Mine detail: Lynn Lake

Previously called 'Sherritt - Gordon MinesLtd.'

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long:

56.85285, -101.05313

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Nickel
Tertiary:	Platinum, Zinc, Gold, Cobalt
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Labradorite
Orebody form:	PIPE-LIKE BODIES
Discovery year:	1941

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1953
First production started:	1954

Geology

Host type:	Mafic Intrusive Rock
Associated rock:	Lynn Lake Gabbr *El Gabbro
Associated type:	Mafic Intrusive Rock
Structure:	Volcanic And Sedimentary Country Rock With Discordant Intrusives; Several Ne Trending Faults Steeply Dipping To The West.
Tectonic:	Churchill Province, Precambrian Shield

References

MRDS	M046247
DEP	10106889
Reference	{Deposit:: MERTIE, 1969, ECON. GEOL. PT METALS: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 630, P. 27}{Deposit:: ZURBRIGG, 1962, THOMPSON MINE GEOL: CAN. MIN. METALL. BULL. 56, P. 452}{Deposit:: SHERRITT - GORDEN LYNN LAKE PROJECT, 1955: TRANS. CAN. INST. OF MIN. METALL, V. LVIII, P. 187}{Deposit:: COATS, QUIRKE, BELL, CRANSTONE AND CAMPBELL, 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE FLIN FLON, LYNN LAKE AND THOMPSON AREAS, MANITOBA, AND THE CHURCHILL - SUPERIOR FRONT OF THE WESTERN PRECAMBRIAN SHIELD: 24TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD EXCURSION A31 - C31, 96P.}{Production:: (CUMMULATIVE PRODUCTION) ITEM 3; COATS, QUIRKE AND OTHERS, 1972, GEOL. AND MIN. DEP. OF FLIN FLON,..., 24TH INTERNATIONAL GEOL. CONGR.}{Reserve-Resource:: TRANS. CAN. INST. MIN. METALL, V. LVIII, 1955}
Reporter	Blair, Will N., Oster, Karel L.