| Title | Architecture of magmatic conduits in chromium-PGE and Ni-Cu-PGE ore systems in Superior Province: example from the 'Ring of Fire' region, Ontario |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Houlé, M G; Lesher, C M; Metsaranta, R T; Sappin, A -A |
| Source | Targeted Geoscience Initiative: 2018 report of activities; by Rogers, N (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8549, 2019 p. 441-448, https://doi.org/10.4095/313678  Open Access |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Targeted Geoscience
Initiative: 2018 report of activities |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Ontario |
| NTS | 43C/12; 43C/13; 43C/14; 43D/09; 43D/10; 43D/11; 43D/14; 43D/15; 43D/16 |
| Area | Ring of Fire |
| Lat/Long WENS | -87.2294 -85.3836 52.9694 52.5814 |
| Subjects | economic geology; stratigraphy; tectonics; mineral deposits; polymetallic ores; modelling; mineral exploration; metals; chromium; nickel; copper; ore mineral genesis; mineralization; ore controls;
tectonic history; magmatism; intrusions; fluid flow; flow regimes; bedrock geology; lithology; mafic rocks; ultramafic rocks; stratigraphic analyses; Archean; Superior Province; McFaulds Lake Greenstone Belt; Ring of Fire Intrusive Suite; Koper Lake
Subsuite; Ekwan River Subsuite; Black Thor Intrusion; Double Eagle Intrusion; Esker Intrusive Complex; Eagle's Nest Dyke; Precambrian |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; photographs; tables; schematic representations |
| Program | Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-5) Knowledge Management Coordination |
| Program | Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-5) Nickel-copper-PGE-chromium ore systems - architecture - Cr-bearing systems |
| Released | 2019 03 01 |
| Abstract | One of the most prominent features of the McFaulds Lake greenstone belt (also known as the 'Ring of Fire'; RoF) in northern Ontario is an abundance of 2.7 to 2.8 Ga mafic to ultramafic intrusive rocks
that host world-class magmatic chromium, significant magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE and potentially economically significant Fe-Ti-V mineralization. The Neoarchean intrusions in the RoF have been referred to as the Ring of Fire intrusive suite, which is here
subdivided into two main magmatic subsuites: the spatially restricted ultramafic-dominated Koper Lake subsuite and the more widespread mafic-dominated Ekwan River subsuite. The Koper Lake subsuite includes the Esker intrusive complex, which comprises
the Black Thor and Double Eagle intrusions that host the Black Thor, Black Label, Big Daddy, Black Creek, Black Horse and Blackbird chromite deposits and several Ni-Cu-PGE showings, the Blue Jay funnel, which hosts the Blue Jay Ni-Cu-PGE prospect,
and the Eagle's Nest dyke, which hosts the Eagle's Nest Ni-Cu-PGE deposit. The Black Thor and Double Eagle intrusions are interpreted to have initially intruded separately, but to have coalesced over time with magma inflation within a dynamic
komatiitic system to form the chromium and Ni-Cu-PGE-bearing Esker intrusive complex, one of the most important members of an increasingly important class of polymetallic magmatic ore systems. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI) is directed towards providing next generation knowledge and methods to facilitate more effective targeting of
buried mineral deposits. The program aims to enhance the effectiveness of exploration for Canada's major mineral systems by resolving foundational geoscience problems that constrain the geological processes responsible for the liberation metals from
their source region, transportation of these ore metals and control their eventual deposition. TGI supports projects on gold, Ni-Cr-PGE, porphyry-style mineralization, uranium and volcanic- and sedimentary-hosted base metal mineralization ore
systems, with each project divided into subprojects focused on resolving specific knowledge gaps by integrating data and studies from multiple sites across Canada. Herein, we present interim results and interpretations from a selection of the
research activities currently being conducted under the auspices of TGI. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 313678 |
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