| | 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) | istory and Mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan Ninth in a series of articles on...the secluded Indiana No. 2 (Indiana Copper Company) mine dump in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The individual...Copper Country in recent years. Location The Indiana mining property is situated approximately 2.6 miles...State Highways 26 and 38 (Lake Mine Junction) in northern Ontonagon County. The property consists of 1,280...R. 37 W., Greenland Township. The 2-square-mile property is owned by the state of Michigan and is traversed | | | Book | Mineral Trails Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides...our knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting....fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding diamonds...diamonds in the kimberlites of upper Michigan, and vast mineral deposits were located in northern Wisconsin...shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan is the state with the most shoreline on these | | | 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...NoneĀ 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 ā¢ by George W. Robinson M By E W~ Hellnr]ch...Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 2004 Ā© 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 | | | Book (volume) | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ļ the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmļ¾jasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. lineļ¾rock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1Ā½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatļ¾jasper. CARTERSVILLE:...ļ¾agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: ļ at Holton Quarry, 7Ā½ mi. NWļ¾agate; ļ N | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | February 2015 Figure 2. A generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of new finds...arborescent copper crystal groups cached at the Central mine town site, (2) copper crystals recovered from Lake...fissure vein, (3) hundreds of copper from the Indiana mine, and (4) more than two hundredV aecilS mens...analcime/calcitecrystal groups from the Rhode Island mine. This article describes these and other finds made...the White Pine mine at the southern end of the district. Keweenaw Point, Keweenaw County The waters off | | | Journal (issue) | large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The āCopper Kingā 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) | (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) | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, NāChwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Erica and Harold Van Pelt photo. March/April: Calcite, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Terry E. Huizing...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...EricaVan Pelt photo. July/August: Amethyst and calcite, Artigas, Uruguay. Rock Currier specimen, Jeff...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen | | | Book (edition) | DAKOTA ā¢ MICHIGAN ā¢ ILLINOIS ā¢ IOWA WISCONSIN ā¢ OHIO ā¢ KANSAS ā¢ NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA ā¢ INDIANA ā¢ MISSOURI...FOSSILS . 27 THE MISSION AREA ......... Sand Calcite Crystals . 27 28 8 8 8 38 THE HIGH PLAINS Moss..... .46 3 IOWA ....................... 47 MICHIGAN ............. 63 WESTERN IOWA ................47 Beaches .................................... Mine Dumps ............................ 63 .63 63 ā¢47...ISLE ROYALE....................... .66 LOWER MICHIGAN .......... Crystals and Specimens Fossils.... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior...district is world famous for the copperincluded calcite crystals that occurred at a number of mines in...in the district, especially the Quincy mine. Crystals ranged in size from micro to large-cabinet specimens...common gangue minerals include quartz, epidote, calcite, chlorite, prehnite, pumpellyite, and laumontite...in the tenth grade. I have collected most of the mine dumps during the past sixty years and have found | | | Report (volume) | minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by some unusual... Illinois...........Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana. Indiana...........Mr. Edward Barrett, Indianapolis. Iowa...Mathews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and Kerr, P. F. Infrared study of aragonite and calcite.. Albee, A. L. Relationships between the mineral...Allanite from the Mount Wheeler 'White area, Pine County, N e v a d a( L e e ,B a s t r o m ) . . . . ....Anthophyllite albiteepidote hornfels facies, Fremont County, Colorado (Salotti) Antigorite, ferroan (Jenkinsite)...intercrystallized, from the New Albany shale of Indiana (Greenberg, Harrison). Appleman,D. E... w i t h...barite deular and semi-random oneposit in Hot Spring County, layer structures.. 819 Arkansas (Lippmann) Ba | | | Report (volume) | ......................................... 122 Indiana...........................'......................:............................................. Michigan.................................................that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | exposed by acid dissolution from the late-stage calcite matrix. The group is 4 mm long with individual...Calumet, Michigan 49913 tajmahal@gilanet.com History and Mineralogy of the Manganese Mine Keweenaw...Keweenaw County Michigan Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological...ocated in the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan are two small manganese oxide deposits that occur...discovered was a small vein of manganese oxides and calcite that crops out on the north shore of Lake Manganese | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...Houghton and Keweenaw counties, Michigan. Every summer in the Copper Country, mine dumps from a bygone era of...copper mining are being crushed and hauled off the mine sites. The crushed rock is mainly used for road...and recover copper that mistakenly ended up in the mine dumps. The lucky person may also find silver in...locality. Collected at the Tamarack Jr. No. 1 mine, Houghton County, by Tom Rosemeyer, 11 August 2012. John | | | Book (edition) | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior | | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | janet15cliford@gmail.com CALCITE from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee ...minerals as barite, fluorite, galena, and sphalerite. Calcite crystals are classic components of Mississippi...the continent can boast the same diversity of calcite. Yet, connoisseurship of fine minerals is not just...may occur. With this in mind, we have nominated calcite from the interconnected Elmwood/Cumberland/Gordonsville...best calcite-producing localities in the world (see fig. 1). From a technical perspective, calcite is calcium | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Tom Rosemeyer 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure 1... 1 mine in summer 2009 by Steve Whelan. The specimen is 12.4 Ć 6.2 cm and was encased in calcite. Tom...Copper Country Figure 2. Generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of the new...Mineral Finds in Michiganās 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 | | | Report (volume) | Station Circular. Urbana, Ill. Ind. Acad. Sci. Proc.-Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings. Indianapolis, Ind...Ind. Ind. Dept. Conserv. Div. Geology Rpt. Prog.-Indiana Department of Conservation, Division of Geology...Bull.; County Rpt.-Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources Bulletin; County Report...Boletin. Mexico G:ity. Mich. Acad. S~i. Papers-Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Papers. Ann...Mich. Geol. Survey Pub., Geol. Ser.; Tech. Rpt.-Michigan Geological Survey Publications, Geological Series; | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (October 2017). 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Twenty-sixth in a...located in Keweenaw County, Michigan, was made by Doug Miller of Calumet, Michigan. Miller, a thirty-year...area about a half-mile northwest of the North Cliff mine. He had checked part of this area earlier in the...secTom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...first beep on Figure 4. Map showing Eagle River, Michigan, and the location of the silver vein in the copper-bearing | | | Report (volume) | geology of the North American continent, including Greenland, the West Indies, and other adjacent islands,...Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Pamph.-Idaho Bureau of Mine~j~Ā· and Geology Pamphlet. Moscow, Idaho. Ill. State...Investigations. Urbana, Ill. Ind. Aead. Sci. Proc.-Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings. Indianapolis, Ind...Survey Circ.; Prelim. Coal Map; Rept. Progress-Indiana Geological Survey Circular; Prelimin~ry Goal Map;...Albuquerque, N. Mex. Ā· Mich. Acad. Sci. Papers-Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Papers | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Lake Superior near Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan. The near-shore find, now called the Laker...Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University. He now...inches wide and was filled with white crystalline calcite. In summer 2001, a small split off the main vein...best specimens to date from this locality. The calcite coating the crystallized groups was removed with...August 2008, Barron and Peterson left Calumet, Michigan, with Petersonās 23-foot cabin cruiser in tow | | | 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... including quartz, pumpellyite-(Mg), epidote, calcite, hematite, prehnite, laumontite, and copper, that...microcrystals in amygdules contained in a lava flow top. The mine has also yielded uniquely banded agates that occur |
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