Brunswick 12 mine
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The 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. The Brunswick #12 orebody is the largest deposit in the Bathurst area and was one of the largest underground zinc mines in the world well into the late 1990s.
Bathurst Mining Camp
The Bathurst Mining Camp is a mining district in northeast New Brunswick, Canada. The camp hosts 45 known volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits.-Mines:*Brunswick 12 mine*Brunswick 6 mine*Caribou zinc mine*Heath Steele Mines*Wedge Mine...
of northern 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...
. It was discovered in January, 1953 and entered production in April, 1964. The Brunswick #12 orebody is the largest deposit in the Bathurst area and was one of the largest underground zinc mines in the world well into the late 1990s.