CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
17 United States (Michigan) 46.46 N -- 089.34 W White Pine Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): White Pine
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Michigan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; ore in lower Nonesuch shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neohelikian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing); Metamorphic grade: zeolite
Individual lithologies:siltstone
shale
sandstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Nonesuch Shale overlies Copper Harbor Conglomerate
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) ore in lower Nonesuch shale; reserves underlie more than 20 square miles of ground; formed by reduction of seawater sulfate/ 3 zones in Nonesuch shale
References:
Bartholome, P., 1969
Kamoto (Katanga) et White Pine (Michigan): Deux Gisements Stratiformes de Cuivre
Acadamie Royal Science Outre-Mer Bruxelles, Bulletin Seances, Volume 2

Burnie, S. W., 1972
A Sulphur Isotopic Study of the White Pine Mine, Michigan
Economic Geology, Volume 67, p. 895 - 914

Carpenter, R. H., 1963
Some Vein-Wall Rock Relationships in White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan
Economic Geology, Volume 58, p. 643 - 666

Chaudhuri, S.; Faure, G., 1967
Geochronology of the Keweenawan Rocks, White Pine, Michigan
Economic Geology, Volume 62, p. 1011 - 1033

Ensign, C. O.; White, W. S.; Wright, J. C.; Patrick, J. L.; Leone, R. J.; Hathaway, D. J.; Trammell, J. W.; Fritts, J. J.; Wright, T. L., 1968
Copper Deposits in the Nonesuch Shale, White Pine, Michigan
in Ore Deposits of the United States 1933-1967, Edited by Ridge, J. D., The Graton-Sales Volume, Rocky Mountain Series (AIME), 1880 p, p. 460 - 488

Jowett, E.C., 1989
Effects of Continental Rifting on the Location and Genesis of Stratiform Copper-silver Deposits
Section Introduction, General Principles and Geochemical Aspects, in Sediment Hosted Stratiform Cu Deposits, Ottawa, May 1986, Edited by Boyle, R. W.; Brown, A. C.; Jefferson, C. W.; Jowett, E. C.; Kirkham, R. V., Special Paper, Geological Association of Canada, 36, 710 p, p. 53 - 66

Kinkle, A. R., 1962
Copper in the United States
Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, MR-13

Wiese Jr., R. G., 1973
Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Parting Shale, White Pine, Michigan
Economic Geology, Volume 68, p. 317 - 331

Production data: Report period: from 1953 until 1982; 138,006,304 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.14 percent
Reference: Seasor, R. W., 1986: Personal Communication, April 1986
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
Disclaimer - Reserves/Resource Data

Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Natural Resources (NRCan) does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, completeness or fitness for any purpose of Reserve and Resource information (Data) contained in this database, including whether the Data is compliant with any securities regulations or standards, and NRCan does not assume any liability with respect to any damage or loss incurred as a result of the use made of the Data.

Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1981; 550,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resource ?
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.2 percent
Reference: Goossens, P. J., 1983: Precambrian Mineral Deposits and their Metallogeny; Annales. Série in 80, Sciences Géologiques, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Publication code 89, 97 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1952; 184,158,496 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: original reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.1 percent
Reference: Seasor, R. W., 1986: Personal Communication, April 1986
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


170,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: proven and probable reserve on Copper Range Lands
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.08 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1989: Metall Mining to Acquire Copper Range; Mining Journal, February 10 issue, p. 117
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


18,000,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: additional reserve on contiguous leased lands
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.49 percent
Reference: Anonymous, 1989: Metall Mining to Acquire Copper Range; Mining Journal, February 10 issue, p. 117
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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