Titan Mine

Past Producer in Baraga county in Michigan, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Production statistics
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079315
MRDS ID W028535
Record type Site
Current site name Titan Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.18337, 46.54278 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baraga(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Three Lakes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

L'Anse(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iron River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Michigamme(hydrologic unit)

Northwestern Lake Michigan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwestern Lake Michigan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Michigan Baraga

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 048N 031W 21 NE OF SE Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATED NORTH OF THE CENTER OF THE PROPERTY ON THE BIJIKI IRON FORMATION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Grunerite Ore
Chert Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Actinolite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Mica Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement of cherty beds by iron oxide and alteration of fe-silicates and carbonates to iron oxides

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.18337, 46.54278

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Upward facing or open structures of folding or faulting

Comments on the geologic information

  • WEAKLY MAGNETIC, GRUNERITE-CHERT IRON FORMATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1882
Year of last production 1888

Mining district

District name Marquette Range

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1888
    Period 1882-1888
    Material ore Fe
    Ore mined 91817mt
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Fe Iron Iron 48wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • LEAN ORE, SOFT, NON-BESSEMER LIMONITE. GRADE REPORTED IS AN APPROXIMATION FROM OTHER NEARBY BIJIKI-MEMBER MINES WITH AVAILABLE FIGURES. DRILL HOLE DATA AVAILABLE (SEE SECTION FILE REFERENCE.)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • MOST OF IRON REMAINING IS IN GRUNERITE FORM.

Comments on the workings information

  • MINERAL STATISTICS OF MICHIGAN 1885 DESCRIBED A SKIP ROAD WENT INTO PIT AND EXTENDED INTO WALL TO 180' DEEP WHERE A 200' WIDE STOPE ALONG STRIKE WAS MINED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLASNER, J. S., AND CANNON, W. F., 1978 , BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE MICHIGAMME AND THREE LAKES QUADRANGLES, MARQUETTE AND BARAGA COUNTIES; MICHIGAN, USGS MAP 1 - 1078 .

  • Deposit

    LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION, 1938 , LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES ( 1ST ED. ): CLEVELAND, OHIO, P. 120 .

  • Deposit

    SECTION FILES, MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO., 1954 , TITAN EXPLORATION, SECTION FILES OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF MICHIGAN DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, A, 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, BARAGA COUNTY, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OPENED 1882 , SHIPPED 1882 - 1888 . WAS OPERATED BY A COMPANY (TITAN IRON CO.) OF WHICH S. P. BURT WAS PRESIDENT. EXPLORED IN 1900 AND AGAIN IN 1954 BY THE CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO. PROPERTY IS NOW LOCATED WITHIN BARAGA STATE FOREST BOUNDARIES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 Yeager, Keith (Cannon, W.) Michigan Geological Survey Division
Updater 01-MAR-1997 Sutphin, D.M. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 01-MAY-1997 Mason Jr., G.T. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 06-AUG-2001 Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere) Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Beyond USGS

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