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Sullivan Mine

Sullivan Mine, Canada. Closed, underground, mining lead, zinc, silver.

Why Sullivan Mine is famous

Discovered in 1892 and worked from 1909 to 2001 at Kimberley, British Columbia.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 2001Sullivan mine closes3

What kind of deposit

Sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) zinc-lead

Sullivan Mine today

Where lead is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in Canada

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People

Owned bySelwyn BlaylockHe backed the purchase of what became a leading lead-zinc mine.4

Events

Led toSullivan mine closesRead what happened near Sullivan Mine: Sullivan mine closes.1

Deposit types

An example ofSedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) zinc-leadSullivan Mine belongs to the sedimentary exhalative family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Sullivan Mine Teck Resources
  2. Wikidata entity Q7636415
  3. MINFILE summary: Sullivan (082FNE052) British Columbia Geological Survey
  4. BLAYLOCK, SELWYN GWILLYM Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  5. 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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