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Adventure Consolidated Mine

Past Producer in Ontonagon county in Michigan, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Production statistics
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106199
MRDS ID W031520
Record type Site
Current site name Adventure Consolidated Mine

Comments on the site names

  • ADVENTURE CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. IN (1898). ADVENTURE CONSOLIDATED COPPER COMPANY WAS MADE UP OF THE ADVENTURE, HILTON, AND KNOWLTON MINES. WORKED KNOWLTON, OGIMA, MERCHANT, EVERGREEN, MASS, AND BUTLER LODES.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -89.07285, 46.77333 (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)

Ontonagon(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 038W 35; 36 1/2 E 35 Michigan
1/2 W 36 Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • CENTERED BETWEEN NINE SHAFTS IN SECTIONS 35 AND 36.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

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

Alteration

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

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) -89.07285, 46.77333
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Syncline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Mass anticline

Ore body information

  • Name EVERGREEN LODE; KNOWLTON LODE; MASS LODE
    General form IRREGULAR
    Strike 40-45 NW
  • Strike 40 NW
    Width 8.5M
  • Strike NA
    Width 3M

Controls for ore emplacement

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

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1850
Year of first production 1851
Year of last production 1917

Mining district

District name Keweenaw Copper

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Consolidated Adventure/Knowlton/Hilton Mines

Production statistics

  • Year 1917
    Period 1851-1917
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major recovered Cu Copper Copper 4891.4mt

Comments on the production information

  • Ore grade reported 12.75 LBS CU/TON (0.064%). GRADE GIVEN IS AN AVERAGE OF AVAILABLE FIGURES (FOUR YEARS). PRODUCTION WAS FROM THE OGIMA, MERCHANT, EVERGREEN, AND KNOWLTON LODES AND SOME FISSURES. SOME OTHER LODES DEVELOPED SLIGHTLY. SILVER SOLD IN 1918 - $1,283.59. THE EVERGREEN LODE PRODUCED THROUGH 1958 AT THIS MINE, THOUGH PRODUCTION FIGURES ARE UNAVAILABLE. HOWEVER, PRODUCTION FROM THE EVERGREEN SERIES FOR 1926-1977 FOR ALL MINES WAS LESS THAN 1/12 PRODUCTION FOR ALL MINES 1845-1925.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NOT AVAILABLE
  • NO RESERVES COMMERCIALLY PRODUCIBLE.

Comments on the workings information

  • ORIGINALLY SHAFTS FOR HOISTING, ADITS FOR HAULAGE; MINE USED CROSS-CUTS TO GET ACCESS TO SEVERAL LODES, FROM EVERGREEN LODE TO MASS LODE; SHAFTS AT ANGLE OF LODE.

Comments on development

  • CEASED MAJOR ACTIVITY IN 1908, SOME TRIBUTING WAS DONE AFTER 1908-1917; CURRENTLY NOT AN ABANDONED MINE, PART OF MINE AREA RECENTLY USED AS RECREATIONAL ATTRACTION, OWNER IS CONDUCTING UNDERGROUND TOURS OF MINE. ADVENTURE WAS FIRST COMPANY TO INTRODUCE TRIBUTE SYSTEM OF MINING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COPPER RANGE CO., UNPUBLISHCOPPER 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., 1929, 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. 1-6, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

  • Production

    BUTLER AND BURBANK (1929)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ADVENTURE MINNING COMPANY FIRST ORGANIZED IN 1850. SOLD IN 1870, BUT NO WORK WAS DONE FROM 1877-1898. ADVENTURE CONSOLIDATED CO ORGANIZED IN 1898, WHICH CONSISTED OF ADVENTURE, HILTON AND KNOWLTON MINES: DEVELOPED ON THE BUTLER, EVERGREEN AND KNOWLTON LODES. SLIGHTLY DEVELOPED ON THE OGINA, MERCHANT AND NORTH BUTLER LODES. SMALL QUANTITY OF SILVER SOLD IN 1918 AMOUNTED TO $1,283.59. EVERGREEN LODE PRODUCED UNTIL 1958 AT THIS LOCATION.

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 18-JUL-2001 Anderson, Arlene (M. Gere) Michigan Department of Natural Resources

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