Mine detail: Ruttan

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Location: Manitoba, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 56.47507, -99.63778
dep_id: 10084797
mrds_id: W700007
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Zinc, Copper
Minor mineral: Silver, Gold
Trace mineral: Lead, Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Galena, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue: Biotite, Chlorite, Corundum, Garnet, Plagioclase, Quartz, Sericite, Staurolite, Talc, Tremolite
orebody_fm: LENSE
work_type: Surface/Underground
model: 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
Reporter: Orris, Greta J., Bolm, Karen S.
hrock_type: Chert,Rhyolite
Year first produced: 1973
disc_yr: 1969
References:
  • Deposit:: MOSIER AND OTHERS, 1983: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 83-89, P. 38-41.
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1987, P. 56.
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, 1981, RUTTAN AND FOX SUSTAIN SHERRITTS LONG MANITOBA MINING HISTORY: V. 182, NO. 12, P. 80-83.
  • Deposit:: FOGWILL, DOUGLAS, AND BAMBURAK, JAMES, 1987, MINING IN MANITOBA: MANITOBA ENERGY AND MINES, MINERAL EDUCATION SERIES, 46 P.
  • Deposit:: ESPOSITO, BRUNO, 1987, COPPER AND ZINC IN MANITOBA: MANITOBA ENERGY AND MINES, MINERAL EDUCATION SERIES, 24 P.
  • Production:: ESPOSITO, 1986, P. 13; FOGWILL, AND BAMBURAK, 1987, P. 31.
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