Mine detail: Levack West Nickel Mine

Previously called 'Levack West'

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Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 46.64999, -81.39979
dep_id: 10039294
mrds_id: M046914
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Copper, Nickel
Minor mineral: Osmium, PGE, Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, Rhodium
Trace mineral: Gold, Cobalt, Sulfur, Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Hessite, Millerite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite, Sperrylite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
conc_proc: Diffusion Of Metals Down Thermal Gradient In Presenc E Of Aqueous Fluid Phase.
ore_ctrl: Brecciation And Embayment Of Granite In Footwall Of Sudbury Irruptive.
Reporter: Blair, Will N., Oster, Karel L.
hrock_type: Diorite
arock_type: Norite
Structure: Cu-Rich Stringer Ore In Levack Breccia Zone.
Year first produced: 1974
References:
  • Deposit:: CABRI AND LAFLAMME, 1976 , PGM FROM DEPOSITS IN SUDBURY: ECON GEOL V. 71 , NO. 7
  • Deposit:: MINING INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK, 1978 : THE FINANCIAL TIMES, LONDON, P. 304
  • Deposit:: EMJ INTERNAT. DIRECTORY MINES AND MINERAL PROCESSING, 1976 , ENG. MIN. JOUR. P. 195
  • Deposit:: HOFFMAN, NALDRETT, ALCOCK, AND HANCOCK, 1979, THE NOBLE METAL CONTENT OF ORE IN THE LEVACK WEST AND LITTLE STOBIE MINES, ONTARIO: CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, V. 17, P. 437
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