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Copper (commodity) from
Adventure mine, Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Commodity:Copper (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Copper (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Adventure mine, Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1413129
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1413129:1
GUID (UUID V4):d5db6fad-5a15-4d97-a13a-b81bf5c509ad
Nearest other deposits of Copper (commodity)
1.2km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Hilton Mine (Ohio Mine), Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
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
1.6km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Toltec Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Evergreen Bluff Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Merrimac Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
2.2km (1.3 miles) ā“˜South Lake Mine (Aztec Mine), Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) ā“˜Old Algomah Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) ā“˜Ogima Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
Eagle Harbor Oe emma Harbor Copper Harb 7 al EAGLE ie ces are Olibwove Allovez, Ā«Ahmoek SLE ROYALE...ONTONAGAN. Indiana. Pine .Moss sRocklond. ONTONAGON Rousseau. .Chossell Jocobsville ~Donken Arnheim...Ishpeming + HiUM boig, Ā«Palmer Ā«Republic SOME COPPER COUNTRY NAMES AND PLACES COPYRIGHT May 23, 1975...Clarence J. Monette 942 Ninth Street Lake Linden, Michigan, 49945 All Rights Reserved ISBN: 0-942363-04-3...ice a nineOo by Copper Island Printing & Graphic Services, Inc. of Calumet, Michigan _ ee AUTHOR'S
Report (issue)
Michiganā€™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 (article/letter/editorial)
istory and Mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan Ninth in a series of articles on the...the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country TOM ROSEMEYER 506 Pine Street P.O. Box 369 Downloaded...groups of copper crystals were recovered from the secluded Indiana No. 2 (Indiana Copper Company) mine dump...dump in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The individual crystals, which range from less than 1 cm to groups more...constitute one of the major crystallized copper finds in the Copper Country in recent years. Location The
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 ā€œCopper Kingā€ 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 (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...late Precambrian, Keweenawan flood basalts, and copper mineralization extend along MichĀ­ igan's west border...beds, forming the northern rim of the Southern Michigan Basin, are evident as soon as you cross the 5-mile
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Through the Scope Copper Inclusions in Quartz Microcrystals From Michiganā€™s Keweenaw Peninsula TOM...Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior copper district is world...of mines in the district, especially the Quincy mine. Crystals ranged in size from micro to large-cabinet...the heyday of copper mining (1860ā€“1940). This article focuses on the lesser-known copper inclusions in...been collected throughout the district. The native copper deposits occur in the Portage Lake Volcanics that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tracing the Source of Native Copper Mineral Specimens Downloaded by [Library Services City University... with Copper Isotope Values A Case Study Solving the Misidentification of CM21474: Michigan vs. Namibia...collecting native copper specimens for analysis from the rock piles of the Champion No. 3 mine at Painsdale...Painsdale, Houghton County, Michigan. Note the Champion No. 4 mine shaft house in the distance. Marc Wilson photo...Minerals: Specimen CM21474 showing small, distorted copper crystals in a large arborescent grouping, 27.5
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Unearthed from a Pleistocene...articles on the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country Figure 1. Google Earth photo showing the...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...Houghton. He now spends a good part of the year in the Copper Country collecting and writing articles about the
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
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cover Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porcelaneous Datolite in Michiganƕs Lake Superior Copper District Figure 1. A rare and beautiful yellow...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michiganā€™s Copper Country News from the Keweenaw Recent Mineral Finds in Michiganā€™s Copper Country Downloaded...A l t h o u g h commercial copper mining has come to an end in the Copper Country, specimens reminiscent...groups of copper and silver crystals, colorful porcelaneous nodules of datolite, and copper inclusions...courtesy Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological...21:35 21 November 2014 The demise of the native copper mining industry in the latter part of the twentieth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michiganā€™s Copper Country Eleventh in a series of articles on the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country...Superior storms, exposing calcite/quartz veins in the Copper Harbor Conglomerate. Authorā€™s photo. TOM ROSEMEYER...minor and major, continue to be made in Michiganā€™s Copper Country. The May/June 1998 and the November/December...Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...from the mining industry, he has returned to the Copper Country on a seasonal basis to engage in mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
William Besse. 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net An UNUSUAL Glacial...the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country F loat copper and silver are defined as chunks of...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...ice sheet, the copper and silver were dropped in place. Spectacular masses of float copper have been found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Peninsula TOM ROSEMEYER Figure 1. The best silver/copper specimen recovered to date from the vein by Doug...composed of silver and lesser amounts of copper. The silver/copper was encased in weathered prehnite that...(October 2017). 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Twenty-sixth in a...articles on the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country O n 16 August 2017 an impor- tant discovery...located in Keweenaw County, Michigan, was made by Doug Miller of Calumet, Michigan. Miller, a thirty-year
Report (issue)
filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur as inclusions near the...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...articles on the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country his article details the discovery and...counties, Michigan. Every summer in the Copper Country, mine dumps from a bygone era of copper mining are...are being crushed and hauled off the mine sites. The crushed rock is mainly used for road repair and...the Copper Country there is a cadre of people using metal detectors to locate and recover copper that
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...I 1991 337--424 273-336 [ 1-128 129-208 [ COPPER] [ 177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400...81-160 161-240 241-320 321--400 [ 1-104 GREENLAND] HMC0 ] 1-264 ā€¢MINERAL MUSEUMS OF EASTERN...the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich) 22:65-69 [Abstracts
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 (article/letter/editorial)
TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Up Twenty-first in...articles on the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country from the Depths Underwater Recovery...KEWEENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological...University. He now spends a good part of the year in the Copper Country researching and writing articles on the...shoreline of Lake Superior at Esery Park, Keweenaw County. Larry Maltby photo (July 2013). Figure 3. Map
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ā€¢ s THĀ£ MICHI6AN COPPER COUNTRY SCALE IN MILES 0 s 20 10 ,,,.. BOOM COPPER "--'.',.,,~if,.~...fifties, still work the mile-deep stopes of the Quincy Mine. One of the oldest mines on the North American continent...provided livelihood for so many generations. l BOOM COPPER ..ā€¢.....ā€¢........................................interest in the lore of Michigan's Copper Country CALUMET, MICHIGAN ā€¢ 1964 Copyright, 1943, by WILLIAM...written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Copper Country Edition ā€¢ 1964 This edition was published
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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
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MICROCLINE IN THE NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN Ina KrorN, Stanf ord, U ni.oersity, C al'iJorni...activity in the copper country of Michigan, and detailed study of the native copper deposits during this...wiII contribute to our knowledge of the native copper deposits and of that important mineral groupthe..."anomalous occurrence" in the newly discovered native copper deposits of Keweenaw peninsula of a "peculiar reddish..."undoubted aqueous product" forming after both copper and calcite. Whitneyz supplemented this with a
 
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