 | | Journal (issue) | | copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton) D e d ic ated...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The âCopper Kingâ 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 . |  | | Book | | Mineralogy of Michigan by E. W. Heinrich updated and revised âą 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Study Solving the Misidentification of CM21474: Michigan vs. Namibia MARC WILSON DEBRA L. WILSON Section...Champion No. 3 mine at Painsdale, Houghton County, Michigan. Note the Champion No. 4 mine shaft house in...cm in length. Originally labeled as âHoughton County, Michigan,â it is now believed to have originated...in April 1980, it was labeled âCopper, Houghton County, Michigan.â Marc Wilson joined the CMNH staff in...quickly recognized the locality attribution of Michigan as being questionable. The specimen was taken |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...5.5 Ă 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Authorâs specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because...only massive concrete foundations mark the famous mine sites. Not all is lost, though. A trip to the A |  | | 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-otherâOther persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place âUsed when a mineral is named |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen... 413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154â59 Apatite... B. Cook, 426â31 Calcite, 462; Colorado, 410; Michigan, 312; Nevada, 516; New York, 162, 253; Quebec...Nevada, 517 Chalcedony (blue), Turkey, 126â27 Chalcocite, Quebec, 502 Chalcopyrite, Colorado, 407; Nevada...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, 250â59; Gemstone Deposits in Turkey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Friends of Mineralogy includes eight states (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin...Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio), consistent with the U.S. Census Bureau...just over one hundred per state. Four statesâ Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Arkansasâat the...phosphate species being described from just one mine, the Tip Top, in South Dakota. (Note: There are...tellurobismuthite found along with gold in northern Michigan). Alternately, globally abundant species might |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tom Rosemeyer 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure 1...of copper crystals collected at the Ojibway No. 1 mine in summer 2009 by Steve Whelan. The specimen is...Copper Country Figure 2. Generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of the new...Mineral Finds in Michiganâs Copper Country T he Michigan Copper Country, also known as the Lake Superior...into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The now-dormant copper mining industry, which |  | | Catalog/List | | tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety AMIANTHUS:Steintal...ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano...ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals...Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE: KipawQ River, Villodieu Township, Quebcc, Canada. massive...ALABANDITE:Tombstone. Arizona, USA. massive ALBERTITE(HYDROC,\RBONl: Prince Albert County. Nova Scotia, massive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite...vicinity of Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, and the Wheatley mine near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. . . . . .. . ......... . .. . .. 144 ANCIENT MINE SAVED GREEK CIVI L I ZATION . ............... 147...specimens. When you bring home specimens collected at a mine, quarry, or other locality, WASH THEM in water with...COUNTRY By KIRIL SPIROFF Michigan College of Mining and Technology The Michigan Copper Country is of unique...1841 a report by Dr. Douglass Houghton, the first state geologist of Michigan, aroused interest in the economic...possibilities of the region. A monument to Dr. Houghton constructed from material from every geological |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | atacamite, brochantite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, tetrahedrite. chalcophyllite, gypsum, libethenite...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania;...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County, Virginia; and copper mines in Guilford, Mecklenburg |  | | Book | | industry and tradeâMichiganâKeweenaw PeninsulaâHistory. 2. Copper minersâMichiganâKeweenaw PeninsulaâHistory...Perhaps the reason for its lack of fame outside Michigan itself is that its annals, like those of happy...to the Lake Superior copper district of Upper Michigan. The reasons for its âlack of fameâ might be several...metal, nor is it the dearest one. In the case of Michigan copper in particular, another factor might help...day-to-day life in other mining regions. In short, the Michigan miners were dull in comparison with the fractious |  | | 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 George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ..............................................383...COVER: WULFENITE group, 6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner |  | | Catalog/List | | up a good deal of the matrix. 5x5x2.5cm Molinello Mine, Vai Graveglia, Italy ÂŁ35 2 AWARUITE about 10 individual...lustrous masses in and on slag, Agios Konstantinos Laurium slags, Attika, small piece ÂŁ7 4 AMALGAM dark...or more pieces in a plastic box. Friedrichsegen Mine, bad Ems , Lahn .Rhineland-Palatinate Germany ÂŁ18...rich grey masses with large cleavage face 5x4 Fuka Mine ,Okayama Japan ÂŁ45 B) smaller piece 2.5 x 3cm ÂŁ20...35 EDENITE very pale mauve fibrous mass . Praboma mine, St Marcel |, Piedmont Italy 5x2.5 ÂŁ12 Sample b) |  | | Report (issue) | | brucite of yore from the Tilly Foster mine in New York or Woodâs Chrome mine in Pennsylvania. In that the new...suggests material found in 2005 in the NâChwaning III mine in South Africa, but NâChwaning brucite is graywhite...fine cerussite specimens from the old Monteponi mine, Sardinia, Italy, which Tomek Praszkier of Spirifer...finds in the 1980s in an old, presumably unnamed mine on the property of the PiquĂn farmhouse in CĂłrdoba...little things from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec: the enormous asbestos mine closed for good at the outset |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have...Mountain states. In the copper mines of Houghton County, Michigan, where primary arsenides have provided...from Hinsdale County, Colorado, and from the Blackbird and Nickel Plate mines in Lemhi County, Idaho. In...assemblages from the Black Pine mine in the Phillipsburg area of Granite County (Waisman 1992). Olivenite is |  | | Catalog/List | | ----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 â BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 ÂŁ25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals |  | | Catalog/List | | tabular MIN,118. 10. ANNABERGITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece.Dr HG Weller label. Quartz fragment carrying... 14. APATITE VAR FRANCOLITE. Simms Lode,Geevor Mine,Trewellard,Cornwall. Choice,very rich specimen....to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine,Laurium,Greece. 3 specimens. Specimens A and B. Matrix... ARSENOPYRITE/BORNITE/CASSITERITE. South Crofty Mine,Camborne, Cornwall. Grey sulphidic,vuggy matrix...lustre. specimen. SC,.t4. 23. AURICHALCITE.Cha Kouh Mine,Isfahan,Iran. Earthy,limonlte stained vuggy matrix |  | | Catalog/List | | fluorescent. MUS,L85. 2. ADAMITE. Kameriza Mine,Laurium,Attica,Greece. Goethite fragment vith aggregates... SC,L6. 3, AGARDITE(CALCIAN).Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornvall â Tvo specimens. Specimen A-boxed...xtls and thin crusts. SC,L8. ~- AGARDITE-Y. Clara Mine,Rankachtal,BLack Forest,Germany. 3 boxed specimens...deeper blue. SC,L9. 6. ALSTONITE. Brownley Hill Mine,Nenthead,Cumbria. Six specimens. Specimen A-matrix...vhen found! L3 each. AHDBRSONITE.Peeth Lode,Geevor Mine,Pendeen,Cornva11. Dark brovn matrix fragment vith |  | | Catalog/List | | massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl ÂŁ4 lx2...ÂŁ15 ÂŁ6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...·----··--- ----- ·-- - - -3 â AGRELLITE Villedieu Township, Kipawa, River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven...2x2 ÂŁ3 Al SO/4 767 â AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston...ÂŁ3 2x2 ÂŁ4.50 2x3 ÂŁ6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA |  | | Journal (issue) | | of Mineralogy feature articles Minerals of the Laurium Mines, Attica G re e c e ........................Liability and inconveniences precipitate most closings. Mine owners, however, are not all un aware o f their...collector company. As discussed re garding the 79 mine* in last issueâs âW hatâs New in Minerals?â , the...actually works side by side with miners in a working mine, again often on a concession basis. Phelps Dodge...the case o f an overly popular aban doned mine (the 79 mine is a fine ex T he M ineraloeical RennrrJ |
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Laurium Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA