Mine detail: Eagle Project

Previously called 'Eagle and East Eagle deposits'

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Location

Lat / long: 46.7482, -87.895

Resource

Primary: Nickel, Copper
Secondary: Platinum, Palladium, Cobalt, Gold
Discovery year: 2002

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: conduit-style magmatic sulfide
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Yellow Dog Peridotite
Host type:Peridotite

References

DEP10400290
Reference{Development:: Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company?s Mining and Reclamation Plan and Draft Comments from the DNR, 2006. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/MiningandReclamationPlan_186442_7.pdf}{Development:: http://www.northwoodswild.org/projects/sulfide-and-uranium-mining}{Development:: Engineering and Mining Journal, 2010, Eagle Mine and Mill Receive Michigan State Approval: March 2010, p. 8.}{Geology:: Xin Ding, Chusi Li, Ripley, E.M., Rossell, D., Kamo, S., 2010, The Eagle and East Eagle sulfide ore-bearing mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Midcontinent Rift System, upper Michigan: Geochronology and petrologic evolution; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Vol. 11, Q03003, doi:10.1029/2009GC002546, 2010 http://www.agu.org/journals/gc/gc1003/2009GC002546/}
ReporterSchruben, Paul