Mine detail: Vulcan Exploration Copper Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

47.43611, -87.78752

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Copper
Gangue:	Calcite, Prehnite, Quartz, Datolite, Laumontite, Epidote, Chlorite
Orebody form:	FISSURE

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1864
First production started:	1864
Last production ended:	1864

Geology

Host rock:	Portage Lake Volcanics
Host type:	Basalt

References

MRDS	W062191
DEP	10100311
Reference	{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S., AND BURBANK, W.S., 1929, THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN: USGS PROF PAPER NO. 144, 238 PP.}{Deposit:: CORNWALL, H. R., 1955, BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE FORT WILKINS QUADRANGLE, MICHIGAN: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES, GQ 74, 1:24,000.}{Production:: BUTLER AND BURBANK (1929)}
Reporter	Sutphin, D.M. (Cannon, W.F.), Mason Jr., G.T.