 | | 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 . |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | Organic 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...Organic matter and copper mineralization at White Pine, Michigan, U.S.A. In: P.A. Meyers. L.M. Pratt and...events at White Pine, Michigan. Samples of the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation from the White Pine mine and...direct reductant. Later compressional faulting at White Pine provided conduits for additional cupriferous |  | | Report (issue) | | MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White JULl 5 1969 DENVER...MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN ' ~ By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White INTRODUCTION ...Matchvood quadrangle is in central Ontonagon County, just west of the Ontonagon River and its Middle Branch...quadrangle is based on study of drill core of the White Pine Copper Co. We have made extensive use of an aeromagnetic...carried out in Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties by the Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department |  | Bornhorst, Theodore J., Paces, James B., Grant, Norman K., Obradovich, John D., Huber, N. King (1988) Age of native copper mineralization, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Economic Geology, 83 (3) 619-625 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.83.3.619 | 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...volcanicsare located within a belt 45 km long from (White, 1960). Twenty-two interflow sedimentary beds occur...of 2,500 to 5,200 m (Butler and Burbank, 1929; White, 1960, 1968). These basaltsrepresent the product...hasyieldeda date of 1,063 ___ 34 m.y. (K-Ar, biotite; White, 1968) and providesa minimumage for the 6 19 620 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Iuyw I , < h,,,rl,rp,, ,,I I r,,,,l>,l\ T HE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT stretches in a southwest-northeast...miles, 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...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506 Pine Street Magdalena, New Mexico...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 |  | | 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) | | 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 (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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Conglomerate. Author’s photo. TOM ROSEMEYER 506 Pine Street PO Box 369 Magdalena, New Mexico 87825 tajmahal@gilanet...Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...year. During the last four years, the crushing of mine dumps (poor-rock piles) for road repairs and construction...operations, primarily in Keweenaw County, have increased the need for mine-run rock for the construction... resulting in the slow disappearance of smaller mine dumps. The end of copper mining in the Portage Lake |  | | 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) | | COPPER-BEARING FISSURE VEINS Keweenaw County, Michigan Downloaded by [University of Delaware] at 05:05...crystallized copper specimen came from the Central mine and was in the collection of Donald C. Gabriel....exploration 2. Cliff mine 3. Phoenix group of mines 4. Central mine 5. Northwestern mine 6. Central exploration...Resolute mine 9. Hard Rock fissure 10. Iron City (Empire) mine 11. Cape mine 12. Copper Falls mine 13. Clark...Clark mine 14. Point prospect 15. Mendota mine 16. Gull Rock fissure and Laker pocket Figure 3. A 1900 |  | | 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...vein averaged 8 inches wide and was filled with white crystalline calcite. In summer 2001, a small split...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 |  | | 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 |  | Kruszewski, Łukasz, Świerk, Mateusz, Siuda, Rafał, Szełęg, Eligiusz, Marciniak-Maliszewska, Beata (2020) Third Worldwide Occurrence of Juangodoyite, Na2Cu(CO3)2, and Other Secondary Na, Cu, Mg, and Ca Minerals in the Fore-Sudetic Monocline (Lower Silesia, SW Poland) Minerals, 10 (2) 190 doi:10.3390/min10020190 | 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 (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) | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Survey, National Center-MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA (Received October 10, 1990; accepted after revision...Survey, National Center--MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA. tinent rift system (MRS) of North America is one...sulfide and native copper deposits of the White Pine mine area, and Cu-Ni sulfide deposits in the Duluth... ONIARIO WISCONSIN 3.6-1.85 1.85 'li'J i MICHIGAN ILLINOIS 1.5-1.4 i i 1.1 j ' i IZ IIII i...Locationof the rift south of LakeSuperiorin Minnesota,Michigan,Wisconsin,Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas is inferred |  | | 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 |
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