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Gold from
Macassa Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Altaite2 photos of Gold associated with Altaite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Gold associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Macassa Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:92458
Long-form Identifier:1:3:92458:8
GUID (UUID V4):c5b4de41-ae4a-40e8-85a2-ae5d7c9e5be4
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
1.3km (0.8 miles) Kirkland Lake Gold mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
1.8km (1.1 miles) Teck-Hughes Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
2.3km (1.4 miles) Lake Shore Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
3.1km (1.9 miles) Wright Hargreaves Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
3.3km (2.1 miles) Kirkland Rand mine (Ontario Kirkland; Hudson Rand), Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
3.8km (2.4 miles) Lucky Cross mine (Golden Gate), Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
4.0km (2.5 miles) Sylvanite Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
4.3km (2.7 miles) Toburn Mine (Tough-Oakes Burnside Mine), Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
4.7km (2.9 miles) Swastika mine (Crescent Kirkland), Swastika, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
5.5km (3.4 miles) Glenora mine, Lebel Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structural Setting of Gold Mineralization in the Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake Gold Belt, Ontario V. ISPOLATOV,†...933 Ramsey Lake Rd., Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 6B5 B. DUBÉ, Geological Survey of Canada Quebec, 490...490 rue de la Couronne, Québec, Québec, Canada G1K 9A9 R. CREASER, Department of Earth and Atmospheric...Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 AND M. HAMILTON Jack Satterley Geochronology...Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B1 Abstract The Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake gold belt includes the
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 73-30 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR, KIRKLAND LAKE - NORANDA...NORANDA - VAL D'OR; ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Ann P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES © Crown Copyrights...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
Report (volume)
Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda – Val-d’Or, Ontario and Quebec...Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda...Val-d’Or, Ontario and Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2003 ©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue...Available in Canada from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Intrusion-Associated Gold Systems and Multistage Metallogenic Processes in the Neoarchean...boul. de l’université, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada; lucie1.mathieu@uqac.ca; Tel.: +1-418-545-5011... Citation: Mathieu, L. Intrusion-Associated Gold Systems and Multistage Metallogenic Processes in...Abstract: In gold-endowed greenstone belts, ore bodies generally correspond to orogenic gold systems (OGS)...(synvolcanic period) and polymetallic intrusion-related gold systems (IRGS) of the syntectonic period. Porphyries
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
publication of Contributions to Canadian Mineralogy in Canada. fn order to preservethe continuity and integrity...Mineral Descriptions. Telluridesof Gold. . . . Telluridesof Gold and Silver of Silver ... TeUurides TelluridesofCopper...mining geologist and the prospector, as compounds of gold and silver or as close associatesand indicators...Creek (Colorado), and Kirkland Lake (Ontario), and all of these are also important gold producing districts...342 TELLUKIDE MINERALS AND THEIR OCCURRENCE IN CANADA 343 erals of the Transylvanian deposits have been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1104-1130 The MacassaMine ArcheanLode Gold Deposit, Kirkland Lake, Ontario: Geology,Patternsof Alteration,and...Geology,Universityof WesternOntario, London,Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada Abstract The Macassamine is the only remaininggold...formerlytermedsyenitic.Alkalicigneousrocksof the KirklandLake district are compositionally distinctfrom typical syenitesin...their intrusivecounterparts. At Macassa,there are three typesof gold ore. (1) Native Au in chloriticfault...systemtraversingthe mine andthe entireKirklandLake district;thisis calledbreakore. (2) Gold-bearingquartzveins
Book
IN THE | COBALT, PORCUPINE & KIRKLAND LAKE Ky saa SAN Seah LK Ly) 7 . hl / iy hat ;, Eddie Duke...Duke FORTUNES IN THE GROUND Northeastern Ontario was solely the preserve of prospectors, trappers and...people in 1902 when the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway began building from North Bay. When the...over North America and Europe. Within ten years two gold camps were established only a short distance to...great mining camps of Cobalt, the Porcupine and Kirkland Lake. It not only relates the accounts of the winners
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EconomicGeology Vol. 82, 1987, pp. 1177-1191 Archean Gold Mineralization and Oxidized Hydrothermal Fluids*...Fluids* EION M. CAMERON Geological Surveyof Canada,Ottawa,Ontario,CanadaKiA OE8and Derry Laboratory,Ottawa-Carleton...Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, KiN 6N5 AND I(EIKO HATrORI Departmentof Geology...Laboratory,Ottawa-CarletonGeoscience Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canaada KiN 6N5 Abstract Sulfateminerals,hematite...includeHemlo,McIntyre-Hollinger,Macassa, Lake Shore,andRosswhichare all in Ontario,Canada,andKalgoorliein Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada S7N OW0 Received April 6, 1989 Can. J. Earth Sci...(Dome), -2.8 f 0.6 (Buffalo Ankerite), -3.6 2 0.5 (Macassa), -3.2 2 0.3 (Bousquet), -5.4 ? 0.9 (Lamaque),...deposit are enriched in 13crelative to the main gold-bearing vein systems (SI3c = -3.2 + 0.3%~):the enrichment...(Dome), -2,8 ? 0,6 (Buffalo Ankerite), -3,6 ? 0,s (Macassa), -3,2 & 0,3 (Bousquet), -5,4 2 0,9 (Lamaque) et...association is also present in the greenstone-belt gold deposits of southern Africa, Australia, and India
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 GOLD IN THE CANADIAN SHIELD DAVID K. JOYCE Box 95551 Newmarket, Ontario Canada L3Y 8J8 dkjoyce@bellnet... Hollinger mine, Timmins, Ontario. This mine was often confused with the famous Dome mine, nearby, because...underlying the central and northern portion of Canada. For the most part, the Shield is a geologically...that has helped shape the character and economy of Canada for the past approximately 150 years. It has only...1823, 313 million troy ounces of gold have been recovered in Canada, much of it from the Canadian Shield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characteristics of gold-tellurides-sulfide mineralization in the Macassa Gold Mine, Abitibi Belt, Canada G. Tesfaye...Abstract. The Macassa Gold Mine is the only operational mine (Lac-Minerals Ltd., Macassa Division) of...seven original gold producers in the Kirkland Lake camp of northern Ontario, Canada. The gold deposit is...taken place in two stages. The first stage is not gold bearing but involves pyritization and concomitant...silicification and enrichment with tellurium, lead, silver, gold and copper. It is relatively depleted in Sr, Ba
Book
and prosperity through the mining industry to Ontario. /;/ :_ !.J-~,;- . '.: · ·· ··· ·· } ,.·"...cation Data Barnes, l\lfichacl, 193·1Cold in Ontario lncludes bibliograph ical references. BUDIMIR...LIBRARYLSBN l-SS01.l()- l 1.IG-X I. Gold 1nines and n1ining- Ontario - History. I. Title. IID~)536.C2...in Canada FirsL p u blish e d in 1995 by 'The Boston Mills Press 132 lvlain Street Erin Ontario ' NOB...North York, Ontario M3B 2T6 The publisher gratefu lly acknowledges the support of Ll1e Canada Council,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N OWO 2 Department of Earth Science, Memorial...Newfoundland, Canada AIB 3X5 3 Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A...N6A 5B7 4 165 Tamarack Street, Timmins, Ontario, Canada P4N 6P7 Abstract. Major structural discontinuities...largest structures, the Destor-Porcupine (DP) and Kirkland Lake - Cadillac (KC) fault zones ~ 6 x 10 is g Si...7029-0.7031 (Noranda), and 0.7013 to 0.7015 (Kirkland Lake). At Timmins, on the PD fault, 87Sr/86Sr initial
Book
Copyright © in Canada, 1957 by D. M. LeBourdais P.RINTPlD AND BOUND 1.N CANADA T. H. Best Printing...and this book therefore begins with the Cariboo gold rush in the middle of the last century. The geographical...because that aspect of mining is most typical of Canada as a pioneer country. No other form of economic...mining as an industry, but to a great extent each mine is actually a world in itself. While the problems...searched for mines, of the long waits that have faced mine-finders while money was being raised to bring their
Other Paper
BIBLIOTHEQUE OU PARLEMENT THE NEW GOLD RUSH by The for gold. British gold the recent Record Columbia...of non-monetary Special to Right, Gold rose (1) All gold prices figures and ore to $42.22 49...operations price in its new interest own. which Ontario, and company, are in exploration ventures... on a projects, vulnerable to any of gold. of Gold the for eliminate currencies & discoveries...The WG new upswing staked The International gold, by which ounce(!) transactions Orawing between
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)...left: Early Precambrian pillow lavas; Munekun Lake, District of Kenora. (Courtesy L. D. Ayres). Lower right:...Pye). Upper Back Cover Upper Upper Gold in quartz, Leitch Gold Mines; Beardmore. (Courtesy E. G. Pye)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Syenite-associated disseminated gold deposits in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada Received: 16 June 2000...Springer-Verlag 2001 Abstract A distinct group of gold deposits in the Abitibi greenstone belt is spatially...with deposition of Timiskaming sedimentary rocks and, together with disseminated gold mineralization, they...folding and related penetrative cleavage. Disseminated gold orebodies occur within composite syenitic stocks...there is a well-known spatial association between gold deposits and small felsic porphyry intrusions (Witt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1994 Printed in Austria The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association: significance for an accretionary...Sciences, University of Saskatchewaan, Saskatoon, Canada With 7 Figures Received November 17, 1992; accepted...cotemporal and cospatial with gold mineralization in the Superior Province of Canada, both being emplaced along...shonshonitic dikes are characterized by normal background gold contents of 3.9 _+ 8.1 ppb (D), close to the value...enriched either in Au or elements affiliated with gold in mesothermal deposits, and accordingly do not
Book
Chibougamau JJ ■ J^Noranda Porcupine jg ^ Kirk land Lake SUDBim "O BAI.T TRENT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF...RELIGION PRESENTED BY Mrs. B. C. Griffiths FREE GOLD ARNOLD HOFFMAN THE STORY OF CANADIAN MINING...the chief actors in the drama of ore search and mine development are now dead, and with the passage of...industry will find the principal elements in Free Gold, and that, I believe, is all that may be expected...however modestly, to¬ ward a better understanding of Canada, then I shall feel that my labors have not been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of native gold and electrum, the gold telluride calaverite may well be the most important gold ore mineral...Cripple Creek district, essentially subsequent to the development of all other Colorado gold districts.... Unlike most gold deposits, weathering of those characterized by relatively abundant telluride minerals...fine-grained and dull, mustard-colored secondary gold that is disbursed as tiny particles as the individual...most exciting gold occurrences are either dominated by or contain significant amounts of gold tellurides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, v. 115, no. 2, pp. 241–277 Gold Remobilization: Insights from Gold Deposits in the Archean Swayze...Swayze Greenstone Belt, Abitibi Subprovince, Canada Evan C.G. Hastie,1,2,† Daniel J. Kontak,1 and Bruno Lafrance1...University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada Resources and Geoscience Mapping Section, Ontario Geological Survey...Survey, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 6B5, Canada Abstract Recognizing if and how Au is remobilized, in solid...Archean Swayze greenstone belt of northern Ontario, Canada, together with archived samples from 39 high-grade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag1993 Diverse metal sources of Archaean gold deposits: evidence from in situ lead-isotope analysis...altaite in the Ross and Kirkland Lake deposits, Abitibi Greenstone belt, Canada Keiko Hattori Ottawa-Carleton...Geology, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada Received June 15, 1992 / Accepted October 7, 1992...from the Ross deposit and altaite from the Kirkland Lake (KL) deposits in the southern Abitibi greenstone...greenstone belt, Superior Province o f Canada. The samples from K L are more radiogenic than those from the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zoning and Gold Concentrationat the KerrAddisonArchcanLode Gold Deposit, Kirkland Lake, Ontario A. KISHIDA*...WesternOntario, London,Ontario, CanadaN6A 5B7 Abstract Kerr-Addison,a major Archcanlode gold depositof the Abitibi...faciesmetamorphism is locallysuperposed by a distinctzonationof gold-associated hydrothermalalterationcharacterizedby...larger scalefrom the ore zone to the peripheryof the mine area. The intensityof alterationcanbe monitoredby...seemsto haveremainedessentiallyunchangedthroughtime. Gold mineralizationat the Kerr-Addisonmine and its c
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and J.M. Franklin Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, KIA OE8 (Received December 17, 1990; accepted...formations. Volcanogenic massive sulphide, lode gold and granitoid-associated deposits, as well as Ni-Cu...Dr. K.H. Poulsen, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, K 1A 0E8. tion only along boundaries...type, more than 100 of vein and disseminated lode gold type, several magmatic nickel deposits, at least...r g e o n Lake E i Ti-V -Bad Vermillion Mo-Cu -Beide(man Bay Ni-Cr -Bird R -High Lake 'Lode AU
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ltd. 1985. Rinted in U.S.A. The Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario: A geochemical and isotopic study and K...EION M.CAMERoN*.t *Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Kl A OE8 **Department of Geology, University...University of Ottawa, Ottawa. Ontario KIN 6N5 tDerry Laboratory for Sedimentary Geochemistry and Ore Deposits...Abstract-The Hemlo deposit, near Marathon, Ontario, is one of the largest gold deposits in North America. It is...both occur with unusual frequency in major Archean gold deposits. Hydrothermal fluids of moderately highjm
 
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