Mine detail: Rock Candy Fluorspar Mine

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Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 49.2608, -118.4887
dep_id: 10069442
mrds_id: W006977
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Trace mineral: Copper, Quartz, Lead, Barium-Barite, Calcium
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Replacement
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
gangue: Barite, Calcite, Chert, Kaolin, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm: LINEAR
model: 175: Barite-fluorite veins
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G.
hrock_type: Syenite
arock_unit: Syenite
arock_type: Syenite,Plutonic Rock
Year first produced: 1918
disc_yr: 1916
References:
  • Deposit:: BARTLEY, C.M., 1961, FLUORSPAR, CAN. DEPT. OF MINES AND TECH. SURVEYS, MINES BRANCH INFO. CIRC. IC 127, P. 50-51.
  • Deposit:: DOLMAGE, V., 1929, GRAND FORKS MINING DIVISION; ROCK CANDY: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, CANADA, ECON. GEOL. SERIES NO. 6, P. 22 - 28
  • Deposit:: 1929 GEOLMAP GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, CANADA (V. DOLMAGE
  • Deposit:: British Columbia Minfile database, 2009, Minfile record number 082ESE070
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