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Malachite from
Algomah Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Algomah Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:48483
Long-form Identifier:1:3:48483:1
GUID (UUID V4):cec8c0ae-2a9d-4a87-9084-8e4a98ddb7b8
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
2.0km (1.3 miles) Belt Mine (Piscatauqua), Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Ogima Mine, Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Indiana Mine, Winona, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Caledonia Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) What Cheer Mine, Winona, Greenland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) Minesota Mine, Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
11.2km (7.0 miles) National Mine, Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Algonquin Mine (Pennsylvania Mine), Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
38.9km (24.2 miles) White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
42.0km (26.1 miles) Champion Mine, Champion Mine, Adams Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
932 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bisbee, Arizona, USA. 2.490 (vs), 1.575 (s), 1.251 (s), 2.050 (m), 1.449...(2) 84.12 15.88 100.00 2+ (1) Bisbee, Arizona, USA; by electrolytic determination of total Cu. (2) Cu1+...connellite, malachite, goethite (Bisbee, Arizona, USA); cuprite, tenorite, chrysocolla, malachite, plancheite...dioptase, atacamite (Algomah mine, Michigan, USA). Distribution: From the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Cochise...Cochise Co., Arizona, and at the Algomah mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, USA. Name: From the Greek for near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large Paramelaconite Crystals Algomah Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik...Box 2468 Kingsford, Michigan 49802 shawncarlson8hotmail.com T he Algomah mine is located in northeastern...northeastern Ontonagon County, 2 miles east of the village of Mass, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The mine began...began in 1910 as an exploration by the Algomah Mining Company to investigate an unusual mineralized lode...perplexing, copper deposits in Michigan. In stark contrast to virtually every other mine in the district, native
Journal (issue)
iners with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University...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)
ASSOCIATEDMINERALS FROM THE ALGOMAH MINE, ONTONAGONCOUNTY,MICHIGAN Department oJ Geology,Michigan CollegeoJ SrnNBv...Houghton, Michigan. Since the first description of paramelaconite from the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee,Arizona...donated by Koenig to the A. E' Seaman Museum at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, was found and...group of crystals associated with connellite and malachite. Several other specimenswere found in the museum...with the locality given as the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Examination of these specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the United States: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 426 p., 47 pl. 5. Hawkes, H. E....OXIDES .4ND CHLORIDES .4T THE .4LGOM.4H MINE, ONTON.4GON COUNTY, MICHIG.4N S. A. WILLIAMS The recentdiscoveryof... as well as paratacamiteand nantokiteat the Algomah mine (3) has led the writer to attemptto explain... If all of the copper minerals found at the Algomah mine are listed in sequencethe paragenesisis as...te-atacamite-paratacamite-nantokite-tenorite-malachite-chrysocolla. Native copperandcuprite are both
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Associated secondary minerals include chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, hemimorphite...Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922). An unusual...planchtite is described in ore from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In the arid mining...Santa Rita district, Grant County, and the Orogrande district, Otero County, New Mexico. Dioptase associated...heterogenite and malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ASSOCIATEDMINERALS FROM THE ALGOMAH MINE, ONTONAGONCOUNTY,MICHIGAN Department oJ Geology,Michigan CollegeoJ SrnNBv...Houghton, Michigan. Since the first description of paramelaconite from the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee,Arizona...donated by Koenig to the A. E' Seaman Museum at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, was found and...group of crystals associated with connellite and malachite. Several other specimenswere found in the museum...with the locality given as the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Examination of these specimens
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 (issue)
Bulletin 6 1976 COVER Shown is a porcelanoid mass of flesh colored datolite, a borosilicate (CaBSiO4OH)...(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
Report (issue)
deposits. Association: Chrysocolla, dioptase, malachite, conichalcite, tenorite. Distribution: From Mindouli...of Windhoek, Namibia. In England, at the Driggith mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria; the Gunheath china clay...In the USA, in Arizona, from the Table Mountain mine, Galiuro Mountains, and the Azurite mine, Tortolita...and elsewhere. In Michigan, from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon Co. In the Kurokawa mine, Gifu Prefecture...Prefecture, and the Kisanmori mine, Akita Prefecture, Japan. From La Rioja, Argentina. Name: For a Mr. Planche
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)
[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...clinoatacamite, and paratacamite. Pseudomorphs of malachite and chrysocolla after atacamite have been reported;...brochantite, antlerite, linarite, caledonite, malachite, chrysocolla, and gypsum. Atacamite is essentially
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGICAL NOTES 779 at the Algomah mine. Several of these specimenswere identical to those just...the sequencedioptase-paramelaconite-planch6ite-malachite-chrysocolla. Perfect pseudomorphs of planch6ite...relatively common. On a recent collectingtrip to the Algomah mine a few massivepieces of paramelaconite were found...which contain small pockets of crystals.The Algomah mine is now closedand filled with water;it seems...Professor K. Spiroff of the Department of Geology, Michigan College of Mining and Technology, and to Professor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A FEW NOTES ON COLLECTING IN UPPER MICHIGAN BY LYLE DeRUSHA RR 1 Chippewa Falls, Wise. In an area comprising...Minnesota mine dumps. From here to Copper Harbor on the tip of the peninsula and the Adams Mine dumps are...3 5 and # 4 5 . Many good specimens of leaf and mass copper were found here the past year due to the...other mines worthy of looking over. The Mass and the Adventure mine dumps will also be used for road fill...two will end as collecting spots. The Algomah, Lake, Michigan, Caledonia, St. Louis, So. Lake, Victoria
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the United States: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 426 p., 47 pl. 5. Hawkes, H. E....OXIDES .4ND CHLORIDES .4T THE .4LGOM.4H MINE, ONTON.4GON COUNTY, MICHIG.4N S. A. WILLIAMS The recentdiscoveryof... as well as paratacamiteand nantokiteat the Algomah mine (3) has led the writer to attemptto explain... If all of the copper minerals found at the Algomah mine are listed in sequencethe paragenesisis as...te-atacamite-paratacamite-nantokite-tenorite-malachite-chrysocolla. Native copperandcuprite are both
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
It looked like malachite, and later examination under a microscope revealed malachite as well as several...Australia. It has been reported from the Algomah Mine in Michigan, but not from the eastern United States...on cuprite, but occasionally appeared to be on malachite. Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Nantokite 274 ROCKS AND MINERALS...weak birefringence, the two together ruling out malachite, antlerite and brochantite. The mineral was distinguished...present. Indeed, some of the crystals identified as malachite may also be,aurichalcite. Some of the smaller
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
Book
variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2...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...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1005 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Departamento de Petrología y Geoquímica, Facultad...Bi (≤ 0.15 wt. % Bi) and Pb (≤ 0.16 wt. % Pb). Malachite and brochantite are alteration products of sulfides...present in the primary minerals (usually sulfides), malachite and azurite are the most common secondary Cu-minerals...José González del Tánago especially at the Tsumeb mine in Namibia (Cook 2002; Cook and Nicolson 2002)....silicates (chrysocolla and plancheite), carbonates (malachite, calcite, dolomite and azurite) and quartz are
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
Catalog/List
on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on...Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...silicate CLEAVELANDITE Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite...Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable mass in quartz with minor...magnesium silicate Canada Heath Lake, Smallwood mine ~e, light brown prismatic crystalline aggregate
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... GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area
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... GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area
Catalog/List
limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...de Cristo Nearly pure dark brown cubic cleavable mass with green streak ...................... ALBITE...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in
 
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