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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:4043
Long-form Identifier:1:3:4043:3
GUID (UUID V4):a98b656d-8d5b-4421-8211-db64f269507b
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
33.7km (20.9 miles) Copps Mine, Marenisco, Gogebic iron range, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
28Qj 0° A®ATE, North Shore, Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Polished pebble showing concentric patterns... Small Ml. £4 £4-°0 HOWLITE, Lang, California, USA. Looks like stone brains, chalklike porcelaneous...ORE, mostly GALENA, Hidden Treasures Mine, Nevadaville, Colorado, USA. Mass of pure ore body mainly galena...sulphide. RF SPC. C. £4 £5.00 JASPER/AGATE, Texas, USA. Polished slab of rich green and orange mixture....£5.00 PETRIFIED WOOD, Quincy, Washington State, USA. Polished slab showing original wood grain structure
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)
MINERALIZATION THE COPPER AT WHITE STANLEY SOCIETY OF GEOLOGISTS IN HARBOR PINE, K. No. 1967 THE UPPER...UPPER 7 PART CONGLOMERATE MICHIGAN HAMILTON CONTENTS PAGE Abstract ........................................................... Geologyof the White Pine area ..........................................feet of the CopperHarbor Conglomerateat White Pine, Michigan. The topmost100 feet of this formation can...copper is therefore diagenetic. INTRODUCTION THW White Pine copperdepositis locatedin the southwesternKeweenaw
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)
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)
VEIN-WALL PINE ROCK MINE, RELATIONSHIPS ONTONAGON ROBERT NO. 5 HERON IN THE WHITE CO., MICHIGAN...dominant facies of copper mineralization at White Pine, Michigan, is characterizedby a distinct relationshipof...fractures is of two in the White Pine mine is controlled by the dominant White Pine fault. These fractures...outside the cupriferous sequence. INTRODUCTION ThE White Pine copper depositis located in the southwesternportion...OntonagonCo., 643 644 ROBERT HEROiV C/IRPEiVTER Michigan(Fig. 1). The deposit lies60 to 80 milessouthwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rock-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposit, Upper Peninsula, Michigan Theodore J. Bornhorst1,† and William C. Williams2...Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, 1404 E. Sharon Avenue, Houghton, Michigan 49931 2 Orvana...Copperwood is located in Gogebic County, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, within the Porcupine Mountains copper...stratigraphically equivalent to that at the White Pine mine, but Copperwood lacks the structural complexity...manifested by the native Cu mineralization at White Pine. Reported Canadian National Instrument 43-101-compliant
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)
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)
a few plant materials. Suites of samples from Michigan and the Colorado Plateau have been examined in...prepared iodide varied from a greywhite to a tan-white crystalline powder that remained practically unchanged...from WGte Pine mine, Ontonagon Cozcnty, ~~~h~g~~~ The rocks WRIGHT of the White Pine copper mine, described...described in detail by WHITE and represent a geologic environment in which isotopic fractionation (1.$64)...copper and grades typical of difYerentlayers in the mine area sre shown di~ramm~tic~~y in Fig. 2. The beds
Catalog/List
base, there are two absolutely perfect rhombs of white calcite with sharp crystals of gray acanthite to...it appears to be - an old, gnarly tree with two white boulders at the base of the trunk. It ilso hosts...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1954 NO. 7 THE WHITE PINE COPPER DEPOSIT, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN • WALTER S. WHITE AND JAMES C.................. Persistenceof units away from White Pine ............................... 688 688 Structure................................ Structure near White Pine .......................................... 690...Director, U.S. GeologicalSurvey. 675 676 WALTER & WHITE AND JAMES C. WRIGHT ABSTRACT Copper, largely in...the Nonesuch shale over many square miles near White Pine, OntonagonCounty, Mich. The Nonesuchshale,of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Rudna IX mine. A non-bulky Ca-rich dripstone-like paragenesis from Lubin Główny mine is also characterized...study—from a single locality in Chile: Santa Rosa mine, Iquique Province [1]. It is the natural equivalent...juangodoyite, within drainage-related mine speleothems (minothems) of the Libiola Mine, Italy, was reported in Reference...occurrences include the listed Chilean one [6]; Carr Boyd mine, Western Australia [7]; Zunderwand, Erlacher Bock...of the Rovnost mine in the famous Czech uranium deposit at Jáchymov [9]; and salt mine at Bex, Vaud, Switzerland
Journal (issue)
brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...table, the secondary sulfides chalcocite and covellite. This is particularly well known to collectors...native copper; prospects at Ladenton, Rockland County, New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the...Mountain copper mines, Lehigh County, and at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; at Ducktown, Tennessee;...the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper mines in Guilford County, North Carolina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SomeCopperSulfideDeposits Near Mount Bohemia,KeweenawCounty, Michigan JAMESM. ROBERTSON Abstract Coppersulfides,in...depositsin the basal part of the NonesuchShale at White Pine, Michigan, the sulfidesof the Lake Superior Copper...geologyof the KeweenawPeninsulahasbeen Mount Bohemia, Michigan. Although primarily a comprehensively describedby...describeschalcopyrite- (1929), and more recentlyby White (1968). Only bornitestringersand disseminations...gabbro-granophyre complexnear Mellen, Wisconsin. In Michigan, Keweenawanrocks contain a few smallintrusivebodiesof
Journal (issue)
Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............Topaz-Mineral Exploration (1605 Hillcrest, Grand Haven, Michigan 49417) wishes to announce that he is now stocking...this an annual event. NOTICES Married, Mary Lynn White, long-time Circulation Manager for the Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sedimentarysequence.Althoughno ore- cociteand covellite,along with malachite. gradematerialwasencountered...from many low-temperatureCu localities(e.g., White Pine deposit, Brown, 1971; Roan and Roan extensionof...Standards included nat- ural Elba pyrite and Butte covellite,plus synthetic CuFeS2 Analyseswere correctedusingthe...pyrite-chalcopyrite-bornite sequences appearsto be the Creta mine, southwesternOklahoma, in Johnson, K., pH. A combination...1084-1098. Brown, A. C., 1971, Zoning in the White Pine copper de- Waugh, T. C., and Brady, L. L., 1976
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chalcopyriteandpyrite ___ chalcocitefamilyminerals,covellite,andgalenaoccurin the western part. Sulfurisotopevaluesof...includingthe Troy Rye et al., 1984). type, identified by mine deposit, consistprimarily of disseminations, The...d occurrences;heavy barred line is for the Troy mine; mediumlines indicateseveralthousandpartsper million;light...within the bed are of two types:(I) chalcocite, • covellite,andbornitcwith lesserchalcopyrite,pyrite, and...easternpart; and (II) chalcopyritewith lesser chalcocite,covellite,pyrite, andgalenawhichoccurs in the west(locationE
Report (volume)
Mathews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane...Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss...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;...pure and white in residual clays at following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
replacement products represented by sulfides (covellite, digenite, and chalcocite), native copper, cuprite...and other occurrences, in addition to bornite, covellite, chalcocite, malachite, azurite, and chrysocolla...distinctly reddish color surrounded by other gray- and white-colored formations consisting of clastic rocks dominated...colorless under plane polarized light, with grey, white and yellow interference colors under crossed polars...composed of sulfides (chalcocite, digenite, and covellite), native copper, oxide (cuprite), carbonates (malachite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
framboidal clusters of digenite, chalcocite and minor covellite, dispersed throughout the whole shale but especially...system showed that it consists of three phases, covellite (CuS), I oB -2 11~-3 ~1-/. filN] - 5 ~ - 6...following phases of the Cu-S system: covellite (CuS), blaubleibender covellite I (CuL~S) (probably similar to...yarrowite, Cu1.12S (GoNe 1980)), blaubleibender covellite II (Cul.4S) (probably similar to spionkopite,...pressure: low chalcocite, djurleite, anilite and covellite. In nature, where we have to consider additional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abovethe hematite-pyritejoin. The amountsofbornite, covellite,andpyrite precipitatedare smalland chalcopyri...occurrenceof hematite-chalcocite intergrowthsat White Pine andthe occurrenceof associated leucoxenebornitein...considerationof: (1) sulfurisotopedata,principallyfromthe White PineandKupferschieferdeposits,(2) time of bacte...precipitationsequenceis cattierite-sphalerite-pyrite-covellite-alabandite. The native silver-rhodochrosite-C...bornite- sphaleritecattierite-pyrite-alabandite-covellite. Granite-derivedwater,pH 6.6 (Fig. 3, Table 4):
Report (issue)
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