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Copper from
No. 3 shaft, Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA



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Locality type:Shaft
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite1 photo of Copper associated with Calcite at this locality.
Prehnite1 photo of Copper associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view No. 3 shaft, Osceola Mine, Osceola, Calumet Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:708828
Long-form Identifier:1:3:708828:5
GUID (UUID V4):7e314d08-a3b6-4d6b-a234-525bd191e5f9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan's Copper Country Rocks & Minerals 2001.76:156-188. Tom...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 occurs...(chalcocite) deposit at the White Pine mine and (2) the world-class native copper deposits that occur in the Portage...Lake Volcanics (PLV) and the Copper Harbor Conglomerate. The native-copper deposits can be further divided
Report (issue)
Michigan’s Copper Country Ellis W. Courter Contribution to Michigan Geology 92 01 Table of Contents................................................... 3 The Primitive Miners ..................................................... 6 Europeans Come to the Copper Country .........................................Ontonagon Copper Boulder ............................................................... 18 The Copper Rush........................ 51 The Beginning of the Calumet and Hecla ....................................
Book
GRAVE Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines LARRY LANKTON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS New...trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored...life, work, and death at p.cm. the Lake Superior copper mines./ Larry Lankton. Includes bibliographical...(pap) 1. Copper industry and trade—Michigan—Keweenaw Peninsula—History. 2. Copper miners—Michigan—Keweenaw...Perhaps the reason for its lack of fame outside Michigan itself is that its annals, like those of happy
Report (issue)
filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur as inclusions near...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)
University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...49931-1295 295 ISSN 1042-9964 ISSN 1042-9964 Volume 3, 4, and Volume 40 40consists consists of ofParts Pam...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)
Journal (volume)
Lake Copper, by Jas. B. Cooper. ...........................................................23 No. 5 Shaft...Shaft at the Tamarack Mine, by W. E. Parnall, Jr. .26 The Crystalization of Mohawkite, Domeykite and Other........31 A Cause for Inaccuracy in Colorimetric Copper determinations, by Dr. Geo. A. Koenig ...........MEETING HOUGHTON, MICH., MARCH 5-9, 1901. The Testing and Control of the Product in a Modern Copper Refinery...Corliss Cross-Compound Pumping Engine in Penobscot Mine, by Jno. A. Redfern ...........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERAL SERIES, RICHARD E. ZONING IN MICHIGAN STOIBER THE COPPER AND EDWARD PORTAGE DISTRICT LAKE...the Portage Lake lava series ..... Relationshipof copper occurrenceto the mineral zones ..................of the Michigan copper district ......................... Mineralogyof amygdaloidalrock on mine dumps...Portage Lake lava seriesof the KeweenawPeninsula,Michigan, three overlappingamygdulemineral zones--prehnite...depositedthe amygduleminerals, one of which is native copper. The chemicalconstituentsof epidote,prehnite, and
Report (issue)
maps of recently active copper nines, -..- roughton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan H. R. Cornwall, J.................. 10 Central Exploration fissure mine, 12 Introduction................ + (- ; Stratigraphy..... 16 Structure, 17 17 18 Distribution of copper > Kearsarge lode, 19 19 Stratigraphy, .. 19...- * * Distribution of copper,.*»...................... 33 The Houghton conglomerate *>re body, Allouez...Allouez No* 3* shaft.* *«* -.» » .*-* *» » * » » * Introduction..*.'.,.............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porcelaneous Datolite in MichiganÕs Lake Superior Copper District Figure 1. A rare and beautiful yellow...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 mud...over heels into the black depths of an abandoned mine. All of this effort was expended on clandestine
Book
\ i ,,&gt; HISTORY AND REVIEW OF THE COPPER, IRON, SILVER, SLATE AND OTHER Material Interests...the copper region, very nearly complete history of the discovery and development of the copper interest...of his composition. I am also indebted to Jacob Houghton, A. R, Harlow, and Hon. Peter White, for much...s very interesting paper on the "Ancient Copper Miners of Lake The geology of the Iron District;...been E., written. For himself, the author claims no other credit than that which may accorded for having
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, No. 979. OCTOBER 6, 1894. 15645 for ladder and pump, one for lowering...hoisting m achinery are capable At No.1 engine house, near tire shaft of the same num· of being utilized...compressors. driven by 750 horse mile climb is b y no means a pleasant pastime. Sink- power engines, and...first general theory. Occasional masses of float copper were stru('k; of the time, and also for steam winches...sediments, by alternations of in 1882, 363 pounds o f copper were secured i n this way, heavy timbers required
Book
BOUNDARIES Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines 1840-1875 LARRY LANKTON New York Oxford...trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored...boundaries : life and landscape at the Lake Superior copper mines, 1840-1875 / Larry Lankton. p. cm. Includes...0-19-510804-3 1. Copper industry and trade—Michigan—Keweenaw PeninsulaHistory—i9th century. 2. Copper miners—Michigan—Keweenaw...miners—Michigan—Keweenaw Peninsula—History—1910 century. I. Lankton, Larry. grave. II. Title. HD9539-C7U547
Report (volume)
concentration of metallic values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum...view to securing the best possible results to users. No infringement can be permitted, and all infringers...granting of license for the further use of same. No one is authorized to install or use our processes...Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...to suit all of your requirements. Gt. Falls Type Copper Converter Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country flep)LOSO ofrhe Copper Range Company, White Pine, Michrgm...O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 he White Pine mine and adjacent town of White Pine are located about...western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway 64, which winds...elevation above Lake Superior. The mine lies within a belt of copper-bearing Precambrian rocks that extends...miles. The White Pine sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit is separated both stratigraphically and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
18:43 12 November 2014 Part 3—Recent Mineral Finds in Michigan’s Copper Country Eleventh in a series...articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Figure 1. A July 2000 view of the Lake...Superior storms, exposing calcite/quartz veins in the Copper Harbor Conglomerate. Author’s photo. TOM ROSEMEYER...minor and major, continue to be made in Michigan’s Copper Country. The May/June 1998 and the November/December...native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Since retiring
Report (volume)
NUMBER 350 has fairly gained a good reputation which no extravagant claims could strengthen. PENSACOLA TAR...concentration of metallic values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum...view to securing the best possible results to users. No infringement can be permitted, and all infringers...granting of license for the further use of same. No one is authorized to install or use our processes...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments
Journal (issue)
'l5~ 'Rocks and c9rtineral5 ~ssocjat~ MAY, VeL 1J, No. 5 1938 TWINTY-flVI CINTS W....Ne.12 - - .:...fflMV mines, quarries, dlA>s, IOCleti•, ~ libraries. (3) The riaht to participate In outln,a and meettn,a...225A, Reno, Nev. Rocks and Minerals Auoclation of No, th JltMY, Dover, N. J. Qu11n1 Mineral Society, Ml•...132 A MINERALOGICAL TRIP THROUGH THE M ICH IGAN COPPER COUNTRY. By Kiril Spi roff . . . . . . . . . ...... . . . . .. . ......... . .. . .. 144 ANCIENT MINE SAVED GREEK CIVI L I ZATION . ............... 147
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologyof Two New Mines in the Native Copper District of Michigan R. J. WEEGE,J.P. POLLOCK, ANDTHECALUMET...promisingdepositsdevelopedin recentyears in the Michigan native copper district are both in conglomerate beds...relativelycontinuous and contains43 percentof the copper. The middle and upper parts of the bed are only...Centennial shaftsNo. 3 and 6 representan extensionof the famousCalumetand Hecla conglomerate mine. The shapeof...contributions. In the followinggeneralacT•IE Michigan native copper depositshave been mined almostcontinuouslysinceabout
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EARTH-RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS COUNTRY, IN THE Nos.3 a 4 COPPER MICHIGAN. BY W. J. Roo•. AbstractsDuringthe summerof...the Carnegie Institution of Washingtonand the Michigan Collegeof Mines and Technology engagedin conductingjointly...measurements in the CopperCountry of northern Michigan, wherethe geological structure is well known,...the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Michigan College of Mines and 97 (Plat• FRANCISCO AFONSO...AFONSO CHAVES 1) 98 W.J. ROON.E Y [vot..3•, Nos.3 and4] Technologyengagedin conductingjointly a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manitou 3, 4, 8. 5 N. . . . .. .. .. . K e a r s o r g e conglornero t e .... @ Quincy mine @ Allouez...Allouez no. 3 shaft Other detailed sections . I N D E X GEOI.OGIC M A P O F SOME PEGMATITIC LAVA FLOWS...FLOWS, MICHIGAN C O P P E R D I S T R I C T Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsab...KEWEENAWAN SERIES AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF MICHIGAN By HENRY R. CORNWALL ABSTRACT Five lava...lava flows in the Keweenawan series of the Michigan copper district have been studied and chemical analyses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
istory and Mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan Ninth in a series of articles on the...the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country TOM ROSEMEYER 506 Pine Street P.O. Box 369 Downloaded...groups of copper crystals were recovered from the secluded Indiana No. 2 (Indiana Copper Company) mine dump...dump in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The individual crystals, which range from less than 1 cm to groups more...constitute one of the major crystallized copper finds in the Copper Country in recent years. Location The
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moving from mine-hoists Signaling Allen, C. A 232 cages 645 Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. 145 Copper converters...& Smelting American 218 American Steel & Wire Co 3 Editorial .... Americanization 476 Editorial. Anaconda...book review Assaying methods at the Globe & Phoenix mine 4 51 H. R. Edmands. 108 Association of Accountants...Accountants Australian treatment of American low-grade copper 419 ores . . . . • . . . . . . . ..... . 166 473 Co., mill Henry Hanson .... 793 Mine and mill A. B. Parsons. . . . 619, 659 399
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"'S' ''.…”**xx. 2. 3">" (2,So Q f.p. for for:v -" ...THE EN. N o GI "RNAL MINE NI'N NG G. J ou ...254 A. B. C. Mg Co., Ore.......... 641 Alabama, Copper......... *Aluminum Patents, Bradley.182,210, :54...:54 Abrasives, U. S.................... 2, 3, 537 "Alabama, Fluxing Rocks..... ... 115 Aluminum Patents...Aluminum, Prices of.................. 565 Accident Mine, Colo.......... 97 63, 159 Aluminum Reduction, Gooch's...Mines...... .7, 133,256, 451 Aluminum, U.S.. ... 2, 3, 536, 537 ton's Pat..... .... ........ 238 "Alabama
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) I ' Ha shi on the Copper rontier Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine ( 1845-1870) by Paul Chrastina...into Kansas, as well as southeast through central Michigan, perhaps as far as western Tennessee. Today, the...this issue Hardship on the Copper Frontier: Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine (1845-1870) ................................25 Portrait GalleryDouglass Houghton ...........................26 Historical Mining....................................36 northern Michigan. The Keweenaw Peninsula is a narrow promontory
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