Dawkins Lake Prospect

Unknown in Cook county in Minnesota, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082799
MRDS ID W062149
Record type Site
Current site name Dawkins Lake Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.77514, 48.055 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Est Lat/Lon Is For The W Tip Of Dawkins Lake.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cook(county)

Minnesota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Long Island Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saganaga Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Quetico(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)

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Minnesota Cook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
4th Principal 64N 4W 1 NEAR CENTER Minnesota

Comments on the location information

  • AT W TIP OF DAWKINS LAKE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Ilmenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Rock unit name Duluth Complex - undivided
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mesoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.77514, 48.055

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure name Inclusions of metamorphosed country rock

Ore body information

  • General form STRATIFORM
    Length 914.4M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Northern Range

Comments on development

  • OREBODY WAS TRACED BY MAGNETICS FOR 600 PACES TO THE NE. THE ORE IS LEAN. ; ECON.COM: ESTIMATED RESOURCES OF 700,000 ST OF INDICATED ORE IS BASED ON OUTCROPS AND EXPLORATION OR MAGNETICS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GROUT, F.F., 1950, THE TITANIFEROUS MAGNETITES OF MINNESOTA: ST. PAUL, MINN., COMMISSIONER OF THE IRON RANGE RESOURCES AND REHABILATION, 117 P.

  • Deposit

    HAUCK AND OTHERS, IN PRESS, AN OVERVIEW OF THE GEOLOGY AND OXIDE, SULFIDE, AND PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENT MINERALIZATION ALONG THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONTACTS OF THE DULUTH COMPLEX, IN OJAKANGAS, R.W., DICKAS, A.B., AND GREEN, J.C.,EDS., [SPECIAL PAPRE IN THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT SYSTEM]: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA SPECIAL PAPER, IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    CANNON, W.F., AND MCGERVEY, T.A., 1991, MAP SHOWING MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT, LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, UNITED STATES AND CANADA; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP, MF-2153, SCALE 1;500,000, 1 SHEET.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOTED IN GROUT (1950, P. 81)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
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.