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Found Here
Mining history
- Status
- Past Producer
- Operation type
- Underground
- Workings
- Surface, Underground
- Discovered
- 1968
- First production
- 1972
Records and references
WHITE, J.C. COMMUTING TO WORK AT THE MATTABI MINE; CIM BULL. DEC., 1976, P.81 - 85. ALLMAN, NORAH J., UNDERGROUND MINING AHEAD FOR MATTABI;NORTHERN MINER, APRIL 12, 1979, P.L,5. BROWN, M.R., MATTABI FINDS RICH NEW 'PLUM' STEPPING UPEXPLORATION WORK; NORTHERN MINER, NOV. 29, 1979, P.A1, A2MILLING PRACTICE IN CANADA, MATTABI MINES LIMTED, CIM, 1978. THE NORTHERN MINER, UNDERGROUND MINING AHEAD FOR MATTABI,APR. 12, 1979. MINING JOURNAL, NEW MINE FOR STURGEON LAKE, NOV., 1972. MINING MAGAZINE, MATTABI GOES ON STREAM, NOV. 1972. CIM BULLETIN, COMMUTING TO WORK AT THE MATTABI MINE, DEC.1976. THE NORTHERN MINER, MATTABI MINES GETS OFF TO HANDSOME STARTDATE UNKNOWN. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, PETROLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF THE ALTERATIONZONE OF THE MATTABI MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, V. 70, 1975PP. 63-79. FRANKLIN, J.M., J. KASARDA AND K.H. POULSEN, PETROLOGY ANDCHEMISTRY OF THE ALTERATION ZONE OF THE MATTABI MASSIVESULFIDE DEPOSIT; ECON. GEOL., VOL. 70, 1975, P.63-79ALLAN, W. AND R. D. BOURKE, MATTABI MINES LIMITED;D.E. PICKETT, ED., MILLING PRACTICE IN CANADA, CIMSPECIAL VOLUME 16, 1978 P.175-177. CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK 1979-80, NORTHERN MINER PRESS LTD.,P. 174.
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10303482 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 49.88109, -98.98466
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