Mine detail: Eisenbrey Deposit

Previously called 'Thornapple Deposit'

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Location: Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Lat / long: 45.51667, -91.13347
dep_id: 10082579
mrds_id: W060005
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Zinc, Copper
Trace mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Unknown
model: 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
alteration: Lower Amphibolite Facies--Dominantly Kyanite-Sillimanite-Staurolite-Hornblende-Almandine Assemblages (Amphibolite Facies).
Reporter: Nicholson, S.W., Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.
hrock_type: Schist
Structure: A Nearly Vertically Dipping And Plunging Complexly Folded Deposit.
tectonic: Magmatic Arc
disc_yr: 1973
discr: Great Lakes Exploration Co.
References:
  • Deposit:: CRAWFORD, M.J., 1996, WISCONSIN EXPLORATION UPDATE: SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW, V. 85, NO. 21, P.4-5.
  • Deposit:: MAY, E.R., 1996, EISENBREY--A STRUCTURALLY COMPLEX PROTEROZOIC COPPER-ZINC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, RUSK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, 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, 107-128.
  • Deposit:: LABERGE, G.L., ED.,1996, VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN--A COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME: INSTITUTE ON LAKE SUPERIOR GEOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS, V. 42, PT. 2 (GENERAL REFERENCE FOR WISCONSIN VMS DEPOSITS).
  • Reserve-Resource:: MAY, 1996 P. 107-108.
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