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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