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Found Here
Mining history
- Status
- Past Producer
- Operation type
- Underground
- Workings
- Underground
- Discovered
- 1976
- First production
- 1979
Records and references
MINING JOURNAL. INDUSTRY IN ACTION. DOWA FIND. JUNE 3,1977, P. 435. MINING MAGAZINE. JAPANESE BLACK ORE PROGRESS. OCTOBER1977, P. 437. ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OFMINING AND MINERAL PROCESSING OPERATIONS, MCGRAW-HILL,1980. HOW TRACKLESS MINING IS APPLIED TO KUROKO ORE DEPOSITS INJAPAN, WORLD MINING, MAY 1976, PP. 68-71. IKI, SHOJI, KOROKO BRINGS REVIVAL TO JAPAN'S DOMESTICMINING, WORLD MINING, APR. 1967, PP. 12-16. ISHIKAWA, ETAL, EXPLORATION OF THE EZURI KUROKO DEPOSITS INTHE HOKUROKU DISTRICT, MINING GEOLOGY 30(3), PP. 137-152,LAMBERT, I.B., AND SATO, TAKEO, THE KUROKO AND ASSOCIATEDORE DEPOSITS OF JAPAN: A REVIEW OF THEIR FEATURES ANDMETALLOGENESIS, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 69, 1974, PP.1215-1236. MARUYAMA, S. AND SATO, N., GEOLOGY AND EXPLORATION OF THEKUROKO DEPOSITS IN JAPAN, MINING AND CONCENTRATING OFLEAD AND ZINC, PP. 171-195. RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THE FUKAZAWA MINE BY A TRACKLESSHAULAGE SYSTEM, MINING MAGAZINE, DEC. 1976, PP. 504-519. GEOLOGY OF THE KUROKO DEPSITS SOCIETY OF MINING GEOLOGISTSOF JAPAN, MINING GEOLOGY SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 6, 1974. SATO, Y., ET AL, ON THE EZURI KUROKO DEPOSITS WITH SPECIALREFERENCE TO THE PRESENT STATUS OF EXPLORATION ANDDEVELOPMENT, MINING GEOLOGY, 30(2), PP. 89-99, 1980. SCOTT, S.D., STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF THE KUROKO DEPOSITS OFTHE HOLUROKU DISTRICT, JAPAN, MINING GEOLOGY, V. 28,1978M PP. 301-311.E&MJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING, 1991
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10304755 — view the source record
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Coordinates: 40.26517, 140.56531
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