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Quartz from
Broken Hammer Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sperrylite11
Epidote11
Chalcopyrite2
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Broken Hammer Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:573657
Long-form Identifier:1:3:573657:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘWisner South Deposit, Wisner Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
9.6km (6.0 miles) ⓘMoose Mountain Mine, Hutton Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
12.3km (7.6 miles) ⓘPodolsky Mine, Norman Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
14.6km (9.0 miles) ⓘMilnet Mine, Parkin Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
15.7km (9.8 miles) ⓘAmy Lake zone, Capreol Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
16.5km (10.2 miles) ⓘCapre Lake Mine, Capreol Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
20.2km (12.6 miles) ⓘMaclennan Mine, Maclennan Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
20.8km (12.9 miles) ⓘFoy Mine, Foy Township, Unorganized North Sudbury District, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
22.4km (13.9 miles) ⓘCobalt Embayment, Roberts Township, Unorganized North Sudbury District, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
22.8km (14.2 miles) ⓘLindsley Mine, Blezard Township, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
References
Economic Geology 103 (2008) 1005-1028.
Kjarsgaard, I. M., & Ames, D. E. (2010, June). Ore mineralogy of Cu-Ni-PGE deposits in the North Range footwall environment, Sudbury, Canada. In 11th international platinum symposium, program abstracts, Ontario Geological Survey, miscellaneous release-data (Vol. 269).
Ames D, Hanley J, Jackson S (2014)Low sulfide high-grade sperrylite-epidote-quartz zone, Sudbury Canada: implications for hydrothermal-magmatic processes. 21 st meeting of the International Mineralogical Association. p 96
Hall, M. F., Lafrance, B., & Gibson, H. L. (2020). Emplacement of sharp-walled sulfide veins during the formation and reactivation of impact-related structures at the Broken Hammer Mine, Sudbury, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 57(10), 1149-1166.
 
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