 | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute...Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual AnnualMeeting, Meeting,Houghton, Houghton,Ml, 40, part part2, 2, 185 185p. p. MI,v...Lake Superior Superior Geology Peninsula, Michigan" Michigan" (Bornhorst (Bornhorst and others, 1983)... time, we considered that that "It is held at Michigan Technological presumptuous for for us us to put |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu KINOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona F ew states can approach, much...mineral in vugs and veinlets in skarn, and in Michigan it occurs as a rare constituent of amygdule fillings...the northwest and Rosemont to the southeast, Pima County, Arizona. The locality is about 30 miles (48 kilometers)...crystals on fluorapophyllite from the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona. Les and Paula Presmyk specimen,...tiny kinoite crystals from the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona. Les and Paula Presmyk specimen, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Sibyl and Bill Severance, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Spring 1953, well before he started collecting...The Kegel azurite, 15.2 cm, 6th level east, Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Pictured in Gem & Mineral Treasures...Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan; Ross Lillie of North Star...specimens, 98 of which were from the Tsumeb mine and 81 from Michigan, many of these with interesting histories...Kegel was the mine director at Tsumeb and the general manager of the company that owned the mine from 1922 |  | | Report (issue) | | Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ............................. 51 The Beginning of the Calumet and Hecla .......................................geology and history of the copper deposits of Michigan. Every effort has been made to present accurate...necessarily reflect the policies or practices of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey...Nonetheless, he was very well known by hobbyists in Michigan and surrounding areas. The National Rockhound |  | | 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) | | AMYGDULE MINERAL SERIES, RICHARD E. ZONING IN MICHIGAN STOIBER THE COPPER AND EDWARD PORTAGE DISTRICT...of the Michigan copper district ......................... Mineralogyof amygdaloidalrock on mine dumps...KeweenawPeninsula,Michigan, three overlappingamygdulemineral zones--prehnite,epidote,and quartz zones...within the prehnitezoneand lower horizonswithin the epidote and quartz zones. Zone boundariescrossstratigraphichorizons...which is native copper. The chemicalconstituentsof epidote,prehnite, and quartz, and the wide distributionand |  | | 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... 5 Julien, A. A., Note on a feldspar from the Calumet Copper rr'ine: Annals N. Y. Acail. Sci., 12, 650-654...650-654 (1900). 643 IRA KLEIN on which the Calumet Mine was sunk, pointing out its adularialike habit...is aware of only two such localities outside of Michigan from which secondary feldspar is reported. A "pink |  | | Journal (volume) | | .................23 No. 5 Shaft at the Tamarack Mine, by W. E. Parnall, Jr. .26 The Crystalization of...Superior Mining Institute SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING HOUGHTON, MICH., MARCH 5-9, 1901. The Testing and Control...Corliss Cross-Compound Pumping Engine in Penobscot Mine, by Jno. A. Redfern .............................................................42 A New form of Mine Drill Bit, by Walter Fitch...................44...ISHPEMING, MICH. Tapping the water in the old Minnesota Mine, by S. Howard Brady ........................... |  | Cornwall, H.R., Runner, J.J., Stromquist, A.A., Swanson, R.W., White, W.S. (1949) Detailed geologic map of the recently active copper mines; Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan. Open-File Report Vol. 1949 (50-4) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr504 | Report (issue) | | copper nines, -..- roughton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan H. R. Cornwall, J. J. Runner, A. A. Stromquist................. 10 Central Exploration fissure mine, 12 Introduction................ + (- ; Stratigraphy...Distribution of copper,.*»...................... 33 The Houghton conglomerate *>re body, Allouez No* 3* shaft.*...copper*«...._................,.. 26 ->- Quincy mine ,..........*.......*................... Introduction............^.................... 32 Isle Royale mine ................................... 3U ; *" 30 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SOCIETY NOVEMBER, RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MICHIGAN T. M. BRODERICK, OF GEOLOGISTS 1946 TO COPPER...previously publishedin geologicalstudies of the Michigan copperdistrict by the Calumetand Hecla GeologicalDepartment...Published by permission of E. R. Love11, President, Calumet and Hecla Consol{dated Copper Company. 675 676...Messrs. Broderick andHohljoinedtheregular•taff of Calumet andHecla,andMr. Butlerrejoinedthe U.S. Geological...ProfessionalPaper 144, "The Copper Depositsof Michigan," and the continuationof geological studiesby |  | | 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) | | Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...5.5 × 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Author’s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...former naval officer who became an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (Monette 1975). It was...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...from the district, was only out-produced by the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which accounted for |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AND ITS BEARING THE IN OF AND FORMING THE CALUMET AND ON THE DISTRIBUTION COPPER CHARACTERS THE...serve to show the position of the chute*in the Calumet and Hecla conglomerate. At the requestof the editor...presentsome commentson a specimenbouldere from the Calumet and Hecla conglomerate, preparedto accompanyits...editorial complications, it has been delayed. 2 Michigan Geological Survey Collection, No. 2060o. •58...practicallysolidcopper. In additionto the copper, epidote and calcite are frequent secondaryconstituentsof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 912, Denver, Federal Center, Lakewood, CO 80225, USA Abstract. Stable isotope data have been determined...masses of the southern Snake Range, White Pine County, Nevada (Fig. 2) are well exposed within an area...minerals analyzed for this study are muscovite, epidote, allanite, and amphibole. Muscovite (up to 0.5%)...mafic parts of the pluton contain as much as 2% epidote and 0.1% allanite. Amphibole is present only in...the Young Canyon-Kious Basin intrusion, although epidote recovered from a late veinlet in sample 107 has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Colorado 80225, USA 2 Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA Abstract. A...900 km 2 in the southern Snake Range, White Pine County, Nevada, six igneous masses are well exposed in...deeply unroofed. With the possible exception of the Osceola intrusion, probably none of these granitoid masses...RANGE^ TWO-MICA GRANITE Oseeola BOX ELDER COUNTY TOOELE COUNTY ~.EVADA ~ Area of Fgu i re2 1 ~ 2 6 Tertiary...' - ~ K - - ' ~ z~,..~\ _ < Zl ELKO COUNTY WHITE PINE COUNTY i NT" S'ON I <;~ I ........ /~ Snake |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wulfenite, Empire mine, Tombstone, Arizona; Wendell E . Wilson photo and specimen. March/April: Mine engineers...engineers, Camp Bird mine, Colorado; Tom Rosemeyer histori cal photo. May/June: Barite on calcite, Stoneham...Muntyan photo. July/August: Fluorite, William Wise mine, Westmoreland, New Hampshire; Resur rection Mining...Keweenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, W. S. Cordua, 412-415 Anatase, New...Lalish, 313 Colorado: barite, 202-222; Camp Bird mine, 113-149; National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum |  | | 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) | | Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA 2 US Geological Survey, MS 963, Box 25046, Denver...Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA Abstract. Six diverse intrusive igneous types are exposed...900 km 2 in the southern Snake Range, White Pine County, Nevada. The previously recognized variety among...900 km 2 in the southern Snake Range, White Pine County, Nevada. The igneous types are present as discrete...and Van Loenen 1971). Less is known about the Osceola and Lexington Creek intrusive rocks, which appear |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | part of the copperand iron researchprogramof the Michigan Collegeof MiningandTechnology.Fundsfor the necessary...thesestudies, will bebrieflydiscussed. ORIGIN OF THE MICHIGAN COPPER DEPOSITS. Therearetwogeneral theories...andconglomerates. The othertheory,developed by Calumet andHeclaandby United ½Thewriters'paperon"Differentiation...S., and Burbank, W. S.: The Copper Deposits of Michigan, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 144, pp. 118-142...averagecoppercontentof the Keweenawan traps of the Michigan copperdistrict is a far better one to usethanthe |
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Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA