Mine detail: Horseshoe Prospect

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Location: Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Lat / long: 45.44167, -89.62342
dep_id: 10082581
mrds_id: W060007
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Zinc, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Polybasite, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sphalerite
model: 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko
alteration: Chlorite-Epidote-Muscovite-Albite-Quartz (Lower Greenschist Facies) To Biotite-Muscovite-Albite-Quartz (Middle Greenschist Facies).
Reporter: Nicholson, S.W., Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.
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.
References:
  • 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
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