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Calcite from
Allouez Mine, Allouez, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chrysocollaā“˜1 photo of Calcite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Tenoriteā“˜1 photo of Calcite associated with Tenorite at this locality.
Cupriteā“˜1 photo of Calcite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Allouez Mine, Allouez, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:48539
Long-form Identifier:1:3:48539:9
GUID (UUID V4):53a5f823-6f89-4be2-809a-f717e60b5820
Localities for Calcite in this Region
Allouez No. 1 Mine, Allouez Mine, Allouez, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.1km (0.0 miles) ā“˜Allouez Conglomerate Mine, Allouez, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Allouez No. 1 Mine, Allouez Mine, Allouez, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜No. 4 shaft, North Kearsarge Mine, Kearsarge, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Kearsarge Mine, Kearsarge, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Kingston Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) ā“˜North Kearsarge Mine, Kearsarge, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Arsenide Fissure, Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) ā“˜Wolverine No. 2 shaft, Wolverine Mine, Wolverine, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Wolverine Mine, Wolverine, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.3km (1.5 miles) ā“˜Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iuyw I , < h,,,rl,rp,, ,,I I r,,,,l>,l\ T HE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT stretches in a southwest-northeast...from the White Pine mine in Ontonagon County to Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County. Copper mineralization...stratiform sulfide (chalcocite) deposit at the White Pine mine and (2) the world-class native copper deposits that...this type of lode start- ed in 1856 at the Quincy mine. Later came the conglomeratehosted deposits, in...this type of lode is credited to the Calumet No. 1 mine on the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which
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..."Field Guide to the Geology Geology of the the Keweenaw Keweenaw Annual Institute Institute on on Lake Lake...Lake Superior Superior Geology Peninsula, Michigan" Michigan" (Bornhorst (Bornhorst and others, 1983) for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
very low-grade metamorphic rocks, Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA Edward Hansen a,āŽ, Jesse Reimink a...Hope College, 35 E 12th Street, Holland, Michigan 49423 USA Section 3.3 Chemistry and Physics of Earth...low-grade metamorphism Titanite TiO2 Pseudorutile Keweenaw Peninsula Prehniteā€“pumpellyite-facies a b s t...basalt and rhyolite clasts from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA which were metamorphosed to the prehniteā€“...clasts in a conglomerate from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA metamorphosed to the prehniteā€“pumpellyite-facies
Journal (issue)
large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...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 .
Report (issue)
active copper nines, -..- roughton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan H. R. Cornwall, J. J. Runner, A. A.................. 10 Central Exploration fissure mine, 12 Introduction................ + (- ; Stratigraphy...... 33 The Houghton conglomerate *>re body, Allouez No* 3* shaft.* *Ā«* -.Ā» Ā» .*-* *Ā» Ā» * Ā» Ā» * Introduction...copper*Ā«...._................,.. 26 ->- Quincy mine ,..........*.......*................... Introduction............^.................... 32 Isle Royale mine ................................... 3U ; *" 30
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alteration Associated With Mineralization in the Michigan Copper District (Received 31 August 1967) INTRODUCTION...association with native copper ore in the Keweenaw County. Michigan. copper district. The main clay phases...brown fault gouge. GEOLOGIC SETTING The Keweenaw. Michigan. Copper District. (see location map. Fig...district. Native copper is closely associated with calcite. epidote, quartz, feldspars. chlorite. hematite...was characterized by chlorite, epidote, quartz, calcite, pumpellyite, and prehnite. The late ore-forming
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as the mine develops andā€”maybeā€”this is the one, only and last. Who knows? COLLECTING IN MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA...Chippewa Falls, Wise. After quite some research on Michigan minerals and collecting areas we felt ready to...started with the old mines at Norway and Vulcan, Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. We arrived at Norway...weather was nice and cool for climbing over the mine dumps. Most of the rock piles in this area are overgrown...Republic. Here a new open pit mine is in operation. Although the mine was shut down due to vacations
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
s o r g e conglornero t e .... @ Quincy mine @ Allouez no. 3 shaft Other detailed sections . I...GEOI.OGIC M A P O F SOME PEGMATITIC LAVA FLOWS, MICHIGAN C O P P E R D I S T R I C T Downloaded from https://pubs...SERIES AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN By HENRY R. CORNWALL ABSTRACT Five lava flows...flows in the Keweenawan series of the Michigan copper district have been studied and chemical analyses made...LAVAS, MICHIGAN ILLUSTRATIONS Figuie Page 1. Section across the Greenstone flow near the Allouez No. 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Two New Mines in the Native Copper District of Michigan R. J. WEEGE,J.P. POLLOCK, ANDTHECALUMET DIVISIONGEOLOGICAL...promisingdepositsdevelopedin recentyears in the Michigan native copper district are both in conglomerate...extensionof the famousCalumetand Hecla conglomerate mine. The shapeof the conglomeratelensesand lithology...important contributions. In the followinggeneralacTā€¢IE Michigan native copper depositshave been mined almostc...In December, Paper 144, "The CopperDepositsof Michigan,"by 1970, the decisionwas made to pull the pumps
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...A. Jaszczak photo. rom the bowels of a Keweenaw copper mine to the icy depths of Lake Superior, serious...descending a steep 2,000-foot-deep mine shaft in the dead of a Keweenaw winter with only mud and ice for...over heels into the black depths of an abandoned mine. All of this effort was expended on clandestine...and Sciences Michigan Technological University Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MICROMOUNTING AT THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN By PAUL B. MOORE and RICHARD M. 6EGER Depr. of Geolophysical...INTRODUCTION The Keweenaw Feninsula is well-known for its fine specimens of copper, datolite, calcite xls, arsenides...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 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
Book
Park 13700 13.25 LaneĀ Ā Garden, Michigan 49835 Tel: (906) 644-2603 Keweenaw Peninsula Jill Barbour (jnbarbour@mtu...Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton...Rocks National Lakeshore P.O. Box 40, Munising, Michigan 49862 Tel: (906) 387-2607 / Email: David_Kronk@nps...Mining Engineering and Sciences (adjunct) Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 49855 Tel: (906) 227-1176...wildr@michigan.gov Mine Descriptions Rob Porritt, Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering, Michigan Technological
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)
Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506 Pine Street...5.5 Ɨ 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Authorā€™s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...specimens of accessory minerals including analcime, calcite, datolite, epidote, microcline, natrolite, prehnite...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AMYGDULE MINERAL SERIES, RICHARD E. ZONING IN MICHIGAN STOIBER THE COPPER AND EDWARD PORTAGE DISTRICT...of the Michigan copper district ......................... Mineralogyof amygdaloidalrock on mine dumps...Portage Lake lava seriesof the KeweenawPeninsula,Michigan, three overlappingamygdulemineral zones--prehnite...seriesthroughoutthe Lake Superior basin is like that of Keweenaw Peninsula,indicating that the mineral zones have...Kearsargeamygdaloiddepositiontemperaturesof quartz and calcite,determinedby inclusionthermometry,reach a maximumof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...copper, tenorite, atacamite, azurite, allophane, calcite, and pyrrhotite pseudomorphs after cuprite. Cuprite...native copper; prospects at Ladenton, Rockland County, New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the...Mountain copper mines, Lehigh County, and at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; at Ducktown, Tennessee;...the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper mines in Guilford County, North Carolina
Journal (issue)
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 Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............Topaz-Mineral Exploration (1605 Hillcrest, Grand Haven, Michigan 49417) wishes to announce that he is now stocking...Person-otherā€”Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place ā€”Used when a mineral is named
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 (article/letter/editorial)
stratigraphic succession in the Iron River district of Michigan from the Brule river northward consists of finegrained...Allen, "The Iron River Iron-bearing District of Michigan," Mich. Geol. and Biol. Surv., 1910, 144 pp.,...finds that the waters from the deep levels of Michigan iron mines are high in sulphates and chlorides...and A. E. Seaman2 divide the pre-Ordovician of Michigan into Keewatin, Huronian, and Cambrian or Primordial...Lane3 recognizes the following groups of Upper Michigan Keweenawan rocks from the base upward: (i) Bohemian
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
Journal (issue)
Copper rontier Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine ( 1845-1870) by Paul Chrastina Introduction About...into Kansas, as well as southeast through central Michigan, perhaps as far as western Tennessee. Today, the...Copper Frontier: Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine (1845-1870) ................................. 17.............................36 northern Michigan. The Keweenaw Peninsula is a narrow promontory, 70 miles...tained North America's first great mining boom, the Keweenaw copĀ­ per rush of the 1840's. Early Copper Mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
February 2015 Figure 2. A generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of new finds...arborescent copper crystal groups cached at the Central mine town site, (2) copper crystals recovered from Lake...fissure vein, (3) hundreds of copper from the Indiana mine, and (4) more than two hundredV aecilS mens of ...analcime/calcitecrystal groups from the Rhode Island mine. This article describes these and other finds made...starting with Keweenaw Point and continuing in a southwestern direction to the White Pine mine at the southern
 
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