Mine detail: Menominee Iron District (Range)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

46.1156, -88.21924

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Discovery year:	1851

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	SEE INDIVIDUAL MINE WRITE-UPS.
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Prospect
First production started:	1881

Geology

Structure:

MAJOR TROUGHS INTO WHICH IRON FM. HAS SLUMPED. ; REG.TRENDS: E-W TO NE-SW.

References

MRDS	W001398
DEP	60001573
Reference	{Deposit:: VAN HISE AND BAYLEY, 1897, U.S.G.S. MONOGRAPH 28.}{Deposit:: DUTTON, C. E. AND ZIMMER, P. W., 1968, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF MENOMINEE DIST., MICH. (IN) ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933 - 1967, AIME, THE GRATON-SALES V., P. 538 - 549.}{Deposit:: JAMES, H. L., 1955, ZONES OF REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN PRECAMBRIAN OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN, G. S. A. BULL., VOL. 66, P. 1455 - 1488.}{Deposit:: THE LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ASSOC., 1938, LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES.}
Reporter	MASON JR., G.T., SUTPHIN, D.M., CANNON, SUZANNE S.