Mine detail: Mount Pleasant Tungsten Mine

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Location:	New Brunswick, Canada, North America
Lat / long:	45.4166, -66.81596
dep_id:	10021627
mrds_id:	DE00305
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Tungsten, Molybdenum
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
Reporter:	Jakubek, Albin J.
hrock_unit:	Fire Tower Breccia;Fine-Grained Granite;
hrock_type:	Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate),Granite
Structure:	Subvolvanic; Margin Of Mississipian Caldera
tectonic:	Late Palaezoic Orogenic Belt
Year first produced:	1984
yr_lst_prd:	1985
disc_yr:	1969
References:	Deposit:: STAFF, MINING MAGAZINE, MOUNT PLEASANT MINE, MINING MAGAZINE, JULY 1983, VOL. 149, NO. 1, P. 16-25. Deposit:: ATKINSON, J.R., KOOIMAN, G., COATS, H.J., GEOLOGY OF MOUNT PLEASANT TUNGSTEN, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 102, NO. 4, APRIL 1981, P. 73-75. Deposit:: DAGGER, G.W., GENESIS OF THE MOUNT PLEASANT TUNGSTEN-MOLYBDENUM-BISMUTH DEPOSIT, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA, INSTITUTE OF MINING & METALLURGY, TRANSACTIONS - SECTION B, VOL. 81, MAY 1982, P. B73-102. Deposit:: SULLIVAN MINING GROUP LTD., ANNUAL REPORTS - 1978, 1979, 1980 AND 1983. Deposit:: TINTOR, N., SULLIVA* FUTURE BASED ON GOLD, THE NORTHERN MINER, VOL. 70, NO. 49, FEB. 14, 1985, P. 1 AND 2. Deposit:: FINANCIAL POST COOPERATION SERVICE; SULLIVAN MINES INC., CUSIP NO. 865345, TORONTO, ONT. OCT. 1984, 6 P. Deposit:: KOOIMAN, G.J.A., MCLEOD, M.J. AND SINCLAIR, W.D., 1986, PORPHYRY TUNGSTEN-MOLYBDENUM OREBODIES, POLYMETALLIC VEINS AND REPLACEMENT BODIES AND TIN-BEARING GREISEN ZONES IN THE FIRE TOWER ZONE, MOUNT PLEASANT, NEW BRUNSWICK; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 81, P. 1356-1373.