Mine detail: Horseshoe Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

45.44167, -89.62342

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Zinc, Lead
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Polybasite, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sphalerite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Structure:	Steeply Dipping Isoclinally Folded To Locally Gently Dipping Volcanic Sections.
Tectonic:	Back-Arc Basin--Laberge Suggests That Metasediments May Have Been Deposited In A Number Of Basins Formed By Fault Grabens During The Late Penokean Orogeny.
Alteration processes:	Chlorite-Epidote-Muscovite-Albite-Quartz (Lower Greenschist Facies) To Biotite-Muscovite-Albite-Quartz (Middle Greenschist Facies).

References

MRDS	W060007
DEP	10082581
Reference	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
Reporter	Nicholson, S.W., Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.