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Desloge Mines

Producer in St. Francois county in Missouri, United States with commodities Lead, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010059
MRDS ID D003532
Record type Site
Current site name Desloge Mines
Alternate or previous names Mine A Joe, Bogy Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.53761, 37.86173 (WGS84)
Elevation 253

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Francois(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Flat River(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Farmington(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Meramec(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri St. Francois

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 036N 004E 01 NE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ABOUT A MILE NW OF FLAT RIVER STATION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Bonneterre
    Rock description Bonneterre
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.53761, 37.86173
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 1609.3M
    Width 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Algal Reefs, Disconformities And/Or Pinch Outs

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1801

Mining district

District name Flat River Mines, Old Lead Belt, Southeast Missouri

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 66.75M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WINSLOW, ARTHUR 1894 LEAD AND ZINC DEPOSITS: MISSOURI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. 6 AND 7 P. 667 - 668

  • Deposit

    SNYDER, FRANK G. AND GERDEMANN, PAUL E. 1968 "GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI LEAD DISTRICT" IN RIDGE J.D. ED. ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES 1933 - 1967 . (GRATON-SALES VOLUME): NEW YORK, AM. INST. MINING, METALL. PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, V. 1 , P 326 - 358 .

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A.V., BROCK, M.R., JOLLY, J.L., AND WELLS, C.E., 1965 REGIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS-KENTUCKY MINERAL DISTRICTS, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1202 - B, P. B1 - B20 .

  • Production

    SYDER AND GERDEMANN, 1968, P. 328

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LENGTH AND WIDTH IS FOR SURFACE ORE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1978 Sherwood, Liz U.S. Geological Survey

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