Mercer District

Unknown in Iron county in Wisconsin, United States with commodity Iron

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Mineral occurrence model information
Host and associated rocks
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10082601
MRDS ID	W060032
Record type	Site
Current site name	Mercer District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-90.08344, 46.16667 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mercer(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ironwood(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ashland(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flambeau(hydrologic unit)

Chippewa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Chippewa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Wisconsin	Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
	43N	3E	26		Wisconsin

Comments on the location information

LAT/LON IS FOR THE TOWN OF MERCER.

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Iron	Primary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Magnetite	Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code	241
USGS model code	34a
Deposit model name	Superior Fe (BC name is Lake Superior & Rapitan types iron-formation)

Host and associated rocks

Host or associated Host

Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Iron Formation

Host or associated	Host
Rock type	Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Iron Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-90.08344, 46.16667	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Mercer

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	W060032

Bibliographic references

Deposit

DUTTON, C.E., 1983, LITHOLOGY AND GEOLOGIC SETTING OF LOWER PROTEROZOIC IRON-FORMATIONS IN PARTS OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN: USGS OPEN-FILE REPORT 84-76, 15 PP.
Deposit

ALLAN, R.C., AND BARRETT, L.P., 1915, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN: MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY PUB. 18, GEOLOGICAL SERIES 15, P. 13-164.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	6 DRILL HOLES EXAMINED BY ALLAN AND BARRETT, 1915

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation
Reporter	01-JUL-1995	Nicholson, S.W.	U.S. Geological Survey
Updater	01-MAR-1997	Sutphin, David M.	U.S. Geological Survey
Editor	01-MAY-1997	Mason Jr., G.T.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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