Mine detail: Manibridge Nickel Deposit

Previously called 'Mainbridge Mine'

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Location: Manitoba, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 54.62115, -98.68772
dep_id: 10039114
mrds_id: M046656
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Cobalt, Copper, Nickel
Minor mineral: Palladium, Platinum, Gold
Trace mineral: Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
gangue: Saponite, Tremolite
orebody_fm: LENSES AND PODS
work_type: Underground
alteration: Regional Metamorphism - Serpentinization
conc_proc: Mobilization Of Sulfides After Magmatic Segregation By Metamorphism
Reporter: Page, Norman J., Oster, Karel L., Bolm, Karen S.
hrock_type: Dunite
Structure: Setting Lake Lineament Ne Trending, Faulting - Brecciation Of Ore Body
tectonic: Churchill - Superior Province Boundary Zone
Year first produced: 1971
yr_lst_prd: 1977
disc_yr: 1963
discr: Falconbridge
References:
  • Deposit:: COATS, GREEN, WILSON, 1976, CIM BULL., V. 69, NO. 767, P. 154 - 159.
  • Deposit:: COATS AND BRUMMER, 1971, GSC, SPEC. PAPER NO. 9, P. 155 - 165.
  • Deposit:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1976-1977: NORTHERN MINER ENGINEERING MIN. JOURNAL, 1977, MANITOBA: ENG. MIN. JOUR., APRIL L977.
  • Deposit:: FOGWILL, DOUGLAS, AND BAMBURAK, JAMES, 1987, MINING IN MANITOBA: MANITOBA ENERGY AND MINES, MINERAL EDUCATION SERIES, P. 24.
  • Production:: COATS AND BRUMMER (1971); FOGWILL AND BAMBURAK, 1987, P. 25.
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