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Sudbury Basin nickel-copper occurrences, Ontario
Mineral locality Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: Pentlandite, pyrrhotite, sperrylite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Proterozoic impact melt sheet
The Sudbury impact structure; one of the great Ni-Cu-PGE camps.
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