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Found Here
Mining history
- Status
- Past Producer
- Operation type
- Surface-Underground
- Workings
- Surface, Underground
- Discovered
- 1937
- First production
- 1940
Records and references
MINING MAGAZINE, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND PINCHI LAKE;JULY, 1971, P.23. COMINCO LIMITED, ANNUAL REPORT, 1981."COMINCO LIMITED - PINCHI LAKE MINE", MILLING PRACTICE INCANADA", THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ANDMETALLURGY, 1978, PP. 327-328."COMINCO PUTS COMPACT, AGILE GRADER UNDERGROUND AT PINCHILAKE MINE", CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, MAY 1970,PP. 57-58."ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AT PINCHI LAKE", MINING MAGAZINE,JULY 1971, P. 23."PINCHI LAKE: CANADA'S ONLY MERCURY MINE", ENGINEERING ANDMINING JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 1973, PP. 134-135."THE PINCHI LAKE MINE", MINERAL INDUSTRIES IN WESTERNCANADA, TENTH COMMONWEALTH MINING AND METALLURGICALCONGRESS, CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY,1974, PP. 1-13. COMINCO LTD. STAFF, COMINCO LTD.- PINCHI LAKE MINE; D.E. PICKETT, ED., IN MILLING PRACTICE IN CANADA, CIM SPECIALVOLUME 16, 1978, P.327,328. CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, COMINCO PUTS COMPACT, AGILE GRADERUNDERGROUND AT PINCHI LAKE MINE; MAY, 1970, P.57,58.
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10206615 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 54.63313, -124.45150
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Recommended Gear
Estwing E3-22P Rock Pick
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Watertight Medical Kit
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals
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