Mine detail: Cle Elum Iron-Nickel Deposit

Previously called 'Balfour Guthrie Group'

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Location

Lat / long: 47.44902, -121.05259

Resource(M)

Primary: Chromium, Iron, Nickel
Other material: Boehmite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Cliachite, Clinozoisite, Diaspore, Dickite, Gibbsite, Hematite, Magnetite, Millerite, Pyrite, Pyroxene, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Serpentine, Spinel, Talc
Discovery year: 1887

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Prospect

Geology

References

MAS530370003
DEP10180389
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