Author: K.A. Phillips
Title: Minerals of Manitoba, Volume II: Metallic Minerals
Description: Winnipeg: Manitoba Mineral Resources Division, 1979. Paper bound, 4to, illustrated with numerous maps and photos, 84pp. Very good condition. From the foreword: This publication is the third in an educational series intended to introduce the general public to the rocks and minerals of Manitoba. The first, entitled Common Rocks in Manitoba (1975), introduced the layperson to the principal rocks likely to be encountered. The rock-forming, pegmatitic and non-metallic minerals were then described in the first volume of Minerals of Manitoba (1978), with details of their occurrences throughout the province. This paved the way for the present volume which, in describing Manitoba's metallic minerals, gives examples from widespread outcrops, orebodies and mineral deposits, some as far north as Lynn Lake, and others near the Trans-Canada highway at Falcon Lake. The numerous rock-dumps to be found on the surface at old mine-sites and near abandoned shafts are of great interest to rockhounds and mineral collectors. In thus describing both the operational and worked out mines of the province, as well as many exploration shafts, much information is incidentally given about the history of mining in Manitoba. The main purpose is, however, to describe Manitoba's rocks and minerals to the general public, while references to source documents are given at frequent intervals for the benefit of readers who may be interested in greater geological detail. 325 grams.

Keywords: Manitoba Metallic Minerals Metallurgy


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