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Shale from
Nonesuch Shale, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Classification
Type:Shale
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Shale data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nonesuch Shale, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1087195
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1087195:7
GUID (UUID V4):6cd83a29-6141-4050-8b37-de9147a8981c
References
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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
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White...formation 5 Copper Harbor Conglomerate 9 Nonesuch Shale 13 Jacobsville Sandstone 16 Intrusive rocks...DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN ' ~ By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White...The Matchvood quadrangle is in central Ontonagon County, just west of the Ontonagon River and its Middle...flows, the Copper Harbor Conglomerate, the Nonesuch Shale, and the Freda Sandstone. All these formations
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
Journal (issue)
of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton) ...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 .
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
Book
Park 13700 13.25 LaneĀ Ā Garden, Michigan 49835 Tel: (906) 644-2603 Keweenaw Peninsula Jill Barbour (jnbarbour@mtu...Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton...Rocks National Lakeshore P.O. Box 40, Munising, Michigan 49862 Tel: (906) 387-2607 / Email: David_Kronk@nps...Mining Engineering and Sciences (adjunct) Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 49855 Tel: (906) 227-1176...Porritt, Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering, Michigan Technological University Michelle Miller, Center
Report (issue)
The Base of the Upper Keweenawan, Michigan and Wisconsin GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1354-F The... The Base of the Upper Keweenawan, Michigan and Wisconsin By WALTER S. WHITE CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY...section of Keweenawan rocks below the base of the Nonesuch Shale ________ _ 4. Mean directions of magnetization...STRATIGRAPHY THE BASE OF THE UPPER KEWEENAWAN, MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN By WALTER S. WHITE ABSTRACT The...of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate (base of Nonesuch Shale) is a more satisfactory boundary between upper
Report (issue)
Oronto Group E2 Copper Harbor Conglomerate E2 Nonesuch Shale E2 Freda Sandstone E4 Bayfield Group E6 Orienta...sedimentary rocks in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan were examined, sampled, and described with the...Wisconsin northeastward throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, and on Isle Royale in Lake Superior...deposited. Two sites on the north shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula were examined, both areas that typify...Sedimentary rock fragments (2.2 percent) of chert, shale, ferruginous mudstone, and sandstone, and metamorphic
Report (issue)
flows near Grand Portage, Minn., gabbro in Cook County, Minn., sedimentary rocks of the Sibley Series...group includes the Portage Lake Lava Series on the Keweenaw Peninsula and most of the North Shore Volcanic...of investigation lies in parts of the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota adjacent to Lake Superior...Logan sills Alona Bay lavas Sibley Series Baraga County dikes PALMER <1970> DATA rn 14. 15. 16. 17. ...Keweenawan lava flows on Mamainse Point rn ~~ISLAND Keweenaw Point > t"4 10. 11. 12. 13. MICHIPICOTEN sllrtitroit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Survey, National Center-MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA (Received October 10, 1990; accepted after revision...metals. Where hydrothermal sulfides occur (i.e., shale-hosted copper sulfides), the source of sulfur was...Survey, National Center--MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA. tinent rift system (MRS) of North America is one...including the famous native copper deposits of the Keweenaw Peninsula, the stratiform copper sulfide and native... ONIARIO WISCONSIN 3.6-1.85 1.85 'li'J i MICHIGAN ILLINOIS 1.5-1.4 i i 1.1 j ' i IZ IIII i
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...mineralization events at White Pine, Michigan. Samples of the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation from the White Pine...introduction of cupriferous fluids into the lower Nonesuch Fro. formed Cu-bearing sulfides by replacement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE KEWEENAWAN WHITE PINE, MICHIGAN ā€¢ SAMBHUDAS CHAUDHURI AND GUNTER 8 ROCKS...suites of felsite from the White Pine area of Michigan indicate dates ranging from 978 q- 40 m.y. to...limit to the time of depositionof the overlying Nonesuch Shale. Another upperlimit is providedby datesof 1...pebblesfrom the lower sandstoneunit of the Parting Shale memberexposedin the old NonesuchMine. Nine samplesof...unmineralizedrock from the basal section of the Nonesuch Shale exposed in the mine workings of the White Pine
Report (volume)
the Flynn Lake Wilderness Study Area, Bayfield County, Wisconsin By W. F. CANNON, CORNELIA C. CAMERON...and Flynn Lake Wilderness Study Area, Bayfield County, Wisconsin. (Studies related to wilderness-wilderness...studied is in Chequamegon National Forest in Bayfield County. CONTENTS Page Summary -------------------...------------------------------------------------Copper in the Nonesuch Shale and Copper Harbor Conglomerate----------------...for such deposits. Because native-copper ores in Michigan are presently unecon9mic to mine, little interest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ISLE STRATIFORM COPPER MINERALIZATION, NORTHERN MICHIGAN Alex C. Brownā€  13250 rue Acadie, Pierrefonds,...mineralization in the fine-grained, carbonaceous basal Nonesuch Formation of the ~50-km-wide White Pine-Presque...Pine-Presque Isle mining district, northern Michigan, has long been explained by the essentially vertical infiltration...cupriferous brine across the full width of basal Nonesuch strata from the underlying Copper Harbor Conglomerate...coarser grained (presumably more permeable) basal Nonesuch strata situated laterally to the east and west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GENESIS OF NATIVE COPPER LODES IN THE KEWEENAW DISTRICT, NORTHERN MICHIGAN: A HYBRID EVOLVED METEORIC AND METAMOPHOGENIC... Canada H3C 3A7 Abstract The Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan is well known for early diagenetic...mineralization hosted mainly by basal siltstone-shale units of the Nonesuch Formation in the White Pine district...meteoric water from highlands adjacent to the Keweenaw rift basin would have provided a mechanism to...the native copper lodes on the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan (Fig. 1) is most commonly explained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NOTES ON THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION OF MICHIGAN PART I. THE PRE-ORDOVICIAN A. C. LANE and A. E. SEAMAN Houghton...It is not as easy to summarize the section of Michigan as, for instance, a compact state like Iowa. For...and brown and striped with streaks of red clay shale, conglomeritic (4000 ?) where it laps upon older...heaviest flow, over I oo000 25000:r Under this is the Allouez confeet thick at times known as the Greenstone...Bohemian Range Huronian Character of Rocks Outer Nonesuch Central Mine Animikean neo-Huronian Thickness
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
very low-grade metamorphic rocks, Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan, USA Edward Hansen a,āŽ, Jesse Reimink a...Hope College, 35 E 12th Street, Holland, Michigan 49423 USA Section 3.3 Chemistry and Physics of Earth...low-grade metamorphism Titanite TiO2 Pseudorutile Keweenaw Peninsula Prehniteā€“pumpellyite-facies a b s t...basalt and rhyolite clasts from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA which were metamorphosed to the prehniteā€“...clasts in a conglomerate from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA metamorphosed to the prehniteā€“pumpellyite-facies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the White Pine-Presque Isle District, northern Michigan Alex C. Brown 1 Received: 28 June 2017 / Accepted:...in the finest-grained facies of Nonesuch greybeds in northern Michigan has been previously attributed...sulfide zoning . Latent volcanic heat . White Pine, Michigan Introduction Explanations for the genesis of...Isle district of northern Michigan (also referred to here as the Michigan eSSC district, to distinguish...classic native copper lodes on northern Michiganā€™s Keweenaw Peninsula) are dependent on a diagenetic overprint
Report (issue)
Quadrangle, Michigan and Wisconsin Prepared in cooperation with Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department...Assessment of the Iron River 1 Ā° X 2Ā° Quadrangle, Michigan and Wisconsin By W. F. Cannon GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...in cooperation with Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and Wisconsin...assessment of the Iron River 1Ā° X 2Ā° quadrangle, Michigan and Wisconsin. (Geological Survey circular ; 887)...mineral resources Michigan. 2. Mines and mineral resources Wisconsin. I. Michigan. Geological Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rock-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposit, Upper Peninsula, Michigan Theodore J. Bornhorst1,ā€  and William C. Williams2...Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, 1404 E. Sharon Avenue, Houghton, Michigan 49931 2 Orvana...Copperwood is located in Gogebic County, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, within the Porcupine Mountains copper...gray to black shales and siltstones of the basal Nonesuch Formation. Copper mineralization is overlain by...by laminated gray siltstones of the Nonesuch Formation and is underlain by red-bed sandstones, conglomerates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright Ā© 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/99 $20.00 ā«¹ .00 Pergamon...Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-1403, USA (Received September 14, 1998; accepted in revised...Beaver Bay Complex; DC, Duluth Complex; CCD, Carlton County dikes; NLS, Nathanā€™s layered series; LS, Logan...Conglomerate, Nonesuch Formation and Freda Formation) in northern Wisconsin, western upper Michigan, and Isle...in Minnesota, and the Jacobsville Sandstone in Michigan. Interpretation of depositional environments for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hot-spring models of the type envisaged for so-called "shale-hosted" submarine exhalative base-metal deposits...found in association with copper. The White Pine, Michigan deposit has significant concentrations of silver...equivalent amounts of copper were added to the basal Nonesuch Shale host-rocks across the present mine area. Considering...Upper Shale I ~ SandstoneTT ~-~ " - ~ "O' " e~~ ''~~' ~ ~r ~ * ~ vO"~ Upper Parting Shale ~ 21-23...mineralisation ("fringe surface") at White Pine, Michigan and the amount of Copper deposited in beds underlying
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ONTONAGON ROBERT NO. 5 HERON IN THE WHITE CO., MICHIGAN CARPENTER ABSTRACT The dominant facies of copper...copper mineralization at White Pine, Michigan, is characterizedby a distinct relationshipof copper to...restriction to beds at the base of the Precambrian Nonesuch shale formation. A secondminor facies of mineralization...depositis located in the southwesternportion of the Keweenaw Peninsula,east of the PorcupineMountains, OntonagonCo...OntonagonCo., 643 644 ROBERT HEROiV C/IRPEiVTER Michigan(Fig. 1). The deposit lies60 to 80 milessouthwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA Geology Department, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI 53232, USA c Department of...University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA d Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences...California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA M an Corresponding author. E-mail address: fedorch2@uwm...09 Ga) Copper Harbor Conglomerate of northern Michigan have 104 been interpreted as evidence for fluvial-lacustrine...during the Mesoproterozoic as well. The 107 Nonesuch Shale, which directly overlies and interfingers with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway 64, which winds...extends from Mellen, Wisconsin, to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, a distance of 160 miles. The White...series of unaltered siltstones at the base of the Nonesuch Formation, which is younger than the Portage Lake...the world-famous native-copper deposits of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The main ore mineral in the sulfide...grains in the cupriferous zone at the base of the Nonesuch Formation and the top of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate
 
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