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Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead Region, Wisconsin Sector

Occurrence in Lafayette county in Wisconsin, United States with commodity Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091918
MRDS ID K002910
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead Region, Wisconsin Sector

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.43344, 42.81668 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rewey(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dubuque North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dubuque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Grant-Little Maquoketa(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wisconsin Lafayette
United States Wisconsin Grant
United States Wisconsin Iowa

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • DISCOVERED BY FRENCH IN LATE 1600'S; BOOMED IN 1840'S AND IN 1952 AGAIN BECAME A LEADING PRODUCER. (HEYL, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Marcasite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Dolomite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.43344, 42.81668
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IN VEINS, AS REPLACEMENT AND IMPREGNATIONS OCCURRING ALONG SHEARS, SMALL REVERSE FAULTS, AND BEDDING PLANE FAULTS IN THE GALENA DOLOMITE, DECORAH FORMATION, AND UPPER PART OF THE PLATTEVILLE FORMATION, ALL MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN IN AGE. THE AREA HAS BEEN GENTLY FLEXED. (HEYL, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead Region

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCKNIGHT, E.T., NEWMAN, W.L., AND HEYL, A.V., JR. (COMPILERS), 1962, ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE OF ALASKA AND HAWAII: USGS MINERAL INV. RESOURCE MAP MR-19, SEPARATE TEXT, 18 P.

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A.V., LYONS, E.J., AGNEW, A.F., AND BEHRE, C.H., JR., 1955, ZINC-LEAD-COPPER RESOURCES AND GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 1015-G, P. 227-243.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1975 Wedow, Helmuth 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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