Mine detail: Homer Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 46.10917, -88.65811

Resource(M)

Primary: Iron
Ore: Hematite
Gangue: Chert

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Secondary Enrichment
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1915
Last production ended: 1971

Geology

Host rock:Negaunee Iron-Formation
Host type:Iron Formation
Associated rock:Stambaugh Formation
Structure:Major troughs; regional trends: E-W, NE-SW, NW-SE forming triangle, Troughs into which Iron formation has slumped.

References

MRDSW001402
DEP10068375
Reference{Deposit:: JAMES H.L. DUTTON C.E. PETTIJOHN F.J. WIER K.L. 1968 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE IRON RIVER CRYSTAL FALLS DISTRICT IRON COUNTY MICHIGAN. WASHINGTON U.S. GOVT. PRINTING OFFICE 1968. PP. 45-56 88-110.}{Deposit:: LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION 1952 LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES (2ND ED.): CLEVELAND OHIO. P. 116.}{Deposit:: CROWELL BENEDICT AND MURRAY C.B. INC. 1917 1920 1923 1927 THE IRON ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR (3RD-6TH EDS.): CLEVELAND OHIO. PP. 257 232-233 283 303-304.}{Deposit:: REED R.C. 1975 ONE THOUSAND MILLION TONS MICHIGAN IRON ORE SHIPMENTS THROUGH 1974 CIRCULAR 12 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF MICHIGAN DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES LANSING MICHIGAN 1975. P. 9.}{Deposit:: REED R.C. 1975, ONE THOUSAND MILLION TONS MICHIGAN IRON ORE SHIPMENTS THROUGH 1974 CIRCULAR 12 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF MICHIGAN DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES LANSING MICHIGAN 1975.}{Deposit:: JOHNSON, A.M. AND GROTH, E.H., 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, IRON COUNTY, P. 59-62, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.}{Production:: LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES, 1952 P. 116.}
ReporterCannon, Suzanne S., Sutphin, D.M., Mason Jr., G.T., Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere)