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Prehnite from
North Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view North Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:414739
Long-form Identifier:1:3:414739:8
GUID (UUID V4):58e13a8b-5ddb-4c7f-9260-60ec1e2b72dd
Localities for Prehnite in this Region
Enigma vein, North Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Prehnite
1.7km (1.1 miles) Avery shaft, Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) North American Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) South Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.8km (1.8 miles) Robbins Mine (West Vein Mine), Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Eagle River, Eagle River, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Lake Superior Mine (Old Phoenix Fissure), Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Five Mile Point, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Phoenix Mine, Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Eagle River (Babbitt) Mine, Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
MICROMOUNTING AT THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN By PAUL B. MOORE and RICHARD M. 6EGER Depr. of Geolophysical...UNIVERSITY] at 03:21 25 August 2017 INTRODUCTION The Keweenaw Feninsula is well-known for its fine specimens...collectors with limited time, may we suggest the Hancock Mine (on Ingot St., Hancock). The dump looks terrible...chlorite minerals are the best found anywhere in the Keweenaw Peninsula. PUMPELLYITE (6Ca0.3Al 2 0 3 .7Si0 2...due to the parallel growth of xls. At the Hancock Mine, Hancock, it occurs upon xls of epidote and quartz
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)
recently in the various serialized articles on the Michigan Copper Country by Tom Rosemeyer (including the... Associated minerals include calcite, quartz, prehnite, danburite, axinite, garnet, and the zeolites...quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from this locality were...century at the Lane quarries at Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found...green datolite crystals from the Second Sovietski mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. The 18.5 ⫻
Journal (issue)
MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ... KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • 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...................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Discovery of an Exceptional Silver Vein in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula TOM ROSEMEYER Figure 1. The best silver/copper...copper. The silver/copper was encased in weathered prehnite that was removed with a water gun to reveal the...(October 2017). 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Twenty-sixth in a...vein located in Keweenaw County, Michigan, was made by Doug Miller of Calumet, Michigan. Miller, a thirty-year...an area about a half-mile northwest of the North Cliff mine. He had checked part of this area earlier
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
81427 THE CLIFF MINE, discovered in 1844, is located on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan in the...turned the Cliff into a successful mining operation and made it the first mine on the "Keweenaw" to pay...dividends to stockholders. Throughout its history, the mine also produced spectacular specimens of crystallized...over. N ative copper was first mined on the Keweenaw Peninsula several thousand years ago by Native...controlled three mineral tracts on the northern part of Keweenaw Peninsula. After examining the copper prospect
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recovered from a large vug in the fissure vein of the Cliff mine; the largest crystal is 2 cm across. The specimen...Probably the best arborescent silver from the Cliff mine, this specimen is 9.5 × 10.5 cm and was originally...Jaszczak photo. Figure 18. This calcite from the Cliff mine is 3.6 cm long and perched on a matrix of spongy...lava on earth (Bornhorst and Rose 1994). At the Cliff mine it thickens to more than 1,300 feet and remains...some of the veins (Butler and Burbank 1929). Cliff Mine After the failed 1844 mining venture at the Hays
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in celebrating the rich mineral heritage of the Keweenaw Peninsula’s datolite by diving into this article...Dyl II, Director A. E. Seumnii Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 170 ROCKS 81MINERALS...81MINERALS ’ .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...pit 7. IronCity(Empire)mine 8. Capemine 9. Clatkmine 10. starmine 11. Keweenaw Point Historical information
Book (volume)
may find useful. Mr it Thorns has compiled the County List. Messrs Macfarlane & Erskine's engravings...(Miers). Phil. (?) Mag. the 15. Albite after Prehnite 16. Albite after Stilbite Brit., 194: : :...Albite after Prehnite (?) Min. Greg and Lettsom, Brit., 113. 13.*Albite after Prehnite In (Heddle...locality is in the British Museum. Analcime after Prehnite: Paisley: Hall, Min. Dir., 132. There is little...Orthoclase : : : : : 96. Orthoclase 4te. after Prehnite: Kilpatrick: Haidinger Heddle. (Blum), Pseud
Book
Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens..."Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists, as it was merged with Westmorland...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during
Book
Geological Sciences, Leeds; Miss M. C. Hill, County Archivist, Salop County Council; P. G. Hines; Robert Hogg,...James, Curator, Shrewsbury Museum; D. O. Jones, County Librarian, Anglesey; K. A. Jones, of Queen’s University...University, Belfast; R. A. Kennedy, Curator, Pembroke County Museum; E. G. Langholme, Secretary of The Shap... Ltd.; R. D. Penhallurick, Assistant Curator, County Museum, Truro; B. J. Pyrah, Curator of Geology...down below by sweated labour in a remote tropical mine and passed through the well-oiled wheels of a large
Book
LAWSON DA YID & CHARLES NEWTON ABBOT LONDON NORTH POMFRET ( VT) VANCOUVER MID LO Tl·-i IAN DISTRICT...of America by David & Charles Inc North Pomfret Vermont 05053 USA Published in Canada by Douglas David...David & Charles Limited 1875 Welch Street North Vancouver BC Contents PREFACE 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5...Carboniferous lavas of Barrhead contain calcite, analcite, prehnite and some rarer zeolites; copper and copper minerals...near Aberfoyle and Luss but mica-schists at the north end of Loch Lomond and around the Trossachs. Original
Book
LAWSON DA YID & CHARLES NEWTON ABBOT LONDON NORTH POMFRET ( VT) VANCOUVER MID LO Tl·-i IAN DISTRICT...of America by David & Charles Inc North Pomfret Vermont 05053 USA Published in Canada by Douglas David...David & Charles Limited 1875 Welch Street North Vancouver BC Contents PREFACE 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5...Carboniferous lavas of Barrhead contain calcite, analcite, prehnite and some rarer zeolites; copper and copper minerals...near Aberfoyle and Luss but mica-schists at the north end of Loch Lomond and around the Trossachs. Original
Book
McL. D. Duff... GARLETON Hu.LS AND TRAPRAIN LAW: NORTH BERWICK: DUNBAll: IO G. P. Black ARTHUR'S SEAT:...Borthwick V 126 134 144 . Vl CONTENTS THE NORTH EsK INLIER: W. Mykura ... T HE PENTLAND Hn,1s:...Niccolite. Orthoclase (feldspar). Olivine. Pectolite. Prehnite. Plagioclase (feldspar). xv Nickel arsenide...Newington, Greenbank and Colinton. A mile to the north of Blackford Hill, Arthur's Seat, with its Lower...Lammermuir hills lies the basin of the co1nbined North and South Esk rivers, draining Carboniferous rocks
Book
Pleistocene deposits and fluvioglacial landforms of north Preseli. pp. 289-296 Jn BASSETT. M. G. (ed.). Geological...Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire; the new County and District boundaries became effective from April...early twentieth centuries. Northern areas of the county in particular contain a wealth and variety of Quaternary...10 20 30 km New County Boundary New District Boundary ’ Former County Boundary (coincident...Map of Dyfed showing the relationship of the new County and Districts to the three former counties. In
Report (Issue volume)
this outlier dip steadily a few degrees west of north at angles varying from 30 ° to 90 °, the average...that has an inclination at this point to the east-north -east a little greater than the average slope This...strong sinuous feature for about two miles to the north until, west of Bryn -celyn , it is cut obliquely...the outlier . But these give FIG . 191. FACE OF CLIFF , Two and three-quarter inches below the Thrust...beneath a minor thrust about half way down the cliff. Along this minor thrust-plane, moreover, is The
Report (Issue volume)
thi:; outlier dip steadily a few degrees west of north at angles varying from 30° to 90°, the average being...thi~ outlier dip steadily a few degt·ecs west of north at angles varying fro1n 30° to 90°, the average...that has an inclination at. this point to the east-north-east a little · greater th;i,n the average slope...strong sinuous feature for about two miles to the north until, ,vest of Bryn-celyn, it is cut obliquely...degree to Fro. 191. which the fine banded mudFACE OF CLIFF. stones have been fractured. Two and three-quitrter
Book (volume)
the guidetexts are geographically arranged from north to south. Manuscripts of the guidetexts were critically...as K^O increase and FeO decrease from south to north, which is geochemically similar to the Quaternary...volcanic activity. Volcanism moved gradually from north to south and in the Pliocene covered the Kamishihoro...Abashiri area and thicker in the Kitami-Yamato Bank, north of the Abashiri area. The sedimentary rocks of the...and Ishikaridake Tectonic Zones) which consist of north or northeast uplifting axis and strike-slip faults
Report (edition)
across the ' Score ' at Hartfell Spa 24 8. Main Cliff, Dobb's Linn 35 9. Map showing principal granite...generally applied. The region is bounded on the north by the faulted southern margin of the Midland Valley...belt of high ground from the North Sea to the Irish Channel. To the north-east the Lammermuir Hills rise...two distinct types of scenery in the Uplands . North-east of the river Nith and ranging almost to the...the rivers flowing southwards from those running north -westwards and eastwards. The largest river draining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Early to Latest Devonian rocks of central and north Cornwall and south Devon, within the successions...successions of named basins and highs from south to north through the sub-province. The oldest deposits are...the south, with basins developing later to the north, but there are differing coeval basin and high successions.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marble Cliff (SW 890 763) (Site 26, B.E. Leveridge) . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Babbacombe Cliff (SX 929 655) (Site 38, B.E. Leveridge) . . . .
Book (edition)
the first object of a miner, in the working of a mine, to drive a passage or adit from the nearest low...the surface of the mine, must depend on the height of the ground in which the mine is, and the depth of...(aditus, Lat.) The shaft or entrance into a mine, usually made in the side of a hill, for the convey-...and hitherto it has only been met with in an iron mine, near Drammen, in Norway. Sp. gravity 3'58. alkali...Europe, but also in distant regions of Asia, and of North and South America. Dr. Gerard has found at the
Book (edition)
LENNOX, AND AUBIGNY, K.G, LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, ETC. ETC. ETC. THIS VOLUME Inscritietr...A'DIT. The shaft or en(aditus, Lat.) trance into a mine, usually made in the side of a hill, for the conveyance... and Stromeyer discovered cobalt, in aerolites mine and manganese have : also lime, alu- been de-...Europe, but also in distant regions of Asia, and of North and South America. Dr. Gerard has found at the elevation...west, but under opposite parallels of latitude north and south. The word is also written Antoeopposite
Book (edition)
PALAEOZOIC-STRATIGRAPHY Cambrian and early Ordovician North-west Highlands Highland Border South of Scotland...314 3 I7 320 11. PERMIAN AND TRIASSIC Hebrides North Minch Basin Sea of the Hebrides Basin lnner Hebrides...Basin Other areas Moray Firth Basin and Northern North Sea Moray Firth Basin Brent Oil Field Piper Oil...Vlll 343 344 344 345 347 34 7 North-east Scotland and the North Sea Lower Jurassic Middle Jurassic...unusually exciting was the discovery of oil in the North Sea in 1970. Widespread drilling has given us a
 
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