| Title | A synthesis of the TGI-4 Canadian nickel-copper-platinum group elements-chromium ore systems project -- revised and new genetic models and exploration tools for Ni-Cu-PGE, Cr-(PGE), Fe-Ti-V-(P), and PGE-Cu
deposits |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Ames, D E ; Houlé,
M G |
| Source | Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4: Canadian nickel-copper-platinum group elements-chromium ore systems -- fertility, pathfinders, new and revised models; by Ames, D E (ed.); Houlé, M G (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7856, 2015 p.
1-15, https://doi.org/10.4095/296675  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 Targeted Geoscience
Initiative 4: Canadian nickel-copper-platinum group elements-chromium ore systems -- fertility, pathfinders, new and revised models |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | British Columbia; Manitoba; Ontario; Quebec; Newfoundland and Labrador |
| NTS | 14C; 14D; 23; 33; 32; 41I; 42; 52; 43C; 92H; 104I |
| Area | Euclid Lake; Bird Lake; Fort Hope; McFaulds Lake; Lac Yasinski; Lac des Montagnes; Lac Fed; Lac Richardie; Lac Pelletan; Gayot; Voisey's Bay; Newark Island; Sudbury; Thunder Bay; Marathon; Hope |
| Lat/Long WENS | -96.0000 -60.0000 58.0000 46.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -122.0000 -120.0000 50.0000 49.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -130.0000 -128.0000 59.0000 58.0000 |
| Subjects | metallic minerals; igneous and metamorphic petrology; modelling; nickel; platinum; chromium; ore mineral genesis; metallogeny; Bird River Greenstone Belt; Abitibi Greenstone Belt; Nain province;
Superior Province; Sudbury Igneous Complex |
| Program | Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) Mafic-Ultramafic Ore Systems |
| Released | 2015 06 22; 2023 03 17 |
| Abstract | The Canadian Ni-Cu-PGE-Cr ore systems project, under the fourth phase of the Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4), spanned a breadth of ore deposit types, tectonic environments (crustal boundaries,
suprasubduction zones, astrobleme, intracratonic rift), and processes of formation (magmatic to hydrothermal). This report summarizes key project activities for six mineral districts completed by a collaborative group of more than fifty contributors
from the GSC, four provincial geological surveys, academia, and industry to develop and refine genetic models and exploration techniques to determine fertility and pathfinders.
Sixty-six new age determinations provide important geochronological
constraints to build and refine models for many Cr-(PGE), Ni-Cu-PGE, Cu-PGE, and Fe-Ti-V-(P) prospective and fertile regions. These include Ni-Cu-PGE in convergent-margin settings, Cr in the Bird River and McFaulds Lake ("Ring of Fire") greenstone
belts, Cr in La Grande Rivière-Eastmain domains, Cu-PGE in Midcontinent Rift, and Ni-Cu-PGE in the enormous Sudbury mining district.
New exploration techniques to detect fertility using advanced mineral chemical microanalytical techniques and
discriminant diagrams were developed for oxide phases (chromite, magnetite) in barren and fertile intrusions through examination of Canada's districts (Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario; Voisey's Bay, Labrador and Newfoundland) and Archean komatiite
(Alexo, Abitibi). The first in situ determination of actual ore-metal concentrations from an early trapped melt hosting a major mining district was completed. Various new indicator minerals and assemblages, such as apatite, biotite, and
epidote-amphibole-titanite assemblages, were identified with distinctive chemistry to aid in vectoring towards buried Ni-Cu-PGE and Cu-PGE mineralization. |
| 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 summarizes 22 research activities completed under the TGI-4 Ni-Cu-PGE-Cr ore systems project that focused on
revised and new geologic models for Ni-Cu-PGE, PGE-Cu and Cr deposits, innovative techniques for determining potential fertility of intrusion (Ni-Cu-PGE), and defining pathfinders for Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296675 |
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