| | 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 (issue) | Calendar Events Pg 2 Upcoming Events Pg 4 Michigan Pudding Stone Pg 4 Yooping Good Pg 5 Pebble...Guild, Jewelry, Gem, and Mineral Show, Jefferson County Fair Grounds, 15200 W. 6th Ave., Golden, CO. Free...13-15, Fort Collins Gem & Mineral Show; at Thomas M. McKee Building, at The Ranch/Larimer County Fairgrounds...Sun.; adult admission $4. Sponsored by the Fort Collins Rockhounds Club. Thurs., Mar. 19, 7:00 p.m., Colo...Avalanches: A case history of destruction in Hinsdale County, impacts to historic mining dams, and how snow | | | 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 | | | 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 (issue) | Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............Topaz-Mineral Exploration (1605 Hillcrest, Grand Haven, Michigan 49417) wishes to announce that he is now stocking...Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named | | | Book (edition) | GUIDE (Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...central Indiana, near Cincinnati, and Dowagiac, Michigan. Few have been reported years, in recent perhaps...Lincoln Co. Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell | | | Journal (issue) | scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MENOMINEE GENERALIZED GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN, SHOWING METAMORPHIC ZONES BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL...REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN THE PRECAMBRIAN OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN BY HAROLD L. JAMES ABSTRACT Precambrian rocks...an area of about 7500 square miles in northern Michigan. Of this area, approximately 3300 square miles... 1456 H. L. JAMES—REGIONAL METAMORPHISM, NORTHERN MICHIGAN ILLUSTRATIONS Downloaded from gsabulletin.gsapubs...Figure Page 1. Township and range map of northern Michigan and adjacent parts of Wisconsin 1457 2. AKF diagram | | | Book | or one hundred leagues from the Hurons there is a mine of copper from which Truchement Brusle showed me...island which is fifty in there is a very beautiful mine of in which circuit, leagues copper; it is found...pieces all 11 u Is it not probable that the beautiful mine of refined. In Lake Superior there ?1 copper...copper referred to by this writer was the ancient mine now being re-opened by the Minong company ? It is barely...presented more the aspect of a lately developed mine than that of one long abandoned. u Jour In the Relation | | | Journal (volume) | vein-stones. The ignorance and prejudice of the native mine-owner prohibits use of the wheel-barrow, the windlass...wrought to advantage, now remains unbroken in the mine, and undressed at the surface. All necessaries of...and copper, in deep than in shallow parts of the mine, and contains platina near the surface only. Short...less liberally, than slaves in Brazil. 371-384 . MICHIGAN . The metalliferous series of Lake Superior rests...measure, of labradorite, hornblende, chlorite, and epidote ; and these are interlaid by beds, of amygdaloid | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | photo. March/April: Quartz, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. John C. Medici specimen and photo. May/June:...May/June: Turgite, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Ronald E. Bentley specimen and photo. July/August:...July/August: Quartz, H. deLinde No. 4 mine, High Peak, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Private collection; Ronald...Bentley photo. September/October: Barite, Otero County, Colorado. Dan and Dianne Kile specimen; John Muntyan...Arkansas, 316 Amethyst Scepters, Salem, New London County, Connecticut, W. A. Henderson, Jr., M. Haritos | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...dogtooth calcite have been found at the Holland mine in Washington Camp Mining District near Nogales...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...from the Red Ledge gold mine in Washington, Nevada Co., Calif. The Red Ledge mine has a unique history, | | | Book (volume) | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N | | | Catalog/List | last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...structures. $20.00 each DENDRITIC WIRESIL VER Elure Mine, Cobar, NWS, Australia; Fine crystalline wire silver...priced at $20.00 each CINNABAR AND STIBNITE: Gorlovka Mine, Ukraine; Nice thumbnails mounted in plastic perky | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | between epidote and clinozoisite. I have just received the results of four analyses of four epidote/clinozoisites...of the four are clinozoisite; the other two are epidote. Curiously also, only one of the lighter pair is...is clinozoisite, and one of the darker pair is epidote. So it seems that only individual analysis can...including rules and guidelines, contact Marge Collins, 3017 Niles-Buchanan Rd., Buchanan, MI 49107; margaret@...competition was Rockhounding in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Ontario by Jody Fronk of the Central Illinois | | | Catalog/List | 00 each. AURICHALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: Exceptional baby blue...$2.00 each AURICHALCITE - 79 MINE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona: Delicate radiating... AZURITE - MORENCI MINE Morenci Mine, Clifton-Morenci District, Greenlee County, Arizona: Excellent...Institute and often are associated with minor epidote, calcite, specular hematite and other minerals...limited supply. CALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: AWESOME! Exquisite masses | | | Journal (issue) | Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn photo. 6 Supplement... Summit County, Colorado. Ken Donn photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall...Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958; Ken Donn photo. Chalcedony on chrysocolla...azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken Donn photo. Cerussite | | | Catalog/List | $10.00 per specimen. BOTRYOIOAL BORN/TE: Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Wiscon�in: 1.5 to 3 inch spe_cimens...each!! Mine are only $7.00 each while they last! WHITEPINEMINECRYSTALLINECOPPER: Ontonogan, Michigan. A summer...Seaman Minera� Museum in Houghto�, �ichigan. �he mine is now closed! These aro very nice crystalline copper...from the last operating commercial copper mine in Michigan! Priced at $3.00, $6.00, $10.00, and $15.00...COPPER/SILVER "HALFBREEOS'� Calumet and Hecia Mine, LalMichigan: Col!ected back in the 1960's these | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | nearly two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of importance in these States. The greater part...stephanite, from the Reese River district, Lander County. Among these are several quite valuable specimens...transparent crystals of quartz, from the Chase Mine, Lander County. The ores from this locality are remarkable...pieces of crystallized sulphur from Hum boldt County, some large pieces of selenite from the same locality...wulfenite from Eureka Consolidated Mines, Eureka County,salt crystallized , from brine and some pieces | | | Report (issue) | Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ............................... 12 The Legend of the Ontonagon Copper Boulder .............................................................. 80 West of the Ontonagon.................................................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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Tewksbury, Great Britain; and Dr. George W. Robinson, Michigan Technological University. Part 1 of the accepted...d, Utah (variscite); Prince of Wales, Alaska (epidote); and Volume 77, JulyIAugust 2002 239 Downloaded...to serve the war effort by operating the Harding mine in Dixon, New Mexico. His recovery of the rare and...FROM THE PALERMO NO. 1 PEGMATITEyGROTON, GRAFTON COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE: PARAGENE,SIS.K King, PO.Box 126...at the Palermo No. 1 pegmatite, Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Paragenesis 1 consists of cavities | | | 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; | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Tungsten-BearingSkarnsof the Sierra Nevada. I. The Pine Creek Mine, California R. J. NEWBERRY* Departmentof AppliedEarth...calcite(epidote)replacementof garnet-pyroxene (plagioclase)skarn, and calcite-quartz-epidote-chlorite-fiuorite...hornfels.Intrusions, which representthe entire igby Collins(1977) and by Kwak (1978) for tungsten Introduction...extent. The Pine Creek mine is located in the Inyo National forest,Inyo County, California, 27 km westof...westof Bishop(Fig. 1). Mine production,summarizedby Gray et al. (1968), includesmore than 6 million metric | | | Report (issue) | granitic rocks 2 Granitic porphyry of San Manuel mine 2 Cloudburst Formation 2 San Manuel Formation 3...cut the steeply southwest-dipping vein into the Collins and Mammoth-Tiger segments, by down-to-the-northeast...from being a correlative feature; instead the Ford mine area on the lower plate of the fault system may...mineral assemblages are such an effect. Extensive epidote-chlorite alteration extends above the Cloudburst...Laramide porphyry copper deposit at the San Manuel mine was probably tilted only about 25° to 30° by mid-Tertiary |
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