Mine detail: Lynn Lake

Previously called 'Sherritt - Gordon MinesLtd.'

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Location: Manitoba, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 56.85285, -101.05313
dep_id: 10106889
mrds_id: M046247
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Nickel
Trace mineral: Platinum, Zinc, Gold, Cobalt
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
gangue: Actinolite, Labradorite
orebody_fm: PIPE-LIKE BODIES
conc_proc: Hydrothermal Hypothesis Favored
ore_ctrl: Shear And Breccia Zones In Intrusives
Reporter: Blair, Will N., Oster, Karel L.
hrock_type: Mafic Intrusive Rock
arock_unit: Lynn Lake Gabbr*El Gabbro
arock_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
Year first produced: 1954
disc_yr: 1941
prod_yrs: 1953
References:
  • 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
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