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Coal from
Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Peninsula
Classification
Type:Coal
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Coal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:994870
Long-form Identifier:1:3:994870:9
GUID (UUID V4):3f071f09-68b8-4074-b978-f2935e07e0c2
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clark University South Range, Keweenaw Copper Country: A Mining Pattern of Land Occupancy Author(s):...to http://about.jstor.org/terms SOUTH RANGE, KEWEENAW COPPER COUNTRY: A MINING PATTERN OF LAND OCCUPANCY...OCCUPANCY, Robert S. Platt C OPPER mining in the Keweenaw Peninsula has been discussed in voluminous works from...Railroad, the Copper District Power Company and the Michigan Smelting Company, for their friendly cooperation...Professional Paper 144, The Copper Deposits of Michigan, 1929; and U. S. Bureau of Mines, Dept. of Commerce
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER-BEARING FISSURE VEINS Keweenaw County, Michigan Downloaded by [University of Delaware] at 05:05...leading to ore bins. On the left are ore cars of the Keweenaw Central Railroad being loaded with chunks of mass...as the Michigan Copper Country, is located on the scenic, rugged, and isolated Keweenaw Peninsula, which...into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The native copper mines that comprised the district...Houghton, and Keweenaw counties. The now-dormant copper mining industry of the Keweenaw Peninsula produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
best documented example is in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA (Butler and Burbank, 1929; White,... 1968). The 1060–1047 Ma Keweenaw native copper deposit is hosted by the 1109–1085 Ma flood basalts of...with interbedded coal seams. The coal seams indicate a fresh or saltwater lake with a coal-bearing swamp...multi-element standard solution from Accu Standard Inc (USA) was used for external calibration. Indium was used...Age of native copper mineralization, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Economic Geology, v. 83, p. 619–625
Report (volume)
Nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of Northern Michigan Geochemistry, Petrography, and Volcanology of...Rhyolites of the Portage Lake Volcanics, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1970-A...Nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of Northern Michigan By WILLIAM F. CANNON and SUZANNE W. NICHOLSON...Rhyolites of the Portage Lake Volcanics, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan By SUZANNE W. NICHOLSON Chapters A and...nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of northern Michigan / by William F. Cannon and Suzanne W. Nicholson
Report (issue)
University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...field trip trip to to the T. J. the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology...Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual..."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)
Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA U.S. Geological Survey...Survey, P.O. Box 25046 MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA c Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National...discovery of native copper deposits on the Keweenaw Peninsula within the Portage Lake Volcanic Group and...Harbor MRS Volcanics PLR ERF Lake Superior Keweenaw Peninsula WPM PI-2 DO-6 DO-14 WPB-3,4 MI WI WC-18...sample localities. MN–Minnesota; WI–Wisconsin; MI–Michigan; ERF–Eagle River Falls; PLR–Pike Lake Road; WPM–White
Journal (issue)
MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ... KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...........................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines.............................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan.........................................Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan......................................53
Report (issue)
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...of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 30028, Lansing, Michigan 48909 On deposf-t in public libraries, state
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway 64, which winds through...from Mellen, Wisconsin, to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, a distance of 160 miles. The White Pine...world-famous native-copper deposits of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The main ore mineral in the sulfide deposit...courtesy Ruth Ristola. White Pine Mine gon County, Michigan Volume 74, MaylJune 1999 161 Downloaded by...June 2016 Figure 2. A generalized map of the Michigan copper district. The enlarged area shows the structural
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
Report (volume)
64-66 Supt.of Docs. No.: 119.3:1309 1. Geology-Michigan-Isle Royale National Park-Guide-books. I. Title...copper mining by Europeans was established on Keweenaw Peninsula and had been attempted on Isle Royale (fig...Foster and Whitney is that Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula may be regarded as geologic counterparts...may be regarded as infinitely less valuable than Keweenaw Point." The first period of mining activity on...by Alfred C. Lane of the Geological Survey of Michigan. His geologic map and report were published in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum 1404 E. Sharon Avenue Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 cjstefano@mtu.edu... professor of mineralogy at the University of Michigan. Date of the photo is unkown. The Life and Collection...collections, that at the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, was constructed...was a professor of geology at the University of Michigan between 1947 and 1983. He was primarily interested...of the mineral collection at the University of Michigan and also served as editor for the American Mineralogist
Journal (issue)
into Kansas, as well as southeast through central Michigan, perhaps as far as western Tennessee. Today, the........................36 northern Michigan. The Keweenaw Peninsula is a narrow promontory, 70 miles long...five miles wide, runs down the middle of the peninsula, containing the rock outcropping of the Keweenawan...tained North America's first great mining boom, the Keweenaw cop­ per rush of the 1840's. Early Copper Mining...l 770's, sporadic copper prospecting on Keweenaw Peninsula was tried by early French and English traders
Journal (issue)
summerof 1988. Coming from the Copper Country at Michigan Tech to the desert of southern California was...Mojave Desert since completing my M.S. thesis at Michigan Tech. However, given the widespread occurrence...Kern County, California: Unpub. M.Sc. thesis, Michigan Tech. Univ., 247 p. Blaske, A.R., Bornhorst, T...District (Mojave District), Kern Co., California, USA; accessed January 2018. Figure2: Colloform scorodite...happy with was made in the parking lot The Keweenaw Peninsula has been subjected and now the float resides
Book
Geology Field Trips Produced by Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental...13700 13.25 Lane  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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fractures (Fig. 4o). It burns easily with an odor of coal/oil. Jet probably formed from organic material such...(Alexander and Thomas, 2011), the Keweenaw basalts of northern Michigan in USA (Bornhorst et al., 1988; Bornhorst...of the subareally deposited basalt (e.g., Keweenaw basalt, USA) or to spilitization of submarine basalt...Canada; Cabral and Beaudoin, 2007). The case of Keweenaw basalt has also been attributed to oxidation by...basalts (Prinz, 1967), 125 ppm in the Keweenaw lavas of Michigan (Prinz, 1967), 126 ppm in the Aleutian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pen­ insula. Specimen is about 50 mm by 130 mm. MICHIGAN FOSSILS Figure 3: Cast of the Pennsylvanian plant...about 200 mm by 120 mm. For the fossil collector Michigan has it all, from Precam­ brian microfossils to...MINERALS STEVEN E . WILSON 1512 James Lansing, Michigan 48906 notion to be false. Most of the very early...sufficiently abundant to leave a record in the rocks. In Michigan, the fossil record begins in early Middle Precambrian...Ordovician trilobite and bryozoan from the Upper Peninsula. Larger cephalon is about 10 mm long. Figure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUSAN ROBINSON 1029 Crestwood Glade Hancock, Michigan 49930 susanmrobinson@hotmail.com Figure 1. Carving...If you travel to the Keweenaw Peninsula, known as the Copper Country of Michigan, and visit the A. E...Vermont and later in the iron mines near Negaunee, Michigan. He finally settled in Hurontown, a hamlet on...and working in an Alabama coal mine for a few years before returning to Michigan. According to one of his...engineering graduate of Michigan Tech (1942), who worked for Dow Chemical at Midland, Michigan, and in Rotterdam
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
smoky quartz or amethyst p. 241 Maysville, Ky. COAL p. 230 Downloaded by [University of Florida] at...most all localities in Maine and parts of N. H. Michigan—Rick Chapaton, 32900 Colony Hill, Franklin, Mich...limestone quarries, iron and copper country. Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Mr. & Mrs. Clare Handy, 10538 W. Monroe...Rd., Onsted, Mich.—Northern Ohio and southern Michigan. Minnesota—Blaine Conley, Swan River, Ohio —localities
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the lore of Michigan's Copper Country CALUMET, MICHIGAN • 1964 Copyright, 1943, by WILLIAM A. MURDOCH...number of former residents of this beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula, who return to this, their homeland, to visit...ITS COLU.l\1BUS 19 IV WHITE PAWNEES 27 THE KEWEENAW VIRGIN 36 VI FAITH, HOPE, AND A PHARMACIST...INWARD FROM THE EDGE 209 219 230 EPILOGUE: THE MICHIGAN COPPER RANGE IN WORLD WAR II ACK NOWLEDGMENTS...Wisconsin. Soon after entering the Upper Peninsula of Michigan the highway properly changes in character
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
News from the Keweenaw Downloaded by [Florida State University] at 18:43 12 November 2014 Part 3—Recent...years have passed since the last “News from the Keweenaw”; this article updates new finds to the spring...Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...construction in the Keweenaw. However, extensive logging operations, primarily in Keweenaw County, have increased...Copper District Figure 3. A generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of new mineral
Book (volume)
Fossil hunters are well aquatinted with the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology...of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay. In these coal seams the collector may often...rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.ď‚ľfossils; ď‚‚ Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburdenď‚ľoval...Creek fossils). EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumpsď‚ľMarcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS...replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional mines in the coal formations, on dumpsď‚ľfossils, Marcasite, Pyrite
Report (issue)
Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface .......................................... 2 The Keweenaw Peninsula ...........................................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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
preserved them as choice relics, and when in upper Michigan, or down in Tennessee, we pick up a beautiful...widely distributed. Not far from Sault St. Marie, Michigan, but on the Canadian side, there is a large out­...it, thus forming a solid rock. In some of our Michigan streams, the process of erosion has bared boulder...suspended from the watch-chain or neck­ lace. Michigan is one of the states where little material of...Indian village sites: the pyrite was from a local coal mine. COPPER There is one mineral, a native element
Report (issue)
sedimentary rocks in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan were examined, sampled, and described with the...Wisconsin northeastward throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, and on Isle Royale in Lake Superior...deposited. Two sites on the north shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula were examined, both areas that typify the...northeastward to near Calumet on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, more or less parallel to the Lake...Porcupine KANSAS AND NEBRASKA WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN IOWA AND MINNESOTA Chequamegon Sandstone S&f
 
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