CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
15 United States (Michigan) 46.40 N -- 089.45 W White Pine - Southwest Mine; 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 - Southwest Mine; White Pine
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Michigan
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; native cu dissem in cross-stratified sandstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Helikian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift-graben; divergent (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marine (reducing); Metamorphic grade: zeolite
Host rock protoliths:continental sediments
Individual lithologies:sandstone (chloritic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Copper Harbor Conglomerate
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) native Cu dissem in cross-stratified sandstone; upper chloritic facies 1-20 ft thick/lower hematitic facies 80-100 ft; most Cu within 7 ft of upper contact but also scattered 25-85 ft below
References:
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

Hamilton, S. K., 1967
Copper Mineralization in the Upper Part of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate at White Pine, Michigan
Economic Geology, Volume 62, p. 885 - 904

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

White, W. S.; Wright, J. C., 1960
Lithofacies of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Northern Michigan
in Short Papers in the Geological Sciences, Geological Survey Research 1960, Edited by United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper, United States Geological Survey, 400-B, 515 p, p. 5 - 8

White, W. S., 1971
A Paleohydrologic Model for Mineralization of the White Pine Copper Deposit, Northern Michigan
Economic Geology, Volume 66, p. 1 - 13


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