Mine detail: Dumont Nickel Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 48.64999, -78.433

Resource(M)

Primary: Nickel
Tertiary: PGE
Ore: Millerite, Pentlandite
Gangue: Magnesite, Serpentine, Talc
Orebody form: SILL-LIKE
Discovery year: 1970

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Yes
Development status: Producer

Geology

Host type:Ultramafic Intrusive Rock
Associated type:Andesite
Structure:Trend Of Greenstone Belt
Tectonic:Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Alteration processes:Greenschist Metamorphism

References

MRDSM046840
DEP10039245
Reference{Deposit:: BESSON AND CAPITANT, 1976 , NI OF ABITIBI, CA: BULL. BRGM (IN FRENCH)}{Deposit:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1974 - 1975 : THE NORTHERN MINER, P. 115}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, SEPT. 1974 , P. 207}{Deposit:: SKINNER, W., 1973 , MIN. INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK: FINANCIAL TIMES, LONDON, P. 225}{Deposit:: 5) ECKSTRAND, 1975 , DUMONT SERPENTINITE: ECON. GEOL. V. 70 , NO. 1}
ReporterBlair, Will N.