Ungavaite, Pd4Sb3, a new intermetallic mineral species from the mesamax northwest deposit, Ungava region, Quebec, Canada: Description and genetic implications

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1735-1744

  McDonald, Andrew M ^a   Cabri, Louis J ^b   Stanley, Christopher J ^c   Rudashevsky, Nikolay S ^d   Poirier, Glenn ^e   Mungall, James E ^f   Ross, Kirk C ^a   Durham, Bruce R ^g   Rudashevsky, Vladimir N ^d  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CABRI CONSULTING INC   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d Center for New Technologies   (Russian Federation)

^e Natural Resources Canada   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g Canadian Royalties Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cape Smith fold belt; Hydroseparation; Mesamax Northwest deposit; New intermetallic mineral species; Pd Sb; Platinum group elements; Platinum group mineral; Quebec; Ungava; Ungavaite

Indexed keywords

BIREFLECTANCE; ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSES; HYDROSEPARATION; HYDROTHERMAL REMOBILIZATION; UNGAVAITE;

COMPOSITION; INTERMETALLICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PALLADIUM ALLOYS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; SULFIDE MINERALS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

MINERALOGY;

NEW MINERAL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; UNGAVA BAY;

EID: 33144478782     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.43.5.1735     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. 2Sb. J. Less-Common Metals 19, 300-304.
2. Cabri, L.J. (2002): The platinum-group minerals. In The Geology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Beneficiation of Platinum-Group Elements (L.J. Cabri, ed.). Can. Inst. Mining, Metall. Petroleum, Spec. Vol. 54, 13-129.
3. Cabri, L.J. (2003): A mineralogical study of three samples from the Mesamax Northwest deposit, Cape Smith fold belt, northern Quebec. Canadian Royalties Inc., Confidential Rep. 2003-08, 87 p.
4. Cabri, L.J. (2004): New developments in process mineralogy of platinum-bearing ores. Proc. 36th Annual Meeting, Canadian Mineral Processors, 189-198.
5. 2Sb, a new intermetallic mineral from the Mesamax Northwest deposit, Ungava region, Quebec, Canada. Mineral. Mag. 69, 89-98.
6. 3, a new mineral. Can. Mineral. 15, 389-392.
7. Campbell, I.H. & Naldrett, A.J. (1979): The influence of silicate: sulfide ratios on the geochemistry of magmatic sulfides. Econ. Geol. 74, 1503-1506.
8. El-Boragy, M. & Schubert, K. (1971): Kristallstruktur der NiAs-Familie in Mischungen des Palladiums mit B-Elementen. Z. Metallkunde 62, 314-323.
9. Hudson, D.R. & Donaldson, M.J. (1981): Mineralogy of platinum group elements in the Kambalda nickel deposits, Western Australia. In Sulphide Deposits in Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks (D.L. Buchanan & M.J. Jones, eds.). Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, London, U.K. (55-61).
10. H2O. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 56, 1-25.
11. Jochum, K.P. & Hofmann, A.W. (1997): Constraints on Earth evolution from antimony in mantle-derived rocks. Chem. Geol. 139, 39-49.
12. Jochum, K.P. & Verma, S.P. (1996): Extreme enrichment of Sb, TI, and other trace elements in altered MORB. Chem. Geol. 130, 289-299.
13. Kim, Won-Sa & Chao, G.Y. (1991): Phase relations in the system Pd-Sb-Te. Can. Mineral. 29, 401-409.
14. Kim, Won-Sa & Chao, G.Y. (1996): Phase relations in the system Pd-Pt-Sb. Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh., 351-364.
15. Klöck, W. & Palme, H. (1988): Partitioning of siderophile and chalcophile elements between sulfide, olivine and glass in a naturally reduced basalt from Disko Island, Greenland. Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 18, 471-483.
16. Lesher, C.M. & Keays, R.R. (2002): Komatiite-associated Ni-Cu-(PGE) deposits: geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, and genesis. In The Geology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Beneficiation of Platinum-Group Elements (L.J. Cabri, ed.). Can. Inst. Mining, Metall. Petroleum, Spec. Vol. 54, 579-617.
17. Makovicky, E. (2002): Ternary and quaternary phase systems with PGE. In The Geology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Beneficiation of Platinum-Group Elements (L.J. Cabri, ed.). Can. Inst. Mining, Metall. Petroleum, Spec. Vol. 54, 131-175.
18. Mungall, J.E. & Keast, T. (2003): Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization at the Expo-Ungava and Mesamax deposits, New Quebec. Quebec Exploration 2003.
19. Rudashevsky, N.S., Garuti, G., Andersen, J.C.Ø., Kretser, Y.L., Rudashevsky, V.N. & Zaccarini, F. (2002): The separation of accessory minerals from rocks and ores using the hydroseparation (HS) technology: method and application to CHR-2 chromitite, Niquelândia, Brazil. Trans. Inst. Mining Metall. / Proc. Austral. Inst. Mining Metall., Section B: Appl. Earth Sci. 111, 87-94.
20. Rudashevsky, N.S., Lupal, S.D. & Rudashevsky, V.N. (2001): The hydraulic classifier. Russia patent N 2165300; Patient Cooperation Treaty PCT/RU01/ 00123 (Moscow: 20 April 2001; 10 May 2001). (in Russ. and English).
21. 9, a new mineral from Tilkerode, Harz Mountains, Germany. Can. Mineral. 40, 739-745.
22. Wood, S.A. (2002): The aqueous geochemistry of the platinum-group elements with applications to ore deposits. In The Geology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Benefication of Platinum-Group Elements (L.J. Cabri, ed.). Can. Inst. Mining, Metall. Petroleum, Spec. Vol. 54, 211-249.