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Globe-Cornell Mine

Past Producer in Dickinson 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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082680
MRDS ID W062029
Record type Site
Current site name Globe-Cornell Mine
Alternate or previous names Cornell

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.03559, 45.84833 (WGS84)
Relative position ADJACENT TO ANTOINE PROPERTY, JUST N OF LAKE ANTOINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dickinson(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iron Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Iron Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iron Mountain(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Menominee(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 Dickinson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
T40N R30W 20 S1/2 - NE1/4 Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • LAT/LON IS FOR A TRENCH

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS SILICEOUS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Goethite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Leaching of silica or replacement by iron oxides or a combination of these processes.

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 Vulcan Iron Formation
    Rock description Vulcan Iron Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.03559, 45.84833
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Major troughs into which Iron fm. has slumped; regional trends are E-W to N

Ore body information

  • General form STRATABOUND
    Dip 50-55 N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1879
Discoverer John R. Wood
Year of first production 1880
Production years 1880-1881, 1886-1887, 1935 TO AL LEAST 1950.

Mining district

District name Menominee Iron District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Globe Iron Co. (1935)
    First year 1935

Production statistics

  • Year 1887
    Period 1880-1887
    Material ore Fe
    Ore mined 50091mt
    Accuracy Accurate
  • Year 1950
    Period 1880-1950
    Material ore Fe
    Ore mined 736656mt
    Accuracy Accurate
  • Year 1950
    Period 1935-1950
    Material ore Fe
    Ore mined 686565mt
    Accuracy Accurate
  • Year 1953
    Material ore Fe
    Ore mined 20114mt
    Accuracy Accurate

Comments on the production information

  • ORE WAS SHIPPED THROUGH THE PORT AT ESCANABA, MI. LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION, 1952, HAS PRODUCTION FIGURES FOR INDIVIDUAL MINES AND LEASES. THERE MAY HAVE BEEN PRODUCTION BEYOND 1950.

Comments on the workings information

  • MINED AS A OPEN PMINED AS A OPEN PIT.

Comments on development

  • CORNELL WAS TERMED EXHAUSTED IN 1887. REOPENED IN 1935 AS GLOBE-CORNELL (OFTEN CALLED CORNELL) MINE. IRON ORE WAS DISCOVERED IN DICKINSON COUNTY IN 1849; THE FIRST SHIPMENTS WERE MADE IN 1877, AND PRODUCTION CEASED IN 1959. IRON ORE WAS DISCOVERED IN IRON COUNTY IN 1851; THE FIRST SHIPMENTS WERE MADE IN 1882, AND PRODUCTION WAS CONTINUING IN 1966.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE GEOLOGY CONSISTS OF PRECAMBRIAN W CRYSTALLINE ROCKS OVERLAIN BY PRECAMBRIAN X SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. DURING PRECAMBRIAN X TIME, PRECAMBRIAN W ROCKS BLOCK FAULTED AND DIFFERENTIALLY RAISED; LOWERED; FORMING TROUGHS. PRECAMBRIAN X SEDIMENTS SLUMPED INTO THE TROUGHS. AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, THE ENTIRE AREA WAS REGIONALLY THERMAL METAMORPHOSED. THIS AREA OF THE MENOMINEE DISTRICT IS IN THE CHLORITE AND BIOTITE ISOGRADS. ALTHOUGH BOTH THE VULCAN IRON FM. AND THE RIVERTON IRON FM. ARE PRECAMBRIAN X IN AGE, THE VULCAN IRON FM. IS THE OLDER. THE VULCAN IRON FM. IS PART OF THE MENOMINEE GROUP.
Deposit VULCAN IRON FORMATION CONSISTS OF THINLY BEDDED LAYERS OF MAGNETITE, MARTITE, AND SPECULARITE, ALTERNATING WITH QUARTZ-RICH LAYERS; MINOR LOW-IRON SILICATE MINERALS ARE PRESENT (DUTTON AND ZIMMER, 1968). THE FORMATION RANGES FROM 300-800 FT THICK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1995 Sutphin, D.M. (Cannon, W.F.) 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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