 | | 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...None theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...5.5 × 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Author’s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...former naval officer who became an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (Monette 1975). It was...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...from the district, was only out-produced by the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which accounted for |  | | 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 | | 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) | | (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 |  | | Report (issue) | | d. Z = n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Centennial mine, Michigan, USA. 7.50 (10), 2.481 (8), 3.02 (6), 3...1 5.3 33.5 16.9 Total 99.97 (1) Centennial mine, Michigan, USA; Cu by electrolysis, H2 O:OH from charge...the alteration (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Association: Tremolite, quartz, epidote, monazite, copper...anthonyite (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from the Centennial and other nearby...nearby mines, near Calumet, Houghton Co., Michigan. From Laurium, Greece, in slag. In Germany, from Niederfischbach |  | Cornwall, H.R., Runner, J.J., Stromquist, A.A., Swanson, R.W., White, W.S. (1949) Detailed geologic map of the recently active copper mines; Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan. Open-File Report Vol. 1949 (50-4) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr504 | Report (issue) | | copper nines, -..- roughton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan H. R. Cornwall, J. J. Runner, A. A. Stromquist................. 10 Central Exploration fissure mine, 12 Introduction................ + (- ; Stratigraphy...Distribution of copper,.*»...................... 33 The Houghton conglomerate *>re body, Allouez No* 3* shaft.*...copper*«...._................,.. 26 ->- Quincy mine ,..........*.......*................... Introduction............^.................... 32 Isle Royale mine ................................... 3U ; *" 30 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICROMOUNTING AT THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN By PAUL B. MOORE and RICHARD M. 6EGER Depr. of Geolophysical...collectors with limited time, may we suggest the Hancock Mine (on Ingot St., Hancock). The dump looks terrible...(6Ca0.3Al 2 0 3 .7Si0 2 .4 H a O ) , monoclinic, epidote family, is a 468 rather abundant mineral occurring... Pumpellyite frequently is found growing upon epidote xls, replacing that mineral in clusters growing...growth of xls. At the Hancock Mine, Hancock, it occurs upon xls of epidote and quartz formed later than |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 112◦380 Z = n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Centennial mine, Michigan, USA. 5.84 (10), 4.14 (7), 3.99 (6), 3.44...24 6.3 35.5 16.4 Total 99.74 (1) Centennial mine, Michigan, USA; Cu by electrolysis, H2 O:OH from charge...waters on copper (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Association: Tremolite, quartz, epidote, monazite, copper...paratacamite (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Distribution: In the Centennial mine, Calumet, Houghton Co., Michigan...Michigan and the Cole mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. From Villa Hermosa, Sonora, Mexico. In |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN J. KALLIOKOSKI Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Michigan Technological...Technological University, Houghton, 49931 MI (U.S.A.) ABSTRACT Kalliokoski, J., 1986. Calcium carbonate cement...sedimentary rocks (~ 1.1 Ga), upper Peninsula of Michigan. Precambrian Ras., 32 : 243--259. A complex caliche...carbonate. Whereas the caliche horizon at the Centennial Mine shows typical upward-grading features characteristic...the following reasons: (1) it predates regional epidote metamorphism; (2) a caliche profile has been described |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Two New Mines in the Native Copper District of Michigan R. J. WEEGE,J.P. POLLOCK, ANDTHECALUMET DIVISIONGEOLOGICAL...promisingdepositsdevelopedin recentyears in the Michigan native copper district are both in conglomerate...high-grade ore reservesdevelopedsince 1956 at the Centennial shaftsNo. 3 and 6 representan extensionof the...the famousCalumetand Hecla conglomerate mine. The shapeof the conglomeratelensesand lithology of the pebblesindicate...important contributions. In the followinggeneralacT•IE Michigan native copper depositshave been mined almostc |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu KINOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona F ew states can approach, much...mineral in vugs and veinlets in skarn, and in Michigan it occurs as a rare constituent of amygdule fillings...the northwest and Rosemont to the southeast, Pima County, Arizona. The locality is about 30 miles (48 kilometers)...crystals on fluorapophyllite from the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona. Les and Paula Presmyk specimen,...tiny kinoite crystals from the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona. Les and Paula Presmyk specimen, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I4INERALS FROM THE MICHIGAN COPPER DISTRICT Srnxnv A. Wrrrraus, Deparlmenl of Geology,Michigan College of Mining...Mining and,Technology,Houghton, Michigan. ABSTRACT Two new minerals, anthonyite and calumetite, have been...been found at the Centennial mine near Calumet, Michigan. Both speciesoccur in pocketsin,and as encrustations...named for the town near the type iocality, Calumet, Michigan' OccunnBNcB Recently Robert H. Dean brought...specimenof a blue mineral from the Centennial mine, Calumet, Michigan which be believed was not azurite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Amygdaloidal 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 (1952–2012)...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) | | Alteration Associated With Mineralization in the Michigan Copper District (Received 31 August 1967) INTRODUCTION...association with native copper ore in the Keweenaw County. Michigan. copper district. The main clay phases include...brown fault gouge. GEOLOGIC SETTING The Keweenaw. Michigan. Copper District. (see location map. Fig. I) is...Native copper is closely associated with calcite. epidote, quartz, feldspars. chlorite. hematite. and zeolites...characterized by formation of feldspar, chlorite, and epidote. The intermediate period, during which copper was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New York State Museum; and Dr. George Robinson, Michigan Technological University. Rochester Mineralogical...1980). Samples from both the Laurium mine and the Christmas mine were analyzed using electron microprobe...composition and show only minor substitutions. Christmas mine kinoite contains slightly elevated FeO (0.288–0...percent MgO) compared to the Ke- KINOITE FROM CALUMET, MICHIGAN, AND THE SANTA RITA MOUNTAINS OF ARIZONA....core from the northern Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona (Anthony and Laughon 1977). The second |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | districts, Nevada, and the Pine Creek mine of the Bishop district, Inyo County, California. Additional occurrences...and Cochise counties, Arizona; Kern County, California; Sierra County, New Mexico; Ferry, King, and Okanogan...Blackhawk in Gilpin County, Colorado; the Seven Devils district, Idaho; the Ropes gold mine near Ishpeming...the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium. Michigan; the Tsumeb mine in Namibia; and with the newly described...deposit, Llano County, Texas, and a small quartz-feldspar dike at Wolf Creek in Gunnison County, Colorado |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | as the mine develops and—maybe—this is the one, only and last. Who knows? COLLECTING IN MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA...Chippewa Falls, Wise. After quite some research on Michigan minerals and collecting areas we felt ready to...started with the old mines at Norway and Vulcan, Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. We arrived at Norway...weather was nice and cool for climbing over the mine dumps. Most of the rock piles in this area are overgrown...Republic. Here a new open pit mine is in operation. Although the mine was shut down due to vacations |  | | Report (issue) | | Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents Preface ............................. 51 The Beginning of the Calumet and Hecla .......................................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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Tom Rosemeyer 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure...of copper crystals collected at the Ojibway No. 1 mine in summer 2009 by Steve Whelan. The specimen is...Copper Country Figure 2. Generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of the new...Mineral Finds in Michigan’s Copper Country T he Michigan Copper Country, also known as the Lake Superior...into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The now-dormant copper mining industry, which |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the railroad tunnels through Bergen Hill, Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad...Weehawken areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected...collected from many localities in Passaic County, such as quarries at Paterson and West Paterson (including...Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union County, and quarries near Millington...Millington, Morris County. Good specimens are similarly reported from Plainfield and the Chimney Rock and |  | | Book | | Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book...our knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting.... and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding diamonds in the kimberlites of upper Michigan, and vast...shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan is the state with the most shoreline on these...fresh water seas, with waters of Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and |
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No. 2 shaft, Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA