 | | 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...Cornwall, England. Well-crystallized microcrystals of copper, cuprite, malachite, azurite, arsenopyrite, dolomite |  | | 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...production of exceptionally high-grade, direct shipping copper and/or gold ores. As such, the buried PVB unconformity |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COMMUNICATIONS GEOLOGIC FRAMEWORK FOR MASSIVE IN THE WISCONSIN PENOKEAN VOLCANIC THEODORE SULFIDE BELT DEPOSITS...focus of Corporation announcedthe discoveryin Wisconsin the base metal explorationactivity that hasresulted...0 percentcopperand0.05 oz goldper ton (Mudrey, complex in the belt hasbeen referred to informally 1979)...statefailed. During thoseearly yearsat least as the "Ladysmith-Rhinelandergreenstonebelt." 42 companies were...sufficientlyto allow Ken- Western Ladysmith-RhinelanderVolcanic Complex necott to proceedwith the project |  | | 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) | | 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) |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Cover Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil...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) | | Newsletter $3.00 Copper Crystals from the Flambeau Mine Near Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin Perry M. Ponshock...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...tons of high grade copper ore (averaging 10% Cu) from May 1993 to July 1997. The mine and tailings piles...weatheredmeta-chert from the Flambeaudeposit,Ladysmith,WI.Fieldof viewis approximately 5 mm. Pete Rodewaldphoto |  | | Report (issue) | | 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...Gumming and Gudjurgis (1973) studied the Quemont mine at Noranda in detail, analyzing trace lead in the |  | | 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...Tredwell to carefully document the localities by mine and sometimes by level. It also afforded him superior |  | | 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....Rodewald, March 1995. T he Flambeau mine is a memory. On 7 March 1997 the last copper-gold-silver ore was mined...10.5 percent copper, 0.1 ounces gold/ton, and 2.1 ounces silver/ton. The Flambeau mine has the distinction...richest open-pit copper mine in North America, and throughout its short life the mine produced 399 million...million pounds of copper, 190,000 ounces of gold, and 3,990,000 ounces of silver. For a comparison in richness |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jeffrey Scovil photo. July/August: Calcite, Gallatin County, Mon tana. American Museum of Natural Histo ry...September/October: Chalcocite, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wiscon sin. F. John Barlow specimen...November/December: Chalcocite, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut. Jim Minette specimen, Jeffrey Scovil...Vanadinite mine, 56-59 Arkansas, Potash Sulphur Springs, 154-70 Arsenopyrite, Connecticut, 128; Wisconsin, 338...Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy Azurite, Wisconsin, 338 Babcock, L . E . , see Media Reviews Babingtonite |  | | 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) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...were precipitated in the formation were a little copper and uranium. So, where did the silver originate...Kemple likely recognized the little blue and green copper staining in the area and had several samples assayed...perfect bound for just: $35.00 Postage $5.00 in the USA; $23 for foreign. Excalibur Mineral Corp Tel: 434-964-0875...only $25 per copy plus shipping. Figure 5: Native copper crystals from Michigan, size 7 cm. In the late |  | | 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...hydrothermal veins and in large low-grade porphyry copper orebodies. Association: Pyrite, chalcopyrite, covellite...important and widely distributed ore mineral of copper. Only a few localities producing exceptional crystals...pure masses can be listed. From the Turinsk copper mine, Bogoslovsk, Ural Mountains, Russia. In England |  | | 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...of the world-famous Bingham Canyon copper Leonard Wolff, the mine manager at Barneys Canyon from 1995...twenty years of mining experience. Gerry Austin, the mine geologist, at Barneys Canyon from 1987 through 1999 |  | | Report (issue) | | Total 99.53 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Fairfield, Utah, USA; Sc2 O3 originally reported as Al2 O3 , later confirmed...phosphate Association: Chlorite, quartz (Sadisdorf mine, Germany); miargyrite, diaphorite (Baia Sprie, Romania);...variscite (Fairfield, Utah, USA); mahlmoodite (Wilson Springs mine, Arkansas, USA); lithiophorite, vernadite... Distribution: In Germany, at the Sadisdorf copper mine, near Schmiedeberg, Saxony. From Baia Sprie (Felsőbánya)...Gleichenberg, Styria, Austria. In the USA, from the Little Green Monster mine, Clay Canyon, about nine km west |  | | Report (volume) | | Wilderness Study Area, Price and Vilas Counties, Wisconsin By WILLIAM F. CANNON, CORNELIA C. CAMERON, JOHN...Wilderness study area, Price and Vila£ Counties, Wisconsin. (Studies related to wilderness) (Geological Survey...Bibliography: p. 1. Mines and mineral resources- Wisconsin-Round Lake Wilderness. I. Cannon, William F. II...the Round Lake Wilderness Study Area, northern Wisconsin, that is being considered for wilderness designation...Wilderness Study Area, Price and Vilas Counties, Wisconsin _______________________________________ In pocket |  | | 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.......................... |  | | 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) | | JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil...Scovil photo. March/April: Gold, Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark...calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen, Jeff...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 (article/letter/editorial) | | at 05:02 15 June 2016 FLAMBEAU UPDATE As a follow-up to my article on Wisconsin mineral localities (November/...December 1998), I must note that the Flambeau copper mine site near Ladysmith is now completely reclaimed. The...burial to reduce the chance of acid mine waters. A Flambeau mine site, now completely reclaimc?d. clay-rich... Doug Moore of the Heart of Wisconsin Those with specimens from the mine them. Some of these rarities...University of Wisconsin-River Falls some nice tourmaline and quartz crystals Wisconsin by Jim Butterbrodt |
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Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Ladysmith-Rhinelander Metavolcanic Complex, Rusk County, Wisconsin, USA