Mine detail: Little Stobie

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Location:	Ontario, Canada, North America
Lat / long:	46.54999, -80.99977
dep_id:	10039295
mrds_id:	M046916
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Copper, Nickel, PGE
Minor mineral:	Cobalt, Silver, Gold
Trace mineral:	Zinc, Lead, Selenium, Tellurium
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Gersdorffite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sperrylite
orebody_fm:	IRREGULAR
work_type:	Underground
conc_proc:	Ore#1: Gravitational Settling Of Liquid Sulfides Fr Om Silicate Magma. Ore #2: Injection Of Silicate Magma Contai Ning Zones Of Concentrated Sulfides Frozen In Situ During Intrusion. Cu-Rich Stringer: Thermal Diffusion In Ore #1.
ore_ctrl:	Fracturing And Brecciation Of Country Rock.
Reporter:	Blair, Will N., Oster, Karel L.
hrock_type:	Gabbro,Norite
arock_type:	Meta-Basalt
Structure:	Some Cu-Rich Stringers In Footwall Rocks.
tectonic:	Intracratonic Intrusio Triggered By Meteor Impact
Year first produced:	1902
disc_yr:	1885
References:	Deposit:: CABRI AND LAFLAMME, 1976 , ECON. GEOL. V. 71 , NO. 7 , P. 1159 Deposit:: EMJ INTERNAT. DIR. MINING, 1976 , ENG. MIN. JOUR. P. 195 Deposit:: MINING INTERNAT. YEARBOOK, 1978 , FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON, P. 305 Deposit:: NORTHERN MINER, 1974, CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1973-1974: THE NOTHERN MINER, P. 170. Deposit:: HOFFMAN AND OTHERS, 1979, THE NOBLE METAL CONTENT OF ORE IN THE LEVACK WEST AND LITTLE STOBIE MINES, ONTARIO, CANADA: CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, V. 17, P. 437. Deposit:: DEYOUNG AND OTHERS, 1985: U.S. GEOLGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-D, 62 P. Deposit:: SUTPHIN AND PAGE, 1986: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCUALR 930-E, 34 P. Deposit:: CROCKETT AND OTHERS, 1987: U.S. GEOLGOICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 930-F, 54 P. Deposit:: PYE AND OTHERS, EDS., 1984, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SUDBURY STRUCTURE: ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL VOLUME 1, 603 P. Deposit:: NORTHERN MINER, 1975, CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1974-1975: THE NORTHERN MINER, P. 166. Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1975, 1975 INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING: NEW YORK, MCGRAW-HILL, P. 191. Other Database:: ISMI