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Laumontite from
Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Laumontite
Formula:CaAl2Si4O12 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Epidote4 photos of Laumontite associated with Epidote at this locality.
Pumpellyite Subgroup3 photos of Laumontite associated with Pumpellyite Subgroup at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Laumontite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Laumontite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:56670
Long-form Identifier:1:3:56670:0
GUID (UUID V4):2754db5f-8a8b-4c9b-821b-586437eab6df
Localities for Laumontite in this Region
No. 2 shaft, Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Laumontite
0.5km (0.3 miles) No. 2 shaft, Centennial Mine, Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) Tamarack Junior Mine (Tamarack Jr. Mine), Centennial Heights, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Calumet & Hecla Mine, Calumet, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) St. Louis Mine Exploration, Schoolcraft Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Tamarack, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Osceola Amygdaloid, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
4.6km (2.8 miles) Arsenide Fissure, Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Laurium Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Mass Fissure, Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 (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 .
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 (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
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)
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...due to the parallel growth of xls. At the Hancock Mine, Hancock, it occurs upon xls of epidote and quartz...Occurs also at Centennial Mine, Calumet; Iroquois Mine, and Cliff Mine, Cliff; Quincy Mine, Hancock, with...with chlorastrolite; Isle Royale Mines, Houghton; Seneca and Ahmeek Mines, Mohawk with epidote; in smaller
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
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)
(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)
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...chlorite. hematite. and zeolites - most commonly laumontite - and to a lesser extent pumpellyite and prehnite...late ore-forming period was characterized by laumontite, saponite, and analcite. Chlorite is the most
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)
variety of minerals, including feldspars, prehnite, laumontite, and leucite, have been reported. Analcime is...crystallized and include calcite, stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of x9o6--o7,Dr. A. C. Lane, State Geologist of Michigan, requestedme to make analysesof the waters of...neutralization of the free acid: labradorite,prehni'te,laumontite, datolite, analciteand pectolite. Of thesemineralsthe...Calcium and sodium chlorides were left in solution (mine waters), and silica was precipitated as quartz....of the samples. The following analysesof typical mine waters show the relation of sodiumto calciumwith...seenthat the sodiumin the upperlevel of the Centennial mine is in excessof the calcium, whereas in the
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)
specimen sent you recently. It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near Rockford. You have my permission to...Brown Ave., Terre Haute, Ind. I O W A — From Marion County, Iowa, we have an interesting specimen consisting...a road cut on a new construction job in Lincoln County, Me., on Rt. 1, bypassing the towns of Newcastle...that first in each issue. W e belong to the Oxford County Gem and Mineral Association." — item sent in by...Andover is in Essex County in N / E Massachusetts. ROCKS AND MINERALS MICHIGAN — "Just a note to inform
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Keweenaw Peninsula Native Copper District, Michigan, USA Thomas J. Bodden 1 , Theodore J. Bornhorst 1...Keweenaw Peninsula Native Copper District, Michigan, USA. Minerals 2022, 12, 474. https://doi.org/10...Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA; tjbodden@mtu.edu (T...Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Department of Earth Sciences...oxygen and carbon isotopes; Keweenaw Peninsula; Michigan; burial metamorphism; fluid mixing; ore genesis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism in the North Shore Volcanic Group, Minnesota, USA S . Th. SC H M I D T Mineralogisch-Petrographisches...smectite, (3) laumontitechlorite-albite, (4) laumontite-chlorite-albite f prehnite f pumpellyite and...hematite; hul = heulandite; lim = limonite; Imt = laumontite; mor = mordenite; olig = oligoclase; pmp = pumpellyite;...alteration of the basalts on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan. The petrography and the differentiation of flows...from the Lake Superior region into Wisconsin and Michigan, continuing south-west to southern Iowa and Kansas
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
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of...George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum, MTU Houghton, Michigan Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville...and CUPRITE in CALCITE, 5.2 cm, from the Onganja mine near Seeis, Namibia. Mike Bergmann specimen, now...Department Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, California
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The University of Michigan Mineral Collection Ann Arbor Downloaded by [University of Bristol] at 07:28...T he mineral collection at the University of Michigan is among the oldest and finest in the Great Lakes...prominent were those associated with the state of Michigan. A number of the specimens are pictured in the...of Michigan. No other mineralogical collection, save that of the A. E. Seaman Museum at Michigan Technological...University, is more important historically to Michigan. Although the collection continued to be an important
Journal (issue)
MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ... KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines........................................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...................................... Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...................................
Catalog/List
good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens...00 eaoh. CLEANED COPPER AND MALACHITE: Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona: I've had these for a few years...old stuff last summer on a show trip to northern Michigan. Got it right from a 65 year oJd ex-collector...the 1950's. From the iron mines around Champion, Michigan, you just can't get this material any more. Metallic...juat collected this spring immediately before the mine was closed for refilling and reolalmlng. There will
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;
 
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