Mine detail: Amitsoq Pluton

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Location

Lat / long:

60.36097, -44.09802

Resource(B)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Nickel
Tertiary:	Platinum, Palladium, Gold, Rhodium, Silver, Asbestos
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Antigorite, Calcite, Chlorite, Phlogopite, Talc
Orebody form:	DIKE-LIKE, IRREGULAR NARROWING TOWARD TOP
Discovery year:	1960

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Peridotite
Structure:	E. And Ne Striking, Steepling Dipping Fractures
Alteration processes:	Minimal Contact Metamorphism

References

MRDS	M045496
DEP	10038195
Reference	{Deposit:: BERRANGE, J.P., 1970, MEDD. OM GRONLAND, BD 192, NO. 1, P. 43}{Deposit:: NIELSEN, B.L., 1973, GRONLAND GEOL. UNDERS., REPT. NO. 56, P. 45}{Deposit:: 1962 GEOLMAP G.S.U. GREENLAN}
Reporter	Page, Norman J.