Mine detail: Fissure Mines

Previously called 'Fissure Deposits'

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Location

Lat / long: 47.3675, -88.3231

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Arsenic
Ore: Copper, Silver
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz, Analcime, Apophyllite, Barite, Prehnite, Epidote, Pumpellyite-(Mg), Datolite, Adularia
Discovery year: 1845

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1890

Geology

Host rock:Portage Lake Volcanics
Host type:Basalt
Structure:Syncline

References

MRDSLW00197
DEP10310197
Reference{Deposit:: WILSON, M.L. AND DYL, S.J., III, 1992, THE MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY: MINERALOGICAL RECORD, V. 23, P. 1-76.}{Deposit:: BUTLER, R.S. AND BURBANK, W.S., 1929, THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 144, 238 P.}{Deposit:: WHITE, W.S., 1968, THE NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: IN J.D. RIDGE, (EDITOR), ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES (1933-1967) (GRATON-SALES VOLUME): AM. INSTIT. MIN. METALL. PETROL. ENG., VOL. 1, 303-325.}{Production:: WHITE, 1968}
ReporterWoodruff, Laurel G.