Metallogenic Evolution of the Mackenzie and Eastern Selwyn Mountains of Canada’s Northern Cordillera, Northwest Territories: A Compilation and Review

Ootes, Luke; Gleeson, Sarah A.; Turner, Elizabeth C.; Rasmussen, Kirsten L.; Gordey, Steve; Falck, Hendrik; Martel, Edith; Pierce, Kelly L.

doi:10.12789/geocanj.2013.40.005

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“…The Cantung deposit is located within the Selwyn Basin of the Canadian Cordilleran Miogeocline, which composes the bulk of the Mackenzie Mountains (Fig. 1.4; Ootes et al, 2013). To the east of the Cantung deposit, the Mackenzie Mountains are dominantly composed of older miogeoclinal rocks of the Mackenzie Platform.…”

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“…Stratigraphically above the Hyland Group lies an 800 m thick package of Lower Cambrian to Middle Devonian basinal shales, limestones, siltstones, chert, and dolomitic mudstones (Mair et al, 2006). It is these calcareous strata that host the mineralization of the Cantung Deposit, although tungsten mineralization did not occur until the Cretaceous (Archibald et al, 1978;Ootes et al, 2013).…”

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“…Although the Tungsten suite is not fertile for gold mineralization, its crustal source causes it to be highly fractionated and fertile for significant tungsten mineralization (Hart et al, 2004). Petrogenetic tungsten endowment, coupled with abundant carbonaceous rocks in the Selwyn Basin, which the Tungsten Plutonic Suite intruded, has resulted in the formation of world class W-skarn deposits, including the Cantung Deposit and its sister deposit, Mactung (Ootes et al, 2013).…”

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“…The Cantung Mine is located within the Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories, Canada (Fig. The Cantung deposit is a W-Cu skarn hosted within Cambrian carbonate strata of the Selwyn Basin (Ootes et al, 2013), with mineralization occurring in two main ore bodies: The Open Pit orebody, and the underground E-zone orebody (Delaney and Bakker, 2014). Tungsten is present as scheelite in both orebodies, with abundant calcite (CaCO3), dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2), pyrrhotite (Fe1-xS), mica, and calc-silicate minerals.…”

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Factors Controlling Tungsten Mobility in W-Cu Skarn Tailings at the Cantung Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada

Kazamel¹,

Jamieson²,

Leybourne³

et al. 2019

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The first of many thank-you's goes to my supervisors, Heather Jamieson and Matt Leybourne, for their mentorship, guidance, and patience over the past few years. I am extremely privileged, honored, and proud to be part of the Jamieson Clan and the QFIR family, and couldn't have asked for a more wonderful group of people to develop my career as a geochemist with. The Winter Wonderlands, defense parties, and Grad Club beer discussions were some of the highlights of my time at Queen's. Heather, I fell in love with the north during our trip to Cantung, and our long, beautiful drives to and from the mine will be forever in my mind. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity, and for the opportunities that have stemmed as a result from completing this thesis. Matt, your contributions to this thesis are innumerable. Having access to world class analytical facilities at QFIR, and same-day access to a worldclass geochemist for answers to my (often redundant) questions has been invaluable. Both of you held infinite patience during periods when I was low, and I honestly don't think my thesis would have been completed without your understanding. It has been a pleasure working with both of you. This thesis is dedicated to Kurt Kyser, who took me under his wing that one fateful summer in Kingston. After expressing my interest in geochemistry, Kurt offered me a summer student position at QFIR and exposed me to my first taste of analytical and field work, which lead to me completing an undergraduate thesis under his supervision. Kurt's enthusiasm for science, his lust for life, and his dedication to QFIR inspired me to pursue a career in geochemistry, and even more so to pursue a life of passion. I wish you could have reviewed this thesis, that we could've share the excitement of the results, or even just to have seen you shake your head and say, "nah". This thesis wouldn't be possible without Hendrik Falck, the Cantung connoisseur. Thank you for assisting with field work, and for sharing your big-brain knowledge of the Cantung deposit, of the history of the mine, and of the physiography of the Flat River valley. A brewpub visit in is order during my next visit to Yellowknife! A very special thank-you is in order for Dan Layton-Matthews, who first sparked v my interest in geochemistry via ternary diagrams in second year petrology, and another to Noel James for our discussions about big-picture global issues, science and creativity, and for just being a rad dude. Guy Narbonne, thank you for taking care of me when I got sick in Namibia, and for expressing not even the slightest discontent about missing part of the Etosha safari. Rob Harrap, I don't know how to express my thanks to you. We've had so many discussions throughout my undergraduate and master's degrees about anything and everything, but the ones where I came in distressed and left with some clarity are undoubtedly the most important.To all of the QFIR family, thank you for all of the analytical assistance, the laughs, and the wine over the years. April, your bubbli...

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Section: Regional Geologymentioning

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Section: Regional Geologymentioning

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Section: Regional Geologymentioning

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“…A multitude of mineral deposits and prospects, ranging in age from the Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic, is found in the Mackenzie Mountains of northwestern Canada (Ootes et al 2013). Silver occurs in a variety of these, one of the more important ones being the Prairie Creek carbonate-hosted Mississippi Valley-type Zn-Pb deposit in lower and middle Paleozoic dolostones (Paradis 2007;Stavinga et al 2017).…”

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Evidence for microbially mediated silver enrichment in a middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposit, Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada

Kimmig

Pratt

2022

Can. J. Earth Sci.

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The Selwyn basin and Mackenzie platform of northwestern Canada house an array of mineral deposits and prospects that are rich in silver, including Neoproterozoic red-bed or Kupferschiefer-type Cu and lower Paleozoic sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) and Zn–Pb deposits. Within this overall metallogenic setting, the middle Cambrian (Drumian) Rockslide Formation was deposited under a largely oxic water column on the platform-to-basin slope along the eastern side of the Selwyn basin. The formation includes an interval termed the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte, which is a localized Burgess Shale-type calcareous mudstone about 2 m thick that preserves soft-bodied fossils. The mudstone contains comparatively large amounts of organic carbon preserved as thin carbonaceous laminae and discontinuous seams, representing benthic microbial mats, the remains of cyanobacteria and algae that were living in the water column, fecal pellets, large coprolites, and degraded animal tissues. The upper part of the Rockslide Formation, including the fossiliferous interval, contains elevated concentrations of Ag, up to 0.47 ppm. Some of the Ag in the mudstone occurs as aggregates of elemental particles ∼10 µm in size, preferentially on the carbonaceous material comprising the coprolites. This localized enrichment suggests bioaccumulation of Ag nanoparticles or Ag+ from the water column by microorganisms on the coprolites or degrading organic matter in them. The source of the Ag may have been from penecontemporaneous SEDEX metallogeny or from broadly related subsurface fluids in the Selwyn Basin that enriched the overlying seawater.

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Geochemistry of host rocks in the Howards Pass district, Yukon-Northwest Territories, Canada: implications for sedimentary environments of Zn-Pb and phosphate mineralization

Slack

Falck²,

Kelley

et al. 2016

Miner Deposita

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Metallogenic Evolution of the Mackenzie and Eastern Selwyn Mountains of Canada’s Northern Cordillera, Northwest Territories: A Compilation and Review

Cited by 13 publications

References 91 publications

Factors Controlling Tungsten Mobility in W-Cu Skarn Tailings at the Cantung Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada

Factors Controlling Tungsten Mobility in W-Cu Skarn Tailings at the Cantung Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada

Evidence for microbially mediated silver enrichment in a middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposit, Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada

Geochemistry of host rocks in the Howards Pass district, Yukon-Northwest Territories, Canada: implications for sedimentary environments of Zn-Pb and phosphate mineralization

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