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Tables of electron probe microanalyses from the Copperwood sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit, Michigan, USA

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-07-01
End Date
2016-06-30

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Mauk, J.L., and Lowers, H.A., 2020, Tables of electron probe microanalyses from the Copperwood sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit, Michigan, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9AIB97Y.

Summary

This data release provides electron microprobe analyses of ore minerals from the Copperwood sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The minerals include bornite, chalcocite, native copper, native silver, and pyrite. Minerals were analyzed for Ag, As, Co, Cu, Fe, Hg, Ni, Pb, S, Sb, and Zn. Results with acceptable totals that lie between 98.5 and 101.5% show that these minerals are stoichiometric, with very limited substitution of other elements. The Copperwood copper deposit is a sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit in the Presque Isle Syncline of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Lower Copper Bearing Sequence has a 2018 mineral resource estimate of 42.2 million metric tons (Mt) of measured [...]

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Copperwood EMPA locations.jpg
“Location of drill holes at the Copperwood deposit used in this study”
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Copperwood_EPMA_2016_06.csv
“Data in .csv format”
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Copperwood_EPMA_2015_07.csv
“Data in .csv format”
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Copperwood_DDH_lat_long.csv
“Location of drill holes at the Copperwood deposit used in this study”
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Purpose

This dataset is part of an effort to describe the mineralogy and geochemistry of the Copperwood sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Some sediment hosted copper deposits elsewhere contain or produce significant amounts of critical minerals, including cobalt, so one objective of these analyses was to test for minor elements that may occur within the lattice of common ore minerals in the Copperwood deposit.

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