Few studies have focused on the application of the Tl isotopic system for geochemical exploration. We report ε 205 Tl values of rock samples from the TL Deposit, British Columbia, Canada – a sediment-hosted massive sulfide (SHMS) deposit with characteristics of a Broken Hill-type deposit – and investigate relationships with major …

Sulfide-rich deposits dominated by Ni–Cu can be catego-rized into three types: 1. Sulfide-rich accumulations in small mafic or mafic– ultramafic intrusions, ( F. igs. 1A, B), usually identifiable as magma conduits (Lightfoot and Evans-Lamswood 2015) and exploited mostly for Ni, Cu and Co. Important examples include Voisey's Bay (Canada ...

1.2. Chalcopyrite Ore Production The sulfide ore minerals including chalcopyrite (CuFeS 2), sphalerite (ZnS), galena (PbS) provide the major sources of the world's base metals (Cu, Zn, Pb, respectively), whereas pyrite is virtually ubiquitous as a metalliferous mineral in sulfide ore deposits (Crang and Vanghan, 1994).The first step in …

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The nickel sulphide mineralisation at the Crawford project is characterised as a komatiite-hosted Ni-Cu-Co-(PGE) deposit, which is similar to the Dumont nickel depositin Quebec, Canada. Nickel mineralisation in the main zone is a mixture of pentlandite, heazlewoodite and awaruite, which combine to form …

December 10, 2012 Scientists probe Canadian sulfide ore to confirm microbial activity in seawater 2.7 billion years ago by McGill University …

McClenaghan et al. (2011) showed that ore elements Ni, Cu, Pd, Pt, pathfinder elements Ag, As, Bi, Cd, Co, S, Sb, Se and Te, and ore minerals chalcopyrite, sperrylite and pentlandite can be targeted in till surveys to explore for magmatic, massive sulfide Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization in the Thompson Nickel Belt in northern Manitoba, Canada.

The Crawford nickel sulphide project in Ontario, Canada, is being developed by Canada Nickel Company (CNC), an exploration company focused on nickel. ... The Crawford mine plan design includes the mining of 2,794Mt of ore over its mine life, including two years of pre-stripping prior to the commissioning of the process plant.

The Canadian Mineralogist (1979) 17 (2): 361–372. Article history. First Online: 02 Mar 2017. Cite. View This Citation; Add to Citation Manager ... A. J. Naldrett, I. H. Campbell; Physical constraints on the characteristics of nickel-sulfide ore in ultramafic lavas. The Canadian Mineralogist 1979;; 17 (2): 361–372. doi: Download citation ...

Trends in Canadian ore grades for major Ni–Cu mines and the Canadian average. Download : Download full-size ... (though with more volatility recently, related to economic conditions). A compilation of Canadian Ni sulfide resources is included in Table 4. The estimated Ni resources of 5.3 Mt Ni compares to the national estimate of 3.6 Mt Ni ...

Nickel sulphides are 4 formed from either volcanic or hydrothermal processes, whereas nickel laterite ores are formed near the surface as a result of weathering and primarily occur in tropical ...

In our model, we suggest that the presence of polymetallic melts in a metamorphosed massive sulfide orebody is recorded by: (1) localized concentrations of …

Most of the rock is unwanted material, typically referred to as gangue. There are two main types of copper ore that are of interest: copper oxide ores and copper sulfide ores. Both ore types can ...

Within the sulfide ore body the boundaries between semimassive (11–19 wt % sulfur) and massive sulfide ores are marked by sudden changes (<1 cm) in silicate mineral contents from 50% to 75% to almost none. ... Ontario, Canada. Samples were digested in a closed vessel using a combination of up to four acids (hydrofluoric, …

Proc. "48th Annual Conference of Metallurgists", Canadian Metallurgical Society, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, August 2009. ... Nickel is commonly present in two principal ore types – sulfide or laterite ores. Sulfide ores are typically derived from volcanic or hydrothermal processes and usually include copper (Cu) and/or cobalt, ...

The Voisey's Bay ore breccias lie on a continuum of magmatic sulfide ore textures that reflect interactions between sulfide melts, their host silicate magmas, and the wall rocks of the containing magma pathways. ... Canada; implications for ore genesis. Econ. Geol., 95 (2000), pp. 771-799. View in Scopus Google Scholar. Li and Naldrett, 2000.

No matter the method, sulfide-ore copper mines proposed near the Boundary Waters would extract trace amounts of metals from large volumes of rock. Rock is blasted from pit walls and sorted into metal-bearing ore and waste rock. In the mine's first years, 4.1 million tons of waste rock will be stockpiled on the surface while the mine is hollowed ...

The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 57, pp. 391-401 (2019) DOI: 10.3749/canmin.1800020 ... patterns of supergene copper sulfide minerals observed at Morenci are similar to those …

Nickel sulfide ores are processed by heap leaching in Sotkama, eastern Finland (Talvivaara, 2011 ). The process entails the following: open-pit mining of 0.2% Ni, 0.5% Zn, 0.1% Cu, and 0.02% Co sulfide ore; leaching nickel and other metals from the agglomerate by sprinkling metal-depleted, purified, recycle solution on the heaps; and ...

Scientists probe Canadian sulfide ore to confirm microbial activity in seawater 2.7 billion years ago December 10 2012 One of the sulfide ore samples analyzed for the study. …

THE Ni–Cu–PGE SULFIDE ORES OF THE KOMATIITE-HOSTED FORTALEZA DE MINAS DEPOSIT, BRAZIL: EVIDENCE OF HYDROTHERMAL …

The traditional route for extracting copper from sulfide ores is smelting. Yet there is a growing case for leaching sulfides from lower grade ore bodies and especially for those ore bodies containing problematic elements like arsenic, which make smelting less economical. ... The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is an ...

The Ni-Co-(PGE) sulfide deposits of the Thompson Nickel Belt (TNB) in Northern Manitoba, Canada are part of the fifth largest nickel camp in the world based on contained nickel; past production from the TNB deposits is 2500 kt Ni.The Thompson Deposit is located on the eastern and southern flanks of the Thompson Dome structure, …

In places massive sulfide ores extend outward beyond the contacts of the intrusion into the metasedimentary rocks . Within the sulfide ore body the boundaries between semimassive (11–19 wt % sulfur) and massive sulfide ores are marked by sudden changes (1 cm) in silicate mineral contents from 50% to 75% to almost none. اقرأ أكثر

Trends in Canadian economic ore resources (Mt ore), ore grades (%Ni + Cu) and contained metals (Mt Ni + Cu) for Inco (left) and Falconbridge (right). Table 4 . …

Nickel Sulfide Ores and Impact Melts is designed to emphasize concepts that can be applied across a broad range of ore deposit types beyond Sudbury and nickel deposit geology.

The concentrator batch processes high grade nickel sulfide ore from the Flying Fox (5.1% Ni grade) and Spotted ... iron ore recovery plant. Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum 4 (4):61–68. [Google Scholar] Cooke, P. 2021. The lithium wars: From Kokkola to the Congo for the 500 mile battery. Sustainability 13 :4215. doi:10 ...

A fresh approach to sulfide ores. The main challenge the research team faced was to find a way to economically leach chalcopyrite and enargite, a copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral. Chalcopyrite has …

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The electron microprobe analyses on sphalerite yielded Zn/Cd ratios of 508±147 for sample 1336 ( n =4), 656±145 for sample 421/2 ( n =6) and 289±14 for sample 457/3 ( n =6) corresponding with the values 514, 652 and 297, respectively, in the ores. These data show that at Tumurtijn-ovoo the Zn/Cd ratios of whole rock samples truely …