Description
Thomas Flanagan
Commodities
PrimaryNickel, Copper, Gold, Platinum
SecondarySilver, Palladium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeStratiform
Deposit sizeY
Orebody formELLIPTICAL RING
Materials
Ore mineralsBornite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Galena, Gersdorffite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sperrylite, Sphalerite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1887
Discovery year1883
Identification
Deposit ID10038425
MRDS IDM045789
Alternate namesSudbury Iruptive
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates46.66666, -81.18311
References
O'NEILL AND GUNNING, 1934, PLATINUM AND ALLIED METAL DEPOSITS OF CANADA : CAN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ECON. REPT. 13MERTIE, 1969, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE PLATINUM METALS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 630SOUCH AND PODOLSKY, 1969, THE SULFIDE ORES OF SUDBURY IN MAGMATIC ORE DEPOSITS : ECON. GEOL. MONOGRAPH 4HAWLEY, J. E., 1962, THE SUDBURY ORES: MIN. ASSN. OF CANADA, V. 7, PT. 15) CABRI AND LAFLAMME, 1976, MIN. PT-GROUP OF CU-NI DEPOSITS OF SUDBURY, ONT: ECON. GEOL. V.71, N.76) KEAYS AND CROCKET, 1970, A STUDY OF PRECIOUS METAL IN THE SUDBURY NICKEL ORES: ECON. GEOL. V.65, NO.47) CORNWALL, 1973, NICKEL: USGS PROF. PAPER 8208) CARD AND HUTCHINSON,1972, SUDBURY STRUCTURE: GEOL. ASSN CANADA, SPEC PAPER NO.10.9) DENCH, 1972, METEORITE IMPACT AND SUDBURY: GEOL. ASSN. CANADA, SPEC. PAPER 10.10)GUY-BRAY, 1972, SUDBURY GEOLOGY: GEOL. ASSN. CANADA SPEC.PAPER 1011) CABRI, HARRIS AND GAIT,1973, MICHENERITE AND FROODITE FROM SUDBURY: CAN.MIN. V.11, PT.5O'NEILL 1934, HAWLEY, 1962