| Locality type: | Deposit |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Quartz |
| Formula: | SiO2 |
| Comments: | massive quartz of the Quartz Core Zone for high purity quartz |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Quartz data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Nechalacho deposit, Thor Lake syenite complex, Blachford Lake alkaline complex, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 697133 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:697133:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Quartz |
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| 2.2km (1.4 miles) | ⓘT-Zone deposit, Thor Lake syenite complex, Blachford Lake alkaline complex, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 4.0km (2.5 miles) | ⓘBlachford Lake alkaline complex, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 6.6km (4.1 miles) | ⓘHook Point, Yellowknife Pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 9.2km (5.7 miles) | ⓘThor Lake syenite complex, Blachford Lake alkaline complex, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 16.7km (10.4 miles) | ⓘBlatchford Lake, Yellowknife Pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 21.3km (13.2 miles) | ⓘMoose II pegmatite (ELK; Beck; DeStaffany), Yellowknife Pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 40.5km (25.1 miles) | ⓘRuth mine, Yellowknife, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 42.8km (26.6 miles) | ⓘEaster Island Dike, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 43.3km (26.9 miles) | ⓘEaster-Duffy mineral occurrence, Easter Island Dike, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 50.9km (31.6 miles) | ⓘCopper Pass deposit, East Arm area, Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| References |
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Sheard, E. R., Williams-Jones, A. E., Heiligmann, M., Pederson, C., Trueman, D. L. (2012) Controls on the Concentration of Zirconium, Niobium, and the Rare Earth Elements in the Thor Lake Rare Metal Deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada. Economic Geology, 107 (1) 81-104 doi:10.2113/econgeo.107.1.81 Marion, Christopher, Paris, Justin, Grammatikopoulos, Tassos, Li, Ronghao, Kökkılıç, Ozan, Langlois, Ray, Rowson, Neil A., Waters, Kristian E. (2023) Physical Separations for Rare-Earth Beneficiation of the Nechalacho Deposit. Minerals, 13 (12) doi:10.3390/min13121521 |
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