Gilbert Mine

Past Producer in St. Louis county in Minnesota, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10268149
MAS/MILS ID 0271370260
Record type Site
Current site name Gilbert Mine
Alternate or previous names U S Steel Corp

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -92.471, 47.47469 (WGS84)
Elevation 463
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Louis(county)

Minnesota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gilbert(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hibbing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hibbing(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Louis(hydrologic unit)

St. Louis(hydrologic accounting unit)

Western Lake Superior(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Minnesota St. Louis

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -92.471, 47.47469

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.
    Year 1981

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NATURAL IRON ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINERAL RESOURCES RESEARCH CENTER. MINNESOTA MINING

  • Reserve-Resource

    DIRECTORY - 1981, ED. BY W.D. TRETHEWAY. UNIV. OF MINN.,

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 1981, P. 81

  • Deposit

    OFFICE OF ORE EST MINES DIRECTORY U OF MN 19

  • Deposit

    U S STEEL CORP PITT-PAC CO 1973

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references