Mine detail: Delaware #1 & #2

Previously called 'Delaware Mine and Concentrator'

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Location

Lat / long: 47.32919, -93.32523

Resource(B)

Primary: Iron
Tertiary: Water, Free
Other material: Chert, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolinite, Martite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1913

Geology

References

MRDSW018366
MAS270610003
DEP10219607
Reference{Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H. AND F.E. GROUT (ED.). MINERAL RESOURCES OF}{Deposit:: MINNESOTA. MINN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 30, 1943, PP.13-57.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. NORTH AMERICAN IRON ORE.}{Deposit:: V. 175, NO. 11, 1974, PP. 83, 93, AND 137.}{Deposit:: ROYCE, S. GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR IRON DEPOSITS.}{Deposit:: MIN. CONG. J., MARCH 1936, PP. 16-41.}{Deposit:: WHITE, D.A. THE STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE MESABI}{Deposit:: RANGE, MINNESOTA. MINN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 38,}{Deposit:: 1954, 92 PP.}{Reserve-Resource:: MINERAL RESOURCES RESEARCH CENTER. MINNESOTA MINING DIREC-}{Reserve-Resource:: TORY-1981, ED. BY W.D. TRETHEWAY, UNIV. OF MINN.,}{Reserve-Resource:: MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 1981, 266 PP.}
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