Location: | Baraga County, Michigan, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 46.53194, -88.14087 |
dep_id: | 10079314 |
mrds_id: | W028534 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Iron |
Operation type: | Surface |
Deposit type: | Secondary Enrichment |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Limonite, Grunerite |
gangue: | Chert, Magnetite, Hornblende, Actinolite, Garnet, Mica |
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: | Upward facing or open structures of folding or faulting. |
Reporter: | Yeager, Keith (Cannon, W.), Sutphin, D.M., Mason Jr., G.T., Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere) |
hrock_unit: | Bijiki Iron-Formation |
hrock_type: | Iron Formation |
Year first produced: | 1882 |
yr_lst_prd: | 1900 |
References: |
- Deposit:: KLASNER, J. S., AND CANNON, W. F., 1978 , BEDROCK GEOLOGY MAP OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE MICHIGAMME AND THREE LAKES QUADRANGLES, MARQUETTE AND BARAGA COUNTIES, MICHIGAN. USGS MAP 1 - 1078 .
- Deposit:: LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION, 1952 , LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES ( 2ND ED. ): CLEVELAND, OHIO, P. 92 .
- Deposit:: SECTION FILES, MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, THE CLEVELAND - CLIFFS IRON CO. 1949 - 1950 , RECORD OF EXPLORATIONS, SECTION FILES OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF THE MICHIGAN DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
- Deposit:: JOHNSON, A, 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, BARAGA COUNTY, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
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