Payant-Chrissman

Occurrence in Florence county in Wisconsin, United States with commodity Molybdenum
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090592
MRDS ID D000708
Record type Site
Current site name Payant-Chrissman
Alternate or previous names Florence County Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.13337, 45.73333 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Florence(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dunbar(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 Wisconsin Florence

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
4th Principal 038N 019E 33 Wisconsin

Comments on the location information

  • ABOVE LAT. AND LONG. ARE CENTRAL PICKED IN REGION; KABAZDA AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE CO AND CD AS WELL AS W AND MO ARE FROM ORDZHOUIKIDZE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Hoskins Lake Granite
    Rock description Hoskins Lake Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.13337, 45.73333

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pegmatite

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRANITE, SCHISTS, LIMESTONE (TYRNYAUZ).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ITEM 1 - TYRNYAUZ

Comments on the workings information

  • 8 SMALL EXPLORATORY PITS; FISCHER' (1957) ESTIMATE IS 0.05% MOLYBDENITE IN EXPOSED OUTCROP

Comments on development

  • NO PRODUCTION, JUST EXPLORATORY PITS DUG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KING, R.U., (UNPUB. DATA)

  • Deposit

    FISHER, D.J., 1957, REPORT ON MOLYBDENITE IN NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN: USGS OPEN-FILE REPORT 417, 13 PP

  • Deposit

    GREENBURG, J.K., 1983, MOLYBDENITE IN WISCONSIN: OCCURRENCE AND POTENTIAL: WISCONSIN GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY, MISC. PAPER 83-2, 36 PP.

  • Reserve-Resource

    FISHER (1957) AND GREENBERG (1983) ESTIMATES OF MOLYBDENITE IN EXPOSED OUTCROP

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 8 SMALL PITS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1974 King, Robert U. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 25-JUL-1995 Nicholson, S.W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-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.