Mine detail: Birch Island Uranium - Fluorspar Deposit

Previously called 'Rexspar Property'

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Location

Lat / long:

51.44994, -109.81756

Resource(B)

Tertiary:	Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE, Strontium, Iron, Uranium
Ore:	Bastnasite, Monazite, Pitchblende
Gangue:	Feldspar, Galena, Pyrite, Sericite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Other material:	Celestite
Discovery year:	1918

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host type:	Trachyte
Associated rock:	Porphyritic Trachytic Tuffs
Associated type:	Trachyte

References

MRDS	W006978
DEP	10069443
Reference	{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...}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G.