North American Mine

Unknown in St. Louis county in Minnesota, United States with commodity Gold

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Materials information
Nearby scientific data
Geologic structures
Controls for ore emplacement
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10082806
MRDS ID	W062156
Record type	Site
Current site name	North American Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-92.27797, 47.7975 (WGS84)
Location accuracy	1000(meters)
Relative position	LOCATED SOUTH OF TOWER JUNCTION., Est Lat/Lon Estimated As A Short Distance S Of Tower Junction.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Louis(county)

Minnesota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tower(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vermilion Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hibbing(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Vermilion(hydrologic unit)

Rainy(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rainy(hydrologic subregion)

Souris-Red-Rainy(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Minnesota	St. Louis

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Gold	Primary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Gold	Ore
Actinolite	Gangue
Albite	Gangue
Chlorite	Gangue
Pyrite	Gangue
Quartz	Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-92.27797, 47.7975	ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure	Regional
Structure name	In The Quetico Subprovince Of The Superior Province.

Controls for ore emplacement

Sims And Day (1992) Note That The Fundamental Regional Control On Gold Deposits In The Superior Province Is Transcurrent And Oblique Slip-Shear Deformation Zones That Formed In Late Archean Time.

Comments on the geologic information

LARGE GAS BUBBLES OF THE LIQUID INCLUSIONS SUGGEST THE VEINS ARE OF HYPOTHERMAL ORIGIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Comments on development

EXPLORATION FOR GOLD DEPOSITS IN THE REGION HAS BEEN HAMPERED BY A GENERALLY THIN, DISCONTINUOUS MANTLE OF PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL DEPOSITS. ; ECON.COM: THE OCCURRENCE OF LARGE GOLD DEPOSITS IN CANADA SUGGESTS THAT THE GREENSTONE-GRANITE TERRANES OF MINNESOTA ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE OCCURRENCE OF IMPORTANT GOLD DEPOSITS.

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	W062156

Bibliographic references

Deposit

GROUT, F.F., 1937, PETROGRAPHIC STUDY OF GOLD PROSPECTS OF MINNESOTA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 32, NO. 1., P. 56-68.
Deposit

SIMS, P.K., AND DAY, W.C., 1992, A REGIONAL STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ARCHEAN SUPERIOR PROVINCE, UNITED STATES, IN SIMS, P.K., AND CARTER, L.M.H., EDS., CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1094-M, 19 P.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	GROUT (1937) DETERMINED THAT THESE DEPOSITS WERE OF PROBABLE HYPOTHERMAL ORIGIN.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation
Reporter	01-DEC-95	Sutphin, David M. (Cannon, W. F.)	U.S. Geological Survey
Updater	01-MAR-97	Sutphin, David M.	U.S. Geological Survey
Editor	01-MAY-97	Mason Jr., G.T.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Wikidata: Q49436821 (North American Mine)