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Microcline from
Laurium Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pumpellyite-(Mg)4 photos of Microcline associated with Pumpellyite-(Mg) at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Microcline associated with Quartz at this locality.
Epidote2 photos of Microcline associated with Epidote at this locality.
Copper1 photo of Microcline associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Laurium Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:87975
Long-form Identifier:1:3:87975:6
GUID (UUID V4):85b11b22-2936-4c7b-9af8-649e60fafdca
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
0.6km (0.4 miles) No. 5 shaft, Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Calumet & Hecla Mine, Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) St. Louis Mine Exploration, Schoolcraft Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Wolverine Mine, Wolverine, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
7.2km (4.4 miles) Kearsarge Mine, Kearsarge, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
8.9km (5.5 miles) Allouez No. 1 Mine, Allouez Mine, Allouez, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
10.5km (6.5 miles) Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
12.8km (7.9 miles) Seneca No. 1 Shaft, Seneca Mine, Seneca, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
12.8km (7.9 miles) Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 .
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
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)
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...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...including analcime, calcite, datolite, epidote, microcline, natrolite, prehnite, and quartz. The longevity...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because
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
Book
variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
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-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named
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)
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, 154–59 Apatite... B. Cook, 426–31 Calcite, 462; Colorado, 410; Michigan, 312; Nevada, 516; New York, 162, 253; Quebec...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, 250–59; Gemstone Deposits in Turkey...Connoisseur’s Choice, Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59; Calaverite
Catalog/List
Bisbee, Arizona Lodestone, Magnetic Iron Copper, Michigan Velvet Malachite, Bisbee, Arizona Rhodonite Zincite...Franklin, N. J. Quartz, Blue Rhodonite Copper, Michigan Az.urite, Bisbee, Arizona Quartz Group. Hot Springs...Dundas, Tasmania Quartz Group, Hou1Zhton Co., Michigan Carnotite, Montrose Co., Colorado Quartz var....Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine... Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Native Silver
Catalog/List
diameter. USA £40 3 MERWINITE solid grey-white slightly glassy granular mass. Crestmore_Riverside County California...California USA 5x4 £15 7 ASTROPHYLLITE five golden brown lath like crystals from 3.5 1.5 long on fine...minute Astrophyllite. St Peters Dome. El Paso county Colorado USA 5x4.5 £15 9 SERANDITE small pink-orange cleavages...roughly half covering 3x2 surface Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall reference specimen £10 11 BAYLDONITE...micro crystals on one edge. La Finosa Mine (Fontana Rossa Mine) Corte, Corsica France £7 15 LAZULITE
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
Show/Event (guide)
exposed during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...assemblage from the Allah Cooper/Valcooper mine, Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30...e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U. Falster & Win. B
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tewksbury, Great Britain; and Dr. George W. Robinson, Michigan Technological University. Part 1 of the accepted...Brightwell, 91A Dutchmill Ct., Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Microcline feldspar in pegmatites often displays a blue-green...Colorado; the Zapot pegmatite, Mineral County, Nevada; Carroll County, New Hampshire; the Morefield and Rutherford...Rutherford peg168 ROCKS & MINERALS matites of Amelia County, Virginia; Wisconsin; Tordal, Norway; Russia; and...correlation. Three samples of amazonite from Amelia County, Virginia, repeatedly showed Pb concentration below
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...·----··--- ----- ·-- - - -3 ■ AGRELLITE Villedieu Township, Kipawa, River Quebec, Can 12 ALUMINITE Newhaven...2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston...£3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ 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 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...mass of pale mauve octahedral crystals ·with microcline lx½£5 -- - - -- -- - - - -- - ---- · ··· 462
Catalog/List
Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;;
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 Michigan’s 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
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£5 lx2 £10 Pyroxene 3 ■■ AGRELLITE Villedieu Township, Kipawa, River Quebec, Can Rich fibrous pale grey-brown...Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- ·---- -- -- -- --- --3 m AGRELLITE Villedieu Township, Kipawa, River Quebec, Can 1098 ANALCITE Bratthagen...- - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish line grained mass...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)
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
Book
museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone
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]
Journal (issue)
Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W...in 1978 by Donald Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica...Rubellite Tourmaline on Albite from the Itatiaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Rubellite crystal measures...Raven Hills Court, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA; tel: (303) 598-1233 66 The Mineralogical Record...began with the opening of the Thun­ der Bay amethyst mine in 1967, and in 1975 amethyst was declared by the
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE
 
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