 | | 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 . |  | | 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) | | MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ... KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • 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................................... |  | | 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..."Field Guide to the Geology Geology of the the Keweenaw Keweenaw Annual Institute Institute on on Lake Lake...Lake Superior Superior Geology Peninsula, Michigan" Michigan" (Bornhorst (Bornhorst and others, 1983) for |  | | 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...copper from the Indiana mine, and (4) more than two hundredV aecilS mens of analcime/calcitecrystal groups...groups from the Rhode Island mine. This article describes these and other finds made from 1998 through the...starting with Keweenaw Point and continuing in a southwestern direction to the White Pine mine at the southern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506 Pine Street...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...beautiful specimens of accessory minerals including analcime, calcite, datolite, epidote, microcline, natrolite...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | s o r g e conglornero t e .... @ Quincy mine @ Allouez no. 3 shaft Other detailed sections . I...GEOI.OGIC M A P O F SOME PEGMATITIC LAVA FLOWS, MICHIGAN C O P P E R D I S T R I C T Downloaded from https://pubs...SERIES AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN By HENRY R. CORNWALL ABSTRACT Five lava flows...flows in the Keweenawan series of the Michigan copper district have been studied and chemical analyses made...LAVAS, MICHIGAN ILLUSTRATIONS Figuie Page 1. Section across the Greenstone flow near the Allouez No. 3 |  | | 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) | | 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...Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | recently in the various serialized articles on the Michigan Copper Country by Tom Rosemeyer (including the...Here, it is commonly associated with natrolite, analcime, stilbite, heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite...as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from...century at the Lane quarries at Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found...green datolite crystals from the Second Sovietski mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. The 18.5 ⫻ |  | | 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...37 W., Greenland Township. The 2-square-mile property is owned by the state of Michigan and is traversed...Mineralization Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics (PLV) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | recovered from a large vug in the fissure vein of the Cliff mine; the largest crystal is 2 cm across. The specimen...Probably the best arborescent silver from the Cliff mine, this specimen is 9.5 × 10.5 cm and was originally...Jaszczak photo. Figure 18. This calcite from the Cliff mine is 3.6 cm long and perched on a matrix of spongy...lava on earth (Bornhorst and Rose 1994). At the Cliff mine it thickens to more than 1,300 feet and remains...some of the veins (Butler and Burbank 1929). Cliff Mine After the failed 1844 mining venture at the Hays |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | attributed to the Owl Creek fissure of the Copper Falls mine, this complex 3.2-cm crystal is perched on a matrix...3rd level of the Gribble vein in the Copper Falls mine. Of all the copper specimens recovered from the...calcite crystals recovered from the Copper Falls mine in the early days of mining. The sharp, limpid 4...Country in recent times. On the mine surface, beautiful microcrystals of analcime and natrolite can be collected...Petherick mine workings along the Copper Falls fissure. 320 ROCKS & MINERALS Clark Mine The Clark mine, about |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 81427 THE CLIFF MINE, discovered in 1844, is located on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan in the...turned the Cliff into a successful mining operation and made it the first mine on the "Keweenaw" to pay...dividends to stockholders. Throughout its history, the mine also produced spectacular specimens of crystallized...over. N ative copper was first mined on the Keweenaw Peninsula several thousand years ago by Native...controlled three mineral tracts on the northern part of Keweenaw Peninsula. After examining the copper prospect |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure 1. A delicate group...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 Michigan’s Copper Country T he Michigan Copper Country, also known as the Lake Superior...scenic Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts out into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Analcime Downloaded by [University of Bristol] at 06:14...crystals. A prime example of this phenomenon is analcime, a species of wide distribution that is particularly...quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Analcime is typically seen as white, transparent to translucent...is weakly electrostatic when rubbed or heated. Analcime is cubic (4/m32/m) although it can be pseudocubic...at the addresses above. 128 ROCKS & MINERALS Analcime is hydrated sodium aluminum silicate (NaAlSi2O6·H2O) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | From Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...of mines in the district, especially the Quincy mine. Crystals ranged in size from micro to large-cabinet...chlorite, prehnite, pumpellyite, and laumontite. Analcime, barite, datolite, apophyllite , natrolite, and...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) | | Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA ‘Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Department...Institute, Unive~ity of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA (Received Febrzlary6, 1989; accepted in r~vi~~d~r~...obtained for natural samples of the zeolites, analcime, chabazite, clinoptilolite, laumontite, mordenite...6’80,, 6D). Most of the data were collected on analcime-49 samples from 34 world-wide locations and a...variety of geological settings and ages. Dehydrated analcime has a range in @‘Of that extends from 4.3.to 26 |  | | 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) | | Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 1404 E. Sharon Avenue Houghton, Michigan 49931 cjstefan@mtu...WILLIAM B. BARR JR. 1405 Hewett Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 wbarr@umich.edu Figure 1. Portrait of young...exploration geologist and mine manager at various mines in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. A lover of the...native copper deposit, which became the Champion mine. His academic interests ranged across the disciplines...curator of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological University. His interests span mineralogy |  | | 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...the Michigan Copper Country, is located on the sparsely populated, isolated, and scenic Keweenaw Peninsula...Superior near the western end of Upper Michigan. The Keweenaw winters can be long and cold with lake-effect...feet (6,400 vertical feet), making it the deepest mine shaft in the Western Hemisphere. Tom Rosemeyer collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in celebrating the rich mineral heritage of the Keweenaw Peninsula’s datolite by diving into this article...Dyl II, Director A. E. Seumnii Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 170 ROCKS 81MINERALS...81MINERALS ’ .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...pit 7. IronCity(Empire)mine 8. Capemine 9. Clatkmine 10. starmine 11. Keweenaw Point Historical information |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rhodochrosite (specimen and cut stones), N'Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimen and...photo. May/June: Pyromorphite,Daoping Lead Zinc mine, Guangxi, China. Fine Minerals International specimen...Rhodochrosite on sulfides, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil...photo. November/December: Copper, Cliff mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum specimen...Jaszczak photo. Adamite, New Mexico, 301 Adularia, Michigan, 393 Advertising cards, 34043 Aegirine and Associated |  | | Book (volume) | | Acanthite La Sirena Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 18 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,...Malachite) Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, 60 (on Malachite) Milipilas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 56 (with...(with Malachite) Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona, 31 Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 46 Beryl (see also...Linopolis Dist., Minas Gerais, Brazil, 37 Calcite 884 Mine, Huangpolong, near Leiping, Guangxi Prov., Prov...Prov., China, 8 (on Barite with Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee, 29, (on Barite) 55 (Manganocalcite) |
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