Chapter 2: Orogenic Greenstone-Hosted Quartz-Carbonate Gold Deposits of the Timmins-Porcupine Camp*
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Published:January 01, 2017
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Benoît Dubé, Patrick Mercier-Langevin, John Ayer, Brian Atkinson, Thomas Monecke, 2017. "Orogenic Greenstone-Hosted Quartz-Carbonate Gold Deposits of the Timmins-Porcupine Camp", Archean Base and Precious Metal Deposits, Southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada, Thomas Monecke, Patrick Mercier-Langevin, Benoît Dubé
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The Timmins-Porcupine gold camp, with a total production of more than 2,125 tonnes (75 Moz) Au to date, represents the largest Archean orogenic greenstone-hosted gold camp worldwide in terms of total gold production. The gold deposits of the camp are distributed over 50 km of strike length along the Destor-Porcupine fault zone, including the giant Hollinger-McIntyre and Dome deposits. These two deposits are archetype examples of large Archean orogenic gold systems. The Dome mine, where the ore is centered on a folded unconformity between Tisdale volcanic rocks and Timiskaming sedimentary deposits, also illustrates the spatial relationship between large gold...
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Archean Base and Precious Metal Deposits, Southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada

GeoRef
- Abitibi Belt
- Archean
- Canada
- Canadian Shield
- Cochrane District Ontario
- Eastern Canada
- framework silicates
- gold ores
- greenstone
- hydrothermal alteration
- metal ores
- metallogeny
- metamorphic rocks
- metasomatism
- mineral deposits, genesis
- North America
- Ontario
- orogeny
- Precambrian
- quartz
- schists
- silica minerals
- silicates
- Superior Province
- Timmins Ontario
- Destor-Porcupine fault zone
- Timiskaming Basin
- Hollinger-McIntyre Deposit
- Dome Deposit
- Timmins-Porcupine Camp
- Three Nations Formation