Mine detail: Cantung

Previously called 'Cantung Mine'

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Location: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 62.96665, -128.25208
dep_id: 10133705
mas_id: 1220300004
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Trace mineral: Copper
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Scheelite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Bleiwas, Donald
Year first produced: 1962
disc_yr: 1958
References:
  • Deposit:: WESTERN MINER, EXPANSION AT CANADA TUNGSTEN MINE: PREPARING
  • Deposit:: TO CONTINUE WORK IN WINTER; OCT., 1977, P.29,30.
  • Deposit:: WESTERN MINER, CANAD* ONLY TUNGSTEN PRODUCER, OCT.,1974,
  • Deposit:: P.36.
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, NEW CANADIAN TUNGSTEN MINE NEARS
  • Deposit:: PRODUCTION, FEB., 1974, P.73.
  • Deposit:: ROBERTS, RICHARD J., BUSY ON $10M EXPANSION- CANADA TUNGSTEN
  • Deposit:: OUTPUT AT HIGH LEVEL, THE NORTHERN MINER, AUG. 18, 1977,
  • Deposit:: VOL. 63, NO. 23.
  • Deposit:: ELLERMAN, ROY, OPERATIONS OF CANADA TUNGSTEN MINING
  • Deposit:: CORFORATION LIMITED, DECO TREFOIL, SUMMER ISSUE, 1969,
  • Deposit:: P.9-24.
  • Deposit:: WALKER, C.S., M.A. THOMAS, AN UNUSUALLY HIGH THERMAL
  • Deposit:: EFFICIENCY POWER PLANT FOR THE CANTUNG MINE, CIM BULL.,
  • Deposit:: FEB., 1965, P.199-205.
  • Deposit:: WHITE, L.G., THE CANADA TUNGSTEN PROPERTY, FLAT RIVER AREA,
  • Deposit:: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; CIM BULL., MAY, 1963, P. 390-393.
  • Deposit:: PAZOUR, DONALD A., CANADA TUNGSTEN TO DOUBLE PRODUCTION;
  • Deposit:: WORLD MINING, APRIL, 1979, P.50-54.
  • Deposit:: PRODUCTION; FEB., 1974, P.73.
  • Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, TUNGSTEN, G.S.C. ECONOMIC
  • Deposit:: REPORT NO. 1, GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC MINERALS OF CANADA,
  • Deposit:: 1969, P.515-516.
  • Deposit:: BOTTOMLEY, PAMELA, CANADA TUNGSTEN ON TOP OF THE WORLD,
  • Deposit:: NORTHERN MINER, AUG. 16, 1979, P.A1,A2.
  • Deposit:: NORTHERN MINER, CANADA TUNGSTEN EXPANSION PROGRAM IS ON
  • Deposit:: SCHEDULE; JUNE 22, 1978, P.1,8.
  • Deposit:: ANNUAL REPORTS, CANADA TUNGSTEN MINING CORP., LTD. 1975-80.
  • Deposit:: TUNGSTEN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATION TUNGSTEN
  • Deposit:: SYMPOSIUM, STOCKHOLM, 1979, EDITED MINING JOURNAL BOOKS.
  • Deposit:: CANADA TUNGSTEN MINING CORP., LTD., INFORMATION CARD, THE
  • Deposit:: FINANCIAL POST CORP. SERVICE, TORONTO MSW1A7 CANADA
  • Geology:: BROWN, C.J., THE GEOLOGY OF THE FLAT RIVER TUNGSTEN
  • Geology:: DEPOSITS, CANADA TUNGSTEN MINING CORP., LTD., CIM BULL.,
  • Geology:: JULY, 1961, P.510-513.
  • Production:: VEZINA, J.A., W.A. GOW, A PROCESS FOR PREPARING TUNGSTIC
  • Production:: TRIOXIDE OF HIGH PURITY FROM A CANADIAN SCHEELITE
  • Production:: CONCENTRATE, CIM BULL., DEC., 1966, P.1418-1422.
  • Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1979-80, NORTHERN MINER PRESS LTD.,
  • Reserve-Resource:: 1979, P.56,57.
  • Reserve-Resource:: CANADA TUNGSTEN MINING CORP. LTD. 1989 ANNUAL REPORT.
  • Workings:: CUMMINGS, W.W., D.E. BRUCE, CANADA TUNGSTEN- CHANGE TO
  • Workings:: UNDERGROUND MINING & DESCRIPTION OF MINE-MILL PROCEDURES,
  • Workings:: CIM BULL., AUG., 1977 (REPRINT FOR THE DEISTER CONC. CO.
  • Workings:: INC.) 8P..
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