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Tilden Mound Deposit

Past Producer in Jackson county in Wisconsin, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Reserves and resources
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082898
MRDS ID W062323
Record type Site
Current site name Tilden Mound Deposit
Related records 10229591

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.82985, 44.30778 (WGS84)
Relative position ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BLACK RIVER A SHORT DISTANCE NORTHEAST OF BLACK RIVER FALLS, WI. THE DEPOSIT OCCURS NEAR THE BLACK RIVER AND NEAR THE CITY OF BLACK FALLS. MINING THE DEPOSITS WOULD CREATE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black River Falls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Black River Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Eau Claire(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Black(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Black-Root(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Black-Root(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wisconsin Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
021N 004W 11 CENTER OF SW OF SE Wisconsin

Comments on the location information

  • THE LAT/LON IS FROM THE USBM CD-ROM AND IS FOR THE ORE BODY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Iron Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.82985, 44.30778
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAGNETITE TACONITE IS BOUNDED BY SCHISTS AND IS CUT BY A FEW DIABASE DIKES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1839
Year of first production 1856
Year of last production 1892

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Inland Steel Co.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1978
    Total resources 3000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Iron Fe 33 wt-pct Iron Major 1978

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CRUDE ORE CONTAINS 20 TO 37 PERCENT FE THAT YIELDS 25 TO 45 PERCENT WEIGHT BY RECOVERY BY MAGNETIC SEPARATION.

Comments on the workings information

  • THE ORE BODY OCCURS IN A STEEPLY DIPPING AND PLUNGING FOLD WHERE THE IRON FORMATION THICKENS TO MINABLE WIDTHS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1995, SPATIAL DATA EXTRACTED FROM THE MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM/MINERAL INDUSTRY LOCATION SYSTEM (MAS/MILS): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION 12-95.

  • Deposit

    MARSDEN, R.W., 1978, IRON ORE RESERVES OF WISCONSIN--A MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM REPORT, IN GRAVEN, L.K., ED., PRODUCTIVITY IN LAKE SUPERIOR MINING DISTRICT: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 51ST ANNUAL MEETING MINNESOTA SECTION AIME AND 39TH ANNUAL MINING SYMPOSIUM, P. 24.1-24.28.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MARSDEN, 1978.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1996 Sutphin, David M. 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

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