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Mohawkite from
Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:'Mohawkite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mohawkite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:35196
Long-form Identifier:1:3:35196:8
GUID (UUID V4):ecf0b17d-eb40-4181-a7f7-33d303a53d96
Nearest other occurrences of Mohawkite
7.6km (4.8 miles) Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (volume)
W. E. Parnall, Jr. .26 The Crystalization of Mohawkite, Domeykite and Other Similar Arsenides, by Dr...Superior Mining Institute SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING HOUGHTON, MICH., MARCH 5-9, 1901. The Testing and Control...Breitung, Edward N., Marquette, Mich. Brett, Henry, Calumet, Mich. Cole, W. A., Ironwood, Mich. Cole, Wm. H...96 Lake St., Chicago, Ill. Chadbourne, T. L., Houghton, Mich. Chamberlain, Morrow, Chattanooga, Tenn...Chinn, Wm. P., McKinley, Minn. Chynoweth, James, Calumet, Mich. Clancey, James, Ishpeming, Mich. Clark,
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)
Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...former naval officer who became an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (Monette 1975). It was...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...from the district, was only out-produced by the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which accounted for...the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum on the campus of Michigan Technological University will let you relive the
Journal (issue)
the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton) D e d ic ated to the Memory...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The “Copper King” 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)
Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan It was at one of last winter's meetings of the Michigan Mineralogical Society...of the six-day invasion of Marquette, Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw Counties. The response almost bowled...six days which we had scheduled for Ishpeming, Michigan. Bob Markert and his associates came through in...Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan, Marquette, Michigan, and were well supplied with information...arrangements with the Michigan College of Mining and Technology at Houghton, Michigan, for a joint field
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1975–1986) of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological University. The mineral name honors...was discovered on oxidized copper arsenides (“mohawkite,” a mixture primarily consisting of the minerals...algodonite) from the Mohawk No. 2 mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It occurs as white lamellar bundles of plates...2018). ean Kemp was born 24 December 1917 in Calumet, Michigan. She spent her childhood summers at the family...family property on Lake Superior in Eagle River, Michigan, playing in the woods and hunting for agates on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Collecting, 1960 ONTARIO, MICHIGAN AND COLORADO. By KEN FISHER Downloaded by [University of...life there. yond Toledo and then up the lower Michigan peninsula. First stop was at Adrian, Mich. Motel...Driftwood Motel, near Brevoort., on the shore of Lake Michigan. Mrs. Fisher loves the water, so this Motel was...difficult to picture as the rip roaringest town in Michigan in the early lumbering days, but the guide books...in the Iron Country, but hurried on, reaching Houghton, the Copper Country capital, that night. T o help
Journal (issue)
for it. He got it. Near Norristown, in Montgomery County, Pa, there was a gentle 16 THE MINERAL COLLECTOR...He had conducted a mining venture in Buckingham County, Virginia, and had toyed with nature long enough...trigonometry. That crystal went to the Montgomery County farm, and the farmer had a greater treasure than...lower end of Lancaster County, Pa., (by the way, Lancaster is the only county in Pennsylvania which has...is quite com mon in the drift of Wisconsin and Michigan, and a little has been found in the Atlantic states
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)
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
Book
Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book... and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding diamonds in the kimberlites of upper Michigan, and vast...shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan is the state with the most shoreline on these...fresh water seas, with waters of Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and...and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan, and Ohio hugs the edge of Lake Erie. These states
Book
Historic State Park 13700 13.25 Lane  Garden, Michigan 49835 Tel: (906) 644-2603 Keweenaw Peninsula Jill...Sciences & Engineering Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton, MI 49931 Miners Castle...Rocks National Lakeshore P.O. Box 40, Munising, Michigan 49862 Tel: (906) 387-2607 / Email: David_Kronk@nps...Mining Engineering and Sciences (adjunct) Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 49855 Tel: (906) 227-1176...Porritt, Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering, Michigan Technological University Michelle Miller, Center
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
approximately with the formuIa (Cu,Ni,Co)~As. See mohawkite. Klinoaugit. See orthoaugite. Klino-pyroxen...analysed by Dr. Ledoux, and previously named mohawkite (q. v.). I,eukosphenite. G. Flink, Meddelelser...cuprite, malachite, chrysoeolla, and quartz at Calumet, near Bisbee, Arizona. A basic silico-carbonate...approximating to tha~ of algodonite. See mohawkite. Mohawkite. J.R. Stanton, Engin. and Mining Journ....Intimate mixtures of mohawkite and whltneyite from the Mohawk mine, Michigan. See mohawkite. Moldavite. P.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PboAu(TeSb)rSs_s? Nagyag, Transylvania -64 low Mohawkite CuaAs Michigan Cobalt, Ont. Polished -30 -33 -30 low...poiished -68 low Domeykite CqAs Portage Lake Calumet, Mich. -15 -15 low low Argentite AgzS Sonora...Alabandite MnS Nagyag, Hungary Sphalerite ZnS Ottawa County, Okla. (excellent heat conductor) Bingham, Utah...Chester County, Pa. Ellenville, N. Y. Butte, Mont. Cornwall, England Leadville, Colo. Larimer County, Colo...Colo. Gilpin County, Colo. Cochise County, Ariz. Massive Crystals, pure Polished Harvard Collection No
Catalog/List
old stuff last summer on a show trip to northern Michigan. Got it right from a 65 year oJd ex-collector...the 1950's. From the iron mines around Champion, Michigan, you just can't get this material any more. Metallic...desired! $8.00 each! 3 VELVET MALACHITE: Ajo, Plma County, Arizona: 1-2 inch beauties of vibrant green velvet...each MARCASITE "SPIKEBALLS": Belle Fouche, Butte County, South Dakota: About the nicest marcasite specimens...and priced at $10.00 eaoh. MOHAWKITE: Mohawk Mine; Keweenaw County. Michigan: From an old collection, this
Catalog/List
radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...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...crystal vugs ALTAITE Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite
Book
Superior mining The Keweenaw copper district of Michigan 33 35 35 Copper mining on Isle Eoyal and elsewhere...developments 45 ., 45 Clinton iron ores of Dodge County, Wis 45 Paleozoic iron ores in western Wisconsin...geologic 70 knowledge 72 Bibliography 73 Michigan Northern Wisconsin Minnesota 77 Ontario 81...Michipicoten Island Keweenaw Point and northern Michigan and Wisconsin Keweenawan mesas Huronian monoclinal...Chapter X. The Penokee-Gogebic iron district of Michigan and Wisconsin Location, succession of rocks, and
Report (volume)
:............................................. Michigan.................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Journal (issue)
..........663 MINERAL COLLECTING IN N ORlHERN MICHIGAN. By 1171n. E. L110 111a •.....•.••.......•..•••...THE (llJ..4ltltY San Diego County-A Great GemBearing Area San Diego County, California, was at one time...miles from Bissersk. On the other hand, in Siskiyou County, California, only three localities have been mentioned..."abundantly in several" chromite deposits of this county. It would be conservative to say that there are...Clayton said it was from "New Idria" in San Benito County and there is a specimen so labeled in the Brush
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 Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Society of Southern California (Pasadena Show). The Michigan Mineralogical Society (Detroit Show). The Tampa...from Lumpkin County, Georgia. Gold was discovered in Georgia in 1828, in Lumpkin County. So much gold...with mica and red calcareous spar. From Orange County, New York. 6459 This rare specimen (is Oligoclase
Catalog/List
PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped crystal...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...QUARTZ AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite .. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some
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 Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson, J. B. Paces...602-277-8855 rocks & minerals INC. 178 Calumet Ave. Calumet, Michigan 49913 906-337-2093 List $2.00 (C redit...COLLECTIONS DON PEARCE m y’s MONTREAL HAWTHORNEDEN MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY MINERALS! Decorative Copper ★ Copper
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 Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...and J. M. Martins The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California .....................................Holiday Inn North DETROIT: Holiday Inn, Troy, Michigan October 3-6 January 31-February 10 TUCSON: Newton...province, which extends southward through San Diego County and into Baja California, Mexico. This small, isolated
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 Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...natrolite from the Dallas Gem mine, San Benito County, California. For more on this locality see vol...corner of the Ant­ werp quadrangle in Jefferson County, New York. The water-filled open pit (Fig. 1) appears...Mineralogical Record, July-August, 1984 St. Lawrence County (Hough, 1853). Operations commenced there in 1812
Report (issue)
5-Fm3m; a = 3.615; Z = 4 1114 (Cu/Ni)—Calumet mine, Michigan; same pattern given by copper filings and...and material from Tamarak mine, Michigan Cell edge by Owen & Yates (Phil. Mag., 15, 472, 1933), also...5-Fm3m; a = 3.644; Z = 4 3099 (Cu/Ni)—Houghton Co., Michigan (UBC, polished section); foreign lines...algodonite gave a = 3.661. On whitneyite from Michigan, Machatschki (V. Jb. Min., A, Beil. Bd. 59, 137...atoms 3235 (Cu/Ni)—Mohawk mine, Keweenaw Co., Michigan (ROM, M11447); same pattern, together with pattern
 
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