Mine detail: Lower Liard Crossing Fluorite - Witherite Deposit

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

59.43322, -126.11845

Resource(B)

Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Calcium, Quartz, Iron
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1953

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence
First production started:	1969

Geology

Host rock:	Argillite;Limestone
Host type:	Argillite,Limestone
Structure:	Northerly Trending Anticline Adjacent To The Area Of Mineralization

References

MRDS	W006979
DEP	10069444
Reference	{Deposit:: WOODCOCK, J.R., AND SMITHERINGALE, W.V., 1957, FLUORITE - WITHERITE DEPOSIT AT LOWER LIARD CROSSING, BRITISH COLUMBIA, IN THE GEOLOGY OF CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL MINERAL DEPOSITS: CAN. INST. MINING AND METALLURGY, 6TH COMMONWEALTH MINING AND METALLURGICAL CONGRESS, P. 244- 247.}{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, M.Y., 1944, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA PAPER 44-28.}{Deposit:: 1944 GEOLMAP GEOL. SURV., CANADA, WILLIAMS, M.Y.}{Deposit:: 1953 GEOCHEM INDUSTRIAL MINERALS DIV., DEPT. MINES & TECH. SURV.}{Reserve-Resource:: WOODCOCK, J.R. AND SMITHERINGALE, W.V., 1957, FLUORITE - WITHERITE DEPOSIT}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G.