Michigan · Marquette County
Prospect

Eagle Project

Marquette County, Michigan, United States
CopperNickelPlatinumGoldPalladiumCobalt
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Description

Kennecott Exploration Ltd.

Commodities
PrimaryCopper, Nickel
SecondaryPlatinum, Gold, Palladium, Cobalt
Deposit
Deposit typeconduit-style magmatic sulfide
Model{284: Conduit-type Ni-Cu massive sulfide}
Geology
Host rockPeridotite · Yellow Dog Peridotite
Economic & production
Development statusProspect
Discovery year2002
Identification
Deposit ID10400290
Alternate namesEagle and East Eagle deposits
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates46.746, -87.856
References
{Development:: Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company?s Mining and Reclamation Plan and Draft Comments from the DNR, 2006.\nhttp://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/MiningandReclamationPlan_186442_7.pdf}{Development:: http://www.northwoodswild.org/projects/sulfide-and-uranium-mining}{Development:: Engineering and Mining Journal, 2010, Eagle Mine and Mill Receive Michigan State Approval: March 2010, p. 8.}{Geology:: Xin Ding, Chusi Li, Ripley, E.M., Rossell, D., Kamo, S., 2010, The Eagle and East Eagle sulfide ore-bearing mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Midcontinent Rift System, upper Michigan: Geochronology and petrologic evolution; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Vol. 11, Q03003, doi:10.1029/2009GC002546, 2010\nhttp://www.agu.org/journals/gc/gc1003/2009GC002546/\n}