Quantitative mass balance of platinum group elements in the Kelly Lake Ni-Cu-PGE deposit, Copper Cliff offset, Sudbury

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1631-1646

  Huminicki, M A E ^a   Sylvester, P J ^a   Cabri, L J ^a,b   Lesher, C M ^c   Tubrett, M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b CABRI CONSULTING INC   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS BALANCE; MINERALOGICAL DISTRIBUTION; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS (PGE); PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS (PGM); SUDBURY; SULFARSENIDES;

COOLING; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS BALANCE; ORE ANALYSIS; SULFIDE MINERALS;

PLATINUM METALS;

MASS BALANCE; MINERALOGY; NONMINERAL DEPOSIT; ORE DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; SUDBURY;

EID: 33745945510     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.8.1631     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Cabri, L.J., 1992, The distribution of trace precious metals in minerals and mineral products: Mineralogical Magazine, v. 56, p. 298-308.
2. Cabri, L.J., 2002, The platinum-group minerals: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Special Volume 54, p. 13-129.
3. Cabri, L.J., 2004, New developments in process mineralogy of platinum-bearing ores: Canadian Mineral Processors, 36th Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, Proceedings, p. 189-198.
4. Cabri, L.J., and Laflamme, J.H.G., 1976, The mineralogy of the platinum-group elements from some copper-nickel deposits of the Sudbury area: Economic Geology, v. 71, p. 1159-1195.
5. Cabri, L.J., and Laflamme, J.H.G., 1984, Mineralogy and distribution of platinum-group elements in mill products from Sudbury, in Park, W.C., Hausen, D.M., and Hagni, R.D,, eds., Applied mineralogy: Proceedings of the second international congress on applied mineralogy in the minerals industry: Warrendale, PA, Metallurgical Scoeity of AIME, p. 911-922.
6. Cabri, L.J., Blank, H., El Goresy, A., Laflamme, J.H.G., Nobiling, R., Sizgoric, M.B., and Traxel, K., 1984, Quantitative trace-element analyses of sulfides from Sudbury and Stillwater by proton microprobe: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 22, p. 521-542.
7. Cabri, L.J., Wilson, J.M.D., Distler, V.V., Kingston, D., Nejedlý, Z., and Sluzheniken, S.F., 2002, Mineralogical distribution of trace platinum-group elements in major sulphide minerals from the disseminated sulphide ores of the Noril'sk layered intrusion: Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B, v. 111, p. B15-B23.
8. Cabri, L.J., Sylvester, P, Tubrett, M.N., Perogoedova, A., and Laflamme, J.H.G., 2003, Comparison of micro-PIXE and LAM-ICP-MS analyses for Pd and Rh: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 41, p. 321-329.
9. Carter, W.M., 2000, Sulfide, sulfarsenide, and platinum-group minerals from the 740 deposit, Kelly Lake orebody of the Copper Cliff offset, Sudbury, Canada: Unpublished B.Sc. thesis, Ottawa, Ontario, Carleton University, 95 p.
10. Carter, W.M., Watkinson, D.H., and Jones, P.C., 2001, Post-magmatic remobilization of platinum-group elements in the Kelly Lake Ni-Cu sulfide deposit, Copper Cliff offset, Sudbury: Exploration Mining Geology, v. 10, p. 95-110.
11. Chryssoulis, S.L., and Cabri, L.J., 1990, The significance of gold mineralogical balances in mineral processing: Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, v. 99, p. C1-C10.
12. Cochrane, L.B., 1984, Ore deposits of the Copper Cliff offset: Ontario Geological Survey Special Volume 1, p. 347-361.
13. Farrow, C.E.G., and Lightfoot, P.C., 2002, Sudbury PGE revisited: Toward an integrated model: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Special Volume 54, p. 579-617.
14. Huminicki, M.A.E., 2003, Geology, mineralogy and geochemistry of the Kelly Lake Ni-Cu-PGE deposit, Sudbury, Ontario: Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, Sudbury, Ontario, Laurentian University, 219 p.
15. Li, C., Naldrett, A.J., Rucklidge, J.C., and Kilius, L.R., 1993, Concentrations of platinum-group elements and gold in sulfides from the Stratheona deposit, Sudbury, Ontario: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 30, p. 523-531.
16. Naldrett, A.J., 1984, Mineralogy and composition of Sudbury ores: Ontario Geological Survey Special Volume 1, p. 309-325.
17. Oberthür, T., Cabri, L.J., Weiser, T.W., McMahon, G., and Müller, P., 1997, Pt, Pd, and other trace elements in sulfides of the Main sulfide zone, Great Dyke, Zimbabwe: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 35, p. 597-609.
18. Rucklidge, J.C., Wilson, G.C., Kilius, L.R., and Cabri, L.J., 1992, Trace element analysis of sulfide concentrates from Sudbury by accelerator mass spectrometry: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 30, p. 1023-1032.
19. Rudashevsky, N.S., Garuti, G., Andersen, J.C.Ø., Kretser, Y.L., Rudashevsky, V.N., and Zaccarini, F., 2002, Separation of accessory minerals from rocks and ores by hydroseparation (HS) technology: method and application to CHR-2 chromitite, Niquelândia, Brazil: Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, v. 111, p. B87-B94.
20. Stewart, M., 1999, Petrology of the sulfides within the Copper Cliff offset south of Kelly Lake, Sudbury Structure, Ontario: Unpublished B.Sc. thesis, Ottawa, Ontario, Carleton University, 69 p.
21. Sylvester, P., 2001, A practical guide to platinum-group element analysis of sulphides by laser-ablation-ICP-MS, in Sylvester, P., ed., Laser-ablation-ICPMS in the earth sciences: Principles and applications, mineralogical, Series Volume 29, p. 203-211.
22. Sylvester, P.J., Cabri, L.J., Tubrett, M.N., McMahon, G., Laflamme, J.H.G., and Peregoedova, A., 2005, Synthesis and evaluation of a fused pyrrhotite standard reference material for platinum group element and gold analysis by laser ablation-ICPMS [abs.]: International Platinum Symposium, 10th, Oulu, August 7-11, Abstracts Volume, p. 16.
23. Szentpéteri, K., Watkinson, D.H., Molnár, F., and Jones, P.C., 2002, Platinum-group, elements-Co-Ni-Fe sulfarsenides and mineral paragenesis in Cu-Ni-platinum-group element deposits, Copper Cliff north area, Sudbury, Canada: Economic Geology, v. 97, p. 1459-1470.
24. van Achterbergh, E., Ryan, C., Jackson, S.E., and Griffin, W., 2001, Appendix III: Data reduction and software for LA-ICP-MS, in Sylvester, P., ed., Laser-ablation-ICPMS in the earth sciences: Principles and applications, mineralogical, Series Volume 29, p. 239-243.