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Siltstone from
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Siltstone
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Siltstone data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1519852
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1519852:1
GUID (UUID V4):a745df98-8534-4186-b874-53139a1c0ccb
Nearest other occurrences of Siltstone
5.2km (3.2 miles) Collins Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Nonesuch Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Cleveland Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Ontonagon Silver Mine, Silver City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Scranton Mine, Silver City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) White Pine Extension Mine (Pinex Mine), White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
32.6km (20.3 miles) Presque Isle Syncline Occurrence (Western Syncline; Amax Michigan), Keweenaw Copper, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
35.1km (21.8 miles) Copperwood, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) United States Metals Refining Company exploration (Copperwood Mine), Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
98.4km (61.1 miles) Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rock-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposit, Upper Peninsula, Michigan Theodore J. Bornhorst1,† 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...stratigraphically equivalent to that at the White Pine mine, but Copperwood lacks the structural complexity...manifested by the native Cu mineralization at White Pine. Reported Canadian National Instrument 43-101-compliant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
69, 1974, pp. 697-703 SCIENTIFIC FRAMBOIDAL WHITE CHALCOCITE COMMUNICATIONS deposits. Thetopof... FROM into the overlyingFreda sandstone. PINE, MICHIGAN The mineralization occurs in a 25-foot zone...CopperHarbor. Nucr.Exin chalcocitegrainsfrom White Pine, Michigan, occur throughout'the mineralizedzone in...Nonesuch shale occurred in large suchshaleat White Pine has been thoroughlydis- part by replacementof...upward advancingmineralizingfront (Brown, 1971; White, 1971). One test of this model is to comparethe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Organic 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...Organic matter and copper mineralization at White Pine, Michigan, U.S.A. In: P.A. Meyers. L.M. Pratt and...events at White Pine, Michigan. Samples of the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation from the White Pine mine and...direct reductant. Later compressional faulting at White Pine provided conduits for additional cupriferous
Report (issue)
MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White JULl 5 1969 DENVER...MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN ' ~ By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White INTRODUCTION ...Matchvood quadrangle is in central Ontonagon County, just west of the Ontonagon River and its Middle Branch...quadrangle is based on study of drill core of the White Pine Copper Co. We have made extensive use of an aeromagnetic...carried out in Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties by the Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper mineralization in the White Pine-Presque Isle District, northern Michigan Alex C. Brown 1 Received:...finest-grained facies of Nonesuch greybeds in northern Michigan has been previously attributed to the warming...employed here to explain other unique aspects of the White Pine-Presque Isle mineralization: the abrupt downward...sulfide zoning . Latent volcanic heat . White Pine, Michigan Introduction Explanations for the genesis...Canada White Pine-Presque Isle district of northern Michigan (also referred to here as the Michigan eSSC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Michigan Eileen S. Ho a, Jeffrey U Mauk b " Department...Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1063, USA b Geology Department, University...from strata hosting the White Pine stratiform copper deposit in northern Michigan provides insight into...performed on mine and core samples from five gray beds ("stripey" shale, "UZV" siltstone, "thinly" shale...shale, "DGM" siltstone, "domino" shale) of the Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation and from the "lower" sandstone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALIZATION THE COPPER AT WHITE STANLEY SOCIETY OF GEOLOGISTS IN HARBOR PINE, K. No. 1967 THE UPPER...UPPER 7 PART CONGLOMERATE MICHIGAN HAMILTON CONTENTS PAGE Abstract ........................................................... Geologyof the White Pine area ..........................................feet of the CopperHarbor Conglomerateat White Pine, Michigan. The topmost100 feet of this formation can...copper is therefore diagenetic. INTRODUCTION THW White Pine copperdepositis locatedin the southwesternKeweenaw
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1954 NO. 7 THE WHITE PINE COPPER DEPOSIT, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN • WALTER S. WHITE AND JAMES C....abovesandstones........................... 687 Massive siltstone .............................................................. Persistenceof units away from White Pine ............................... 688 688 Structure................................ Structure near White Pine .......................................... 690...Director, U.S. GeologicalSurvey. 675 676 WALTER & WHITE AND JAMES C. WRIGHT ABSTRACT Copper, largely in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 543-573 Zoningin the White Pine Copper Deposit, OntonagonCounty, Michigan ALEXANDER C. BROWN Abstract...cupriferouszone in the lower NonesuchShale of Northern Michigan is characterizedby an abrupt zonationof Cu-Fe...actual upper limit of coppermineralization in the White Pine area occursat various stratigraphiclevels20 to...anomalouselevationsin the fringe surface. The White Pine fault is clearly a post-ore structure which offsets...Introduction THE famous stratiform copper deposit at White Pine, Michiganhas oftenbeencitedas a typicalexampleof
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 (article/letter/editorial)
UNDERLYING THE WHITE PINE-PRESQUE ISLE STRATIFORM COPPER MINERALIZATION, NORTHERN MICHIGAN Alex C. Brown†...Formation of the ~50-km-wide White Pine-Presque Isle mining district, northern Michigan, has long been explained...the large Porcupine Volcanics dome underlying the mine district. Not only would caldera heat have warmed...Copper Harbor Conglomerate aquifer toward the White Pine-Presque Isle district. This lateral focus of...sediment-hosted stratiform copper mineralization of the White Pine-Presque Isle district, could be considered in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ZONING IN THE SHALE, NORTHERN WALTER S. WHITE BASAL MICHIGAN 7 NONESUCH • AND JAMES C. WRIGHT ABSTRACT...ageexposedin the westernpart of the Upper Peninsulaof Michigan (10, p. 407-408). A descriptionof this zoning...Director, U.S. Geological Survey. 1171 1172 W. S. WHITE AND J. C. WRIGHT •-;z ,-•øz J•LHflOD [ :11YHS...DlliHOOD SULFIDE MINERAL ZONI3?G IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN 1173 patterns in Fig. 1 relate to the mineral...River synclinesouth of the mountains. The White Pine mine,a major copperproducer,is locatedin T. 50N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Wisconsin, USA Esther Kingsbury Stewart, Jeffrey L. Mauk PII: DOI:...Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Wisconsin, USA, Precambrian Research (2017), doi: http://dx.doi...Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation, northern Wisconsin, USA Esther Kingsbury Stewart†1 and Jeffrey L. Mauk2 †Corresponding...observations of core and outcrop in Wisconsin and Michigan. Cumming et al. (2013) also favor a lacustrine...into central Kansas and southeast into southern Michigan (Fig. 1A). Dickas and Mudrey (1997) proposed the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1967 No. GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE KEWEENAWAN WHITE PINE, MICHIGAN • SAMBHUDAS CHAUDHURI AND GUNTER 8 ...methodof several suites of felsite from the White Pine area of Michigan indicate dates ranging from 978 q- 40...the Nonesuch Shale exposed in the mine workings of the White Pine Mine were analyzed. These samplesform...samplesextractedfrom chalcocite of the ore body at White Pine was found to be anomalous. This suggeststhat...NonesuchShale. INTRODUCTION T•4E Keweenan peninsulaof Michigan has been an important producer of copperfor more
Journal (issue)
large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...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 .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a few plant materials. Suites of samples from Michigan and the Colorado Plateau have been examined in...prepared iodide varied from a greywhite to a tan-white crystalline powder that remained practically unchanged...from WGte Pine mine, Ontonagon Cozcnty, ~~~h~g~~~ The rocks WRIGHT of the White Pine copper mine, described...described in detail by WHITE and represent a geologic environment in which isotopic fractionation (1.$64)...copper and grades typical of difYerentlayers in the mine area sre shown di~ramm~tic~~y in Fig. 2. The beds
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NONESUCH FORMATION IN THE VICINITY OF THE WHITE PINE COPPER MINE, MICHIGANI GEJING LI, ]EFFREY L. MAux...ofGeological Sciences, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1063 Abstract-The Middle Proterozoic (1...host ofthe stratiform copper deposit at White Pine, Michigan, consists of 200 m of principally dark grey...rocks. Clay minerals from sampies collected from the mine area and drill holes up to 100 km away have been...morphologies of phyllosilicates, both including white mica and chlorite, occur in the 'lower' Nonesuch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER LODES IN THE KEWEENAW DISTRICT, NORTHERN MICHIGAN: A HYBRID EVOLVED METEORIC AND METAMOPHOGENIC...3A7 Abstract The Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan is well known for early diagenetic sulfide-dominant...hosted mainly by basal siltstone-shale units of the Nonesuch Formation in the White Pine district, and later...aquifers), similar to the fluid which formed the White Pine mineralization. This model has several advantages...copper lodes on the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan (Fig. 1) is most commonly explained by a metamorphogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the upper Peninsula of Michigan. rn the white pine area of ontonagon county, both native copper and...abundant copper minerai. Many miles northeast of white pine native copper depositsare found principally in...of porphyrin extractionsfrom siitstone of the white Pine Nonesuch shale and analysesof petroleum from...years old. The existenceof porphyrins in the siltstone is indicative of a mild thermal history of the...dencewhich supports the contention (White and Wright' 1954;White, 1960; Barghoorn et at,1965)that the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theWhitePine CopperDeposit,NorthernMichigan WALTER S. WHITE Abstract Pertinent physicalpropertiesof the upper...various paleohydrologic modelsfor the origin of the White Pine copperdepositfeasible. The approachis illustrated-hereby...musthavebeensignificant convergence-ofsolutionpathstoward White Pine. Surface water entering the Copper Harbor Conglomerateon...oncesignificantlyhigher in altitude than the water table at White Pine; this model implies a major copperdepositat great...water entering the Nonesuch Shale up dip from White Pine is not a possiblesourceof mineralizing solutions
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore. Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered.................................. . 13 Guadalupe County, N. Mex .........................................Garvin County, Okla ....................................................... . 18 Guadalupe County, N.Mex.......................................... . 23 White Pine, Mich ......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA (Received May l, 1990; revised and accepted August...Nonesuch Formation (ca. 1.1 Ga), host to the White Pine copper deposit, is a generally organic-rich unit...increase in the level of thermal maturity from Michigan westward to Wisconsin. The aliphatic character...associated oil seeps and tar in mines near White Pine, Michigan. Previous studies of the organic geochemistry...concentrated on rocks and seep samples from White Pine Mine. In the last five years, several studies have
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)
underlying the ore horizons. White (1960) noted that the cupriferous zone at the White Pine stratiform copper deposit...deposit of northern Michigan is not strictly conformable with bedding, and that the top of the cupriferous...cadmium sulfide. Studies by Brown (1965, 1971) and White and Wright (1966) describe the emplacement of this...rimming the border of pyrite euhedra in greenish siltstone (transmitted light, 40X, FC-3). (4) Quartz replacing...transport of copper may have diverse origins (e.g., see White, 1968, 1981): e.g., ultrafiltration of connate waters
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iuyw I , < h,,,rl,rp,, ,,I I r,,,,l>,l\ T HE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT stretches in a southwest-northeast...miles, 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...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
 
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