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Shores Mine

Past Producer in Iron county in Wisconsin, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10302444
MAS/MILS ID 0550510009
Record type Site
Current site name Shores Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -90.34592, 46.3875 (WGS84)
Elevation 500

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iron Belt(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ironwood(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ashland(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bad-Montreal(hydrologic unit)

Southwestern Lake Superior(hydrologic accounting unit)

Western Lake Superior(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wisconsin Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
4th Principal 045 N 001 E 10 C S2SE Wisconsin

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -90.34592, 46.3875
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1896

Mining district

District name Gogebic Iron District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.
    Home office Michigan
    Year 1976
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Hanna Iron Ore Co.
    Home office Michigan
    Year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • A RESERVE PROPERTY. 55,808 TONS SHIPPED FROM 1896 TO 1899.

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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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:

  • Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. — renamed to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (2017)
    Reorganized and renamed Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 2017 as the parent shifted from iron-ore focus to steelmaking.

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.

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