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Microcline from
Michigan Mine, Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Prehnite1 photo of Microcline associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Microcline associated with Quartz at this locality.
Copper1 photo of Microcline associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Michigan Mine, Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:97639
Long-form Identifier:1:3:97639:6
GUID (UUID V4):d7327e37-ad98-481a-b33b-fb914e19fd5c
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
0.8km (0.5 miles) Bumblebee Mine, Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Nebraska Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) Evergreen Series (Evergreen Lodes), Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) Evergreen Bluff Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Mass Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Adventure mine, Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
30.0km (18.6 miles) White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
38.9km (24.2 miles) Unnamed pegmatite, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
43.7km (27.2 miles) Marenisco Feldspar Exposure Prospect, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 (issue)
large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...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 .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MICROCLINE IN THE NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN Ina KrorN, Stanf ord, U ni.oersity, C al'iJorni...intensive mining activity in the copper country of Michigan, and detailed study of the native copper deposits...of the ore bodies is a very unusual variety of microcline, has not been appreciated. In this paper its...amounts "in all the mines from Keweenaw Point to Ontonagon" in association with analcite, as the "last formed...650-654 (1900). 643 IRA KLEIN on which the Calumet Mine was sunk, pointing out its adularialike habit and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iuyw 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...stratiform sulfide (chalcocite) deposit at the White Pine mine and (2) the world-class native copper deposits that...this type of lode start- ed in 1856 at the Quincy mine. Later came the conglomeratehosted deposits, in...this type of lode is credited to the Calumet No. 1 mine on the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White...DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN ' ~ By Robert F. Johnson and Walter...Matchvood quadrangle is in central Ontonagon County, just west of the Ontonagon River and its Middle Branch...carried out in Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties by the Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department...exposures in the vicinity of Portage Lake in Houghton County (White, Cornwall, and Swanson, 1953), underlies
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)
the Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan -- Downloaded by [University of Michigan] at 08:51 04...Caledonia mine, owned by Red Metal Minerals, is located at the southern end of the famous Michigan native...native copper district and is the last operating mine on the copper range. It is presently being operated...and Whiteman 1992). The early development of the mine included sinking shafts and driving adits on the...1873. In the same year Captain Martin leased the mine and sporadically operated it until 188 I , producing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506 Pine Street Magdalena...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...including analcime, calcite, datolite, epidote, microcline, natrolite, prehnite, and quartz. The longevity...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior...of mines in the district, especially the Quincy mine. Crystals ranged in size from micro to large-cabinet...barite, datolite, apophyllite , natrolite, and microcline (variety adularia) occur less frequently as free-growing...in the tenth grade. I have collected most of the mine dumps during the past sixty years and have found...Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton
Catalog/List
QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly difficult it is...years to find a specimen rhombs rhombs Climax Mine, ot rhodochrosite $50 OOU 60.000 Ex The ...ollection County, Colorado; measures 8 nn ae from the \ slight ¢ « nax 1g Mine : The Kevin...silver was found in the late 1970s at the Dukat Mine measures which is mainly known by 6 cm Ex: Helmut... initely a unique opportunity. From the Dukat Mine, Dukat Gold-Silver Ore Field, Magadan Oblast’, East
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton County, Michigan Lake Superior Native Copper District Sixteenth...TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior...Superior native copper district, also known as the Michigan Copper Country, is located on the sparsely populated...into Lake Superior near the western end of Upper Michigan. The Keweenaw winters can be long and cold with...feet (6,400 vertical feet), making it the deepest mine shaft in the Western Hemisphere. Tom Rosemeyer collection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 I first went to the mine in the spring of...epidote. In 1985 mineral rights for the Caledonia mine were bought by Richard Whiteman, president of Red...rehabilitated the No. 4 adit of the mine and are presently operating the mine for the re­ covery of mineral...collecting trips. Over the past five years the Caledonia mine has produced many fine hand specimens and an abundance...venture, Michigan, Hilton, Minesota, and other mines. Microminerals of the CALEDONIA MINE Ontonagon County
Report (issue)
Quadrangle, Michigan and Wisconsin Prepared in cooperation with Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department...Assessment of the Iron River 1 ° X 2° Quadrangle, Michigan and Wisconsin By W. F. Cannon GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...in cooperation with Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and Wisconsin...assessment of the Iron River 1° X 2° quadrangle, Michigan and Wisconsin. (Geological Survey circular ; 887)...mineral resources Michigan. 2. Mines and mineral resources Wisconsin. I. Michigan. Geological Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite, Michigan, 344 Adularia, Michigan 341 “Alaskaite,” Colorado, 307 Albite...Amblygonite-montebrasite,California, 160 Analcime, Michigan, 339 The Andes Come to Arizona, R. W. Jones, 59
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...with quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural...claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Denver Museum of Natural History specimen...Azurite on malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and...Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Adularia, Michigan, I10
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lode Houghton County, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...of the dense basalt matrix at the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump. These small and inexpensive detectors have...agate itself. Collected by Ray Just, C & H No. 21 mine, 10 July 2011. uring the past sixty years (1952–2012)...various mine dumps along the Kearsarge copper-bearing amygdaloidal lode in Houghton County, Michigan. These...excavating the agatebearing zone of the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump during the annual Copper Country Mineral Retreat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen sent you recently. It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near Rockford. You have my permission to...can be found, along with tourmaline, garnet, microcline and some rose quartz, on the dumps of the Ramstetter...Brown Ave., Terre Haute, Ind. I O W A — From Marion County, Iowa, we have an interesting specimen consisting...a road cut on a new construction job in Lincoln County, Me., on Rt. 1, bypassing the towns of Newcastle...that first in each issue. W e belong to the Oxford County Gem and Mineral Association." — item sent in by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 he White Pine mine and adjacent town of White Pine are located about...the western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway 64, which winds...to 500 feet in elevation above Lake Superior. The mine lies within a belt of copper-bearing Precambrian...that are situated to the east and northeast of the mine. The host rock for the White Pine deposit is a series...when underground operations were suspended. The mine has 13 square miles of underground workings and
Journal (issue)
at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...perfect bound for just: $35.00 Postage $5.00 in the USA; $23 for foreign. Excalibur Mineral Corp Tel: 434-964-0875...shipping. Figure 5: Native copper crystals from Michigan, size 7 cm. In the late 1800’s, two prominent...exceptional Kongsberg silver and Langban native lead, Michigan native copper, Freiberg argentopyrite, Leadhills...book filled with historical work involving Oxford County, describing and intertwining its minerals, miners
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...August 2008, Barron and Peterson left Calumet, Michigan, with Peterson’s 23-foot cabin cruiser in tow...Robinson, of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, also viewed the specimens...made a leisurely Other Articles In This Upper Michigan Series Some are sold out; others can be purchased
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
matter and copper mineralization at White Pine, Michigan, U.S.A. Jeffrey L. Mauk a and G.B. Hieshimab'"...Arbor, M148109, USA bGeology Department, lndiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA (Received May 21...matter and copper mineralization at White Pine, Michigan, U.S.A. In: P.A. Meyers. L.M. Pratt and B. Nagy...White Pine, Michigan. Samples of the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation from the White Pine mine and adjacent...than bitumens from unmineralized strata outside the mine area. Therefore, Cu mineralization at White Pine
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...microcrystals in amygdules contained in a lava flow top. The mine has also yielded uniquely banded agates that occur...of the flat-topped agateproducing mine dumps at the St. Louis mine. The foundation on the right was the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Native Copper Mineralization,KeweenawPeninsula,Michigan THEODOREJ. BORNHORST,JAMESB. PACES, Departmentof...the Keweenaw Peninsula THE Keweenaw Peninsulaof Michigan is the location of a dormant native copper mining...•OSC'Ed[^ Freda Ss Nonesuch Copper Sh Harbor Cngl MINE Portage Lake Volcanics ß Kearsarge Amygdaloid...northernMichigan,showingthe location of the Wolverine mine and the stratigraphicpositionof the Kearsargeflow...however, it is likely that ate at White Pine, Michigan (Fig. 1), about 70 km greenschist faciesconditionsexistedin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil...Scovil photo. March/April: Gold, Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark...calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen, Jeff Scovil...Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff...SeptemberlOctober: Calcite with hematite inclusions, Lei Ping mine, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Werner Lieber specimen
 
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