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Pyrrhotite from
Champion Mine, Champion, Marquette County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Champion Mine, Champion, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:56792
Long-form Identifier:1:3:56792:1
GUID (UUID V4):0c6e1999-8660-4f06-8346-cd94687d2466
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
9.1km (5.6 miles) Crockley pegmatite, Republic, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
17.0km (10.6 miles) Michigan Mine (Michigan Gold Mine), North Lake, Ely Township, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
21.0km (13.1 miles) Ropes Gold Mine, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
21.3km (13.3 miles) Silver Creek West prospect, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
22.5km (14.0 miles) Hills Lake, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) Silver Creek - Island Lake, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
27.9km (17.4 miles) Yellow Dog peridotite, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Eagle Mine, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
35.5km (22.1 miles) BIC deposit (Bovine Igneous Complex), Baraga County, Michigan, USA
67.9km (42.2 miles) Cannon Mine (Bengal-Tully Mine), Stambaugh, Iron County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 (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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 15:24 24 November 2014 Marquctle, Michigan 49855 Specimen recovery in the Iron Country is...Peninsula (U.P.) counties (Marquette, Baraga, Iron, and Dickinson) of Michigan, plus a small portion of...northeastern Wisconsin. This includes the famous Marquette and Eastern and Western Menominee iron ranges...Gogebic iron range, home of the well-known Montreal mine in Wisconsin. (My collecting experience has not...the town of Negaunee, and the first mine to open was the Jackson mine in 1845 (Boyum 1983).At that time
Report (issue)
Block of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1904-F...Block of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan By R.C JOHNSON and T.J. BORNHORST U...block of the Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan / by R.C. Johnson and T.J. Bornhorst...2. Rocks, Igneous Michigan Marquette County. 3. Geology Michigan Marquette County. I. Bornhorst, Theodore...III. Title: Ishpeming Greenstone Belt, Marquette County, Michigan. IV. Series. V. Series: U.S. Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ni-Cu-Platinum Group Element Deposit, Northern Michigan E. K. Benson,1,†,* E. M. Ripley,1 C. Li,1 B. W...47405, USA 2Eagle Mine, Lundin Mining, 4547 County Road 601, Champion, Michigan 49814, USA Abstract...is a conduit-type deposit located in northern Michigan, in close spatial proximity to the currently producing... Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. ISSN 0361-0128; doi:10.5382/econgeo.4707; 16 p....conduit-type Eagle deposit in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Ding et al., 2010, 2012b; Fig. 1) showed that
Journal (issue)
typically shrouded in the clouds. Author’s photo. The Champion Mining Company & No. 4 Shaft Robert L. Fox Jr...in the town of Painesdale, Michigan you will find the site of the Champion Mining Company. The Company...50% of the Champion Mine. The mine was managed by Copper Range Company. The Champion Mine had six shafts...still in operation in 1930. During the 1930s the mine was working the 48th level, 4,800 feet from the...on the incline at the No.4 Shafthouse. The Champion Mine was one of the largest and richest copper mines
Report (issue)
ores-----------------------------Mine descriptions----------------------------------Wilfley-Kimberly mine __ --------________________...Consolidated mine, Eldorado and Wilson mines, Felicia Grace mine, and Champion (New York) mine----------...hotomicrographs of polished sections from the Michigan-Snowbank, Triangle, and Lucky Strike mines __...________________________________ _ 21. Map of outlines of mine workings and ore bodies------------------------...part of central Colorado. Excluding the molybdenum mine at Climax, which is not described in this report
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province...History. Figure 1. Gemmy siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province...Figure 2. Siderite with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The composite crystals...of siderite were collected from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, where large cleavage masses to...(fig. 2). From the Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, come microcrystals
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...of deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...properties (Junner, 1921). Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of...foothills (Knopf, 1929). Newhouse (1936) reports that pyrrhotite occurs in 86 percent of the districts in Nova...(Malcolm, 1912), galena was widely considered by mine operators to be correlated with better gold grades
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ...
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are hosted mainly within the sheared and altered Champion gneiss and amphibolite in Chigargunta and Bisanatham...Sulfides associated with ore are predominantly pyrrhotite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, -------...places. Native gold is mainly associated with pyrrhotite in the inner and proximal zone of both the deposits... Chigargunta, Gadag and Kadiri. (Fig.1a). The Champion lode of the world famous Kolar Gold Field (KGF)...2001. The mine extended over a strike length of 8 km. The average gold grade in the Champion lode was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens from the Red Devil Mine, copper nuggets from the Kennecott mine, etc. and I can assure you that...the numerous tungsten mines in the Darwin, Inyo County, California, area."—note from James H. Richardson...(sphene) xls, and small masses of dark bronzy-yellow pyrrhotite are present in the specimen. See "Minerals at...on the south bank of the Etowah River, in Dawson County, Ga. Chatoyant masses of olive-gray tourmaline...found this specimen at Graveyard Point In Owyhee County, Idaho, in 1957."—on label accompanying the agate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the form of a sul®de-poor Au-quartz lode (the Champion lode exposed in the Mysore and other mines) and...sul®de-rich auriferous lodes (from the Nundydroog mine). Fluid inclusion microthermometric experiments...aqueous-carbonic LCO2  VCO2 ‡ Laq † inclusions from the Champion lode furnish a temperature range of 120 to 420...constrain the P-T path of evolution of the ¯uid in the Champion lode. Gold precipitation was likely to have been...tons of the metal. The average gold grade in the Champion lode was 25 g per ton in the early twentieth century
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
breccia bodies with V-muscovite-ankerite-pyrite ± pyrrhotite-gold-telluride alteration; and Mount Charlotte...symmetrical ankerite-sericite-albite-pyrite ± pyrrhotite ± gold alteration. Pyrite is in equilibrium with...environment, as reflected by the presence of pyrite-pyrrhotite-gold assemblages. Keywords Gold . Archean . Orogenic...Mile Super Pit, the Mount Charlotte underground mine, and the Mt Percy open pits (Fig. 1). Historically...Magnetic North Anticline Syncline Pit/Underground mine Fig. 1 Geological map of the Golden Mile deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold-quartz-sulfide lodes have been mapped. The Champion quartz lode system has been mined over a strike...Besidesnative gold, the ore minerals include chiefly pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite,galena, pyrite, scheelite and magnetite...feet belowsea-levelat Madras) in the ChampionReef mine at the centerof the field. To date more than 40...valuableore still persistsat depthin ChampionReef mine, mostof the payableshootsalongthe main Championlode...consistingof about23 squaremiles. The Ooregaumgold mine ceasedas an independentmine in July 1953 and was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corporation - A lode, B lode, and C lode, 13 = North mine, 14 = Potosi, 15 = Round Hill, 16 = Flying Doctor...Centennial, 21 = Second to None, 22 = Nine Mile, 23 = Champion, 24 = Lower Maybell, 25 = Peppertree, 26 = Easter...Potosi, 2 = Lower Maybell and Second to None, 3 = Champion and Easter Gift, 4 = Round Hill and Globe, 5 =...to lower amphibolite facies to the north of the mine area (Phillips, 1980; Frost et al., 2005; Forbes...sphalerite and galena, with lesser amounts of pyrrhotite, and trace amounts of chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite
Report (issue)
16. 17. 18. Historic open pit of the Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina .......................................... 20 iii Tables 1. 2. The Haile Gold Mine reserve and resource estimates ...................at Brewer and lowsulfidation gold ores of the Champion pit at Haile occur in breccias associated with... Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina Figure 1. Historic open pit of the Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina...the open pit of the Haile deposit of Lancaster County, South Carolina, which produced approximately 50
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Swager et al. 1992; Swager 1997; Liu et al. 2001; Champion 2006), with the main terrane-bounding structures...characteristics (Bettenay 1977; Witt and Swager 1989; Champion and Sheraton 1993; Nelson 1997; Witt and Davy...superseded by a geochemical classification proposed by Champion and Sheraton (1997), which has since been applied...Yilgarn craton (Smithies and Champion 1999; Cassidy et al. 2002; Champion and Cassidy 2002, 2007). The...intrusions in the Yilgarn craton (Champion and Sheraton 1997; Champion and Cassidy 2000, 2002, 2007; Czarnota
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry...collected at Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253...the Melrose and nearby mines at Stoneham, Oxford County. Phenomenal trapezohedral almandine crystals exhibiting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chitradurga greenstone belt (Fig. 1). The Kolar mine produced 794 t of Au at an average grade of 25 g/t...(Sheshadri 1988). With decreasing ore grade, the mine was closed in 1997, along with those in the Ramagiri...mines (Uti and Hira-Buddini), apart from the major mine at Hutti, a world-class orogenic gold deposit (cf...The bulk of the gold mineralization in the Hutti mine occurs in the laminated quartz veins, within a sequence...(oceanic (Chigargunta) tholeiite to komatiites), Champion (composite) gneiss; amphibolite facies Ajjanahalli:
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper...farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE...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:
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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...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona.................................................I l l by G. Novak & W. W. Besse The Michigan gold belt ......................................reports whicl sometimes contain photos, maps and mine diagrams. This i: valuable information to have preserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Bettenay, 1977; Schiotte and Campbell, 1996; Champion and Sheraton, 1997; Nelson, 1997; Cassidy et al...2630 Ma with the majority from 2680 to 2650 Ma (Champion and Sheraton, 1997; Nelson, 1997; Fletcher et...three minor (Mafic, HighHFSE, Syenitic) groups (Champion and Sheraton, 1997). High-Ca granitoids, derived...emplaced from 2655 to 2630 Ma (Champion and Smithies, 2001; Champion and Cassidy, 2002). Volumetrically...Ma), and Syenitic (2665–2640 Ma: Champion and Sheraton, 1997; Champion and Cassidy, 2002), are spatially
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the Gilman District and Eagle Mine Eagle County, Colorado WILLIAM J. WARREN JR. Front Range...ROCKS & MINERALS T he Gilman district, in Eagle County, Colorado, and its premier mineral specimen producer...producer, New Jersey Zinc Company’s Eagle mine, are located about 120 kilometers west-southwest of Denver...The Gilman town site with headframe of the Eagle mine in October 1989. William Warren Jr. photo. Figure...Most, but not all, of these were from the Eagle mine. Aside from its fame as a producer of fine mineral
 
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