Mine detail: Ashland Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

46.45139, -90.17178

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Ore:	Hematite
Orebody form:	STRATABOUND

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Banded Iron-Rich Sedimentary Rocks
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1884 TO 1926
First production started:	1884
Last production ended:	1926

Geology

Host rock:	Ironwood Iron-Formation
Host type:	Iron Formation
Structure:	N-dipping sediments; regional trends are east to west., An E-W linear iron formation going from Gogebic, MI, to Ironwood,MI, and to
Alteration processes:	Gogebic iron range is in the chlorite metamorphic zone in the least metamorphosed area of the upper peninsula.

References

MRDS	W062001
DEP	10082653
Reference	{Deposit:: LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION, 1952: CLEVELAND, OHIO, P. 53.}{Deposit:: SCHMIDT, 1980, USGS BULLETIN 1460.}{Deposit:: JOHNSON, A.M., AND GROTH, E.H.,1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, GOGEBIC COUNTY, P. 21-27, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.}
Reporter	Sutphin, D.M. (Cannon, W.F.), Mason Jr., G.T., Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere)