Mine detail: Birch Island Uranium - Fluorspar Deposit

Location:	British Columbia, Canada, North America
Lat / long:	51.44994, -109.81756
dep_id:	10069443
mrds_id:	W006978
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Trace mineral:	Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE, Strontium, Iron, Uranium
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Bastnasite, Monazite, Pitchblende
gangue:	Feldspar, Galena, Pyrite, Sericite
other_matl:	Celestite
orebody_fm:	TABULAR
Reporter:	Schruben, Paul G.
hrock_type:	Trachyte
arock_unit:	Porphyritic Trachytic Tuffs
arock_type:	Trachyte
disc_yr:	1918
References:	Deposit:: , 1957, THE GEOLOGY OF CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL MINERAL DEPOSITS: CAN. INST. MINING & METALLURGY, 6TH COMMONWEALTH MINING AND METALL. CONGRESS, P. 90 Deposit:: BARTLEY, C.M., 1961, FLUORSPAR: CANADIAN DEPT. MINES AND TECH. SURVEYS, MINES BRANCH INFO. CIRC. IC 127, P. 51 & 52 Deposit:: SCOTT, J.W., 1954, THE REXSPAR URANIUM PROPERTY: WESTERN MINER & OIL REVIEW, DEC. 1954, V. 27, N. 12, P. 40 - 42. Deposit:: COTE, P.R., 1969, PAST DECADE MARKS GROWTH FOR FLUORSPAR: THE NORTHERN MINER, NOV. 27, 1969, P. 59, 62 Reserve-Resource:: COTE, P.R., 1969, PAST DECADE...