Latitude: 46°48'51"N
Longitude: 89°35'5"W
Commodities (Major) - Copper
Deposit Type: Secondary Enrichment
Development Status: Past Producer
Deposit Model: 96: Native Cu
Host Rock Unit: Nonesuch Formation
Host Rock: Siltstone, Shale
The Scranton Mining Company was organized in 1873 for the purpose of smelting copper and silver from a vein discovered along the Little Iron River. It was said that ore from the vein assayed at 36 ounces of silver per ton of rock. This was not a major operation and mining was abandoned in 1876.
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References
COPPER RANGE CO., UNPUBLISHED, 1968, BEDROCK GEOLOGY MAP OF THE WHITE PINE (SE 1/4) QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN. GEOLOGY MAPPED AND COMPILED BY COPPER RANGE EXPLORATION CO., INC., AND BY H. HUBBARD (U.S.G.S.)
Hamka, T., 2011, The Copper Mines of Ontonagon County, Michigan. Copperlady Press. 154 pp.
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