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Calcite from
South Range Quarry, South Range, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view South Range Quarry, South Range, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:130552
Long-form Identifier:1:3:130552:4
GUID (UUID V4):e522c820-a202-450c-ad00-807a2262b64d
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Johnson Materials Co. Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Buckley Quarry, Amnicon Falls, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Amicon copper prospect, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Mabel Nelson Road Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
7.5km (4.7 miles) Chippewa Mine, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
8.0km (4.9 miles) Fond du Lac copper prospect, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) Copper Creek prospects, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
24.7km (15.3 miles) Solon Springs Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Percival copper prospects, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) Lester Park, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and pink agate. Figure 1: North cut of the South Range quarry. Basalt flows strike parallel to the hill...Minerals in Keweenawan Basalt SOUTH RANGE QUARRY DOUGLAS COUNTY, WISCONSIN WILLIAM S . CORDUA Department...Earth Science University of Wisconsin—River Falls River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 M O S T C O L L E C T...exposed along streams or in pits. Few know that Wisconsin also has a good locality where Lake Superior agates...ROCKS & MINERALS The locality is a small quarry located just south of the Parkland Township dump, approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences University of Wisconsin-River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 his is Wisconsin’s... breweries, bratwurst, and Packers football, Wisconsin also has a diverse geology and a history rich...forgotten, abandoned, and overgrown. In this respect, Wisconsin represents a frontier state for the mineral collector...Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and...summarizes and highlights what has been found in Wisconsin in the past 150 years and points the way to new
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rosemeyer histori­ cal photo. May/June: Barite on calcite, Stoneham, Colorado; Brian Lees specimen, John...Scovil specimen and photo. November/December: Calcite, France Stone Co., Custar, Ohio; Neal Pfaff specimen...Minerals in Keweenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, W. S. Cordua, 412-415 Anatase...Robinson, S. Augelite, New Hampshire, 304 Augite, Wisconsin, 414 Barite: Colorado, 133, 143, 200-222; New...Minerals in Ke­ weenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, 412-415 Covellite, Colorado
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lapidary materials THE Geologic History of WISCONSIN GEOLOGICAL EVENTS THAT OCCURRED T H O U S A N...in geologic history. The geologic history of Wisconsin, as recorded in the rocks, spans some 3,000 million...Over this immense span of time, the area we call Wisconsin has experienced a wide variety of geological events...Rocks of this age are extensively exposed in Wisconsin, and therefore the Precambrian con­ tains most...Geology Department University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 part of the state. The Mesozoic
Book
ROCKHOUNDING Wisconsin A Guide to the State’s Best Sites ROBERT BEARD To the memory of my grandmother...rockhound that I ever knew, and she loved northern Wisconsin and ­geology. She would have been thrilled to...Beard, Robert D., author. Title: Rockhounding Wisconsin : a guide to the state’s best sites / Robert Beard...and preservation—Wisconsin—Guidebooks. | Minerals—Collection and preservation—Wisconsin—Guidebooks. Classification:...��������������������������������4 Geology of Wisconsin���������������������������������������������
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, 1A 52314, USA bDepartment of Natural Resources-Geological Survey...123 North Capitol Street, Iowa City, 1.4 52242, USA (Received January 16, 1992; revised and accepted...Oxygen isotopic compositions of fracture-filling calcite spars ( ~ ~s O = - 8.41 to + 3.60%0 ) are similar...isotopic compositions of their carbonate rock hosts. Calcite spars are somewhat depleted in ~t3C relative to...paleokarst-associated deposits; ( 3 ) paleokarst-filling calcite spars formed at near-surface temperatures; and
Report (issue)
United States Geological Survey. University op Wisconsin, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Madison...Series Chapter VI.— The Keweenaw an Rocks op the South Shore of Lake Superior Introductory 152 Section...The South Range Section IV. The Region between the Ontonagon River and Numakagon Lake of Wisconsin, including...Porcupine Mountains Section V. NoRTH^VESTERN Wisconsin and the adjoining part of Minnesota Chapter VII...olivine-free gabbros Fig. —From half a mile southwest of south point of Beaver Bay, Minn. 24 35 1. N. W. i
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting...fluorite worthy of special investigation this far south. The deposit is 17 miles east of Gadsden, 50 miles...in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township 12 South, Range 9 East, and...pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest...to us. Will some Colorado reader tell us in what county is Hans Peak and, if possible, send us a few notes
Report (volume)
minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by some unusual...........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho...West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
......... South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota................................................... Wisconsin.................................................that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason...Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a rare igneous rock composed predominantly of calcite. Crater of Diamonds State Park: 209 State Park...can pay for entrance to spend a day in a quartz quarry. Information and a few of the locations can be...sandstone. Monument Rocks (Chalk Pyramids): 25 miles south of Oakley and just east of US-83 along a dirt road...marshy terrain. Halls Gap Geodes: About 5 miles south of Stanford on US27; http://www.mindat.org/loc-16152...(Devil’s Honeycomb): Southern Washington County, just south of Big River and Hwy-M on Figure 6. Adrian
Book
....243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...shallow nested spoons whose long axis trends north-south (Figure 2). At the center of the basin, just west...Marquette County include the Presque Isle body, the Yellow Dog body in the northern part of the county, and...Ishpeming. Several bodies also occur in Dickinson County near the mouth of the Sturgeon River. A distinctive...and augite. antigorite awaruite? biotite bornite calcite chalcopyrite chlorite group chromite chrysotile
Report (issue)
(glacially carved basalt) 4 (3) 39 South Range Quarry South Quarry Volcanics Volcanics [PLy]) [PLV]) ...Keweenaw Fault) Fault) D4 D4 (Dl) (Dl) 139 139 South South Point point (view (view of of the the tip tip...positions positions during during the the Wisconsin Wisconsin ice iceretreat. retreat. 28 28 Figure 15:...ice-marginal ice-marginal positions during the Wisconsin Wisconsin ice ice retreat. 29 Figure Figure 16; 16:...Geologic Geologic profile of the the South South Range Range Quarry. Quarry. 38 Figure 21: 21: Cross section
Report (issue)
(CaBSiO4OH) vesicle filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur...Peninsula hematite provided the muscle, and Michigan calcite supplied the flux for a growing nation's industrial...exceptionally fine, twinned analcite crystals from Houghton County ························-··-······-··-········...····· 41 2. Ankerite on siderite from Alpena County ···-··············-··················· 46 3....stalactitic limonite from Negaunee in Marquette County ..............................................
Book (volume)
Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio...feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio...feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
radial aggregates, sometimes as singles, and they range in size from 2 to 4 millimeters. While some specimens...mines at Norway and Vulcan, Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. We arrived at Norway early Sat., June...stopping at Randville where there is located a marble quarry. Here we found lovely specimens of white satiny...is located the village of Felch. At the dolomite quarry a mile or so east we found good crystals of light...outside the village. This mine is operated by the South Range Mining Co. Here collectors are still permitted
Report (volume)
inch Fig. 1. Plat of exposures. Fig. 2. Profile of south bank, showing exposures. Fig. 3. Generalized section...section, showing structure. 49 XIII. Torch Lake Quarry, Keweenaw Point. From a photograph e XIV. Junction...Fig. 1. Plat of exposures. Fig. 2. Elevation of south bank, showing exposures. Fig. 3. Generalized section...Junction of Eastern Sandstone and Keweenawan diabase, south side of Douglass Houghton Ravine, Keweenaw Point...of quartz fragments from sandstone of Torch Lake Quarry, Keweenaw Point. Scale, 67 diameters........e 53
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:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
Book (volume)
Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...IDE DS AED 3) June Culp Zeitner, of Rapid City, South Dakota, for her lifelong devotion to the study...market and fetch prices comparable to similar size-range emeralds. The United States continues to supply
Journal (issue)
not only of copper and silver but also of a wide range of other species, many of them still collectible...French outpost near modem Ashland, Wisconsin. He searched the south shore of Lake Superior for copper...as far west as Minnesota’s St. Louis River, and south to the boundary of previously acquired lands. The...that governed lead mining already in progress in Wisconsin. The War Department was placed in charge of supervising...exploiting “fis­ sure deposits” in Keweenaw or Ontonagon County. Prime targets were large veins of solid copper
Report (volume)
Crossroads: Lyons, P. L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay, R. L.,L...Hershey, H. G. , 2. scale: Spieker, E. M., 3. Iron-range rocks, origin: Tanton, Distribution in geologic...area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6. South Texas Geol. Soc., 7. Silicates and their reaction...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
Report (volume)
Transactions. Ottawa. S. Dak. Acad. Sci. Proc.-South Dakota Academy of Science Proceedings. Vermillion...Vermillion, S.Dak. S. Dak. Geol. Survey Rept. Inv.-South Dakota Geological Survey Report of Investigations. Vermillion...Adcock, Floyd Jones. P. W. C[urrey] field, Runnels County, Texas, in Abilene Geol. Soc., Geological contributions...Akmal, M. Gawid. The White (Multi-Pay) pool, Taylor County, Texas., in Abilene Geol. Soc., Geological contributions...wrench-fault tectonics of Moody and Hill to northern South America [and Trinidad]: Geol. Soc. America Bull
Report (issue)
and western Stearns counties. . . . 30 Morrison County .................................. 132 Stearns... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Todd County ...................................... 49 Morrison...mines .............................. 135- r68 North range mines. . . .. . . . . . . . ... .. . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . 159 South range mines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....III. A. Granite outcrop at Meyers Quarry near Pierz, Morrison County, showing horizontal jointing B. Inclusions
Report (issue)
Francisco, California. Daily Grass Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada...Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. County Tribune, California. California...California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California. Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Territory. Ventura...create a good feeling between the North and the South, in which sense it was worth more to the nation...the City of New Orleans and throughout the entire South, as gratifying as it was in many cases unexpected
 
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