Mine detail: Crandon Zn - Cu Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

45.48083, -88.91978

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Copper
Tertiary:	Silver, Gold
Orebody form:	LINEAR
Discovery year:	1975

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Argillite
Structure:	Felsic Center Developed In Back-Arc Basin Facies Rocks
Tectonic:	Precambrian Shield; Within Pembine-Wausau Subterrane Of The Wisconsin Magmatic Terranes
Alteration processes:	Intense Hydrothermal Alteration Is Present Stratigraphically Below The Massive Sulfides And Consists Of Silicification, Sericitization, Pyritization, And Minor Chloritization.

References

MRDS	W019008
DEP	10097436
Reference	{Deposit:: STAFF, 1977, NORTHERN MINER 1 - 6 - 77 P. 1, 6}{Deposit:: DEMATTIES, T.A., 1994, EARLY PROTEROZOIC VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN WISCONSIN: AN OVERVIEW: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 89, P. 1122-1151.}{Deposit:: CRAWFORD, M.J., 1996, WISCONSIN EXPLORATION UPDATE: SKILLINGSMINING REVIEW, V. 85, NO. 21, P.4-5.}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G., Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Nicholson, S.W., Sutphin, David M., Mason Jr., G.T.