Petrology of the Renard igneous bodies: host rocks for diamond in the northern Otish Mountains region, Quebec |
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Authors: | TC Birkett TE McCandless CT Hood |
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Institution: | a SOQUEM INC., 1000 route de Eglise, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada G1V 3V9 b Ashton Mining of Canada Inc., Unit 123-930 West 1st Street, North, Vancouver, BC, Canada V7P 3N4 |
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Abstract: | The Renard igneous bodies were discovered in late 2001 as part of a regional diamond exploration program launched by Ashton Mining of Canada and SOQUEM. Nine bodies have been discovered within a 2-km-diameter area, and are comprised of root zone to lower diatreme facies rocks including kimberlitic breccia, olivine macrocrystic hypabyssal material, and brecciated country rock with minor amounts of kimberlitic material. Many mineralogical and petrographic features are common to both kimberlite and melnoite, and strict assignment of the rocks as kimberlite is not possible with these criteria alone. Whole rock trace element compositions suggest a closer affinity to Group I kimberlite, with derivation from a garnet-bearing mantle. Exceptions to conventional classification of the rocks along petrographic or mineralogical lines may be due in part to assimilation of felsic country rock into the Renard magmas at the time of emplacement. The Renard magmas were emplaced into northeastern Laurentia at 630 Ma, when the supercontinent was undergoing a change from convergent margin magmatism to rifting, the latter being associated ultimately with the opening of the Iapetus ocean. |
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Keywords: | Kimberlite Melnoite Otish Mountains Diamond Ultramafic lamprophyre |
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