 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | istory and Mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan Ninth in a series of articles on the...No. 2 (Indiana Copper Company) mine dump in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The individual crystals, which...State Highways 26 and 38 (Lake Mine Junction) in northern Ontonagon County. The property consists of 1,280...R. 37 W., Greenland Township. The 2-square-mile property is owned by the state of Michigan and is traversed...Mineralization Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics (PLV) |  | | Journal (issue) | | large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The āCopper Kingā 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) | | Michigan Mineralogy: A LOCALITY INDEX TOM MORRIS, JR. 4553 Shenandoah Allen Park, Michigan 48101 Tom...occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...compiling this information was The Mineralogy of Michigan (Heinrich, 1976), which should be consulted by...locality labeling of Michigan specimens. It should be pointed out that the list of Michigan mineral localities...NoneĀ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior...district is world famous for the copperincluded calcite crystals that occurred at a number of mines in...in the district, especially the Quincy mine. Crystals ranged in size from micro to large-cabinet specimens...common gangue minerals include quartz, epidote, calcite, chlorite, prehnite, pumpellyite, and laumontite...in the tenth grade. I have collected most of the mine dumps during the past sixty years and have found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Places of Geological and Mineralogical Interest in Michigan LOWER PENINSULA ARTHUR Y. JOHNSTONE Cranbrook...of Science 500 Lone Pine Road Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48013 The Upper Peninsula has pronounced geological...Paleozoic beds form the northern rim of the Southern Michigan Basin; from Marquette westward, the early Precambrian...beds, forming the northern rim of the Southern Michigan Basin, are evident as soon as you cross the 5-mile...Seaman Mineralogical Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 away softer surrounding |  | | Book | | Mineralogy of Michigan by E. W. Heinrich updated and revised ā¢ by George W. Robinson M By E W~ Hellnr]ch...Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 2004 Ā© 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) | | Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. MarcWApril: Amethyst and calcite, Artigas...with quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural...claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Denver Museum of Natural History specimen...Azurite on malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and...NovemberDecember: Galena, calcite, and chalcopyrite, Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nodules of datolite, and copper inclusions in calcite crystals come to mind. Surprisingly, specimens...courtesy Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological...started with the closure of the Champion mine in Houghton County by the Copper Range Company in September...reserves (Fields 1997).This was the last native copper mine in operation by the Copper Range Company and was...came with the closing of the White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, in September 1995. New, stringent environmental |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nodule, 0.9 x 1.1 inches, recovered from the Hancock mine dump by John Perona in 1972. John Perona specimen...Jaszczak photo. rom the bowels of a Keweenaw copper mine to the icy depths of Lake Superior, serious datolite...combination. Imagine descending a steep 2,000-foot-deep mine shaft in the dead of a Keweenaw winter with only...over heels into the black depths of an abandoned mine. All of this effort was expended on clandestine...and Sciences Michigan Technological University Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | shoreline shift with Lake Superior storms, exposing calcite/quartz veins in the Copper Harbor Conglomerate...Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...terminated scalenohedral calcite crystals on crystallized quartz. The longest calcite crystal is 7.9 cm and...and was collected from the calcite/quartz vein by Bob Williams in July 1975. Pam and Jerry Hall specimen...year. During the last four years, the crushing of mine dumps (poor-rock piles) for road repairs and construction |  | | Book | | Historic State Park 13700 13.25 LaneĀ Ā Garden, Michigan 49835 Tel: (906) 644-2603 Keweenaw Peninsula Jill...Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton...Rocks National Lakeshore P.O. Box 40, Munising, Michigan 49862 Tel: (906) 387-2607 / Email: David_Kronk@nps...Mountains Wilderness State Park 412 S. Boundary Road, Ontonagon, MI 49953 Tel: (906) 885-5206 / Email: spraguer@michigan...Mining Engineering and Sciences (adjunct) Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 49855 Tel: (906) 227-1176 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg dāOisan, IsĆØre, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collectorās Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |  | | 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 | | 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G Greenland (vol. 24, no. 2)...(8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland; and 25/#6, The History...81-160 161-240 241-320 321--400 [ 1-104 GREENLAND] HMC0 ] 1-264 ā¢MINERAL MUSEUMS OF EASTERN...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...Houghton and Keweenaw counties, Michigan. Every summer in the Copper Country, mine dumps from a bygone era of...copper mining are being crushed and hauled off the mine sites. The crushed rock is mainly used for road...and recover copper that mistakenly ended up in the mine dumps. The lucky person may also find silver in...locality. Collected at the Tamarack Jr. No. 1 mine, Houghton County, by Tom Rosemeyer, 11 August 2012. John |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICROCLINE IN THE NATIVE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN Ina KrorN, Stanf ord, U ni.oersity, C al'iJorni...intensive mining activity in the copper country of Michigan, and detailed study of the native copper deposits...aqueous product" forming after both copper and calcite. Whitneyz supplemented this with a complete analysis3and...amounts "in all the mines from Keweenaw Point to Ontonagon" in association with analcite, as the "last formed...Juliens described brick-red "orthoclase" lining calcite-filled vugs in amygdaloidal basalt at the outcrop |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lode Houghton County, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...of the dense basalt matrix at the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump. These small and inexpensive detectors have...agate itself. Collected by Ray Just, C & H No. 21 mine, 10 July 2011. uring the past sixty years (1952ā2012)...various mine dumps along the Kearsarge copper-bearing amygdaloidal lode in Houghton County, Michigan. These...excavating the agatebearing zone of the Wolverine No. 2 mine dump during the annual Copper Country Mineral Retreat |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (October 2017). 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Twenty-sixth in a...located in Keweenaw County, Michigan, was made by Doug Miller of Calumet, Michigan. Miller, a thirty-year...area about a half-mile northwest of the North Cliff mine. He had checked part of this area earlier in the...secTom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...first beep on Figure 4. Map showing Eagle River, Michigan, and the location of the silver vein in the copper-bearing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lake Superior near Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan. The near-shore find, now called the Laker...Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University. He now...inches wide and was filled with white crystalline calcite. In summer 2001, a small split off the main vein...best specimens to date from this locality. The calcite coating the crystallized groups was removed with...August 2008, Barron and Peterson left Calumet, Michigan, with Petersonās 23-foot cabin cruiser in tow |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net All mineral photography...History and Mineralogy of the St. Louis Mine Houghton County, Michigan Twentieth in a series of articles...at the St. Louis mine, located about 1.3 miles east of the village of Laurium, Michigan. This little-known... including quartz, pumpellyite-(Mg), epidote, calcite, hematite, prehnite, laumontite, and copper, that...microcrystals in amygdules contained in a lava flow top. The mine has also yielded uniquely banded agates that occur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County the weekend of 13 and 14 December. Formerly known...in Houghton, Michigan, recently completed the Keweenaw Gallery portion of its Michigan Minerals exhibits...California, calcite, and other minerals from the unveiled a new exhibit of organic gems regionās mine, as well...5-billion-year- old meteorite found at Cape York, Greenland. It is the worldās largest meteorite on display...www.nhm.org/gmc. However, donāt put it off this adventure trip fills up fast. Many participants are repeat |  | | Book | | LIBRARY 512 B. LAKE AVE. MONTICELLO, WI 53570 Mine @ @ Tunnel Miscellaneous site Acknowledgments...Coys ens 12 Dane County AC AV cay sie sues each oo Saas Se ine 16 Pierce County eS onasic Cave...See 19 Richland County 4 Kickapoo Indian Caverns ........-.---++00005- 22 Crawford County Caves on Public...se eo 30 Door County 7 Cherney Maribel Caves Park .....-.+++++++++5> 5p Manitowoc County +eeee eer eeee...State Park ........--Sauk County tees 8) ee eee Oeeontcre Glen .-c 3-8 Brown County 37 10 Governor Dodge |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exposed by acid dissolution from the late-stage calcite matrix. The group is 4 mm long with individual...Calumet, Michigan 49913 tajmahal@gilanet.com History and Mineralogy of the Manganese Mine Keweenaw...Keweenaw County Michigan Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological...ocated in the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan are two small manganese oxide deposits that occur...discovered was a small vein of manganese oxides and calcite that crops out on the north shore of Lake Manganese |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...of Arizona by Alexander G. Schauss A Fat Jack Adventure by Jeff Scovil THE COLLECTIONS Erika Brown Mineralogical...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 |  | | Journal (volume) | | some Microminerals from the Ohio pit, Baraga County, Michigan Al Falster 920 McIntosh Wausau, Wl 54401 ... i The Ohio pit in Baraga County, Michigan, is an old open-pit iron mine. In vugs and cavities of the...the carbonate-rich zones (calcite, siderite, etc ), numerous species of fine micro minerals can be collected...collected. Due to the fact that the mine has been abandoned for several years, the lower parts of the pit...acicular crystals. The contrast of the whitish calcite on which goethite is commonly perched creates some |
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Adventure mine, Greenland, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA