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SUDBURY NI-CU-PGE ORE MINERALOGY COMPILATION
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GSC OPEN FILE 1787

This CD-ROM contains a referenced comprehensive ore mineralogical data compilation of the world-class Sudbury Ni-Cu-PGE deposits and showings. In addition, an excel file lists the UTM (NAD 27) and latitudinal-longitudinal locations of over ninety Sudbury mines, showings and some recent new discoveries which are also displayed on a jpg image. The Sudbury ore mineralogical database contains mineral names, formulae and analytical techniques of each mineral (>100) per deposit, annotated with comments. The D.E. Ames unpublished mineralogical data was collected during the Sudbury TGI project with mineral chemical data to be released in a succeeding GSC Open File. An ore mineral list describes the common occurrence and characteristics of the primary, alteration and metamorphic minerals (>100) making up the Sudbury Ni-Cu-PGE orebodies.

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