Duluth Gabbro

Occurrence in St. Louis county in Minnesota, United States with commodities Vanadium, Titanium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000870
MRDS ID ISM0766
Record type District
Current site name Duluth Gabbro
Alternate or previous names Tucker Lake

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.50016, 47.5 (WGS84)
Relative position CENTROID OF THE AREA OF THE DULUTH GABBRO HOSTING KNOWN DEPOSITS (RF3)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Minnesota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Whyte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Two Harbors(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Two Harbors(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rainy Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Rainy(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rainy(hydrologic subregion)

Souris-Red-Rainy(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Superior National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Minnesota St. Louis
United States Minnesota Lake
United States Minnesota Cook

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary
Titanium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.50016, 47.5

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description STRATIFIED GABBRO

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1870

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GROUT, F.F., 1950, THE TITANIFEROUS MAGNETITES OF MINNESOTA; ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE IRON RANGE RESOURCES AND REHABILITATION, 117P.

  • Deposit

    ANON., 1978, M INNESOTA REPORT ON COPPER-NICKEL-TITANIUM STUDY: SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW, V. 67, NO. 7, P. 10.

  • Deposit

    PETERSON, E.C., 1966, TITANIUM RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES: US BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8290.

Beyond USGS

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