| Location: | Ontario, Canada, North America |
| Lat / long: | 49.71667, -79.96639 |
| dep_id: | 10039379 |
| mrds_id: | M047046 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Nickel, Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Platinum |
| Trace mineral: | PGE |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Unknown |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Gersdorffite, Magnetite, Millerite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite |
| orebody_fm: | ROUGHLY TABULAR, DISCONTINUOUS BODIES |
| alteration: | Metamorphosed To Greenschist Facies With Primary Features Intact. |
| conc_proc: | Gravitational Settling And Entrapment Within Depressions In Paleosurface On Which Lavas Were Extruded. |
| ore_ctrl: | Original Gravitational Settling And Entrapment Of Sulfides; Little Or No Post Depositional Deformation Or Mobilization Of Sulfides Has Occurred |
| Reporter: | Oster, Karel L. |
| hrock_type: | Gabbro,Pyroxenite |
| arock_type: | Dacite,Andesite,Basalt |
| Structure: | E-W Trending Abitibi Greenstone Belt Composed Of Weakly Metamorphosed Mafic-Felsic Volcanic Rocks With Coeval Intrusions, Volcanic Sediemtns And Large Granitic Batholiths., Lava Flows Found In A Lens Shaped Body. They Overlie Each Other And Decrease In Age To The East. |
| tectonic: | Canadian Shield |
| References: |
- Deposit:: MUIR AND COMBA, 1979, THE DUNDONALD DEPOSIT: AN EXAMPLE OF VOLCANIC-TYPE NICKEL-SULFIDE MINERALIZATION, CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, VOL. 17, PP 351-35
- Deposit:: 1978 OTHER FAKONBRIDGE NICKEL MINES LTD
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