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Silver from
Adventure mine, Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copperā“˜6 photos of Silver associated with Copper at this locality.
Quartzā“˜2 photos of Silver associated with Quartz at this locality.
Epidoteā“˜1 photo of Silver associated with Epidote at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Adventure mine, Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:48436
Long-form Identifier:1:3:48436:3
GUID (UUID V4):931f72a4-6ce8-4669-ab49-b523108d3c22
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
1.4km (0.9 miles) ā“˜Ridge Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Mass Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Evergreen Series (Evergreen Lodes), Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Evergreen Bluff Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) ā“˜Belt Mine (Piscatauqua), Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) ā“˜Old Mass Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) ā“˜Algomah Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) ā“˜Nebraska Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
ONTONAGAN. Indiana. Pine .Moss sRocklond. ONTONAGON Rousseau. .Chossell Jocobsville ~Donken Arnheim...Clarence J. Monette 942 Ninth Street Lake Linden, Michigan, 49945 All Rights Reserved ISBN: 0-942363-04-3...Printing & Graphic Services, Inc. of Calumet, Michigan _ ee AUTHOR'S As the title of this. NOTE...four counties of Baraga, Houghton Keweenaw and Ontonagon are listed, as this is but a small book. fhe data...Monette Abbaye -------------------7--7 Adams. Township .---~------7--------Agate Harbor ----------77
Report (issue)
Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ............................... 12 The Legend of the Ontonagon Copper Boulder .............................................................. 80 West of the Ontonagon.................................................geology and history of the copper deposits of Michigan. Every effort has been made to present accurate...necessarily reflect the policies or practices of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
istory and Mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan Ninth in a series of articles on the...No. 2 (Indiana Copper Company) mine dump in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The individual crystals, which...State Highways 26 and 38 (Lake Mine Junction) in northern Ontonagon County. The property consists of 1,280...R. 37 W., Greenland Township. The 2-square-mile property is owned by the state of Michigan and is traversed...Mineralization Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics (PLV)
Journal (issue)
large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The ā€œCopper Kingā€ The MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY L. W i l s o n New Mexico Bureau...t a n l e y J. D y l II Seaman Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University % 1992 T h e M in e...crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar collection;...wrote the classic work on the copper deposits of Michigan in 1929. Photo by Wendell E. Wilson. TENT .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior...of mines in the district, especially the Quincy mine. Crystals ranged in size from micro to large-cabinet...Copper Country Native copper as well as native silver and a variety of gangue minerals were deposited...in the tenth grade. I have collected most of the mine dumps during the past sixty years and have found...was in the Adventure Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michigan Mineralogy: A LOCALITY INDEX TOM MORRIS, JR. 4553 Shenandoah Allen Park, Michigan 48101 Tom...occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...compiling this information was The Mineralogy of Michigan (Heinrich, 1976), which should be consulted by...locality labeling of Michigan specimens. It should be pointed out that the list of Michigan mineral localities...NoneĀ­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Places of Geological and Mineralogical Interest in Michigan LOWER PENINSULA ARTHUR Y. JOHNSTONE Cranbrook...of Science 500 Lone Pine Road Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48013 The Upper Peninsula has pronounced geological...Paleozoic beds form the northern rim of the Southern Michigan Basin; from Marquette westward, the early Precambrian...beds, forming the northern rim of the Southern Michigan Basin, are evident as soon as you cross the 5-mile...Seaman Mineralogical Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 away softer surrounding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Unearthed from a Pleistocene...August 2013 by Jay and Chad Just near Calumet, Michigan. The boulder was ripped loose from the conglomerate...Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...construction of Figure 2. Map showing Calumet, Michigan, where the glaciated copperbearing Calumet and...(above). The boulder was trucked to the Calumet Township Fire and Rescue garage where Mark Martilla gave
Book
Mineralogy of Michigan by E. W. Heinrich updated and revised ā€¢ by George W. Robinson M By E W~ Hellnr]ch...Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 2004 Ā© 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
Book
Historic State Park 13700 13.25 LaneĀ Ā Garden, Michigan 49835 Tel: (906) 644-2603 Keweenaw Peninsula Jill...Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton...Rocks National Lakeshore P.O. Box 40, Munising, Michigan 49862 Tel: (906) 387-2607 / Email: David_Kronk@nps...Mountains Wilderness State Park 412 S. Boundary Road, Ontonagon, MI 49953 Tel: (906) 885-5206 / Email: spraguer@michigan...Mining Engineering and Sciences (adjunct) Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 49855 Tel: (906) 227-1176
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nodule, 0.9 x 1.1 inches, recovered from the Hancock mine dump by John Perona in 1972. John Perona specimen...Jaszczak photo. rom the bowels of a Keweenaw copper mine to the icy depths of Lake Superior, serious datolite...combination. Imagine descending a steep 2,000-foot-deep mine shaft in the dead of a Keweenaw winter with only...over heels into the black depths of an abandoned mine. All of this effort was expended on clandestine...and Sciences Michigan Technological University Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Map showing Hancock where the float silver that was recovered from the glacial till was found;...Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net An UNUSUAL Glacial Silver Find In Michiganā€™s...of Michiganā€™s Copper Country F loat copper and silver are defined as chunks of those native metals that...formed to where they would ultimately be found. In Michigan this took place during multiple periods of continental...experienced over the past 2 million years. The copper and silver were transported by glacial ice, and when melting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...year. During the last four years, the crushing of mine dumps (poor-rock piles) for road repairs and construction...operations, primarily in Keweenaw County, have increased the need for mine-run rock for the construction... resulting in the slow disappearance of smaller mine dumps. The end of copper mining in the Portage Lake...of the Copper Range Companyā€™s Champion mine in Houghton County. Downloaded by [Florida State University]
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exceptional Silver Vein in Michiganā€™s Keweenaw Peninsula TOM ROSEMEYER Figure 1. The best silver/copper specimen...7.0 cm and is composed of silver and lesser amounts of copper. The silver/copper was encased in weathered...(October 2017). 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Twenty-sixth in a...native silver vein located in Keweenaw County, Michigan, was made by Doug Miller of Calumet, Michigan. Miller...several important discoveries of concealed copper/silver-bearing veins and has recovered tons of ā€œfloat
Book
8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G Greenland (vol. 24, no. 2)...(8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland; and 25/#6, The History...81-160 161-240 241-320 321--400 [ 1-104 GREENLAND] HMC0 ] 1-264 ā€¢MINERAL MUSEUMS OF EASTERN...15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Keweenaw, memories of arborescent groups of copper and silver crystals, colorful porcelaneous nodules of datolite...courtesy Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological...started with the closure of the Champion mine in Houghton County by the Copper Range Company in September...reserves (Fields 1997).This was the last native copper mine in operation by the Copper Range Company and was...came with the closing of the White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, in September 1995. New, stringent environmental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...with quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural...claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Denver Museum of Natural History specimen...Azurite on malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and...Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Adularia, Michigan, I10
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)
Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...Houghton and Keweenaw counties, Michigan. Every summer in the Copper Country, mine dumps from a bygone era of...copper mining are being crushed and hauled off the mine sites. The crushed rock is mainly used for road...mistakenly ended up in the mine dumps. The lucky person may also find silver in association with copper...locality. Collected at the Tamarack Jr. No. 1 mine, Houghton County, by Tom Rosemeyer, 11 August 2012. John
Book
fifties, still work the mile-deep stopes of the Quincy Mine. One of the oldest mines on the North American continent...the lore of Michigan's Copper Country CALUMET, MICHIGAN ā€¢ 1964 Copyright, 1943, by WILLIAM A. MURDOCH...JIM PAUL S BOULDER NUMBER 98 TAKES A JACKPOT SILVER LAGNIAPPE COPPER HITS A HALF-DOLLAR 1 BILLY ROY...INWARD FROM THE EDGE 209 219 230 EPILOGUE: THE MICHIGAN COPPER RANGE IN WORLD WAR II ACK NOWLEDGMENTS... 17 Old mine pit at Fort Wilkins 32 Fort Wilkins stockade 33 Profile of the Cliff Mine page 57
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County the weekend of 13 and 14 December. Formerly known...rave reviews.) The theme of this yearā€™s show is Silver, in recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary...in Houghton, Michigan, recently completed the Keweenaw Gallery portion of its Michigan Minerals exhibits...Institute of some of the best datolite, copper, silver, America (GIA), in Carlsbad, California, calcite...unveiled a new exhibit of organic gems regionā€™s mine, as well as exhibits of Lake that will run through
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg dā€™Oisan, IsĆØre, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collectorā€™s Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo
Journal (volume)
MADE HIS FORTUNE... COPPER SMELTING AT DETROIT , MICHIGAN ...... EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT........ 17 21 22...Petroleum Company, of New York , New York and Michigan Silver -Lead Company - L'Anse Mining Company, Lake...Embracing Oil , Coal, Iron , Lead, Copper , Gold , and Silver -- For Sale at the Real Estate and Mineral Land...Prospects of the Mining District about it - The Old Silver Hill Districts-- The Mountains - Well Districts--Clan...DEPARTMENT... 281 Notice to the Directors of Gold , Silver, Copper, Lead , and Iron Mining Companies -Assaying
Book
LIBRARY 512 B. LAKE AVE. MONTICELLO, WI 53570 Mine @ @ Tunnel Miscellaneous site Acknowledgments...Coys ens 12 Dane County AC AV cay sie sues each oo Saas Se ine 16 Pierce County eS onasic Cave...See 19 Richland County 4 Kickapoo Indian Caverns ........-.---++00005- 22 Crawford County Caves on Public...se eo 30 Door County 7 Cherney Maribel Caves Park .....-.+++++++++5> 5p Manitowoc County +eeee eer eeee...State Park ........--Sauk County tees 8) ee eee Oeeontcre Glen .-c 3-8 Brown County 37 10 Governor Dodge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lode Houghton County, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...of the dense basalt matrix at the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump. These small and inexpensive detectors have...agate itself. Collected by Ray Just, C & H No. 21 mine, 10 July 2011. uring the past sixty years (1952ā€“2012)...various mine dumps along the Kearsarge copper-bearing amygdaloidal lode in Houghton County, Michigan. These...excavating the agatebearing zone of the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump during the annual Copper Country Mineral Retreat
 
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