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
2021-5-9 · The Abitibi: Canada’s Largest Gold District. Canada is home to many great gold districts, but none come close to the Abitibi greenstone belt. Having produced over 200 million ounces of gold since 1901, the Abitibi belt has etched its place as Canada’s largest gold district. Today, the region is bustling with exploration activity and hosts three of the country’s largest gold mines.
2017-1-1 · The Abitibi greenstone belt, which straddles the border between Ontario and Quebec in eastern Canada, represents one of the largest and best-preserved Neoarchean greenstone belts in the world. The belt consists of E-trending successions of folded volcanic and sedimentary rocks and intervening domes of intrusive rocks. Submarine volcanism
2009-12-4 · The Abitibi (ăb'ĭ-tĭb'ē) Greenstone Belt is one the largest greenstone belts in the world. These geologic bodies are considered prime hunting grounds for large mineral deposits of metals
2018-4-13 · silver discovery in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Quebec and Ontario, in the Arctic they had to learn about a completely new geological territory, with new rock packages hosting new styles of mineralization in a different geological province. These grounds had been the subject of
Porcupine fault zones in the Abitibi greenstone belt (e.g. Dubé and Gosselin, 2007 and references therein). The main characteristics of the Canadian Malartic
2020-7-9 · 80,000 km2 Abitibi Greenstone Belt yielded 200Moz of gold in Quebec and Ontario Gold Model Coarse visible grains in quartz veins (“Lode Gold Deposits”) Disseminations in altered sulphide-rich hosts with or without gold bearing quartz veins
And this time, the target is high-grade gold on a neglected stretch of Ontario’s Abitibi Greenstone Belt -- in Bernier’s former stomping grounds. On Feb. 29, Prosper optioned the past-producing Ashley mine, a high-grade quartz vein mine in the southwestern Abitibi, from four prospectors.
The Abitibi is the largest Archean greenstone belt in the world. It’s roughly 150 km wide and starts just west of Timmins in Ontario some say it starts in the Wawa camp stretches for about 650 kms. in an east/west direction to Chibougamau, Quebec.
The Abitibi greenstone belt in Ontario and Quebec is one of the largest Archean greenstone belts in the world. It lies within the southern zone of the Abitibi greenstone belt of the Superior craton and has an area of 3,000 km2. Located within the mineral-rich Abitibi greenstone belt, the gold belt is an established gold mining district having produced over 100 mines, and 170 million ounces of
Abitibi Greenstone Belt Gold and copper were first discovered in the Chibougamau mining camp in the early 1900s. Active mining from 1953 to 2008 produced 3.2 million ounces of gold and 1.6 billion pounds of copper along with significant amounts of silver and zinc.
Porcupine fault zones in the Abitibi greenstone belt (e.g. Dubé and Gosselin, 2007 and references therein). The main characteristics of the Canadian Malartic
2020-7-9 · 80,000 km2 Abitibi Greenstone Belt yielded 200Moz of gold in Quebec and Ontario Gold Model Coarse visible grains in quartz veins (“Lode Gold Deposits”) Disseminations in altered sulphide-rich hosts with or without gold bearing quartz veins
Abitibi greenstone belt from the Pontiac Subprovince. Les mCtavolcanites de McWatters forment des lentilles tectoniques dans la zone de faille de Cadillac, a la limite sud de la ceinture de roches
2003-11-10 · Three distinct types of komatiites are recognized for the Abitibi Greenstone Belt based on distinct ranges for Al 2 O 3 /TiO 2 and [Gd/Yb] PMN (Sproule et al., 2001, Sproule et al., 2002) that, respectively, for Al-undepleted varieties are 15–25 and ∼1.0, for Al-depleted varieties <15 and 12–28, and for Al-enriched varieties 25–35 and 0
2021-2-1 · 80,000 km2 Abitibi Greenstone Belt yielded 200Moz of gold in Quebec and Ontario Gold Model Coarse visible grains in quartz veins (“Lode Gold Deposits”) Disseminations in altered sulphide-rich hosts with or without gold bearing quartz veins Canadian-Malartic and Detour Lake Superpits are examples of bulk mineable lower-grade gold
2021-6-11 · The proximity of the Abitibi greenstone belt, known for its high mining potential (MERN 2020a), is a main concern and requires special attention. Furthermore, this vast unconfined aquifer area likely represents the main recharge area for surrounding confined aquifers.
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2018-3-13 · Canada’s Abitibi Greenstone Belt: Geology The Abitibi is an assemblage of volcanic, sedimentary and intrusive rocks laid down and intruded between 2.6 and 2.8 billion years ago, during the
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
2021-3-3 · This review focuses on the Abitibi greenstone belt because it is a gold-endowed belt that contains several Au and Cu-Au porphyry deposits formed during the ~100 My magmatic phase that ends at ca. 2.70 Ga (see below) prior to the main deformation phase. In addition, the Abitibi belt contains pre- to syn-deformation (ca. 2.70–2.65 Ga, see below)
2019-5-1 · Investor Presentation. 41.96 million shares outstanding. $6.71M market cap based on its recent $0.16 closing price. CBG operates along the northeastern part of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt in the Chibougamau region of Quebec. The area boasts over
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The Abitibi greenstone belt is one of Canada’s principal gold belts, with on the order of 200 Moz of gold produced over the last century. Although a variety of gold deposits has been documented, there is a distinct concentration of deposits along and proximal to major, crustal-scale fault zones, the so-called “breaks” of the southern
Abitibi greenstone belt.The keys to understanding the abitibi are the age and the breaks.The abitibi dates to the late archean between 2800 and 2600 million years ago and is a typical greenstone belt, composed of volcanics, sediments and intrusive rocks.This is also the time when ocean chemistry was changing and gold was going from.
The Abitibi greenstone belt is subdivided into seven discrete volcanic stratigraphic episodes on the basis of groupings of numerous U-Pb Fruitful ages of pre2750, 2750 to 2735, 2734 to 2724, 2723 to
The stratigraphy of the Abitibi greenstone belt in the Chibougamau area (southern Superior Province, Québec), is dominated by 2 cycles of mafic-felsic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks constituting the Roy Group, which is riddled by metagabbroic sills (25%). The Doré Lake Complex (DLC, 2728 Ma) is emplaced into the lower Roy Group. The Cummings Complex sills (2717 Ma) were injected
The late Archean Blake River Group volcanic sequence forms the uppermost part of the southern Abitibi greenstone belt in Quebec. The group is mainly composed of mid-ocean-ridge basalt (MORB)-like tholeiites that show a progressive change of several incompatible trace element ratios (e.g., Nb/Th, Nb/Ta, La/Yb, and Zr/Y) during differentiation. The compositional variations are inferred to be the
