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Horseshoe Prospect

Prospect in Lincoln county in Wisconsin, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082581
MRDS ID W060007
Record type Site
Current site name Horseshoe Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -89.62342, 45.44167 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Harrison(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Merrill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iron Mountain(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lake Dubay(hydrologic unit)

Wisconsin(hydrologic accounting unit)

Wisconsin(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wisconsin Lincoln

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TYPICAL ZN-PB-CU-TYPE VMS DEPOSITS IN WISCONSIN CONTAIN: SPHALERITE, PYRRHOTITE, GALENA, AND CHALCOPYRITE, AND SOMETIMES TETRAHEDRITE, POLYBASITE, NATIVE SILVER, PYRARGYRITE ELECTRUM, AND NATIVE GOLD.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Polybasite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Chlorite-Epidote-Muscovite-Albite-Quartz (Lower Greenschist Facies) To Biotite-Muscovite-Albite-Quartz (Middle Greenschist Facies).

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 184
USGS model code 28a
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, kuroko
Mark3 model number 93

Nearby scientific data

(1) -89.62342, 45.44167
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Steeply Dipping Isoclinally Folded To Locally Gently Dipping Volcanic Sections.

Ore body information

  • Name HORSESHOE

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN TUFFACEOUS METASEDIMENTS AND LESSER GRAPHITE- AND/OR SULFIDE-BEARING META-ARGILLITE, PORPHYRITIC AND/OR AMYGDALOIDAL METABASALT TO META-ANDESITE FLOWS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Somo

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LABERGE, G.L., ED., 1996, VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN--A COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME: INSTITUTE ON LAKE SUPERIOR GEOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS, V. 42, PT. 2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROSPECT; AS OF 1/2/95 JOINT VENTURE PARTNERS SHARPE ENERGY AND RESOURCES AND FREEWEST RESOURCES CANADA WERE DRILLING ON THE PROPERTY (STAFF, NORTHERN MINER, V. 80, NO. 44, P. 1) CLASSIFIED BY LABERGE (1996) AS A ZN-PB-CU-TYPE VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT HAVING SYNGENETIC STRATA-BOUND AND STRATIFORM MASSIVE SULFIDE MINERALIZATION AT OR NEAR THE STRATIGRAPHIC TOP OF OR DEEPER WITHIN PFV, OR ALONG THE FLANKS OF THE CENTER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1995 Nicholson, S.W. 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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