Mine detail: Flin Flon

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Location: Manitoba, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 54.75781, -101.88396
dep_id: 10084800
mrds_id: W700010
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Zinc
Minor mineral: Silver, Gold, Lead, Selenium, Tellurium, Cadmium
Trace mineral: Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Altaite, Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Electrum, Galena, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Sylvanite, Tetradymite
gangue: Albite, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Quartz, Sericite, Talc
orebody_fm: LENSE
model: 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
alteration: Hydrothermal Alteration Brought About Silicification And Chloritization
Reporter: Orris, Greta J., Bolm, Karen S.
hrock_type: Rhyolite,Andesite
Year first produced: 1930
disc_yr: 1914
References:
  • Deposit:: MOSIER AND OTHERS, 1983: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 83-89, P. 18-21.
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1987, P. 56.
  • 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:: ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, 1981, MANITOBA: V. 182, NO. 11, P. 156-177.
  • Deposit:: BROWNELL, G.M., AND KINKEL, A.R., JR., 1935, THE FLIN FLON MINE: GEOLOGY AND PARAGENESIS OF THE ORE DEPOSIT, IN THE FLIN FLON MINE OF THE HUDSON BAY MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY LIMITED AT FLIN FLON, MANITOBA, CANADA: PAPERS GIVEN AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, HELD IN WINNIPEG, MARCH, 1935, P. 261-286.
  • Production:: ESPOSITO, 1986, P. 12; ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, 1981, P. 173.
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