| Title | Controls on indium mineralisation in tin-tungsten-base metal deposits of the Canadian Appalachians |
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| Author | Goeddeke, C R; Chapman, J B ; Samson, I M |
| Source | TGI 4 - Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation; by Rogers, N (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7843, 2015 p. 101-110, https://doi.org/10.4095/296468  Open Access |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in TGI 4 - Intrusion Related
Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | New Brunswick; Nova Scotia |
| NTS | 21A; 21H; 21G |
| Area | Mount Pleasant; Appalachians |
| Lat/Long WENS | -68.0000 -64.0000 46.0000 44.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -56.5000 -55.0000 48.0000 47.5000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -124.0000 -120.0000 53.0000 50.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -78.4000 -78.4000 48.2833 48.2167 |
| Subjects | economic geology; metallic minerals; geochemistry; mineralogy; porphyry deposits; porphyry copper; mineral exploration; mineralization; alteration; tungsten; molybdenum; tin; bismuth; bulk samples;
mineral deposits; structural interpretations; molybdenite; intrusive rocks; granitic rocks; petrogenesis; copper; gold; igneous rocks; indium; Sisson deposit; Mount Pleasant deposit; South Mountain Batholith |
| Illustrations | location maps; photographs; photomicrographs; cross-sections; ternary diagrams |
| Program | Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) Intrusion/Porphyry Ore Systems |
| Released | 2015 06 11; 2023 03 17 |
| Abstract | Indium is a minor but potentially economically significant component of the ore metal tenor of many porphyry-style, stockwork and polymetallic vein-type Sn-W and Sn-base metal deposits of the Canadian
Appalachians. However, indium distribution between deposits is highly uneven, and whereas some deposits contain hundreds of kilograms of the metal at grades sufficient to justify recovery, others are near-barren. In order to investigate the
fundamental temperature, mineralogical, spatial and chemical controls on indium mineralisation in the district, this study has taken samples from indium rich and poor occurrences at 10 drilled prospects in southern New Brunswick and southwest Nova
Scotia, as well as from the past-producing East Kemptville Mine in Nova Scotia.
Detailed mineralogical characterization of these materials has shown that, contrary to existing models, within this district indium is commonly introduced early in
the deposit paragenesis, presumably as a component of the initial, high-temperature magmatic-hydrothermal fluids. During this phase of mineralisation, indium is dominantly precipitated within copper-rich sphalerite, and it is the distribution of this
mineral phase that primarily governs the presence or absence of indium within a mineralised body. During later cooling of the deposit a proportion of the indium is exsolved from sphalerite during recrystallization, and forms lamellae of a sulphide
mineral that resembles sakuraiite in the core zones of many individual sphalerite. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) is a collaborative federal geoscience program that provides industry with the next generation of geoscience
knowledge and innovative techniques to better detect buried mineral deposits, thereby reducing some of the risks of exploration. This volume summarises research activities completed under the TGI 4 Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project that
focused on porphyry-style ore systems related to the Cu- and Cu-Mo deposits of South-Central British Columbia and the Sn-W-Mo-In deposits in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296468 |
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