 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net All mineral photography...History and Mineralogy of the St. Louis Mine Houghton County, Michigan Twentieth in a series of articles...at the St. Louis mine, located about 1.3 miles east of the village of Laurium, Michigan. This little-known...microcrystals in amygdules contained in a lava flow top. The mine has also yielded uniquely banded agates that occur...of the flat-topped agateproducing mine dumps at the St. Louis mine. The foundation on the right was the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lode Houghton County, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...of the dense basalt matrix at the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump. These small and inexpensive detectors have...agate itself. Collected by Ray Just, C & H No. 21 mine, 10 July 2011. uring the past sixty years (1952–2012)...various mine dumps along the Kearsarge copper-bearing amygdaloidal lode in Houghton County, Michigan. These...excavating the agatebearing zone of the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump during the annual Copper Country Mineral Retreat |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Up Twenty-first in...KEWEENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological...shoreline of Lake Superior at Esery Park, Keweenaw County. Larry Maltby photo (July 2013). Figure 3. Map...Mineral Museum collection, Michigan Technological University, in Houghton, Michigan. olorful banded agates...agates, coined in about 1900 by Alfred C. Lane, a Michigan state geologist, has been used for the loose agates |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | 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...the Bicentennial celebration: "to forge a new national commitment, a new spirit for '76, a spirit which...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite, Michigan, 344 Adularia, Michigan 341 “Alaskaite,” Colorado, 307 Albite...Amblygonite-montebrasite,California, 160 Analcime, Michigan, 339 The Andes Come to Arizona, R. W. Jones, 59 |  | | Book | | Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book...our knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting.... 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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...botryoidal chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE...deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W...Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd |  | | 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...botryoidal chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE...deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W...Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | recently in the various serialized articles on the Michigan Copper Country by Tom Rosemeyer (including the...quartz is reported from Russia. Pseudomorphs of chalcedony after datolite occur and are referred to as haytorite...as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from...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 ⫻ |  | | Book (edition) | | feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...central Indiana, near Cincinnati, and Dowagiac, Michigan. Few have been reported years, in recent perhaps...Lincoln Co. Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell...Ferry, Hall Co. Horshaw mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % |  | | Book (edition) | | Collector and the Tourist includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS •...Finds ................ Fairburn Type Agate Blue Chalcedony .... Tourmaline ............... Selenite................. Black Agates..................... Chalcedony ..................... THE BADLANDS .............. .46 3 IOWA ....................... 47 MICHIGAN ............. 63 WESTERN IOWA ................47 Beaches .................................... Mine Dumps ............................ 63 .63 63 •47 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silver Spring, M d . 20901 found is chromite, chalcedony, kammererite, magnesite, opal (common), deweyite...prehnite, chabasite, datolite, apophyllite, calcite, chalcedony, ouartz and banded agate; to the Lime Crest Quarry...from the Staunton State Park to Altavista (Bishop Mine) the hunting is for turquois crystals. Then beyond...Waynesboro, Route 702, South River Mine (Kelly Bank), Augusta — Rockbridge County, the minerals to be found are...608 to Old Coal Mine ROCKS AND MINERALS Road to Cold Springs Clay Mine, Augusta County can be found kaolinite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2023 The Mineral Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 National Bureau of Standards Mineral Samples Tony Nikischer...on jarosite samples requested by researchers at National Laboratories, government agencies and post-docs...cardboard sleeves (10.5 cm) provided by the (then) National Bureau of Standards. While Dolomite is self explanatory...—————————— Mineral News —————————————————Page Page 2 National Bureau of Standards Some Interesting NIST-prepared...brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...1347, Palmer, Alaska. The slice is a grayish chalcedony. 376 ROCKS AND MINERALS chalcopyrite and...A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...a fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils in the limestone...lined with tiny rock xls. that comes from Brown County, Ind., in the vicinity of Bean Blossom. Its label |  | | Book | | (Polska, Niemcy, Dania, Francja, Anglia), znany z USA, Afryki, Azji. Wykorzystywany był już w paleolicie...dolomite. It is built of silica: opal and chalcedony or chalcedony and quartz. Flint sometimes contains remnants...France and England), it can be also found in the USA, Africa and Asia. Flint was already known in the...time. The materiał excavated from the underground mine was of much better quality - less crackcd and weathered...fasywna miedź rO'lzhn. Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA. 300xl 80xl40 mm. ' Previous page |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | existence. Mrs. Marguerite R. Collyer of the Rockland County Gem and Mineral Society remains as Chairman...quartz xls from Herkimer Co., N. Y., John Steel Mine, Ontario, Canada and Hot Springs, Arkansas, by Don...Rock Shop of N . C , The Martins of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Fort Shufford Mineral Shop (The Medds) of Arden...ROCKS AND MINERALS 90 miles from Boston, to a beryl mine, which had been freshly bull-dozed awaiting the...collected. Huge beryl crystals jutted out of the mine walls, over a foot long and half as wide, some too |  | | Report (volume) | | :............................................. Michigan.................................................Survey, the Bureau of Mines, and the United States National Museum, and the efficient cooperation of Mr. Frank...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.; |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...easily discernible quartz crystals surrounded by chalcedony that is crystalline only to the eye of the microscope...a quality closely allied to fracture pattern; chalcedony and jasper, because of their cryptocrystalline...Basalt is the copper- and agate-bearing rock in the Michigan Upper Peninsula; underneath the whole region is...rock cools, leaving a mold in which casts of chalcedony form. Or the tree substance may be replaced slowly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy |  | | Journal (issue) | | STAINLESS STEEL CABBING UNIT This machine is made in the USA for Kingsley North. Features an all stainless steel...Arizona’s Petrified Forest Fossils.......... 48 Chalcedony Park is a “Triassic Park” by Steve Voynick 12...in an area covered with water and what is now Michigan. —Adam Dean via e-mail Field Notes submissions...Wholesale and retail show; Gem Faire Inc.; Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All America City Blvd.; Fri. 12-6...Gorgonio Mineral & Gem Society; Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival; Gem & Mineral Bldg., Bldg |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nearly two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of importance in these States. The greater part...where it will be on permanent ex hibition in the National Museum. The mineral exhibit from Nevada outshines...stephanite, from the Reese River district, Lander County. Among these are several quite valuable specimens...transparent crystals of quartz, from the Chase Mine, Lander County. The ores from this locality are remarkable...pieces of crystallized sulphur from Hum boldt County, some large pieces of selenite from the same locality |  | | Book (volume) | | that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |
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