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Campbell

Plant in Ontario, Canada with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Ownership information
  13. Production statistics
  14. Reserves and resources
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10303438
MAS/MILS ID 1220400020
Record type Site
Current site name Campbell
Alternate or previous names Red Lake, Campbell Red Lake

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -93.74196, 51.06061 (WGS84)
Elevation 200
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

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
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Arsenopyrite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Pyrrhotite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Sphalerite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -93.74196, 51.06061
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control FOLDING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 CARBONATE SILIC
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 860725

Comments on the geologic information

  • THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF GOLD-BEARING ORE ZONES: VIENS PARALLEL TO FOLIATION, VEINS OBLIQUE TO FOLIATION, AND POD/ PIPE-LIKE ZONES(RARE). THE TWO VIEN TYPES CONSTITUTE THE MAJOR PART OF THE MINED ORE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1944
Mining method Filled Stopes
Year of first production 1949
Plant type Beneficiation (Mill)
Plant subcategory Flotation
Milling method Gravity

Mining district

District name Red Lake District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Placer Dome Inc.
    Interest 100
    Home office Canada
    Year 1993

Production statistics

  • Year 1949
    Description Ore Milled 64400 Metric Tons Per Yr.
  • Year 1959
    Description Ore Milled 232000 Metric Tons Per Yr.
  • Year 1969
    Description Ore Milled 237000 Metric Tons Per Yr.
  • Year 1975
    Description Ore Milled 272000 Metric Tons Per Yr.
  • Year 1980
    Description Ore Milled 276000 Metric Tons Per Yr.
  • Year 1985
    Description 20.79g Au 356364 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 356364mt 21g/mt
  • Year 1986
    Description 21.03g Au 357273 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 357273mt 21g/mt
  • Year 1987
    Description 21.89g Au 356364 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 356364mt 22g/mt
  • Year 1988
    Description 21.51g Au 367426 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 367426mt 22g/mt
  • Year 1989
    Description 22.78g Au 381765 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 381765mt 23g/mt
  • Year 1990
    Description 21.14g Au 363636 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 363636mt 21g/mt
  • Year 1994
    Description Gold Production 323170 T Oz/Yr
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 10051711.95g
  • Year 1995
    Description Gold Production 323775 T Oz/Yr
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 10070529.56g
  • Year 1996
    Description Gold Production 9952 Kg/Yr
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 9952000g

Comments on the production information

  • THE TWO CONCENTRATES, PRODUCTS A AND B, ARE ACTUALLY PRODUCED AS ONE DORE BULLION PRODUCT. THE CONCENTRATES ARE SEPARATED AND REFINED IN OTTAWA.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1990
    Demonstrated 6078140mt ore
    Total resources 6078140mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 21.81 g/mt Gold Major 1990
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1991
    Demonstrated 4989518mt ore
    Total resources 4989518mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 19.18 g/mt Gold Major 1991
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1992
    Demonstrated 4626644mt ore
    Total resources 4626644mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 19.75 g/mt Gold Major 1992
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1993
    Demonstrated 4291000mt ore
    Total resources 4291000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 18.86 g/mt Gold Major 1993
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1993
    Demonstrated 1426000mt ore
    Total resources 1426000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 10.22 g/mt Gold Major 1993
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 4500000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 18 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 4429000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 15.7 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 1497000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 10.3 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1992
    Demonstrated 4626644mt ore
    Total resources 4626644mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 19.75 g/mt Gold Major 1992

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ESTIMATED DEMONSTRATED RESOURCES FOR EARLIER PROPERTY EVAL. ESTIMATED DEMONSTRATED RESOURCES USED IN THE 1993 MAS CANADIAN GOLD STUDY. SEE BIBLI. "R" 003-004. ESTIMATED RESOURCES IN ADIT. SAME AS R-SET RECORDES #4 + #5.
  • DATA AS OF 12/31/96 TOTAL DEMON RESOURCES, PROV + PROB + MES + IND ORE. PRODUCTION AS OF 1995-96 AVG.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 1317M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ACTUAL
    Percent Recovery 100
    Hardness of Rock UNKNOWN
    Rock Characteristics UNKNOWN
    Rock Support Chars. UNKNOWN
    Mine Support Chars. TIMBER
    Number of Shafts 1
    1st Condition of Workings OPEN
    Capacity 1010.8
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 37.84
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 350
    Operating Shifts per Day 2
    Year of Information 1982

Comments on other economic factors

  • THE DORE BULLION IS TRANSPORTED TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN MINT FOR REFINING VIA BRINKS SICURITY TRUCKS.
  • THE DILUTION OF THE ORE IS 10%. THREE DIFFERENT METHODS OF MINING ARE USED; CUT AND FILL (34%), SHRINKAGE (52%), DEVELOPMENT (14%).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    DESCRIPTION SHOWS MILL FEED GRADES.

  • Reserve-Resource

    CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1990-91, P. 361.

  • Reserve-Resource

    CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1991-92, P. 317.

  • Reserve-Resource

    CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1992-93, P. 291.

  • Reserve-Resource

    PLACER DOME INC., 1991 ANNUAL REPORT, PAGE 15.

  • Reserve-Resource

    PLACER DOME INC., PRESS RELEASE, 2/22/93, PAGE 3.

  • Reserve-Resource

    CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1996-97, PP. 342-343.

  • Reserve-Resource

    PLACER DOME INC., 1996 FORM 10-K REPORT, P14, 15.

  • Deposit

    ACRES DAVY MCKEE,"GOLD MINING IN CANADA", APRIL 1981.

  • Deposit

    ANNUAL REPORTS, CAMPBELL RED LAKE MINES, 1965-1980.

  • Deposit

    CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1965-1980.

  • Deposit

    CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, REFERENCE MANUAL AND BUYERS

  • Deposit

    GUIDE 1981.

  • Deposit

    CIM GEOLOGY DIVISION CIM GOLD SYMPOSIUM AND FEILD

  • Deposit

    EXCURSION, SEPT 12-16, 1980.

  • Deposit

    (F.P.) THE FINANCIAL POST CORPORATION SERVICE, REPORT ON

  • Deposit

    CAMPBELL RED LAKE MINES, MACCEAN-HUNTER LTD., REV. OCT.19,

  • Deposit

    1980

  • Deposit

    MILLING PRACTICES IN CANADA, CIM, 1977.

  • Deposit

    MACGEEHAN, P.H.AND HODGOSN, C.J., THE RELATIONSHIP OF

  • Deposit

    GOLD MINERALIZATION TO VOLCANIC AND ALTERATION FEATURES IN

  • Deposit

    THE AREA OF THE CAMPBELL RED LAKE AND DICKENSON MINES, RED

  • Deposit

    LAKE DISTRICT, WESTERN ONTARIO IN GENESIS OF ARCHEAN,

  • Deposit

    VOLCANIC-HOSTED GOLD DEPOSITS, ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    OPEN FILE REPORT 5293, PP.212-242,1980.

  • Deposit

    GOODWIN A.M.,"ARCHEAN VOLCANISM IN SUPERIOR PROVINCE,

  • Deposit

    CANADIAN SHIELD; IN VOLCANIC REGIONS IN CANADA," G.A.C.,

  • Deposit

    SPECIAL PAPER NO. 16, PP.205-247, 1977.

  • Deposit

    ANROR, REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF CAMPBELL RED LAKE MINE.

  • Deposit

    HORWOOD, H.C.,"GEOLOGY & MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RED LAKE

  • Deposit

    AREA; ONTARIO DEPARTMENT MINES ANNUAL REPORT," V.49, PART 2,

  • Deposit

    231P., 1940.

  • Deposit

    RIGG, D.M. AND HELMSTAEDT, H.,"RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN

  • Deposit

    STRUCTURES AND GOLD MINERALIZATION IN CAMPBELL RED LAKE AND

  • Deposit

    DICKENSON MINES, RED LAKE DISTRICT, ONTARIO IN GENESIS OF

  • Deposit

    ARCHAEN, VOLCANIC-HOSTED GOLD DEPOSITS,"ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL

  • Deposit

    SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT 5293 PP. 243-279, 1980.

  • Deposit

    PLACER DOME INC., PRESS RELEASE, 2/22/93, P3.

Comments on the references

  • METALS ECONOMICS GROUP, ACTIVE CANADIAN GOLD MINES, 8/91.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AS OF 1994 THIS PROPERTY ALSO INCLUDES THE CRAIBBE-FLETCHER PROPERTY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JUL-97 Buckingham, David A. 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:

  • Placer Dome Inc. — acquired by Subsidiary of Barrick Gold (2006)
    Acquired by Barrick Gold in 2006.

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.

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