Mine detail: Mount Pleasant Mine

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Location: New Brunswick, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 45.43326, -66.81596
dep_id: 10056491
mrds_id: TC00512
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Bismuth, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Bismuth, Cassiterite, Molybdenite, Sphalerite, Wolframite
gangue: Chlorite, Dickite, Fluorite, Quartz, Sericite, Siderite, Topaz, Tourmaline
orebody_fm: VEINS, DISSEMINATED PODS, IRREGULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Greisen-Type Alteration, Grades Outward Into Propylitic Alteration; Potassic Alteration Occurs Locally; Propylitic Regional Halo
ore_ctrl: Hydrothermal Breccias
Reporter: Bolm, Karen S.
hrock_type: Granite
arock_type: Granite
Structure: Southwest Margin Of The Mount Pleasant Caldera, Fire Tower Fault
Year first produced: 1983
disc_yr: 1954
discr: Geochemical Associates
References:
  • Deposit:: CORE SHED DISPLAY APPENDIX, 1990, VIII SYMPOSIUM, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON THE GENESIS OF ORE DEPOSITS, OTTAWA, CANADA.
  • Deposit:: KOOIMAN, G.J.A., MCLEOD, M.J., AND SINCLAIR, W.D., 1986, PORPHYRY TUNGSTEN-MOLYBDENUM ORE BODIES, POLYMETALLIC VEINS AND REPLACEMENT BODIES, AND TIN-BEARING GREISEN ZONES IN THE FIRE TOWER ZONE, MOUNT PLEASANT, NEW BRUNSWICK: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 81, P. 1356-1373.
  • Production:: CORE SHED DISPLAY APPENDIX, 1990.
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