Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Copper (commodity) from
Medora Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Commodity:Copper (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Copper (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Medora Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1408869
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1408869:8
GUID (UUID V4):80e52696-95e2-406b-a54b-b1d372d8b1d5
Nearest other deposits of Copper (commodity)
0.5km (0.3 miles) Unnamed Copper Deposit (MRDS - 10170354), Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Mandan Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Washington Mine, Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Unnamed Copper Prospect (MRDS - 10243622), Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Resolute Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Unnamed Copper Prospect (MRDS - 10267774), Lac La Belle, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Lac La Belle Prospect, Lac La Belle, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Bluff Wyoming Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Agate Harbor Mine, Agate Harbor, Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Old Mendota Copper Mine, Lac La Belle, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
and Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. By...Clarence J. Monette 942 Ninth Street Lake Linden, Michigan 49945 All Rights Reserved ISBN: 0-942363-37-X...fire Copper tower Mining Company Company Company and Company Mining Mining Copper Keweenaw Company;...Bohemia in Keweenaw County. The French name Lac La Belle means "beautiful lake." This area of Grant Township...prehistoric copper mining site where prehistoric Native Americans collected and processed copper for their
Book
Eagle Harbor Oe emma Harbor Copper Harb 7 al EAGLE ie ces are Olibwove Allovez, «Ahmoek SLE ROYALE...Ishpeming + HiUM boig, «Palmer «Republic SOME COPPER COUNTRY NAMES AND PLACES COPYRIGHT May 23, 1975...Clarence J. Monette 942 Ninth Street Lake Linden, Michigan, 49945 All Rights Reserved ISBN: 0-942363-04-3...ice a nineOo by Copper Island Printing & Graphic Services, Inc. of Calumet, Michigan _ ee AUTHOR'S...this. NOTE publication indicates, here are "Some Copper Country Names and Places." I realize that not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e a r s o r g e conglornero t e .... @ Quincy mine @ Allouez no. 3 shaft Other detailed sections...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...Amherst user Ahmeek 0 Sec. 22, T 58 N, R 31 W Lake Medora Keystone trail @ @ @ .. . . . . . . . . . ....KEWEENAWAN SERIES AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN By HENRY R. CORNWALL ABSTRACT Five lava...lava flows in the Keweenawan series of the Michigan copper district have been studied and chemical analyses
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
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)
Calumet, Michigan 49913 tajmahal@gilanet.com History and Mineralogy of the Manganese Mine Keweenaw County...County Michigan Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University...Houghton. He now spends a good part of the year in the Copper Country researching and writing articles about...articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Downloaded by [Lakehead University] at...March 2015 L ocated in the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan are two small manganese oxide deposits
Book
tts pee erg Hintli0 Py 4> ne ’ i<) ee 6's) Michigan, by.Edward C. Peterson and Esther A. Middlewood...of mining will find most mine managers willing to help, even though the mine may not be open to casual...State Offices of Information, Chambers of Commerce, mine managers, and Bureau personnel have freely contributed...old shafts! Always use available guide services. Mine openings (tunnels, adits, open pits) should never...during active operations, they are swept out of the mine by the controlled ventilating current. Remember
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....which operate in many states are not as likely to grant permission to collect as the former locally owned... 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michigan’s Copper Country News from the Keweenaw Recent Mineral Finds in Michigan’s Copper Country Downloaded...A l t h o u g h commercial copper mining has come to an end in the Copper Country, specimens reminiscent...superb specimens from the Keweenaw, memories of arborescent groups of copper and silver crystals, colorful...colorful porcelaneous nodules of datolite, and copper inclusions in calcite crystals come to mind. Surprisingly...courtesy Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological
Report (issue)
BEDROCK GEOLOGY AND COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Robert F. Johnson...Portage Lake Lava Series 3 Unnamed formation 5 Copper Harbor Conglomerate 9 Nonesuch Shale 13 Jacobsville...BEDROCK GEOLOGY AND COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN ' ~ By Robert...The Matchvood quadrangle is in central Ontonagon County, just west of the Ontonagon River and its Middle...consisting of mafic and felsic lava flows, the Copper Harbor Conglomerate, the Nonesuch Shale, and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ZONING IN MICHIGAN COPPER SIGNIFICANCE. DEPOSITS AND ITS • T. M. BRODERICK. PART I. DISTRIBUTION...DISTRIBUTION OF ARSENIC IN THE MICHIGAN NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS. CONTENTS. Introduction .............................. Arsenic distributionin the Wolverine mine .......... Arsenic distributionin the Baltic lode...broader aspectsof the district as presentedin "The Copper Depositsof Michlgan" (U.S. G. S. Prof. Paper i44...Sketchmap showingprincipal copperbearing lodes,Keweenaw Point, Michigan. the more importantof the many depositswhich
Book (edition)
Collector and the Tourist includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS •... 47 MICHIGAN ............. 63 WESTERN IOWA ............................ -47 THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA...47 Beaches .................................... Mine Dumps ............................ 63 .63 63 •47...ISLE ROYALE....................... .66 LOWER MICHIGAN .......... Crystals and Specimens Fossils.......of the great Midwest. Collectors may search the mine dumps, stream beds, quarries, hillsides, caves,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exceptional group of copper crystals recovered from a large vug in the fissure vein of the Cliff mine; the largest...Probably the best arborescent silver from the Cliff mine, this specimen is 9.5 × 10.5 cm and was originally...calcite from the Cliff mine is 3.6 cm long and perched on a matrix of spongy copper. It was originally in...on earth (Bornhorst and Rose 1994). At the Cliff mine it thickens to more than 1,300 feet and remains...the formation of tabular deposits of fissure vein copper in the thin underlying lava flows. Mineralization
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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN J. KALLIOKOSKI Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Michigan Technological...sedimentary rocks (~ 1.1 Ga), upper Peninsula of Michigan. Precambrian Ras., 32 : 243--259. A complex caliche...carbonate. Whereas the caliche horizon at the Centennial Mine shows typical upward-grading features characteristic...Keweenawan red-bed strata in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Fig. 1),' along a strike length of 250 km (150...Numbers refer to localities studied for this work. Copper Harbor is at 11. and over a stratigmphic interval
Report (volume)
Nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of Northern Michigan Geochemistry, Petrography, and Volcanology of...Rhyolites of the Portage Lake Volcanics, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1970-A...Nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of Northern Michigan By WILLIAM F. CANNON and SUZANNE W. NICHOLSON...Rhyolites of the Portage Lake Volcanics, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan By SUZANNE W. NICHOLSON Chapters A and...nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of northern Michigan / by William F. Cannon and Suzanne W. Nicholson
Book (edition)
hardness of less than 2V^ on Mohs' nail will copper coin is mark on scale usually leave a scratch...though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite, an ore of iron, will be heavy in...(aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...Cross section of unpolished green malachite, a copper carbonate marked with curved bands in various
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...BULLETIN 1354-F A proposal to adopt the top of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate as the base of the upper Keweenawan...__________________.___ _ _ Top and bottom of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate as unconformities ________________________...____________ Base of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate __________ _ Top of the Copper Harbor Conglomerate _____________
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;
Report (issue)
approximately 25 townships 19 in Billings County, N. Dak., and 6 in Dawson County, Mont., on either side of the Northern...compiled the accompanying map from the original township plats used in the field. ACCESSIBILITY. Much...be referred to the Fort Union, penetrated by the Medora well below the lowest lignite outcropping in the...Pierre shale on Little Beaver Creek, in Bowman County, N. Dak.fl Throughout the field the dip is so slight...fact that, artesian water has been obtained at Medora. A well was sunk here by the Northern Pacific Railway
Journal (issue)
with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...of Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The “Copper King” The MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY L. W i l s o n New Mexico...t a n l e y J. D y l II Seaman Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University % 1992 T h e M in e...COVER: Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard...Burbank) wrote the classic work on the copper deposits of Michigan in 1929. Photo by Wendell E. Wilson.
Report (volume)
especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...Mathews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Report (issue)
Michigan’s Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents.......................................... 2 The Keweenaw Peninsula ............................................................ 6 Europeans Come to the Copper Country .........................................Ontonagon Copper Boulder ............................................................... 18 The Copper Rush...Michigan’s Copper Country – CMG 92 01 - page 1 of 144 Preface Few people realize that Michigan's copper had
Journal (volume)
spirit or inspire the ambition of the public mind . Michigan and the shores of Lake Superior and Huron, with...region of iron and copper lands, the coal and copper fields of Nova Scotia, and the copper, gold , and silver...hands with electrical rapidity, and gold, silver, copper, lead, and coal quotations rose on ' Change as...forms and phases, whether in coal, iron , lead, copper, silver, gold, or other minerals, the prospects...MINING COMPANY - PROGRESSIVE DEVELOP MENT OF THE MINE... 78 HOPE GOLD MINING COMPANY, OF COLORADO -
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 7, 2024 19:31:02
Go to top of page