Mine detail: Centennial Mine

Previously called 'Schoolcraft'

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Location

Lat / long: 47.25583, -88.42255

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Ore: Copper
Gangue: Feldspar, Epidote, Quartz, Calcite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite-(Mg), Datolite
Orebody form: TABULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Lode
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1869-1874, 1882, 1891-1892, 1894-1902, 1904-1911.
First production started: 1869
Last production ended: 1920

Geology

Host rock:Calumet And Hecla Conglomerate, Kearsarge Amygdaloid, Osceola Amygdaloid
Host type:Conglomerate,Basalt
Structure:The Kearsarge amygdaloid is an ophitic flow with plagioclase phenocrysts in

References

MRDSW062226
DEP10082863
Reference{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S., AND BURBANK, W.S., 1929, THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN: USGS PROF PAPER NO. 144, 238 PP.}{Deposit:: WHITE, W.S., CORNWALL, H.R., AND SWANSON, R.W., 1953, BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE AHMEEK QUADRANGLE; USGS MAP GQ-27, SCALE 1:24000}{Production:: BUTLER, B.S., AND BURBANK, W.S., 1929, 81-82BUTLER, B.S., AND BURBANK, W.S., 1929, 81-82.}
ReporterSutphin, D.M. (Cannon, W.F.), Mason Jr., G.T.