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RELATIVE RATES OF SULPHIDE OXIDATION BY CHEMICAL AND MICROBIAL MEANS: THE ROLE OF MINERALOGY AND TEXTURE IN ACID ROCK DRAINAGE (ARD) FROM THE MEGUMA SUPERGROUP, NOV A SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)
The Meguma Supergroup in Nova Scotia contains abundant sulphide minerals that potentially
can cause acid rock drainage (ARD), which is environmentally damaging and expensive to
ameliorate. The problem is most intense in ...
40 Ar/39 Ar thermochronology of the SE Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, Ontario
(1997-04-15)
As different minerals begin to retain Ar at distinct "closure temperatures",
40 Ar/39 Ar dating of suites of minerals can be used to reconstruct the cooling history
of rocks in ancient orogenic belts. This information ...
Compartmentalization of Formation Waters, Prince Colliery, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
(1997-04-15)
The Prince Colliery is located offshore of Point Aconi, Cape Breton , Nova Scotia. The
colliery is presently extracting coal from the Hub seam of the Marien Group, part of the
Carboniferous Sydney Basin. Directly overlying ...
DATING OF ALTERATION AT THE RADOMIRO TOMIC PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT, NORTHERN CHILE BY THE HIGH PRECISION 40Ar/39 Ar METHOD.
(1997-04-15)
The Radomiro Tomic (RT) porphyry copper deposit is located approximately 8-lO km
north of the Chuquicamata mine and 245 km northeast of the port city of Antofagasta. Estimates
place the deposit at over 800 million tonnes ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF OUTBURST CHANNEL SANDSTONES IN THE PHALEN COLLIERY, CAPE BRETON, NOV A SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)
The Phalen Colliery of New Waterford, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is currently mining coal from
the Phalen Seam of the Sydney Mines Formation, part of the offshore Carboniferous Sydney
Basin. Since opening in 1984, the ...
SILICATE AND SULPHIDE MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AND METAMORPHIC FABRICS FROM PELITES IN THE CONTACT AUREOLE OF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN BATHOLITH, HALIFAX AREA, NOVA SCOTIA
(1998-04-15)
Contact metamorphism resulting from intrusion of the South Mountain Batholith
(SMB) at 372 Ma produced textural and mineralogical changes in rocks of the Meguma
Supergroup. A detailed petrographic study of the contact ...
DETERMINATION OF BULK PERMEABILITY WITHIN THE MORIEN GROUP USING THE FORCING OF OCEAN TIDES IN THE SYDNEY BASIN IN CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)
Since November 1992 the Lingan Colliery in the Sydney coalfield has been steadily
filling with water. At the same time the water level in the previously flooded 1B region
and the No 26 Colliery has been gradually decreasing. ...
MODELING OF A PALEOCENE SUBMARINE CANYON, JEANNE D'ARC BASIN, OFFSHORE NEWFOUNDLAND, TO DETERMINE CANYON FILL LITHOLOGY
(1997-04-15)
The Hibernia Paleocene Canyon, located in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, was modeled using the BasinMod lD and BasinMod 2D software packages to determine the lithology of the canyon fill. Petroleum industry ...
STRATIGRAPHY OF THE GOLDENVILLE GROUP-HALIFAX GROUP TRANSITION (GHT) OF THE MEGUMA SUPERGROUP AT CARIBOU GOLD DISTRICT (DRILLCORE LL81-5A), NOV A SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)
Drillcore LL81-5A, recovered from Caribou gold district, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, by
Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. in 1980, is a 625.40 m-long continuous section of the CambroOrdovician
Meguma Supergroup, representing ...