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Quartz from
Lake Michigan Beaches, Stonington, Delta County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Lake
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lake Michigan Beaches, Stonington, Delta County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1100989
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1100989:4
GUID (UUID V4):34d7669f-d027-4165-a8ed-ef2ed80a6326
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
59.2km (36.8 miles) Emmett Mine, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
60.2km (37.4 miles) Breen Mine, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
63.7km (39.6 miles) Gardner-Mackinaw Mine, Gwinn, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
65.5km (40.7 miles) Loretto Mine, Loretto, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
66.9km (41.6 miles) Francis Mine (Northwestern Mine), Marquette County, Michigan, USA
66.9km (41.6 miles) Sturgeon Prospect, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
67.4km (41.9 miles) Verona, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
68.0km (42.2 miles) Archibald Mine (Gwinn Mine), Gwinn, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
68.0km (42.3 miles) Kremlin quarry, Marinette County, Wisconsin, USA
68.9km (42.8 miles) East Vulcan Mine, Vulcan, Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Glenwood phase, Lake Chicago Calumet phase, Lake Chicago Tolleston phase, Lake Chicago Lake Michigan phase Age...Facing page Industrial sand deposits south of Lake Michigan . . . . . . . (In pocket) Materials beneath...drainage resulted in the formation of Lake Chicago. This lake passed through at least four phases of...present Lake Michigan. Beaches which were formed during several phases of Lake Chicago and Lake Michigan...examined. Industrial sand deposits south of Lake Michigan are shown in Plate 1. Sand samples were taken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Properties of Minerals The Stanley Bentons of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, went to the Cree...to the Cedar Hill Quar­ tins ry (Pa.) The Bucks County Earth showed slides of a vacation from Meteor Science...expedition to the Mitchell Mine in Spottsylvania County. The Club's Blind Exhibit was shown at the Gem...Minerals with member Bob Middleton. Garnets from Lake Murray are a late acquisition of field trippers...North American In­ and Mineral Society of the Palm Beaches, dian with the members of the Morris West Palm
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 (article/letter/editorial)
flint, or other cryptocrystalline varieties of quartz, that they have about this many different kinds...qualities. They do not realize that many names of the quartz family gems denote color only and have little to...than the coloring agents. It should be noted that quartz family minerals come in two distinct groups, crystalline...crystalline forms include amethyst, citrine, rose quartz,;et£ The cryptocrystalline variety in the rough...more opaque im­ pure variety of cryptocrystalline quartz. Can be found in about any color. Good examples
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)
... pena aeed MATERIALS USED BY THE SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INDIANS IN 29 THE FLAKING OF STONE ARTIFACTS...collected the following in the area: hematite with quartz crystals, talc, galena, siderite, malachite, chrysocolla...chrysocolla, limonite (pseudomorphs after pyrite), quartz crystals (some with inclusions), gypsum, gold and...very famous locality from which have come fine quartz crystals and crystal groups. There have been reports...reports of pyrite crystal inclusions in quartz from this spot. Transparent crystals, singly and doubly
Report (issue)
Bancroft Street, MS #604 Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390 USA Edward C. Hansen Department of Geological and Environmental...Hope College 35 East 12th Street Holland, Michigan 49423 USA THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA® Special...Place, PO. Box 9140 ® Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2014 Copyright © 2014, The Geological Society...of America, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140 USA (http://www.geosociety.org),” and also providing...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA; fax +1-303-357-1073; editing@geosociety.org. GSA
Book
THE MICHIGAN STATE STONE Since June 28, 1965, a peculiar brown rock has represented Michigan as its...modern-day Michigan. Each pebble, found in the waves and sand on the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron...Petoskey stones have long been easy to find in Michigan. The Little Traverse Bay, where the highest concentration...What is Petoskey Stone? Petoskey within Southern Michigan Petoskey Stone Is a Fossil Coral Coral Anatomy...places in the world, but nowhere as plentiful as in Michigan. Appearing tightly packed together, the hexagonal
Book
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Book (volume)
gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...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:
Journal (issue)
https://americanbeadshows.com 1-2—MIDLAND, MICHIGAN: Annual show; Mid-Michigan Rock Club; Midland Resort Hotel &...under) free; presentations on radioactive minerals, Michigan fossils, Upper Peninsula rock collecting, fossils...Hobson Way; Sat. 9-5, Sun. 10-4; free admission; “Quartz: Gem of the Ancients”: 70 displays, NPS Paleontologist...retail show; LLD Productions; Holiday Inn-Orange County Airport; 2726 S. Grand Ave.; Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-6...variety of tourmaline, and superb, large Japan Law quartz twins at the Brumado deposit. Brazil’s pegmatite
Journal (volume)
.. 64 on the Geology of the Coso Range, Inyo County, Cal. John A. Reid A Natural Bridge due to Stream...Students: trial Deposits. .... ...... ...... Knox County, Maine Ore of Igneous Origin. Edson The Cotylosauria...III Geology of the Haystack Stock, Cowles, Park County, Montana. William H. Emmons . . . . I. ...Planes of the Extinct Glacial Lakes IN THE Lake Michigan Basin. James Walter Goldthwait Reviews .....Marginal Glacial Drainage Features in the Finger Lake Regino. John L. Rich Relation of Wind to Topography
Book
Department of Geology University of California, Davis, CA USA DAVID T. WRIGHT Department of Geology University...and Currents Paul D. Komar Chapter 2. The Nile Delta: Processes of Heavy Mineral Sorting and Depositional...Scanning Electron Microscopy of Garnet from Southern Michigan Soils: Etching Rates and Inheritance of Pre-Glacial...Estuarine Environment, Willapa Bay, Washington, USA: Palaeogeographic Implications and Estuarine Evolution...Environmental Change Using Heavy Minerals of the Yangtze Delta Plain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jill S
Report (volume)
described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr...Harris, H. B. trolled: Braunstein, J., 3. Escambia County: Cagle, J. W. ,Jr. Pollard field: Jones, W. B.
Report (volume)
Albuquerque, N.Mex. Mich. Univ. Mus. Paleontology Contr.-Michigan University Mu$.e"Pm Qf Paleontology Contributions...Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin. Salt Lake City, Utah. Va. Div. Geology Reprint Ser.; Mineral...and gas possibilities of the basins of the Sierra County region, in N. Mex. Geol. Soc., Guidebook of south-central...diorite pegmatite near Camp Irwin, San Bernardino County, California: Am. Mineralogist, v. 40, nos. 5-6...investigations in the Hockley salt dome, Harris County, Texas: Geophysics, v. 20, no. 4, p. 829-840, illus
Report (volume)
Chicago. _ . Los Angeles County Mus. Quart.; Sci. Ser., Paleontology-Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly; Science...Boletin. Mexico, D. F~ Mich. Acad. Sci. Papers-Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Papers....Arbor, Mich. Mich. Univ. Mus. Paleontology Contr.-Michigan University Museum of Paleontology Contributions...of Sciences, Arts and Letters Proceedings. Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah Geol. Mineralog. Survey Bull.;...and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin; Circular. Salt Lake City, Utah. Vt. Geol. Survey BulL-Vermont Geological
Report (issue)
75 Grayslake Peat 77 Lacon Formation 77 Lake Michigan Formation 78 Parkland Sand 78 Peyton Colluvium...Lobe 91 Erie Decatur Sublobe 91 drifts Lake Michigan Lobe 97 97 Peoria Sublobe drifts Green River...stratigraphic names 127 Glacial lakes, lake stages, beaches, and shorelines 131 Peneplains, straths...northern hemisphere (37° 35' N. latitude, in Johnson County); it is where the outwash drainageways from the...for the dominance of dolomite over calcite in Lake Michigan Lobe drift. Although Pennsylvanian rocks are
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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (edition)
the Science Museum and Planetarium of Palm Beach County in 1969. 8 FOSSILS FOR AMATEURS These examples...curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Los Angeles County Museum, offers sound counsel on this point. After...become a fossil is at the bottom of a quiet sea or lake where the prospective fossil is safe from damage...compressed clay and silt of an an¬ cient sea or lake bottom, or in limestone formed in warm sea water...replaced by quartz, found in Utah. Growth rings are indicated by alternating brown and white quartz. Cracks
Journal (issue)
54 ROCK & GEM REVISITED: The Most Common Mineral Quartz Is the Cornerstone of the Collecting Hobby (August...Rock, gem, & mineral exhibits as well as Baker County history exhibits Open 7 days a week—including holidays...as the old Pilliken Mine sites. They found drusy quartz and seam agate as they trekked up a red mountain...composed of calcite crystals, water level agate, and quartz crystals. LOCALITY HISTORY Rock clubs and individuals...composed of calcite, water level banded agate, and quartz druzy crystal pockets. Upon seeing his finds, I
Book (edition)
of vertebrate paleontology at the Los Angeles County Museum, offers sound counsel on instances of destruction...then land. The ideal place to become a fossil lake where the prospective fossil is far more favorable...the compressed clay and silt of an ancient sea or lake bottom, or in limestone formed in warm sea water...clear quartz suggest wood dried before replaced by quartz, found in Utah. brown and white quartz. Cracks...with Once driftwood, now long enough to wear quartz. This piece of petrified away bark and soft
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silicon chips), and, of course, the stuff which beaches and deserts are made. Now, in Sand, the distinguished...formed millions of years ago in deserts, help us beaches, along rivers, or under ocean waves— can tell us...Doiis, Larry, iind Michael, companions on sandy beaches Contents 1 Preface ix What can learn from...develops from our wandering along Curiosity about beaches, from our seeing mountains of sand in dune fields...grains on a beach or compare those from different beaches. others, all white. Light sands spherical, smooth
Report (volume)
are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...Journal. Birmingham, Ala. Ala. Geol. Survey Bull.; County Rept.; Inf. Ser.; Map; Mus. Paper; Special Rept...Rept. Alabama Geological Survey Bulletin; County Report; Information Series; Map; Museum Papers; Special...Ibis. London. Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Bull.; County Rept; Inf. Circ.; Mineral Res. 16 SERIALS Kept;
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Ezion-Geber \ Gulf of ~ qaba Arabian Peninsula Michigan peninsula to reduce the reserves by any appreciable...millimeters in diameter. The chief mineral is usually quartz, although feldspar, basalt fragments , and other...rock by temperature, pressure, or chemical fluids. Quartz sandstone by metamorphism becomes metaquartzite...metamorphosed to marble. Igneous rocks high in quartz and feldspar become gneiss, and those high in iron...germanium, and so on), other rare commodities (quartz crystals) , and the great variety of plastics and
 
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