Mine detail: Mount Ruker Banded Iron-Formation

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Location:	Antarctica, Antarctica
Lat / long:	-72.99718, 60.00267
dep_id:	10086448
mrds_id:	WA41001
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Iron
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	No production occurred
Development status:	Occurrence
ore:	Ilmenite
gangue:	Chlorite, Quartzite, Schist
alteration:	Over- And Underlying Sequences Have Been Subjected To Greenschist Metamorphism And Are Tightly Folded
Reporter:	Jenness, Jane E.
hrock_type:	Iron Formation
Structure:	Two Aeromagnetic Anomalies, Each 5 To 10 Km Wide And With Positive Amplitudes Of 600 To 3000 Gammas, Extend West From Mount Ruker For 120 And 180 Km Under Glacial Ice. These Anomalies Almost Certainly Indicate Additionaal Iron Deposits., Main Sequence Nearly 400 M Thick; Overlain And Underlain By Sequences, Each Over 300 M Thick, In Which Banded Iron Fm Is Less Abundant Than Other Rock Types.
tectonic:	Deposits May Be Part Of An Archean Craton Block In The Southern Prince Charles Mountains
References:	Deposit:: BEHRENDT, JOHN C., EDITOR, 1983, PETROLEUM AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ANTARCTICA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 909, P. 31. Deposit:: RAVICH, M.G., FEDOROV, L.V., AND TARUTIN, O.A., 1982, PRECAMBRIAN IRON DEPOSITS OF THE PRINCE CHARLES MOUNTAINS (REVIEW PAPER), IN CRADDOCK, CAMPBELL, ED., ANTARCTIC GEOSCIENCE: MADISON, WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, P. 853-858. Deposit:: TINGEY, T.J., 1983?, BANDED IRON FORMATIONS IN EAST ANTARCTICA, IN SPLETTSTOESSER, J.F., EDITOR, MINERAL RESOURCES POTENTIAL OF ANTARCTICA: AUSTIN, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS