 16.33 to 18.07, c~qd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Giant Sudbury Polymetallic Mining Camp, Ontario, Canada D. E. AMES,† Geological Survey of Canada, 601...Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada A. DAVIDSON, 3259 Margaret Rd., Regina, SK S4V 1B2, Canada AND N. WODICKA ... Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada Introduction Geologic Setting...Canada’s most prolific mining camp, the world-class Sudbury structure with total past production and current...preserved impact craters. The new map of the Ni-Cu-PGE Sudbury district (after Ames et al., 2005) is included
Report (issue)
GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content... . ; Ontario Geological Survey, ...670-5691 Toll Free: 1-888-415-9845, ext. 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Local: (705) 670-5691 Toll Free:...(inside Canada, United States) Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 (inside Canada, United
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structure: Implications for Ni-Cu-PGE Exploration at Sudbury* M. BOAST AND J. G. SPRAY† Planetary and Space...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract A ~2.0-km-wide metamorphic aureole has...margin of the 2.5-km-thick Sudbury Igneous Complex of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury impact structure. The aureole...previously undetected thrust faults between the Sudbury Igneous Complex and the Archean footwall. We demonstrate...compression. Overthrusting of the footwall by the Sudbury Igneous Complex may conceal sublayer, footwall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization in the Broken Hammer Area, Wisner Township, North Range, Sudbury Structure ATTILA PÉNTEK,† FERENC MOLNÁR...Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract Footwall-type Cu-Ni-PGE (Platinum-group...are a major focus of recent exploration in the Sudbury mining camp, owing to their higher Cu and precious...orebodies situated along the lower contact of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. The most important footwall-type...footwall-type orebodies occur in the Onaping-Levack area of the North Range, but economic deposits are found along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Element Deposition, Sudbury Igneous Complex Contact, Onaping-Levack area, Ontario Catharine E. G. F a...Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada With 5 Figures Received September 17, 1991;...element deposition in the Onaping-Levack area of the North Range of the Sudbury Structure. Two significant alteration...Cu-rich veins in the Deep Copper Zone of Strathcona mine and the nearby Barnet property, and amphibole (actinolite...titanite + pentlandite + pyrite _ quartz + magnetite in the Fraser mine Epidote Zone. The concentrically zoned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization, and Emplacement of the Foy Offset Dike, Sudbury Impact Structure* M. G. TUCHSCHERER AND J. G. SPRAY†...Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract The Foy offset dike is the longest of...known radial dikes associated with the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex. The Foy dike extends for at least...complex into the North Range Archean and Proterozoic footwall rocks of the Sudbury impact structure....in width from 400 m, where it connects to the Sudbury Igneous Complex, to 50 m at its most distal known
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SUDBURY BRECCIA ADJACENT TO FOOTWALL Cu-Ni-PGE SULFIDE...Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada GORDON R. OSINSKI Department...Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada Centre for Planetary Science and...Exploration, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy...University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada ABSTRACT The Sudbury Breccia is an impactite
Journal (issue)
Rocks and Minerals of Ontario -- H f ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS Honourable...and Minerals of Ontario By D. F. HEWITT Chief, Industrial Mineral Section Ontario Department of Mines...sedimentary rocks of Gordon Lake Formation, Highway 108; north of Elliot Lake. (Courtesy F. W. Chandler). Lower...pentlandite very pale mauve; chalcopyrite yellow; magnetite grey; silicate gangue minerals medium to dark... (Courtesy The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited). Centre left: Eurypterus lacustris, an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/precamres The formation of the Sudbury breccia in the North Range of the Sudbury impact structure Bruno Lafrance...University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa...Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 18 October 2007 Received in...June 2008 Accepted 6 June 2008 Keywords: Sudbury breccia Sudbury impact structure Cataclasite Trace element...t In the North Range of the ca. 1.85 Ga Sudbury impact structure, massive bodies of Sudbury breccia cut
Report (issue)
ANDD OOTHE HEAVY Ma ZZ 229 Al Ferguson, Ontario float, ZZ Stewart A. occurrences placer 229...229 gold, of and Al Ferguson, Ontario float, Stewart A. occurrences of placer gold, and NATURAL...February, 1975). ine Ontario Geological Survey Mineral Deposits Circular 17 ONTARIO OCCURRENCES OF FLOAT...Ferguson and E.B. Freeman 1978 Reprinted (57) Ontario by Ministry of Northern Development and Mines...0-7743-5522-0 Printed in Canada Reprinted with corrections Reprinted 1988 of the Ontario Geological Publications
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IN SULFIDES FROM NORTH AND SOUTH RANGE Cu-Ni-PGE DEPOSITS, SUDBURY STRUCTURE, ONTARIO CATHARINE E.G....CarletonUniversity,Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre,Ottawa,Ontario,CanadaKiS 5B6 GeologicSettingof the Deposits The...depositshas continued footwall units at the base of the Sudbury Igneous since early this century (Wandke and Hoffman...maficto felsic gneissesand migmatiteswith domiof the Levack Gneiss 1979). A magmaticoriginisnowwell established...sublayerores (Naldrett and Kullerud, Complexin the North Range,and HuronianSuper1967; Hoffman et al., 1979;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corresponding patterns may be found in the layering of the Sudbury, Bushveld, and Great Dyke intrusions. The lopoliths...lopolith Great Dyke Sudbury intrusion Sudbury lopolith and the Sudbury breccia . . . . Sudbury breccia Granite...Bay intrusion in Tanganyika, and the Sudbury intrusion in Canada have shown that the intrusions have many...Great Dyke 295 8. The Sudbury lopolith 296 9. Columnar sections of the Sudbury lopolith 297 10. Diagrammatic...Diagrammatic cross section of the Sudbury lopolith from Levack to Gertrude... 297 as the Bushveld and Insizwa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfide Ores Associated with the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada* Mitchell Kerr,1,† Jacob Hanley... Nova Scotia, Canada 2 TMAC 3 KGHM 4 Department Resources, Toronto, Ontario, Canada International...Ltd., Sudbury, Ontario, Canada of Earth Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Abstract...occur along the North Range footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada. The deposits have...hydrothermal events and are hosted mainly within Sudbury breccia, a contact metamorphosed and hydrothermally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
study of the Footwall Breccia of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada R. LAKOMY Institut fiir Planetologie...Abstract-The Footwall Breccia layer in the North Range of the Sudbury impact structure is up to 150 m thick...layer has been thermally annealed by the overlying Sudbury Igneous Complex, which is interpreted as a coherent...the Levack gneiss complex, which forms the local country rock to the breccia layer in the Levack area...ago. The available observations suggest that the Sudbury structure represents the remnant of a multi-ring
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Processes in Footwall Units of the North Range, Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada, and Implications for the Genesis...Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract Systematic regional sampling...1.85 Ga age Sudbury Igneous Complex with the Archean Levack Gneiss footwall in the North Range of the...the Sudbury structure revealed textural, mineralogical, and fluid inclusion systematics of post-Sudbury...lithologies. At late stages of emplacement of the Sudbury Igneous Complex and formation of magmatic Fe-Ni-Cu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
within Fe-Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposits on the North Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex A. E. BESWICK† Mineral...Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6 Abstract Analytical data sets...from the McCreedy West mine and other orebodies along the North Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex have...The compositions of ores from the McCreedy West mine display a strongly bimodal distribution. A Cu-poor...deposits examined within the Levack embayment on the North Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex collectively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Breccia within the Strathcona Embayment of the Sudbury Structure KELLI A. MCCORMICK,†,* Mineral Exploration...Laurentian University, 933 Ramsey Lake Rd, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 6B5 JOHN S. FEDOROWICH, Falconbridge...Falconbridge Ltd., P.O. Box 40, Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada P0M 1S0 ANDREW M. MCDONALD, AND RICHARD S. JAMES...Laurentian University, 933 Ramsey Lake Rd, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 6B5 Abstract The footwall breccia...the main Ni-Cu-(PGE) ore-hosting units of the Sudbury camp. This polymict, matrix-supported, contact-metamorphosed
Report (issue)
B.Freeman 7 ame B25 CLE) veed Ferguson, Ontario float, Be. Stewart A. occurrences of placer...placer gold, and Be9 wihth Ferguson, Ontario float, Stewart A. occurrences placer gold, of and...February, 1975). II Ontario Geological Survey Mineral Deposits Circular 17 ONTARIO OCCURRENCES OF FLOAT...Ferguson and E.B.Freeman 1978 Reprinted by , Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines Sean...Printed in Canada Reprinted with corrections 1982 Reprinted 1988 Publications of the Ontario Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Batholith, northern flank of the Sudbury Structure, Ontario, Canada A. Meldrum a,, A . - F . M . A b...University, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A 7 b Department of Geology, American University...Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa Ontario, Ontario, Canada K1A OE8 Received 15 March...northwest of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, is a late Archean K-rich granitic batholith. Along with the Levack Gneiss...Complex, it forms the footwall of the North Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. The Cartier Batholith
Report (volume)
Nickel Deposits of North America By H. R. CORNWALL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1223 Geology, resources...nickeliferous laterite deposits in 7 Provinces of Canada and 15 States of the United States UNITED STATES...______________________ ----OntariO-----------------------------------------------------Alexo Nickel mine ___________...--------Limerick township ___ ---------_---------------------------Raglan township ____ -------- ________...wanLake---------------------------------------Sudbury district______ ------ _________________ ------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization Within the Footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada ATTILA PÉNTEK,1,† FERENC MOLNÁR...Mining Company Ltd., 129 Fielding Road, Lively, Ontario, Canada P3Y 1L7 2 Geological 3 Department Survey...Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 Abstract We present new results and review...mineralizing processes in the contact aureole of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. At the basal contact of the igneous...sulfides occurred. In the deeper footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, similar footwall granophyres occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
groundwater in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada: New evidence from bulk rock geochemistry...Scotia, Canada Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada c Department...northern margin of the 1.85 Ga Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), Canada, a volumetrically minor rock type...the northern margin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), Ontario, Canada, Ni–Cu–platinum-group element...footwall Cu–Ni– PGE style of mineralization at Sudbury. 2. Background 2.1. Geological setting The SIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ElementsfromSome Copper-NickelDepositsof the SudburyArea,Ontario Lou‱s J. CABRIANDJ. H. Abstract A detailedmin...samplesfrom nine depositsgeographically encircling the Sudbury basin. This study has resulted in the identification...sparseandtin is presentin platinum-groupmineralsin the North Range deposits. This differenceis reflectedin the...sin the North Rangedeposits. Other differencesin the geochemistry betweenthe Southand North Rangedepositsare...Fig. 1). The northern stretchof the basin (the North Range) dips inward at 30þ to 50þ (Naldrett et al
 
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