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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 8708

Whole-rock lithogeochemistry along drill core through the gold-bearing Whale Tail zone, Amaruq deposit, Churchill Province, Nunavut

P. Mercier-Langevin, M.-C. Lauzon, V. Bécu, K. Lauzière, and O. Côté-Mantha

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2020

Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.4095/322187

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Mercier-Langevin, P., Lauzon, M.-C., Bécu, V., Lauzière, K., and Côté-Mantha, O., 2020. Whole-rock lithogeochemistry along drill core through the gold-bearing Whale Tail zone, Amaruq deposit, Churchill Province, Nunavut; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8708, 1 .zip file. https://doi.org/10.4095/322187	

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Contents

The Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-5) 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. As part of TGI-5, the gold-bearing mineralized zones of the Island Gold deposit located in Ontario was studied through an MSc thesis of the senior author in collaboration between the GSC and  the, University of Waterloo. In the course of the study a series of 94 samples were collected, over a two year span (2016-2017) and were analysed at ActLabs, in order to characterize the geological setting, hydrothermal footprint and metal signature of the gold-bearing mineralized zones of the Island Gold  hydrothermal system. This open file releases the geochemical results and related information associated to these samples.

Directory structure

of_8708_readme.rtf (this file)
of_8708.pdf (report)
of_8708_Appendix1_Samples_WhaleTail.xlsx
Worksheet 		Content
SampleLocation		Sample location information and lithology

of_8708_Appendix2_Results_WhaleTail.xlsx 
Worksheet 		Content
Results 		Analytical results for one geochemical report from ActLabs and a legacy sample
DetectionLimit		List of analytes with corresponding digestion//analytical method and detection limit
Lab_Standards		CRM measurements reported by the lab
Duplicates		Duplicate measurements of separate dissolutions, reported by the lab.
Blanks			Blank measurements reported by the lab.

Author contact information

K. Lauzière (kathleen.lauziere@canada.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
490, rue de la Couronne
Québec, Québec
G1K 9A9

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