Mine detail: Chisel Lake

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Location: Manitoba, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 54.82865, -100.11556
dep_id: 10073062
mrds_id: W018871
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Zinc, Copper
Minor mineral: Lead, Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Altaite, Boulangerite, Bournonite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Geocronite, Gold, Hessite, Marcasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue: Chlorite, Cordierite, Gahnite, Quartz, Sericite, Tremolite
orebody_fm: COMPLEX FOLDED ANASTOMOSING LENSES
work_type: Surface/Underground
model: 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
alteration: Silicification, Sericitization; A Spectacular Hydrothermal Alteration Mineral Assemblage
ore_ctrl: Sedimentary Features And Folds
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G., Bolm, Karen S.
hrock_unit: Qtz Staurolite-Biotite-Sericite-Garnet Schists & Gneises
hrock_type: Schist,Gneiss,Rhyolite
arock_type: Tonalite
Structure: Flin Flon Greenstone Belt, Threehouse Syncline
Year first produced: 1960
disc_yr: 1956
discr: Hudson Bay M&S Co. Ltd
References:
  • 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
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