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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 mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also 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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