Enigmatic massive sulphide mineralization in the High Arctic Large Igneous Province, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Wilton, Derek H.C., Saumur, Benoit M., Gordon, Adrian, Williamson, Marie-Claude
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2019
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Canada; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; Arctic Archipelago; Queen Elizabeth Islands; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0156; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2018-0156; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2018-0156

Modern mineral exploration strategies should take into account nontraditional metallogenic models for a given geological environment. Here we document the first detailed study of a massive sulphide showing associated with the High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP) and Sverdrup Basin and in fact,...