Exploration History and Mineral Potential of the Central Arctic Zn-Pb District, Nunavut

• Main Authors: Keith Dewing, Robert J. Sharp, Ted Muraro
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Key words; Polaris Mine; Cornwallis Island; Little Cornwallis Island; Arctic Islands; zinc; lead; mining; Mississippi-Valley type; mineral; Arctic; Cornwallis; Nunavut; Polaris
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.3255; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic59-4-415.pdf

ABSTRACT. Exploration in the central Arctic Zn-Pb District took place in five phases: 1) an initial exploration period (1960– 70), during which most surface showings on Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis islands were found; 2) a discovery period (1971– 79), during which the buried Polaris ore body was...