Mine detail: Bend Deposit

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Location: Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Lat / long: 45.29472, -90.59595
dep_id: 10082576
mrds_id: W060002
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Gold
Minor mineral: Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Occurrence
model: 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
alteration: Lower Greenschist
Reporter: Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T., Nicholson, S.W.
hrock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Regionally Metamorphosed And Isoclinally Folded Metavolcanic Arc, Felsic Center Associated With Mafic Pile Sequence
tectonic: Back Arc Basin In The Ladysmith-Rhinelander Metavolcanic Complex.
disc_yr: 1977
discr: Jump River Joint Venture (Wisconsin Mineral Resources Inc And Chevron Usa Inc)
References:
  • Deposit:: CRAWFORD, M.J., 1996, WISCONSIN EXPLORATION UPDATE: SKILLINGSMINING REVIEW, V. 85, NO. 21, P.4-5.
  • Deposit:: DEMATTIES, T.A., AND POWELL, W.F., 1996, THE BEND DEPOSIT--A N EARLY PROTEROZOIC COPPER-GOLD VMS DEPOSIT, IN LABERGE, G.L., ED., VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN--A COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME: INSTITUTE ON LAKE SUPERIOR GEOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS, V. 42, PT. 2, P. 143-159.
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