Mine detail: Ritchie Creek Propsect

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Location: Price County, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Lat / long: 45.48833, -90.05677
dep_id: 10082577
mrds_id: W060003
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Gold
Trace mineral: Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Gold, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
model: 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
alteration: Upper Greenschist To Lower Amphibolite Facies. In The Main Zone There Is Partial Replacement Of Previously Deposited Exhalite.
Reporter: Nicholson, S.W., Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.
hrock_unit: Quartz-Sericite Schists
hrock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Steeply Dipping Isoclinally Folded To Locally Gently Dipping Volcanic Sections., Main Zone Is At The Western Edge Of A Felsic Center Developed On The Flanks Of A Mafic Volcanic-Intrusive Complex
tectonic: Back-Arc Basin. Laberge Suggests That These Metasediments May Have Been Deposited In A Number Of Basins Formed By Fault Grabens During The Late Penokean Orogeny.
disc_yr: 1979
discr: Central Wisconsin Joint Venture (Getty Mining Co And Ernst K. Lehmann And Assoc. Of Wisc)
References:
  • Deposit:: DEMATTIES, 1990, ECON. GEOL., V.85, P. 1908-1916
  • Deposit:: LABERGE, G.L., ED., VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN--A COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME: INSTITUTE ON LAKE SUPERIOR GEOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS, V. 42, PT. 2.
  • Reserve-Resource:: LABERGE, 1996.
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