Bathurst Mining Camp
Encyclopedia
The Bathurst Mining Camp is a mining
district in northeast New Brunswick
, Canada
. The camp hosts 45 known volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits.
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
district in northeast New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The camp hosts 45 known volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits.
Mines
- Brunswick 12 mineBrunswick 12 mineThe Brunswick #12 mine is an underground lead-zinc-copper mine in the Bathurst Mining Camp of northern New Brunswick, Canada. It was discovered in January, 1953 and entered production in April, 1964...
- Brunswick 6 mineBrunswick 6 mineThe Brunswick #6 mine is a copper-lead-zinc mine in the Bathurst Mining Camp of northern New Brunswick, Canada. It was discovered in October, 1952 and was in production from 1966 until 1983. The Brunswick #6 orebody was the first major sulphide deposit discovered in the Bathurst area...
- Caribou zinc mine
- Heath Steele MinesHeath Steele Mines, New BrunswickHeath Steele Mines, situated 60 km northwest of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada, at the headwaters of the Tomogonops and Little Rivers, was a large and productive copper, lead and zinc mine which operated from 1956 to 1999...
- Wedge MineWedge MineThe Wedge Mine was a copper mine in the Bathurst Mining Camp of Northeast New Brunswick. It was owned and operated by Cominco on the north bank of the Nepisiguit River. The mine was discovered in 1956 and in operation from 1962 to 1968 producing 1.5 million tonnes of ore. The ore was trucked to,...
- Chester Mine
- Key Anacon Mine
- Austin Brook Iron Mine
- Murray Brook Mine
- CNE Mine
- Stratmat Boundary Mine