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Amethyst from
Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:417386
Long-form Identifier:1:3:417386:1
GUID (UUID V4):dc26c666-31e4-47bf-bdec-da49d18e2022
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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)
H E MICHIGAN ACADEMY O F SCIENCE, ARTS AND LETTERS THE thirtieth annual meeting of the Michigan Academy...EIUXT. Birth-rates iil t h e ftrmilies of the ,Michigan Agricult~cralCollege: C. V. GREENand H. R. HUNT...and near t h e shore zn the Mackinac region of Michigan: EILEENW . ERI~ANSON. 7 1 ~ evegetation of t h...n the blac7; ash (E'raxinus lzigla Marsh) in Michigan: FRANK C. GATES and C. 0. ERLANSON. An ecological...ecological study of Smit7r's bog, Cl~eboyganCounty, Michigan: EDITH WOOLLETT,DORIS DEAN and HELEN COBURN. Application
Journal (issue)
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 .
Book
Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book... and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding diamonds in the kimberlites of upper Michigan, and vast...west of New York state and reaching to the Rocky Mountains. For this book the Midwest includes the Great...shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan is the state with the most shoreline on these...fresh water seas, with waters of Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and
Book
industry for mining rock crystal north of Assuan and amethyst near Gebel Abu Diyeiba, and they collected the...“Lithica” wrote these lines about the agate: amethyst or purple quartz, Zebulun’s was yellow jasper...mountain range and penetrated a valley running amethyst, the favorite stones of the day. Moselle River...Lapidary Society to organize groups in Los Angeles County. these early associations Agate and Mineral Society...action was that other sections of the city and county of Los Angeles soon began organizing their own
Book (volume)
with digging vast quantities of coal, leveling mountains of iron ore, and tapping subterranean lakes of...of Michigan by Robert W. Kelley of the Department of Conservation; and on the Four Peaks amethyst deposit...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...mass Ramona mines Rock crystal and amethyst Cut and rough amethyst Asteriated rose quartz sphere Rough
Book (edition)
Tourism 128; Nebraska Game Commission 139, 146; Michigan Tourist Council 141; Missouri Commission 144;...breath of mountain air in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, the sound of a loon laughing across a lake on...Arizona, and the Basque sheepherders in the Idaho mountains. And always a shared meal, friendly talk, and...by the Bureau of Land Management, in state and county parks and forests, and in private parks as well...shore of a blue lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or beside an irrigation reservoir in Indians
Book (edition)
cannot make distinct crystals. Granite mountains are mountains of crystals, each particle being crystalline...near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...of that used was obtained) along the chain of mountains which runs nearly parallel with the coast, especially...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the
Book (edition)
wdien it cannot make distinct (Iranite mountains are mountains of crystals, each eiTstals. TiiC lava ])artiv‘h^...near Borax Lake, in Califoinia ; Inferno, Humboldt County, Nevada, , abundant. The sulphur of commerce is...region, and in the mines of Aurora, Esmeralda County, Nevada. Tins ore affords much of the antimony...with in Rutherford County, North Carolina; Hall County, Georgia also Franklin County, North Carolina in...also in Clierokee Ravine, Butte County, Forest Hill in El Dorado County (one weighing nearly 5 *62 grains)
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Superior mining The Keweenaw copper district of Michigan 33 35 35 Copper mining on Isle Eoyal and elsewhere...developments 45 ., 45 Clinton iron ores of Dodge County, Wis 45 Paleozoic iron ores in western Wisconsin...geologic 70 knowledge 72 Bibliography 73 Michigan Northern Wisconsin Minnesota 77 Ontario 81...Michipicoten Island Keweenaw Point and northern Michigan and Wisconsin Keweenawan mesas Huronian monoclinal...Chapter X. The Penokee-Gogebic iron district of Michigan and Wisconsin Location, succession of rocks, and
Book (edition)
of to this view, their the rich purple of the amethyst, the soft yellowish shades of the topaz, the deep...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Report (issue)
ofAu-Ag mineralized rocks of the North Amethyst vein, Mineral County, Colorado by N. K. Foley (U.S. Geological...crustal fluid flow by A. N. Halliday (University of Michigan, Department of Geological Sciences, 1006 C. C...implications for lithospheric growth in the western USA by M. A. Menzies (Department of Geology, University...implications for lithospheric growth in the western USA. The third day will begin with an introduction to...Au-Ag mineralized rocks of the North Amethyst vein, Mineral County, Colorado MARY KORAN: Re and Os isotopic
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
Book (edition)
effect appears : new set of to this view, their amethyst, the soft yellowish shades of the topaz, the deep...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Warm and Hot Springs ; in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Book
the Pembina and Tiger hills, Riding and Duck Mountains, and the Pasquia hills. PALEOZOIC The subdivisions... Fortunately the subsequent erosion of these mountains went deep enough to uncover the ore bodies without...debris to form sedimentary rocks. The cores of the mountains were granite with smaller bodies of other igneous...depths below the surface. Erosion levelled the mountains and at the same time lowered the genera! surface...gneiss representing the cores of the ancient mountains. These are surrounded by remnants of the older
Report (volume)
District of Columbia). Massachusetts. Mexico. Michigan. Minnesota. Mississippi. Missouri. Montana. Nebraska...Jersey. Maryland to Alabama. Great Lakes region (Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada contiguous to...Superior, Michigan, and Huron region. Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska. Missouri. Texas. Rocky Mountains to Pacific... Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia. Michigan. Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri...Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Texas. Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast. Canada (including all of
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...paleontology, progress: Osborn, Ole Adirondack Mountains: Kemp, 92fi Miller (W J), 17a. See also New York...Brooks, 07; Rtihl, 09 Geology of boundary between Porcupine and Yukon rinrs: Cairnes, 12a Kantishna district:...Paleoclimatology: Blackwelder, 18 Popof Island: Palache, ~b Porcupine to Arctic boundary: Haddren, 12a Prince William...McCormick, 09; Moffit, 08; Stevens (B), 098 Russian Mountains: Maddren, 15 Seward Peninsula: Smith (P S), 08
Report (volume)
geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290, pis. xliv-xlv...pis. Vi-xix. The Penokee iron-bearing series of Michigan and Wisconsin, by Koland Duer Irving and Charles...report on the Marquette iron-bearing district of Michigan, by Charles Richard Van Hise and William Shirley...and hydrography Continued. The mines of Ouster County, Colorado, by Samuel Franklin Emmons, pp. 405-472...The age of the Franklin white limestone of Sussex County, New Jersey, by John Eliot Wolff and Alfred Hulse
Book (edition)
the total of 4,284 new Terms were United States county and city Terms. Counties and Cities in the United...States Earlier editions had Terms such as Washington County and Portland for counties and cities of the United...for example: Washington County Arkansas and Portland Maine. Each new county Term can now autopost its...to counties was a major task. The scope of U.S. county and city Terms can now be clear even when they...For example, whenever an in¬ dexer uses Atchison County Kansas the Terms Kan¬ sas, Midwest, and United
Book (edition)
The largest groups of new terms have been U.S. county names; rock-formation names (mostly North American);...Thesaurus. These include local geographic terms, U.S. county names, rock-formation names, and fossil names....term must be a name unique to one area. Lincoln County is not assigned coordinates in the Thesaurus, because...North America from the broader terms of Hanover County. There is no reciprocal entry for each broader...counties of the United States; e.g., Chautauqua County may have a broader term Kansas or New York. BX
Journal (volume)
Ferro-arium, Liberty Brand Feldspar in Frontenac County, to Grind Ni Ni Fisk. Harold B Filming the Mining...The, by K. A. Clark Mclntyre Report, The. Ed Porcupine Mines, Annual Report of Mill for Small Mines,...— Ed on Abitibi Requirements- at Porcupine Situation at Porcupine. The Situation, The Question, The...Ed — Ed — Ed 904, Requirements of Porcupine. Mclntyre Porcupine and — Resources. Will Investigate... McRne Historical Achievements of Cobalt and Porcupine, by 620, 77^ 770 334 969 717 Portland Canal
Report (volume)
5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Eocene. Mtn, Mountain. equiv., equivalent. Mtns, Mountains. est., estimated. Mus., Museum. Extr., Extract...Pre-Cambrian : Central southern Virginia (Mecklenburg County). F. B. Laney, 1917 (Va. Geol. Surv. Bull. 14,...Pleistocene : Southern South Carolina (Charleston County). E. Sloan, 190 (S. C. Geol. Surv. geognostic map...West Virginia, southwestern Virginia (Tazewell County), and eastern Tennessee ( ?). D. B. Reger, 1926
Report (issue)
...................................... Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains.........___.......... Basin...and Somerset Counties and northeastern Aroostook County, Maine, were investigated by C. C. Cameron (USGS)...Anticline and appears to extend into the Philip Smith Mountains quadrangle. Mineralogical and geochemical analyses...Mitchell County, N.C., whose feldspar and mica production was gained from parts of the county outside...resources of the Mt. Henry RARE II Study Area, Lincoln County, Montana R. E. Van Loenen, D. F. Siems, and G
Report (volume)
...................................... Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains.........___.......... Basin...and Somerset Counties and northeastern Aroostook County, Maine, were investigated by C. C. Cameron (USGS)...Anticline and appears to extend into the Philip Smith Mountains quadrangle. Mineralogical and geochemical analyses...Mitchell County, N.C., whose feldspar and mica production was gained from parts of the county outside...resources of the Mt. Henry RARE II Study Area, Lincoln County, Montana R. E. Van Loenen, D. F. Siems, and G
 
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