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Winona

Past Producer in Houghton 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10171077
MAS/MILS ID 0260610006
Record type Site
Current site name Winona
Alternate or previous names King Phillip

Comments on the site names

  • 9 JAN./78 - THE WINONA MINING CO. ABSOR BED THE KING PHILLIP MINE IN 1911. MINING WAS THEN CARRIED ON FROM THE NOS. 1 TO 4 WINONA SHAFTS AND THE NOS.1 AND 2 KING PHILLIP SHAFTS.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -88.95617, 47.7722 (WGS84)
Elevation 360
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Keweenaw(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Point Houghton OE S(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Siskiwit Bay(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hancock C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Lake Superior(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Michigan Houghton

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 051 N 036 W 30 SENWSE Michigan

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Chlorite Unknown
Copper Unknown
Epidote Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Laumontite Unknown
Magnetite Unknown
Orthoclase Unknown
Plagioclase Unknown
Prehnite Unknown
Pyroxene Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -88.95617, 47.7722
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N59E
    Dip 70N
    Thickness 7M
    Length 2743M
    Width 442M
    Depth to top 15M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 DISSEMINATED
    Shape of Orebody #2 LENTICULAR
    Type of Orebody #3 REPLACEMENT
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control CONTACT ZONE
    Secondary Ore Control FRACTURING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 PROPYLITIC
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 BLEACHING
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #3 OTHER
    Strike And Dip N59E:70N
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 15
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 780728
  • Area 105HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 105
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Comments on the geologic information

  • REC.070,071,072,AMOUNTS. AMOUNTS LISTED AS PER WILBAND 1970, UNPUB. DATA
  • 11JAN./78 REC. 060 FIELD 51-53. THE LODE IS A FRAGMENTAL AND AMYGDALOIDAL BASALT. THE MINERALIZED ZONE IS FOR THE MOST PART CONFINED TO THE HANGING WALL CONTACT. REC. 060 FIELD 14-36. PLLS=PORTAGE LAKE LAVA SERIES.
  • 11 JAN./78-RECORD 080 FIELD 33-34. ALSO PROMINENT IN THIS LODE IS OXIDATION OF LODE AND WALL ROCK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1864
Year of first production 1902

Mining district

District name Michigan Native Copper Belt

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights State Lease
Type of mineral rights Minerals Only

Land status

Ownership category Mixed

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lake Superior Copper Co.
    Interest 98
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1978
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of Michigan
    Interest 1
    Home office Michigan
    Year 1978

Comments on the ownership information

  • 9 JAN./78. LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER CO. IS NOT THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY, THEY LEASE IT FROM THE STATE OF MICHIGAN AS DESCRIBED IN COMMENTS IF THIS MINE WERE BROUGHT BACK INTO PROCUCTION, LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER CO. WOULD LIKELY PAY ROYALITIES TO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.

Comments on the production information

  • 9 JAN./78-REC. 050 COL 17. THE LODE WAS DISCOVERED BY THE NATIVE AMERICANS, WHO DID SOME MINING BY DIGGING PITS. THE WHITE MEN FOUND THESE PITS. 9JAN./78 REC. 050 FIELD 18-21. THE DATE OF DISCOVERY BY THE NATIVE AMERICANS IS UNKNOWN. WHITE MEN DISCOVERED THEIR PITS AND ORGANIZED THE WINONA MINING CO. IN 1864. 10JAN./78 REC. 050 FIELDS 34-37 AND 42-45. TEST SHAFTING AND TEST DRIFTING WERE USED UNTIL THE CLOSING OF THE MINE IN 1920.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • GRADE QUANTITY MATRIX: COULD NOT OBTAIN RELIABLE ESTIMATES GOOD REPORTS BEFORE CLOSING SUGGEST MORE ORE. PRESENT LESSEE HAS HAD LITTLE SUCCESS IN PROMOTING PROPERTY. 500 THOUSAND TONS IS A CONSERVATIVE QUESS.

Comments on the workings information

  • 9 JAN./78 -THE LAND SURROUNDING THE WINONA PROPERTY IS A MIXTURE OF STATE AND PRIVATELY OWNED LAND.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER,B.S., BURBANK,W.S. (1929), TAE COPPER DEPOSITS OF

  • Deposit

    MICHIGAN: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 144.

  • Deposit

    WHITE,W.S. (1968), THE NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN

  • Deposit

    MICHIGAN: IN ORE DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.,1933-1967, RIDGE,J.D.

  • Deposit

    -EDITOR. VOL.1: THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING,METALLURGI

  • Deposit

    CAL, AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, INC., NEW YORK.

  • Deposit

    BRODERICK,T.M., HOHL,C.D., EIDEMILLER,H.N. (1946) RECENT

  • Deposit

    CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF THE MICHIGAN GOPPER DISTRICT

  • Deposit

    : IN ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND THE BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY OF

  • Deposit

    ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, VOL.XLI.

  • Deposit

    HORE,R.E. (1914), PRIVATE REPORT TO THE STATE TAX COMMISS

  • Deposit

    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURV

  • Deposit

    EY FOR 1914.

  • Deposit

    PARDEE,F.G. (1932), PRIVATE REPORT TO THE STATE TAX COMMISS

  • Deposit

    IONER: STATE OF MICHIGAN.

  • Deposit

    WARRENER,G.G. (1957), REPORT ON 1957 EXPLORATION PROGRAM:

  • Deposit

    ALGOMAH MINING COMPANY REPORT.

  • Deposit

    AN0N (CIRCA 1954), WINONA MINE: HAND WRITTEN REPORT ON FILE

  • Deposit

    AT THE MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    ANON. (1900), RECORD OF DIAMOND DRILLING: WINONA COPPER CO.

  • Deposit

    WILBAND, J.T.(1970), PETROCHEMICAL INVESTIGATTION OF KEWEEN

  • Deposit

    MICH GEO SURV R.I.6, PLATE.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 9 JAN./78-RECORD 030 COL 47. THE REF. POINT CITED IS A POSSI BLE SHAFT WHICH IS THE CENTER OF 6 QUOTED SHAFTS. 9JAN./78-REC. 010 COLS 44,45,46. MOST OR ALL OF THE WINONA PROPERTY OS HELD BY FEE OWNERSHIP AND MINERAL RIGHTS OWNER SHIP BY THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER CO. HOLDS MINERAL ONLY LEASES (LEASE 10DEC,1966 AND LEASE 19-MAY,1974) ON MUCH OF THIS PROPERTY. SEE ATTACHED STATE LEASE MAPS. REVEIWED AND REVISED IN MARCH,1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-1984 Michigan State University U.S. Bureau of Mines

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