Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Quartz from
Medora Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Prehnite2 photos of Quartz associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Datolite1 photo of Quartz associated with Datolite at this locality.
Copper1 photo of Quartz associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Medora Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:676284
Long-form Identifier:1:3:676284:1
GUID (UUID V4):a487239f-898f-4510-88c8-55039288703f
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.6km (1.0 miles) Mandan Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Washington Mine, Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Resolute Mine, Mandan, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Mount Bohemia Mine, Mount Bohemia, Lac La Belle, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
3.9km (2.5 miles) Hard Rock fissure, Mosquito Mining District, Copper Harbor, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Iron City Mine (Empire Mine), Mosquito Mining District, Copper Harbor, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Brockway Mountain (West Bluff), Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) G-2 Prospect, Bete Grise, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Aetna Exploration Copper Mine, Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Agate Harbor, Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e a r s o r g e conglornero t e .... @ Quincy mine @ Allouez no. 3 shaft Other detailed sections...GEOI.OGIC M A P O F SOME PEGMATITIC LAVA FLOWS, MICHIGAN C O P P E R D I S T R I C T Downloaded from https://pubs...Amherst user Ahmeek 0 Sec. 22, T 58 N, R 31 W Lake Medora Keystone trail @ @ @ .. . . . . . . . . . ....SERIES AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN By HENRY R. CORNWALL ABSTRACT Five lava flows...flows in the Keweenawan series of the Michigan copper district have been studied and chemical analyses made
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..."Field Guide to the Geology Geology of the the Keweenaw Keweenaw Annual Institute Institute on on Lake Lake...Lake Superior Superior Geology Peninsula, Michigan" Michigan" (Bornhorst (Bornhorst and others, 1983) for
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)
Calumet, Michigan 49913 tajmahal@gilanet.com History and Mineralogy of the Manganese Mine Keweenaw County...County Michigan Tom Rosemeyer, a native of Upper Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan Technological University...March 2015 L ocated in the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan are two small manganese oxide deposits...Figure 2. Tom Rosemeyer about to descend into the mine through the small surface opening that led to the... At this early date, bears were still using the mine for winter hibernation. Dan Behnke photo (10 October
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....which operate in many states are not as likely to grant permission to collect as the former locally owned... 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country News from the Keweenaw Recent Mineral Finds in Michigan’s Copper Country... When one thinks of superb specimens from the Keweenaw, memories of arborescent groups of copper and...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
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White...DEPOSITS OF THE MATCHWOOD QUADRANGLE, ONTONAGON COUNTY, MICHIGAN ' ~ By Robert F. Johnson and Walter S. White...The Matchvood quadrangle is in central Ontonagon County, just west of the Ontonagon River and its Middle...bodies of gabbro-granophyre and possibly dacitic quartz porphyry. The southeastern boundary of the outcrop...Portage Lake Lava Series is probably a fault the Keweenaw fault. The southern half of the quadrangle is
Book
tts pee erg Hintli0 Py 4> ne ’ i<) ee 6's) Michigan, by.Edward C. Peterson and Esther A. Middlewood...of mining will find most mine managers willing to help, even though the mine may not be open to casual...State Offices of Information, Chambers of Commerce, mine managers, and Bureau personnel have freely contributed...old shafts! Always use available guide services. Mine openings (tunnels, adits, open pits) should never...during active operations, they are swept out of the mine by the controlled ventilating current. Remember
Book (edition)
Collector and the Tourist includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS •... 47 MICHIGAN ............. 63 WESTERN IOWA ............................ -47 THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA...47 Beaches .................................... Mine Dumps ............................ 63 .63 63 •47...ISLE ROYALE....................... .66 LOWER MICHIGAN .......... Crystals and Specimens Fossils.......of the great Midwest. Collectors may search the mine dumps, stream beds, quarries, hillsides, caves,
Book (edition)
gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE
Report (volume)
________________________ 46 46 46 47 50 52 57 Township descriptions_____________________________________________...-_ ---_-----_------- ---- -- CONTENTS V Township descriptions Continued. Pago T. 129 N., R. 104...Mound. _____ 26 4. A, T Cross lignite bed at T Cross mine, sec. 20, T. 133 N., R. 104 W.; -B, Upper part of...field and of its coal resources and a series of township descriptions in which the surface features, geology...LIGNITE OF MARMARTH FIELD, NORTH DAKOTA each township in the field are described in more detail. The
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
Book (volume)
gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...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:
Report (volume)
Nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of Northern Michigan Geochemistry, Petrography, and Volcanology of...Rhyolites of the Portage Lake Volcanics, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1970-A...Nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of Northern Michigan By WILLIAM F. CANNON and SUZANNE W. NICHOLSON...Rhyolites of the Portage Lake Volcanics, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan By SUZANNE W. NICHOLSON Chapters A and...nomenclature within the Keweenawan Supergroup of northern Michigan / by William F. Cannon and Suzanne W. Nicholson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN J. KALLIOKOSKI Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Michigan Technological...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...Keweenawan red-bed strata in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Fig. 1),' along a strike length of 250 km (150...2. Generalized geologic column of part of the Keweenaw sequence. 245 TABLE I Carbonate c e m e n t
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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...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;
Report (issue)
Adams County 37 Allen County . 37 Blackford Cowity . 37 Clark County . . . 37 Clay County . . ...Daviess County 37 Delaware County 38 Dubois County . 38 Fountain County 38 Franklin County 38 ... 38 Howard County . 38 Huntington County . . . . . . . . • . . 38 Jackson County . . . . . . .... . . . . . . 38 Jay County . 38 Lake County 38 Lawrence County . . . . . . . . . .. . . 39 ...Page Madison County . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 39 Marion County . 39 Marshall County 39 Martin
Journal (issue)
large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives, Houghton)...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 .
Report (issue)
- - - Adams County - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Allen County - - - - - - -...- - -Blackford County - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Clark County - - - - - - - -...- - -Clay County - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Daviess County - - - - -...- - - Delaware County - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dubois County - - - - - - -...- - Fountain County - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Greene County - - - - - - -
Report (issue)
approximately 25 townships 19 in Billings County, N. Dak., and 6 in Dawson County, Mont., on either side of the Northern...compiled the accompanying map from the original township plats used in the field. ACCESSIBILITY. Much...be referred to the Fort Union, penetrated by the Medora well below the lowest lignite outcropping in the...Pierre shale on Little Beaver Creek, in Bowman County, N. Dak.fl Throughout the field the dip is so slight...fact that, artesian water has been obtained at Medora. A well was sunk here by the Northern Pacific Railway
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Mathews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Book (edition)
MISSOURI ILLINOIS • NORTH DAKOTA • OHIO • MICHIGAN • NEBRASKA • IOWA WISCONSIN Digitized by...and the Tourist Field includes SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS •...Cycad .-' _ :. Oelrichs Agate Beds Rose Quartz Mine Northern Hill Gems 24 8 Jasper 25 Golden...40 North Dakota 43 Indiana . 45 Ohio 46 Michigan 50 Missouri 53 j- Kansas 5Q Iowa 60 -...matrix. Or you may visit the beach at Petoskey, Michigan, and find a stone glistening from the receding
Report (volume)
:............................................. Michigan.................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Characteristics Fossils Yellowstone-Bowman Dawson County area County area Fox HILLS SANDSTONE Distribution Cannon...Lance formation Little Beaver Creek area Dawson County area Variability of Fox Hills LANCE FORMATION Distribution...far as the mouth of Big Beaver Creek in Emmons County; in eastern Montana it appears along the Missouri...area on Little Beaver Creek in northwestern Bowman County, North Dakota, which is probably continuous with...collected in the Little Beaver Creek locality, Bowman County, North Dakota: OstreapellucidaM. and H. AviculalingueformisE
 
Mineral and/or Locality  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: March 28, 2024 11:23:23
Go to top of page