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⇱ Zircon from Golden Giant Mine, Hemlo gold deposit, Bomby Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada


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Zircon from
Golden Giant Mine, Hemlo gold deposit, Bomby Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Age information
Maximum recorded age:2678.5 ± 1.2 Ma
Minimum recorded age:2678.5 ± 1.2 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
12678.5 ± 1.2 MaNeoarchean - U-Pb
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Golden Giant Mine, Hemlo gold deposit, Bomby Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:804948
Long-form Identifier:1:3:804948:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
0.5km (0.3 miles) Hemlo gold deposit, Bomby Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
5.8km (3.6 miles) White River property (White River gold occurrence), Bomby Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
51.9km (32.2 miles) Geco Mine, Gemmell Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
56.1km (34.8 miles) Coldwell complex, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
58.8km (36.5 miles) Deadhorse Creek complex, Walsh Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
70.6km (43.8 miles) Prairie Lake carbonatite, Killala Lake Area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Setting of the Hemlo Gold Deposit, Ontario, Canada SHOUFA LIN†,* Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street...Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada Abstract Results of detailed surface and underground mapping and...compilation of data from the three gold mines in the Hemlo area, Ontario, are presented. In particular, the...the area are elucidated. The genesis of the gold deposit is discussed in context of these results. Four...deformation is the strongest and the geometry of the Hemlo camp is dominated by macroscopic (camp-scale) “S”-shaped
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1995 ) 455-488 The late Archean Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada: a review and synthesis Yuanming...Saskatoon, Sask. S7N 5E2, Canada Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A...5B7, Canada Received 18 March 1994; accepted 30 January 1995 Abstract The Hemlo gold deposit, northwestern...northwestern Ontario, Canada, is situated within the late Archean Hemlo--Heron Bay greenstone belt of the...central axis of the greenstone belt. The Hemlo gold deposit is located within the central metamorphic
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
syntectonic gold mineralization and barite remobilization within the main ore body of the Golden Giant mine...mine, Hemlo, Ontario, Canada Katsuyoshi Michibayashi 1,. Department of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville...analysis of the central part of the Hemlo gold deposit in the Hemlo--HeronBay greenstone belt has revealed...influenced the orebody and controlled the localization of gold mineralization. Development of D3 dextral shearing...feldspathic orebody, such that this deposit appears to be controlled by the Hemlo Shear Zone. However, the orebody
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/oregeorev The Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada: principal deposit characteristics and constraints...Geology Section, Ontario Geological Survey, 933 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, P3E 6B5 Received...2002 Abstract The Archean, world-class, Hemlo lode gold deposit has been overprinted by deformation and...accounts for all of the characteristics of the deposit. Most proposed models are inappropriate in terms...ratios. The deposit is spatially associated with: highstrain zones; a restraining bend in the Hemlo greenstone
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Report (issue)
Energy, Mines and Resources Canada E:nergie, Mines et Ressourees Canada Canada THE ENERGY OF OUR RESOURCES...POWER OF OUR IDEAS COVER Left: Amethyst - Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specimen measures 4.5 cm across the base...no. 17206. GSC 204971-1 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 49 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR... © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1991 Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents...bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication Group - Publishing Ottawa, Canada KIA OS9 and from. Geological
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Hemlo-Heron Bay greenstone belt and Hemlo AU-MO deposit, Superior Province, Ontario, Canada 2. Timing...U-Pb geochronology F. CORFU Ontario Geological Survey, c/o Department Ontario Geological (Received December...MUIR Survey, Royal Toronto, Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ont. M7A 1 W4 (Canada) 5,1988; revised and accepted... M5S 2C6 (Canada) 3,1989) Abstract Corfu, F. and Muir, T.L., 1989. The Hemlo-Heron Bay greenstone...greenstone belt and Hemlo Ontario, Canada, 2. Timing of metamorphism, alteration and Au mineralization U-Pb geochronology
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry of vanadian silicates in the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada Yuanming Pan and Michael E. Fleet...of Geology,Universityof Western Ontario, London,Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada, Received March 22, 1991/Accepted...present in green mica schist from the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada. Vanadium-rich silicate minerals...talc and tremolite in other lithologies of the Hemlo deposit. The principal substitution that incorporates...Vanadium-enriched green mica schist from the Hemlo gold deposit is characterized by uniform Ti/Zr ratios
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deformation at Hemlo, Ontario, and the Timingof Au-Mo Mineralizationin the GoldenGiant Mine ROGE•J. KUHNS...55455-02194 Abstract The Golden Giant mine is developedin the ArchcanHemlo gold-molybdenumdeposit hostedwithin...hostedwithin the Hemlo-HeronBay greenstonebelt in northwesternOntario,Canada.The ore occursin steeplydip...alteration,anda varietyof other minerals. The Hemlo areahasbeen intrudedby quartz-feldsparporphyries(the...garnet,epidote,chlorite,and muscovite.The GoldenGiant mine rocksare stronglyfoliated,andcommonlyexhibitmyloniticandtransposed
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologic History of the Hemlo Archean Gold Deposit, Superior Province, Canada: A U-Pb Geochronological...Earth Sciences Dept., Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2C6 AND SHOUFA LIN ...Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1 Abstract The Hemlo deposit is one of Canada’s largest gold camps. Gold is both...Archean lode deposits. Field evidence suggests that gold was emplaced within mechanical and chemical traps...out on zircons from rocks associated with the deposit, in order to determine the precise chronology of
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Hemlo greenstone belt, Superior Province, Canada G.P. Beakhouse a,∗ , D.W. Davis b,1 a Ontario Geological...Sudbury, Ont., Canada P3E 6B5 b Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens Park Road, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 2C6 ...January 2005 Abstract Plutonic rocks from the Hemlo area in the southern Superior Province span a period...The earliest of these plutons contain abundant zircon inheritance indicating crustal interaction whereas...whereas the latest plutons show no significant zircon inheritance. This secular evolutionary change in the
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
apatite porphyroblasts from the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada YUANMING PAN, MICHAEL E. FLEET AND...Geology University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada Abstract Oriented inclusions...muscovite schist from the Archaean Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada. The monazite inclusions are elongated...monazite) and REE-bearing minerals (e.g. xenotime and zircon; cf. Deer et al., 1962; /kmli, 1975; Boudreau and...the c-axis of apatite. Taborszky (1962) reported zircon, hornblende, and mica inclusions, mostly oriented
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metamorphism of Hydrothermal Alteration at the Hemlo Gold Deposit, Ontario MARTIN HEILIGMANN, ANTHONY E. WILLIAMS-JONES...Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 Abstract The Hemlo Au (-Mo) deposit is an example of atypical...north-central Ontario. The ore is shear hosted and consists primarily of disseminated native gold in several...amphibole was present prior to alteration and that gold mineralization occurred at pressure-temperature...primarily to the very high fS2 during alteration and gold mineralization, which caused iron to partition preferentially
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1104-1120 Calc-SilicateAlterationin the Hemlo Gold Deposit,Ontario:Mineral Assemblages, P-T-X Constraints...Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario,London,Ontario,CanadaN6A5B7 Abstract A late calc-silicate...alterationcharacterizes the ArcheanHemlogolddepositin Ontario, Canada.Calc-silicate minerals,includingepidote-clinozoisite...fluid within a dilatantregionalplanarstructure(the Hemlo shearzone).A direct association of nativegoldgrainswith...sare accompanied by in- GeologicSetting The Hemlo gold depositis locatedapproximately tensive and extensive
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the late Archean Hemlo-Heron Bay greenstone belt, Superior Province, Ontario: implications for provenance...Geology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 5B7, Canada b Department of Geology, McMaster...McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. L8S 4MI, Canada (Received May 30, 1990; revised and accepted January 24...in the late Archean Hemlo-Heron Bay greenstone belt, Superior Province, Ontario: implications for provenance...Arcbean Hemlo-Heron Bay greenstone belt of the Superior Province near the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, consists
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and J.M. Franklin Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, KIA OE8 (Received December 17, 1990; accepted...the earth are acknowledged for relatively unique deposit types such as komatiitic nickel deposits and voluminous...formations. Volcanogenic massive sulphide, lode gold and granitoid-associated deposits, as well as Ni-Cu...Dr. K.H. Poulsen, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, K 1A 0E8. tion only along boundaries...type, more than 100 of vein and disseminated lode gold type, several magmatic nickel deposits, at least
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Report (issue)
Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6000 Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 1999 1999...1999 ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open File Report 6000 Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 1999...Subprovince, northwestern Ontario; in Summary of Field Work and Other Activities 1999, Ontario Geological Survey...Printer for Ontario, 1999 © Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 1999. Open File Reports of the Ontario Geological...at the regional Mines and Minerals office whose district includes the area covered by the report (see below)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology Vol. 98, 2003, pp. 1–29 Gold Deposits in Metamorphic Belts: Overview of Current Understanding...Denver, CO 80225-0046 FRANÇOIS ROBERT, Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., 10th Floor, 2 Mill St., Perth...Geology Program, Box 2703 (K-10) Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 2C6 and Centre for Global Metallogeny, Department...collision has added to, or thickened, continental crust. Gold-rich deposits can be formed at all stages of orogen...that evolving metamorphic belts contain diverse gold deposit types that may be juxtaposed or overprint each
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Report (issue)
....... ...... ........... .... .... .. ...... Gold ............................................................................................ Lode Gold Deposits .........................................37 III IV CONTENTS Chemical Sediment-Hosted Gold Deposits .......................................................................... Appendix 2. Deposit Types That May Occur in the International Falls...Map showing mineral resource potential for lode gold deposits. Map showing mineral resource potential
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ore-forming Fluid and Formation Conditions of BIF-hosted Gold Mineralization in the Archean Amalia Greenstone...Ore-forming Fluid and Formation Conditions of BIF-hosted Gold Mineralization in the Archean Amalia Greenstone...Ore-forming Fluid and Formation Conditions of BIF-hosted Gold Mineralization in the Archean Amalia Greenstone...isotope studies on the Amalia gold deposit 1 Abstract: Orogenic gold mineralization in the Amalia Greenstone...from quartz-carbonate samples associated with the gold mineralization were studied in order to obtain information
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-017-0722-z ARTICLE Mineral equilibria and zircon, garnet and titanite U-Pb ages constraining the...granite-related hydrothermal systems at the Big Bell gold deposit, Western Australia Andreas G. Mueller 1 & Neal...Berlin Heidelberg 2017 Abstract The Big Bell deposit (75 t gold) is located in a narrow spur of the Meekatharra...granodiorite-tonalite batholith (2740–2700 Ma), followed by gold mineralization at Editorial handling: B. Lehmann...Amphibolite xenoliths in granite northwest of the deposit record the lowest temperature (628 ± 50 °C), suggesting
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Book (volume)
and Guo Jie 69 Mineralogical mapping in Jiaodong gold province, China Chen Guangyuan, Yang Zhusen and...in the laterite profile at the Igarape Bahia gold deposit, Carajas, Brazil Weisheng Zang, W.S. Fyfe and...of rocks and ores of the Golden Giant gold deposit of Hemlo, Ontario, Canada Yuan Chen, W.S. Fyfe and...evolution of the minerals in the Jinchuan Cu-Ni Deposit, Gansu Province, China Cao Yawen, Cai Jianhui...of applied mineralogy of ores from Weigang Iron Mine, China Chen Zhaoxi and Xu Zhenhong 219 CISMMI:
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Book
CANADIAN MINERAL DEPOSIT TYPES 604254549 Geological Survey of Canada Geology of Canada, no. 8 GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF CANADIAN MINERAL DEPOSIT TYPES edited by O.R. Eckstrand, W.D. Sinclair, and R.I. Thorpe 1995...Natural Resources Canada 1995 Available in Canada from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth...Booth Street Ottawa, Canada K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7 100 West Pender Street...1R8 or from Canada Communication Group — Publishing Ottawa, Canada K1A 0S9 A deposit copy of this publication
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Protoliths, andAlterationat the HemloGoldDeposit, Ontario,Canada,andComparison withArgillicandSericiticAlteration...HighlandValleyPorphyryDistrict,BritishColumbia,Canada MICHAELE. FLEET, • MICHAELH. SELLER,* Departmentof...Sciences, Universityof •VesternOntario,London,Ontario,CanadaN6A 5B7 AND YUANMING PAN Department of...exploration for Hemlo-type golddeposits. Argillicalteration in the Highland Valleyporphyry district, BritishColumbia...fieldfor aluminous rocksof the hanging wallof the Hemlo deposit. The geochemistry andregional occurrence of
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Province, Canada FERNANDO CORFU,1 AND DENVER STONE,2 Jack Satterly Laboratory, Royal Ontario Museum, 100...Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada Precambrian Geoscience Section, Ontario Geological Survey,... 933 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 6B5, Canada 2 (Received January 26, 1997; accepted in revised...northern domains of the Berens River area, whereas the gold-mineralized Red Lake area in the south underwent...between the Red Lake and other gold camps of the Superior Province such as Hemlo and Val d’Or where hydrothermal
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BuRgtows Ontario AND E. T. C. SPOONER Departmentof Geology,Universityof Toronto,Toronto,Ontario,CanadaMSS1A1...Mink Lake sodicgranodioritestockin northwestern Ontario (Fig. 1) occurs through an aplite-carbonate alteration-quartz...containscheelite(J. Hennessy,pers. commun., 1983). The Hollinger mine, for example,produced47,478.1 metric tons of ore...ton/day operationfrom the tailingsdumpsof the Kolar gold field in southern India (MiningJournal,16 September...vein mineralization include the Kirkland Lake district Lake intrusion and its contained MoS• mineralization
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