Mine detail: Indus Prospect

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Location: Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States, North America
Lat / long: 48.62111, -93.85136
dep_id: 10082814
mrds_id: W062165
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Unknown
ore: Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
ore_ctrl: Sims And Day (1992) Note That The Fundamental Regional Control On Gold Deposits In The Superior Province Is Transcurrent And Oblique Slip-Shear Deformation Zones That Formed In Late Archean Time.
Reporter: Sutphin, David M. (Cannon, W. F.), Mason Jr., G.T.
hrock_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.
References:
  • 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.
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