Mine detail: Kelliher Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

47.93666, -94.54222

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Actinolite, Chlorite, Epidote, Garnet, Pyrite

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Greenstone
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.
Alteration processes:	Host Greenstone Was Probably Metamorphosed To Chlorite, Carbonate, Leucoxene And Other Alteration Products Prior To Contact Mineralization By The Trachite Porphyry.

References

MRDS	W062162
DEP	10082811
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.}
Reporter	Sutphin, David M. (Cannon, W. F.), Mason Jr., G.T.