 | | 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...former naval officer who became an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (Monette 1975). It was...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...from the district, was only out-produced by the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which accounted for |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu KINOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona F ew states can approach...additions to any collection, few are as pretty as kinoite, a mineral named for one of the earliest explorers...theme of the 2012 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, kinoite has been suggested as an appropriate topic for...University, Auburn, Alabama. 50 ROCKS & MINERALS Kinoite is most familiar as small, transparent to translucent...density is 3.20, and its Mohs hardness is 2.5. Kinoite is monoclinic (2/m). Its crystals are generally |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New York State Museum; and Dr. George Robinson, Michigan Technological University. Rochester Mineralogical...acid, such as acetic acid, liberates well-formed kinoite crystals; stronger acids, such as hydrochloric...hydrochloric acid, will destroy the crystals. Kinoite from Arizona is related to late-stage retrograde hydrothermal...crystals coating fractures. Well-formed crystals of kinoite and native copper occur as inclusions in and as...1980). Samples from both the Laurium mine and the Christmas mine were analyzed using electron microprobe |  | | 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 . |  | | 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) | | MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY Figure 1: Shaft house of the Ahmeek mine, Keweenaw County. 1962 photo by Terry...been and probably never will be anything like the Michigan Copper Country. For the mineral-minded, it is...native metal. For the collector, its scores of old mine dumps never cease to provide rewards of specimens;...and to Douglass Houghton, who made the first systematic explorations on which Michigan laid its claim...claim to the region. Houghton lost his life in a Lake Superior storm, but by the early 1840s his reports of |  | | 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 | | 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) | | of Friends of Mineralogy includes eight states (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin...Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio), consistent with the U.S. Census Bureau...just over one hundred per state. Four states— Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Arkansas—at the...phosphate species being described from just one mine, the Tip Top, in South Dakota. (Note: There are...tellurobismuthite found along with gold in northern Michigan). Alternately, globally abundant species might |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by Roberts et al. (1997) from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah. Only a few microcrystals have...have been found on a single specimen taken from the mine dumps. Details about the specimen and associated...contain Cu6 octahedra; only ziesite, blossite, kinoite, and juabite contain Cu2+ that is only present...crosslinked by divanadate groups. The structure of kinoite (Laughon 1971) contains chains of edge-sharing...LAUGHON, R.B. (1971): The crystal structure of kinoite. Am. Mineral. 56, 193-199. EBY, R.K. & HAWTHORNE |  | | 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...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 |  | | Report (issue) | | W. T. Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, Kimber¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite...Geological Survey, 1950) Trinity Anemousite County, California. Contributions to Mineral¬ (discredited...Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition and...Aluminocopiapite Utah NMNH K. J. Murata, Trinity County, California M. C. Bandy, 1938. Utah. J. M. Axelrod...93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976) Island Group |  | | Catalog/List | | Meteorite End Cut Iron, IAB-MG Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA Another larger ofering at 4.5 kilograms (9...Meteorite Iron, IAB-MG Meteor Crater, Coconino County Arizona, USA Found: 1891 Without question, the Canyon...Ordinary Chondrite (LL5) Near Lazbuddie, Parmer County, Texas, USA. (approximate centroid) Fell: 15 Feb 2013;...Plainview, Hale County, Texas, USA Found in 1917 during the World War I era in Hale County, Texas, the Plainview...Meteorite Ordinary Chondrite (H5) Plainview, Hale County, Texas, USA In addition to being one of the largest American |  | | Book (edition) | | Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal...Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll The Cameron Area 85 Breccia...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee |  | | Book (edition) | | co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...of Arizona. He was a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years...Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...Guildite Gypsum Hemihedrite Iodargyrite Jarosite Kinoite Libethenite Linarite Malachite Matlockite on anglesite | | | Book (edition) | | Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal...Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S: The Cameron Area 85...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...Apache County — 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437, 438 Gila County 439 Graham County Greenlee | | | Book (edition) | | Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...of Arizona. He was a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol |  | | Book (edition) | | (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar |  | | 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 (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. Pryce and J. Chester The Amity Area, Orange County, New Y o rk ............................... 85...Geological Survey Uralolite from the Dunton Gem Mine, Newry, Maine: A Second O c c u rre n ce .........length, collected in the Mindola open pit, Rokana mine, Zambia, by S. P. Korowski. The Mineralogical Record...miner at the 115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August, about five...presented at his trial, Stokes began sneaking into the mine at night and stealing (“highgrading”) gold. No one |  | | Book | | variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil |  | | Journal (issue) | | TourmalineGolconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil SHOWS r Houston-Se.9-11 Bisbee - Oct. 9-12 Detroit - Oct...T°LOSANct ,Ccmine, Phoenixville, Pa. Hours: Wed-Sat. 10-5 Sunday...rhodochrosite, “W olf” mine, Herdorf, Siegerland, brown pyromorphite, “Friedrichssegen” mine, Bad Ems; brilliant...manganite, Ilfeld, Sax ony; stephanite, “Himmelsfurst” mine, Freiberg, Saxony; proustite, Niederschlema near...sulfate, as described above, from a now de funct mine in western Massachusetts, one should examine the |  | | Journal (issue) | | of Gems '77. The event will take place at the Centennial Coliseum, 4590 South Virginia Street (Highway...(Highway 395), Reno, Nevada, June 17, 18 and 19. The Centennial Coliseum is well suited, because it is fully... 3000. 1, NAME Pound Lot Rough Rough Sapphlr9 Mine Run All sizes, colors and types. A real old time...hexagonal, green. This specimen Is from the Sherman Mine, near Mullen, Idaho. In the center is smithsonite... At the bottom of the page, from the big copper mine at Tsumeb, South West Africa, Is a specimen of dioptase |
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