Mine detail: Fox

Previously called 'Fox Mine'

Location:	Manitoba, Canada, North America
Lat / long:	56.63537, -101.65235
dep_id:	10182068
mas_id:	1220150002
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Copper, Zinc
Minor mineral:	Gold, Silver
Operation type:	Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
other_matl:	Arsenopyrite, Biotite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Feldspar, Muscovite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Sericite, Sphalerite, Talc
work_type:	Underground
Reporter:	Porter, Kenneth E.
Year first produced:	1970
disc_yr:	1960
References:	Deposit:: MINE CONCENTRATOR. MILLING PRACTICE IN CANADA, CIM Deposit:: CRANSTONE, D.A. AND R.T. WHILLANS. CANADIAN RESERVES OF Deposit:: COPPER, NICKEL, LEAD, ZINC, MOLYBNENUM, SILVER AND GOLD Deposit:: DISPERSION AROUND THE FOX OREBODY IN MANITOBA. CIM Deposit:: LIBBY, D.J. AND J.D. SMITH. DEVELOPMENT OF A SUB-LEVEL Deposit:: MINING METHOD WITH DELAYED PILLAR RECOVERY AT SHERRIT* Deposit:: FOX MINE, MANITOBA. CIM BULLETIN, JAN. 1975, PP. 51-57. Deposit:: SKILLIN* MINING REVIEW. SHERRITT GORDON STARTS UP FOX Deposit:: COPPER-ZINC MINE. OCT. 10, 1970, PP. 1-10. Deposit:: TAYLOR, DON S., ET AL. SHERRITT GORDON MINES LIMITED--FOX Deposit:: MINE CONCENTRATOR, MILLING PRACTICE IN CANADA, CIM Deposit:: SPECIAL VOLUME 16, 1978, P.190,191. Deposit:: TUREK, A., N.W. TETLEY AND T. JACKSON, A STUDY OF METAL Deposit:: DISPERSION AROUND THE FOX OREBODY IN MANITOBA; CIM BULL., Deposit:: JUNE, 1976, P.104-110. Production:: WORLD MINING, HOW SHERRITT GORDON OPERATES COPPER-ZINC Production:: MILLS; MAY, 1973, P.31-33(US ED.). Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1980-81, P. 247, 248. Workings:: FORD, R.A., A REVIEW OF BACKFILL MINING PRACTICES AND TECH- Workings:: NOLOGY AT THE FOX MINE; IN MINING WITH BACKFILL, CIM Workings:: SPECIAL VOLUME 19, 1978, P.1-9.