Mine detail: Bushyhead Island Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

48.60611, -93.11773

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Ankerite, Chlorite, Muscovite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sericite, Specularite, Tourmaline

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Seine Series
Host type:	Schist
Structure:	In The Quetico Subprovince Of The Superior Province. The Rainy Lake Area Lies Within A Dextral Wrench (Shear) Zone Bounded On The North By The Quetico Fault And On The South By The Rainy Lake-Seine River Fault.
Tectonic:	Superior Province, Relatively Undisturbed Archean Craton, The Southern Half Of Which Consists Of Dominantly Alternating Belts Of Volcanic-Plutonic (Greenstone-Granite) Terranes And Metasedimentary Rock Terranes.

References

MRDS	W062152
DEP	10082803
Reference	{Deposit:: GROUT, F.F., 1937, PETROGRAPHIC STUDY OF GOLD PROSPECTS OF MINNESOTA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 32, NO. 1., P. 56-68.}{Deposit:: SIMS, P.K., AND DAY, W.C., 1992, A REGIONAL STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ARCHEAN SUPERIOR PROVINCE, UNITED STATES, IN SIMS, P.K., AND CARTER, L.M.H., EDS., CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1094-M, 19 P.}{Deposit:: DAY, W.C., 1990, BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE RAINY LAKE AREA, NORTHERN MINNESOTA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS SERIES MAP I-1927, SCALE 1:50,000.}{Deposit:: DAY, W.C., AND SIMS, P.K., 1984, TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE RAINY LAKE AREA, NORTHERN MINNESOTA: GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, THE MINERAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA, PROGRAM WITH ABSTRACTS, V. 9, P. 57.}
Reporter	Sutphin, David M. (Cannon, W. F.), Mason Jr., G.T.