Latitude: 47°39'38"N
Longitude: 80°42'4"W
A silver-copper-nickel mine on the SW shore of Leroy Lake, owned by Agnico. Discovered in 1926 by Peerles Silver Mines, later acquired by Silver Bar Mines in 1969. Also known as the Leroy Lake mine. Minerals occur in Quartz-Calcite veins in Keewatin volcanics and Nipissing Diabase.
References
Sabina, Ann P., 2000. Rocks and Minerals for the Collector: Cobalt-Belleterre-Timmins, Ontario and Quebec, GSC. Miscellaneous Report 57, 266 p.
Ontario Dept. of Mines, 1968, MRC No.10, Silver Cobalt Calcite Vein Deposits of Ontario, by A.O.Sergiades
OGS 1978, Rpt.175, Geology of the Gowganda Lake-Miller Lake silver area, District of Timiskaming, W.H. McIlwaine
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