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| Record Name(s) | Victoria Project - 2002, Victoria Mine - 1899, Mond Mine - 1899 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1980-Jan-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Apr-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel, Copper
Secondary Commodities: Platinum, Palladium, Gold
Township or Area: Denison
Latitude: 46° 25' 25.67" Longitude: -81° 23' 15.04"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 470224 Northing: 5141209 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I06NW
Point Location Description: shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From junction of highway 6 take highway 17 34.4km east; from highway 17 follow r.r.#4 north towards Crean hill mine for 2.6km; at fork take Fairbanks road east approximately 3.17km north (keep left at fork to Crean hill mine); follow abandoned rail bed east for approximately 710 metres; follow access road north approx.300m to first feature. Features are located close to the access road. The access road runs into fairbanks road east at the north end of the site adjacent to the main pit and shaft.
1886: Discovery by Henry Ranger. 1899-1923: Mond Nickel Company - in production; 1945-1964: International Nickel Company -175 DDH; 1969-1978: International Nickel Company - mine in production (production numbers reported in Copper Cliff No. 1 MDI41I06NE00003); 2002-2003: Quadra FNX- AMAG, AEM, DD-161 - 30,138 m, mapping. 2008-2010: Quadra FNX - DD-97-83,618 m, ground geophysics, gravity, DGp
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Sudbury Structure
Supergroup: Sudbury Igneous Complex, Main Mass
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
Jan 26, 2012 (R Corcoran) - This unique geological environment is situated along a zone of Early Proterozoic faulting and dislocation known as the Murray Fault System
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gabbro | 1 | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 2 | Footwall | ||
| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Footwall | ||
| Quartz Diorite | 4 | Quartz Diorite | Footwall |
Jun 20, 2016 (A Wilson) - The Victoria Mine is situated at the junction of the nickel irruptive and the Worthington offset dike. The nickel irruptive and the offset, both of which dip steeply, intrude a highly altered sequence of greenstones, rhyolites and siliceous metasedimentary rocks
Jun 20, 2016 (R Corcoran) - These units typically trend in a 100° to 110° east to southeast orientation and dip steeply (-75° to -80°) to the south to southwest. The Worthington Offset dyke joins the main mass of the SIC in an intensely faulted and poorly exposed embayment structure at the location of the historic Victoria Mine site. The dyke thins and locally disappears at surface to the southeast of Victoria Mine before it merges with a large irregular unit of variable-textured, incipiently sulphide-mineralized, medium- to coarse-grained quartz diorite. This quartz diorite unit is terminated on its southern margin along the Creighton Fault, but re-appears 950 m to the west in an apparent dextral shift of the unit. The quartz diorite intrusive is irregularly-shaped south of the Creighton Fault and terminates to the west prior to reoccurring again as the main mass of the Worthington Offset dyke. The Worthington Offset dyke is cut by the Creighton Fault along its northern margin, and extends to the southwest for 14 km, with a thickness of 30 to 100 m, and a dip of approximately 80°southeast.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pentlandite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sperrylite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Scheelite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 20, 2016 (R Corcoran) - The Ethel Lake Quartz Diorite-associated sulphide mineralization has been subdivided into 5 distinct zones (Zones 1 to 4 and 'Mini'). Mineral Resources have been estimated only for zones 2, 4 and 'Mini' for the purposes of this report. However, due to the potential connectivity of zones 1 and 3 with Zone 4. In zones 1 and 3 sulphide mineralization occurs as interstitial grains and disseminations within the quartz diorite, and as massive sulphide that wraps around and/or forms the matrix to decimetre to metre scale blocks of mafic to ultramafic rock. Smaller irregular fragments (centimetre-scale) of mafic to ultramafic rock occur throughout the pyrrhotite dominant massive sulphide. The zone 2 sulphide mineralization typically occurs as inclusion massive sulphide composed of variable amounts of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and pentlandite. The inclusions consist of fragments from the footwall and from more exotic mafic sources. These sub-angular to sub-rounded fragments commonly represent up to 25 to 30% of the sulphide-mineralized rock volume. Pyrrhotite is the dominant sulphide, typically as host to the chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite also occurs along corroded mafic inclusion margins and within fractures in the fragments. Minor pentlandite is hosted by pyrrhotite but is difficult to observe macroscopically. In the Mini Zone a quartz diorite hosted zone of mineralization, the 'Mini', was ubiquitously intersected in the footwall to Zone 4 at a depth of 5000 feet (1524 m) to 5500 feet (1676 m) below surface. This small zone is similar in style of sulphide mineralization to the upper part of Zone 4, where the pyrrhotite-rich assemblage occurs as disseminated, blebby and semimassive sulphide.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusion |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Victoria Project | 2011 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 12500000 | NI 43-101 report | Total Precious Metals 8.5 g/t | Copper 2.3 %, Gold 1 g/t, Nickel 2.2 %, Palladium 4.3 g/t, Platinum 3.2 g/t |
| Victoria Projects | 2009 | Indicated Mineral Resource | 481852 | NI 43-101 report | Copper 1.41 %, Nickel 1.23 % | |
| Victoria Projects | 2009 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 401346 | NI 43-101 report | Copper .87 %, Nickel 1.37 % |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 805580 | R060 p.54 | Mond Nickel Company - production from 1900-1923; ore averaging 2.12% Ni and 2.99% Cu |
Publication - Technical Report on the Victoria Project Deposit, 131p
Publication Number: NI 43-101 RPT Date: 2011
Author: Catharine E.G. Farrow, John Everest, Stuart Gibbins and Chantal Jolette
Publisher Name:
Location: Quadra FNX website
Part - The Sudbury nickel field
Publication Number: ARV14-03 Page: 24-29 Date: 1998
Author: Coleman A.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology, Sudbury bedrock compilation, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 4570 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2005
Author: Ames, D E; Davidson, A; Buckle, J L; Card, K D
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/221501
Mono - Report of Activities 2015, Resident Geologist Program, Kirkland Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Kirkland Lake and Sudbury Districts
Publication Number: OFR6318 Page: 11-12 Date: 2016
Author: Guindon D.L., Farrow D.G., Hall L.A.F., Daniels C.M., Debicki R.L., Wilson A.C., Bardeggia L.A., Sabiri N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Sudbury geological compilation, Sudbury District, Sudbury Regional Municipality
Publication Number: M2491 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1984
Author: Dressler B.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Denison-Waters area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R060 Page: 53-55 Date: 1968
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Denison-Waters area, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2119 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1967
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Compilation series, Sudbury mining area, western part, Sudbury District
Publication Number: P2602 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1983
Author: Dressler B.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 268-269 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission, with appendix
Publication Number: OP01 Page: 167-174 Date: 1997
Author: Holloway G.T., Miller W.G., Young M., Gibson T.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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