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Copper from
Lafayette Mine, Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lafayette Mine, Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:399678
Long-form Identifier:1:3:399678:2
GUID (UUID V4):eff0abda-e3c3-41a0-adfe-b0ceb400400e
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
8.3km (5.1 miles) White Pine Extension Mine (Pinex Mine), White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Carp Lake Mine, Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Cuyahoga Mine, Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
15.1km (9.4 miles) Union Mine (Bell No. 2 Mine), Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) Presque Isle Syncline Occurrence (Western Syncline; Amax Michigan), Keweenaw Copper, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
15.6km (9.7 miles) Nonesuch Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) Copperwood, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
18.1km (11.2 miles) United States Metals Refining Company exploration (Copperwood Mine), Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
18.4km (11.4 miles) Scranton Mine, Silver City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Collins Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...of Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The “Copper King” The MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY L. W i l s o n New Mexico...t a n l e y J. D y l II Seaman Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University % 1992 T h e M in e...COVER: Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard...Burbank) wrote the classic work on the copper deposits of Michigan in 1929. Photo by Wendell E. Wilson.
Journal (volume)
MILLIONAIRE MADE HIS FORTUNE... COPPER SMELTING AT DETROIT , MICHIGAN ...... EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.......Petroleum Company, of New York , New York and Michigan Silver -Lead Company - L'Anse Mining Company...LANDS 208 209 Embracing Oil , Coal, Iron , Lead, Copper , Gold , and Silver -- For Sale at the Real Estate...about it - The Old Silver Hill Districts-- The Mountains - Well Districts--Clan Alpine District, and Re-survey...281 Notice to the Directors of Gold , Silver, Copper, Lead , and Iron Mining Companies -Assaying of
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Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book...our knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting.... and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding diamonds in the kimberlites of upper Michigan, and vast...west of New York state and reaching to the Rocky Mountains. For this book the Midwest includes the Great...shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan is the state with the most shoreline on these
Journal (volume)
PENNSYLVANIA .. COPPER REGION OF MICHIGAN .... EDITOR'S MISCELLANEOUS PIGEON - HOLE . Flint Steel River Mine - Silver...Silver in Michigan - Cotton in France - Great Gun - Terrible Explosion in Quebec - The Riches of the Country...Hudson Canal Co.- Placenta Bay Lead Co. - Bedford Copper Co. NOTICE TO OFFICERS OF MINING COMPANIES SALES...Places for the Transaction of Business Hampton Lead Mine . 134 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.... The Coal Trade - The...The Gold Regions of the United States - Copper Coin - Oil Wells at Oil Creek . INTERESTING IMMIGRATION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calumet, Michigan 49913 tajmahal@gilanet.com History and Mineralogy of the Manganese Mine Keweenaw...Keweenaw County Michigan Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological...Houghton. He now spends a good part of the year in the Copper Country researching and writing articles about...articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Downloaded by [Lakehead University] at...ocated in the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan are two small manganese oxide deposits that occur
Report (issue)
Michigan’s Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents......................... 6 Europeans Come to the Copper Country ............................................................. 12 The Legend of the Ontonagon Copper Boulder .................................................................. 18 The Copper Rush .................................................................................. 80 West of the Ontonagon..............................................
Journal (volume)
toward the eastern and western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Utalı , Idaho, and...spirit or inspire the ambition of the public mind . Michigan and the shores of Lake Superior and Huron, with...region of iron and copper lands, the coal and copper fields of Nova Scotia, and the copper, gold , and silver...hands with electrical rapidity, and gold, silver, copper, lead, and coal quotations rose on ' Change as...hundreds of miles east and west of the Rocky Mountains, and the time is not far distant when Salt Lake
Report (volume)
especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...Mathews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Report (volume)
Bulletins, nos. 10-12. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 3, nos...26. Mexico, D. F. Michigan Academy of Science: Tenth Report. Lansing, Mich. Michigan Miner, vol. 10. Saginaw...Saginaw, Mich. Michigan State Board of Geological Survey: Report for 1907. Lansing, Mich. Mineral Collector...Development Company's Survey. Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va., 1907. 28 pp., 4 pis. Gives information...geologic relations, and origin of the lead, zinc, and copper ores. Arnold, Ralph. 23. Das letzte grosse Erdbeben
Report (volume)
Bulletin, nos. 16, 18. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 5, no....Survey: vol. 9; Lower Cretaceous; Prince Georges County. Baltimore, Md. Meddelelser om Greenland, Bd. 43...28. Mexico, D. F. Michigan Academy of Science: 13th Report. Lansing, Mich. Michigan Geological and Biological...Vol. 5; Geological map (coal, etc.), 2d edition; County reports Wirt, Roan, and Calhoun counties; Jackson... Carl A. 9. Vanadium deposits in the Caballo Mountains, New Mexico. Min. and Sci. Press, vol. 103, pp
Report (volume)
:............................................. Michigan.................................................especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Report (issue)
Principal facts for gravity stations in Howard County, Maryland: 18 p., tabular data. (Wa, Da, M; Maryland...509 Goldstein Bldg., Juneau, Alaska 99801; 3001 Porcupine Dr., Anchorage, Alaska 99504; University Ave....geologic map of the Glen Ullin quadrangle, Morton County, North Dakota: 25 p., geologic map (1 sheet), scale...509 Goldstein Bldg., Juneau, Alaska 99801; 3001 Porcupine Dr., Anchorage, Alaska 99504; University Ave....509 Goldstein Bldg., Juneau, Alaska 99801; 3001 Porcupine Dr., An- Div. Mines and Geology, Ferry Bldg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous...and much older, rocks that host the well-known copper mines and iron deposits of the upper Midwest. No...the Gordonsville mine, Central Tennessee Lead-Zinc district near Carthage in Smith County. Calcite from...and uplift of the Ouachita Mountains to the south and the Appalachian Mountains to the east, introduced...northern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, approximately surrounding the western end of
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the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast corner...where Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at...in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily...Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain (about 30% of the state),...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARIZONA—"During a recent visit to the Chericahua Mountains I found some black crystals that checks out for...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...W l / 2 N W & Section 7, T.I., R 19W of Garland County, Ark., some fine quartz xls containing chlorite...visit. I am planning a trip to the Ruggle's Feldspar Mine near Grafton Ctn., New Hampshire." Mrs. Harriette...cervantite, Ambrose nite (quartz) have been found on the mine, Hollister (San Benito C o . ) , Calif. south side
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy
Report (volume)
Bulletin, nos. 19, 21. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 6, nos...4, no. 1; Boletin, no. 29. Mexico, D. F. . - ' Michigan Geological and Biological Survey: Publications...Olympia, Wash. West Virginia Geological Survey: County reports Doddridge-and Harrison counties. Morgantown...Sketch of the geological history of Green Lake County, Wisconsin : School x Quart., Berlin, Wis., vol...Alien, R. C. The iron mining industry of Michigan; Michigan gold! others no. 13. '**-,, * * See Aiten
Journal (issue)
Collector's Notebook: Moat Mountain, Albany, Carroll County, Hew Hampshire-2000 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...the Jersey Gardens Mall in Eliza- beth, Union County, New Jersey which he thought was a blue calcite...periodical for the mine ral e nthusias t and mineral history enthusiast. $24 .00 per year in USA $30.00 per year...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineral news.com...mined. Most of the pegmatites in the northeastern USA are now being mined for specimens. This probably
Report (issue)
Elevations of selected summits east of the Rocky Mountains .................................. XXX THE NATIONAL...Cliffs of the Seven Double Pillars, Foot of the Mountains Run, and Canon del Rajadero de los Negros. Some...of the larger lakes, and longer rivers; a few mountains; and thousands of smaller places and natural features...River, and up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. Geographic names derived from Dutch are found...locality, or civil division (city, village, or county) named for a physical feature is always listed
Report (volume)
vol. 12, pp. 223-240. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 5, nos...GEOLOGY, 1910. Michigan Academy of Science: Twelfth Report. Lansing, Mich. Michigan Geological and Biological...Publications, Geological Series, 1, 2. Lansing, Mich. Michigan State Board of Geological Survey: Report for 1908...Washington, D. C. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Pleasants, Wood, and Ritchie Counties;...occurrence of the ore body at the City of Cobalt mine. Canadian Min. Inst., Jour., vol. 12, pp. 414-417
Journal (issue)
Township, along the Susquehanna River, Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Bixby 1914). This farm was just...September, 1872, the brothers both enrolled at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, just north of...spent the following summer up in the Colorado mountains hunting and camping. The Denver Weekly Times (1878)...(1878) Maynard Bixby, circa 1876, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Photo courtesy of Ms. Elaine Stomber...Collections & College Archives, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, box 120-168, Series VI, Album 139 noted
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variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G ...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland;...I 1991 337--424 273-336 [ 1-128 129-208 [ COPPER] [ 177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400...the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich) 22:65-69 [Abstracts...Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON, STIG G. Hrucopper and cobalt
Report (volume)
1883. 4°. xiv, 451 pp. 3 pi. Price $1.50. V. The Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, by Roland Duer...Iron-Bearing Series of Northern "Wisconsin and Michigan, by Eoland D. Irving and C. E. Van Hise. XX. Geology...chief topographer. XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Eaphael Pumpelly, J. E. Wolff...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S.Williams...cents. 10. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp.
Report (volume)
10,11, 12, pp. 1-94. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 1, nos...features of Maryland; vol. 6; Calvert County; St. Mary's County; State Map. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol...D. F. Michigan Academy of Science: Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Reports. Lansing, Mich. Michigan Miner...Miner, vols. 8, 9. Saginaw, Mich. Michigan State Board of Geological Survey: Reports for 1905 and 1906. Lansing...gigantea bird remains from the upper Eocene of Choctaw County, Alabama, originally described as the pelvic girdle
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mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
 
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