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Copper from
North American Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calciteā“˜1 photo of Copper associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view North American Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:399260
Long-form Identifier:1:3:399260:9
GUID (UUID V4):07691949-3acb-4a50-81e8-89bd9e2e6825
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
0.7km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) ā“˜South Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Avery shaft, Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Albion Mine (Manhattan Mine), Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) ā“˜Manhattan Exploration Prospect, Ojibway, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) ā“˜North Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) ā“˜Vaughnsville Exploration Prospect, Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) ā“˜Robbins Mine (West Vein Mine), Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) ā“˜Ojibway Mine, Ojibway, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) ā“˜Bay State Fissure Mine, Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...J. the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula...Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual AnnualMeeting, Meeting..."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 (issue)
with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...of Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The ā€œCopper Kingā€ The MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY L. W i l s o n New Mexico...t a n l e y J. D y l II Seaman Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University % 1992 T h e M in e...COVER: Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard...Burbank) wrote the classic work on the copper deposits of Michigan in 1929. Photo by Wendell E. Wilson.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan's Copper Country Rocks & Minerals 2001.76:156-188. Tom...I , < h,,,rl,rp,, ,,I I r,,,,l>,l\ T HE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT stretches in a southwest-northeast...from the White Pine mine in Ontonagon County to Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County. Copper mineralization occurs...(chalcocite) deposit at the White Pine mine and (2) the world-class native copper deposits that occur in the Portage...Lake Volcanics (PLV) and the Copper Harbor Conglomerate. The native-copper deposits can be further divided
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
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CLIFTON and the CLIFF MINE Miners breaking up a giant mass of pure copper. One mass found on the...wide, and weighed three hundred tons at the Cliff Mine. By Clarence J. Monette FIFTY-THIRD OF A LOCAL...CLIFF MINE COPYRIGHT January 30, 1999 Clarence J. Monette 942 Ninth Street Lake Linden, Michigan 49945...asc 32 PONS: WO.t Gai @Clos ee eye Medical Copper SOU service mining le ee Slater ----------------...andmpostone copper Herpor Mining Company of Pittsburgh. It was always knownvas first copper the mine Cliff
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
very low-grade metamorphic rocks, Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA Edward Hansen a,āŽ, Jesse Reimink a...Hope College, 35 E 12th Street, Holland, Michigan 49423 USA Section 3.3 Chemistry and Physics of Earth...low-grade metamorphism Titanite TiO2 Pseudorutile Keweenaw Peninsula Prehniteā€“pumpellyite-facies a b s t...basalt and rhyolite clasts from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA which were metamorphosed to the prehniteā€“...clasts in a conglomerate from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA metamorphosed to the prehniteā€“pumpellyite-facies
Report (issue)
filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur as inclusions near the...the surface and between the nodular masses. The Michigan Bicentennial symbol (back cover) incorporates...the two centuries which have passed since the American Revolution. The contemporary design is in keeping...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
Report (issue)
Michiganā€™s Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents.......................................... 2 The Keweenaw Peninsula ............................................................ 6 Europeans Come to the Copper Country .........................................Ontonagon Copper Boulder ............................................................... 18 The Copper Rush...Michiganā€™s Copper Country ā€“ CMG 92 01 - page 1 of 144 Preface Few people realize that Michigan's copper had
Book
Park 13700 13.25 LaneĀ Ā 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...wildr@michigan.gov Mine Descriptions Rob Porritt, Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering, Michigan Technological
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........................... 215 by S. G. Bywater Copper Country microminerals............................Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............collecĀ­ tors in general. Dues are $6 per year (North American) and $8 per year (all others). People interested
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE KEARSARGE Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER...free-growing, complex copper crystals, measuring 5.5 Ɨ 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Authorā€™s...articles on the mines and minerals of Michiganā€™s Copper Country Downloaded by [Columbia University] at...KEARSARGE LODE was one of seven blanket-type native copper orebodies that were mined in the brecciated amygdaloidal...secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became
Book
GRAVE Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines LARRY LANKTON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS New...life, work, and death at p.cm. the Lake Superior copper mines./ Larry Lankton. Includes bibliographical...(pap) 1. Copper industry and tradeā€”Michiganā€”Keweenaw Peninsulaā€”History. 2. Copper minersā€”Michiganā€”Keweenaw...possible that the Keweenaw was in the long run the most profitable of any American nonferrous mining...Perhaps the reason for its lack of fame outside Michigan itself is that its annals, like those of happy
Book
ā€¢ s THĀ£ MICHI6AN COPPER COUNTRY SCALE IN MILES 0 s 20 10 ,,,.. BOOM COPPER "--'.',.,,~if,.~...mile-deep stopes of the Quincy Mine. One of the oldest mines on the North American continent, the Quincy has...provided livelihood for so many generations. l BOOM COPPER ..ā€¢.....ā€¢........................................interest in the lore of Michigan's Copper Country CALUMET, MICHIGAN ā€¢ 1964 Copyright, 1943, by WILLIAM...written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Copper Country Edition ā€¢ 1964 This edition was published
Journal (volume)
Company Mining 4 COXFOLLOWAYANAYE SI THE AMERICAN MINING GAZETTE, AND GEOLOGICAL MAGAZIN E. EDITED...courage and resolution of the proprietor of the AMERICAN MINING GazettE to withstand such discouraging...the work. The Publisher has resolved that the AMERICAN MINING GAZETTE, true to its mission, shall labor...ing on his part to render, in some degree, the AMERICAN MINING GAZETTE worthy of the important interests...CYCLONE AT CALCUTTA, ETC ........ THE AMERICAN MERCHANT FLAG - AMERICAN VESSELS SAILING UNDER THE BRITISH
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUMMARIES OF CURRENT NORTH AMERICAN CAMBRIAN LITERATURE1 PRE- describe the Crystal CLEMENTS,SMYTH... and VAN HISE2 Falls iron-bearing district of Michigan. The rocks of the district comprise two groups...geological province as the Huronian rocks of the north shore of Lake Huron, and to be equivalent to the... 2The Crystal Falls Iron-bearing District of Michigan, by J. MORGAN CLEMENTS and H. L. SMYTH, with a...Randville formation is the Mansfield slate and schist. North of Michigamme Mountain and of the Mansfield area
Book
\ i ,,&gt; HISTORY AND REVIEW OF THE COPPER, IRON, SILVER, SLATE AND OTHER Material Interests...the copper region, very nearly complete history of the discovery and development of the copper interest...s very interesting paper on the "Ancient Copper Miners of Lake The geology of the Iron District;...derived from others that part of the book relating to copper, "be being, so far as he is concerned,...inti mate to the world the existence of native copper on the shores of Lake Superior. In the seventeenth
Journal (volume)
1 ! THE AMERICAN MINING GAZETTE AND GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 1 THE AMERICAN MINING GAZETTE...Publisher, in presenting the third volume of the American Mining Gazette and Geological Magazine to his...spirit or inspire the ambition of the public mind . Michigan and the shores of Lake Superior and Huron, with...region of iron and copper lands, the coal and copper fields of Nova Scotia, and the copper, gold , and silver...hands with electrical rapidity, and gold, silver, copper, lead, and coal quotations rose on ' Change as
Book (volume)
vel The Encyclopedia of MICHIGAN The Encyclopedia of MICHIGAN FOURTH ae EDITION ease VOLUME... INTRODUCTION There is no such thing as a ā€œā€˜typicalā€™? Michigan citizen; although some other states may have...easily conform to any one type. One reason is that Michigan has such a great diversity in natural characteristics:...pines northward; the battered dunes of the Lake Michigan shores; and the regimented rows of hand-reared...of inland lakes, the Straits of Mackinac divide Michigan into two units, a feature unknown by any other
Journal (issue)
) I ' Ha shi on the Copper rontier Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine ( 1845-1870) by Paul Chrastina...volcanic eruptions rocked the landmass we now call North America. Traces of volcanic activity dating to this...into Kansas, as well as southeast through central Michigan, perhaps as far as western Tennessee. Today, the...this issue Hardship on the Copper Frontier: Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine (1845-1870) ........................................36 northern Michigan. The Keweenaw Peninsula is a narrow promontory, 70 miles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metallogeny of the Midcontinent rift system of North America S.W. Nicholson, W.F. Cannon and K.J. Schulz...Survey, National Center-MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA (Received October 10, 1990; accepted after revision...Metallogeny of the Midcontinent rift system of North America. In: G. Ga~iland K. Schulz (Editors), Precambrian...355-386. The 1.1 Ga Midcontinent rift system of North America is one of the world's major continental...1 ) native copper deposits in basalts and interflow sediments; (2) sediment-hosted copper sulfide and
Journal (volume)
Model nia Califor of View Interio 11 THE AMERICAN MINING GAZETTE , AND GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. ...PENNSYLVANIA .. COPPER REGION OF MICHIGAN .... EDITOR'S MISCELLANEOUS PIGEON - HOLE . Flint Steel River Mine - Silver...Silver in Michigan - Cotton in France - Great Gun - Terrible Explosion in Quebec - The Riches of the Country...Hudson Canal Co.- Placenta Bay Lead Co. - Bedford Copper Co. NOTICE TO OFFICERS OF MINING COMPANIES SALES...I EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT . The Position of the American Mining Gazelle and Geological Magazine and its
Journal (issue)
MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ... KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA ā€¢ Tel: +1 949 494 5155 ā€¢ Email: info@kristalle.com...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net JANUARYā€“FEBRUARY 2023 Articles Copper Country II Introduction..............................................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines....................................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...................................
Report (issue)
STATES GEOLOaiCAL SURVEY CLARENCE KING DIRECTOR THE COPPER-BEAEING ROOKS LAKE SUPERIOR Bv ROLAND IDXJER...ilhistrations of Prof Roland D. Irving's memoir on the Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior. Very respectfully...herewith the manuscript of my memoir on the Copper- Bearing or Keweenawan Rocks of Lake Superior...Extent and General Nature of the Keweenaw Series Lithology of the Keweenaw Series Section I. Basic Original...III. Summary View of the Original Rocks of the Keweenaw Series Section IV. Detrital Rocks Chapter IV.
Book
variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G ...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland;...I 1991 337--424 273-336 [ 1-128 129-208 [ COPPER] [ 177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400...the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich) 22:65-69 [Abstracts...Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON, STIG G. Hrucopper and cobalt
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BOUNDARIES Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines 1840-1875 LARRY LANKTON New York Oxford...boundaries : life and landscape at the Lake Superior copper mines, 1840-1875 / Larry Lankton. p. cm. Includes...0-19-510804-3 1. Copper industry and tradeā€”Michiganā€”Keweenaw PeninsulaHistoryā€”i9th century. 2. Copper minersā€”Michiganā€”Keweenaw...minersā€”Michiganā€”Keweenaw Peninsulaā€”Historyā€”1910 century. I. Lankton, Larry. grave. II. Title. HD9539-C7U547...it the "Lake Superior copper district," the "Keweenaw Peninsula," and the "Copper Country." In the mid-nineteenth
 
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