From Compass to Drone: The Evolving Role of Magnetics in Mapping the Geology and Ore Deposits Of the Lake Superior Region: 1830-2022

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From Compass to Drone: The Evolving Role of Magnetics in Mapping the Geology and Ore Deposits Of the Lake Superior Region: 1830-2022

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2022

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Minnesota Geological Survey

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The Lake Superior region, the “Birthplace of North American Precambrian Geology,” is noted for its world-class mineral resources, especially its native copper and iron ore deposits, and its classic bedrock of Archean and Proterozoic orogenic belts and the exposures of rocks of the Midcontinent Rift System. The magnetic method of mapping the region’s ore deposits and bedrock geology has been used for nearly two centuries because of limitations in the exposure of the Precambrian bedrock in the region. For the first century magnetic mapping was directed primarily at the identification of regions favorable for iron and copper ore deposits using simple magnetic needle instrumentation. Initially instrumentation was limited to the use of the dial (sun) compass and used mainly for exploration of hard, magnetite-rich iron ore deposits. With the introduction of the dip needle, a counterbalanced magnetic needle oscillating vertically in the magnetic meridian, to the Lake Superior region likely in 1865 by T.B. Brooks, magnetic mapping was no longer restricted to the difficult to interpret magnetic field angular variations.

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Hinze, William J. (2022). From Compass to Drone: The Evolving Role of Magnetics in Mapping the Geology and Ore Deposits Of the Lake Superior Region: 1830-2022. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/241950.

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