Commodities
PrimaryGold
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeU
Ore controlSims And Day (1992) Note That The Fundamental Regional Control On Gold Deposits In The Superior Province Is Transcurrent And Oblique Slip-Shear Deformation Zones That Formed In Late Archean Time.
Materials
Ore mineralsGold
GanguePyrite, Quartz, Calcite
Geology
Host rockSlate · Rove Formation
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10082807
MRDS IDW062158
Alternate namesSpalding Mine
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates48.04861, -90.21401
References
GROUT, F.F., 1937, PETROGRAPHIC STUDY OF GOLD PROSPECTS OF MINNESOTA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 32, NO. 1., P. 56-68.SIMS, P.K., AND DAY, W.C., 1992, A REGIONAL STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ARCHEAN SUPERIOR PROVINCE, UNITED STATES, IN SIMS, P.K., AND CARTER, L.M.H., EDS., CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1094-M, 19 P.