Mine detail: Dumont

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 48.64999, -78.433

Resource(M)

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

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Andesites
Host type:Ultramafic Intrusive Rock
Associated rock:Ultramafics
Associated type:Andesite
Structure:Trend Of Greenstone Belt, None
Tectonic:Abitibi Greenstone Belt.
Alteration processes:Greenschist Metamorphism

References

MRDSW002758
DEP10069227
Reference{Deposit:: METALS WEEK METALS SOURCEBOOK, 10/8/73, ITEM #4603 ECKSTRAND, O. R., 1975, THE DUMONT SERPENTINITE: A MODEL FOR CONTROL OF NICKELIFEROUS OPAQUE MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES BY ALTERATION REACTIONS IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS: ECON. GEOL. V. 70. P. 183 - 201}{Deposit:: SKINNER, WALTER R., 1973, MINING INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK: THE FINANCIAL TIMES, LONDON, 1973, P. 225.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 9/74, P.207}{Deposit:: THE NORTHERN MINER,1974,CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1974-1975,P.115.}
ReporterShaffer, Glenn L., Foose, Michael P.