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Bear Hole Mine

Producer in Lafayette county in Wisconsin, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080283
MRDS ID W031397
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Hole Mine
Related records 10180610

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.27067, 42.58112 (WGS84)
Elevation 275

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lafayette(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New Diggings(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dubuque North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dubuque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Apple-Plum(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wisconsin Lafayette

Comments on the location information

  • THE AREA LIES EAST OF THE CREST OF CORDILLERA HUAYHUASH NEARLY 80 KM DUE WEST OF HUANUCO. ITS MINES AND PROSPECTS, SEVERAL KILOMETERS WEST OF THE TOWN OF HUALLANCA, ARE ACCESSIBLE BY A 60 TO 70 KM TRAIL FROM CHIQUIAN, THE NEAREST ROADHEAD, AND BY TRAILS FROM HUANUCO AND FROM CONOCOCHA AND RECUAY IN THE SANTA VALLEY

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SPHALERITE IS MARMATITIC

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Barite Gangue
Marcasite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Middle Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Middle Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Platteville
    Rock description Platteville
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.27067, 42.58112
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 76M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracturing, Bedding

Comments on the geologic information

  • SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE MACHAY AND GOYLLARISQUIZGA FORMATIONS, PART OF THE CENTRAL ANDEAN MESOZOIC BELT, ARE INTRUDED BY CENOZOIC ROCKS. SOME OF THE LOWER SANDSTONE BEDS CONTAIN SEVERAL SEAMS OF COAL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Eagle-Picher Industries Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • THE DISTRICT IS WELL KNOWN FOR ITS SILVER PRODUCTION DURING THE EARLY 1900'S. BEFORE 1925 AT LEAST THREE CONCENTRATION PLANTS AND ONE SMELTING AND ROASTING FURNACE WERE OPERATED. BY 1925 MOST SILVER MINES WERE SHUT DOWN. SINCE 1925 SMALL MINES HAVE BEEN WORKED FOR COPPER, LEAD, AND ANTIMONY. SEVERAL COAL SEAM HAVE ALSO SINCE BEEN MINED, BUT NO PRODUCTION FIGURES ARE AVAILABLE. ACTIVE DEVELOPED PRODUCER.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • BODENLOS AND ERICKSEN, 1955, P. 105.
  • POSSIBLE MAGNITUDE OF 1-10 MILLION TONS

Comments on the workings information

  • OPERATION INCLUDES A MILL AND SMELTER AT THE EAST EDGE OF THE TOWN OF HUALLANCA. IT WAS IN OPERATION UNTIL 1940, WHEN IT WAS SHUT DOWN BECAUSE OF DIFFICULTIES IN ORE TRANSPORTATION AND CONCENTRATE SHIPMENT.

Comments on development

  • OPERATION INCLUDES A MILL AND A SMELTER AT THE EAST EDGE OF THE TOWN OF HUALLANCA. IT WAS IN OPERATION UNTIL 1940, WHEN IT WAS SHUT DOWN BECAUSE OF DIFFICULTIES IN ORE TRANSPORTATION AND CONCENTRATE SHIPMENT. THE PLANT PRODUCED ABOUT FIVE TONS OF COPPER AND SILVER CONCENTRATES PER DAY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1995, SPATIAL DATA EXTRACTED FROM THE MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM/MINERAL INDUSTRY LOCATION SYSTEM: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION 12-95, ISO 9960 STANDARD CD-ROM

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HUANZALA MINE WAS LARGEST PRODUCER IN 1970'S ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Rowe, William D. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1997 Sutphin, David M. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 01-MAY-1997 Mason Jr., G.T. U.S. Geological Survey

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