Sudbury Basin
Third largest verified astrobleme on earth, remains of an Paleoproterozoic Era impactThe Sudbury Basin, also known as Sudbury Structure or the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, is a major geological structure in Ontario, Canada. It is the third-largest known impact structure on Earth, as well as one of the oldest. The structure, the eroded remnant of an impact crater, was formed by the impact of an asteroid 1.849 billion years ago in the Paleoproterozoic era.
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AI Generated- 1856Provincial land surveyor Albert Salter located magnetic abnormalities suggestive of mineral deposits while surveying a baseline westward from Lake Nipissing.
- 1883Development of a mining settlement occurred after blasting at the railway construction site revealed a large concentration of nickel and copper ore at what is now the Murray Mine site.
- 1889Frank Sperry made the first identification of the arsenide of platinum at the Vermillion Mine.
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