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Britannia Mine

Britannia Mine, Canada. Heritage site, underground, mining copper, zinc.

Why Britannia Mine is famous

Copper found in 1898 with production from late 1904 or 1905. Anaconda Canada closed it in November 1974. Pollution led to a water treatment agreement in 1997.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Volcanogenic massive sulphide (Kuroko type)

Britannia Mine today

Where copper is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofVolcanogenic massive sulphide (Kuroko type)Britannia Mine belongs to the volcanogenic massive sulphide family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Britannia Mine article BC Studies
  2. Wikidata entity Q14874570
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Haul trucks by Lechhabmed, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Earth Observations taken by the Expedition 15 Crew, NASA JSC (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Elektrisk malmletning. Undersökningar på Billiton, 1920., Okänd / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).