Mine detail: Chisel Lake

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

54.82865, -100.11556

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Copper
Secondary:	Lead, Gold, Silver
Ore:	Altaite, Boulangerite, Bournonite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Geocronite, Gold, Hessite, Marcasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Chlorite, Cordierite, Gahnite, Quartz, Sericite, Tremolite
Orebody form:	COMPLEX FOLDED ANASTOMOSING LENSES
Discovery year:	1956

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1960

Geology

Host rock:	Qtz Staurolite-Biotite-Sericite-Garnet Schists & Gneises
Host type:	Schist,Gneiss,Rhyolite
Associated type:	Tonalite
Structure:	Flin Flon Greenstone Belt, Threehouse Syncline
Alteration processes:	Silicification, Sericitization; A Spectacular Hydrothermal Alteration Mineral Assemblage

References

MRDS	W018871
DEP	10073062
Reference	{Deposit:: MARTIN, P. L., 1966, STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHISEL LAKE OREBODY; TRANS. OF CAN. INST. MINING & METALL. VOL. 69 P. 208-214}{Deposit:: MOSIER AND OTHERS, 1983: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 83-89, 78 P.}{Deposit:: FOGWILL, DOUGLAS, AND BAMBURAK, JAMES, 1987, MINING IN MANITOBA: MANITOBA ENERGY AND MINES, MINERAL EDUCATION SERIES, 46 P.}{Deposit:: ESPOSITO, BRUNO, 1986, COPPER AND ZINC IN MANITOBA: MANITOBA ENERGY AND MINES, MINERAL EDUCATION SERIES, 24 P.}{Deposit:: CORE SHED DISPLAY APPENDIX, 1990, VIII SYMPOSIUM, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON THE GENESIS OF ORE DEPPOSITS, OTTAWA, CANADA.}{Deposit:: 1956 DIREXPL HUDSON BAY - ORE LOCATE}{Production:: ESPOSITO, 1986, P. 12.; CORE SHED DISPLAY APPENDIX, 1990.}{Reserve-Resource:: WORLD MINING, FEB 1969 P. 50}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G., Bolm, Karen S.