Publication information
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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 7423

Indicator minerals in till and bedrock samples from the Pine Point Mississippi Valley-type District, Northwest Territories

N.M Oviatt, M.B. McClenaghan, R.C. Paulen, S.A. Gleeson, S.A. Averill, and S. Paradis

doi:10.4095/293031

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2013

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Recommended citation
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Oviatt, N.M., McClenaghan, M.B., Paulen, R.C., Gleeson, S.A., Averill, S.A., and Paradis, S., 2013. Indicator minerals in till and bedrock samples from the Pine Point Mississippi Valley-type District, Northwest Territories; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7423. doi:10.4095/293031

Contents
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This report documents the abundance, morphology, size and, chemistry of indicator minerals present in the deposits and in the till down-ice of the deposits within the Pine Point Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) district in Northwest Territories. The usefulness of sphalerite, galena, smithsonite, cerussite, and pyrite in till and bedrock samples is examined.

Directory structure
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licence_agreement.rtf   (end-user agreement in English)
readme_of7423.rtf   (English version of this file)
of7423.pdf   (Open File 7320)
Appendices\AppendixA\AppendixA1\of7423-AppendixA1.xls (2010 bedrock sample field data)
Appendices\AppendixA\AppendixA3\of7423-AppendixA3.xls (2010 and 2011 till sample field data)
Appendices\AppendixB\AppendixB1\of7423-AppendixB1.xls (bedrock sample heavy mineral concentrate data)
Appendices\AppendixB\AppendixB2\of7423-AppendixB2.xls (till sample heavy mineral concentrate data)
Appendices\AppendixC\AppendixC3\of7423-AppendixC3.xls (electron microprobe data of sphalerite, pyrite, and galena from bedrock polished thin sections and individual grains recovered from till sample 10-MPB-004)

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Author contact information
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N.M. Oviatt
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2R3
Email: oviatt@ualberta.ca

M.B. McClenaghan
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0E8
Email: beth.mcclenaghan@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

R.C. Paulen
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0E8
Email: roger.paulen@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

S.A. Gleeson
Department of Earth and Armospheric Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2R3
Email: Sgleeson@ualberta.ca

S.A. Averill
Overburden Drilling Management
Unit 107, 15 Capella Court
Ottawa, Ontario
K2E 7X1
Email: odm@storm.ca

S. Paradis
Geological Survey of Canada
9860 West Saanich Road
P.O. Box 6000
Sidney, British Columbia
V8L 4B2
Email: Suzanne.Paradis@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca

Contribution to the Geological Survey of Canada’s Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) Program (2008-2013)

Availability information
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This publication is available for free download through GEOSCAN (http://geoscan.ess.nrcan.gc.ca/).