 | | 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......................................C. J. Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan............................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | February 2015 Figure 2. A generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of new finds...arborescent copper crystal groups cached at the Central mine town site, (2) copper crystals recovered from...copper from the Indiana mine, and (4) more than two hundredV aecilS mens of analcime/calcitecrystal groups...groups from the Rhode Island mine. This article describes these and other finds made from 1998 through the...starting with Keweenaw Point and continuing in a southwestern direction to the White Pine mine at the southern |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | 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...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...beautiful specimens of accessory minerals including analcime, calcite, datolite, epidote, microcline, natrolite...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Analcime Downloaded by [University of Bristol] at 06:14...crystals. A prime example of this phenomenon is analcime, a species of wide distribution that is particularly...quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Analcime is typically seen as white, transparent to translucent...is weakly electrostatic when rubbed or heated. Analcime is cubic (4/m32/m) although it can be pseudocubic...as are composite crystal groups formed around a central crystal. Complex concentric structures are also |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | attributed to the Owl Creek fissure of the Copper Falls mine, this complex 3.2-cm crystal is perched on a matrix...3rd level of the Gribble vein in the Copper Falls mine. Of all the copper specimens recovered from the...calcite crystals recovered from the Copper Falls mine in the early days of mining. The sharp, limpid 4...Country in recent times. On the mine surface, beautiful microcrystals of analcime and natrolite can be collected...Petherick mine workings along the Copper Falls fissure. 320 ROCKS & MINERALS Clark Mine The Clark mine, about |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | From Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter...of mines in the district, especially the Quincy mine. Crystals ranged in size from micro to large-cabinet...chlorite, prehnite, pumpellyite, and laumontite. Analcime, barite, datolite, apophyllite , natrolite, and...in the tenth grade. I have collected most of the mine dumps during the past sixty years and have found...native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton. He now spends |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PrOlitleEt - K EWEENAW I - COUNTY, -~ __ -- ---K--- MICHIGAN Tom Rosemcyer n 1990 dodecahedra1...decaie in the Upper tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula Peninsula. in northern Michigan. The vein History outcrop...pinpoint additional copper mineralization in the central part of the vein. Shortly afterward Barron and...material to Ken Flood, owner of Keweenaw Gem & Gift, Inc., in Houghton, Michigan. When Flood inquired as to...found near Copper Harbor, L Keweenaw LmESu?~OB OO?PMb DISTRIOT County Copper Harbor Eagle River |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pewabic Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton County, Michigan Lake Superior Native Copper District Sixteenth...TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net T he Lake Superior...the Michigan Copper Country, is located on the sparsely populated, isolated, and scenic Keweenaw Peninsula...Superior near the western end of Upper Michigan. The Keweenaw winters can be long and cold with lake-effect...feet (6,400 vertical feet), making it the deepest mine shaft in the Western Hemisphere. Tom Rosemeyer collection |  | | 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 |  | Ikehata, Kei, Chida, Kohsuke, Tsunogae, Toshiaki, Bornhorst, Theodore J. (2016) HYDROTHERMAL NATIVE COPPER IN OCEAN ISLAND ALKALI BASALT FROM THE MINEOKA BELT, BOSO PENINSULA, CENTRAL JAPAN. Economic Geology, 111 (3) 783-794 doi:10.2113/econgeo.111.3.783 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BASALT FROM THE MINEOKA BELT, BOSO PENINSULA, CENTRAL JAPAN Kei Ikehata,1,† Kohsuke Chida,2 Toshiaki...Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931 Abstract Native copper...in the southern Mineoka belt of Boso Peninsula, central Japan. The native copper was precipitated in the...the amygdules or veins along with calcite and analcime. The temperature of precipitation and salinity...near-economic levels, such as the Keweenaw Peninsula, northern Michigan and Paraná basaltic province, southern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COPPER-BEARING FISSURE VEINS Keweenaw County, Michigan Downloaded by [University of Delaware] at 05:05...8-cm crystallized copper specimen came from the Central mine and was in the collection of Donald C. Gabriel...exploration 2. Cliff mine 3. Phoenix group of mines 4. Central mine 5. Northwestern mine 6. Central exploration...Resolute mine 9. Hard Rock fissure 10. Iron City (Empire) mine 11. Cape mine 12. Copper Falls mine 13. Clark...Clark mine 14. Point prospect 15. Mendota mine 16. Gull Rock fissure and Laker pocket Figure 3. A 1900 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure 1. A delicate group...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...scenic Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts out into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The |  | | Report (issue) | | University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...J. the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula...Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual AnnualMeeting, Meeting...Meeting,Houghton, Houghton,Ml, 40, part part2, 2, 185 185p. p. MI,v.v. 40, 1 PREFACE PREFACE In 1983 1983..."Field Guide to the Geology Geology of the the Keweenaw Keweenaw Annual Institute Institute on on Lake Lake |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from a large vug in the fissure vein of the Cliff mine; the largest crystal is 2 cm across. The specimen...Probably the best arborescent silver from the Cliff mine, this specimen is 9.5 × 10.5 cm and was originally...Jaszczak photo. Figure 18. This calcite from the Cliff mine is 3.6 cm long and perched on a matrix of spongy...on earth (Bornhorst and Rose 1994). At the Cliff mine it thickens to more than 1,300 feet and remains...some of the veins (Butler and Burbank 1929). Cliff Mine After the failed 1844 mining venture at the Hays |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ANALCIME By DONALD J. GOODELL 11 Logwood St., South Burlington, Vermont 05401 ANALCIME (also known as...temperature paragenesis than the other zeolites. ANALCIME exists as a primary constituent of certain alkaline...sodalite in both volcanic and plutonic rocks. ANALCIME is commonly a secondary mineral formed by the...constituent of igneous rocks as in the ANALCIME basalts. ANALCIME commonly forms white crystals of simple...crystal as the nucleus. In the Lake Superior mines ANALCIME comes intergrown with native copper. It may occur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in celebrating the rich mineral heritage of the Keweenaw Peninsula’s datolite by diving into this article...Dyl II, Director A. E. Seumnii Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 170 ROCKS 81MINERALS...81MINERALS ’ .1-. . TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 rosemeyer@ocinet...00:43 01 January 2015 1. Cliff mine 2. Phoenix mine 3. Centralmine 4. Central Exploration 5. Delaware group...pit 7. IronCity(Empire)mine 8. Capemine 9. Clatkmine 10. starmine 11. Keweenaw Point Historical information |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous...interconnected Elmwood/Cumberland/Gordonsville mines in the Central COLOR SPONSORS for the Connoisseur’s Choice column...the Gordonsville mine, Central Tennessee Lead-Zinc district near Carthage in Smith County. Calcite from...northern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, approximately surrounding the western end of...cm tall, from the Ben Hogan quarry in Lawrence County, Arkansas. Terry Huizing specimen (No. TEH 273) |  | | 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) | | Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA ‘Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Department...Institute, Unive~ity of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA (Received Febrzlary6, 1989; accepted in r~vi~~d~r~...obtained for natural samples of the zeolites, analcime, chabazite, clinoptilolite, laumontite, mordenite...6’80,, 6D). Most of the data were collected on analcime-49 samples from 34 world-wide locations and a...variety of geological settings and ages. Dehydrated analcime has a range in @‘Of that extends from 4.3.to 26 |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Abstracts of Contributed Papers The Mineralogy of Michigan by George W. Robinson 6 1 7 The Mineral Treasures...Banquet Dinner - Poolside 8:00-9:15 MINERALS OF MICHIGAN - Dr. George W. Robinson Dr. George Robinson is...is the Gabriel Professor of Mineralogy at Michigan Tech University, where he has curatorial responsibility...of Heinrich's classic book on the minerals of Michigan and that is his topic this evening. We most warmly...t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00 |
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