| Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |
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Fontboté, Lluís (2018) Ore Deposits of the Central Andes, in Central Andes: Mountains, Magmas, and Minerals. Elements, 14 (4) 257-261 doi:10.2138/gselements.14.4.257 |
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| Earth. In 2017, the Central Andes accounted for the mine production of around 39% of the world’s copper,...easternmost extend from central Chile/Argentina to Bolivia and to northern Peru and beyond. Table 1 summarizes...deposits including Cuajone (Peru), Toquepala (Peru), La Escondida (Chile), SELECTED PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS... 0.011 793 0.77 0 0 −27.33, −66.61 Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina Miocene-Early Pliocene 8.02–...Quiruvilca, Morococha, (Peru) and San Cristobal (Bolivia). Complex assemblages may contain Bi, Sb, Sn, and |
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Chen, H., Clark, A. H., Kyser, T. K., Ullrich, T. D., Baxter, R., Chen, Y., Moody, T. C. (2010) Evolution of the Giant Marcona-Mina Justa Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold District, South-Central Peru. Economic Geology, 105 (1) 155-185 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.1.155 |
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| Cu-rich IOCG deposits of the central Andes, e.g., _Candelaria_-Punta del Cobre, Mantoverde, and Rául-Condestable—was...Jurassic and Cretaceous age exposed in the Cordillera de la Costa of northern Chile and central and southern...Ohmoto, 1977; de Haller and Fontboté, 2009), La Candelaria (Ullrich and Clark, 1999; Ullrich et al., 2001)...Valpara so Cerro Pelado Morritos Raul-Condestable Bolivia ne Ca Rosa Maria s Marcona Pampa de Pongo ...Las Animas Mantoverde Galleguillo s Dulcinea _Candelaria_-Punta del Cobre Ojancos Nuevo Carrizal Alto Farola |
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(1997) Richard Tayler Minerals Catalogue 73. Richard Tayler Minerals |
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| colourful Halite MINERALS 047 BASTNAESITE Ce La CO/3 F Rich distribution of tiny brown grains in...rock £2.50 (Rudabanya Hungary) 248 GADOLINITE (Ce La Nd Y) Fe Be Silicate.2mm to 3mm brown crystal section...half x half ins £3.50 407 TADZHIKITE Ce Ca (Ce Nd La) (Ti Al Fe) B SiO vitreous brownish micro plates...Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS |
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Chen, H., Clark, A. H., Kyser, T. K. (2010) The Marcona Magnetite Deposit, Ica, South-Central Peru: A Product of Hydrous, Iron Oxide-Rich Melts?. Economic Geology, 105 (8) 1441-1456 doi:10.2113/econgeo.105.8.1441 |
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| Cu-rich IOCG deposits in the Central Andes, e.g., La _Candelaria_-Punta del Cobre, Mantoverde, Raúl-Condestable...Perú SA., Resource Estimate of the Marcona Iron Mine, unpub. report, 2003, in Chinese). The unambiguously...Ag, crops out 3 to 4 km northeast of the Marcona mine (Fig. 1; Chen et al., 2010). Although Hudson (1974)...Massif (gneisses, K-rich granite, migmatite) Bolivia Rio Grande Fm ne (mixed calcareous sediments...Formation hosts several orebodies of the Marcona mine (Injoque, 1985; Hawkes et al., 2002). The type section |
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Oyarzun, Roberto, Lillo, Javier, Oyarzun, Jorge, Maturana, Hugo, Canut, Claudio, Andreani, Sebastian (2010) Restrictive definition of asbestos and the assessment of potential health hazards: insights from Northern Chile. International Geology Review, 52 (9) 955-963 doi:10.1080/00206810903211278 |
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| Universidad de La Serena, Casilla, La Serena, Chile; dCentro de Salud de La Higuera (La Higuera Health...Health Centre), La Higuera, Chile (Accepted 6 July 2009) When asbestos fibres become airborne, they can be...(amosite), riebeckite (crocidolite), anthophyllite, tremolite and actinolite are regarded as asbestos (s.s.)...case of mesothelioma in the small mining town of La Higuera, northern Chile, may shed some light into...if a ‘non-asbestiform variety’ of amphibole (e.g. La Higuera actinolite) is finely ground, it will cleave |
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Skirrow, R.G, Camacho, A, Lyons, P, Pieters, P.E, Sims, J.P, Stuart-Smith, P.G, Miró, R (2000) Metallogeny of the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: geological, 40Ar–39Ar dating and stable isotope evidence for Devonian Au, Ag–Pb–Zn and W ore formation. Ore Geology Reviews, 17 (1) 39-81 doi:10.1016/s0169-1368(00)00004-4 |
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| rare-metal-enriched pegmatites were succeeded by a _province_-wide metallogenic epoch and concurrent tectonic...calculated d D SMOW compositions range from y61‰ in the La Rioja Au systems to y141‰ in the W veins Ž n s 9...Pampeanas, in the provinces of San Luis, Cordoba ´ and La Rioja, forms part of an extensively mineralized metallogenic...is well exposed in the southern ranges of La Rioja Province ŽPankhurst et al., 1996, 1998; Pieters et...Miocene–Pliocenee Sierras de Las Minas ŽLR. Rıo ´ Candelaria ŽCD. Santo Domingo ŽSL. El Guaico ŽCD. Aguas |
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Pullman, Steven, Thomssen, Richard (1999) Nevada Mineral Locality Index. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (6) 370-379 doi:10.1080/00357529909605174 |
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| Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite...(top). Clinotyrolite spray, 3.4 mm across, Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite...natron, trona Table Mountain (Bolivia, Cottonwood Canyon) District Lovelock mine: annabergite, atacamite,...ciinotyrolite, erythrite, retgersite, tyrolite Nickel mine: annabergite, chloanthite, cyanorrichite, ery*Type...prospects: beryl, chrysoberyl, dumortierite Key West mine: chalcopyrite, glaukosphaerite, godlevskite(?), |
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Chen, Huayong, Kyser, T. Kurtis, Clark, Alan H. (2011) Contrasting fluids and reservoirs in the contiguous Marcona and Mina Justa iron oxide–Cu (–Ag–Au) deposits, south-central Perú. Mineralium Deposita, 46 (7) 677-706 doi:10.1007/s00126-011-0343-x |
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| time-of-flight inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (_LA_-TOFICPMS) analysis, integrated with sulphur, oxygen...140°C) and low-salinity probably meteoric water. _LA_-TOF-ICPMS analyses show that fluids at the magnetite–pyrite...Ernest Henry (Mark et al. 2000) in Australia and La Candelaria in Chile (Ullrich and Clark 1999), but more...have been identified at Eloise (Baker 1998), La Candelaria (Ullrich and Clark 1999) and Ernest Henry (Mark...(Rotherham et al. 1998; Williams et al. 2001), La Candelaria (Ullrich and Clark 1999; Ullrich et al. 2001; |
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(2003) The Mineralogical Record Vol. 34 (3). The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese |
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(2019) March - April 2019. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 50 (2) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MARCH–APRIL 2019 Articles The Candelaria District Mineral County, Nevada ...............by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found...after three semesters to pursue an opportunity to mine placer gold near Quartzsite. He also bought and |
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(2009) Richard Tayler Minerals Catalogue 108. Richard Tayler Minerals |
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| lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...lxl£2 2x3£6 3x4£8 feldspar ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 5...2x3£15 Gamet ½" £3 ALTHAUSITE ANDRADITE Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales Modum, Buskerud,Norway 975 44 Brown-purple |
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Rodriguez-Mustafa, Maria A., Simon, Adam C., del Real, Irene, Thompson, John F.H., Bilenker, Laura D., Barra, Fernando, Bindeman, Ilya, Cadwell, David (2020) A Continuum from Iron Oxide Copper-Gold to Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposits: Evidence from Fe and O Stable Isotopes and Trace Element Chemistry of Magnetite. Economic Geology, 115 (7). 1443-1459 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4752 |
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| stable isotope abundances for actinolite from the Candelaria IOCG deposit and Quince IOA prospect in the Chilean...ilmenite from magnetite in Quince and deep levels of Candelaria (>500 m below the bottom of the open pit). Trace...within magnetite grains in shallow samples from Candelaria. These results are consistent with a cooling...and between 0.16 ± 0.03 and 0.42 ± 0.04‰ for Candelaria. Oxygen isotope compositions of magnetite range...and between 1.16 ± 0.07 and 7.80 ± 0.07‰ for Candelaria. For cogenetic actinolite, δD values range from |
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Panczner, William D. (1987) Minerals of Mexico. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-5848-1 |
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| Berkshire RG 11 2PY, England Yan Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...£species Minerales de Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez's La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of...1) produced specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in...CALl[NTCS ... I MI ( Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...University of New York, Albany) Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Modified from Berstein, 1964, back |
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(1998) Richard Tayler Minerals Catalogue 75. Richard Tayler Minerals |
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| pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS 047 BASTNAESITE Ce La CO/3...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 |
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Litherland, M., Annells, R. N., Appleton, J. D., Berrangé, J. P., Bloomfield, K., Burton, C. C. J., Darbyshire, D. P. F., Fletcher, C. J. N., Hawkins, M. P., Klinck, B. A., Llanos, A., Mitchell, W. I., O'Connor, E. A., Pitfield, P. E. J., Power, G., Webb, B. C. (1986) The geology and mineral resources of the Bolivian Precambrian shield. Overseas Memoir 9. British Geological Survey |
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| Geologico de Bolivia, Regional Santa Cruz, Casilla 3015, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia ISBN O 11 884415...Brasiliano cycles 89 Andean-trending belts in eastern Bolivia 89 Evolution of the enlarged Andean chain 90 Seven:...Group 93 The Velasco Alkaline Complex 94 The Candelaria Alkaline Complex 98 The Cerro Manom6 Carbonatitic...Precambrian shield and other major geomorphic units of Bolivia 1 Access for field operations 6 Index map of Project...geological units of c. 1300 Ma or older in eastern Bolivia and adjacent Brazil 62 37 Rb-Sr plot for the Casa |
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Panczner, William D. (1987) Minerals of Mexico. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-5848-1 |
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| Berkshire RG11 2PY, England Van Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...Especies Minerales de Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of...pa Biren vem, nM cad tomas ies ery £5 ao hebe, La iOd aay Am gle Pha yy i;sian, WRT a ss] ae " re...1) produced specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein |
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Oyarzun, Roberto, Oyarzún, Jorge, Ménard, Jean Jacques, Lillo, Javier (2003) The Cretaceous iron belt of northern Chile: role of oceanic plates, a superplume event, and a major shear zone. Mineralium Deposita, 38 (5) 640-646 doi:10.1007/s00126-003-0359-y |
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| Facultad de Ingenierı́a, Universidad de La Serena, Casilla 554 La Serena, Chile J. J. Ménard Institut Pédagogique...Cretaceous Cu–(Fe) deposits/districts: Talcuna (TAL), Candelaria (CAN), Punta del Cobre (PC), Manto Verde (MV)...(Munizaga et al. 1988), and Punta del Cobre, Candelaria, and Talcuna in the northern part of the country...The mineral paragenesis includes magnetite ± tremolite ± apatite, followed by albite/oligoclase ± clinozoisite...immediately to the east of the AFZ (Punta del Cobre, Candelaria, Talcuna; Fig. 1). Alternatively, we may speculate |
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Moreto, Carolina P. N., Monteiro, Lena V. S., Xavier, Roberto P., Creaser, Robert A., DuFrane, S. Andrew, Melo, Gustavo H. C., Delinardo da Silva, Marco A., Tassinari, Colombo C. G., Sato, Kei (2015) Timing of multiple hydrothermal events in the iron oxide–copper–gold deposits of the Southern Copper Belt, Carajás Province, Brazil. Mineralium Deposita, 50 (5) 517-546 doi:10.1007/s00126-014-0549-9 |
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| deposits of the Southern Copper Belt, Carajás Province, Brazil Carolina P. N. Moreto & Lena V. S. Monteiro...2014 Abstract The Southern Copper Belt, Carajás Province, Brazil, hosts several iron oxide–copper–gold...multicollector inductively coupled mass spectrometry (_LA_-MC-ICP-MS) analysis of ore-related monazite and Re–Os...association of all IOCG deposits of the Carajás Province with a single extensive hydrothermal system is...is precluded. Keywords IOCG deposits . Carajás Province . Bacaba deposit . Bacuri deposit . U–Pb geochronology |
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| Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...New Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill...Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...Pennsylvania. Also at La Bufa, Mexico. Very unusual crystals at Carn Brea Mine, Cornwall, England. Found...Found at Wanlockhead Mine in Scotland, and also at Wallaroo, South Australia. 24 5 X Chalcopyrite |
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Tennissen, Anthony C. (1973) Colorful Mineral Identifier (2nd ed.) Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. |
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| Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...Cornwall, England. Found at La Bufa, Brea Mine, at Wanlockhead Mine Scotland, and also at Wallaroo...regions. In USS., fine crystals in calcite at Cahill Mine, Nevada. Also at New Almaden and New Idria Mines...British Columbia. also in 1” crystals at Bluebell Mine, In pegmatites at Standish, Maine. Large (3”) |
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Weber, Bodo, González-Guzmán, Reneé, Manjarrez-Juárez, Román, Cisneros de León, Alejandro, Martens, Uwe, Solari, Luigi, Hecht, Lutz, Valencia, Victor (2018) Late Mesoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic history of metamorphic basement from the southeastern Chiapas Massif Complex, Mexico, and implications for the evolution of NW Gondwana. Lithos, 300. 177-199 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.12.009 |
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| 25 constituted by mafic metaigneous rocks (Candelaria unit), (2) an Ediacaran metasedimentary sequence...the southern part of the Maya block, namely in the La 114 Mixtequita (Guichicovi Complex), the Chiapas...198 3.1. The Candelaria unit 200 Estrada-Carmona et al. (2012) defined the Candelaria unit as comprised...minor biotite gneiss. 202 Indeed, most of the Candelaria unit is formed by folded hornblende gneiss but...(Fig. 4a, c) 205 (2) Partial melting of the Candelaria unit is observed in most outcrops at different |
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Smith, M., Coppard, J., Herrington, R., Stein, H. (2007) The Geology of the Rakkurijarvi Cu-(Au) Prospect, Norrbotten: A New Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposit in Northern Sweden. Economic Geology, 102 (3) 393-414 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.102.3.393 |
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| resource. Regional Geology The major iron ore province of northern Sweden is hosted within Paleoproterozoic...(Fig. 3D). The dominant marble types are biotite-tremolite marble, locally with significant quartz and epidote...phenocryst cores, sample RAK006, 120.10m. D. Calcite-_tremolite_-biotite marble, showing small-scale folding and...magnetite, Mo = molybdenite, Scp = scapolite, Tr = tremolite. to assess on the basis of current exposures...overprints on some altered clasts (Fig. 3E). Tremolite and actinolite are locally developed in biotite |
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Edfelt, Åsa, Armstrong, Robin N., Smith, Martin, Martinsson, Olof (2005) Alteration paragenesis and mineral chemistry of the Tjårrojåkka apatite–iron and Cu (-Au) occurrences, Kiruna area, northern Sweden. Mineralium Deposita, 40 (4) 409-434 doi:10.1007/s00126-005-0005-y |
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| 2001). Northern Norrbotten is an important mining province dominated by Fe- and Cu-deposits, with Au as a...scale in the Kiruna area. Sweden’s largest sulphide mine, Aitik, is situated in the Gällivare area (Fig...have been found in the northern Norrbotten ore province, a large number of epigenetic Cu–Au occurrences...hydrothermal alteration in the northern Norrbotten ore province demonstrates two major events of ore formation...the ore deposits in the northern Norrbotten ore province and adjacent Karelian areas in northern Finland |
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Hinchey, John G., Hattori, Kéiko H. (2007) Lead isotope study of the late Archean Lac des Iles palladium deposit, Canada: enrichment of platinum group elements by ponded sulfide melt. Mineralium Deposita, 42 (6) 601-611 doi:10.1007/s00126-007-0129-3 |
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| the Wabigoon subprovince of the western Superior Province of Canada. Plagioclase separates show Pb isotope...NL A1B 4J6, Canada Introduction The Lac des Iles mine is hosted by the Neo-Archean Lac des Iles mafic–ultramafic...complex (Fig. 1) and represents the only primary Pd mine in Canada. It had proven and probable reserves of...southern Wabigoon subprovince of the Superior Province, Canada (Fig. 1). The country rock tonalites have...Fig. 1 Regional geology of the western Superior Province illustrating subprovince boundaries and the location |
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