Mount Pleasant Mine (Brunswick Tin Mines), Saint George Parish, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada

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A tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth-tin mine started at the end of 1983.
Located 35 miles SW of Fredericton. Formerly owned by Billiton Canada (Brunswick Tin Mines, Ltd. & Billiton) now by Adex Mining Co. This mine features over 80 species.

References

- Parrish, I. S. (1977): Mineral Catalog for the Mount Pleasant Deposit of Brunswick Tin Mines. Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 121-126.
- Mining Annual Review (1985): 95 & 308.
- Econ. Geol. (1992) 87:145-163
- Werner, A.B.T., Sinclair, W.D., and Amey, E.B. (1998): International Strategic Mineral Issues Summary Report - Tungsten. US Geological Survey Circular 930-O.

Mineral List

Aikinite Almandine 'Apatite' Arsenobismite Arsenopyrite Augite Biotite Bismuth Bismuthinite Bornite Calcite Cassiterite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Chrysotile Columbite Cosalite Covellite Dickite Digenite

Djurleite Dolomite Elbaite Epidote Famatinite Ferberite Ferrimolybdite Fluorite Galena Galenobismutite Geocronite Glaucodot Goethite Gold Graphite Hedenbergite Hematite Illite Ilmenite Jeanbandyite Kaolinite

Kesterite 'K Feldspar var: Adularia' Lepidolite Löllingite Magnetite Malachite Marcasite Mawsonite Molybdenite 'Monazite' Muscovite var: Sericite Orthoclase Petrukite Pyrargyrite Pyrite 'Pyroxene Group' Pyrrhotite Quartz Roquesite Rutile Sanidine

Scheelite Scorodite Siderite Silver Sphalerite Spinel Stannite Stannoidite Tennantite Tetrahedrite Topaz 'Tourmaline' Uraninite Wittichenite Wolframite Wulfenite Xenotime-(Y) Zinnwaldite Zircon Zoisite

83 entries listed. 71 valid minerals.