McgilliteSullivan Mine, Kimberley, Fort Steele Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Photo: Knut Eldjarn Latitude: 49°41'N
Longitude: 116°0'W
A lead-zinc-silver mine in the East Kootenay District, North of Kimberley. Ore is in an immense replacement deposit (a complex, diatreme-hosted orebody). Owned by Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. Workings to at least the 3,900 foor (1,200 meter) level.
The deposit was discovered in 1892. Mining started in 1909 and stopped in 2001.
References
- Rocks & Minerals: 6: 76.
- Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 834pp.: 203.
- Mining Annual Review (1985): 308.
- Jiang, S.-Y., Palmer, M.R., Slack, J.F., Yang, J.-H., and Shaw, D.R. (2000) Trace element and rare earth element geochemistry of tourmalinites and related rocks and ores from the Sullivan Deposit and vicinity, southeastern British Columbia. In: The Geological Environment of the Sullivan Deposit, British Columbia (J.W. Lydon, T. Hoy, J.F. Slack, & M.E. Knapp, editors). Geological Association of Canada, Special Publication 1: 482-495.
- Econ Geol (1994) 89:1623-1629 (Silicon isotopes)
- Econ Geol (1976) 71:1570-1588
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