Clarabelle No. 2 Open Pit

Producer in Ontario, Canada with commodities Nickel, Copper, PGE, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Selenium, Tellurium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024470
MRDS ID ISM0186
Record type Site
Current site name Clarabelle No. 2 Open Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.05811, 46.51666 (WGS84)
Relative position CLARABELLE NO. 2 OPEN PIT; 200 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Ontario

Comments on the location information

  • SURFACE OPERATION ON MURRAY DEPOSIT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Copper Primary
PGE Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Cobalt Critical Primary
Selenium Primary
Tellurium Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro > Norite
    Rock unit name Sudbury Sublayer
    Rock description Sudbury Sublayer
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.05811, 46.51666

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sudbury Sublayer Intrusion At Base Of Sudbury Nickel Irruptive.

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIABASE DIKES AND FAULTING; DIKES AT 1280 MA; PYTT + PNLD + CLCP; MINOR PYRT, MGNT; THE DEPOSIT OCCUPIES AN EMBAYMENT AT THE BASE OF THE IRRUPTIVE. ORE CONSISTS MAINLY OF A XENOLITHIC GABBRO-NORITE- CONTAINING SULPHIDES THAT INCREASE IN ABUNDANCE DOWNWARD. TH-E LOWERMOST ORE IS XENOLITHIC MASSIVE SULPHIDE. XENOLITHS ARE- OF PERIODOTITE, GABBRO AND METAVOLCANIC ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1883
Year of first production 1979
Year of last production 1985

Mining district

District name Sudbury Mining Division; Sudbury District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner International Nickel Co. Of Canada, Ltd. (Inco)
    Home office Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION DATA INCLUDED IN TOTALS FOR CREIGHTON MINE.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESOURCE DATA INCLUDED IN TOTALS FOR CREIGHTON MINE.

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). COMMODITY COMMENTS INCLUDED IN COMMENTS FOR CREIGHTON MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic 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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). SURFACE 0 INTERMEDIATE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1985 Zwartendyk, Jan Energy Mines and Resources of Canada

Beyond USGS

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