 | | Journal (issue) | | iners with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The āCopper Kingā 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) | | Iuyw I , < h,,,rl,rp,, ,,I I r,,,,l>,l\ T HE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT stretches in a southwest-northeast...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 that...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Bulletin 6 1976 COVER Shown is a porcelanoid mass of flesh colored datolite, a borosilicate (CaBSiO4OH)...(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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICROCLINE IN THE NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN Ina KrorN, Stanf ord, U ni.oersity, C al'iJorni...intensive mining activity in the copper country of Michigan, and detailed study of the native copper deposits...of the ore bodies is a very unusual variety of microcline, has not been appreciated. In this paper its...amounts "in all the mines from Keweenaw Point to Ontonagon" in association with analcite, as the "last formed...650-654 (1900). 643 IRA KLEIN on which the Calumet Mine was sunk, pointing out its adularialike habit and |  | | 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...NoneĀ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful |  | | Book | | Mineralogy of Michigan by E. W. Heinrich updated and revised ā¢ by George W. Robinson M By E W~ Hellnr]ch...Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 2004 Ā© 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) | | the Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan -- Downloaded by [University of Michigan] at 08:51 04...Caledonia mine, owned by Red Metal Minerals, is located at the southern end of the famous Michigan native...native copper district and is the last operating mine on the copper range. It is presently being operated...and Whiteman 1992). The early development of the mine included sinking shafts and driving adits on the...1873. In the same year Captain Martin leased the mine and sporadically operated it until 188 I , producing |  | | 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) | | 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... The 3.3 Ć 5.8-cm specimen was part of a larger mass of intergrown crystals recovered from the center...August 2008, Barron and Peterson left Calumet, Michigan, with Petersonās 23-foot cabin cruiser in tow...Ć 20-cm) mass of crystallized copper. By gently wiggling the āknobā of copper, the whole mass was extracted |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506 Pine Street Magdalena...5.5 Ć 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Authorās 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 |  | | 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) | | 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 I first went to the mine in the spring of...epidote. In 1985 mineral rights for the Caledonia mine were bought by Richard Whiteman, president of Red...rehabilitated the No. 4 adit of the mine and are presently operating the mine for the reĀ covery of mineral...collecting trips. Over the past five years the Caledonia mine has produced many fine hand specimens and an abundance...the opening of the Mass, A d Ā Colorado for the past twenty years. venture, Michigan, Hilton, Minesota |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tom Rosemeyer 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure 1...of copper crystals collected at the Ojibway No. 1 mine in summer 2009 by Steve Whelan. The specimen is...Copper Country Figure 2. Generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of the new...Mineral Finds in Michiganās Copper Country T he Michigan Copper Country, also known as the Lake Superior...into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The now-dormant copper mining industry, which |  | | 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 (issue) | | Collectorās Newsletter $6.00 2022 Summer Finds in the Michigan Copper Country Tom Rosemeyer datolite@charter...years ago. This is due to the yearly crushing of mine dumps for logging road construction, road repairs...industrial projects. Posting of privately owned mine sites also had increased due to liability concerns...trip is held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan. The collecting guides for the...13 July 2022. Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ļ the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmļ¾jasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. lineļ¾rock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1Ā½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatļ¾jasper. CARTERSVILLE:...ļ¾agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: ļ at Holton Quarry, 7Ā½ mi. NWļ¾agate; ļ N |  | | Catalog/List | | 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 Ā¢ Ā« nax 1g Mine : The Kevin...silver was found in the late 1970s at the Dukat Mine measures which is mainly known by 6 cm Ex: Helmut... initely a unique opportunity. From the Dukat Mine, Dukat Gold-Silver Ore Field, Magadan Oblastā, East |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...of the Copper Range Companyās Champion mine in Houghton County. Downloaded by [Florida State University] |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, NāChwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite, Michigan, 344 Adularia, Michigan 341 āAlaskaite,ā Colorado, 307 Albite...Amblygonite-montebrasite,California, 160 Analcime, Michigan, 339 The Andes Come to Arizona, R. W. Jones, 59 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABAMAāCherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen sent you recently. It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near Rockford. You have my permission to...near Superior (Pinal Co.), Ariz. One was a clean mass, the other heavily coated with gray perlite. Apache...can be found, along with tourmaline, garnet, microcline and some rose quartz, on the dumps of the Ramstetter...Brown Ave., Terre Haute, Ind. I O W A ā From Marion County, Iowa, we have an interesting specimen consisting...a road cut on a new construction job in Lincoln County, Me., on Rt. 1, bypassing the towns of Newcastle |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White...DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN ' ~ By Robert F. Johnson and Walter...Matchvood quadrangle is in central Ontonagon County, just west of the Ontonagon River and its Middle Branch...carried out in Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties by the Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department...exposures in the vicinity of Portage Lake in Houghton County (White, Cornwall, and Swanson, 1953), underlies |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...matter and copper mineralization at White Pine, Michigan, U.S.A. In: P.A. Meyers. L.M. Pratt and B. Nagy...White Pine, Michigan. Samples of the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation from the White Pine mine and adjacent...than bitumens from unmineralized strata outside the mine area. Therefore, Cu mineralization at White Pine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1958 I was taken into the upper levels of the South mine from the botĀ tom of the old open cut, and saw the...post-mine proĀ duct and, therefore, not eligible to be called a mineral, though some post-mine efflorescences...Montreal is reclaimed as a sanitary land fill by the city, but until that time, the Francon Company has...link. They had a miniature matrix piece with microcline and two crystals. The "crystals," actually rounded...paragenetic specimens of elbaite, pollucite, petalite, microcline, kaolinite, etc. show that they grew in a gem |  | | Journal (issue) | | MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ... KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA ā¢ Tel: +1 949 494 5155 ā¢ Email: info@kristalle.com...................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines........................................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...................................... Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan................................... |
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