Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Greenockite from
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Greenockite
Formula:CdS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Greenockite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:5812
Long-form Identifier:1:3:5812:4
GUID (UUID V4):4c13a5f8-2929-413a-86b4-9ca05e5d59ba
Nearest other occurrences of Greenockite
35.1km (21.8 miles) Copperwood, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) United States Metals Refining Company exploration (Copperwood Mine), Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Country flep)LOSO ofrhe Copper Range Company, White Pine, Michrgm Used wuh permission. Downloaded by...Ouray, Colorado 81427 he White Pine mine and adjacent town of White Pine are located about 6 miles south...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...Keweenaw Peninsula, a distance of 160 miles. The White Pine sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 543-573 Zoningin the White Pine Copper Deposit, OntonagonCounty, Michigan ALEXANDER C. BROWN Abstract...cupriferouszone in the lower NonesuchShale of Northern Michigan is characterizedby an abrupt zonationof Cu-Fe...actual upper limit of coppermineralization in the White Pine area occursat various stratigraphiclevels20 to...anomalouselevationsin the fringe surface. The White Pine fault is clearly a post-ore structure which offsets...Introduction THE famous stratiform copper deposit at White Pine, Michiganhas oftenbeencitedas a typicalexampleof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper mineralization in the White Pine-Presque Isle District, northern Michigan Alex C. Brown 1 Received:...finest-grained facies of Nonesuch greybeds in northern Michigan has been previously attributed to the warming...employed here to explain other unique aspects of the White Pine-Presque Isle mineralization: the abrupt downward...sulfide zoning . Latent volcanic heat . White Pine, Michigan Introduction Explanations for the genesis...Canada White Pine-Presque Isle district of northern Michigan (also referred to here as the Michigan eSSC
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)
ZONING IN THE SHALE, NORTHERN WALTER S. WHITE BASAL MICHIGAN 7 NONESUCH • AND JAMES C. WRIGHT ABSTRACT...ageexposedin the westernpart of the Upper Peninsulaof Michigan (10, p. 407-408). A descriptionof this zoning...Director, U.S. Geological Survey. 1171 1172 W. S. WHITE AND J. C. WRIGHT •-;z ,-•øz J•LHflOD [ :11YHS...DlliHOOD SULFIDE MINERAL ZONI3?G IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN 1173 patterns in Fig. 1 relate to the mineral...River synclinesouth of the mountains. The White Pine mine,a major copperproducer,is locatedin T. 50N
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)
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...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
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)
Vol. 55, 1960, pp. 402-414 DISCUSSIONS THE WHITE PINE COPPER DEPOSIT Sir: Reno Sales (3) has offereda...n of the paperby Wright and myself(6) on the White Pine copperdeposit. Ira B. Joralemonhasaddeda brief...hydrothermalsolutions of magmaticorigin emanatingfrom the White Pine fault. The main thesisof our originalpaper was...planmapsshow"a closerelationship areallybetweenthe [White Pine] fault fissureandthe ore distribution ;" (b)...restrictedto one flank of the White Pine anticline,betweenthe crest and the White Pine fault. Joralemon(2) callsattentionalsoto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
terrestrial environment. K EY WORDS : cadmium, greenockite, Mesoproterozoic, Torridonian, oxygenation, Scotland... However it may, rarely, form the Cd sulfide greenockite, especially in anoxic environments (Ripley et... It precipitates in sediments as the sulfide greenockite (CdS) in anoxic conditions, and is liberated...shale, Bay of Stoer: (a) crystal cluster of greenockite (light grey) and galena (bright); (b) rhomboid...crystal, Bay of Stoer: (a) crystal cluster of greenockite and adjacent smaller cluster of sphalerite; (b)
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)
road cut, located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, formed a major mineral collecting...years, including some of the world's finest greenockite crystals. The Fanwood Crushed Stone Company quarry...quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or the...chabazite. M A Y / J U N E 1987 153 Figure 6: Greenockite, about 1 mm across, on prehnite showing the tabular...dominant sulfide in cavities where galena and greenockite occur. The lat­ ter two minerals usually crystallize
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gangue mineralogy. All metallic minerals (except greenockite) occur in both occurrence forms and have the...secondarysilicateminerals FIG.7. Straight-edged chalcocite grains(white)asvoidfillings in voids(seeFig. 7). Chalcocitegrainsin...foundin contactwith pyrite, native copper, or greenockite. Chalcopyrite Chalcopyrite occurs in three forms:...silicategangue. Greenockite Greenockite is the rarest sulfide identified in the Sustut deposit. Greenockite grains...sediments. No sphaleriteor galenaoccurswith the greenockite,althoughSEM work hasrevealeda very minorZn componentin
Journal (issue)
Elder, Audrey E. Smith P.O. Box 234 Crystal Falls, Michigan 49920 shawncarlson@hotmail.com markelder@juno...gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of the...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...who erroneously attempted to follow placer gold up Pine Creek-failing to recognize that in recently-glaciated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Perhapsthe mostimportantone in North America is at Pine Point in Northwest Territories, Canada. Only ge...principalsourceof cadmium,indium,germaniumand gallium. Greenockite is not uncommon but no indium, germaniumor ...Southeast Missouri district, at the No. 8 Mitchell Mine and at Mine Lamotte, lead is producedin large amountsfrom...tedstructures. The Oronogo Mine, north of Webb City, Mo., the Alice Mine, near Caulfield,.Mo. 'andthe...flanksof the Cherokee anticlineand the great new Young Mine is associated with HodgesDome. On a smallerscale
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
895-914 A Sulfur IsotopicStudy of the White Pine Mine, Michigan S. W. BUR•IE, H. P. Scaw^Rcz, ^m) J. H...cupriferouszone of the NonesuchShale at the White Pine Mine have a meangSa4of 3.5%o(CDT), • = 11.7%•,and...sorted sand- Introduction T•. White Pine Mine in OntonagonCounty,Michigan,is developed in the lowerNonesuchShale...fillingby sedime.n. mentary facieschangewithin the mine is correlated to depositionof the Upper Sandstone...and other is summarized fromEnsignet al. (1968), White and fluvial structures. The overlying Upper Shale
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sphalerite lattice. Discrete cadmium minerals (greenockite and otavite) are rare and are found almost exclusively...A number of independent Cd minerals, such as greenockite, otavite, monteponite, cadmoselite, hawleyite...include the San Juan mine, Potosi district, Bolivia (Barton and Behre 1954); the Ross mine, Ontario (Chen and...and Dutrizac 1978); White Pine, Michigan (Brown 1974); Red Dog, Alaska (Kelley et al. 2004); Pb–Zn mines...Sudbury, Ontario (Cabri et al. 1984); and the Vazante mine, Brazil (Hitzman 2001). In natural occurrences,
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
:............................................. Michigan.................................................Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia_.Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin____Prof. W. O. Hotchkiss...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;...and white in residual clays at following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near
Book
variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous mineral...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
Journal (issue)
Publisher cal John S. White Editor Wendell E. Wilson January-Febmary 1983 me Fourteen, Number One...One Circulation Manager Mary Lynn White Development Officer William D. Panczner Associate Editors...Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Univ. of So. Florida Richard...by R.S.W. Braithwaite Graphite from the Lead Hill mine, Ticonderoga, New Y o r k ........................uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California ..................................
Book
History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM...00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R.B. Finkelman... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004). Figure 5 (far right page)...barite specimens at the Elmwood zinc mine in middle Tennessee. This mine, opened in 1975, and other nearby
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 5, 2024 01:38:58
Go to top of page