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Hector-Calumet mine (Calumet mine - Hector mine), Calumet, Galena Hill, Mayo Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada

Hawleyite
Hector-Calumet mine, Calumet, Galena Hill, Mayo Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada

Photo: 2005 M. Kampf
Latitude: 63°55'N
Longitude: 135°25'W
A silver-lead-zinc mine. Mine to 1,165 (meters/feet ?) level. The Hector and Calumet mines were originally two mines working the same vein from opposite ends. Calumet was a small mining town, no longer in existence, uphill from Elsa on Galena Hill. A tramline brought ore from Calumet to the mill in Elsa.

Mineral List

Arsenopyrite
Beudantite
Freibergite
Galena
Gunningite
Gypsum
Hawleyite (TL)
Jarosite
Limonite
Oxyplumboroméite
Pharmacosiderite
Plumbojarosite
Pyrargyrite
Scorodite
Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Szmikite
Szomolnokite


19 entries listed. 18 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

TRAILL, R.J. & BOYLE, R.W. (1955): Hawleyite, isometric cadmium sulphide, a new mineral. American Mineralogist 40, 555-559.
BOYLE, R.W. (1965) Geology, geochemistry, and origine of the lead-zinc-silver deposit of the Keno Hill - Galena Hill area, Yukon Territory. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulleti 111.

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