Mine detail: Wakefield Mine

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Location

Lat / long: 46.46917, -89.95149

Resource(M)

Primary: Iron
Ore: Hematite
Gangue: Chert, Pyrite, Martite
Discovery year: 1912

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Secondary Enrichment
Production size: Large
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: WAKEFILED MINE CLOSED IN 1959.
First production started: 1913
Last production ended: 1959

Geology

Host rock:Ironwood Iron-Formation
Host type:Iron Formation
Alteration processes:Chert to hematite in oxidation zones

References

MRDSW031543
DEP10080410
Reference{Deposit:: LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION, 1952, LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES (2ND ED.): CLEVELAND, OHIO. P. 60.}{Deposit:: CROWELL, BENEDICT, AND MURRAY, C.B., INC., 1914, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1927, 1930, THE IRON ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR (2ND-7TH EDS.): CLEVELAND, OHIO. PP. 181, 235-236,212, 262-263, 282, 254-255 RESPECTIVELY.}{Deposit:: PRINZ, W.C., HUBBARD, H.A., 1975, PRELIMINARY MAP OF THE WAKEFIELD QUADRANGLE, GOGEBIC COUNTY, MICHIGAN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF THE MICHIGAN DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES, LANSING, MICHIGAN.}{Deposit:: JOHNSON, A.M., AND GROTH, E.H., 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, GOGEBIC COUNTY, P. 257-260, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.}
ReporterSutphin, D.M., Mason Jr., G.T., Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere), Yeager, Keith (Cannon, W.)