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Calcite from
Ives Quarry, Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Marcasite26 photos of Calcite associated with Marcasite at this locality.
Sphalerite4 photos of Calcite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Calcite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Dolomite1 photo of Calcite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ives Quarry, Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (22 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:107385
Long-form Identifier:1:3:107385:0
GUID (UUID V4):b4cbfabf-4922-45e5-b9ef-4035c90dd0ea
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
21.1km (13.1 miles) Six-Pak lamprophyre diatreme (Six Pack pipe), Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles) Franklin Quarry (Franklin Quarry No. 306 and Mill; Vulcan Materials Company; Midwest Div.), Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
28.3km (17.6 miles) Milwaukee deep tunnel, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
83.1km (51.6 miles) Fort Quarry (Hausz Brothers Inc.), Jefferson County, Wisconsin, USA
93.6km (58.2 miles) Iron Ridge Mine (Neda Mine; Oliver Mine), Iron Ridge Mines, Iron Ridge Mining District (Neda Iron Mining District), Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
93.8km (58.3 miles) Iron Ridge Mines, Iron Ridge Mining District (Neda Iron Mining District), Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
94.1km (58.5 miles) Mayville Open Pit Mine, Iron Ridge Mines, Iron Ridge Mining District (Neda Iron Mining District), Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
95.5km (59.3 miles) Mayville White Limestone Quarry, Iron Ridge Mining District (Neda Iron Mining District), Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
97.3km (60.5 miles) Elmhurst Underground No. 1, DuPage County, Illinois, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences University of Wisconsin-River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 his is Wisconsin’s... breweries, bratwurst, and Packers football, Wisconsin also has a diverse geology and a history rich...forgotten, abandoned, and overgrown. In this respect, Wisconsin represents a frontier state for the mineral collector...Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and...summarizes and highlights what has been found in Wisconsin in the past 150 years and points the way to new
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Field Trip, June 14, 1952 The Kibblehouse trap rock quarry at Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, was the site of...weather, albeit a little too hot, and arrived at the quarry about lunchtime. Evidently we had arrived between...average specimens of manganonatrolite, fluorescent calcite, and pyrite. Two interesting specimens turned up...one of the members dated from the days when the quarry was worked as a copper mine and were a specimen...chalcocite masses on trap. As it seemed that the quarry was going to produce little that day, we decided
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collector in this type of a quarry. Along Grove Street in West Roxbury is an old quarry in the felsite area still...and crushed stone in general. Many years ago the quarry was divided into two sections by a huge trap dike...back towards the quarry wall. I dug down three feet in blasted material below the quarry floor and there...quartz and orthoclase xls; some specimens had calcite. For years the boys in the neighborhood were looking...minerals found in this quarry are: chalcopyrite, galena, orange colored calcite, colorless hyalite, kaolin
Report (volume)
____________________________________.------. Wisconsin.___________________________________________________...commercial domestic production is from Nye County, Nev., and Stevens County, Wash. Magnesite occurs also in New...occurs in commercial quantities only at Gabbs, Nye County, Nev. Dolomite, the double carbonate of magnesium...parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Large reserves also are present in the limestone...open-pit methods. The major departure from standard quarry practice is the maintenance of relatively narrow
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (edition)
1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA • INDIANA...FOSSILS . 27 THE MISSION AREA ......... Sand Calcite Crystals . 27 28 8 8 8 38 THE HIGH PLAINS Moss...57 CENTRAL & WESTERN MINNESOTA 57 Fossils 58 WISCONSIN 59 LAKE SUPERIOR-GOGEBIC DISTRICT 59 Gems and...Fossil Collecting ........ .77 .77 .77 CENTRAL WISCONSIN . Gems ............................... Crystals...59 59 60 60 NORTHWESTERN OHIO .78 SOUTHERN WISCONSIN 61 NORTHEASTERN OHIO 79 Gems ............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
road. Yellville is the county seat and is situated in about the center of the county. I do not know if this...Collector in this issue)." CALIFORNIA—Ronald L. Ives, 5415 Main St., Williamsville 21, N . Y„ has sent...Sea (in southern California —chiefly in Imperial County) one of the World's great geological freaks of...shores." ARKANSAS—The Morning Star mine, in Marion County, Ark., has furnished many handsome specimens of...Rush, on Rush Creek, in Marion county. This village of Rush, is 254 Mr. Ives' letter, dated Feb. 18, 1954
Journal (issue)
Shaft 7 , Fishkill, N. Y. Vice-President, Ronald L. Ives 1091-14th St.. Boulder, Colo. Director of Tours...eont2--'4 /""' -Aur;u4i, 191/-1 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................some time and it is the respect for the mine or quarry operators' rights by mineral Jllectors and individuals...closed to all collecting. Berry quarry admission only on fee. Bennett quarry closed except on fee and under...circumstances. Mr. Tragiano, who operates the Black Mt. quarry, has been extremely kind and helpful to colJectors
Journal (issue)
$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...and associated with cinnabar, mercury, pyrite, calcite, barite and quartz from Almadén. Other authors...Fabre specimen; Joaquim Callén photo. Figure 51. Calcite crystals with dolomite crystals and cinnabar, 6...themselves unrelated to the mercury deposits. Calcite   CaCO3 Calcite is a rare gangue mineral in the Almadén...associated with barite and metacinnabar. Also, calcite accompanies cinnabar as small masses in the El
Journal (issue)
Outinp ( to be appointed) Vice-President, Ronald L Ives Director of Tours, Richmond E. Myers ~cretary-Treasurer...ZODAC Contents for January, 1941 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................... 11 THE GREEN RIDGE PEGMATITE, GRAND COUNTY, COLO· RADO. By Ronald L. li ·es ................at Lackawack Dam on the Rondout Creek, in Ulster County, and end at the New York City line. The total length...Shaft 7 is in the southwestern part of Dutchess County, one mile east o f the Albany.Post Road, U. S.
Catalog/List
.. • JANUA.RY/FEBUARY 2009 l) ANALClME. Dean Quarry, The Lizard, Cornwall. Thin piece ofmatrix showing...reddish bro\m xls to 15mm with a little colourless calcite. 70x40xl5mm. £35. 2) ANNABERGITE. KM 4 Mine, Laurion...AURICHALCITE. Royal Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Calcite matrix with some crude scalanohedral xls. Scattered...(c) 6) AURICHALCITE and ROSASITE. Bisbee, Arizoua, USA. Pale silky blue/green aurichalcite together with...matrix. 40x40x!Smm. £9. 7) AZURITE. Cannington Park Quarry, Bridgewater, Somerset. A few cavities to 8mm in
Catalog/List
Sylvanite in Phonolite. Itxi". £2. ANALCIME. Dene Quarry, st. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Large sno\1-white...location. 3x3". £6. ARSENOPYRITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Cornwall. A Itxl" cavity in massive...Cuprite. 3x2". £5. BROOKITE. Magnet Cove, Garland County, "rkansas, U .S.l,. Sharp bright modified crystals...scattered over a dark Quartzose matrix. 3x2xlt". £3. CALCITE. Old Bal Lode, 130 fathoms level, Levant Mine,...Quartz, with minor reddish Hematite. 3tx2t". £3. CALCITE. Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Weardale, Co. Durham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite (weathered), kaolinite...fluorite, 4Ol Hazlehead quarry, Penistone, muscovite, I76 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Hazlehead, Penistone...Swinden Limeworks quarry, Linton, fluorite, 4oi WALES(Cymru) Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, muscovite...CO2metamorphosed lavas, ankerite, chalybite, 119 Binhill quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite...hornblende-schist, laumontite, prehnite, kaolinite, 608 Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland, nickel hydroxide and (?) oxyhydroxide
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Alabaster GRAND CANYON, (N. side), Mohave Co. •Calcite AMERICAN MINERAL GUIDE TO NOTABLE COLLECTING...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite
Journal (issue)
Colle1e, Allentown, Penn. Vice- President, Ronald L Ives 1091-14th St., Boulder, Colo. Secretary-Treasurer...o,,t.,,u jo,i /u,.., 1911,:1. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ·······································-·····················...Aaociatio11 198 ROCKS AND MINERALS Chips from The Quarry I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I...grounds in the vicinity of Lockport. In Monroe County, the Pike and Nellis quarries and rock exposures...and west across the north central part of Monroe County in a layer approximately 170 feet thick. Anala
Journal (issue)
After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...shrinkage cracks which, when filled with honey~colored calcite, show the typical internal structure of septanan...and the fracture-filling minerals that include calcite, chalcedony, and crystallized quartz. Since I hadn't...collecting I've ever done! In contrast to the calcite and chalcedony, quartz is generally poorly attached
Book (edition)
Camping $1 *00/day, trailers $2*00/day. **Mariposite Quarry (Mariposa), CoulterM ZUie. CA 95311- Fee: 5f/Xb~...Agate, jasper, petrified wood, jade Travertine Calcite onyx Tourmaline Serpentine, moss agate, opal...CONNECTICUT Cinque Quarry. Mrs* Cinque, Laurel St., East Haven, CT* $2*00 fee. ♦♦Gillette Quarry, Haddon Neck...$1.00/car. Smoky quartz, amethyst, dog¬ tooth calcite Minerals Feldspar, garnet, pyrite, mica, quartz... gold, garnet, agate, jasper, geodes, rutile, calcite - 6 - **Donald Hackney, Blue Ridge. GAStaurolite
Catalog/List
pyramidal terminations partly developed from a white calcite matrix. Sawn base and side so sits well. 50x35x50mm... 60x40x25mm. £22. 3) AURICHALCITE. Gre,ystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. Linionitic veinstone with patches...£125. 7) BIXBYITE. Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA. Nice sharp jet black lustrous cubic xls with small...with his label. 12) CASSITERITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A n ironstained cassiterite/mica... 15) CHALCOCITE altered to BORNITE. St Ives Consols, St Ives, Cornwall. A n intergrown group of dark
Catalog/List
well. 60x50x25mm. £18. 3. APATITE. Kessel Dows Quarry, Penryn, Cornwall. A 20x15mm cavity in pegmatite...partly imbedded in and growing from a cellular calcite matrix. 60x50x40irm. £35. 5. APATITE (VAR FRANCOLITE)...AURICHALCITE AND HEMIMORPHITE. 79 Mine, Hayden, Arizona, USA. A 50x20nan cavity in veinstone lined with greyish...to 4mm. 80x70x40mm. £20. 8. AUTUNITE. Marivale Quarry, Dartmoor, Devon, A joint plane on granite about...18. CHALCOCITE after CHfiLCOPYRITE. St Ives Consols, St Ives, Cornwall. A mass of blackish chalcocite
Book
Cornish Minerals 112 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers Hayle...aesaepeeathven te elerehod acre nie giao ga Rocks of the County, from £1 upwards. a So i ey eS rm “Whe Malkin Mine...diverse mineralogical heritage, | have divided the county into eleven districts, stretching from Land's End...— each unique in form — has been found in the county that it is impossible to include all those found...or microscope. When walking this wonderful county, imagine the geological subterranean treasure
Journal (issue)
Notebook: Martin Marietta Jones Mill Quarry Hot Spring County, Arkansas - Fall, 2000 Art Smith 9118...Mid-state or Midstate quarry o n the southeast outer na nk o f Mag ne t Cove. The quarry processes metamorphic...activity, but I w,iid not expec t to see how much the quarry complex had sprawled to the west of the original...Fig. 1 Rutile (1 mm) on orthoclase, Jones Mill Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by the author. Continued...6 Microcrystalline Barite From Austin, Travis County, Texas William L. Rader 8210 Bent Tree Road, #219
Book
istricts 24 24 29 West Penwith: St Just to St Ives Mount's Bay: Penzance to Porthleven Rivers Hayle...diverse mineralogical heritage, I have divided the county into eleven districts, stretching from Land 's...minerals - each unique in form - has been found in the county that it is impossible to include all those found...lens or microscope. When walking this wonderful county, imagine the geological subterranean treasure trove...was intruded from below to form a backbone to the county, called a batholith, running on into Dartmoor in
Journal (issue)
only a few places in the world, was Lt. Joseph C. Ives' introduction to the unexplored, unpredictable,...given in 1857 to a young army engineer. Lieutenant Ives carried out his orders, and despite hardships, danger...promising topographical engineer, First Lieutenant Ives, to organize an expedition. And now, after months...satisfactory," according to an early entry in Lieutenant Ives' diary. He wrote those words before he knew his...render the operation difficult if not impracticable," Ives observed. Finally they hit upon an idea that was
 
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