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| Iuyw I , < h,,,rl,rp,, ,,I I r,,,,l>,l\ T HE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT stretches in a southwest-northeast...from the White Pine mine in Ontonagon County to Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County. Copper mineralization...stratiform sulfide (chalcocite) deposit at the White Pine mine and (2) the world-class native copper deposits that...this type of lode start- ed in 1856 at the Quincy mine. Later came the conglomeratehosted deposits, in...type of lode is credited to the Calumet No. 1 mine on the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which started |
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| copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton) D e d ic ated...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The āCopper 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 . |
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| 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...industry was the shutdown of all Calumet & Hecla, Inc.* mines in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties by a labor...came with the closing of the White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, in September 1995. New, stringent environmental |
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| MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY Figure 1: Shaft house of the Ahmeek mine, Keweenaw County. 1962 photo by Terry...been and probably never will be anything like the Michigan Copper Country. For the mineral-minded, it is...native metal. For the collector, its scores of old mine dumps never cease to provide rewards of specimens;...and to Douglass Houghton, who made the first systematic explorations on which Michigan laid its claim...claim to the region. Houghton lost his life in a Lake Superior storm, but by the early 1840s his reports of |
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| Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...5.5 Ć 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Authorās specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...naval officer who became an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (Monette 1975). It was developed...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...the district, was only out-produced by the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which accounted for 4,218 |
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| native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Since retiring...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 Companyās Champion mine in Houghton County. Downloaded by [Florida State University] |
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| University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute...Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual AnnualMeeting, Meeting,Houghton, Houghton,Ml, 40, part part2, 2, 185 185p. p. MI,v...Lake Superior Superior Geology Peninsula, Michigan" Michigan" (Bornhorst (Bornhorst and others, 1983)... time, we considered that that "It is held at Michigan Technological presumptuous for for us us to put |
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| Collectorās Newsletter $6.00 2022 Summer Finds in the Michigan Copper Country Tom Rosemeyer datolite@charter...years ago. This is due to the yearly crushing of mine dumps for logging road construction, road repairs...industrial projects. Posting of privately owned mine sites also had increased due to liability concerns...trip is held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan. The collecting guides for the...13 July 2022. Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral |
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| 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 |
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| PrOlitleEt - K EWEENAW I - COUNTY, -~ __ -- ---K--- MICHIGAN Tom Rosemcyer n 1990 dodecahedra1...the Keweenaw Peninsula Peninsula. in northern Michigan. The vein History outcrop, known locally as Point...the original patina of azurite, malachite, and cuprite (clow-up view in flg. 6). The specimen waa recovered...Flood, owner of Keweenaw Gem & Gift, Inc., in Houghton, Michigan. When Flood inquired as to the source of...Harbor, L Keweenaw LmESu?~OB OO?PMb DISTRIOT County Copper Harbor Eagle River 20 miles 20 kilometers |
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| MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ... KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA ā¢ Tel: +1 949 494 5155 ā¢ Email: info@kristalle.com...................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines........................................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...................................... Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan................................... |
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| Through the āScope The Flambeau Mine Rusk County, Wisconsin June 1993-March 1997 TOM ROSEMEYER P.O....Photo by Peter Rodewald, March 1995. T he Flambeau mine is a memory. On 7 March 1997 the last copper-gold-silver...The Flambeau mine has the distinction of being the smallest and richest open-pit copper mine in North America...America, and throughout its short life the mine produced 399 million pounds of copper, 190,000 ounces...comparison in richness of the orebody, the Calumet & Hecla Conglomerate Lode in Michiganās Copper Country |
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| Dyl II, Director A. E. Seumnii Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 170 ROCKS 81MINERALS...81MINERALS ā .1-. . TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 rosemeyer@ocinet...Florida] at 00:43 01 January 2015 1. Cliff mine 2. Phoenix mine 3. Centralmine 4. Central Exploration 5...of mines 6. Mandan SW-vel pit 7. IronCity(Empire)mine 8. Capemine 9. Clatkmine 10. starmine 11. Keweenaw...the Copper Coun- try that Datolite Street in Houghton was named aRer the colorful mineral. The street |
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| Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 1404 E. Sharon Avenue Houghton, Michigan 49931 cjstefan@mtu...WILLIAM B. BARR JR. 1405 Hewett Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 wbarr@umich.edu Figure 1. Portrait of young...and then working as an exploration geologist and mine manager at various mines in Michiganās Keweenaw...native copper deposit, which became the Champion mine. His academic interests ranged across the disciplines...curator of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological University. His interests span mineralogy |
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| Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ........................ 51 The Beginning of the Calumet and Hecla ............................................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...Nonetheless, he was very well known by hobbyists in Michigan and surrounding areas. The National Rockhound |
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| Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ... |
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| well-known pyrite āsunā from the Ziegler mine, Randolph County, Illinois. This 7.4-cm specimen is in the...provenance, and perhaps even polesā of the Cochran mine, Georgia; and the magnificent and Geography āwhoāāthose...100-kilogram group of quartz crystals is from the Otjua mine, Namibia. Tony Kampf photo. Figure 3 (above). Giant...Carolina; and the huge andalusite crystals of Campbell County, Virginia, are obvious candidates as well. Those...of turquoise after a marmot jawbone from Mineral County, Nevada. Rob Lavinsky specimen, Joseph Budd photo |
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| Austrian micromounter. Dioptase frome Harquahala Mine, La Paz Co., AZ. capture. Sometimes, the colors...Cacoxenite on quartz, collected from Chala Gold Mine, Spahievo Orefield, Bulgaria. Field of view is less...agates containing native copper, native silver, cuprite, tenorite, malachite, bornite, epidote, pumpellyite...elsewhere. They were found in Keweenaw County at the Wolverine #2 mine dump (now taken away for road gravel)...of Michiganās Upper Peninsula, along with a Calumet & Hecla, Inc. stock certificate. Donated by Pam Hecht |
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| Strategy at the College but also has taught Mine of Business Management at the College of Mines...Contents Part II1. Company Histories 18. Calumet & Hecla Mining Company (1864-1968) 197 19. Anaconda...Orebody at the Cyprus Pima Mine Ball Mills at Duvalās Sierrita Mine in Arizona The Converter Aisle...Jackling Belts at the Twin Bingham Buttes Mine in Arizona Mine in Utah 36 38 40 45 54 64 210 223 258 259)...Relative Costs of Operating an Independent Copper Mine 5.2 Capacities of the Copper Refineries in the |
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| Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...(all types) Crushers Crushing Rolls NEW YORK Mine Pumps Oil Engines Sampling Machinery Screens Stamp...all the metals, and a corresponding expansion of mine work. The MINES HANDBOOK will hereafter be published...Tuckahoe, N. Y., April, 1920. Vll THE MINES MINE HOISTS HANDBOOK AND Years of experience in building...Wellman- Send for our Bulletin F. 5, "Electric Mine Hoists," and get in closer touch with W-S-M equipment |
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| limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline |
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| studying this field a number of geologists of the Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Mining Co., including Mr. B. S...1911; Lane, A. C., The Keweenaw series of Michigan: Michigan Geol. and Blol. Survey Pub. 6, 1911. 8 Pumpelly...his appreciation to the geologists of the Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Mining Co., who very generously...thiosulphates have been reported in one or two so-called " mine waters." Tetrathionates might also be expected to...found in the deep levels of the copper mines in Michigan. 84 Op. cit., p. 11. See also Cundall, J. T., |
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| California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE ā¢ MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Compressor NEW YORK Crushing Rolls Air Compressors Mine Pumps Ball Mills Blast Furnaces Oil Engines Screens...delightful climate; low expenses; no tuition fees. Michigan College of Mines A state institution offering...President or Secretary. HOUGHTON TARR FUEL OIL - & McCOMB, MICHIGAN INC. - DISTILLATE GASOLINE...considered to be working the public and not the mine. Many suspicious promotions are however not positively |
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| Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ļ the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmļ¾jasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. lineļ¾rock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1Ā½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatļ¾jasper. CARTERSVILLE:...ļ¾agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: ļ at Holton Quarry, 7Ā½ mi. NWļ¾agate; ļ N |
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| Famous Mineral Localities: The ErupciĆ³n/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ........minrec.org Front Cover WULFENITE from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico; 6.6 cm...gathering around a natural amphitheater amid the mine buildings and headframes in order to hear what we...Mexico-II having been devoted to the famous Ojuela mine). Covered here are four more important and prolific...Bisbee mines of the Calumet and Arizona Company, then managed the New Cornelia mine at Ajo with great success |
