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Silver from
Tamarack Mine, Tamarack, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copperⓘ3 photos of Silver associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tamarack Mine, Tamarack, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1433323
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1433323:3
GUID (UUID V4):01eafd06-c531-4bf3-ad60-329cfbcdf566
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
1.4km (0.9 miles) ⓘCalumet & Hecla Mine, Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘSouth Hecla Mine, Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘOsceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) ⓘNo. 21 shaft, Calumet & Hecla Mine, Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) ⓘNo. 3 shaft, Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) ⓘNo. 4 shaft, Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) ⓘLaurium Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) ⓘNo. 2 shaft, Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) ⓘSouth Kearsarge Mine, Kearsarge, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) ⓘLa Salle Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 (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 .
Book
Ontonagan Indian My ‘Vv Lake Linden ee .-HOUGHTON Reservation ba 33 vo South Range. > eo ...Clarence J. Monette 942 Ninth Street Lake Linden, Michigan, 49945 All Rights Reserved ISBN: 0-942363-04-3...Printing & Graphic Services, Inc. of Calumet, Michigan _ ee AUTHOR'S As the title of this. NOTE...names and places in the four counties of Baraga, Houghton Keweenaw and Ontonagon are listed, as this is...Monette Abbaye -------------------7--7 Adams. Township .---~------7--------Agate Harbor ----------77
Journal (volume)
.....................23 No. 5 Shaft at the Tamarack Mine, by W. E. Parnall, Jr. .26 The Crystalization...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 ...........................
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
Report (issue)
Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ........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...collector whose specialty was Michigan. He was also a past president of the Michigan Mineralogical Society and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia...Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T Twenty-eighth in a series of articles on the...Conglomerate in Houghton and Keweenaw counties, Michigan. Every summer in the Copper Country, mine dumps from...copper mining are being crushed and hauled off the mine sites. The crushed rock is mainly used for road...mistakenly ended up in the mine dumps. The lucky person may also find silver in association with copper
Book
fifties, still work the mile-deep stopes of the Quincy Mine. One of the oldest mines on the North American continent...the lore of Michigan's Copper Country CALUMET, MICHIGAN ‱ 1964 Copyright, 1943, by WILLIAM A. MURDOCH...JIM PAUL S BOULDER NUMBER 98 TAKES A JACKPOT SILVER LAGNIAPPE COPPER HITS A HALF-DOLLAR 1 BILLY ROY...INWARD FROM THE EDGE 209 219 230 EPILOGUE: THE MICHIGAN COPPER RANGE IN WORLD WAR II ACK NOWLEDGMENTS... 17 Old mine pit at Fort Wilkins 32 Fort Wilkins stockade 33 Profile of the Cliff Mine page 57
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the south balanced. dej>osits. shore. Beyond Michigan the same series of rocks " The vertical spindle...Atlantic coast, carries throughout its entire ex- Michigan alone have they yielded copper in profitable base...exclusively, contained in masses of erals. Everywhere in Michigan the copper of the that the weight may be used...complete, as shown by the 1880 produced from the Ely Mine over 3,000,000 lb. of as the Keweenaw Gronp, and...apn<>ared ...., with . porphyry the Identical Hecla Mine, i8 apparently annual statistics. which, along Ollr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Seaman Mineralogical Museum MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Houghton, Michigan Almost as far north as...as one can go in Michigan, a mineralog­ ical museum welcomes visitors the year round. This museum has a...collection of minerals of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and properly classifying the same." The new college...first home was the Houghton Fire Hall, gradually accumulated not JEAN KEMP Michigan Technological University...University Houghton, Michigan 49931 only Michigan minerals, but also out-of-state specimens for classroom
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
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industry and trade—Michigan—Keweenaw Peninsula—History. 2. Copper miners—Michigan—Keweenaw Peninsula—History...Perhaps the reason for its lack of fame outside Michigan itself is that its annals, like those of happy...to the Lake Superior copper district of Upper Michigan. The reasons for its “lack of fame” might be several...precious metals—gold and silver. Tracking the human pursuit of gold and silver has proved a seductive task...metal, nor is it the dearest one. In the case of Michigan copper in particular, another factor might help
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cages and hoisted to surface. The few years the mine has been in operation amount to paper read to a...the "an example of this kind, at the Little Annie Mine, comes to the mind of the mortal from earth's surface...than From the last annual report issued by the Tamarack dissolved or leached out at one point. and reprecipita­...all present, might dissolve the gold. Peroxide the mine has been but begun down here. The wor k is per at...yield an average return of two WONDERS OF THE TAMARACK COPPER a seam carrying no copper. The other two
Journal (issue)
brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
editorial complications, it has been delayed. 2 Michigan Geological Survey Collection, No. 2060o. ‱58...investigationfor the chemicalgeologist." Geological Survey of Michigan, Volume [., Part 2, pp. 37, 4o. 160 DISCUSSION...uncommon. Capt. Jos. Polla,rd, of the Calumet and Hecla mine, has quitea collectionof Karlsbadtwins2 pickedout...appendix. DISC USSION. MINE 16 5 WATERS. We have also to considerthe mine water of the greater depths...Calumetand Hecla mine may perhapsincludealso somewater working down the shaft. The Tamarack water from the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Native Copper of Michigan Author(s): E. B. Hinsdale Source: Journal of the American Geographical Society...OF MICHIGAN. BY E. B. HINSDALE. Few people have any knowledge of the native copper of Michigan, what...mineral, except it carries a trace of silver, and pure silver in small quantities is often found imbedded...hammers were found in the vicinity of the Minnesota mine. One of the larger class weighed thirty-nine and...https://about.jstor.org/terms 328 Native Copper of Michigan. live timber then standing on the ground. Over
Report (issue)
STREAM DISCHARGE IN MICHIGAN MISCELLANEOUS MEASUREMENTS By D.J. Holtschlag and D.V. Eagle U.S. GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, WATER MANAGEMENT DIVISION Lansing, Michigan 1985 UNITED...Geological Survey 6520 Mercantile Way, Suite 5 Lansing, Michigan 48910 Open-File Services Section Western Distribution...history of miscellaneous discharge measurements in Michigan .................................. 2 2. Graph...miscellaneous measurements in Upper Peninsula of Michigan ..................................... 4 Map
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
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 (volume)
30 Massachusetts _________________________ 34 Michigan _ _ _ _ ___ ____ _____ 35 Minnesota _________________..._ Wisconsin ______________'._________________ Michigan __________________________________ General features_________...___________ Eaton County__________________________ Houghton .County_____ _ ___ _ _____ Iron County________...Kalamazoo County_________________________ Lapeer County __ ___________ ______ Luce County_____ _ _ ______________...__ Lake County____________________________ Lee County ____________________________ Mason and Tazewell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan -- Downloaded by [University of Michigan] at 08:51 04...Caledonia mine, owned by Red Metal Minerals, is located at the southern end of the famous Michigan native...native copper district and is the last operating mine on the copper range. It is presently being operated...and Whiteman 1992). The early development of the mine included sinking shafts and driving adits on the...1873. In the same year Captain Martin leased the mine and sporadically operated it until 188 I , producing
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$5.00 CLIFTON and the CLIFF MINE Miners breaking up a giant mass of pure copper. One mass found...wide, and weighed three hundred tons at the Cliff Mine. By Clarence J. Monette FIFTY-THIRD OF A LOCAL...CLIFF MINE COPYRIGHT January 30, 1999 Clarence J. Monette 942 Ninth Street Lake Linden, Michigan 49945...Pittsburgh. It was always knownvas first copper the mine Cliff opened andawas in the tne Lake SUDIE...pre=hnstonicadays#ofe tine mound-builders, and the first mine pay a dividend from Lake Superior to copper. According
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE CLIFF MINE, discovered in 1844, is located on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan in the heart...first mine on the "Keweenaw" to pay dividends to stockholders. Throughout its history, the mine also produced...produced spectacular specimens of crystallized native silver and copper that now enrich museums and private...period but ended unsuccessfully. Dr. Douglass Houghton first visited the copper region in 1830 and published...of Upper Michigan, started his mining career with Calumet and Hecla as an underground mine geologist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pewabic Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton County, Michigan Lake Superior Native Copper District Sixteenth...TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior...Superior native copper district, also known as the Michigan Copper Country, is located on the sparsely populated...into Lake Superior near the western end of Upper Michigan. The Keweenaw winters can be long and cold with...feet (6,400 vertical feet), making it the deepest mine shaft in the Western Hemisphere. Tom Rosemeyer collection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Midcontinental Rift of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA Ria L. Mitchell a,∗ , Nathan D. Sheldon b a...of Michigan, 2534 CC Little Building, 1100 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA b ...sedimentary rocks from the Keweenaw Peninsula (Michigan, USA) are geochemically characterized to examine...range of localities across the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Provenance indicators such as Ti/Zr and Ti/Al...of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper Peninsula of Michigan. (A) The modern extent of the MCR system, reaching
 
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