Mine detail: Garson Mine

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Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 46.58221, -80.86949
dep_id: 10038440
mrds_id: M045810
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Nickel, PGE
Minor mineral: Gold, Silver, Cobalt
Trace mineral: Selenium, Tellurium, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Cubanite, Galena, Gersdorffite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite
orebody_fm: LENS
work_type: Underground
conc_proc: Schist Inclusion Sulfide Ore Closely Related To Faults
ore_ctrl: Embayment Structure And Local Shear System.
Reporter: Blair, Will N., Shaffer, Glenn L.
hrock_type: Gabbro,Norite
Structure: Local Shearing Faults.
tectonic: Intracratonic Intrusion Triggered By Meteor Impact.
Year first produced: 1908
disc_yr: 1891
References:
  • Deposit:: SOUCH, B. E., AND PODOLSKY, T., 1969, SULFIDE ORES OF SUDBURY IN MAGMATIC ORE DEPOSITS: ECON. GEOL. MONOGRAPH 4, P. 258-259
  • Deposit:: HAWLEY, J.E., 1962, THE SUDBURY ORES: CAN. MINERALOGIST, V. 7, PT. 1 P. 74
  • Deposit:: PYE AND OTHERS, 1984, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SUDBURY STRUCTURE: ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL VOLUME 1, 603 P.
  • Deposit:: SUTPHIN AND PAGE, 1986: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-E, 34 P.
  • Deposit:: CROCKETT AND OTHERS, 1987: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-F, 54 P.
  • Deposit:: DEYOUNG AND OTHERS, 1985: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-D, 62 P.
  • Other Database:: ISMI
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