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Fluorite from
Eagle River, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Unincorporated Community
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eagle River, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:415026
Long-form Identifier:1:3:415026:8
GUID (UUID V4):77fb1c14-47d0-4d27-9ac9-634116d2ba81
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
3.2km (2.0 miles) ā“˜Silver Creek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) ā“˜Five Mile Point, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
25.3km (15.7 miles) ā“˜Dan's Point, Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
28.6km (17.8 miles) ā“˜Lakeshore traps, Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) ā“˜Hays Point, Copper Harbor, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
37.8km (23.5 miles) ā“˜Horseshoe Harbor, Copper Harbor, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
86.3km (53.7 miles) ā“˜Indiana Mine, Winona, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
References
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Book
Mineralogy of Michigan by E. W. Heinrich updated and revised ā€¢ by George W. Robinson M By E W~ Hellnr]ch...Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 2004 Ā© 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
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...NoneĀ­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful
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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......................................53
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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
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(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
Report (issue)
University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...J. the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula...Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual AnnualMeeting, Meeting...Meeting,Houghton, Houghton,Ml, 40, part part2, 2, 185 185p. p. MI,v.v. 40, 1 PREFACE PREFACE In 1983 1983..."Field Guide to the Geology Geology of the the Keweenaw Keweenaw Annual Institute Institute on on Lake Lake
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...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
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the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton) D e d ic ated to the Memory...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The ā€œCopper 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 .
them, are exposed everywhere, along road cuts, river banks, cliffs, ridges, quarries, and excavations...and chlorine). Examples are halite, sylvite and fluorite, quite common minerals. Oxide groups: Minerals...is as follows: | talc, 2 gypsum, 3 calcite, 4 fluorite, 5 apatite, 6 feldspar, 7 quartz, 8 topaz, 9 corundum...common quartz or feldspar (2.6 g/cm*). Baryte and fluorite are much heavier with densities of 4.5 g/em? and...in amphibole and pyroxene and three planes in fluorite and calcite. If the mineral does not have cleavage
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them, are exposed everywhere, along road cuts, river banks, cliffs, ridges, quarries, and excavations...and chlorine). Examples are halite, sylvite and fluorite, quite con11non 1ninerals. Oxide groups: Minerals...common quartz or feldspar (2.6 g/cn1 3). Baryte and fluorite are n1uch heavier with densities of 4.5 g/cm 3...p. 214 apatite (green, reddish brown), p. 128 fluorite (colourless, blue, green), p. 106 kyanite (blue)...Timmins, Tisdale Township, Cochrane Distiict, Ontario; Darwin Mine, McMUJTay Township, Algon1a District
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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 George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...............................19 by O. Johnsen Michigan Native silver occurrences in the copper mines...fourteenth century). The deposit consisted mostly of fluorite with small amounts of galena and sphalerite; during...during the last 50 years, it has been mined for fluorite only. In the 1960s an interesting occurĀ­ rence
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of todayā€™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...Limestone quarries Calcite, celestite, dolomite, fluorite, galena, sal ammoniac, sulphur, sulphates feldspar...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable
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;
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...length and at right angles to one another. Cubic fluorite, octahedral diamond, and trisoctahedral garnet...flame will color the flame How to identify Fluorite (calcium fluoride) gem minerals / when heated...such formations come the sapphires in the Missouri River near Helena, Montana, and the star rocks, garnets...Survey. Persons living east of the Mississippi River may obtain these maps from the USGS Map Center
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Collecting, 1960 ONTARIO, MICHIGAN AND COLORADO. By KEN FISHER Downloaded by [University of...as large garnets, excellent amazonstone, large fluorite xls., from Madoc, and many others. Gold, we quickly...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
Report (volume)
Bulletin, nos. 19, 21. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 6, nos...4, no. 1; Boletin, no. 29. Mexico, D. F. . - ' Michigan Geological and Biological Survey: Publications...Olympia, Wash. West Virginia Geological Survey: County reports Doddridge-and Harrison counties. Morgantown...Sketch of the geological history of Green Lake County, Wisconsin : School x Quart., Berlin, Wis., vol... 175-187, 1 fig,, 1912. 10. Geology of the Ice River district,' British Columbia. Abstract of thesis
Report (volume)
Mathews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. 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, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
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History of Lake Superior mining The Keweenaw copper district of Michigan 33 35 35 Copper mining on Isle...iron district Crystal Falls, Florence, and Iron River Gogebic iron district Vermilion iron district Mesabi...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...Menominee 96 96 97 district Crystal Falls district Keweenaw Point Northern ^Wisconsin Central Wisconsin
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VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3Ā£ miles a little...Dartmouth, Fall River, and New Bedford, Bristol County; Lynnfield and Peabody, Essex County; Monson, Hampden...Hampden County; Pelham, Hampshire County; Acton, Groton, Westford, and Townsend, Middlesex County; Wrentham...Wrentham, Norfolk County; Brockton and Hingham, Plymouth County; Revere, Suffolk County; and Fitchburg, Leominster...Leominster, and Uxbridge, Worcester County. The distribution of all the granitequarrying centers of the
Report (volume)
MissisJoralemon, I. B. Engineering geology, research: sippi River, Pleistocene history: Trowbridge, A. C.,1. Eckel...processes: Perry, ter, J. D., 3. T. G., 3. Mississippi River and Gulf Industrial minerals: Gillson, J. L , 5...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:
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-high specimen is from the DeMaria mine in Placer County, California. (Jeff Scovil Photo/Brett Keller collection)...Emeritus Professor of Geology University of Wisconsin-River Falls In the April 2014 issue of Rock & Gem magazine...Wholesale and retail show; Gem Faire Inc.; Lane County Events Center; 796 W. 13th Ave.; Fri. 12-6, Sat...4-6ā€”FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO: Annual show; San Juan County Gem & Mineral Society; Civic Center; 200 W. Arrington;...ONTARIO, CANADA: 3rd Annual Show; Prince Edward County Rock, Gem & Mineral Club; Crystal Palace; Picton
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vermilion River placers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Ranwick Uranium Mines Limited . . . . . . . Agawa River deposit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rock exposures (fluorite, epidote) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Rock exposures (amethyst, fluorite, etc.) . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackfi sh River deposit .... , . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2017 July 3-5ā€”Farmington, New Mexico. San Juan County Gem & Mineral Society 7th A n n u a l Gem and Mineral...19th A n n u a l G e m and Mineral Show. Montezuma County A n n e x Building, 103 N . Chestnut. Info.ā€”John... Reno, N V 89511; 702/853-5055. July 24, 25ā€”Eagle River, Wisconsin. Lakeland G e m Club 25th Annual G...A u g . Iā€”Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce 36th Annual North Carolina...Pinebridge Coliseum. I n f o . ā€” J i m Burgess, Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce, Rte. 1 Box 796, Spruce Pine
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Published THE GEOLOGICAL Society Card Colorado Michigan Soctety 80301 48104 The publication ts made...no OIL ORO OIG ZoZ 292 Boulder County Tellurides .... 294 Boulder County Tungsten ...... eeoeeesee 296...Zona ciassac vice 333 M. Henry Mountains-Green River, Utah ...coccccecccccesece 334 N. San Rafaelā€”Cedar...ccccccccccvccccvesescses Boil! MICHIGAN .ucccccrcccnscccsevscscoscs 351 Keweenaw Point ...ccccccccsece 355...south Lorrain Rept. 83, Min. western and Township: Met. Ont. Cong. Dept. Mines 95 p. E.,
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...for the United Geological Survey IVIississippi river can be ordered from the U.S. Geological Surveys...from which the condition. precise in slppi river maps needed can be chosen are provided drawing...they may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey
 
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