Mine detail: Dumont Nickel Mine

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Location: Quebec, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 48.64999, -78.433
dep_id: 10039245
mrds_id: M046840
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Nickel
Trace mineral: PGE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Millerite, Pentlandite
gangue: Magnesite, Serpentine, Talc
orebody_fm: SILL-LIKE
alteration: Greenschist Metamorphism
conc_proc: Initial Magmatic Segregation And Later Serpentinization
ore_ctrl: Serpentinization Process Concentrates Nickel
Reporter: Blair, Will N.
hrock_type: Ultramafic Intrusive Rock
arock_type: Andesite
Structure: Trend Of Greenstone Belt
tectonic: Abitibi Greenstone Belt
disc_yr: 1970
References:
  • 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
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