Mcfinley Red Lake

Past Producer in Ontario, Canada with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Ownership information
  9. Reserves and resources
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10279199
MAS/MILS ID 1220400172
Record type Site
Current site name Mcfinley Red Lake
Alternate or previous names Bateman Township

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -93.74606, 51.12502 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Ontario

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -93.74606, 51.12502

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Placer Dome Inc.
    Interest 60
    Home office Canada
    Year 1993
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mc Finley Red Lake Mines Ltd.
    Interest 40
    Home office Canada
    Year 1993

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1989
    Total resources 807000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 7.2 g/mt Gold Major 1989

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    THE NORTHERN MINER, 12/31/90, P.20

  • Reserve-Resource

    THE NORTHERN MINER, DECEMBER 23, 1991, P-6.

  • Deposit

    MR 223 (GOV'T. OF CANADA), 1989

  • Deposit

    CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1992-93, P.232

  • Deposit

    SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW, V86, #23, JUNE 7, 1996, PP.4-8.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-JUL-1997 Porter, Kenneth E. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.