Granite Falls Prospect

Unknown in Yellow Medicine county in Minnesota, United States with commodity Gold

Sections on this page

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10082812
MRDS ID	W062164
Record type	Site
Current site name	Granite Falls Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-95.54447, 44.79916 (WGS84)
Location accuracy	1000(meters)
Relative position	Est Location Is Estimated Distance From Se Corner Of Section 4.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yellow Medicine(county)

Minnesota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite Falls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Montevideo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

New Ulm(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hawk-Yellow Medicine(hydrologic unit)

Minnesota(hydrologic accounting unit)

Minnesota(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Minnesota	Yellow Medicine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
	115N	39W	4	SE	Minnesota

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Gold	Primary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Gold	Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-95.54447, 44.79916	ListMap

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

Sims And Day (1992) Note That The Fundamental Regional Control On Gold Deposits In The Superior Province Is Transcurrent And Oblique Slip-Shear Deformation Zones That Formed In Late Archean Time.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Comments on development

EXPLORATION FOR GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE REGION HAS BEEN HAMPERED BY A GENERALLY THIN, DISCONTINUOUS MANTLE OF PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL DEPOSITS. ; ECON.COM: THE OCCURRENCE OF LARGE GOLD DEPOSITS IN CANADA SUGGESTS THAT THE GREENSTONE-GRANITE TERRANES OF MINNESOTA ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE OCCURRENCE OF IMPORTANT GOLD DEPOSITS.

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	W062164

Bibliographic references

Deposit

GROUT, F.F., 1937, PETROGRAPHIC STUDY OF GOLD PROSPECTS OF MINNESOTA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 32, NO. 1., P. 56-68.
Deposit

SIMS, P.K., AND DAY, W.C., 1992, A REGIONAL STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ARCHEAN SUPERIOR PROVINCE, UNITED STATES, IN SIMS, P.K., AND CARTER, L.M.H., EDS., CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1094-M, 19 P.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	GROUT (1937) DID NOT GIVE A MORE SPECIFIC NAME FOR THIS PROSPECT.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation
Reporter	01-DEC-95	Sutphin, David M. (Cannon, W. F.)	U.S. Geological Survey
Updater	01-MAR-97	Sutphin, David M.	U.S. Geological Survey
Editor	01-MAY-97	Mason Jr., G.T.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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