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Tenorite from
Mass Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Tenorite
Formula:CuO
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tenorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mass Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:94910
Long-form Identifier:1:3:94910:7
GUID (UUID V4):c75e606f-dc34-4f21-82e4-646c0e3a3958
Nearest other occurrences of Tenorite
1.6km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Adventure mine, Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) ā“˜Belt Mine (Piscatauqua), Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) ā“˜Algomah Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) ā“˜Minesota Mine, Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) ā“˜Indiana Mine, Winona, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
51.3km (31.9 miles) ā“˜Superior Mine (Old Superior Mine), Superior, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
56.0km (34.8 miles) ā“˜Isle Royal No. 1 shaft, Isle Royal Mines, Houghton, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
56.3km (35.0 miles) ā“˜Sheldon Mine, Sheldon-Columbian Mine, Houghton, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
56.3km (35.0 miles) ā“˜Sheldon-Columbian Mine, Houghton, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
iners with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The ā€œCopper 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
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... Figure 2 (upper left). A floater group of sharp tenorite-coated dodecahedral copper crystals that range... The 3.3 Ɨ 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 Petersonā€™s 23-foot cabin cruiser in tow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
courtesy Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological...started with the closure of the Champion mine in Houghton County by the Copper Range Company in September...reserves (Fields 1997).This was the last native copper mine in operation by the Copper Range Company and was...came with the closing of the White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, in September 1995. New, stringent environmental...meet emission standards led to its demise. The Michigan Copper Country contains the largest-known native
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
istory and Mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan Ninth in a series of articles on the...No. 2 (Indiana Copper Company) mine dump in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The individual crystals, which...State Highways 26 and 38 (Lake Mine Junction) in northern Ontonagon County. The property consists of 1,280...2-square-mile property is owned by the state of Michigan and is traversed by Highway 26 on the northwest...Mineralization Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics (PLV)
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
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)
large Paramelaconite Crystals Algomah Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi]...Box 2468 Kingsford, Michigan 49802 shawncarlson8hotmail.com T he Algomah mine is located in northeastern...northeastern Ontonagon County, 2 miles east of the village of Mass, in Michiganā€™s Upper Peninsula. The mine began...perplexing, copper deposits in Michigan. In stark contrast to virtually every other mine in the district, native...oxidized form, principally as large masses of black tenorite intermixed with bluegreen chrysocolla and malachite
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)
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;...made the first systematic explorations on which Michigan laid its claim to the region. Houghton lost his...nation's first major mining boom. In 1845, the Cliff mine became the first successful operaĀ­ tion, but soon
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 Michiganā€™s 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 (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...................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
February 2015 Figure 2. A generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of new finds...arborescent copper crystal groups cached at the Central mine town site, (2) copper crystals recovered from Lake...fissure vein, (3) hundreds of copper from the Indiana mine, and (4) more than two hundredV aecilS mens of ...analcime/calcitecrystal groups from the Rhode Island mine. This article describes these and other finds made...the White Pine mine at the southern end of the district. Keweenaw Point, Keweenaw County The waters off
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
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 Companyā€™s Champion mine in Houghton County. Downloaded by [Florida State University]
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...W l / 2 N W & Section 7, T.I., R 19W of Garland County, Ark., some fine quartz xls containing chlorite...visit. I am planning a trip to the Ruggle's Feldspar Mine near Grafton Ctn., New Hampshire." Mrs. Harriette...Harriette Schoppee, (9 Greenbrier St., Springfield 8, Mass.) Secretary of the "We will be glad to cooperate...cervantite, Ambrose nite (quartz) have been found on the mine, Hollister (San Benito C o . ) , Calif. south side
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University of Regina]...silver, chalcocite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, and a variety of other secondary minerals. Exceptional...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...include the New Cornelia pit, Pima County, and the Ray mine in Pinal County. Masses and sheets of crystalline...size, have been found in the Chino mine, Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico. Fine specimens were also
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
Catalog/List
232) I. CLiNOCLASE. Matuba Hill. Pershing County. Nevada. USA Flattish druse of dark blue clinoclase xtls...V E COPPER.Wolserine Mine,Keweenaugh Peninsula-Michigan-USA Pure flattish mass of native copper showing...Diabolo.Coconino County,Arizona,USA Dense brown black slightly weathered submetallic mass with a little...bladed to equant hematite Ws to l2mni forming rich mass with a little powdery white coating Pretty RF SPC...Candough.County Antrim.Nonhern Ireland Exquisite mass of milky white acicular needles of mesolite & natrolite
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 (issue)
Collectorā€™s Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...ch) Introduction Since the 1950ā€™s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting community...be observed in the minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907... Prospects for production were mediocre and the mine remained relatively idle until 1942 when E.J. Myler
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506 Pine Street Magdalena...5.5 Ɨ 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Authorā€™s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because...only massive concrete foundations mark the famous mine sites. Not all is lost, though. A trip to the A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, Nā€™Chwaning 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 ā€œAlaskaite,ā€ Colorado, 307 Albite...Amblygonite-montebrasite,California, 160 Analcime, Michigan, 339 The Andes Come to Arizona, R. W. Jones, 59
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dyl II, Director A. E. Seumnii Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 170 ROCKS 81MINERALS...81MINERALS ā€™ .1-. . TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 rosemeyer@ocinet...Florida] at 00:43 01 January 2015 1. Cliff mine 2. Phoenix mine 3. Centralmine 4. Central Exploration 5...of mines 6. Mandan SW-vel pit 7. IronCity(Empire)mine 8. Capemine 9. Clatkmine 10. starmine 11. Keweenaw...Roseineyer is a native of Upper Michigan arid a graduate of Michigan Technological Universip in Hoirghton
 
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