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sulfide deposit is an ore body or rock containing a great deal of sulfide minerals. Articles on this topic include: Seafloor massive sulfide deposits
Sulfide_deposit
Metal sulfide ore deposit
Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits, also known as VMS ore deposits, are a type of metal sulfide ore deposit, mainly copper-zinc which are associated
Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit
Volcanogenic_massive_sulfide_ore_deposit
Massive sulfide deposits are ore deposits that have significant stratiform ore bodies consisting mainly of sulfide minerals. Most massive sulfide ore deposits
Massive_sulfide_deposits
Zinc-lead deposits
ore, often with thin laminations of sulfide minerals. SEDEX deposits are hosted largely by clastic rocks deposited in intracontinental rifts or failed
Sedimentary exhalative deposits
Sedimentary_exhalative_deposits
Mineral deposits from seafloor hydrothermal vents
Seafloor massive sulfide deposits or SMS deposits, are modern equivalents of ancient volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits or VMS deposits. The term has
Seafloor massive sulfide deposits
Seafloor_massive_sulfide_deposits
Rock or sediment with valuable metals, minerals and elements
Magmatic Sulfide Deposits form from mantle melts which rise upwards, and gain sulfur through interaction with the crust. This causes the sulfide minerals
Ore
Geologic Feature
massive sulfide (VMS), sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX), and epithermal and Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits. Each hydrothermal mineral deposit has different
Hydrothermal_mineral_deposit
Zinc-iron sulfide mineral
Sphalerite is a sulfide mineral with the chemical formula (Zn, Fe)S. It is the most important ore of zinc. Sphalerite is found in a variety of deposit types, but
Sphalerite
Mine in India
Rampura Agucha is a zinc and lead mine located on a massive sulfide deposit in the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan, India. Rampura Agucha is located 220 km
Rampura_Agucha
Kidd Township, Timmins area, Ontario
Massive Sulfide Deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Canada: Economic Geology Monograph 10, The Giant Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposit, Western
Kidd_Mine
Poisonous and flammable gas
also occurs in volcanic gases, natural gas deposits, and sometimes in well-drawn water. Hydrogen sulfide is slightly denser than air. A mixture of H2S
Hydrogen_sulfide
Mineral deposit that forms in the shallow subsurface
depth. High-sulfide epithermal (HSE) deposits, or also known, high sulfidation deposit, are notable for their high concentrations of sulfide minerals such
Epithermal_vein_deposit
Exposure of Precambrian crystalline rocks on the flanks of the Red Sea
W., and Aussant, C., 2007, The Bisha volcanic-associated massive sulfide deposit, Western Eritrea: Economic Geology, v. 102, pp. 717–738. The Eastern
Arabian-Nubian_Shield
Sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposit
metal sulfides and the even distribution of the pyrite and arsenopyrite in the host rock are the most obvious difference to other sulfide deposits. During
Carlin–type_gold_deposit
How the various types of mineral deposits form within the Earth's crust
of metal deposits formed by hydrothermal processes include sulfide minerals, indicating sulfur is an important metal-carrying complex. Sulfide deposition
Ore_genesis
Type of ore deposits
Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits are important and highly valuable concentrations of lead and zinc sulfide ores hosted within carbonate (limestone
Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits
Carbonate-hosted_lead-zinc_ore_deposits
volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in Quebec. He explained the geography of sulfide deposit and also highlighted the features of the deposit formation through
Michel_Jébrak
Copper mine in Vermont, United States
grey mica schist). The ore body at the Elizabeth Mine is a massive sulfide deposit consisting primarily of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Copper mining
Elizabeth_Mine
Mine in New Brunswick, Canada
from 1966 until 1983. The Brunswick #6 orebody was the first major sulfide deposit discovered in the Bathurst area. The mine operated as an open-pit operation
Brunswick_6_mine
District in Sar-e Pol, Afghanistan
Afghanistan. The discovery appears to be a volcano genetic massive sulfide deposit—a deposit type which could supply much of the world's gold, copper, lead
Balkhab_District
Extinct hydrothermal vent field in the North Atlantic
000 ft) deep. As with many active vent sites, Squid Forest is a massive sulfide deposit. Squid forest was discovered in 1999 during a research cruise of the
Squid_Forest
Hydrothermally altered epidote- and quartz-bearing rock
massive sulfide ore deposits which occur in ophiolites. Most epidosites represent the zone of intense metal leaching below and lateral to the sulfide deposits
Epidosite
Former copper mine in Mohave County, Arizona
active period, the mine produced 78,251 tons of copper-zinc sulfide ore, from an estimated deposit size of 350,000 to 400,000 tons of volcanogenic 1–4% copper
Antler_Mine
Fissure in a planet's surface from which heated water emits
magma can erupt Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit, also known as VMS deposit – Metal sulfide ore deposit Deep sea mining Colín-García, María (2016)
Hydrothermal_vent
Underground mine in Ontario, Canada
the distribution of these sulfide-rich structures. This results in a spatial association between the sulfide-rich ore deposit locations and the lithological
Creighton_Mine
Oxide mineral
is a secondary mineral which forms in the oxidized zone of copper sulfide deposits. It frequently occurs in association with native copper, azurite, chrysocolla
Cuprite
Arthur R. Kinkel Jr. (1967) The Ore Knob Copper Deposit North Carolina, and Other Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Appalachians, US Geological Survey, Professional
Copper mining in the United States
Copper_mining_in_the_United_States
Alaska Mining District in the United States
Greens Creek Massive Sulfide Deposit, Southeastern Alaska". Geology, Geochemistry, and Genesis of the Greens Creek Massive Sulfide Deposit, Admiralty Island
Admiralty_mining_district
Aluminium potassium sulfate mineral
solutions on these rocks during the oxidation and leaching of metal sulfide deposits. Alunite also is found near volcanic fumaroles. The white, finely granular
Alunite
Mineral extraction from the ocean floor
massive sulfide deposits. They appear on and within the seafloor when mineralized water discharges from a hydrothermal vent. The ionic metals and sulfides in
Deep_sea_mining
Igneous rock
Western Australia, the Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt magmatic sulfide deposit of northern Labrador, the Stillwater igneous complex of Montana, the
Troctolite
Copper iron sulfide mineral
ore deposits, formed from an immiscible sulfide liquid in sulfide-saturated ultramafic lavas. In this environment chalcopyrite is formed by a sulfide liquid
Chalcopyrite
Iron–nickel sulfide
sulfides within rocks composed mostly of silicates. Pristine magmatic massive sulfide are rarely preserved as most deposits of nickeliferous sulfide have
Pentlandite
ore, Viscaria copper deposit and the Aitik gold and silver deposit. The Skellefte district is known for a massive sulfide deposit hosted in metavolcanic
Geology_of_Sweden
Economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within the Earth's crust
deposits Collapse breccia pipe deposits Volcanic deposits Surficial deposits Metasomatite deposits Metamorphic deposits Lignite Black shale deposits Other
Uranium_ore
Copper sulfide mineral
Germany, in copper slate deposits. Digenite occurs in the transitional zone of supergene oxidation of primary sulfide ore deposits, at the interface between
Digenite
Submarine volcano in the Tyrrhenian Sea
takes place on Palinuro Seamount, which has led to the deposition of sulfide deposits in the seafloor that could be used as a source of ores for rare metals
Palinuro_Seamount
Platinum arsenide mineral
Seabrooke, C.L. 2004. Platinum-group minerals in the Raglan Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulfide deposit, Cape Smith, Quebec, Canada. Canadian mineralogist. Vol. 42, Part 2
Sperrylite
Chinese metal company
Enterprises. Jinchuan owns the world's third-largest nickel-copper sulfide deposit. Its annual capacity exceeds 330,000 tons of nickel-containing products
Jinchuan_Group
Process of extracting nickel from ores
laterites, the formation of sulfide ores is independent of climate. They are found in Canada and northern Siberia. Sulfide ore deposits originate from: magma
Nickel_extraction
Large sill-like body of igneous rock
base metal Sulfide mineral assemblages within these rare intrusions. Often overlooked is that economically significant Ni-Cu-PGE deposits can occur in
Layered_intrusion
Extinct caldera complex in Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada
with the Sturgeon Lake Caldera. It hosts the 12-Mt Mattabi massive sulfide deposit which is interpreted to have formed on and below the seafloor, the
Sturgeon_Lake_Caldera
Naturally occurring pure metallic silver mineral
characteristic of several distinct deposit types beyond the classic Five-Element veins. These include: Low-sulfidation epithermal systems, where silver
Native_silver
Mine in New South Wales, Australia
nearby massive sulfides. Broken Hill is the type locality for a class of ore deposits known as Broken Hill Type, or BHT, ore deposits. This is a classification
Broken_Hill_ore_deposit
Geologic formation in Nevada, United States
sulfide (pyrite) and lead sulfide (galena) are present sporadically in the Vinini and, where oxidized, form colorful gossans. Some of these deposits are
Vinini_Formation
Natural mineral form of lead sulfide
and Galena, Alaska, take their names from deposits of this mineral. Galena belongs to the octahedral sulfide group of minerals that have metal ions in
Galena
Chemical element with atomic number 28 (Ni)
the double of known reserves). About 60% is in laterites and 40% in sulfide deposits. On geophysical evidence, most of the nickel on Earth is believed to
Nickel
Mine in Wisconsin, United States
River. Aware of this and other deposits in northern Wisconsin, and aware of environmental disasters caused by metal sulfide mines in other places, the state
Flambeau_Mine
Hard, coarse-grained, hydrothermally altered metamorphic rocks
of silicate gangue, or waste rock, associated with iron-ore bearing sulfide deposits apparently replacing Palaeoproterozoic age limestones in Sweden's Persberg
Skarn
Hill (147m) on Anglesey, Wales
European Route of Industrial Heritage. The volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit is located at the border of the Ordovician to the Llandovery epoch
Parys_Mountain
Bottom of the ocean
Exploitation of the seabed involves extracting valuable minerals from sulfide deposits via deep sea mining, as well as dredging sand from shallow environments
Seabed
Phenomenon that occurs in rock
hydrothermal ore deposits, such as chromite, Ni-Cu sulfides, rare-metal pegmatites, kimberlites, volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits are some examples
Partial_melting
Fe-Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposit
physical processes of komatiite volcanology serve to deposit, concentrate and enrich a Fe-Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulfide melt within the lava flow environment of an erupting
Kambalda type komatiitic nickel ore deposits
Kambalda_type_komatiitic_nickel_ore_deposits
Mine in New Brunswick, Canada
Brunswick #12 deposit is a volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit rich in lead, zinc, and copper. Currently the copper-rich portion of the deposit has not
Brunswick_12_mine
Sulfide mineral
(supergene) of copper sulfide deposits. Commonly found as coatings on chalcocite, chalcopyrite, bornite, enargite, pyrite, and other sulfides, it often occurs
Covellite
Swedish multinational metals, mining and smelting company
Alteration of the Petiknäs South Zn-Pb-Cu-Au-Ag Volcanic-hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, Sweden (PDF). Luleå University of Technology. p. 7. "Joint venture
Boliden_AB
southwest of Juneau. The Greens Creek deposit is a polymetallic, stratiform, volcanogenic massive-sulfide deposit that opened in 1989. In 2019, Greens
Gold_mining_in_Alaska
Natural springs that produce water containing minerals
should not be drunk. Sulfur springs smell of rotten eggs due to hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which is hazardous and sometimes deadly. It is a gas, and it usually
Mineral_spring
Geologic formation in the Goldfields of Western Australia
North deposit is, from base upwards, 0.1 to 1m of massive pentlandite-pyrrhotite-pyrite-chalcopyrite sulfide, matrix sulfide containing 40-80% sulfide, and
Widgiemooltha_Komatiite
Chemical compound
Cadmium sulfide is the inorganic compound with the formula CdS. Cadmium sulfide is a yellow salt. It occurs in nature with two different crystal structures
Cadmium_sulfide
Proposed open-pit mine in Michigan, US
The Back Forty Mine is a proposed open-pit metallic sulfide mine targeting gold and zinc deposits in Menominee County in the South Central part of Michigan's
Back_Forty_Mine
Hydrated iron oxide mineral
iron oxide typically form as the result of intensive oxidation of sulfide ore deposits. These gossans were used by prospectors as guides to buried ore.
Limonite
Mine in New Brunswick, Canada
ore was crushed and tested for heap leaching. Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit Luff, William M. (October 1995). "A history of mining in the Bathurst
Murray_Brook_Mine
Copper iron sulfide mineral
Cubanite is a copper iron sulfide mineral that commonly occurs as a minor alteration mineral in magmatic sulfide deposits. It has the chemical formula
Cubanite
Sulfide mineral
Stibnite, sometimes called antimonite, is a sulfide mineral, a mineral form of antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3). It is a soft, metallic grey crystalline solid
Stibnite
Chemical compound
leaded, then the hydrofluoric acid and hydrogen sulfide combination produces a black plumbous sulfide deposit on the inner surface. In air, PSF3 burns spontaneously
Thiophosphoryl_fluoride
Bleeding from the nose
blackening of the skin due to silver sulfide deposit, though this will fade with time. Once the silver nitrate is deposited, saline may be used to neutralize
Nosebleed
Iron (II) disulfide mineral
as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral. Pyrite's metallic
Pyrite
Abandoned location in Massachusetts, U.S.
Charlemont area within the Hawley "Mineral Belt" stratabound massive sulfide deposit are the Hawks or Mt. Peak Mine and the Mary Louise or Davenport Mine
Davis,_Massachusetts
Alloy
prehistory involves considering the structure of copper ore deposits, which are mostly sulfides. The surface minerals would contain some native copper and
Arsenical_bronze
Mine in Alaska, United States
sediment-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, with the zinc-lead ore considered to have been deposited on the sea floor as a stratum of sulfide sediment. Zinc, lead,
Red_Dog_mine
Town in Oshikoto Region, Namibia
concentration of ingredients for Tsumeb's mineral formations originates in a sulfide deposit rich in many metals. A non-arid environment plentiful in oxygen-rich
Tsumeb
Mine in Greece
continued to be active, producing silver and other metals until profitable sulfide deposits were exhausted in 1978. During the early years of their modern operation
Mines_of_Laurion
Former mine in Pinal County, Arizona
using the block caving method. It was a large disseminated copper sulfide deposit mined with five shafts each over 3,000 feet (910 m) deep. Headframes
San_Manuel_Copper_Mine
Type of copper ore body
below the deposit itself. Predating or associated with those fluids are vertical dikes of porphyritic intrusive rocks from which this deposit type derives
Porphyry_copper_deposit
Nickel sulfide mineral
The deposit has never been commercially mined. It is commonly found as radiating clusters of acicular needle-like crystals in cavities in sulfide rich
Millerite
Copper sulfate mineral
Cu4SO4(OH)6. Formed in arid climates or in rapidly oxidizing copper sulfide deposits, it was named by Armand Lévy for his fellow Frenchman, geologist and
Brochantite
Sulfate mineral
for the first time in the 2000s at the Lavrion Pb-Ag-Zn deposit, a polymetallic sulfide deposit that underwent supergene oxidation during its formation
Bieberite
Magnesium-rich igneous rock
origin for the komatiitic dunite-hosted Mount Keith disseminated nickel sulfide deposit, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 100(1), 149–156. https://doi
Komatiite
massive copper-zinc sulfide deposit in Aroostook County, estimated to be the third largest find in the US, in September, 1977, but the deposit has not been developed
Geology_of_Maine
Northernmost part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States
century. Hard rock mining in the region ceased in 1967 though copper sulfide deposits continued for some time after in Ontonagon. This vigorous industry
Keweenaw_Peninsula
Chemical element with atomic number 16 (S)
sometimes found in pure, native form, sulfur on Earth usually occurs as sulfide and sulfate minerals. Being abundant in native form, sulfur was known in
Sulfur
In geology, processes or enrichment that occur near the surface
(hypogene) sulfide ore minerals and redistribute the metallic ore elements. Supergene enrichment occurs at the base of the oxidized portion of an ore deposit. Metals
Supergene_(geology)
Type of igneous and meta-igneous rock
nickel sulfide deposits at Kambalda, Western Australia: A distal volcanic model, in Buchanan, D.L., and Jones, M.J. (Editors), Sulphide Deposits in Mafic
Ultramafic_rock
Hydrous copper arsenate mineral
forms acicular crystals in the fractured weathered zone above copper sulfide deposits. It occurs in vitreous, translucent dark blue to dark greenish blue
Clinoclase
Technology of submerged operations in the sea
Seafloor mineral mining of seafloor massive sulfide deposits (so named for the sulfide molecules, not the deposit size) are a developing subsea mineral mining
Subsea_technology
"Preliminary study of the Turner Albright Zn-Cu-Ag-Au-Co massive sulfide deposit, Josephine County, Oregon". Economic Geology. 82 (5): 1362. doi:10
Hemipelagic_sediment
Phylum of archaea
Lineages of Candidatus Hydrothermarchaeota Thriving in Deep-sea Metal Sulfide Deposits". Microbes and Environments. 34 (3): 293–303. doi:10.1264/jsme2.ME19021
Hydrothermarchaeota
Common discoloration of tissue in the mouth
Granular deposits of silver sulfide along elastic fibers of the connective tissue of the oral mucosa. Low chronic inflammatory changes in the form of a
Amalgam_tattoo
Geologic formation in Northeastern Ontario, Canada
been interpreted that the sulfide zone represents a volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit based on the structure of the sulfide zone and the associated
Temagami_Greenstone_Belt
Species of bacterium
genus Caloranaerobacter which has been isolated from hydrothermal sulfide deposits from the East Pacific Rise. Parte, A.C. "Caloranaerobacter". LPSN.
Caloranaerobacter ferrireducens
Caloranaerobacter_ferrireducens
Type of ore
Resources of >500 Mt @ 1.0% Cu. Mantoverde Cu-Au Deposit: Cu oxide resources 180 Mt @ 0.5% Cu overlying a sulfide resource of >400 Mt @ 0.52% Cu. Para State
Iron oxide copper gold ore deposits
Iron_oxide_copper_gold_ore_deposits
Iron-rich end member of the chlorite group
and metamorphic berthierine from the Kidd Creek volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Timmins, Ontario". Canadian Mineralogist. 30 (4): 1127–1142. Retrieved
Chamosite
Chemical compound
Indium(III) sulfide (Indium sesquisulfide, Indium sulfide (2:3), Indium (3+) sulfide) is the inorganic compound with the formula In2S3. It has a "rotten
Indium(III)_sulfide
Process of extracting copper from the ground
surface. Some supergene sulfide deposits can be leached using a bacterial oxidation heap leach process to oxidize the sulfides to sulfuric acid, which
Copper_extraction
Copper arsenate mineral
England. It occurs as secondary mineral in the oxidized zone of copper sulfide deposits. Associated minerals include olivenite, cornubite, arthurite, clinoclase
Cornwallite
Supply, demand and allocation of the Earth's natural resources
recently, polymetallic sulfide deposits have been discovered and polymetallic sulfide "black muds" are being presently deposited from "black smokers" The
Natural_resource_economics
Accumulation of unwanted material on solid surfaces
function. Other terms used in the literature to describe fouling include deposit formation, encrustation, crudding, deposition, scaling, scale formation
Fouling
oxides, hydroxides, clays and carbonates after the original sulfide mineralogy. The Browns deposit is currently being developed as a major base metals mine
Browns polymetallic ore deposit
Browns_polymetallic_ore_deposit
Surficial, weathered rinds formed on ultramafic rocks
ore deposit. They are growing to become the most important source of nickel metal for world demand (currently second to sulfide nickel ore deposits). Nickel
Lateritic_nickel_ore_deposits
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