CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
489 Canada (Northwest Territories) 63.45.38 N -- 116.54.48 W Sue-Dianne Cu; Au; Ag; U; Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Sue-Dianne
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Northwest Territories; Nearest community: Yellowknife (180 km NW)
NTS map data: 085N15 (Ketcheson Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Olympic Dam-type
Deposit (sub) types: volcanic-hosted; hosted by an eutexitic rhyodacite ignimbrite sequence; well developed breccia zone with magnetite, and locally specularite, matrix; the best example of Olympic Dam-type deposit in Canada; ; Reference: Gandhi, S. S., 1989: Rhyodacite Ignimbrites and Breccias of the Sue-Dianne and Mar Cu-Fe-U Deposits, Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories; in Current Research 1989, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper , Geological Survey of Canada, 1989-C, p. 263 - 273
Deposit status: feasibility study; Size category: 15 Mt; Status comments: Discovered in 1974 by regional, 5-km line spacing airborne spectrometric survey; drill indicated resources as of year 2000: 17.3 Mt averaging 0.72 % Cu and 2.7 g/t Ag, with minor U, Mo, Bi, Co and REE
Geologic province: Wopmay Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Great Bear magmatic zone
Geologic district: Southern Great Bear magmatic zone
Deposit object located: east mineralized zone
Commodities: Cu; Au; Ag; U; Fe
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Late Paleoproterozoic (related magmatics)
Tectonic setting: continental arc; convergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) volcanic; felsic volcanic rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: subaerial; Metamorphic grade: unmetamorphosed
External host rock forms:ash flow tuffs
flows
Individual lithologies:rhyodacite
Host rock stratigraphy:Faber Group
Mineralogy: hematite, magnetite, chalcopyrite, bornite, pitchblende
Links to other databases: NORMIN; Key value: 085NNE0035
References:
Cook, F. A.; van der Velden, A. J.; Hall, K. W.; Roberts, B. J., 1999
Frozen subduction in Canada's Northwest Territories; Lithoprobe deep lithospheric reflection profiling of the western Canadian Shield
Tectonics, Volume 18, p. 1 - 24

Gandhi, S. S., 1989
Rhyodacite Ignimbrites and Breccias of the Sue-Dianne and Mar Cu-Fe-U Deposits, Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Current Research 1989, Canadian Shield, Edited by Geological Survey of Canada, Paper , Geological Survey of Canada, 1989-C, p. 263 - 273

Gandhi, S. S., 1994
Geological Setting and Genetic Aspects of Mineral Occurrences in the Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories
in Studies of Rare-Metal Deposits in the Northwest Territories, Edited by Sinclair, W. D.; Richardson, D. G., Bulletin, Geological Survey of Canada, 475, 96 p, p. 63 - 96

Gandhi, S. S.; Mortensen, J. K.; Prasad, N.; van Breemen, O., 2001
Magmatic evolution of the southern Great Bear continental arc, northwestern Canadian Shield: geochronological constraints
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 38, p. 767 - 785

Goad, R. E., 1998
The NICO and Sue-Dianne Proterozoic Iron Oxide-Hosted Polymetallic Deposits, Southern Great Bear Magmatic Zone, Northwest Territories - A Summary of Current Work and Deposit Model Development in Global Mineral Exploration
in 26th Yellowknife Geoscience Forum, Program and Abstracts of Talks and Posters, Edited by Anonymous, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 121 p, p. 46 - 49

Goad, R. E.; Mumin, A. H. ; Duke, N. A.; Neale, K. L.; Mulligan, D. L.; Camier, W. J., 2000
The NICO and Sue-Dianne Proterozoic, Iron Oxide-hosted, Polymetallic Deposits, Northwest Territories: Application of the Olympic Dam Model in Exploration
Exploration and Mining Geology, Volume 9, p. 123 - 140

Hennessey, B. T.; Puritch, E., 2008
A technical report on the mineral resource estimate for the Sue-Dianne deposit, Mazenod Lake area, Northwest Territories, Canada
NI 43-101 Technical Peport, Mincon International Ltd., Fortune Minerals Ltd, Publication code 2008-03, 125 p.

Hetu, R. J.; Holman, P. B.; Charbonneau, B. W.; Prasad, N.; Gandhi, S. S., 1994
Multiparameter Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Mazenod Lake Area, Northwest Territories, 1993 (NTS 85N/10 and Parts of 85N/11, 14, 15): Scale 1:100000
Open File, Geological Survey of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Publication code 2806, 100 p., 12 maps.

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 2008-03; 8,444,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: indicated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.8 percent
Au: 0.07 grams/metric ton
Ag: 3.2 grams/metric ton
Cutoff grade-commodity:Cu: 0.4 percent
Reference: Hennessey, B. T.; Puritch, E., 2008: A technical report on the mineral resource estimate for the Sue-Dianne deposit, Mazenod Lake area, Northwest Territories, Canada; NI 43-101 Technical Peport, Mincon International Ltd., Fortune Minerals Ltd, Publication code 2008-03, 125 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 2008-03; 1,620,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: inferred resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.79 percent
Au: 0.07 grams/metric ton
Ag: 2.4 grams/metric ton
Cutoff grade-commodity:Cu: 0.4 percent
Reference: Hennessey, B. T.; Puritch, E., 2008: A technical report on the mineral resource estimate for the Sue-Dianne deposit, Mazenod Lake area, Northwest Territories, Canada; NI 43-101 Technical Peport, Mincon International Ltd., Fortune Minerals Ltd, Publication code 2008-03, 125 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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