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Rottenstone Lake

Past Producer in Saskatchewan, Canada with commodities Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Nickel
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103708
MRDS ID M046228
Record type Site
Current site name Rottenstone Lake
Alternate or previous names Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co., Rottenstone Mining, Ltd.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.83412, 56.3356 (WGS84)
Relative position 80 MI. NORTH OF LAC LA RONGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Saskatchewan

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Platinum Critical Primary
Palladium Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROSPECTED IN 1929 BY 15 DRILL HOLES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrrhotite Ore

Analytical data

Result DRILL HOLES
Result PT = $3.0 TON PD = $6.50/TON, CU = 1.5%, NI = 3.0% (1929)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.83412, 56.3356
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form OPEN PIT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Northern Saskatchewan

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    O'NEILL AND GUNNING, 1934, PT DEPOSITS IN CANADA: CAN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, ECON. GEOL. REPT. 13, P. 75

  • Deposit

    SASKATCHEWAN 1970 MINERAL STATISTICAL YEAR BOOK, P. 1, 2

  • Production

    SASK. MINERAL STATISTICAL YEARBOOK

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINE CLOSED IN 1968

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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