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Goethite from
Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Goethite
Formula:α-Fe3+O(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Goethite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:54582
Long-form Identifier:1:3:54582:2
GUID (UUID V4):f81b7350-0ef5-4ca9-95e6-9db3b805bb24
Nearest other occurrences of Goethite
52.5km (32.6 miles) North testpits, Taylor Mine, Alberta, Baraga County, Michigan, USA
52.6km (32.7 miles) Taylor Mine, Alberta, Baraga County, Michigan, USA
52.7km (32.7 miles) Copps Mine, Marenisco, Gogebic iron range, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
75.3km (46.8 miles) Anvil-Palms-Keeweenaw Group (Anvil Mine; Palms Mine; North Anvil Mine; Keweenaw Lease; Massie Lease; Houghton Co.), Gogebic iron range, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
75.3km (46.8 miles) Gogebic iron range, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
76.2km (47.4 miles) Ohio Mines (Imperial Mine; Webster Mine), Imperial Heights, Baraga County, Michigan, USA
77.0km (47.8 miles) Hemlock Mine, Amasa, Iron County, Michigan, USA
77.7km (48.3 miles) Michigan Mine (Gibson Mine), Warner Mine, Amasa, Iron County, Michigan, USA
77.9km (48.4 miles) Colby Mine, Peterson Mine, Gogebic iron range, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
78.6km (48.8 miles) Yale Mine (Valley; Benjamin; West Colby; Yale Jackpot), Yale, Gogebic iron range, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 I first went to the mine in the spring of...and epidote. In 1985 mineral rights for the Caledonia mine were bought by Richard Whiteman, president...rehabilitated the No. 4 adit of the mine and are presently operating the mine for the re­ covery of mineral...collecting trips. Over the past five years the Caledonia mine has produced many fine hand specimens and an...the opening of the Mass, A d ­ Colorado for the past twenty years. venture, Michigan, Hilton, Minesota
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)
Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...with quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural...claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Denver Museum of Natural History specimen...Azurite on malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and...Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Adularia, Michigan, I10
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)
iners with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University...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)
Bulletin 6 1976 COVER Shown is a porcelanoid mass of flesh colored datolite, a borosilicate (CaBSiO4OH)...(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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wulfenite, Empire mine, Tombstone, Arizona; Wendell E . Wilson photo and specimen. March/April: Mine engineers...engineers, Camp Bird mine, Colorado; Tom Rosemeyer histori­ cal photo. May/June: Barite on calcite, Stoneham...Muntyan photo. July/August: Fluorite, William Wise mine, Westmoreland, New Hampshire; Resur­ rection Mining...Keweenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, W. S. Cordua, 412-415 Anatase, New...Lalish, 313 Colorado: barite, 202-222; Camp Bird mine, 113-149; National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 20:58 18 March 2015 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 tajmahal@gilanet.com History...the Manganese Mine Keweenaw County Michigan Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate...graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton. He now spends a good part of the year in the Copper...ocated in the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan are two small manganese oxide deposits that occur...Figure 2. Tom Rosemeyer about to descend into the mine through the small surface opening that led to the
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...image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com There probably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals...crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite
Catalog/List
232) I. CLiNOCLASE. Matuba Hill. Pershing County. Nevada. USA Flattish druse of dark blue clinoclase xtls...V E COPPER.Wolserine Mine,Keweenaugh Peninsula-Michigan-USA Pure flattish mass of native copper showing...Diabolo.Coconino County,Arizona,USA Dense brown black slightly weathered submetallic mass with a little...bladed to equant hematite Ws to l2mni forming rich mass with a little powdery white coating Pretty RF SPC...Candough.County Antrim.Nonhern Ireland Exquisite mass of milky white acicular needles of mesolite & natrolite
Catalog/List
pink, sugary textured mass. small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales lxl £5 lx2...Parnmirim Region, Agua Quen1a,Bal1ia, Brazil Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales A)£3 B) £5 3mm £4 5mm £6 lxl £6...micros gemmy yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE...604 GMELINlTE Na Zeolite ···� 5 2 5 GOETHITE Fe O OH 147 GOETHITE Fe O OH 187 HEMATITE Fe O 467 HEMATITE...location pieces 4mm deep blue pure sphere shaped mass, with crystallised surface. Triangular individual
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines Department of Science and Technology...Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines c Division of Sustainable Resource...concern. In tropical to subtropical areas (e.g. New Caledonia, Brazil, Philippines), prolonged and pervasive...groundwaters of subtropical to tropical areas (e.g. New Caledonia, Greece) (Gunkel-Grillon et al., 2014; Economou-Eliopoulos...and Sc (e.g. in Cuba, Dominican Re­ public, New Caledonia) (Elias, 2002; Butt and Cluzel, 2013; Aiglsperger
Journal (issue)
Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...Richard W. Thomssen Mineral Expl. Consultants Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Articles Famous mineral localities: the Sterling mine, Antwerp, New York ........ 199 G. W. Robinson...and S. C. Chamberlain Pseudomorphs from the Burra mine, South Australia ..............................219
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 (article/letter/editorial)
NW/SE-trending Bekhair Anticline to the north of Duhok city, northern Iraq. The basalt is mostly basanitic and...Bekhair Anticlinal Mountain to the north of Duhok city, northern Iraq (Kettanah and Bamarni, 2018) (Figs...associated minerals include pyrite, magnetite, and goethite. A 270 m deep exploration well (Waraz-1), drilled...alteration zone and/or rimmed by goethite (Figs. 4d-f); similar goethite is also seen along fractures and...serpentinized internal zone that is in turn rimmed by goethite (Figs. 4d-f). Clinochlore also forms the outer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This is the case for the Tilley Foster mine (Putnam County), which was well described by Nightingale...geology and mineralogy of the Sterling mine, Antwerp (Jefferson County), which were well documented by Robinson...district; 3. Lyon Mountain mines; 4. Benson mine; 5. Jayville mine; 6. Chub Lake prospect; 7. Antwerp-Keen...Rock mine; 9. Clintontype; 10. Columbia County iron mines (Burden iron mine); 11. Dutchess County iron... Tahawus mine. Figure 2 (below). An old entrance to the former Sterling mine, Orange County. The stratabound
Catalog/List
good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens...00 eaoh. CLEANED COPPER AND MALACHITE: Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona: I've had these for a few years...old stuff last summer on a show trip to northern Michigan. Got it right from a 65 year oJd ex-collector...the 1950's. From the iron mines around Champion, Michigan, you just can't get this material any more. Metallic...deserves hand tans &Kploration. $5.00 IRIDESCENT GOETHITE COVERING QUARTZ: Grandfather Mountain, Georgia:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...W l / 2 N W & Section 7, T.I., R 19W of Garland County, Ark., some fine quartz xls containing chlorite...visit. I am planning a trip to the Ruggle's Feldspar Mine near Grafton Ctn., New Hampshire." Mrs. Harriette...Harriette Schoppee, (9 Greenbrier St., Springfield 8, Mass.) Secretary of the "We will be glad to cooperate...cervantite, Ambrose nite (quartz) have been found on the mine, Hollister (San Benito C o . ) , Calif. south side
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...CARTERSVILLE:  area barite pitsBarite, Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals;  area mines,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...listed. L O CA L I T I E S B Y C O U N T Y Albany County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry:...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite. Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz...quartz (amethyst), stilbite; F. Clinton County Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone)...stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead mines: barite, galena, sphalerite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1910). At one time, jasper was mined at the Parrot mine (Chittenden Co.) on a small scale for use in colorful...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...garnierite? gedrite gersdorffite glaucophane goethite gold graphite grossular grunerite gypsum halotrichite...cities and differ from some states that have strong county governments with jurisdiction over large expans­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reads: "Rose quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is described...localities swell this book to 223 pages). Chaffee County is in the central part of Colorado. CONNECTICUT—"I...from Harold P. Trefethen, 98 Allen Ave., Waban, Mass. 02168. Eleven very interesting specimens were received...astringent metallic taste. Thompson, in N / E Windham County, is in N / E Connecticut. FLORIDA—"I am mailing...brown, l.w. Belle Glade, in western Palm Beach County, is in southern Florida. I N D I A N A — "The enclosed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA d Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences...Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA Received 6 April 2012; accepted in revised form 23...(serpentine) and Fe-oxides (goethite) in the saprolite unit and mainly in goethite in the laterite unit. A...Finally, the ubiquitous occurrence of Ni-bearing goethite emphasizes the major role of this phase in Ni...the different weathering stages and suggests that goethite represents the major host for Ni in the final tropical
 
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