Mine detail: Taylor Mine

Location:	Baraga County, Michigan, United States, North America
Lat / long:	46.66444, -88.44172
dep_id:	10079312
mrds_id:	W028531
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Iron
Minor mineral:	Graphite
Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Deposit type:	Secondary Enrichment
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Hematite, Limonite
gangue:	Siderite, Pyrolusite, Chert
alteration:	Replacement of cherty beds by iron oxide and alteration of fe-silicates and carbonates to iron oxides
conc_proc:	Supergene enrichment by removal of chert
ore_ctrl:	Structurally controlled
Reporter:	Yeager, Keith (Cannon, W.), Sutphin, D.M., Mason Jr., G.T., Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere)
hrock_unit:	Michigamme Formation
Year first produced:	1880
yr_lst_prd:	1883
References:	Deposit:: SECTION FILES, MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, FORD MOTOR CO., (NO DATE), TAYLOR MINE EXPLORATION, SECTION FILES OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF MICHIGAN DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES, LANSING, MICHIGAN. Deposit:: LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION, 1938 , LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES ( 1ST ED. ): CLEVELAND, OHIO, P. 120 . Deposit:: W. F. CANNON, 1977 , PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY IN PARTS OF THE BARAGA, DEAD RIVER, AND CLARK CREEK BASINS, MARQUETTE AND BARAGA COUNTIES, MICHIGAN: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, OPEN FILE MAP 77-467 . Deposit:: JOHNSON, A.M., AND GROTH, E.H., 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, BARAGA COUNTY, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.