Mine detail: Afton

Previously called 'Kamloops'

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Location

Lat / long:

50.64983, -120.51792

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Gold, Silver
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cuprite, Digenite, Enargite, Pyrite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Ankerite, Calcite, Fluorite, Gypsum, Hematite, Magnetite, Quartz, Zeolite
Discovery year:	1898

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1977

Geology

Host type:	Syenite,Diorite
Alteration processes:	Potassic, Propylitic

References

MRDS	W700035
DEP	10084822
Reference	{Deposit:: DRUMMOND, A.D., AND GODWIN, C.I., 1976, HYPOGENE MINERALIZATION- AN EVALUATION OF ALTERATION ZONING: CIM SPECIAL VOLUME 15.}{Deposit:: WESTERN MINER, FEBRUARY, 1981.}{Deposit:: CANADIAN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES, AND RESOURCES, 1971, MR 21.}{Production:: WESTERN MINER, 1981}{Reserve-Resource:: 1980 ESTIMATE IS FROM WESTERN MINER, 1981; 1971 ESTIMATE IS FROM MR 21; TOTAL RESERVE ESTIMATE IF FROM D.A. SINGER FILES, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.}
Reporter	Orris, Greta J.