Geology of the Giant Sudbury Polymetallic Mining Camp, Ontario, Canada

摘要

A NEW, 1:100,000 SCALE compilation bedrock geology map provided with this issue presents a geologic synthesis of Canada's most prolific mining camp, the world-class Sudbury stnicture with total past production and current reserves of over 1.7 billion tonnes of Ni, Cu, Co, Pt, Pd, Au, Ag ore (Lydon, 2007). The polymetallic ore is hosted within one of Earth's largest preserved impact craters. The new map of the Ni-Cu-PGE Sudbury district (after Ames et al., 2005) is included in a pocket at the back of this issue (Map 1) and is linked to mineral deposit-commodity and geochronology data in Tables 1 and 2 of this paper.