Mine detail: Galena Hill - Keno Hill Mines

Previously called 'ElsaHuskyNo CashShamrock'

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Location: Yukon Territory*, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 63.89986, -135.43577
dep_id: 10073144
mrds_id: W018988
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Zinc, Silver
Minor mineral: Cadmium, Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Freibergite, Galena, Sphalerite
gangue: Beudantite, Bindheimite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite, Silver, Smithsonite, Wad
orebody_fm: LINEAR
work_type: Underground
conc_proc: Oxidation To Depths Of 180 M Enriching Pb - Ag, Depleting Zn - Cd
ore_ctrl: Junction Of Faults, Junction Of Fault And Subsidiary Fracture, Below Schist Or Thin Bedded Quartzite Caprock
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G.
hrock_type: Quartzite
Structure: Mc Questen Anticline, Ne Striking Vein Faults (Mineralized), Nne To Nw Late Faults (Barren)
Year first produced: 1920
disc_yr: 1919
discr: Louis Beauvette
References:
  • Deposit:: 1975, MINING INTERNATIONAL YBK 1975 P. 563
  • Deposit:: 1974, CANADIAN MINING HANDBOOK,*4 - 75 P 334
  • Deposit:: BOYLE, R. W., 1965, GEOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORIGIN OF THE PB - ZN - AG DEPOSITS OF THE KENO HILL - GALENA HILL AREA, YUKON T.; CAN. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 111, 302 P.
  • Production:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 75 - 76
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