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The History of the Abitibi Gold Belt
2021-9-13 · The Abitibi: Canada’s Golden Powerhouse. At the heart of Canada lies a greenstone belt that has provided the nation with more than 90% of its gold production. With more than 100 years of gold discovery in the Abitibi region located between Québec and Ontario, this area was the kiln that helped forge the Canadian mining industry.
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The Abitibi Greenstone Belt: One of the World’s Richest ...
2020-7-25 · The Abitibi is the world’s largest mineral-rich greenstone geological belt, hosting many major gold and base metal deposits. It is a 450 km long by 150 km wide geological structure that runs through the Canadian Shield, from west of Timmins, Ontario, then eastward to Chibougamau, Quebec. Gold was found in the area in the late 1800’s, but ...
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Three-stage formation of greenstone-hosted orogenic
2020-5-1 · Archean greenstone belts host most of the world’s high-grade orogenic gold deposits. Among them, the Abitibi subprovince in the southeastern part of the Precambrian Canadian Shield hosts hundreds of gold deposits, distributed over more than 200 km along two major connected reverse shear zones: the Cadillac-Larder Lake Fault Zone (CLLFZ) to the south and the
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Metamorphic Gold Exploration Timmins Abitibi Greenstone
2017-1-20 · • Characterize petrographically known mineralization and alteration in order to enhance interpretation of current and future metamorphic data. • Apply the approach and methods used in this study to key areas elsewhere in the Abitibi greenstone belt. • Design an exploration model that incorporates deposit types that can be related to the four
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Internal structure of the Cadillac tectonic zone southeast ...
The Archean Abitibi greenstone belt (700 km by 200 km) is located within the Superior Province and is known to host world-class gold and base metals deposits (
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Fingerprinting multiple gold mineralization events at the ...
Abitibi greenstone belt. The Abitibi Greenstone Belt (AGB), located in the southern part of Canada’s Superior Province, spans over 2 million square kilometers and is host to some of the world’s most prolific mineral deposits. These mineral endowments contain Canada’s primary gold resource (e.g., Timmins, Kirkland Lake gold camps), world ...
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Goliath Provides Exploration Update on its Nelligan Gold ...
2017-11-10 · within the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt (the “AGB”). The Camp is known for its historic gold and copper production, and has recently seen an increase in mineral exploration following the discovery of new gold mineralization, such as IAMGOLD/TomaGold with the Monster Lake (1.11 million tonnes
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Cartier Resources (ECR) - Technical Analysis & Due Diligence
2021-12-9 · Cartier Resources, founded in 2006, is a gold and silver explorer focused in the Precambrian Abitibi greenstone belt of Quebec. The Abitibi is a top-tier jurisdiction because of its outstanding geology, attractive mining laws, and excellent infrastructure. The company’s principal approach is to focus on known gold-bearing properties where the ...
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The World-Class Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Canada ...
2014-11-5 · Overview. Several of the world’s largest gold and base metal deposits are found in eastern Canada’s Abitibi greenstone belt (AGB). The term world-class can sometimes be overused, but the AGB really earns the title, hosting 11 gold
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Abitibi Gold Belt: Canada’s primary source of gold ...
Abitibi Gold Belt: Canada’s primary source of gold. The Abitibi Gold Belt is a region extends from Wawa, Ontario in the west to past Val-d’Or, Quebec in the east. Located within the larger Abitibi greenstone belt, the Abitibi Gold Belt owes
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Precise U-Pb geochronology of the Matagami mining
The Matagami mining camp in the northern Abitibi greenstone belt of Canada contains 19 known Archean volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits, eleven of which have collectively produced 46.5 Mt ...
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NewOrigin Gold Corp.: North Abitibi
Located in northeastern Ontario, the North Abitibi Project is a 10-kilometre (“km”) long property that covers approximately 4,240 hectares (“ha”) in Canada’s prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt, where over 200 million ounces of gold have been discovered and produced. The Property straddles the Casa Berardi Break approximately 40 km west ...
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Fingerprinting multiple gold mineralization events at the ...
Abitibi greenstone belt. The Abitibi Greenstone Belt (AGB), located in the southern part of Canada’s Superior Province, spans over 2 million square kilometers and is host to some of the world’s most prolific mineral deposits. These mineral endowments contain Canada’s primary gold resource (e.g., Timmins, Kirkland Lake gold camps), world ...
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SE - Seismic imaging across fault systems in the Abitibi ...
2021-5-19 · Fault zones within Abitibi greenstone rocks are recognized to host the orogenic gold deposits, for example, the Cadillac–Larder Lake fault zone (Robert et al., 2005). One major attribute of the orogenic gold systems is their association with steeply dipping (at least in the upper crust) crustal-scale faults (e.g., Cadillac–Larder Lake fault).
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An Archean megacaldera complex: The Blake River Group ...
2009-1-1 · The Archean Blake River Group of the southern Abitibi greenstone belt is defined as a subaqueous megacaldera. Compelling evidence include: (1) a radial and concentric organization of synvolcanic mafic to intermediate dykes, (2) an overall dome geometry defined by the volcanic strata, (3) a peripheral distribution of subaqueous volcaniclastic units, (4) a zonal distribution of
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The Giant Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide
1999-1-1 · The Abitibi subprovince (94,000 km2) is the largest of the greenstone belts. It contains the major gold and base metal mining camps in Canada (Fig. 2), with production and reserves totaling more than 480 Mt of massive sulfide and 4,700 t of Au.
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Endogenous growth in channelized komatiite lava flows ...
2009-4-3 · The Abitibi greenstone belt of the Superior Province is one of the largest and best-known Archean cratons. Its supracrustal rocks consist of well-preserved successions of Archean lavas and sedimentary rocks, which were developed in an ensimatic basin (Ayer et al. 2002).In general, the rocks are characterized by low metamorphic grades (e.g., lower greenschist
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Val-d'Or - DigiGeoData
The Abitibi Greenstone Belt generally forms easterly trending synclines, with volcanics interspersed with domes of synvolcanic / syntectonic plutonic rocks, and alternating wacke bands. The strata is generally steeply dipping, separated by easterly dipping fault zones, such as the Porcupine-Destor and Cadillac fault zones in the Val D’Or ...
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[PDF] The Matagami District, Abitibi Greenstone Belt ...
2018-6-1 · Several volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits have been mined in the Archean Matagami mining district (Abitibi subprovince, Quebec, Canada), but the volcanology of their host rocks has been little studied. Most VMS lenses are located along a stratigraphic marker known as the Key tuffite. Footwall rocks belong to the Watson Lake Group (tholeiitic dacite and rhyolite),
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Canadian Greenstone Belts | Geology for Investors
2021-6-4 · The Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The Abitibi greenstone belt in the southern Superior Province is one of the largest greenstone belts in the world and hosts several major gold and base metal deposits. The belt is made up of an
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Paleomagnetism in Abitibi Greenstone Belt, and Abitibi
The Abitibi greenstone belt is relatively weakly metamorphosed, the grade of metamorphism varying from lower green-schist to prehnite-pumpellyite facies (Jolly 1974). In Munro township, where much of our work has been done, it is prehnite-pumpellyite (Arndt et al. 1977). Because the rocks have undergone only low-grade metamorphism it does not ...
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Abitibi West Property, Swayze Greenstone Belt
2017-1-16 · liThe northern Swayze greenstone beft (NSGB) is located within the western Abitibi Subprovince of the Superior Province. The Abitibi Subprovince is a Neoarchean granitoid-greenstone terrane that developed between 2.8 and 2.6 Ga. (Jackson and Fyon, 1991). The NSGB is bounded by the
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NewOrigin Gold Corp.: North Abitibi
Located in northeastern Ontario, the North Abitibi Project is a 10-kilometre (“km”) long property that covers approximately 4,240 hectares (“ha”) in Canada’s prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt, where over 200 million ounces of gold have been discovered and produced. The Property straddles the Casa Berardi Break approximately 40 km west ...
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Precise U-Pb Geochronology of the Matagami Mining
The Matagami mining camp in the northern Abitibi greenstone belt of Canada contains 19 known Archean volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits, 11 of which have collectively produced 46.5 Mt of zinc-rich ore to date. The VMS deposits occur in three NW-SE– to WNW-ESE–oriented trends called the north flank, the south flank, and the west ...
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Fluid diversity in the gold-endowed Archean orogenic ...
The Abitibi greenstone belt. The Archean AGB (Fig. 1) across northern Ontario and contiguous Quebec, Canada, is a world-class gold province with over a hundred years of mining and has produced about 200 Moz gold (Monecke et al., 2017).
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Abitibi Greenstone Belt – Page 3 – Republic of Mining
2018-7-30 · Abitibi Greenstone Belt Yamana Gold Inc. shares surge on strong quarterly results – by Niall McGee (Globe and Mail – July 28, 2018) ... VANCOUVER (miningweekly) – Little-known exploration and development company Gowest Gold is preparing to become the newest gold producer in the legendary Timmins Gold Camp, which, since its discovery ...
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Gold opportunities in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt: an ...
2019-2-12 · CBG operates along the northeastern part of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, in the Chibougamau region of Quebec. The area boasts over 6.7 million ounces of historical gold production. This one appears to be biding its time, unwilling to finance at current prices, reluctant to kick things in gear until the gold bull asserts itself with conviction.
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Applied geophysics in a very deep mine context: Example
2022-2-7 · Applied geophysics in a very deep mine context: Example of the >3 km deep, LaRonde Penna mine, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Quebec Lizhen Cheng 1 , Xueping Dai 1 , Mamadou-Cherif Diallo 1 , Chong Liu 1 , Nacim Foudil-Bey 1 , Jonathan Collins 2 , Pierre Bérubé 2 , Richard Dubuc 3 , David Fortin 3 , Marc Legault 4 , Patrick Mercier-Langevin 5 ...
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