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Yale Mine

Past Producer in Gogebic county in Michigan, United States with commodity Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Production statistics
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068380
MRDS ID W001408
Record type Site
Current site name Yale Mine
Alternate or previous names Peterson Mine
Related records 10068379

Comments on the site names

  • PETERSON MINE (NOW); (OLD) VALLEY PROSPECT; BENJAMIN PROSPECT; WEST COLBY MINE.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.06761, 46.47194 (WGS84)
Relative position NEAR BESSEMER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gogebic(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bessemer(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ironwood(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ashland(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Black-Presque Isle(hydrologic unit)

Southcentral Lake Superior(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Lake Superior(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Michigan Gogebic

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 047N 046W 16 SW OF NW Michigan
SE OF NW Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • ADJACENT TO JACKPOT. LAT/LON IS FOR THE ORE BODY

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SOFT RED BESSEMER AND NON-BESSEMER HEMATITE WITH 60% FE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 241
USGS model code 34a
Deposit model name Superior Fe (BC name is Lake Superior & Rapitan types iron-formation)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Iron Formation
    Rock unit name Ironwood Iron-Formation
    Rock description Ironwood Iron-Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.06761, 46.47194
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1886
Year of first production 1886
Year of last production 1925

Mining district

District name Gogebic Iron District (Range)

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Puritan Mining Co.
  • Type Operator
    Owner Pickands Mather and Co.

Production statistics

  • Year 1886
    Material ore Fe
    Ore mined 1704mt
    Accuracy Accurate
  • Year 1925
    Period 1886-1925
    Material ore Fe
    Ore mined 2362624mt
    Accuracy Accurate

Comments on the production information

  • YALE MINE AS OF 1923. SOFT BESSEMER & NON-BESSEMER ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 518.16M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE DEPTH WAS 1700'; YALE WAS FORMERLY BENJAMIN, VALLEY AND WEST COLBY THEN YALE; LATER THE DEEPER ORE WAS MINED AS PART OF PETERSON MINE

Comments on development

  • Year first production 1886; 1901
  • IN 1886 SMALL TONNAGE SHIPPED FROM VALLEY (ALSO CALLED BENJAMIN) PROSPECT. STARTING 1901 FIRST OPERATORS WERE CHARCOAL IRON CO. OF AMERICA. LATER YALE AND JACKPOT LEASED TO JONES AND LAUGHLIN ORE CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES, 1952, P. 60.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, A.M., AND GROTH, E.H., 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, GOGEBIC COUNTY, P. 194-197, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

  • Production

    LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES, 1952, P. 60.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FOR GEOLOGY: SEE PETERSON MINE W001405

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cannon, Suzanne S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1997 Sutphin, D.M. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 01-MAY-1997 Mason Jr., G.T. U.S. Geological Survey

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