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Garden City Mine

Past Producer in Keweenaw county in Michigan, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10082840
MRDS ID W062198
Record type Site
Current site name Garden City Mine
Alternate or previous names Caton Mine, Hill Mine

Comments on the site names

  • NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH HILL FISSURE MINE

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.27587, 47.40667 (WGS84)
Elevation 287
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position HOUGHTON COUNTY; SE OF OF EAGLE RIVER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Keweenaw(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Phoenix(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 058N 031W 20 SW OF NW Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS FOR THE SHAFT S OF EAGLE RIVER.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore

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 Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Portage Lake Volcanics
    Rock description Portage Lake Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Stenian
    Chronological age 1095
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type
    Rock unit name Ashbed Amygdaloid
    Rock description Ashbed Amygdaloid
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Stenian
    Chronological age 1095

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.27587, 47.40667
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1859
Year of last production 1868
Production years 1859, 1861, 1863, 1864, 1866

Mining district

District name Keweenaw Copper

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Garden City Mining Co
  • Type Operator
    Owner Phoenix Mining Corp
    First year 1859
    Last year 1868

Production statistics

  • Year 1859
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 1.81mt
  • Year 1861
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 6.35mt
  • Year 1863
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 16.33mt
  • Year 1864
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 4.54mt
  • Year 1866
    Period 1859-1866
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 342mt
  • Year 1866
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 5.17mt

Comments on the workings information

  • CROSS FISSURES IN THE ASHBED AMYGDALOID WERE MINED AT GARDEN CITY. SMALL DEVELOPMENT AND STOPING WAS DONE ALONG THE TOP OF THE AMYGDALOID SHAFTS INTO COPPER FISSCROSS FISSURES IN THE ASHBED AMYGDALOID WERE MINED AT GARDEN CITY. SMALL DEVELOPMENT AND STOPING WAS DONE ALONG THE TOP OF THE AMYGDALOID SHAFTS INTO COPPER FISSURE VEINS AND ALSO SOME STOPES ON THE ASHBED STRATA TO 600' DEPTH. ALSO REPORTED THAT MINE HAD AN 1100' FOOT DRIFT TO THE SOUTH.

Comments on development

  • TWO SHAFTS WERE SUNK INTO ASHBED IN 1856, AND A LARGE STAMP MILL WAS BUILT. ; ECON.COM: ORGANIZED IN OCT 24, 1855, WITH 20,000 SHARES AT $20 PER SHARE. IN 1879 IT WAS REORGANIZED AS THE CATON MINING CO., BUT NO WORK WAS DONE ON THE PROPERTY.

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.

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H. R., 1954, BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE PHOENIX QUADRANGLE, MICHIGAN: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES, GQ 34, 1:24,000.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, A.M. AND GROTH, E.H., 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, KEWEENAW COUNTY, P. 125-129, SITE ID # 420089, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

  • Production

    BUTLER AND BURBANK, 1929, P. 85.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FISSURE BEARING N 16 W. ALSO REPORTED TO MINE THE ASHBED AMYGDALOIDAL STRATA WITH STRIKE N 59 E.

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
Editor 05-AUG-02 Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere) Michigan Department of Natural Resources

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