Manhattan Exploration

Prospect in Keweenaw county in Michigan, United States with commodity Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Production statistics
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082837
MRDS ID W062194
Record type Site
Current site name Manhattan Exploration
Alternate or previous names Old Albion

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.33254, 47.35222 (WGS84)
Elevation 344
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Keweenaw(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mohawk(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hancock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hancock C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Keweenaw Peninsula(hydrologic unit)

Southcentral Lake Superior(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Lake Superior(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Michigan Keweenaw

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 057N 032W 11 Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • IN CENTER OF SECTION 11. LAT/LON AND ALTITUDE ARE FOR THE SHAFT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Prehnite Gangue
Epidote Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 96
USGS model code Unassigned
Deposit model name Native Cu
Mark3 model number 99

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type
    Rock unit name Portage Lake Volcanics
    Rock description Portage Lake Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Stenian
    Chronological age 1095

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.33254, 47.35222

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FISSURE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure

Comments on the geologic information

  • COPPER FILLS VESICLES, FRACTURES, AND INTERSTICES BETWEEN FRAGMENTS AND REPLACES ROCK IN THE VICINITY OF OPENINGS. COPPER OCCURS AS DISSEMINATED GRAINS ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER POST MAGMATIC MINERALS AND AS SMALL MASSES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Keweenaw Copper

Production statistics

  • Year 1863
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 4.5mt

Comments on the workings information

  • TRENCHES, SHAFTS, AN ADIT, AND DRILL HOES ARE SHOWN ON THE MOHAWK GEOLOGIC MAP FOR THE MANHATTAN EXPLORATION.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ALBION COMMENCED OPERATIONS 1848; OPERATIONS WERE SUSPENDED FROM 1857 TO 1862 BUT RESUMED IN JAN 1863 AS MANHATTAN MINING CO.; 20,000 SHARES WERE SOLD AT $20 EACH. THE MINE WAS ABANDONED IN 1865. FIVE TONS OF COPPER WERE TAKEN OUT IN SINKING A SHAFT IN ABOUT 1863.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., AND BURBANK, W.S., 1929, THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN: USGS PROF PAPER NO. 144, 238 PP.

  • Production

    BUTLER AND BURBANK, 1929, P. 89.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN A NORTHWEST-TRENDING MINERALIZED FISSURE IN THE PORTAGE LAKE LAVA SERIES_. STEEPLY DIPPING VEINS CROSS THE BEDDING NEARLY AT RIGHT ANGLES. PREHNITE, CALCITE, AND NATIVE COPPER ARE GENERALLY THE MOST COMMON MINERALS IN THE FISSURES, LESS COMMONLY LAUMONTITE, NATIVE SILVER, EPIDOTE, QUARTZ, AND VARIOUS COPPER SULFIDES AND ARSENIDES. THE COPPER OCCURS AS SMALL AND LARGE MASSES, AS THIN SHEETS, AND AS DISSEMINATED GRAINS ON OR ADJACENT TO THE FISSURES. MUCH OF THE DISSEMINATED COPPER IS INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH PREHNITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-96 Sutphin, D.M. (Cannon, W.F.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-97 Sutphin, D.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.