North Lake Mine

Past Producer in Ontonagon county in Michigan, United States with commodity Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080381
MRDS ID W031507
Record type Site
Current site name North Lake Mine

Comments on the site names

  • PART OF LAKE MINE GROUP

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -89.0234, 46.78472 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ontonagon(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ontonagon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iron River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Keweenaw Peninsula(hydrologic unit)

Southcentral Lake Superior(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Lake Superior(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Michigan Ontonagon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 051N 037W 29 NE OF SE Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • CENTERED ON ONLY SHAFT IN SECTION 29.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Quartz Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Pumpellyite-(Mg) Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Removal of hematite, quartz-pumpellyite bleaching, copper replacement

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 96
USGS model code Unassigned
Deposit model name Native Cu
Mark3 model number 99

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Portage Lake Volcanics
    Rock description Portage Lake Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Stenian
    Chronological age 1095

Nearby scientific data

(1) -89.0234, 46.78472

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Name BUTLER LODE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Concentrated in shoots (stratigraphic in amygdaloid or fissure related)

Comments on the geologic information

  • WORKED EVERGREEN LODE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1908
Year of last production 1918

Mining district

District name Keweenaw Copper

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner North Lake Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE, ASSUMING SMALL SIZE. CUT INTO BUTLER LODE AND REACHED EVERGREEN LODE, BUT NO RECORD OF PRODUCTION.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVES COMMERCIALLY PRODUCIBLE.

Comments on development

  • EXPLORED BY LONG DRIFTS NW & SE FROM SHAFT, ALMOST 1/2 MILE,

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COPPER RANGE CO., UNPUBLISHED, 1968, BEDROCK GEOLOGY MAP OF THE GREENLAND (SE 1/4 QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN. GEOLOGY MAPPED AND COMPILED BY COPPER RANGE EXPLORATION CO., INC., AND BY H. HUBBARD (U.S.G.S.)

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., AND BURBANK, W.S., THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 144, 238P.

  • Deposit

    WILBAND, J.T., 1978, THE COPPER RESOURCES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN; PREPARED FOR THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES. CONTRACT NO. J0366067, 66P.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, A.M., AND GROTH, E.H.,, 1998, INVENTORY OF UNDERGROUND MINES, ONTONAGON COUNTY, P. 119, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

  • Production

    BUTLER AND BURBANK (1929)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORGANIZED IN 1908. CUT AND FOLLOWED THE BUTLER LODE FOR A SHORT DISTANCE, REACHED THE EVERGREEN LODE, BUT NO RECORD OF PRODUCTION FROM EITHER ONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Yeager, Keith (Cannon, W.) Michigan Geological Survey Division
Updater 01-MAR-1997 Sutphin, D.M. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 01-MAY-1997 Mason Jr., G.T. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 08-AUG-2001 Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere) Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Beyond USGS

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