 | | 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 (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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...5.5 × 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Author’s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...former naval officer who became an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (Monette 1975). It was...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...from the district, was only out-produced by the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which accounted for |  | | 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) | | d. Z = n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Centennial mine, Michigan, USA. 7.50 (10), 2.481 (8), 3.02 (6), 3...1 5.3 33.5 16.9 Total 99.97 (1) Centennial mine, Michigan, USA; Cu by electrolysis, H2 O:OH from charge...copper, cuprite being regarded as an intermediate product in the alteration (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA)...copper, cuprite, atacamite, buttgenbachite, malachite, paratacamite, anthonyite (Centennial mine, Michigan...Michigan, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from the Centennial and other nearby mines, near Calumet, Houghton |  | | 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) | | MICROMOUNTING AT THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN By PAUL B. MOORE and RICHARD M. 6EGER Depr. of Geolophysical...collectors with limited time, may we suggest the Hancock Mine (on Ingot St., Hancock). The dump looks terrible...due to the parallel growth of xls. At the Hancock Mine, Hancock, it occurs upon xls of epidote and quartz...Occurs also at Centennial Mine, Calumet; Iroquois Mine, and Cliff Mine, Cliff; Quincy Mine, Hancock, with...with chlorastrolite; Isle Royale Mines, Houghton; Seneca and Ahmeek Mines, Mohawk with epidote; in smaller |  | | Report (issue) | | 112◦380 Z = n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Centennial mine, Michigan, USA. 5.84 (10), 4.14 (7), 3.99 (6), 3.44...24 6.3 35.5 16.4 Total 99.74 (1) Centennial mine, Michigan, USA; Cu by electrolysis, H2 O:OH from charge...chlorine-bearing connate waters on copper (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Association: Tremolite, quartz, epidote...copper, cuprite, paratacamite (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Distribution: In the Centennial mine, Calumet...Calumet, Houghton Co., Michigan and the Cole mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. From Villa Hermosa |  | | 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) | | I4INERALS FROM THE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT Srnxnv A. Wrrrraus, Deparlmenl of Geology,Michigan College of Mining...Mining and,Technology,Houghton, Michigan. ABSTRACT Two new minerals, anthonyite and calumetite, have been...been found at the Centennial mine near Calumet, Michigan. Both speciesoccur in pocketsin,and as encrustations...named for the town near the type iocality, Calumet, Michigan' OccunnBNcB Recently Robert H. Dean brought...specimenof a blue mineral from the Centennial mine, Calumet, Michigan which be believed was not azurite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY Figure 1: Shaft house of the Ahmeek mine, Keweenaw County. 1962 photo by Terry...been and probably never will be anything like the Michigan Copper Country. For the mineral-minded, it is...native metal. For the collector, its scores of old mine dumps never cease to provide rewards of specimens;...and to Douglass Houghton, who made the first systematic explorations on which Michigan laid its claim...claim to the region. Houghton lost his life in a Lake Superior storm, but by the early 1840s his reports of |  | | 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...Jaszczak photo. rom the bowels of a Keweenaw copper mine to the icy depths of Lake Superior, serious datolite...combination. Imagine descending a steep 2,000-foot-deep mine shaft in the dead of a Keweenaw winter with only...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Amygdaloidal 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Catalog/List | | colourless calcite. 70x40xl5mm. £35. 2) ANNABERGITE. KM 4 Mine, Laurion, Greece. Cavities in gossan matrix showing...matrix. 30x20x7nun. £10. 5) AURICHALCITE. Royal Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Calcite matrix with some...(c) 6) AURICHALCITE and ROSASITE. Bisbee, Arizoua, USA. Pale silky blue/green aurichalcite together with...130x70x80mm. £475. 9) BOURNONITE on SIDERITE. Mure Mine, lse:re, Rhone-Alpcs, Frauce. A 15mm lead grey cog...colour. 140x80x90mm. £85. -12) CASSITERITE. Old Beam Mine, Goonbarrow Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. An approx |  | | Report (issue) | | Cl6.6 (OH)62.8 • 2.1H O. (3) Tombstone, Arizona, USA; crystal-structure analysis yields Cu 2 36.0 (NO3...)1.1 Cl7.9 (OH)63 • 4H2 O. (4) Bisbee, Arizona, USA; crystal-structure analysis yields Cu36.0 (NO3 )1...nitrate may be of biological origin. Association: Cuprite, likasite, gerhardtite, malachite, brochantite...Province, Zaire). At the Botallack mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. In the USA, in Arizona, from the Mildren...South Comobabi Mountains, Pima Co., in the Toughnut mine, Tombstone, and at Bisbee, Cochise Co; from about |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Series, Vol. *� } PRINTING PRESSES AT THE CENTENNIAL. THE exhibits of printing presses in Machinery...due to the exertions of Hon. Thomas Donaldson, Centennial Commissioner from Idaho, who spent nearly two...two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of importance in these States. The greater part of the...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ............................. 51 The Beginning of the Calumet and Hecla .......................................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 |  | Carlson, Shawn M., Robinson, George W., Elder, Mark J., Jaszczak, John A., Bornhorst, Theodore J. (2007) Greenockite and Associated Uranium-Vanadium, Minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect Baraga County, Michigan. Rocks & Minerals, 82 (4) 298-309 doi:10.3200/rmin.82.4.298-309 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 17:57 01 December 2014 Baraga County, Michigan Figure 1. Contact between mineralized brecciated...THEODORE J. BORNHORST2 1 PO Box 234 Crystal Falls, Michigan 49920 shawncarlson@hotmail.com 2 A. E. Seaman...Engineering and Sciences Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, Michigan 49931 robinson@mtu...edu; tjb@mtu.edu 3 3755 J-5 Road Bark River, Michigan 49807 markelder@juno.com 4 A. E. Seaman Mineral...Department of Physics Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, Michigan 49931 jaszczak@mtu |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...“The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001 issue...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite pegmatite, 12 miles W of Bosler |  | | Catalog/List | | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 1) ALBITE and MICA. Consolheiro Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A nice intergrown group of...collection. 60x30x30mm. £68. 4) AURICHALCITE. Wet Groves Mine, Wensleydale, N Yorks. A calcite matrix with the...Frizington, Cumbd". 70x40x30mm. £65. 9) CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendecn, Cornwall. An "onion layer" type of matrix...90x60x40mm. £95. 10) CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group of eight intergrown...well. 40x30xl5mm. £75. 16) CHILDRENITE. Red Moor Mine, Kelly Bray, Cornwall. Iron stained killas dump | | | Catalog/List | | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 1) ALBITE and MICA. Consolheiro Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A nice intergrown group ofoff-white...collection. 60x30x30mm. £68. 4) AURICHALCITE. Wet Groves Mine, Wensleydale, N Yorks. A calcite matrix with the...Frizington, Cumbd". 70x40x30mm. £65. 9) CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendecn, Cornwc:11. An "onion layer" type of matrix...90x60x40mm. £95. l 0) CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Nice little group ofeight intergrown...well. 40x30x l5mm. £75. 16) CHILDRENITE. Red Moor Mine, Kelly Bray, Cornwall. Iron stained killas dump |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Since retiring...year. During the last four years, the crushing of mine dumps (poor-rock piles) for road repairs and construction...operations, primarily in Keweenaw County, have increased the need for mine-run rock for the construction... resulting in the slow disappearance of smaller mine dumps. The end of copper mining in the Portage Lake...of the Copper Range Company’s Champion mine in Houghton County. Downloaded by [Florida State University] |
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