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Cuprite from
La Salle Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Salle Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:414718
Long-form Identifier:1:3:414718:3
GUID (UUID V4):4ed6995d-f584-46ee-b14e-bfc0fcaae8c4
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
1.4km (0.9 miles) Laurium Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Calumet & Hecla Mine, Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Tamarack Mine, Tamarack, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) St. Louis Mine Exploration, Schoolcraft Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) No. 2 shaft, Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
7.0km (4.4 miles) No. 6 shaft, Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
7.2km (4.4 miles) South Kearsarge Mine, Kearsarge, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
8.1km (5.0 miles) Wolverine Mine, Wolverine, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
8.3km (5.2 miles) Wolverine No. 2 shaft, Wolverine Mine, Wolverine, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...5.5 × 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Author’s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because...only massive concrete foundations mark the famous mine sites. Not all is lost, though. A trip to the A
Journal (issue)
copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton) D e d ic ated...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 .
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)
native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Since retiring...year. During the last four years, the crushing of mine dumps (poor-rock piles) for road repairs and construction...operations, primarily in Keweenaw County, have increased the need for mine-run rock for the construction... resulting in the slow disappearance of smaller mine dumps. The end of copper mining in the Portage Lake...of the Copper Range Company’s Champion mine in Houghton County. Downloaded by [Florida State University]
Report (volume)
:............................................. Michigan.................................................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;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Report (volume)
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;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
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
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
Book
Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book...aeames eee oe eee ce saan Uecatanice nacatn eats la Sans scacuasairntsooeetet 94 BOOK THISIN STATES...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....to the mid-1970s were documented with the exact mine or in many cases even the correct subdistrict. In...sprays of millerite associated with calcite. The coal mine dumps and waste piles scattered throughout much...Fluorite and barite, 6 cm high, Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. Figure 5 (above right)
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Report (volume)
Hartselle sandstone, which crops out in Jefferson County in the northeastern suburbs of Birmingham, has...brown iron ore mines, near Woodstock station, Bibb County, is a bed of sand that is also used in steel foundries...Montgomery Counties [Ark.]: Ark .. Geol. Survey County Mineral Rept. 3, p. 66-74, 87-90. Novaculite is...silica deposits in Fremont County also yield ganister. Analysis of El Paso County sand is given. Averill...Nortonville, Contra Costa County. Dune sands at Moss Beach, Monterey County, yield high-quality white
Journal (issue)
DISPONIBLES AUX MEILLEURS PRIX VENTE EN GROS et à la PIÈCE EXPÉDITIONS SOIGNÉES FRANCE et ÉTRANGER ....choix de LAMES DIAMANT de 10 cm à 90 cm de f1 SALLE D'EXPOSITION DE MACHINES ATELIER DE DÉMONSTRATION...lia ii fil) Il CQlf'll@n cla pièce de musée» 92, rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Isle...h 30 STAND 194 bis allée 2 MARCHÉ BIRON Puces de la Porte de Clignancourt du Samedi au Lundi de 10 h...LIBRE-CHOIX. * Sans engagement de votre part, demandez la documentation gratuite M.F. * grenats Si vous le
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Report (volume)
Boletin de Miuas, nos. 5, 6. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....Mexico City, D. F. Michigan Academy of Science: Report, 20th, 21st. Lansing, Mien. Michigan Geological and...Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Fayette County, Wehster County. Morganton, W. Va. Wisconsin...1920]. (with Wiuton, W. M.). The geology of Tarrant County: Texas, Univ., Bull. no. 1931, 123 pp., 6 pis....May, 1920. Alien, R. C. 24. Mineral resources of Michigan with statistical tables of production and value
Report (issue)
Francisco, California. Daily Grass Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada...Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. County Tribune, California. California...California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California. Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Territory. Ventura...of the ice plant, which grows in Santa Barbara County." Wines. Buena Vista Vinicultural Society of San...wines. C. H. Le Franc, of New Almaden, Santa Clara County, red and white wines. M. Keller, Rising Sun and
Report (volume)
Boletfn de Minas, nos. 2, 8. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....Geological Survey: Supplementary Report, Harlan County. Frankfort, Ky. Lake Superior Mining Institute:...GeoWgico de: Anales, nos. 1, 2, 4. Mexico City, D. F. Michigan Academy of Science: Report, Sixteenth, Seventeenth...Seventeenth, and Eighteenth. Lansing, Mich. Michigan Geological and Biological Survey: Publication 21. Lansing...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Braxton-Clay. Morgantown, W. 'Va. Wyoming
Journal (issue)
2019 Articles The Candelaria District Mineral County, Nevada .........................................by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found
Book
(EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC ELMO CREEK DRAINAGE AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER AND POLAR...District 10 Gateway District (Eastern Gateway area) 11. La Sal Creek Area 12. Paradox District 13. Beaver and...Roc Creek, in the Paradox district of Montrose County, Colorado. Within the Paradox Basin, there are...mining. When the high-grade ores at Shinkolobwe mine in Zaire (formerly Belgium Congo) were brought into...mining area. Stradling the Utah-Colorado line is the La Sal Creek mining area, a part of the Paradox district
Catalog/List
MINÉRALOGIE 1783 1979 La collection de Minéralogie de /'E.N.S.M.P. occupe la majeure partie du premier...religieux le vendirent à la duchesse de Vendôme qui le fit agrandir sous la direction de Le Blond, et...laissa son nom. Ce premier étage est réputé pour la beauté de ses pièces en enfilade sur près de 80...HISTOIRE DE LA COLLECTION Par un arrêté du Comité de Salut Public daté du 24 messidor de l'an Il de la République...productions du globe et toutes les productions de la République, rangées suivant l'ordre des localités
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of...George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum, MTU Houghton, Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Correspondents...in y u lite from the W illard m in e, P ershing County, N e v a d a ....................................Record, volume 31, July-August, 20C Sweet Home Mine Special Issue. Since living in Connecticut I have
Journal (issue)
breveté d'Etat 9 bla, rue J .•J. Rousseau (prés de la cathédrale) Tél. : 45.05.93 Binoculaires: - ...1144, WEST MIRACLE MILE TUCSON - ARIZONA - 85705 USA - Tél. (602) 888.6015 I!.. Il Echantillons minéralogiques...l'ÉgliseINITIATION 3, rue de Verdun; CONCRÈTE A LA MINÉRALOGIE -- - - -_-_..:. Minéraux par abonnement...- • . .Sans engagement d.e voire part, demandez la documentation grafuitë-M. 2 Si voua lè-~ésire:r....Ti:lt·plm11<' iJt,.95.·16 • DIRECTEUR 28 LES VIÉ. Nive mine 33 ITINÉRAIRES MINÉRALOGIQUES AU BRÉSIL. par J
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Thomas N. Department of Engineering, Universidad La Salle Chihuahua, Chihuahua 31625, Mexico; 10307@ulsachihuahua...Assays, Instituto Eduardo Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción, 28033 Madrid, Spain; emm@ietcc.csic...crystals of exceptional size can be found in the Debar mine (Macedonia), which houses gypsum crystals up to...resemble those found in Naica. There is also an old mine Minerals 2021, 11, 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11030292...resemble those found in Naica. There is also an old mine in Segobriga, Spain, where Romans obtained big gypsum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and was titled “Minerals of the Vanadinite Mine, Mohave County, Arizona.” 400 ROCKS 81 MINERALS rized...the Granby Mining and Smelting Company. In Jasper County, a large lead deposit was discovered by J. B. Sargent...subdistrict, 14 miles east of Wentworth in Lawrence County, started production in 1886. Zinc minerals from...concentrates for plants in Carondelet, Missouri; La Salle, Illinois (Mathiessen and Hegler); and Pennsylvania...2014 <>A 13 Z JASPER COUNTY .-._.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-, 9 @ NEWTON COUNTY __" xi ..:.....*r.>
 
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