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Sericite from
Quincy Mine, Quincy Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quincy Mine, Quincy Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:416817
Long-form Identifier:1:3:416817:1
GUID (UUID V4):548ae151-fab9-4d8f-bb8e-fbaca8ad903a
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
3.8km (2.4 miles) Arcadian Mine, Ripley, Franklin Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Isle Royal Mines, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Superior Mine (Old Superior Mine), Superior, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
8.3km (5.2 miles) Baltic Mine, Baltic, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
12.8km (8.0 miles) Champion Mine, Champion Mine, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
19.2km (11.9 miles) Wolverine Mine, Wolverine, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Kearsarge, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Arsenide Fissure, Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) Mass Fissure, Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
41.5km (25.8 miles) Central Mine, Central, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Report (issue)
copper nines, -..- roughton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan H. R. Cornwall, J. J. Runner, A. A. Stromquist................. 10 Central Exploration fissure mine, 12 Introduction................ + (- ; Stratigraphy...Distribution of copper,.*»...................... 33 The Houghton conglomerate *>re body, Allouez No* 3* shaft.*...of copper*«...._................,.. 26 ->- Quincy mine ,..........*.......*................... Introduction............^.................... 32 Isle Royale mine ................................... 3U ; *" 30
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 (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 .
Report (issue)
Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ........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...collector whose specialty was Michigan. He was also a past president of the Michigan Mineralogical Society and
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
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)
VIRGINIA. By W. R. Brown .... RIEBECKITE FROM WEST QUINCY, MASS. By Gu1111a,- Bjareby .... LUZONlTE FOUND................................. .-.............. MINE YIELDING GEM SPHALERITE ABANDONED MANY YEARS .·...Hampshire. This quadrangle includes the whole of the township of Stark and portions of the following townships...and Northcumberland. Percy, a small town, in the township of Stark, is situated nearly in the exact center...and Square Mountain in the township of Kilkenny and two places in the township of Strafford, the first on
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
Book
Petrography Mineralogical Laboratory University of Michigan PUBLISHED BY Ward's Natural Science Establishment...Petrography Mineralogical Laboratory University of Michigan PUBLISHED BY Ward's Natural Science Establishment...Petrography. Mineralogical Laboratory University of Michigan. SEPTEMBER IST, 1916. 416831 Introduction...Vesicular Basalt Colorado Amygdaloidal Diabase Michigan Quartz-Diabase New York Diabase New Jersey VIII... Quartz-Conglomerate Pa. Copper Conglomerate Michigan Sandstones: 64. 65. 66. Brownstone Connecticut
Catalog/List
Albemarle Counly, Virginia ... Custer County, Colorado . Albemarle County, Virginia . Near Mesaba, l\linnesola...New York . San Juan County, Colorado Delta, Shasta County, California . Boulder County, Colorado .. ...... Massachusetts Mt. Shasta, California " Lyon County, Nevada Hillsborough, New Brnnswick Keeseville...York " " " .Near Keene, NC\\' York . Essex County, New York Rochester, New York Split Rock, Minnesota... Rhenish-Prus ia J:asalt. fine-gTained Chaffee County, Colorado Hornblende Basalt. coarse " J-lornblenclc
Report (volume)
Bulletin 704 GEOLOGY OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS BY CHARLES H. CLAPP WASHINGTON.... 9 9 9 10 11 11 11 15 j ( Geology of Essex County....................................................................... '. ..................... Quincy granite.......................................... 26; . . 3 4 CONTENTS. Geology of Essex County Continued. Igneous rocks Continued. Subjacent or................................... Alteration of Quincy granite and the syenitic rocks.......... Andover
Report (volume)
.............................................. Quincy granitic group...... ............................Early Carboniferous or late pre-Carboniferous. Quincy group. Porphyritic granite. Granite porphyry. Riebeckite...into a "Emerson, B. K., Geology of old Hampshire County: MOD. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 29, 1898, p. 18...P EAST GREENWICH GRANITE GROUP CARBONIFEROUS QUINCY GRANITE GROUP POSTCARBON IFEROUS I Soo. 4 PRE-CAM...Cheshire quartzite, of Cambrian age, in Berkshire County, Mass. It varies from white to pale flesh color
Catalog/List
ALGODONITE and WHITNEYITE (copper arsenides) Massive; Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....(copper) . . . . . . .50 Massive or partly xled; Michigan, Arizona, etc. Masses in conglomerate. Ore from...from �he world's largest native copper deposit; Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . .35 Masses in amygdaloid; Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Ores of copper, assorted...GOETHITE (hydrous ferric oxide) Fibrous mass; Michigan . . . GOLD (gold) Gold Quartz, gray, rieh ore;
Report (issue)
sphene, and zircon; secondary 14 minerals include sericite, epidote, chlorite and calcite (Nelson, 1975]...magnetite with some epidote, 17 sphene, chlorite, sericite, and pyrite; pyroxene altered to hornblende 18...early workers (Clapp, 1921, Emerson, 1917) with the Quincy and Peabody alkalic rocks and considered younger...867-100 9.1267 appreciably older than ages for the Quincy and Peabody plutons although they are within the...PHIMDiG OFFICE: 1959 O- 5U171 9.126? qg Quincy Granite The Quincy Granite (Crosby, 1876) crops out in a
Report (volume)
.................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro............................ ' Sturbridge graphite mine............................. Brown gedrite-cordierite................................... 150 Berkshire County............................................................................................ 186 Quincy granite and associated rocks.......................'......................................' 187 Quincy granite.......................................
Report (volume)
detailed study (1921) of the "alkalic" rocks of Essex County.. Much of- the evidence bearing on the petrology...History, gave access to Sears' collection of Essex County rocks. Credit for specific analyses and paleontologic...highly altered to sericite and clay minerals; saussurite was not observed. ("Sericite" is used here to...plagioclase is very highly altered to an aggregate of sericite, clay minerals, and calcite. The feldspar varies...sodic than An40, especially where large amounts of sericite and clay are present. The calcic cores of zoned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which reach their most important development in the Quincy-Blue Hills area and from Salem and Marble­ head...amount of the same rock occurs northwest of Iron Mine Hill, at the State line. There are a number of outcrops...north of the gabbro which outcrops west of Iron Mine Hill. The conglomerate here consists of occasional...normal schist is seen to consist of chlorite, sericite, quartz, magnetite, biotite, and muscovite. The... at Lime Rock. Limestone was quarried on Copper Mine Hill in the latter part of the eighteenth century
Report (volume)
___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
Book (volume)
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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Report (issue)
Prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism in central Aroostook County, Maine eee re il. C20 ea Tt Dorothy A. Richter... Borns Nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits, Knox County, southeastern Maine Er it atte era (Seale 8 George...v. 3, no. 9, p. 3-8. Ludlamite from the Palermo Mine, North Groton, New Hampshire: Am. Mineralogist,...Fletcher, G. L.), Earth science, (3rd ed.): Boston, Michigan, Edwards Massachusetts, Bros., D. C. Heath...Marvin (‘‘Radiometric Age (Late Ordovician) of the Quincy, Cape Ann, and Peabody Granites from Eastern Massachusetts
Report (volume)
and quarries Continued. Massachusetts Continued. Quincy..................................................locations of Quincy granite quarries.................. III. A, Dell Hitchcock quarry, Quincy, Mass.; B,... Galvin quarry, Quincy, Mass........................................................... IV. Ball of polished...polished Quincy granite.................................... V. A, Pigeon Hill Granite Company's Upper................... 4. Hematitic stain in altered Quincy granite........ . .................. Page. '74
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the towns of tained for the Quincy Granite. The Blue Hill Milton and Quincy, Massachusetts. The chemistry...Potassium is slightly in excess of sodium. The Quincy range from 235 to 420 m.y. Published K-Ar hornblende...medium to coarse grained Pb206 zircon ages for the Quincy Granite are and occurs in the northern part of...m.y., respectively. a fine-grained phase of the Quincy Granite is These ages plus the scatter of the Blue...remained closed systems with respect granite. The Quincy Granite is composed of to Rb and Sr since crystallization
Catalog/List
enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...(Mohawkite), (copper arsenides) Massive in rock; Michigan ................1 x 2" .25 1.50 1.00 .75 1.00..... . COPPER (copper) Massi ve or partly xled; Michigan, Arizona, et c. 1 X 2", .26...... , , .. .......native copper deposit ; Michigan ................. . · Masses in amygdaloid; Michigan ......................(hydrous ferric oxide) Fibrous mass; Arizona or Michigan . . . . . . 1 x 2", .35 2.00 1.00 1.00 2.00
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
 
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