Mine detail: Whitehorse Copper

Previously called 'Best Chance, War Eagle,Black Cub, Kodiac CubGern, Cowby Park, Kuwenaw,Little Chief, Middle Chief,Big Chief, Artic Cheif,'

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Location

Lat / long: 60.63589, -135.05997

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold, Silver
Other material: Actinolite, Azurite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Covellite, Cuprite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Goethite, Gold, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Malachite, Molybdenite, Powellite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite, Serpentine, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Discovery year: 1897

Production

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

Geology

References

MAS1220600002
DEP10230368
Reference{Deposit:: STAFF PAPER-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD- PRESENTED TO 2ND. I}{Deposit:: SYMPOSIUM ON COLD REGIONS ENGINEERING-V. OF ALASKA- JU}{Deposit:: ANNUAL REPORT 1974-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD.}{Deposit:: ANNUAL REPORT 1975-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD.}{Deposit:: JULY 1976 FINANCIAL SHEET-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD.}{Deposit:: PAPER-R.G. HILKER-1967 AK. CENTENNIAL MINERALS CONFERENCE- U}{Deposit:: -COPPER MINING ON THE WHITEHORSE COPPERBELT-YUKON TERR}{Deposit:: 1975 MINERAL INDUSTRY REPORT 1975 YUKON TERRITORY- W.D. SINC}{Deposit:: J.A. MORIN, D.B. CRAIG, M. MARCHAND}{Deposit:: SAWATSKY, DON, BUILDING ON* OWN MACHINES FOR BETTER}{Deposit:: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE: EXPERIENCE AT WHITEHORSE}{Deposit:: COPPER MINES; WESTERN MINER, JULY, 1978, P.16,20.}{Deposit:: WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD. STAFF, OPERATIONS AT WHITEHORSE}{Deposit:: PAZOUR, DONALD A., WHITEHORSE COPPER MINE: INNOVATIONS IN}{Deposit:: THE YUKON; WORLD MINING, FEB., 1979, P.40-46.}{Deposit:: WHITEHORSE COPPER MINE LTD. STAFF, WHITEHORSE COPPER MINE;}{Deposit:: IN MINERAL INDUSTRIES IN WESTERN CANADA, THE TENTH}{Deposit:: COMMONWEALTH MINING AND METALLURGICAL CONGRESS- SEPT.2-28}{Deposit:: 1974, SECTION V, ARTICLE D, P.1-17.}{Ownership:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1984-85, NORTHERN MINER PRESS,P.182.}{Production:: LINZEY, DOUG, CONCENTRATOR OPERATIONS AT WHITEHORSE COPPER;}{Production:: CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, MARCH, 1977, P.18,20.}{Production:: LINZEY, D., WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD., E.E. PICKETT, ED.,}{Production:: IN MILLING PRACTICE IN CANADA, CIM SPECIAL VOLUME 16,}{Production:: 1978, P.130-132.}{Reserve-Resource:: MR 223, 1989, YT-17.}{Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1991-92, P.57.}{Reserve-Resource:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 10/89, P.71.}
ReporterPorter, Kenneth E.