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Tanco Mine (Bernic Lake Mine), Bernic Lake, Lac-du-Bonnet area, Manitoba, Canada

A tantalum-lithium-cesium mine in the Tanco pegmatite. Owned by The Tantalum Mining Corp. of Canada (TANCO). Discovered 1930, opened 1954-1960. Reopened 1967 and closed 1982. Workings went to at least the 280 foot (90 meter) level.

Ref.: Černý, P. and Simpson, F.M. (1978): The Tanco pegmatite at Bernic Lake, Manitoba. X. Pollucite.

Canadian Mineralogist (1978): 16: 325-333.

Canadian Mineralogist (1980): 18: 185-190.

Bull. Minéral. (1984): 107: 369-384.

Mining Annual Review (1985): 97.

Mineralogical Record: 32: 416.

Tschernich, R. (1992): Zeolites of the World, p.51, 428.

Ercit, T.S., Černý, P., Hawthorne, F.C. (1993) Cesstibtantite: a geologic introduction to the inverse pyrochlores. Mineralogy and Petrology: 48: 235-255.

Canadian Mineralogist (2000): 38: 869-876; 38: 877-891.

Canadian Mineralogist (2001): 39: 1513.

Canadian Rockhound: 3(2).





Mineral List:
  • Aikinite
  • Albite
  • Alluaudite
  • Amblygonite
  • Analcime
       var: Cesian Analcime
  • Annite
  • Antimony
    var: Bismuthian Antimony
  • 'Apatite'
  • Apatite-(CaF)
  • Arsenic
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Baryte
  • Beryl
       var: Morganite
  • Beusite
  • Biotite
  • Bismuth
       var: Antimonian Bismuth
  • Bismuthinite
  • Bournonite
  • Calcite
  • Cassiterite
  • Černýite (TL)
  • Cesstibtantite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • 'Collinsite-Fairfieldite Series'
  • Cookeite
  • Cosalite
  • Cubanite
  • Diomignite (TL)
  • Dorfmanite
  • Dravite
  • Dyscrasite
  • Elbaite
       var: Rubellite
  • Ercitite (TL)
  • Eucryptite
  • Feruvite
  • Foitite
  • Freibergite
  • Galena
  • Galenobismutite
  • 'Garnet Group'
  • Gladite
  • Gustavite
  • Hafnon
  • Hawleyite
  • Holmquistite
  • Illite
  • Ilmenite
    var: Manganoan Ilmenite
  • Ixiolite
  • Kësterite
  • Lepidolite
  • Lithiophilite
  • Lithiophosphate
  • Marcasite
  • Miargyrite
  • Microcline
  • Microlite
  • Molybdenite
  • Montebrasite
  • Montmorillonite
  • Muscovite
       var: Lithian Muscovite
  • Orthoclase
    var: Adularia
  • 'Perthite'
  • Petalite
  • Pollucite
  • Pyrargyrite
  • Pyrrhotite
  • Quartz
  • Rhodochrosite
  • Rossmanite
  • Schorl
  • Sphalerite
  • Spodumene
  • Stannite
  • Stibarsen
    var: Bismuthian Stibarsen
  • Tancoite (TL)
  • Tantalite
  • 'Tapiolite'
  • Tetrahedrite
  • Titanowodginite (TL)
  • Triphylite
  • Triplite
  • Whitlockite
  • Zabuyelite
  • Zircon
    var: Hafnian Zircon


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