title of the thesis - Department of Geology - Queen's University

List of Figures
Figure 1.1: Location of Sudbury and Creighton Mine...................................................................3
Figure 2.1: (A) Location map of Sudbury in Ontario, Canada (B); the location of the
Sudbury and surrounding tectonic provinces ............................................................5
Figure 2.2: Local geology map. ...................................................................................................10
Figure 2.3: Horizontal view of a fault jog in proximity to Creighton Fault.................................10
Figure 2.4:Cross-section of Creighton Mine showing geometry of footwall and
hangingwall rocks as well as orebodies....................................................................12
Figure 2.5: Representative level plan for the Creighton Deep....................................................15
Figure 2.6: Images of the Footwall Shear...................................................................................19
Figure 2.7: (A) The 1290 Shear Zone fabric; (B) 1290 Shear Zone on the 6400 Level;
and (C) biotite, quartz and calcite fabric of the 1290 shear zone. ............................21
Figure 2.8: Images of the 400-East Shear Zone..........................................................................23
Figure 2.9: (A) Photograph of the cracked concrete pad floor along the Return Air Raise
Shear Zone on 7530L; (B) cracked shotcrete on wall of 7530L; (C) thin
section of shear zone fabric on 7680L; (D) thin section of shear zone fabric
on 7400 the Level.....................................................................................................25
Figure 2.10: Reactivated structures in proximity to the Plum Shear Zone ..................................27
Figure 2.11: Thin sections of the Fresh Air Raise Shear .............................................................29
Figure 2.12: Images of the Fresh Air Raise-Type Shear..............................................................30
Figure 2.13: Images of the Grizzly Splay. ...................................................................................32
Figure 2.14: Shallow shear fractures in Creighton Deep. ............................................................33
Figure 2.15: Block model depicting paleokinematics of mine-scale faults in the Creighton
Deep .........................................................................................................................34
Figure 2.16: Riedel Model of 1290 and 118-System shear zones................................................38
Figure 2.17: NW-SE Penokean compression...............................................................................38
Figure 3.1: Plan view of events related to development blasts production blast-induced
events........................................................................................................................42
Figure 3.2: Distribution of Microseismic Event Magnitudes between January 1, 2006 and
December 31, 2007 recorded between 7000 and 7600 feet depth............................44
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