Mine detail: Valley

Previously called 'Valley CopperLake Zone'

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Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
Lat / long: 50.48733, -121.04436
dep_id: 10182116
mas_id: 1220100039
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Silver, Gold, Molybdenum
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Digenite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Porter, Kenneth E.
Year first produced: 1986
disc_yr: 1968
References:
  • Deposit:: COAKLEY, GEORGE J. REPORT ON FIELD TRIP TO HIGHLAND VALLEY,
  • Deposit:: B.C. COPPER DISTRICT, APR. 27-29, 1977. U.S. BUREAU OF
  • Deposit:: MINES TRAVEL REPORT, JULY 14, 1977, PP. 12-16,29-32.
  • Deposit:: (OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
  • Deposit:: NORTHERN MINER. COMINCO TO BRING IN VALLEY COPPER. JUNE
  • Deposit:: 28, 1979, P. 24.
  • Deposit:: OSATENKO, M.J. AND M.B. JONES. VALLEY COPPER. PORPHYRY
  • Deposit:: DEPOSITS OF THE CANADIAN CORDILLERA, CIM SPECIAL VOLUME
  • Deposit:: 15, 1976, PP. 130-143.
  • Deposit:: NORTHERN MINER, BETHLEHEM URGES IMMEDIATE START TO DEVELOP-
  • Deposit:: MENT OF BIG LAKE ZONE; MAY 25, 1978, P.8.
  • Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1980-81., P. 39.
  • Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1986-87, NORTHERN MINER PRESS,P.101.
  • Reserve-Resource:: MINE RESERVES AND CURRENTLY PROMISING DEPOSITS, JAN. 1985,
  • Reserve-Resource:: EMR CANADA, MR 209, P. 21.
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