Conover District

Unknown in Vilas county in Wisconsin, United States with commodity Iron

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10082603
MRDS ID	W060034
Record type	Site
Current site name	Conover District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-89.36675, 46.03333 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Vilas(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stormy Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wakefield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iron River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Wisconsin(hydrologic unit)

Wisconsin(hydrologic accounting unit)

Wisconsin(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Wisconsin	Vilas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
	41N	9;10;11;12;13E			Wisconsin

Comments on the location information

THIS DISTRICT IS ABOUT 25 MILES LONG

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Iron	Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-89.36675, 46.03333	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Conover

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	W060034

Bibliographic references

Deposit

DUTTON, C.E., 1983, LITHOLOGY AND GEOLOGIC SETTING OF LOWER PROTEROZOIC IRON-FORMATIONS IN PARTS OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN: USGS OPEN-FILE 84-76, 15 PP

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	17 HOLES DRILLED BY CARPENTER SYNDICATE ON POSITIVE MAGNETIC ANOMALY. BEDROCK PENETRATED RANGED FROM 14-160 FEET. NO IRON-FORMATION ENCOUNTERED BUT SOME FERRUGINOUS SLATE.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation
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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.