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Quartz from
Trimountain Mine, Trimountain, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Trimountain Mine, Trimountain, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:398570
Long-form Identifier:1:3:398570:0
GUID (UUID V4):ae720790-f6f6-4c6c-93f4-36bf34bc8fed
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.5km (0.9 miles) Baltic No. 2 shaft, Baltic Mine, Baltic, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Champion Mine, Champion Mine, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Baltic Mine, Baltic, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) Atlantic Section 16 Exploration Prospect, Baltic, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) Globe Mine, Painesdale, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Superior Mine (Old Superior Mine), Superior, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Houghton Exploration prospect, Superior, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Isle Royal No. 6 shaft, Isle Royal Mines, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Isle Royal No. 5 shaft, Isle Royal Mines, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Isle Royal No. 4 shaft, Isle Royal Mines, Portage Township, Houghton 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 (issue)
mining the galenite from the old pillars of the mine. From the pillars ! Some of the pillars already...dangerous work? Can you imagine going to work in the USA. not knowing if you will come home alive that same...laz urite possible mica (possibly ph logopite) quartz: lazurite coatings Imperfect Cleavage Poor Perfect..." My dream is to go underground with you in your mine. 10 see the vanaclinite specimens in situ. and then...Peekskill, NY 10566-2088. Underground in Mustapha's mine in the ACF-zone near Mibladene I just lay down
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A FEW NOTES ON COLLECTING IN UPPER MICHIGAN BY LYLE DeRUSHA RR 1 Chippewa Falls, Wise. In an area comprising...Minnesota mine dumps. From here to Copper Harbor on the tip of the peninsula and the Adams Mine dumps are...turning over of the piles. Also found here are quartz with copper inclusions. Some datolites of the white...worthy of looking over. The Mass and the Adventure mine dumps will also be used for road fill. So these...will end as collecting spots. The Algomah, Lake, Michigan, Caledonia, St. Louis, So. Lake, Victoria, are
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industry and trade—Michigan—Keweenaw Peninsula—History. 2. Copper miners—Michigan—Keweenaw Peninsula—History...Perhaps the reason for its lack of fame outside Michigan itself is that its annals, like those of happy...to the Lake Superior copper district of Upper Michigan. The reasons for its “lack of fame” might be several...metal, nor is it the dearest one. In the case of Michigan copper in particular, another factor might help...day-to-day life in other mining regions. In short, the Michigan miners were dull in comparison with the fractious
Journal (issue)
copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton) D e d ic ated...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)
O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 he White Pine mine and adjacent town of White Pine are located about...western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway 64, which winds...to 500 feet in elevation above Lake Superior. The mine lies within a belt of copper-bearing Precambrian...that are situated to the east and northeast of the mine. The host rock for the White Pine deposit is a series...when underground operations were suspended. The mine has 13 square miles of underground workings and
Report (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
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
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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
Book (volume)
gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINE WATER COURSE COMPOSITION OF ORE BEARING AN INDEX TO THE CURRENTS. ALFRED C. L•. A year ago...case of downward circulation. 5. Waters of lodes--mine waters--show the effect of circula- tion in their... C. LANE. 6. Systematictesting of water of the mine and that leached from drill coresof the country...Chamberlin'sGeology and tests by the Wisconsinand Michigan State Geologicaland Biological Surveysx have shownhow...chemicalcharacterof the water found by Emmons in the sumpsof mine shafts.•' All these data, it is to .benoted, refer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA Department of Mineralogy, Swedish Museum of Natural...limestone is composed of calcite, clays, hematite and quartz and shows a variety of slump structures. The Cu0...introduced into the plasma using a double spray quartz spray chamber system (cyclonic and double pass)...with spectra of native Cu (QDF3) from the Botallack mine, Cornwall, UK (Criddle and Stanley, 1993) measured...Arizona, USA Soudan mine, Minnesota, USA Azaruzawa, Rikuchiu, Japan Copper River, Alaska, USA Lake Superior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOCIETY NOVEMBER, RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MICHIGAN T. M. BRODERICK, OF GEOLOGISTS 1946 TO COPPER...previously publishedin geologicalstudies of the Michigan copperdistrict by the Calumetand Hecla GeologicalDepartment...ProfessionalPaper 144, "The Copper Depositsof Michigan," and the continuationof geological studiesby...deposits of Michigan, U.S. Prof. Pap. 144, p. 2, 1929. Geol. Surv. GEOLOGYOF MICHIGAN COPPERDISTRICT...These are as follows: T. M. Broderick, Zoning in Michigan copperdepositsand its significance. EcoN. Gv.ox
Journal (issue)
rights reserved. COLLECTING MICHIGAN MINERALS, by John F. Mihelcic Michigan is rich in rewards for Rockhounds...to the spoil banks of the famous Wilmington strip mine area of Northern Illinois LARGEST KNOWN MaAss OF...Collecting Michigan by JOHN THE MINERAL COLLECTOR is in his element at almost any point in Michigan Starting...permission to enter upon private property The Michigan Mineralogical Society, as a unit, and members...Minerals F. MIHELCK at the International Salt Company mine. A large number of gravel pits about Detroit yield
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Ten es e . . Oklahoma. Kentucky.Maryland. Michigan. . Wyoming Missouri Montana. Georgia.Illinois...mention. - º, aſ ºf Typical bituminous coal-mine tipple. These are described in more detail in Bulletin...cost is made possible, and in 1916 the Hull Rust mine alone shipped nearly 8 million tons of ore. The...manganese deposit in California. The largest manganese mine in the United Statse at Philipsburg, Mont. 14032–22...accompanying photo graph shows the largest manganese mine in the United States. CLAY AND CLAY PRODUCTS. The
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
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and iron ranges in the Hiawatha country of Upper Michigan; from there to the silver and gold canyons of...NORTHERN = ~ 54 es 719 DESERT, DEATH a cs 4103 MINE THE SOUTHERN MINES, THE MOJAVE VALLEY AND YOSEMITE...IV SILVER... THE COPPER AND IRON WILDERNESS MICHIGAN ae a OF UPPER Le 334 COLORADO AND “THE RICHEST...208 233 aes ILLUSTRATIONS Section of a lead mine in Wisconsin in the 1840's a - 65 Emigration...The remains of a Cornish rege in the Cora Blanca Mine, New Almaden ea ie ‘ie Wee “‘Crowst-time” for
Journal (volume)
6. H & OLLOWAY SG.NY. Alt7 Interior View of Quartz Mill belonging Black the to, Hawk Gold Company...MADE HIS FORTUNE... COPPER SMELTING AT DETROIT , MICHIGAN ...... EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT........ 17 21 22...Petroleum Company, of New York , New York and Michigan Silver -Lead Company - L'Anse Mining Company...Schoolcraft Iron Company -- New Jersey Mining Company of Michigan ; Report of the Directors - Keith's New Process...Copper Mining Company , Portage Lake District, Michigan ; Report for 1864. NEW YORK MINING AND OIL STOCKS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
son, Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc., VII, 1o8 Helen Mine, Michipicoten oo (unpub. monograph) 6 Gabbro, Allen...from the contact Ditto, at contact Contact with quartz diorite (Bull. 150, U.S.G.S.) Contact with porphyry...Verbindungen in der Natur, Marburg, 1870) 7.4 2.3 F. D. Adams, Jour. Geol., XVII (1909) 7.4 1. 5 Ibid. Materials........ Alabama........... Ohio................ Michigan ............ Indiana ............ Wisconsin.....THE CHLORIDEWATERS OF THE DEEP COPPER MINES OF MICHIGAN, AS COMPAREDWITH THE SURFACE WATER DeepMineWaters
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footprints in shale, Granby, Massachusetts Mica mine, North Waterford, Maine Boulder-strewn pasture,...Berkshires, where it abruptly drops 1,000 feet to North Adams and the Hoosac River Valley below. The views from...directly opposite, rising abruptly behind North Adams, is Mt. Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts...mica; the white, feldspar; and the gray, smoky quartz. 41 The size of the mineral grains in an igneous...Route 6A in the northwest corner of Meriden. Trimountain State Park, Durham, Conn. (USGS Wallingford and
Book (volume)
(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...NUMBER! 64-12704 GO To My Mother LUCY SOPHIA (ADAMS) RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm”...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where
 
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