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Calumet No.1

Past Producer in Houghton county in Michigan, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10146583
MRDS ID W060036
MAS/MILS ID 0260610007
Record type Site
Current site name Calumet No.1
Alternate or previous names Calumet and Hecla C & H, Centennial, Schoolcraft, Tamarack, Tamarack Jr., Osceola Crosscut
Related records 10082604

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -88.42975, 47.2489 (WGS84)
Elevation 355
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Houghton(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Laurium(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hancock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hancock C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Keweenaw Peninsula(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 Houghton

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 056 N 033 W 23 Michigan

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Chlorite Unknown
Copper Unknown
Epidote Unknown
Feldspar Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Silver Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -88.42975, 47.2489
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N30E
    Dip 40N
    Thickness 5M
    Length 5000M
    Width 3700M
    Area 20HA
    Depth to top 1200M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #1 LENTICULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 DISSEMINATED
    Shape of Orebody #2 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Secondary Ore Control OTHER
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 PROPYLITIC
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 BLEACHING
    Strike And Dip N30E:40N
    Minimum Depth to Top 1
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 9
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. .3
    Total Surface Area (HA) 20
    Date of Last Modification 790110

Comments on the geologic information

  • SOURCE OF INFORMATION: REFERENCES G001-3,7-9,10-11. THE CONGLOMERATE CHANGES TO SANDSTONE AT THE THINNER MARGINS OF THE LENS. BECAUSE THE PERMEABILITY OF THE SANDSTONE IS LESS, ORE IS CONFINED TO THE CONGLOMERATIC PORTION OF THE LENS.
  • MINERAL WEIGHT PERCENTAGES FROM WILBAND, REFERENCE M001-002.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1864
Year of first production 1865

Mining district

District name Michigan Native Copper Belt

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Minerals Only
Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lake Superior Land Co, Calumet, Michigan
    Interest 100
    Home office Michigan
    Year 1994

Comments on the ownership information

  • THE PROPERTY IS LEASED TO HOMESTAKE COPPER COMPANY AND INCO, LTD., ON A 60-40 PERCENTAGE PARTNERSHIP BASIS.

Production statistics

  • Year 1939
    Description Unknown Grade Ore From C & H Mine 8436000 Pounds Of Refined Copper
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 3826505.23mt
  • Year 1959
    Description Unknown Grade Ore From C & H Mine 470299 Pounds Of Refined Copper
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 213324.03mt
  • Year 1960
    Description Unknown Grade Ore From C & H Mine 2393799 Pounds Of Refined Copper
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 1085808.96mt
  • Year 1961
    Description Unknown Grade Ore From C & H Mine 2008299 Pounds Of Refined Copper
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 910949.1mt
  • Year 1962
    Description Unknown Grade Ore From C & H Mine 1609600 Pounds Of Refined Copper
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 730102.27mt
  • Year 1963
    Description Unknown Grade Ore From C & H Mine 169400 Pounds Of Refined Copper
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Copper Copper 76838.54mt

Comments on the production information

  • EXPLORATION METHODS USED AT ANOTHER DEPOSIT ON THE CALUMET LODE, THE CENTENNIAL NO. 3-6 (SEQ. NO. 0260610029). YEAR OF DISCOVERY FROM REF. H001-3. YEARS OF INITIAL AND LAST PRODUCTION FOR CALUMET LODE FROM REF. H004-6. PAST PRODUCTION FIGURES FROM WILBAND, REF. H004-6, FOR CALUMET LODE, EXCLUDING PRODUCTION FROM CENTENNIAL NO. 3-6 MINE, WHICH IS GIVEN SEPARATELY FOR THAT DEPOSIT.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • COPPER TONNAGES AND GRADES ARE MODIFIED FROM AASE. MATRIX COLUMNS REPRESENT DIFFERENT BLOCK SECTIONS OF THE DEPOSIT. THE RESERVES OF THE CENTENNIAL NO.3-6 DEPOSIT, SEQ. NO. 0260610029, OCCUR WITHIN ORE BLOCK A, AS DEFINED BY AASE(GEN. REF. 001-3). BECAUSE BLOCK A IS INCLUDED IN COLUMNS ONE AND TWO OF MATRIX ONE, THE RESERVES OF THE CENTENNIAL MINE WERE SUBTRACTED FROM THESE COLUMNS. COLUMN THREE, MATRIX ONE, WAS NOT AFFECTED BY THE CENTENNIAL NO. 3-6 RESERVES.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 7000M
    Overall depth 1524M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method PROPOSED
    Mining Method HORIZ CUT & FILL W/WASTE ROCK 10-60
    Swell Factor .54
    Percent Waste Rock 25
    Percent Recovery 100
    Hardness of Rock HARDROCK FISSURED WITH MODERATE WATER
    Rock Characteristics ONE SYSTEM OF WEAKNESS PLANES
    Rock Support Chars. SUPPORTING MAY BACK SLAB
    Mine Support Chars. POST, HEADBOARD, CAPS, ROOF BOLTS
    Number of Shafts 2
    Capacity 6000
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 21.96
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 250
    Operating Shifts per Day 2
    Year of Information 1978

Comments on the workings information

  • ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY OF LAND AND WATER TO MINERAL EXTRACTION IS RATED MODERATE IN BOTH LONG AND SHORT TERM BECAUSE OF SIZE OF TAILINGS DISPOSAL AREA AND BECAUSE OF THE HIGH SALINITY OF MINE WATERS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Geology

    BUTLER, B.S. AND W.S. BURBANK. THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICH-

  • Geology

    IGAN. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER NO. 144, 1929, 238

  • Geology

    PP. PLUS SEPARATE PLATES.

  • Geology

    WEEGE, R.J., ET AL. THE GEOLOGY OF TWO NEW MINES IN THE NA-

  • Geology

    TIVE COPPER DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. ECON. GEOL., V. 67,

  • Geology

    1972, PP. 622-633.

  • Geology

    WHITE, W.S., ED. GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD CONFERENCE, MICHIGAN

  • Geology

    COPPER DISTRICT. MICHIGAN TECH. UNIV. PRESS, 1971,82PP

  • Geology

    CORNWALL, H.R. AND J.C. WRIGHT. GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAURIUM

  • Geology

    QUADRANGLE, MICHIGAN. USGS MAP MF47, 1956.

  • Deposit

    BRODERICK, T.M. AND C.D. HOHL. THE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT. CHAPTER IN COPPER RESOURCES OF THE WORLD, INTERNAT. GEOL. CONG., WASHINGTON, D.C., 1935, PP. 271-284.

  • Deposit

    RICT. CHAPTER IN COPPER RESOURCES OF THE WORLD, INTER-

  • Deposit

    NAT. GEOL. CONG., WASHINGTON, D.C., 1935, PP. 271-284.

  • Deposit

    WILBAND, J.T. THE COPPER RESOURCES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN.

  • Deposit

    BUMINES MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM CONTRACT NO. J0366

  • Deposit

    067, UNPUBL. FINAL REPT., 1978, 66 PP.; COPY AT E.F.O.C

  • Geology

    WILBAND, J.T. PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES OF KEWEENAW ROCKS. UN-

  • Geology

    PUBLISHED, 1970.

  • Deposit

    AASE, JAMES H, MICHIGAN NATIVE-COPPER AVAILABILITY STUDY, RE

  • Deposit

    & RESOURCE PORTION OF UNPUBLISHED BUMINES STUDY, 1970,

  • Deposit

    (SOURCE OF RESERVE & RESOURCE DATA, HAS DIAGRAMS OF ORE

  • Deposit

    BECHTEL CORP, PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING & FEASIBILITY STUDY FO

  • Deposit

    HILLS CREEK PROJECT, FOR CALUMET & HECLA, INC., 1966.

  • Deposit

    (CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE OF SOME MILL & MINE COSTING DATA U

  • Deposit

    6000 TPD MILL & MINE MODELS IN BUMINES IC 8598)

  • Deposit

    BENNETT,H J, ET AL, AN ECONOMIC APPRAISAL OF THE SUPPLY OF C

  • Deposit

    FROM PRIMARY DOMESTIC SOURCES, BUMINES IC 8598, PP 15-1

  • Deposit

    96-97. (SOURCE OF MODEL MINE & MILL COSTS & DESIGN, W

  • Deposit

    WERE SCALED UP TO THE SIZE OF THIS PROPERTY)

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, GUY A, MICHIGAN NATIVE COPPER AVAILABILITY STUDY, C

  • Deposit

    PORTION OF UNPUBLISHED BUMINES STUDY, 1970, 30 P. (SO

  • Deposit

    OF MINE DESIGN & SOME MINE COSTING INFORMATION USED IN

  • Deposit

    IC 8598, HAS MINE DESIGN ILLUSTRATIONS NOT IN IC)

  • Deposit

    WHITE, W S, THE NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN,

  • Deposit

    DEPOSITS OF THE U.S., 1933-1967, AIME, 1968, PP303-326.

  • Deposit

    (GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICT, PLUS DETAILED BIBLIOG

  • Deposit

    MATHEWS, A. A., INC. CAPITAL AND OPERATING COST ESTIMATING S

  • Deposit

    FOR MINING AND BENEFICIATION OF METALLIC AND NONMETALLIC MIN

  • Deposit

    EXCEPT FOSSIL FUELS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. U.S.B.M

  • Deposit

    CONTRACT NO. JO255026. JULY 1975 299 PP.

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, T.S., R. PUMPELLY, AND C. ROMINGER. UPPER PENIN-

  • Deposit

    SULA, 1869-1873. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MICHIGAN, V.1, 1873,

  • Deposit

    567 PP.

  • Deposit

    HUBBARD, H.A. LOWER KEWEENAWAN VOLCANIC ROCKS OF MICHIGAN

  • Deposit

    AND WISCONSIN. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. RES., V. 3, NO. 5,

  • Deposit

    SEPT.-OCT.,1975, PP. 529-541.

  • Deposit

    WEEGE, R.J., AND J.P. POLLOCK. EXPLORATION METHODS IN THE

  • Deposit

    COPPER COUNTRY, KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN. CHAPTER

  • Deposit

    IN PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE AIME PACIFIC SOUTHWEST MIN-

  • Deposit

    ERAL INDUSTRY CONFERENCE, SPARKS, NEVADA, MAY 5-7,1965,

  • Deposit

    SESSION ON NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND MINE DEVELOP-

  • Deposit

    MENT; NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES REPT. 13, PT. C, 1966, PP.

  • Deposit

    51-61.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIMENSIONS OF MINERALIZED ZONE FROM DIAGRAMS BY AASE (GENERAL REFERENCE LINES 001-003). ORE CONTROLS ARE LITHOLOGY AND PERMEABILITY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-MAR-1995 Drescher, Theodore A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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