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Paratacamite from
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Paratacamite
Formula:Cu3(Cu,Zn)(OH)6Cl2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Paratacamite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:401424
Long-form Identifier:1:3:401424:9
GUID (UUID V4):6b3c933b-8f65-4c95-b49f-f2ae3d7b0e21
Nearest other occurrences of Paratacamite
38.9km (24.2 miles) Algomah Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
85.6km (53.2 miles) Quincy Mine, Quincy Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
98.4km (61.1 miles) Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet 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 (article/letter/editorial)
Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506 Pine Street Magdalena, New Mexico...5.5 × 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Author’s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because...only massive concrete foundations mark the famous mine sites. Not all is lost, though. A trip to the A
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)
(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)
[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...polymorphism with botallackite, clinoatacamite, and paratacamite. Pseudomorphs of malachite and chrysocolla after...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite
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...depth of more than 100 feet in search of chalky-white-coated nodules nestled between boulders on the lake
Report (issue)
Cuprite, atacamite (patina on bronze artifact); paratacamite, gypsum, brochantite, malachite, azurite, epsomite...takovite, georgeite, carrboydite (Carr Boyd Rocks mine, Australia). Distribution: Initially characterized...Egyptian artifacts. From the Carr Boyd Rocks nickel mine, Yerilla district, 80 km north-northeast of Kalgoorlie...Glückrad mine, near Oberschulenberg, Harz Mountains, Germany. In the USA, from the Deremo-Snyder mine, San...Miguel Co., Colorado, and at the White Pine mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan. Name: From the Greek chalcos
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
originating from the Centennial Mine, Houghton County, Michigan, USA, where it occurs as a secondary...Cu-Ca-Cl Mineral’ noted in Heinrich’s Mineralogy of Michigan and is almost certainly identical to the supposed...centennialite, kapellasite, Centennial mine, Houghton County, Michigan. Introduction 2011) and is a possible...calumetite, but were an intimate admixture of minor paratacamite and a material most similar to JCPDS 32-1258†...minerals occurring in the Centennial mine, Houghton County, Michigan, USA, which included anthonyite, Cu(OH
Journal (issue)
large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...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)
in Rudna IX mine. A non-bulky Ca-rich dripstone-like paragenesis from Lubin Główny mine is also characterized...likely to be confirmed coexisting species include paratacamite, wooldridgeite/nesquehonite, johillerite, melanothallite...study—from a single locality in Chile: Santa Rosa mine, Iquique Province [1]. It is the natural equivalent...juangodoyite, within drainage-related mine speleothems (minothems) of the Libiola Mine, Italy, was reported in Reference...occurrences include the listed Chilean one [6]; Carr Boyd mine, Western Australia [7]; Zunderwand, Erlacher Bock
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Centennial mine, Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan, USA. 5.799 (100), 2.583 (75), 2...8 1.8 100.0 (1) Centennial mine, Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan, USA; average of combustion, ion...Association: Calumetite, atacamite family minerals (paratacamite, clinoatacamite). Distribution: Likely widespread...native copper district, Michigan, USA, specifically the Ahmeek, Quincy, White Pine, Mohawk, and Franklin...mines. Name: For the Centennial mine, Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan, USA. Type Material: Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER-BEARING FISSURE VEINS Keweenaw County, Michigan Downloaded by [University of Delaware] at 05:05...crystallized copper specimen came from the Central mine and was in the collection of Donald C. Gabriel....exploration 2. Cliff mine 3. Phoenix group of mines 4. Central mine 5. Northwestern mine 6. Central exploration...Resolute mine 9. Hard Rock fissure 10. Iron City (Empire) mine 11. Cape mine 12. Copper Falls mine 13. Clark...Clark mine 14. Point prospect 15. Mendota mine 16. Gull Rock fissure and Laker pocket Figure 3. A 1900
Journal (issue)
Collector's Notebook: Moat Mountain, Albany, Carroll County, Hew Hampshire-2000 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...the Jersey Gardens Mall in Eliza- beth, Union County, New Jersey which he thought was a blue calcite...periodical for the mine ral e nthusias t and mineral history enthusiast. $24 .00 per year in USA $30.00 per year...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineral news.com...mined. Most of the pegmatites in the northeastern USA are now being mined for specimens. This probably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite...Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...Clinotyrolite spray, 3.4 mm across, Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high...high, Chalk Mountain, Churchill County. Dan Behnke specimens and photos. Hot Springs Iron meteorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...reaction with dilute hydrochloric acid to form a white coating or precipitate of PbCl; azurite simply effervesces...occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...(Graham or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire. It
Catalog/List
an shale, some with Arsenopyrite (Bedford Consols Mine, Devon England) The size varies from lxl to lx2...C315 single 1/2 ins NATIVE ARSENIC rich (Kusa Mine, near ,Bau, lx2 f.5 •2x2 EIO crystal, across. ...masses filling·small (Lockout Pass,Tooele County, Utah, USA) lem C319 BUSTAMITE excellent rich near...Au Te/2 bright metallic (Cripple Creek, Colcrado, USA) lem C321 CATAPLEITcE Na Zr Silicate. Yukspor,...of Chalcopyrite. (16 level, Sim.ms Lade, Geevor Mine ,Cornwall) size reflects the area of botryoidal
Book
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...the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous mineral...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... Davis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References ...COLOR PLATES (following page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a fourth polymorph, additional to atacamite, paratacamite, and botallackite, and indexed on a monoclinic...[The powder data are identical with those of paratacamite and can be indexed on the rhombohedral cell...the latter; the mineral is possibly a zincian paratacamite.--M.H.H.] [M.A. 73-1934; Bull. 96, 245; A.M... A steel-grey mineral from the Sedmochislenitsi mine, Bulgaria, with tennantite, bornite, chalcopyrite...with klockmannite and tellurites at the Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, are tetragonal, a 3"865
Journal (issue)
Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White European Correspondent Michael P. Cooper Editing...Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ..................................Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have increased since the publication o f the initial...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph... Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG ...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith
Catalog/List
museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans for the area...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky...Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one of the Chalcocite
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43... with all The color of most opaque minerals is white or gray in possible intermediate gradations. Luster...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado
Journal (issue)
C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin &...in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...outcrops of white quartzite which strike parallel to the basin margin and give the name "White Waters Ridge...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine developments, some of which were conducted under...,,.•• MINE r •• •• ' ··, . TRANSVAAL e e e \ .
Report (volume)
described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr...Harris, H. B. trolled: Braunstein, J., 3. Escambia County: Cagle, J. W. ,Jr. Pollard field: Jones, W. B.
 
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