Mine detail: Copper Cliff South Mine

Location:	Ontario, Canada, North America
Lat / long:	46.45916, -81.07895
dep_id:	10024471
mrds_id:	ISM0188
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Copper, Tellurium, PGE, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Selenium, Nickel
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
Reporter:	Zwartendyk, Jan
hrock_unit:	Copper Cliff Offset (Sudbury Sublayer)
hrock_type:	Diorite
Structure:	Apophysis (Offset) Of The Sublayer Intrusion At The Base Of The Nickel Irruptive.
tectonic:	Intracratonic Intrusion Triggered By Meteoritic Impact.
Year first produced:	1970
ylp_ba:	>
yr_lst_prd:	1982
dy_ba:	<
disc_yr:	1967
References:	Deposit:: ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1973, SMDR000912. Deposit:: SOUCH, B.E., PODOLSKY, T., AND GEOLOGICAL STAFF, INTERNATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED, 1969, THE SULPHI-DE ORES OF SUDBURY--THEIR PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP TO A DISTINC-TIVE INCLUSION-BEARING FACIES OF THE NICKEL IRRUPTIVE, IN WILS-ON, H.D.B., ED., MAGMATIC ORE DEPOSITS: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY MONO-GRAPH NO. 4, P. 252-261. Deposit:: PATTISON, E.F., 1979, THE SUDBURY SUBLAYER: CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, V. 17, PT. 2, P. 257-274.