The Gunflint and Biwabik Formations comprise the middle units of the Paleoproterozoic Animikie Group that crop out near the northwestern shore of Lake Superior. Stromatolitic units were investigated and sampled at 9 outcrop ...

The Quetico Intrusions are a group of small, geochemically primitive, locally Cu-Ni-PGE-rich, mafic to ultramafic intrusions closely associated with the margins of the Quetico Batholithic Complex. They are composed ...

The Coldwell Complex is situated within the Archean Schreiber-White River metavolcanic and metasediment of the Superior Province. Spanning over 25km in diameter, it is the largest alkaline intrusion in North America. The ...

The Sudbury Impact Layer (S.I.L.) is dated at 1850 Ma and is located between the underlying Gunflint Formation, with an age of 1878±1 Ma that was obtained from zircons in a tuffaceous zone approximately 105 meters below ...

Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the greatest challenges facing the mining industry globally. Methods for addressing this issue have been widely studied; however, few studies have addressed sites with a less common water ...

Over the last few decades it has become increasingly difficult to discover new ore deposits and as existing deposits are exhausted, techniques for improving exploration success are becoming vital. In this study I ...

A representative collection of minerals &om two niobium deposits found within the Oka carbonatite complex: the Bond Zone deposit; and the NIOC AN deposit, were analysed using an electron microprobe, and compared with ...

The Sibley Group is an unmetamorphosed Mesoproterozoic red bed sequence, commonly flat lying, that formed in an intracratonic basin between 1450 Ma and 1500 Ma. It covers an area o f 15,000 km^, and reaches a total ...

The 2.7 Ga Shebandowan greenstone belt in the Wawa-Abitibi terrane contains unusual ultramafic rocks. The two main assemblages present within the study area are the Greenwater and Shebandowan assemblages. The 2719.7 ± ...