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Antigorite from
Verde Antique Quarry, Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Antigorite
Formula:Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Antigorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Verde Antique Quarry, Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:142338
Long-form Identifier:1:3:142338:9
GUID (UUID V4):f9e8c090-7d5e-49ad-8179-1c0faaa15a96
Nearest other occurrences of Antigorite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘRopes Gold Mine, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
59.7km (37.1 miles) ⓘMetronite Quarry, Felch, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
60.7km (37.7 miles) ⓘRian Quarry, Felch, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...by boat and ship on Lake Superior. The port of Marquette was established to handle the rich ores that were...rest of the story, as they say, is history. Marquette County alone would eventually have 247 iron mines
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Billings, and Cady (1951). The only active verde antique quar­ ry in the world is in Rochester (Windsor...minerals found in Ver­ mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...the locality; it is near­ er to the quarry than the village of Lowell and is the last set­ tlement seen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Windsor County.................... 253 254 Talc and Verde Antique Quarry, Stockbridge,Windsor County Williams...Mine, RochesterTownship, Orange County........ ... Verde Antique Quarry, North Hollow, Rochester, Orange...Prospect at Hammondsville, Reading Township, Windsor County .................................................Southwest Corner of Moretown Township, Washington County.................................... Waterbury Mine...thetalcdepos. its,justasit hasproduced the verde antique in the serpentinelenses.... By recalculation
Report (issue)
•...•...••. 14 The Belvidere Mountain asbestos quarry, locality 9 ... ~ •................. 14 Locality.....•..••••.••......••.• 15 The VVaterville talc quarry, locality 22 •.......••..••........•.•.•. 15 The.............................. 24 The Roxbury verde antique quarries, localities 66 and 67. • • . . . .... . . . • . . • • • . . 25 The Rochester verde antique quarry, locality 73. . . • • . . • . . . • . •....................... 28 The Hammondsville talc quarry, locality 117.......................... 28 Locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fractures less than an inch thick filled by verde antique, sometimes with traces of slip fibre. The widest...they consist of a groundmass of fibro-lamellar antigorite with ragged laths of tremolite, residual cores...closely associated with serpentine mineral (i.e. verde antique). Steeply dipping or nearly slickensided fractures...Microscopically the mylonite consists of bladed antigorite crystals showing only a rude orientation in most...of their crystallization. The slip-fibre and verde antique probably result in part from the original mylonitization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Belvidere Moun- tain in the town of Eden, Lamoille County. The Lowell quarries are on the east side of the...the mountain in the town of Lowell, Orleans County. The village in closest proximity to the mountain is...domestic need, the rest was sup- Figure 2. Belvidere quarry, 1950s. plied from the giant Quebec deposits. The...asphalt materials, took over and production at the quarry the mine from GAF and became the largest employee-owned...and large cuts in producIt was in the 1950s that quarry superintendent Clement tion. More recently, additional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
community donations include a polished Vermont “verde antique” floor and granite and slate benches from local...many fine specimens of magnetite, chrysotile, antigorite, garnet, vesuvianite, calcite, and other minerals...including granite, slate, marble, and green “verde antique” (serpentinite). The museum houses a particularly...Re-evaluation of the age of the Brandon Lignite (Vermont, USA) based on plant megafossils. Review of Paleobotany...geochronology of the Brandon Lignite of Vermont, USA. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 82:265-97.
Report (issue)
districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...___________ 715 716 716 718 719 720 721 721 722 723 Quarry descriptions.-___._-_-_-_-_-_-_---_-___--______-_...___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff "green marble" quarry...._._._-__________ Jarrettsville-Dublin district...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-...outlook__________________-_________________________ Quarry descriptions________________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...[University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the
Journal (issue)
type comprises the foliated varieties, such as antigorite and marmolite. From X-ray studies G. Selfridge...serpentines into two groups, serpentine a n d antigorite, a n d he suggested the n a m e serpentinite...serpentinite for the rock-like forms of serpentine, antigorite or mixtures of both. E. Whittacker and J . Zussman...divided serpentine into three groups, lizardite, antigorite and chrysotile. Further, there is an aluminous...Bay, Milford Sound, on the west coast of Otago County in the South Island of New Zealand. T h e Maori
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accepted in revised form 14 August 1974) Abstract-Antigorite-bearing serpentinite bodies containing zoned...least the epidote amphibolite facie8 produced antigorite from the lizardite, while the magnetite rims...and Mg released from the chromite were fixed in antigorite. THE TERM ‘ferritchromit’ reflecting borders...randomly orientated lizardite and chrysotile with antigorite replacing the margin of the pseudomorph. Three...mesh-textured lizardite-chrysotile partly replaced by antigorite, together with zoned chromite, magnetite and
Report (volume)
W., 1942, Soapstone of northeastern Gillespie County, Texas : Texas Univ. Bur. Econ. Geol. Min. Res...Vermont, Hammondsville talc quarry, Reading, Vermont, and Vermont talc Company quarry, Windham, Vermont: U.S...study of a new variety of serpentine ( ortho-antigorite), in Swineford and Plummer, eds., Clays and clay...Nonmetallic mineral resources of North Carolina: Pit and Quarry, v. 24, no. 10, p. 17-22. ---1937, The mining industry...Preliminary report on the froth flotation of Wake County talc: North Carolina State College Dept. Eng. Resources
Book (chapter)
Ca[(Fe2Si2)O8], LĂĄszlĂł 285 (1995). vasantigorit = Fe-rich antigorite, LĂĄszlĂł 285 (1995). vasantofillit = ferro-anthophyllite...LĂĄszlĂł 286 (1995). vasgimnit (Dana) = Fe2+-Mn-rich antigorite, LĂĄszlĂł 286 (1995). vasgimnit (Hatle & Tauss)...Verco = vermiculite, Robertson 36 (1954). verd-antique = serpentine + calcite (marble), Dana 6th, 267...(1939). verde antico = serpentine + calcite (marble), Des Cloizeaux I, 308 (1862). verde antique = serpentine...(marble), MM 1, 90 (1877). verde de cobre = malachite, Egleston 199 (1892). verde de Corsica = weathered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
according to Page. The verde antique serpentinite probably consists largely of antigorite, with or without
Report (issue)
_______________________________________ Formula compositions of antigorite ____________________________________________...serpentinite is remarkably uniform in composition. Antigorite is the sole essential constituent of the serpentinite...talc in the steatite and talccarbonate rock. Antigorite appears to differ slightly among the three localities...in northeastern Waterbury township, Washington County, Vt., 2.2 miles N. 35° E. of the road triangle...prospect Johnson mine Sterling Pond Roxbury verde antique quarries H East Granville mine I Belvidere Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the verde antique and "buckskin-weathering" varieties of serpentinite. In the verde antique variety...Chidester (1962) lamellar or platy serpentine and antigorite form a felted fabric which makes the rock tough...26; Thayer, 1956). In general,I believe that verde antique is associatedwith talc in foliated green-schistor...Clear Creek area, New Idria district, San Benito County, California. Iour. Pel,rology2,209-247 ' (1963)...(1953) The Webster-Addie ultramafic ring, Jackson County, North carolina, and secondaryalteration of its
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogy and Petrology 9 by Springer-Verlag 1977 Antigorite-Ophicarbonates: Phase Relations in a Portion...The occurrence of critical assemblages among antigorite, diopside, tremolite, forsterite, talc, calcite...concerns instead phase relations in metamorphic antigorite-carbonate associations developed in the Pennine...name verde-antique has been used for similar rocks on the North American continent. Antigorite is the...of the present study is to use field data on antigorite-carbonate assemblages, together with available
Report (volume)
California. Minor deposits are known in Maine, Michigan, Montana, Oregon, Wisconsin, and .Wyoming. In...autometamorphic origin, a whitish-weathering type (verde antique) of tectonic origin, and a much later type formed...1940, Lepine Lake area, Destor Township, Abitibi County [Quebec]: Quebec Bur. Mi~es Geol. Rept. 4; ~8 p...chrysotile crystallizes as tubular fibers whereas antigorite characteristically has a lath-like or platy habit...morphology between the two fundamental varieties, antigorite and ch1~ysotile, is explained through the discrepancy
Report (issue)
the strength of chrysotile-, lizardite-, and antigorite-rich serpentinite gouges under hydrothermal conditions...roughly 0.2 at 25 °C, whereas the lizardite- and antigorite-rich gouges are at least twice as strong. The...water is removed, chrysotile is as strong as pure antigorite gouge at room temperature. Heating to nearly...data are available for the heated lizardite and antigorite gouges, their behavior is consistent with that...serpentine minerals chrysotile, lizardite, and antigorite and to help characterize the properties of serpentinite-bearing
Report (issue)
El Capitan in the Guadalupe Mountains, Culberson County, Texas......... Earth's outer crust .................................... Conglomerate from Webb County, Texas ......... ................................Sonora, Sutton County, Texas............... ............... Calcite geode from Travis County, Texas.................... Amphibole asbestos from Gillespie County, Texas...................................................... ............. Basalt from Brewster County, Texas .......................................
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
Report (issue)
SERPENTINITES IN THE BURKS MOUNTAIN COMPLEX, COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEORGIA Mark D. Cocker GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF...SERPENTINITES IN THE BURKS MOUNTAIN COMPLEX, COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEORGIA Mark D. Cocker Georgia Department of...SERPENTINITES IN THE BURKS MOUNTAIN COMPLEX, COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEORGIA by Mark D. Cocker ABSTRACT calculated...south and southeast of Pollards Corner, Columbia County, Georgia. The investigation consisted of field...miles (3.5 km) ESE of Pollards Corner in Columbia County, Georgia (Fig. 1). The northwestern comer of the
 
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