Mine detail: Whitehorse Copper

Previously called 'Best Chance, War Eagle,Black Cub, Kodiac CubGern, Cowby Park, Kuwenaw,Little Chief, Middle Chief,Big Chief, Artic Cheif,'

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Location: Canada, North America
Lat / long: 60.63589, -135.05997
dep_id: 10230368
mas_id: 1220600002
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Actinolite, Azurite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Covellite, Cuprite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Goethite, Gold, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Malachite, Molybdenite, Powellite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite, Serpentine, Silver, Tetrahedrite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Porter, Kenneth E.
Year first produced: 1967
disc_yr: 1897
References:
  • Deposit:: STAFF PAPER-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD- PRESENTED TO 2ND. I
  • Deposit:: SYMPOSIUM ON COLD REGIONS ENGINEERING-V. OF ALASKA- JU
  • Deposit:: ANNUAL REPORT 1974-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD.
  • Deposit:: ANNUAL REPORT 1975-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD.
  • Deposit:: JULY 1976 FINANCIAL SHEET-WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD.
  • Deposit:: PAPER-R.G. HILKER-1967 AK. CENTENNIAL MINERALS CONFERENCE- U
  • Deposit:: -COPPER MINING ON THE WHITEHORSE COPPERBELT-YUKON TERR
  • Deposit:: 1975 MINERAL INDUSTRY REPORT 1975 YUKON TERRITORY- W.D. SINC
  • Deposit:: J.A. MORIN, D.B. CRAIG, M. MARCHAND
  • Deposit:: SAWATSKY, DON, BUILDING ON* OWN MACHINES FOR BETTER
  • Deposit:: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE: EXPERIENCE AT WHITEHORSE
  • Deposit:: COPPER MINES; WESTERN MINER, JULY, 1978, P.16,20.
  • Deposit:: WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD. STAFF, OPERATIONS AT WHITEHORSE
  • Deposit:: PAZOUR, DONALD A., WHITEHORSE COPPER MINE: INNOVATIONS IN
  • Deposit:: THE YUKON; WORLD MINING, FEB., 1979, P.40-46.
  • Deposit:: WHITEHORSE COPPER MINE LTD. STAFF, WHITEHORSE COPPER MINE;
  • Deposit:: IN MINERAL INDUSTRIES IN WESTERN CANADA, THE TENTH
  • Deposit:: COMMONWEALTH MINING AND METALLURGICAL CONGRESS- SEPT.2-28
  • Deposit:: 1974, SECTION V, ARTICLE D, P.1-17.
  • Ownership:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1984-85, NORTHERN MINER PRESS,P.182.
  • Production:: LINZEY, DOUG, CONCENTRATOR OPERATIONS AT WHITEHORSE COPPER;
  • Production:: CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, MARCH, 1977, P.18,20.
  • Production:: LINZEY, D., WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD., E.E. PICKETT, ED.,
  • Production:: IN MILLING PRACTICE IN CANADA, CIM SPECIAL VOLUME 16,
  • Production:: 1978, P.130-132.
  • Reserve-Resource:: MR 223, 1989, YT-17.
  • Reserve-Resource:: CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1991-92, P.57.
  • Reserve-Resource:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 10/89, P.71.
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