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Gold from
Ropes Gold Mine, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Gold associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ropes Gold Mine, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:112966
Long-form Identifier:1:3:112966:3
GUID (UUID V4):3ad5cf50-ad79-40e8-aa88-fea9f6503b1f
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.6km (0.4 miles) Phillips gold prospect, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Bjork & Lundin gold prospect, North Lake, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Madden & Hogan prospect, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Superior gold & silver prospect, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Calumet gold prospect, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) B & M gold prospect (Billings Mine; Ten Kilns Mine), Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
2.3km (1.5 miles) Unnamed Au placers (1), Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Case Mine, Greenwood, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
2.8km (1.8 miles) Brown Mine, Greenwood, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) Grummett prospect, Greenwood, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Volcanic Rocks in the South Half of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Michigan U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Volcanic Rocks in the South Half of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Michigan By THEODORE J. BORNHORST and RODNEY...volcanic rocks in the south half of the Ishpeming greenstone belt, Michigan / by Theodore J. Bornhorst and Rodney...Volcanic ash, tuff, etc. Michigan. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic Archaean. 3. Geology Michigan. 4. Kitchi Formation...(Rodney C.) II. Title. III. Title: Ishpeming greenstone belt, Michigan. IV. Series. V. Series: U.S. Geological
Report (issue)
A Regional Structural Model for Gold Mineralization in the Southern Part of the Archean Superior Province...Ave. Chapter M A Regional Structural Model for Gold Mineralization in the Southern Part of the Archean...(Paul Kibler), 1918A regional structural model for gold mineralization in the southern part of the Archean...3:1904 1. Gold ores Michigan Upper Peninsula. 2. Gold ores Minnesota. 3. Greenstone belts Michigan Upper...Upper Peninsula. 4. Greenstone belts Minnesota. 5. Geology, stratigraphic Archaean. I. Day, Warren C. II.
Report (issue)
the Northern Block of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the Northern Block of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan By R.C JOHNSON and T.J....the northern block of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan / by R.C. Johnson and T...2. Rocks, Igneous Michigan Marquette County. 3. Geology Michigan Marquette County. I. Bornhorst, Theodore...II. Title. III. Title: Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan. IV. Series. V. Series:
Journal (issue)
com PO Box 455 • Poncha Springs, Colorado 8124 2 USA Phone: 719-539-4113 • Fax 719-539-454 2 SPRING...and Mineralogy of the Ropes Gold Mine. Near Ishpeming. Marquette County, Michigan 3 by Michael P. Basal...Fine specimen o[ a gold nugget from Lhe Ropes Gold Mine, Marquette County, Michigan. The specimen measures...aware of our non-tradi­ tional status as a pubU­ GOLD TN SOUTHEAST PENN­ cation. This "labor-of­ SYLVANIA...and Mineralogy of the Ropes Gold Mine, Near Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan by Michael P. Basal
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
Report (issue)
Great Lakes Tectonic Zone in Marquette Area, Michigan Implications for Archean Tectonics in North-Central... Chapter E Great Lakes Tectonic Zone in Marquette Area, Michigan Implications for Archean Tectonics in...Kibler), 1918 Great Lakes Tectonic Zone in Marquette area, Michigan implications for Archean tectonics in...Geology Middle West. 3. Faults (Geology) Michigan Marquette Region. 4. Faults (Geology) Great Lakes Region...Acknowledgments E2 Geologic setting E2 Archean greenstone-granite terrane E3 Granitoid rocks E3 Structure
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 (issue)
Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona............................................I l l by G. Novak & W. W. Besse The Michigan gold belt ...........................................reports whicl sometimes contain photos, maps and mine diagrams. This i: valuable information to have preserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cold Iron "Gold is for the mistress-silvet for the maidCopper foi the craftsman cuntiina at his trade...Library] at 15:24 24 November 2014 Marquctle, Michigan 49855 Specimen recovery in the Iron Country is...Peninsula (U.P.) counties (Marquette, Baraga, Iron, and Dickinson) of Michigan, plus a small portion of...northeastern Wisconsin. This includes the famous Marquette and Eastern and Western Menominee iron ranges...Gogebic iron range, home of the well-known Montreal mine in Wisconsin. (My collecting experience has not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MICHIGAN and the LAPIDARY R U S S E L L P. MACFALL P.O. Box 309 Coronado, California 92118 Figure...in the sedimentary heartland of our continent, Michigan has perhaps more to offer the paleontologist than...stone—is primarily a trophy of the former. But Michigan is a big state, and its northern edge in­ cludes...Hexagonaria percarinata, is the official state stone of Michigan. It is a colonial fossil found in Devonian period...situation and lapidary usefulness, also occur in Michigan. The Petoskey stone's major rival for attention
Report (issue)
Contribution to Michigan Geology Report — 90-1 PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGIC SETTING...........................GEOLOGY OF THE PENNY LAKE AREA, MARQUETTE GREENSTONE BELT, MICHIGAN STRATIGRAPHY .....................Geophysics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931 Published by the MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT.............................5 VOLCANICS OF SILVER MINE LAKES............................6 Pillowed Basalt.......7 AGE AND ORIGIN OF THE VOLCANICS OF SILVER MINE LAKES .........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE ROPES GOLD MINE, COUNTY, T. M. MICHIGAN. BRODERICK. MARQUETTE • 2 ABSTRACT. The Ropes Mine...northwest of Ishpeming, Michigan, was operated from 1883 until 1897 and produced $647,902.37 gold and silver...other sulphides,and the ore milled ran about .2 oz. gold and .9 oz. silver per ton, of which nearly one-third...averaging.13 oz. gold and .7 oz. silver as there was in the quartz vein nuclei. The old mine was over 800...alterationand gold values for hundredsof feet below that elevation. INTRODUCTION. T•, Ropes Gold Mine is located{n
Journal (issue)
Deposit, Nye County, Nevada Wilson D. Michell 99 Geology of the Ropes Gold Mine, Marquette County, Michigan...MARCH-APRIL, 1945 OXIDATION IN A MOLYBDENITE NYE COUNTY, NEVADA. WILSON No. 2 DEPOSIT, D. MICHELL. ABSTRACT...District about 25 miles north of Tonopah in Nye County, Nevada. The deposit is on the west slope of the...Questa molybdenite deposit (formerly the R. & S. Mine) in New Mexico ** ore averaging 2 per cent MoS,... and Ross, C. S.: The R. & S. Molybdenum Mine, Taos County, N. M. Econ. Geox. 15: 567-573, 1920; Vanderwilt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WELCOME TO ROCKHOUNDS PARADISE, U.S.A. (MARQUETTE COUNTY) - MICHIGAN By BOB M A R K E R T The Midwest Federation...Mineralogical and Geological Societies will re­ turn to Ishpeming for their 32nd Annual Field Trip Convention. A...the abandoned dumps of the Holmes and Cliff Shaft Mine. Cau­ tion: Permission must be obtained in the latter...Park, S. Jackson Pit, and near County Road 581 near the Greenwood Mine road intersection. Magnetite is...Magne­ tite is found at the Greenwood Mine and the Champion Mine. The best grade and best looking specimens
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...None­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan It was at one of last winter's meetings of the Michigan Mineralogical Society...in some part or all of the six-day invasion of Marquette, Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw Counties. The response...that it would be a success. We first asked the Ishpeming Rocks and Minerals Club to help us on the first...the six days which we had scheduled for Ishpeming, Michigan. Bob Markert and his associates came through...Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan, Marquette, Michigan, and were well supplied with information
Book
copper district of Michigan 33 35 35 Copper mining on Isle Eoyal and elsewhere Marquette iron district...developments 45 ., 45 Clinton iron ores of Dodge County, Wis 45 Paleozoic iron ores in western Wisconsin...north shore of 45 Lake Superior 46 Lake Superior gold mining 46 General remarks Industrial changes Smelting...geologic 70 knowledge 72 Bibliography 73 Michigan Northern Wisconsin Minnesota 77 Ontario 81...Michipicoten district Region north of Sault Ste. Marie Marquette 95 96 district Menominee 96 96 97 district
Book
tts pee erg Hintli0 Py 4> ne ’ i<) ee 6's) Michigan, by.Edward C. Peterson and Esther A. Middlewood...of mining will find most mine managers willing to help, even though the mine may not be open to casual...State Offices of Information, Chambers of Commerce, mine managers, and Bureau personnel have freely contributed...old shafts! Always use available guide services. Mine openings (tunnels, adits, open pits) should never...during active operations, they are swept out of the mine by the controlled ventilating current. Remember
Report (volume)
terranes 4 Archean gneiss terrane 7 Late Archean greenstone-granite terrane 9 Early Proterozoic Wisconsin...terrane 24 Late Archean greenstone-granite terrane 26 Massive sulfide deposits 26 Gold deposits 26 Early Proterozoic...gneiss terrane (age, 2.6-3.6 Ga); (2) Late Archean greenstone-granite terrane (age, 2.6-2.7 Ga); (3) Early...5 Ga). Three of the terranes-the Late Archean greenstone-granite terrane, the Wisconsin magmatic terrane...into the subsurface. The first, the Late Archean greenstone-granite terrane in the buried basement of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Rushmore Mine in Keystone. This mine atop a mountain is a working pegmatite mine which allows tours...and the tools used. The various min­ erals of the mine are shown. When we came to a columbite-tantalite... The Ishpeming Rock & Mineral Club, cales. Classic mines such as the Champion, Inc. — Ishpeming, Michigan...Michigamme, Michigan Gold, Republic, will host the 32nd annual Midwest Fede­ Humboldt, Ropes Gold, Ohio and...participants. File early! R - 1 , P. O. Box 620, Ishpeming Mich. Thorough preparations have been made to
Report (volume)
selected aplites and quartz veins of White Pine County, Nevada, by D.E. Lee, E.L.M. Brandt, and J.D. Gleason...micas from meta_clastic rocks of eastern White Pine County, Nevada, by D.E. Lee, R.E. Van Loenen, E.L.M. Brandt...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...feldspathic shale from the Deadwood Formation, Lawrence County, S. Oak. [LOI, loss on ignition at 9000C; n.d.
Journal (issue)
GAS RECENT INNOVATIONS John C. Osmond LAND MICHIGAN 1100 Ring Building, Member— Audit Bureau of... of Minerals Analysis, Policy and National Mine Health and Safety Academy and the remainder of...Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and its standards to working conditions on mine sites and...mines where the responsible employer is neither a mine operator nor an independent contractor. In clarifying...construction facilities to OSHA unless the borrow pit is on mine property. Carter would increase U.S. wilderness
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained...(petrified wood) are found 3 miles west of Piggott, Clay County, Ark. California—A new California mineral is perovskite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Society of America since 1921, died in Calumet, Michigan, on August 28, 1965, after a distinguished career...SOCIETY copper deposits of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The study was financed by the Calumet and Hecla...by acting as research professor at the nearby Michigan College of Mines (as it was then called) from...the profession of economic geology: "Zoning in Michigan copper deposits and its significance" and "Fissure..."Fissure veins and lode relations in Michigan copper deposits." Together, the two provided the justification
Book (edition)
Superior hematites, 125; intro ductory, 125-129; Marquette district, 129-136; Menominee dis trict, 136-139;...Hornsilver Mine, 275, 276; Example 33a, Car bonate Mine, Beaver Co., 276; Example 326, Cave Mine, Beaver...Cali fornia, 279 260-279 CHAPTER IX. — SILVER AND GOLD. — INTRODUCTORY : EASTERN SILVER MINES AND THE ROCKY...280; Examples 37^12, defined, 280, 281; silver and gold ores, 281-283; Example 22a, Atlantic Border, 283;...39. Bassiok Mine. 29(1. 297: Example «9o. xii TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAOK Bull Domingo Mine, 297-299; Humboldt-Pocahontas
 
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