Mine detail: Fletcher

Previously called 'Fletcher Division'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.46647, -91.10953

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead
Secondary: Zinc, Silver, Copper
Tertiary: Nickel, Cobalt, Cadmium
Ore: Bornite, Bravoite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Dickite, Digenite, Galena, Gersdorffite, Linnaeite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite, Enargite, Siegenite
Gangue: Calcite, Dolomite, Kaolinite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1958

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1967

Geology

Host rock:Bonneterre Fm.
Host type:Dolomite

References

MRDSW019026
MAS291790003
DEP10172109
Reference{Deposit:: SNYDER, F. G., GERDEMANN, P. E., 1968, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PB., DISTRICT; IN RIDGE, J. D. ED., ORE DEPOSITS OF THE U. S., 1933 - 1967, V. 1 P. 334}{Deposit:: CHRISTIANSEN, C. R., SCOTT, J. J., 1970, MINING SYSTEMS IN THE NEW LEAD BELT OF SE. MISSOURI; IN RAUCH & MARIACHER, EDS, AIME, WORLD SYMP ON PB - ZN, V. 1 P. 206}{Deposit:: PAARLBERG, N.L., AND EVANS, L.L., 1975, FLETCHER MINE (ST. JOE MINERALS CORPORATION) VIBURNUM TREND, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, IN: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SELECTED MINES IN THE VIBURNUM TREND, MISSOURI, NO. 58, ROLLA, MISSOURI, P. 41 - 47.}{Deposit:: PAARLBERG, N.L., AND EVANS, L.L., 1977 , GEOLOGY OF THE FLETCHER MINE, VIBURNUM TREND, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, ECON. GEOL., V. 72 , P. 391 - 397.}{Production:: KROKOSKIA, E. J. AUTOMATION AND INSTRUMENTATION AT FLETCHER MILL FROM LEAD & ZINC VOL I, AIME WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON MINING AND METALLURGY, 1970 EDITED BY RAUSH, D.O. AND MARIACHER, B.C. P. 642-667}{Reserve-Resource:: HAGNI, R.D. AND D.R. JESSEY, FINAL REPORT GRANT GO 155019 (CONFIDENTIAL REPORT)}{Workings:: MOUNT, W.H. TIRE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IS SERIOUS BUSINESS AT ST. JOE MINERALS, MINING ENGINEERING, APRIL,1976,PP.38-40.}
ReporterAmaro, R., Schruben, Paul G.