Kidd Creek Mine
48.6867° N, 81.3681° W · Exact (< 100 m)
Chalcopyrite from Ontario, Canada, with photos of specimens from this locality.
Minerals found here
Chalcopyrite at Kidd Creek Mine
Ore-mineral chalcopyrite in a very large Archean volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit hosted by rhyolite.
- Formula
- CuFeS₂
- Morphology
- Component of massive sulfide ore
- Associated minerals
- Sphaleritepyritegalenapyrrhotite
- History
- Discovered in 1963 by Texas Gulf Sulphur in drill hole K-55-1; production started in 1966 from an open pit and later moved underground, and the No. 4 shaft bottom lies about 3,014 m below surface.
Geology of the locality
- Setting
- Archean volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) copper-zinc-silver deposit in the Abitibi greenstone belt (Kidd Volcanic Complex).
- Type
- Massive sulfide
- Host rock
- Felsic volcanic rock (high-silica rhyolite) of the Kidd Volcanic Complex; komatiite and ultramafic volcanics in the footwall
- Region
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
Coordinates are the headframe point in the Ontario Mineral Inventory record (SRC-037), converted from degrees-minutes-seconds. Mine is about 24 km north of Timmins (SRC-038).
Sources
- SRC-037 · Database
Ontario Mineral Inventory record MDI42A11NW00002 (Kidd Creek)Ontario Geological Survey - SRC-038 · Website
Kidd Creek Mine (Wikipedia)Wikipedia - SRC-030 · Book
Handbook of Mineralogy - ChalcopyriteAnthony, J.W.; Bideaux, R.A.; Bladh, K.W.; Nichols, M.C. · Mineralogical Society of America
Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.