 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 Microminerals of the Flambeau Mine Downloaded...University] at 18:13 12 April 2015 Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin Unless otherwise noted, mineral photography...the author's collection THE FLAMBEAU MINE, Wisconsin's first new metallic mine in twenty-five years, is...high-grade supergene-enriched gold, silver, and copper orebody. The mine has been producing world-class crystallized...the specimen recovery under a contract between Flambeau Mining Company and BURMINCO. It is enlightening |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Volcanic Belt, northern Wisconsin, Michigan and east-central Minnesota, USA: Implications for future...LLC, 34898 University Ave, Cambridge, MN 55008, USA A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords:...Volcanic Belt (PVB) of northern Wisconsin, Michigan and east-central Minnesota, USA. These cycles are responsible...paleoweathering profiles. The most significant are at the Flambeau and Back Forty deposits where Au-Ag-enriched indigenous...ores, as was the case at Flambeau (Flambeau Mining Corporation, 1976; Flambeau Mining Inc., 1990). Although |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EarlyProterozoicVolcanogenie MassiveSulfideDepositsin Wisconsin' An Overview THEODORE A. DEMATTIES 10-353rd AvenueN...144-mi-long,eastwest-trending Ladysmith-Rhinelander metavolcanic complex,which consists of various greenschists...zationin the 1880 to 1860 Ma Ladysmith-Rhinelander metavolcanic complex:(1) a mainvolcanic-arcsequence...ce, the structuralcore of the complex,(2) a laterallyequivalentand/oryounger(?),back-are basin,volcanic-volcaniclastic...volcanogeniemassivesulfidemineralizationin the Wisconsin FOul• potentiallyeconomicvolcanogenie(volcan |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rocksin the Early Proterozoic Metavolcanic Belt of Northern Wisconsin AFIFA AFIFI, U.S. GeologicalSurvey...valley, Minnesota,to the west. Lead isotopedataon metavolcanic andgraniticrocksfromthe belt showthat the U-Th-Pbsystems...retrogressive metamorphism. The agesof formationof the metavolcanic belt andof resetting,asdetermined fromleadisotopedata...Significantly, the metavolcanicrocksnear Crandon,Wisconsin,had lead isotopecompositions 200 m.y. agothat...similaroresmightbe soughtbetweenthe northernWisconsin metavolcanic belt andthe Upper Mississippi Valley becausethe |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences University of Wisconsin-River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 his is Wisconsin’s... breweries, bratwurst, and Packers football, Wisconsin also has a diverse geology and a history rich...forgotten, abandoned, and overgrown. In this respect, Wisconsin represents a frontier state for the mineral collector...several new localities, including the Flambeau copper mine near Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987) |  | | Report (issue) | | Tugarinov.) By J. S. Stacey*, B. R. Doe*, L. T. Silver**, and R. E. Zartman* *U.S. Geological Survey Box...defined it. One of these deposits, the Errington Mine in the Sudbury basin of Ontario, Canada, shows no...and are therefore comparable to deposits in the complex of Tonga-Kermadec in the western Pacific Ocean...own from deposits in Finland, and New Jersey, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming in the U.S.A...examined, probably because one deposit, the Willroy mine, does contain economically significant lead. About |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | communities in Wisconsin, the legislators, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Kennecott-Flambeau team...become acquainted with the Flambeau mine, a copper mine in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, through the crystallized...due to decisions made by management at the Flambeau mine, and supported by commitments from its parent...decisions in the life of this mine that make it a good case study for the modern mine of the future. In addition...addition to specimen preservation, the Flambeau mine has set a standard for the use of highly sophisticated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Copper Crystals from the Flambeau Mine Near Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin Perry M. Ponshock and William...Dept. of Plant and Earth Science University of Wisconsin - River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls...cordua@uwrf .edu The Flambeau Mine, located near Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin, produced nearly 1.8...(averaging 10% Cu) from May 1993 to July 1997. The mine and tailings piles are now completely reclaimed...weatheredmeta-chert from the Flambeaudeposit,Ladysmith,WI.Fieldof viewis approximately 5 mm. Pete Rodewaldphoto |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...with quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural...claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Denver Museum of Natural History specimen...Azurite on malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and photo... calcite, and chalcopyrite, Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeff |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection; Jeff Scovil...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...Tucson, Arizona 85721 Mexico is a geologically complex land with excellent examples of most of the tectonic...Mexican state of Guanajuato, which has been producing silver since the 1550’s, is famous for its specimen-quality |  | | Journal (issue) | | $6.00 Descloizite vs. Mottramite from the Whale Mine, Goodsprings District, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer...Whale Mine, a rather obscure and defunct locality in the Goodsprings Mining District of Clark County, Nevada...Nevada. The Whale Mine consisted of underground workings about 400 feet in length and with an approximate...Specimens labeled as “cuprodescloizite” from the Whale Mine date back at least as far back as the late 1940s...descloizite (Castor, 2004). Figure 1: A typical Whale Mine specimen labeled as mottramite. It occurs as densely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Through the ’Scope The Flambeau Mine Rusk County, Wisconsin June 1993-March 1997 TOM ROSEMEYER P.O....March 1995. T he Flambeau mine is a memory. On 7 March 1997 the last copper-gold-silver ore was mined from...0.1 ounces gold/ton, and 2.1 ounces silver/ton. The Flambeau mine has the distinction of being the smallest...richest open-pit copper mine in North America, and throughout its short life the mine produced 399 million...190,000 ounces of gold, and 3,990,000 ounces of silver. For a comparison in richness of the orebody, the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | UNUSUAL MlAROLlTlC MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM CENTRAL WISCONSIN. I: W Burhholzl, A. U . Falstes. and W R. Siniirions'...t o moderately rolling countryside of central Wisconsin. Several quarries on the mound exploit Early Proterozoic...Tectono-stratigraphicevolution of the Early Proterozoic Wisconsin magmatic terrains of the Penokean Orogen. Canadian...2016 Distorted pyrite crystals, Cary Mound, Wisconsin; secondary electron image. Field of view 250 micrometers...Buchholz. Distorted galena crystals, Cary Mound, Wisconsin; backscattered electron image. Field of view 120 |  | | Journal (issue) | | crucial. A Long and Winding Road A small mine in Wisconsin proves there are no short a,ts when it comes...tells me is that we are afraid. We are small mine in Wisconsin to afraid of failing, terrified of being wrong...we dare believe that the first tainty when a new mine opens. folks to sail off in search of the new world...develop a methodology for assessing and comparing mine maintenance practices. The methodology borrows from...setting, ideas and experiences that will improve mine output and cost performance. The effort has been |  | | Journal (issue) | | from Silver Reef, Utah Bob Werner – werner@lcturbonet.com Chlorargyrite, AgCl, or “Horn Silver” as it... It is very rich silver ore that is easily processed. The deposit located at Silver Reef in southwestern...Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade chlorargyrite of the Silver Reef deposit...4). Figure 1: A general area map that locates Silver Reef in SW Utah. US I-15 between St. George and...—————————————————Page Page Silver Reef, Utah (Continued from page 1) The silver, dissolved in a brine solution |  | | Journal (issue) | | Menasha, Wisconsin, the Weis Earth Science Museum (figure 1) is part of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh...designated it as the Official Mineralogical Museum of Wisconsin, and its mission is to preserve and promote the...the unique geologic and mining heritage of Wisconsin while underscoring the importance of earth science...teaching at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Ten years later, he moved to UW-Fox Valley where...brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was |  | | Report (issue) | | 90◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Bristol, Connecticut, USA (close to djurleite). 1.8800 (100), 2.4030 (70),...00 (1) Butte, Montana, USA; Fe present as pyrite. (2) New London, Maryland, USA; contains Fe as bornite...pure masses can be listed. From the Turinsk copper mine, Bogoslovsk, Ural Mountains, Russia. In England...St. Just, St. Ives, Camborne, and Redruth. In the USA, exceptional crystals from Bristol, Hartford Co....Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co.; in the United Verde Extension mine, Yavapai Co.; from Butte, Silver Bow |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auckland Library] at 17:49 09 November 2014 SALT LAKE COUNTY, UTAH LEONARD WOLFF 2456 E. Rockview Sandy, Utah...Corporation’s Twin Creek mine and Placer Dome’s Getchell mine, both of which are in Humboldt County. In Utah, however...Mercur mine in Tooele County, located in the southern end of the Oquirrh Mountains. The Mercur mine is now...world-famous Bingham Canyon copper Leonard Wolff, the mine manager at Barneys Canyon from 1995 through 2001...twenty years of mining experience. Gerry Austin, the mine geologist, at Barneys Canyon from 1987 through 1999 |  | | Report (issue) | | WATER-RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS IN WISCONSIN Compiled by D.E. Maertz U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File...Open-File Report 95-328 Madison, Wisconsin 1995 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary ...00301 Intergovernmental task force on monitoring-Wisconsin water resources coordination pilot project.......... 14 00302 Collection of basic records-Dane County program............................................................................... 18 007 Wisconsin water-use data file.......................... |  | | Report (issue) | | Rose Lake near Vergas, Minn. Long Lake (Otter Tail County) near Vergas, Minn. � Litt.Le Toad Lake near Ponsford...Pelican River Basin--Continued. Long Lake (Becker County) near Detroit Lakes, Minn. Long Lake near Elizabeth...Minn. � Cottonwood Lake near Mapleton, Minn. � Silver Lake near Waldorf, Minn. � Lakes between Blue Earth...Winter, Wis. 1911*; 1912-16. � 9,04g Flambeau River at Flambeau Reservoir, Wis � 647� 1927Flambeau River...1914-38. Flambeau River at Babbs Island, near Winter, Wis. � 9: 1,020 Flambeau River near Ladysmith, Wis |  | | Report (issue) | | inserted to complete the series unless that series is complex and undetermined, in which case a double indention...Minn ••••••••••••••••••••• Long Lake (Otter Tail County) near Vergas, Minn. Little Pine Lake near Perham...Lakes, Minn. St. Clair Lake: Long Lake (Becker County) near Detroit Lakes •• Long Lake Outlet near Detroit...••••• West Branch County ditch No. 14 near Detroit Lakes, Minn. East Branch County ditch No. 14 near...Cayuga, N.Dak •.••••••••••••. Grass Lake: Grass (Silver) Lake tributary near Lidgerwood, N. Dak. Wild Rice |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil...Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark Mauthner photo. MayNune: Silver with calcite...calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen, Jeff Scovil...Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff...SeptemberlOctober: Calcite with hematite inclusions, Lei Ping mine, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Werner Lieber specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | described from slags at Le Celine di Cotoriano Mine (Rosia, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy). I have...aesthetic end we saw the best stibnite from Xikuangshan Mine (Lengshuijiang, Shaoyang, Hunan Province, China)...on the This year, giYe the gift of information! Mine al The Mineral Collector's Mineral News, The Mineral...Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil): 2-5 cm complex aggregates of striated crystals - are they partly...even if the specimens are perfect, they are so complex, you can hardly identify the crystal form. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as...iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia....aquamarine (right), 5.1 inches, from the Pioniera mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Freilich Collection. ♦ 4 |
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Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Ladysmith-Rhinelander Metavolcanic Complex, Rusk County, Wisconsin, USA