Mine detail: Lower Liard Crossing Fluorite - Witherite Deposit

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Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 59.43322, -126.11845
dep_id: 10069444
mrds_id: W006979
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Calcium, Quartz, Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
gangue: Barite, Calcite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
ore_ctrl: Disconformity Between Argillite And Limestone
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G.
hrock_unit: Argillite;Limestone
hrock_type: Argillite,Limestone
Structure: Northerly Trending Anticline Adjacent To The Area Of Mineralization
Year first produced: 1969
disc_yr: 1953
discr: Conwest Exploration Co. Ltd.
References:
  • 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
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