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Plagioclase from
Cantung Mine, Tungsten, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cantung Mine, Tungsten, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:935386
Long-form Identifier:1:3:935386:2
GUID (UUID V4):7570a3bf-0709-4e10-805f-d2a5f094f483
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
39.9km (24.8 miles) Little Nahanni Pegmatite Group, Tungsten, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada
96.0km (59.6 miles) Naats'ihch'oh igneous complex, Northwest Territories, Canada
References
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Paragenetic constraints on the Cantung, Mactung and Lened tungsten skarn deposits, Canada: implications for grade...Paragenetic constraints on the Cantung, Mactung and Lened tungsten skarn deposits, Canada: implications for grade...constraints on the Cantung, Mactung and Lened tungsten 2 skarn deposits, Canada: implications for grade...Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada 5 2 Northwest Territories Geological Survey, 5310 44 St., Yellowknife...Yellowknife, NWT X1A 1K3, Canada 6 7 3 Department of Geology, Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie St
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recorded in apatite chemistry at the Cantung W–Cu skarn deposit, NWT, Canada Erin ADLAKHA1,*, Jacob HANLEY1...University, 923 Robie St., Halifax, NS B3H3C3, Canada *Corresponding author, e-mail: erin.adlakha@smu...Survey, 5310 44 St., Yellowknife, NWT X1A 1K3, Canada 3 Department of Earth Sciences, University of New...Brunswick, PO Box 4400, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada Abstract: The distribution and abundance of major...apatite associated with the Cantung W–Cu skarn deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada was studied to elucidate
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883-901 The Cantung E Zone Scheelite Skarn Orebody, Tungsten, Northwest Territories' A Revised Genetic...GeologicalSciences, Queen'sUniversity,Kingston,Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Abstract The unusually large(4.2 millionmetrictons)andhigh-grade...alkalifeldspargranitic intrusion,representedin the mine area by aplitic dikes. The proposedgeneticmodel...mineralization,resultingfrom whichdistinguish tungsten-richfromother skarnde- expulsionof a probablyjuvenile...Einaudi (1981) for corUndergrounddevelopmentby Canada Tungsten dilleran scheelite skarns. In the contextof
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scheelite skarn granitoid. Through this means, tungsten is concentrated in exsolved magmatic fluids by...scheelite skarns, and Cu skarns of Alaskaa Element Tungsten Tin Copper Silver Fluorine Average concentration...setting completely describes the locations of tungsten skarns except, perhaps, "broadly arc-related"...reducing capacity; Einaudi et al., 1981) and in tungsten content (Table 2). Einaudi et al. (1981) have...e d " skarns are calcium-poor and permit more tungsten to be extracted from the skarnforming fluids.
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Sciences, Queen'sUniversitel, Kingston,OntarioK7L 3N6, Canada Abstract The MacTungdepositis the largestof the...amphibole, garnet,pyrrhotite, biotite,clinozoisite, plagioclase, and quartz,with economically importantamountsof...CanadaTungsten(CanTung)deposit,which is logicalcharacteristics of the MacTungand CanTung the westernwo... whichDick (1980)hasmadea comparative studyof tungsten-free, tin-bearingzones,andassuchmay repthe geologicsetting...901$55 Burrard Street, Vancouver,B.C. V6C 2G8, Canada petrologyof the alteredrocksin the deposits. 0
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(Ghorbani 2013), the Deh–Hossein and Nezam-Abad tungsten-tin (±Cu) deposits (Abdi 2007), the Malayer-Esfahan...2007; Momenzadeh, 1976) and the Ebrahim-Attar tungsten skarn mineralization (Salami et al. 2013; Daneshvar...andalusite+cordierite+biotite+muscovite+K-feldspar+plagioclase occurred at low pressure (< 2 kbar) and at a...6–7, Malayer-Isfahan, Pb-Zn; 8, Ebrahim-Attar tungsten skarn. b Detailed geologic map of the Ghorveh-...fine-grained crystals of clinopyroxene, garnet, plagioclase in hand sample of typical endoskarn zone; e
Report (issue)
400, 1130 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2M8 ISBN 0-919086-15-2 PRINTED BY HARPELL'S...Division (MDD) of the Geological Association of Canada and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern...Howards Pass (XY) Zn-Pb Deposit, Yukon and Northwest Territories 1.R. JONASSON and W.D. GOODFELLOW ... ....Late Proterozoic Rapitan Group, Yukon and Northwest Territories G.M. YEO . .. ....... .. .. .. .. .. . ...Proterozoic Redstone Copper Belt, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories C.W. JEFFERSON and J.C.L. RUELLE
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Strata-Bound Scheelite Skarns in the Riba de Alva Mine, Northeastern Portugal L. MIGUEL GASPAR† Departamento...metasediment-hosted distal scheelite skarns from the Riba de Alva mine, Barca de Alva-Escalhão region, northeastern Portugal...having a low pistacitic component (5–13% Ps). Plagioclase compositions grade from anorthite in pyroxene...the plutonic-related model for some W skarns. Tungsten in many deposits is considered to be of a nonigneous...1997; Gaspar and Inverno, 1998a) in the Riba de Alva mine, northern Portugal, one of the scheelite-mineralized
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SCIENTIFIC ztGE OF THE S.4NGDONG COMMUNICATIONS TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT, REPUBLIC KOI?E.4, .4ND ITS BE.4RING...workings of the mine, bodiesof hornblende-biotite-quartz rock ThE Sangdong (or Sang Dong) tungsten deposit cut...dipping southernlimb of the overturned, west-northwest-trendingHambaek syncline. The latter structureinvolvesrocks...bodiesare exposedin the immediatevicinity of the mine. from an out- cropping granitoid pluton were regarded...rock, with closely-packedbiotite, hornblendeand plagioclase(An745)phenocrystsin a quartzosegroundmass;hornblendeis
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significantly from other scheelite deposits, such as CanTung, which formed under relatively reduced conditions...at Kara is by open cut and operated by Tasmania Mine NL Limited. Mining has concentrated on the Kara...(Whitehead, 1990). Due to the depressed metal price for tungsten, the Kara skarn deposit is now mined for magnetite...Devonian granitoids of western Tasmania form a north-northwest-trending zone from the southern part of the State...rock units are Cambrian and are exposed to the northwest of the deposit area. The Cambrian sequence consists
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1007/s00126-018-0805-5 ARTICLE Granite-related Yangjiashan tungsten deposit, southern China Guiqing Xie 1 & Jingwen...10). These results suggest that the Yangjiashan tungsten deposit is temporally related to the Devonian...magmatic–hydrothermal origin for the tungsten mineralization. Compared to the more common tungsten skarn, quartz–wolframite...porphyry tungsten deposits, as well as orogenic gold deposits worldwide, the Yangjiashan tungsten deposit...is derived from the sericitization of calcic plagioclase in the monzogranite and Ca-bearing psammitic
Report (issue)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report SO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES 1992...1992 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 50 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR The Alaska... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1992 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication Group - Publishing Ottawa, Canada KI A OS9 and from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KIA OE8 3303-33rd Street N.W., Calgary
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Characteristics of the Lermontovskoe Reduced-Type Tungsten (±Cu, Au, Bi) Skarn Deposit, Sikhote-Alin, Russia...Characteristics of the Lermontovskoe Reduced-Type Tungsten (±Cu, Au, Bi) Skarn Deposit, Sikhote-Alin, Russia...Characteristics of the Lermontovskoe Reduced-Type Tungsten (+Cu, Au, Bi) Skarn Deposit, SikhoteAlin, Russia...Consulting Inc. 189 – Scripps Landing N.W. Calgary, AB Canada T3L 1W1 **Russian Central Geological Prospecting...formed in a collisional tectonic environment. This tungsten skarn deposit has a W-Au-As-Bi-Te-Sb signature
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inclusion characteristics of the Agylki re‐ duced tungsten (W-Cu-Au-Bi) skarn deposit, Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust...fold-and-thrust belt, Eastern Siberia: tungsten deposit in a gold-dominant metallogenic prov‐ ince Serguei...inclusion characteristics of the Agylki reduced tungsten (W-Cu-Au-Bi) skarn deposit, Verkhoyansk foldand-thrust...foldand-thrust belt, Eastern Siberia: tungsten deposit in a gold-dominant metallogenic province, Ore Geology...inclusion characteristics of the Agylki reduced tungsten (W-Cu-Au-Bi) skarn deposit, Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust
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inclusion characteristics of the Meliksu reduced tungsten skarn deposit, Alai Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: Insights...inclusion characteristics of the Meliksu reduced tungsten skarn deposit, Alai Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: Insights...inclusion characteristics of the Meliksu reduced tungsten skarn deposit, Alai Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: Insights...in a magmatic chamber. Keywords: reduced skarn; tungsten; gold; fluid inclusions; Alai Tien Shan; Central...zones of post-skarn quartz-amphibole-chlorite-plagioclase (propylitic) and quartzsericite-albite-carbonate
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 72-32 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR THE ALASKA HIGHWAY;...by mail from Information Canada, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and...and Information Canada bookshops in HALIFAX - 1687 Barrington Street MONTREAL - 640 St. Catherine Street...Price subject to change without notice Informa tion Canada Ottawa 1973 - iii CONTENTS Page Abstract/Resume.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Churchill Mine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada M. BETH MCCLENAGHAN Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E8, Canada ABSTRACT Scheelite (CaWO4) collected from 37 different ore-deposit settings...addition, it is found in both orogenic (Craw & MacKenzie 1992, Bierlein & Crowe 2000, Goldfarb et al. 2005...Stable Isotopic Facilities, Kingston, Ontario, Canada using the BrF5 method (Clayton & Mayeda 1963)....5% for Cantung, NWT, Canada (n ¼ 5; Yuvan 2006); þ1 to þ1.3% for Grey River, Newfoundland, Canada (n ¼
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Consulting Inc. 189 – Scripps Landing N.W. Calgary, AB Canada T3L 1W1 **Russian Central Geological Prospecting...Keywords: reduced skarn; intrusion-related gold; tungsten; fluid inclusions; Sikhote-Alin; Russia 1. Introduction...1982) are also present (e.g., the MacTung and CanTung W skarn deposits in the Tintina-Tombstone Gold...sequence and steeply (60°-80°) dipping to the northwest (Izosov et al., 1988). The zone is approximately...(Fig. 4), with the skarn-hornfels zone extending northwest for a total of 2.5 to 3.0 km. The skarn-hornfels
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southern part of the state to King Island in the far northwest. In contrast, the Devonian granitoids comprising...are the oldest rock units, and exposed to the northwest of the deposit area ŽFig. 2.. The Cambrian sequence...The Moina Sandstone is extensively exposed in the mine area and lies stratigraphically above the Owen Conglomerate...K-feldspar Ž; 35 vol.%., quartz Ž; 35 vol.%., plagioclase Ž; 25 vol.%. and accessory minerals Ž; 5 vol...granite intrusive, and contains skarns ŽFig. 3.. Mine geologists consider the syncline to plunge at a
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exoskarn are composed of hedenbergite (Hd96Joh4)–plagioclase (An55–64) and hedenbergite (Hd61–94Joh4–7), accompanied...there has been no Fig. 1. Geological map of Northwest Anatolia and the distribution of various deposits...defines the closure of the Neotethys ocean, divides northwest Anatolia into two parts: the Sakarya continent...Ophiolite, the relict mass of the Neotethys ocean in northwest Anatolia, was emplaced in the upper Cretaceous...cordierite + biotite + muscovite + K-feldspar + plagioclase at the contact between plutonic and regional
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Reduced intrusion-related . Skarn . Stockwork . Tungsten . Gold . Fluid inclusions . Stable isotopes (C-O-S)... 189 Scripps Landing N.W, Calgary, AB T3L 1W1, Canada 2 Russian Central Geological Prospecting Institute...Chaussee, Moscow 113545, Russia Reduced-type tungsten skarn deposits (Einaudi et al. 1981; Kwak and...et al. 1999; Lang and Baker 2001; Hart 2007). Tungsten mineralization, although typically IC CT N AR...136° Paleozoic and Mesozoic accreted terrains Tungsten (+Au,Cu,Bi) deposits and occurrences Eastern
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Geology,Universityof Toronto,Toronto,Ontario MSS 1A1, Canada AND F. R. HABBIS Canamax Resources, Inc., 601-535...Thurlow Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3L6, Canada Abstract The Logtung deposit,discoveredin 1976...(Ho, 1983) and the Mactungdepositis that in the Cantung and the Mactung deposits generallyconsideredto...an exoticterranewith an uncertainrelationshipto Cantung,N.W.T. W skarn 1.6 >6 the North Americancraton...oppositethe better known tungstendepositssuchas Cantung,Mactung, Clea, and Lened (e.g., Dawsonand Dick
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). 1. Introduction Tungsten mineralization in magmatic-hydrothermal deposits...scheelite (CaWO4 ). Wolframite is the main dominated tungsten mineral in granite-related systems, whereas in...other W skarn deposits (e.g., CanTung Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada) [17,18]. Recently, scheelite-bearing...the W, (Cu,Mo) ore deposit of Borralha, Gerês Mountains [35]. (b) Geological map of the Borralha region...from the albitization and/or sericitization of plagioclase from granitic and pegmatite host rocks. Optical
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ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract: The giant Zhuxi tungsten deposit is located in the Taqian-Fuchun Ore Belt...include quartz, alkali feldspar, muscovite and plagioclase. All the Zhuxi granites have high SiO2 content...crystallizat ion resulted in further enrich ment of tungsten in the evolved granitic mag ma. New data, p resented...Scheelite skarn deposits are an important type of tungsten deposits and recognized as those skarns which...discovered giant skarn scheelite deposit owning tungsten reserves 286 Mt with a RI mean grade of 0.36
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the late Cretaceous. Abstract. The Kamioka Zn-Pb mine is located near the town of Kamioka in Gifu Prefecture...present position. The location of the Nakatatsu Zn-Pb mine is also shown in Fig. 1. The Kamioka and Nakatatsu...studies of the geology and ore deposits of the Kamioka mine (Akiyama 1980, 1981; Kano and Hori 1982), however...(Arakawa 1984). As Pb-Zn ore deposits of the Kamioka mine are formed along both the east and west sides of...metamorphic rocks Fig. 1. Locality map of the Kamioka mine, central Japan. The Hida region, north of the Hida
 
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