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Molybdenite from
Mount Pleasant Mine, Saint George Parish, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Pleasant Mine, Saint George Parish, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:99494
Long-form Identifier:1:3:99494:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
40.2km (25.0 miles) ⓘEagle Lake Granite, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada
48.2km (30.0 miles) ⓘLake George Antimony mine (Consolidated Durham mines; Resources Ltd. mine; Prince William mine; Brunswick mine), Lake George, Prince William Parish, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada
69.2km (43.0 miles) ⓘZealand Station Be-Mo deposit, Bright Parish, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada
71.3km (44.3 miles) ⓘAmerican Molybdenum Company Mine, Cooper, Washington County, Maine, USA
References
Sutherland, J. K. (1967) The chemistry of some New Brunswick pyrites. The Canadian Mineralogist, 9 (1) 71-84
Amer. Mineral., (1969) 54, 1202–1203.
Parrish, I. S. (1977) Mineral Catalog for the Mount Pleasant Deposit of Brunswick Tin Mines. The Canadian Mineralogist, 15 (1) 121-126
Samson, Iain M. (1990) Fluid evolution and mineralization in a subvolcanic granite stock; the Mount Pleasant W-Mo-Sn deposits, New Brunswick, Canada. Economic Geology, 85 (1) 145-163 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.85.1.145
Thorne, K. G., Fyffe, L. R., & Creaser, R. A. (2013). Re-Os geochronological constraints on the mineralizing events within the Mount Pleasant Caldera: implications for the timing of sub-volcanic magmatism. Atlantic Geology: Journal of the Atlantic Geoscience Society/Atlantic Geology: revue de la Société Géoscientifique de l'Atlantique, 49, 131-150.
 
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