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Illite from
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Illite
Formula:K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Illite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:151355
Long-form Identifier:1:3:151355:4
GUID (UUID V4):403df4ed-cdc2-4643-beb7-642deeb340d7
Nearest other occurrences of Illite
35.1km (21.8 miles) Copperwood, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) United States Metals Refining Company exploration (Copperwood Mine), Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Country flep)LOSO ofrhe Copper Range Company, White Pine, Michrgm Used wuh permission. Downloaded by...Ouray, Colorado 81427 he White Pine mine and adjacent town of White Pine are located about 6 miles south...the western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway 64, which winds...to 500 feet in elevation above Lake Superior. The mine lies within a belt of copper-bearing Precambrian...Keweenaw Peninsula, a distance of 160 miles. The White Pine sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit is
Report (issue)
(CaBSiO4OH) vesicle filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur...the surface and between the nodular masses. The Michigan Bicentennial symbol (back cover) incorporates...Survey Division BULLETIN 6 THE MINERALOGY OF MICHIGAN by E. Wm. Heinrich Professor of Mineralogy and...University of Michigan Ann Arhor, Michigan Lansing, Michigan 1976 STATE OF MICHIGAN WILLIAM G. Mrr...State of Michigan CL '48 s.321.6. Printed by Speaker-Hines and Thomas, Inc., Lansing, Michigan. Available
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NONESUCH FORMATION IN THE VICINITY OF THE WHITE PINE COPPER MINE, MICHIGANI GEJING LI, ]EFFREY L. MAux...ofGeological Sciences, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1063 Abstract-The Middle Proterozoic (1...host ofthe stratiform copper deposit at White Pine, Michigan, consists of 200 m of principally dark grey...rocks. Clay minerals from sampies collected from the mine area and drill holes up to 100 km away have been...morphologies of phyllosilicates, both including white mica and chlorite, occur in the 'lower' Nonesuch
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Rock-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposit, Upper Peninsula, Michigan Theodore J. Bornhorst1,† and William C. Williams2...Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, 1404 E. Sharon Avenue, Houghton, Michigan 49931 2 Orvana...Copperwood is located in Gogebic County, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, within the Porcupine Mountains copper...the orebody are quartz, clinochore, muscovite/ illite, plagioclase, K-feldspar, calcite, and hematite...stratigraphically equivalent to that at the White Pine mine, but Copperwood lacks the structural complexity
Book
Mineralogy of Michigan by E. W. Heinrich updated and revised • by George W. Robinson M By E W~ Hellnr]ch...Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 2004 © MINERALOGY OF MICHIGAN 3 FOREWORD...FOREWORD Michigan has a long and varied geologic history that includes repeated episodes of volcanism...before the first Europeans set foot here. When Michigan became a state in 1837, one of the first actions...and we continue to learn more about them today. Michigan minerals helped to build the state and nation
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Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA U.S. Geological Survey...Survey, P.O. Box 25046 MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA c Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National...isotope results from late-stage veins in the White Pine Mine encompass a greater temperature range (49–116...Volcanic Group and within the Nonesuch Formation at White Pine (Fig. 1; ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address:...0301-9268/Ó 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. White, 1968; Ensign et al., 1968). Large-scale copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UNDERLYING THE WHITE PINE-PRESQUE ISLE STRATIFORM COPPER MINERALIZATION, NORTHERN MICHIGAN Alex C. Brown†...Formation of the ~50-km-wide White Pine-Presque Isle mining district, northern Michigan, has long been explained...the large Porcupine Volcanics dome underlying the mine district. Not only would caldera heat have warmed...Copper Harbor Conglomerate aquifer toward the White Pine-Presque Isle district. This lateral focus of...sediment-hosted stratiform copper mineralization of the White Pine-Presque Isle district, could be considered in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Michigan Eileen S. Ho a, Jeffrey U Mauk b " Department...Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1063, USA b Geology Department, University...from strata hosting the White Pine stratiform copper deposit in northern Michigan provides insight into...rock and organic extract analyses were performed on mine and core samples from five gray beds ("stripey"...Introduction The White Pine sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit in Northern Michigan (Fig. 1) and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C., 1971, Zoning in the White Pine copper deposit, Ontonagon County, Michigan: ECON. GEOL., v. 66, p....southwesternPoland [abs.]CanadianMineralogist, v. 24, p. 212. White, D. E., 1968, Environmentsof generation of somebasemetal... 301-335. White, W. S., 1971, A paleohydrologicmodel for mineralization of the White Pine copper deposit...deposit, northern Michigan: ECON. GEOL., v. 66, p. 1-13. OF PORPHYRY-HOSTED ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AU-AG DEPOSITS...DEPOSITS MONTANA--A IN THE DISCUSSION P. J. WHITE AND J. v. LAWLESS Mineral Services Section, KRTA
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post-depositional events played an important role in the "Mine Series" of Katanga, especially with regard to heavy...part of the quartz is detrital, as well as the illite-muscovite flakes, part of the clorite and part...and polished sections, hand specimens, outcrops or mine walls, all show obvious relations between mineralization...features also apply to the copper deposit at White Pine, Michigan (OoswERBOSCH, 1962; BARTHOLOMg, 1969). In...the following: WHITE and We`IGHT (1966) and Be,owN (1968) have shown that the White Pine orebody terminates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Wisconsin, USA Esther Kingsbury Stewart, Jeffrey L. Mauk PII: DOI:...Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Wisconsin, USA, Precambrian Research (2017), doi: http://dx.doi...Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Wisconsin, USA Esther Kingsbury Stewart†1 and Jeffrey L. Mauk2 †Corresponding...observations of core and outcrop in Wisconsin and Michigan. Cumming et al. (2013) also favor a lacustrine...into central Kansas and southeast into southern Michigan (Fig. 1A). Dickas and Mudrey (1997) proposed the
Journal (issue)
brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clay Minerals. Vol. 41 , No. 2, 134-147, 1993. ILLITE/SMECTITE GEOTHERMOMETRY OF THE PROTEROZOIC ORONTO...and Geophysics, Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan 49931 Abstract-Characterization...a thermal and burial history for the White Pine area of Michigan allow regional interpretation of maximum...the Iron River Syncline area just west of White Pine, Michigan. IISgeothermometry suggests maximum temperatures...1150C in the Iron River Syncline area, 160·C at White Pine, and 1900c near the southern portions of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Rudna IX mine. A non-bulky Ca-rich dripstone-like paragenesis from Lubin Główny mine is also characterized...study—from a single locality in Chile: Santa Rosa mine, Iquique Province [1]. It is the natural equivalent...juangodoyite, within drainage-related mine speleothems (minothems) of the Libiola Mine, Italy, was reported in Reference...occurrences include the listed Chilean one [6]; Carr Boyd mine, Western Australia [7]; Zunderwand, Erlacher Bock...of the Rovnost mine in the famous Czech uranium deposit at Jáchymov [9]; and salt mine at Bex, Vaud, Switzerland
Report (issue)
Middle Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation of northern Michigan, by Philip A. Meyers, Eileen S. Ho, and Jeffrey...shales and mudstones consist of about 20 percent illite, 20 percent carbonate minerr ls (as aggregates...mineralization of the Rabbit Creek Gold deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada, in Geology and ore deposits of the Great...Nansheng 2 Since 1985, deposits near Songlin, Zunyi County, Guizhou Province, in the People's Republic of...major basement structure in Linn County, Kansas, and Platte County, Missouri, what may be minor expulsion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thin sectionand, exceptwhere noted,all mineral is illite which includesboth coarse (10 to 50 mineral identificationswere... mixed-layer clays containing either 1M or 1Md illite interlayered with 10 to 20 percent montlnorillonite...NonesuchShale from White Pine, (Fig. 2E and F) grainsrangingfrom20 to 100 vm theseare embedded in Michigan,and also...Clays Organic Quartz Zinc-bearing (Heebner-type) Illite Kaolinite Chlorite Calcite Dolomite Apatite...persistscontinuouslyfrom northwesternMissouri to Montgomery County, Kansas (180 miles southwestof KansasCity), where
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SparLakeiscomparable withdepositssuchasWhite Pine,Michigan(Brown,1971), the Kupferschieferin central Europe...significantlyfrom place to placebut istypicallyabout670 m (White et al., 1984). The formation is divided into three...alternatingquartziteandsiltitebeds(White, 1979; White et al., 1984). Near the Troy mine, the Revett Formationis...of magnesium Barite:Patchy,poikilotopiccementsof white to contents andmanganese, andoftexturesof carbonate...ydistributedganguecements.A. Ferroancalcitecements (white) alongforesetsof medium-grainedquartzite from the
Report (volume)
from selected aplites and quartz veins of White Pine County, Nevada, by D.E. Lee, E.L.M. Brandt, and J...micas from meta_clastic rocks of eastern White Pine County, Nevada, by D.E. Lee, R.E. Van Loenen, E.L...Platinum and palladium in a mafic dike, Sanders County, Montana, by R.E. Van Loenen, Joseph Haffty, and...shale, Davis Formation, near Leadwood, St. Francois County, Missouri 7 2 Contents CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERAL...are potassium feldspar (orthoclase), disordered illite-smectite, and Fe-rich chlorite. Quartz may be absent
Report (issue)
Rift: Implications for the Origin of Oil at White Pine, Michigan Burruss, R.C. & Mauk, J.L. ..............Merchants Exchange, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Messerich, J.A., Coe, J.A., Pillmore, C.L., Sherwood... RADON MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY: WHY A BLACK AND WHITE NUMBER SHOULDN'T BE PULLED FROM A SEA OF GRAY G...class because most of the resources are too thin to mine under present economic conditions. The coal has...Origin of Oil at White Pine, Michigan. R. C. Burruss, USGS and J. L. Mauk, Univ. of Michigan Oil-filled fluid
Report (issue)
potassic (potassiumfeldspar+biotite), phyllic (white mica+pyrite), argillic (clay4white mica), advanced...Norte Cty, CA Santa Helena, Antioquia, Colombia Goto Mine, Luzan, P.I. References Wells, F. G. et al 1946...(chlorite)+ anhydrite grading outward to propylitic. Late white mica+clay alteration may form capping or outer zone...fluorite in granite porphyry. GENERAL REFERENCE White and others, 1981. GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT Rock Types...Examples Climax Colorado References 10 Rb White and others, 1981 2.4 DEPOSIT TYPE Molybdenum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA ABSTRACT ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...Ridge and Bald Mountain gold districts in White Pine County (Nutt, 2000; Nutt and Hart, 2004). These districts...Lander County travertine terrace, Diana's Punchbowl hot springs, Monitor Valley, Lander County thick quartz...Winnemucca Dunes, Silver State Valley, Humboldt County silica sinter, The Geysers, Beowawe hot springs...sinter, Beowawe hot springs, Crescent Valley, Eureka County ASTER Band Centers: 10 11 12 13 14 Wavelength
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposit, Michigan Theodore J. Bornhorst1,† and Mark J. Logsdon2 1 A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological...Drive, Suite 2, Aptos, CA 95003 Abstract Modern mine development requires consideration of environmental...tests commonly used to assess the potential for mine wastes to generate acidic and/or metalliferous drainage...would significantly overestimate the potential for mine rocks to affect water quality. While progressive...consequences of developing, operating, and closing a mine. Neither public policy nor community standards will
Report (issue)
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1158-A,B,Cl Geologic Studies in White Pine County, Nevada Rubidium and Strontium in Hybrid Granitoid...Precambrian and Early Cambrian Age from Eastern White Pine County, Nevada By DONALD E. LEE, R. E. VAN LOENEN...Mesozoic-Cenozoic Metamorphism in Eastern White Pine County, Nevada, and Nearby Utah By DONALD E. LEE...Main entry under title: Geologic studies in White Pine County, Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional Paper...Precambrain and early Cambrian age from eastern White Pine County, Nevada. Lee, D. E., Marvin, R. F., and Mehnert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1972; Cailteux, 1974; Fleischeret al., 1976), the White Pine deposit(Ensignet al., 1968; Brown, 1971), as...authigenicmineralassemblages, suchascarby Brown(1971), White (1971), Lur'ye and Gablina bonatesand sulfates,indicatesthat...2, 8; 1972, fig. 12). White McArthurbasin(Muir, 1979),partsof the Gunpowder Pine copper mineralizationis...southeastNew Mexico (Sarg, 1981). None of the White Pine mine area, southof the high, and in the aboveexamplesoverlie...adjacent to stratiformcopperore deposits. this feature(White andWright, 1966). The KupferThe hematite-bearin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mauk & White 5/24/04 11:33 AM Page 295 ©2004 by Economic Geology Vol. 99, pp. 295–312 Stratigraphy...Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand AND BRIAN G. WHITE National Institute for Occupational Safety and...these changes have significant implications for mine, district and regional structural geology and mapping...1971, 1973), alluvial fan (White and Winston, 1982), sheet 295 Mauk & White 5/24/04 11:33 AM Page 296...Kootenay King Zn-Pb British Columbia MAUK AND WHITE 3 Prichard Formation 0 km Idaho Pre-Belt crystalline
 
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