Mine detail: Gaspe Copper

Previously called 'Copper Mtn./Needle Mtn.Copper MountainNeedle MountainMurdockvilleE Zone'

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long: 48.96663, -65.51589

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold, Molybdenum, Silver
Tertiary: Bismuth, Selenium
Other material: Azurite, Bismuth, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Silver
Discovery year: 1921

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1955

Geology

References

MAS1220500004
DEP10303647
Reference{Deposit:: BELL, A.M. GASPE COPPER MINES. STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF}{Deposit:: CANADIAN ORE DEPOSITS, VOL. II, 1957, PP. 470-477.}{Deposit:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1978-79. GASPE ML. P. 118.}{Deposit:: COLEMAN, R.L. GASPE COPPER MINES LTD. MILLING PRACTICE IN}{Deposit:: CANADA, CIM SPECIAL VOLUME 16, 1979, PP. 97-105.}{Deposit:: CRANSTONE, D.A. AND R.T. WHILLANS. CANADIAN RESERVES OF}{Deposit:: COPPER, NICKEL, LEAD, ZINC, MOLYBDENUM, SILVER AND GOLD}{Deposit:: AS OF JAN. 1, 1978. P. 10.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE. GASPE COPPER. MARCH 1969, PP. 140-147.}{Deposit:: WHITE, J.C., THE COPPER MOUNTAIN MINE OF GASPE COPPER MINES,}{Deposit:: LIMITED; CIM BULL., AUG., 1969, P.855-862.}{Deposit:: SCALES, MARILYN, MINES GASPE FORGING A FUTURE, CANADIAN}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, JUNE 1987, P. 28-37}{Deposit:: FREUETTE, JEAN-LOUIS AND FRANCAIS AIMBEAULT, TRAFFIC LIGHTS}{Deposit:: AT MINES GASPE UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS, CIM BULL., MAY}{Deposit:: 1988, P. 59-61}{Deposit:: SKILLIN*, 6/11/94, P.12.}{Deposit:: METALS WEEK, 6/20/94, P.6.}{Deposit:: AMERICAN METAL MARKET, V 103/N 157, 8/16/95, P.2.}{Geology:: MACISAAC, W.F., COPPER MOUNTAIN GEOLOGY AT GASPE COPPER}{Geology:: MINES, LIMITED; CIM BULL., AUG., 1969, P.829-836.}{Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1980-81, P. 191.}{Reserve-Resource:: MINE RESERVES AND CURRENTLY PROMISING DEPOSITS, JAN. 1985,}{Reserve-Resource:: EMR CANADA, MR 209, P. 15.}{Reserve-Resource:: NORANDA MINERALS INC., 1989 ANNUAL REPORT, P. 10}{Reserve-Resource:: NORANDA MINERALS INC., 1986 ANNUAL REPORT, P. 35.}{Reserve-Resource:: NORANDA MINERALS INC., 1990 ANNUAL REPORT, P. 24.}{Reserve-Resource:: NORTHERN MINER, 6/4/90, P. 1-2.}{Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1992-1993, P-256.}{Reserve-Resource:: NORANDA INC., 1993 ANNUAL REPORT, P. 19.}{Reserve-Resource:: NORANDA INC., 1994 ANNUAL REPORT, P.38.}{Workings:: STAPLETON, A.J., MAINTENANCE OF ELECTRIC-WHEEL TRUCKS AND}{Workings:: OPEN-PIT SHOVELS AT GASPE COPPER; CIM BULL., AUG., 1969,}{Workings:: P.863-873.}
ReporterPorter, Kenneth E.