| Title | Kimberlite indicator-mineral studies on Banks Island, Northwest Territories: assessing the potential for diamond-bearing kimberlite |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Smith, I R |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8726, 2020, 45 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/326157  Open Access |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; xlsx (Microsoft® Excel®); docx (Microsoft® Word®) |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 88A/05; 88A/12; 88A/13; 88B; 88C; 88D; 88F; 97G; 97H; 98A; 98B; 98C; 98D; 98E; 98F |
| Area | Inuvialuit Settlement Region; Banks Island; Victoria Island; Prince Albert Peninsula; Aulavik National Park; Prince of Wales Strait |
| Lat/Long WENS | -126.0000 -115.0000 74.7500 71.0000 |
| Subjects | economic geology; surficial geology/geomorphology; geochemistry; mineralogy; geophysics; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; Neogene; Miocene; mineral deposits; diamond; mineral potential;
mineral exploration; exploration methods; drift prospecting; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; fluvial deposits; igneous rocks; intrusive rocks; kimberlites; sulphide deposits; postglacial deposits; landslide deposits; slumps; glacial
deposits; glacial landforms; tills; moraines; kames; till samples; heavy mineral samples; stream sediment samples; stream sediment geochemistry; till geochemistry; trace element geochemistry; major element geochemistry; minor element geochemistry;
heavy minerals geochemistry; glacial history; Wisconsinian glacial stage; glaciation; ice flow; ice margins; sediment dispersal; dispersal patterns; provenance; sediment reworking; mass spectrometer analysis; scanning electron microscope analyses;
electron probe analyses; mineralogical analyses; morphology; garnet; spinel; chromite; ilmenite; olivine; diopside; forsterite; geothermometry; thermal history; temperature; exploration history; mining properties; geophysical interpretations;
magnetic interpretations; magnetic anomalies; Beaufort Formation; Banks Basin; Jesse Moraine; Eureka Sound Formation; Kanguk Formation; Christopher Formation; Hassel Formation; Isachsen Formation; Mercy Bay Member; Glenelg Formation; Laurentide Ice
Sheet; Last Glacial Maximum (Lgm); Snow Goose Kimberlite; Parry Peninsula Kimberlite; ice-flow directions; alluvial sediments; glaciofluvial sediments; glaciolacustrine sediments; colluvial and mass-wasting deposits; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic;
Quaternary; Tertiary; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Paleozoic; Devonian; Precambrian; Proterozoic |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; pie charts; photographs; flow diagrams; plots; frequency distribution diagrams |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Western Arctic-Beaufort-Northern Yukon |
| Program | Polar Continental Shelf Program
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| Released | 2020 06 16 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This Open File provides details of field sample collections on Banks Island in 2015 and 2016 for kimberlite indicator minerals, and their geochemical
analysis. Results are presented and discussed in the context of assessing the prospectivity of Banks Island hosting diamond-bearing kimberlites. Evidence suggests Neogene fluvial Beaufort Fm. deposits contain evidence of proximal, unknown
kimberlites, while stream sediment surveys suggest potential for Banks Island or northwest Victoria Island sourced diamondiferous kimberlite. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 326157 |
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