Mine detail: Amitsoq Pluton

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Location: Greenland, Denmark, North America
Lat / long: 60.36097, -44.09802
dep_id: 10038195
mrds_id: M045496
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Nickel
Trace mineral: Platinum, Palladium, Gold, Rhodium, Silver, Asbestos
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue: Antigorite, Calcite, Chlorite, Phlogopite, Talc
orebody_fm: DIKE-LIKE, IRREGULAR NARROWING TOWARD TOP
alteration: Minimal Contact Metamorphism
ore_ctrl: Rhythmic Layering (Gently Dipping), Cycling Of Layers, Perhaps Through Banding
Reporter: Page, Norman J.
hrock_type: Peridotite
Structure: E. And Ne Striking, Steepling Dipping Fractures
disc_yr: 1960
discr: M. Loretan
References:
  • Deposit:: BERRANGE, J.P., 1970, MEDD. OM GRONLAND, BD 192, NO. 1, P. 43
  • Deposit:: NIELSEN, B.L., 1973, GRONLAND GEOL. UNDERS., REPT. NO. 56, P. 45
  • Deposit:: 1962 GEOLMAP G.S.U. GREENLAN
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