Mine detail: Levack Mine

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Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 46.69999, -81.40035
dep_id: 10038441
mrds_id: M045811
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Platinum, Copper, Nickel
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
orebody_fm: LENS
work_type: Underground
conc_proc: Sulfides In Granite Breccia
ore_ctrl: Granite Breccia And Massive Sulfides
Reporter: Blair, Will N.
hrock_type: Norite
Structure: Ore Body Within The Norite
References:
  • Deposit:: *EILL, J. J. AND GUNNING H.C., 1934, PT. AND ALLIED METAL DEPOSITS OF CANADA: CAN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ECON. GEOL. REPT. 13, P. 59, 61
  • Deposit:: MERTIE, JB., 1969, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE PLATINUM METALS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 630, P.
  • Deposit:: SOUCH, B. E., AND PODOLSKY, T. 1969, THE SULFIDE ORES OF SUDBURY IN MAGMATIC ORE DEPOSITS: ECON. GEOL. MONOGRAPH 4, P. 260
  • Deposit:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 11976-1977: NORTHERN MINES
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