| Location: | Ontario, Canada, North America |
| Lat / long: | 46.46082, -81.16922 |
| dep_id: | 10038443 |
| mrds_id: | M045815 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper, Nickel, PGE |
| Minor mineral: | Gold, Cobalt, Silver |
| Trace mineral: | Selenium, Tellurium |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Galena, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite |
| orebody_fm: | VERTICAL LENS |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Granite Altered To Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite |
| conc_proc: | Interstital Sulfide Enrichment, Ore Closely Related To Faults. |
| ore_ctrl: | Edge Of Norite Body; Shear Zones That Cross Cut Embayment, Quartz Diorite Dike |
| Reporter: | Shaffer, Glenn L., Orris, Greta J., Bolm, Karen S. |
| hrock_type: | Norite |
| Structure: | Shearing, Faults; Deposit In An Embayment Into Footwall Rocks. |
| tectonic: | Intracratonic Intrusion Triggered By Meteor Impact |
| Year first produced: | 1901 |
| disc_yr: | 1856 |
| discr: | A.P. Salter |
| References: |
- Deposit:: MERTIE, J. B., 1969, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE PLATINUM METALS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF PAPER 630, P. 21
- Deposit:: SOUCH, B. E., AND PODOLSKY, T. 1969, SULFIDE ORES OF SUDBURY IN MAGMATIC ORE DEPOSITS: ECON. GEOLOGY MONOGRAPH 4, P. 257
- Deposit:: HAWLEY, J. E., 1962, THE SUDBURY ORES: MIN. ASSN. OF CANADA
- Deposit:: *EILL, J.J., AND GUNNING, 1934, PT AND ALLIED METAL DEPOSITS OF CANADA: CAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT 13, P. 60
- Deposit:: DEYOUNG AND OTHERS, 1985: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-D, 62 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:: CORE SHED DISPLAY APPENDIX, 1990, VIII SYMPOSIUM, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON THE GENESIS OF ORE DEPOSITS, OTTAWA, CANADA.
- Other Database:: ISMI
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