Mine detail: Clarabelle No. 2 Open Pit

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Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 46.51666, -81.05811
dep_id: 10024470
mrds_id: ISM0186
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, PGE, Silver, Cobalt, Selenium, Tellurium, Nickel, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
Reporter: Zwartendyk, Jan
hrock_unit: Sudbury Sublayer
hrock_type: Norite
Structure: Sudbury Sublayer Intrusion At Base Of Sudbury Nickel Irruptive.
tectonic: Intracratonic Intrusion Triggered By Meteoritic Impact.
Year first produced: 1979
ylp_ba: >
yr_lst_prd: 1985
disc_yr: 1883
References:
  • Deposit:: SOUCH, B.E., PODOLSKY, T., AND GEOLOGICAL STAFF, INTERNATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED, 1969, THE SULPHI-DES ORES OF SUDBURY--THEIR PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP TO A DISTIN-CTIVE INCLUSION-BEARING FACIES OF THE NICKEL IRRUPTIVE, IN WIL-SON, H.D.B., ED., MAGMATIC ORE DEPOSITS: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY MON-OGRAPH NO. 4, P. 252-261.
  • Deposit:: YATES, A.B., 1948, PROPERTIES OF INTERNATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY OF CANADA, IN WILSON, M.E., ED., STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY -OF CANADIAN ORE DEPOSITS, A SYMPOSIUM: MONTREAL, CANADIAN INS-TITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, P. 596-617.
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