Mine detail: Creighton Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

46.46082, -81.16922

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Nickel, PGE
Secondary:	Gold, Cobalt, Silver
Tertiary:	Selenium, Tellurium
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Galena, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Orebody form:	VERTICAL LENS
Discovery year:	1856

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1901

Geology

Host type:	Norite
Structure:	Shearing, Faults; Deposit In An Embayment Into Footwall Rocks.
Tectonic:	Intracratonic Intrusion Triggered By Meteor Impact
Alteration processes:	Granite Altered To Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite

References

MRDS	M045815
DEP	10038443
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Shaffer, Glenn L., Orris, Greta J., Bolm, Karen S.