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Ankerite from
Phoenix Mine, Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Ankerite
Formula:Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ankerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Phoenix Mine, Phoenix, Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:171814
Long-form Identifier:1:3:171814:0
GUID (UUID V4):a09f9463-6051-43c1-90a8-d1ac1b1762f5
Nearest other occurrences of Ankerite
3.3km (2.1 miles) Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
10.9km (6.7 miles) Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Arsenide Fissure, Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
30.7km (19.0 miles) Copper Harbor, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
32.8km (20.4 miles) Arcadian Mine, Ripley, Franklin Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Quincy Mine, Quincy Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
39.8km (24.7 miles) Isle Royal Mines, Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
44.2km (27.5 miles) Baltic Mine, Baltic, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
92.6km (57.5 miles) High Point Gold prospect, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
93.0km (57.8 miles) Silver Creek West prospect, Ishpeming Greenstone belt (Marquette Greenstone belt), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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 (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)
MICROMOUNTING AT THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN By PAUL B. MOORE and RICHARD M. 6EGER Depr. of Geolophysical...UNIVERSITY] at 03:21 25 August 2017 INTRODUCTION The Keweenaw Feninsula is well-known for its fine specimens...collectors with limited time, may we suggest the Hancock Mine (on Ingot St., Hancock). The dump looks terrible...chlorite minerals are the best found anywhere in the Keweenaw Peninsula. PUMPELLYITE (6Ca0.3Al 2 0 3 .7Si0 2...due to the parallel growth of xls. At the Hancock Mine, Hancock, it occurs upon xls of epidote and quartz
Report (issue)
University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...J. the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula...Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual AnnualMeeting, Meeting...Meeting,Houghton, Houghton,Ml, 40, part part2, 2, 185 185p. p. MI,v.v. 40, 1 PREFACE PREFACE In 1983 1983..."Field Guide to the Geology Geology of the the Keweenaw Keweenaw Annual Institute Institute on on Lake Lake
Journal (issue)
.. . . . . .. . ......... . .. . .. 144 ANCIENT MINE SAVED GREEK CIVI L I ZATION . ............... 147...mineral is also common in the copper region of Keweenaw Peninsula, Mich., where is occurs in veins with...specimens. When you bring home specimens collected at a mine, quarry, or other locality, WASH THEM in water with...COUNTRY By KIRIL SPIROFF Michigan College of Mining and Technology The Michigan Copper Country is of unique...1841 a report by Dr. Douglass Houghton, the first state geologist of Michigan, aroused interest in the economic
Book
Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book...our knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting.... and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding diamonds in the kimberlites of upper Michigan, and vast...shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan is the state with the most shoreline on these...fresh water seas, with waters of Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan It was at one of last winter's meetings of the Michigan Mineralogical Society...six-day invasion of Marquette, Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw Counties. The response almost bowled us...six days which we had scheduled for Ishpeming, Michigan. Bob Markert and his associates came through in...Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan, Marquette, Michigan, and were well supplied with information...arrangements with the Michigan College of Mining and Technology at Houghton, Michigan, for a joint field
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH CREEK MINES CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By F. HAROLD EVANS Doylestown, Pa...collect some of the early and late history of this mine, that after two years of research, this paper is...not survive without the other. Specimens from this mine, have been observed in many of the large museums...Rutter, a smith, on the Manatawny Creek in Berks County. Iron mines, furnaces and forges depend on one...called Warwick) in the French Creek Valley, Chester County. All the mines in the early days were operated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Mineralogy, The (Ini,oersity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport,...Chemical Company, E. B. Gross, The University of Michigan, and Louis Moyd, New York City. Some of the field...studies were supported by a grant from Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, No. 204. History of cenosite...Sjiigren recorded a second occurrence at the Ko mine, Nordmark, Sweden.The mineral was next found in...the Department of Mineralogy, The University of Michigan, and Mineralogical Publication from the Dow Chemical
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of...George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum, MTU Houghton, Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Correspondents...Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans, France Associate...Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder
Catalog/List
Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;;
Catalog/List
greenish Chlorite. lixlxl".£3.25. 2. ALASKAITE. Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, Silverton, San Juan Co., Colorado...£13. 5. APATITE variety FRM~~OLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, ~ornwall. Snall, translucent, aggregates... ARAGONITE variety TAhNOWITZITE. New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries. Thick, creamy white, lustrous...thickly intergrown on a matrix of light brown Ankerite crystals. Superb fluorescence/phosphorescence...Gneissose rock. 3tx2". £4.50. 12. AXINITE. Obira Mine, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Choice, pure mass, of sharp
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£5 lx2 £10 Pyroxene 3 ■■ AGRELLITE Villedieu Township, Kipawa, River Quebec, Can Rich fibrous pale grey-brown...Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained
Journal (issue)
advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...identified using square brackets e.g. [Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall] and a note is included with...country. I t might seem surprising that Sussex, a county dominated by young and mineralogically impoverished...recentlapidarycompetition organisedby SMLS. UK Journal of Mine,& M111cr.1bNo. 34 -4- accessible; most of these
Show/Event (guide)
Abstracts of Contributed Papers The Mineralogy of Michigan by George W. Robinson 6 1 7 The Mineral Treasures...Banquet Dinner - Poolside 8:00-9:15 MINERALS OF MICHIGAN - Dr. George W. Robinson Dr. George Robinson is...is the Gabriel Professor of Mineralogy at Michigan Tech University, where he has curatorial responsibility...of Heinrich's classic book on the minerals of Michigan and that is his topic this evening. We most warmly...t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...· - . ·•- - ·-· ·--·· - --- ··- -- . 2x2£6 25 ANKERITE-KUTNAHORITE Sjogruvan Grythyttan, Sweden 122 CHLORITE...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of...George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum, MTU Houghton, Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Correspondents...Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans, France Associate...Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA
Journal (issue)
Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W...Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J...by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano...— December, 1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford P. O. Box N
Catalog/List
intergrown mass of crystals with a IdJttle brownish Ankerite. 1tx1tx1-t",· £3. 50!? Specimen B: Intergrown...translucent creamy-white crystals to i" in length on Ankerite matrix. 1tx1" , £1.5Op. Specimen C: Lustrous creamy-white...azurite/chalcocite matrix. 2x2x1-t", £4.5Op 4. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine, Co. Galway, Eire. Select cellular mass of bright...places. ~2-tX1t", £11.00 5. BARYTES. Mt. Wellington Mine, Twelvehead~, Cornwall, Specimen A: Lustrous well...that were f~und last century in the Ale & Cakes mine in Gwennap; barytes is a rare mineral in the Cornish
Catalog/List
slightly crystalline masses in matrix (M~:!a~hderg,County D~~ega.l,Irel~nd) lil fl lx2 f2 023 ~!~YDBITEC2lciumSulphate...cl~,1·-.:2~l1: r2ss. (lZeysto":c,South r::';Gtil, USA) l~l 701 lx2 f1.20 L2 f2. -:~· ~::3 f.~. 50 OJ.9...Hidalgoite_. rich matrix. (Gold Hill Hine,Tooel County, Utah, USA) lxl f2.50 lx2 ES .. 066 ASTROPHYLLITE...unusual clay mineral. (CoconinoCounty, Arizona, USA) lxl El.BO lx2 E4.00 051 BERTHIERITE F~ Sb/2 S/4...rich yellow masses with minor quartz.(Pershing County NevadaUSA) lXl El 057 BISMUTHINITE Bi/2 S/3 grey
 
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