Laterally extensive modified placer gold deposits in the Paleoproterozoic Mississagi Formation, Clement and Pardo Townships, Ontario

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Long, Darrel, Ulrich, Thomas, Kamber, Balz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: National Research Council Canada 2011
• Subjects: Geology; basin; canada; constraints; huronian supergroup; impact; provenance; province; range; systems; Canada; Elliot; Elliot Lake; glacier*
• Online Access: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126258/

Local gold concentrations are found in laterally extensive pyrite-bearing, framework-supported, cobble and boulder conglomerates in the basal 30 m of the Mississagi Formation in the south eastern part of the Huronian outcrop belt. These were deposited as part of a valley-fill succession, in shallow...