| Location: | Baraga County, Michigan, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 46.53667, -88.16226 |
| dep_id: | 10079317 |
| mrds_id: | W028538 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Iron |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Secondary Enrichment |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Hematite, Grunerite, Limonite |
| 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. (Cannon, W.F.), Mason Jr., G.T., Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere) |
| hrock_unit: | Bijiki Iron-Formation |
| hrock_type: | Iron Formation |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1961 |
| prod_yrs: | MINE CLOSED IN1957 AND REMAINED SHUT DOWN THROUGH 1958 AND 1959; THE MINE REOPENED IN 1960, BUT WAS IDLE IN 1962. |
| References: |
- Deposit:: KLASNER, J. S., AND CANNON, W. F., 1978 , BEDROCK GEOLOGY 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 ORE (2ND ED ): CLEVELAND, OHIO, P. 87 .
- Deposit:: CROWELL, BENEDICT, AND MURRAY, C. B., INC., 1911 , THE IRON ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR ( 1ST ED. ): CLEVELAND, OHIO, P. 65 .
- Deposit:: SECTION FILES, MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO., 1951 , MAP OF OHIO MINE AND VICINITY; 1950 - 1951 , OHIO MINE EXPLORATION, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF THE MICHIGAN DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
- Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1954-1994, MINERALS YEARBOOK [1953-1993]: WASHINGTON, D.C., U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, VARIOUS VOLUMES.
- Deposit:: JOHNSON, A, 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, BARAGA COUNTY, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
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