Mine detail: Forbes Mine

Location:	Iron County, Michigan, United States, North America
Lat / long:	46.11778, -88.65061
dep_id:	10079402
mrds_id:	W028929
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Iron
Operation type:	Underground
Deposit type:	Secondary Enrichment
Production size:	Unknown
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Hematite, Goethite
gangue:	Chert, Pyrite, Siderite, Stilpnomelane, Chlorite, Mica
model:	241: Superior Fe (BC name is Lake Superior & Rapitan types iron-formation)
alteration:	Chert and siderite to hematite and goethite in oxidation zones.
ore_ctrl:	Stratigraphically controlled, fault related.
Reporter:	Yeager, Keith (Cannon, W.), Sutphin, D.M., Mason Jr., G.T., Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere)
hrock_unit:	Riverton Iron-Formation
hrock_type:	Iron Formation
Year first produced:	1912
yr_lst_prd:	1946
References:	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. 114. Deposit:: CROWELL, BENEDICT, AND MURRAY, C.B., INC., 1917, 1920, 1927, THE IRON ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR (3RD, 4TH, 6TH EDS.): CLEVELAND, OHIO. PP. 252-253, 229, 299-300 RESPECTIVLY. Deposit:: JOHNSON, A.M. AND GROTH, E.H., 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, IRON COUNTY, P. 152-153, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.