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Muscovite from
Baraga County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Baraga County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:988605
Long-form Identifier:1:3:988605:6
GUID (UUID V4):e95b33a5-8a04-43a2-a2f7-e391a410f7c9
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
BIC deposit (Bovine Igneous Complex), Baraga County, Michigan, USA
Huron River Uranium prospect (Unnamed V prospect; MRDS - 10171055), Huron River, Baraga County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
Minerals of the Huron River Uranium Prospect Baraga County Michigan M ichigan is known worldwide for the...and iron hold such an overwhelming domination in Michigan that one just does not expect to find minerals...TRAVIS A. OLdS 1201 east Houghton Avenue Houghton, Michigan 49931 taolds@mtu.edu Figure 1. Looking upstream...Ishpeming, Michigan, is an undergraduate chemistry and earth science student at Michigan Technological...Hypercinnabar? Lepidocrocite Metacinnabar Native Mercury Muscovite variety sericite Skutterudite? Rare Uncommon
Report (issue)
Northern Michigan Report prepared in cooperation with Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department...Sedimentary Rocks in the Precambrian of Northern Michigan By W. F. Cannon and J. S. Klasner GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources 1976 746 United...sedimentary rocks in the Precambrian of northern Michigan By W. F. Cannon and J. S. Klasner ABSTRACT Phosphatic...in the central part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. At one locality, a conglomeratic bed about 15
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)
University] at 17:57 01 December 2014 Baraga County, Michigan Figure 1. Contact between mineralized...THEODORE J. BORNHORST2 1 PO Box 234 Crystal Falls, Michigan 49920 shawncarlson@hotmail.com 2 A. E. Seaman...Engineering and Sciences Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, Michigan 49931 robinson@mtu...edu; tjb@mtu.edu 3 3755 J-5 Road Bark River, Michigan 49807 markelder@juno.com 4 A. E. Seaman Mineral...Department of Physics Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, Michigan 49931 jaszczak@mtu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W., 1973, Redeterminationof the stability of muscovite+ quartz: Am. Mineralogist, v. 58, p. 255-262....Apatite Fluorapatite Baraga A.S.T.M. card 4-0697 A.S.T.M. card 21-141 County, Michigan d (•,) I/h 4...sedin the BaragaBasin,Barag• County, in the Upper Peninsulaof Michigan, len& FIG. 3. Photomicrographof...of 1973 œromexposuresin the bed of the I-Iuron Michigan. Riverin theEIW 1/4 sec.35, T. 52 lq'.,R. 30... Conclusions 28, T. 51 N., R. 31 W., Baraga County,Michigan. The exactmechanismfor the depositionof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TO ROCKHOUNDS PARADISE, U.S.A. (MARQUETTE COUNTY) - MICHIGAN By BOB M A R K E R T The Midwest Federation...Negaunee Tourist Park, S. Jackson Pit, and near County Road 581 near the Greenwood Mine road intersection...one finds grunerite behind Mt. Shasta Lodge in Michigan. Magnetite and martite crys­ tals are found in...breakwater and look for agates. After lunch, drive to County Road 550 and to Sugar Loaf Mountain where a steep...Mountain. Four miles north of Ishpeming, just off of County Road 573, is the old Ropes Gold Mine. Talc and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
showthatthelowerpartof theEarlyProterozoic succession in Michigan wasdeposited in anextensional tectonic regime...range,3 = westendof Watersmeet dome(Sims,1990b),4 = Baraga basin,5 = Marquette district,6 = Menominee range...occurred overawide ThePenokean orogen in northern Michigan, northern Wis- Abovethatunconformity, (Larueand...withawidespread, minerdividedintosoutheastern (Michigan-Wisconsin) andnorth- Sloss, maturequartzarenite--theMesnard...BaragaGroup.Connee,Baraga,andPaintRiverGroups. sequently the Chocolay-Menominee package andthe Baraga Marquette
Report (issue)
Geology of the Florence Area, Wisconsin and Michigan GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared under...Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey; Michigan Department of Conservation^ Geological Survey... Geology of the Florence Area, Wisconsin and Michigan By CARL E. DUTTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey; Michigan Department of Conservation, Geological Survey...Middle Precambrian rocks Animikie Series________ Baraga Group______________________________ Hemlock(?)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...crystals are severely flattened when included in muscovite. Almandine is one of fifteen minerals in the garnet...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine... kyanite, andalusite, sillimanite, chlorite, muscovite, biotite, and the plagioclase, amphibole, and...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MENOMINEE GENERALIZED GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN, SHOWING METAMORPHIC ZONES BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL...REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN THE PRECAMBRIAN OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN BY HAROLD L. JAMES ABSTRACT Precambrian rocks...an area of about 7500 square miles in northern Michigan. Of this area, approximately 3300 square miles... 1456 H. L. JAMES—REGIONAL METAMORPHISM, NORTHERN MICHIGAN ILLUSTRATIONS Downloaded from gsabulletin.gsapubs...Figure Page 1. Township and range map of northern Michigan and adjacent parts of Wisconsin 1457 2. AKF diagram
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Michigan ............ 38 Table 8 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Michigan.......................................43 Figure...introduction and/or dispersion of uranium: northwestern Michigan, northwestern North Carolina; a belt extending...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
show a microcline, orthoclase, albite, sericite, muscovite, biotite composition with quartz making up 20-45%...constituent mineral; rareminerals are apatite, ruffle, muscovite (sometimes hydromuscovite), tourmaline and zircon...(Fig. 6). Kyanite occurs together with quartz, muscovite and chlorite in mica quartzites or quartz phyllites...(Winkler, 1976). The paragenesis of chlorite + muscovite + quartz--as observed in some mica quartzites...505--555°C (Hirschberg and Winkler, 1968). Biotite + muscovite--observed in a microcline-quartz phyUite--show
Report (issue)
Stratigraphy of Pre-Keweenawan Rocks in Parts of Northern Michigan GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 314-C Prepared...cooperation with the Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department of Conservation Stratigraphy of...of Pre-Keweenawan Rocks in Parts of Northern Michigan By HAROLD L. JAMES SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with the Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department of Conservation UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...33 33 35 35 Middle Precambrian rocks Continued Baraga group.________________ Goodrich quartzite._ ______
Report (volume)
River Wilderness Study Area, Houghton and Baraga Counties, Michigan By W. F. CANNON and ELIZABETH R. KING...land in the Sturgeon River Wilderness study area, Michigan, that is being considered for wilderness designation...National Forest in Houghton and Baraga Counties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. * * CONTENTS H - Page...RIVER WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, HOUGHTON AND BARAGA COUNTIES, MICHIGAN By W. F. Cannon and Elizabeth R. King...prolific mineral-producing Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Within 50 km of the area lie major iron and copper
Report (issue)
Menominee Iron-Bearing District Dickinson County, Michigan and Florence and Marinette Counties, Wisconsin...cooperation with the Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department of Conservation PAPER 513 Geology...Menominee Iron-Bearing District Dickinson County, Michigan and Florence and Marinette Counties, Wisconsin...cooperation with the Geological Survey Division, Michigan Department of Conservation 'I UNITED STATES...along the south iron range __________ - _- - - - - Baraga Group _________________________ _ Michigamme Slate
Report (issue)
region underlie parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, very near the geographic center of the North...of Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and northern Michigan, very near the geographic center of the North...Minnesota (Morey, 1983a,b), and in Wisconsin and Michigan (Sims and Peterman, 1981, 1983; Sims and others...Sims and others, 1984), and in Dickinson County, northern Michigan (James and others, 1961), older gneisses...1972). Xn the western part of northern Michigan, near the Michigan-Wisconsin boundary, Archean gneiss forms
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundance), biotite (medium to high abundance), muscovite (medium abundance), chlorite and HIV (low to medium...significantly greater on N-NE facing slopes in Baraga County, Michigan, as compared to S SW facing slopes (Hunkler...Series, no. 1., 2nd Edition, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Baroni C. & Carton A. (1990) Variazioni oloceniche...gradient in the southeastern Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA. Catena, 39, 169 185. Bosselini A., Castellarin A...development as affected by geomorphic aspect, Baraga County, Michigan. Soil Science Society of America Journal
Book (volume)
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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (volume)
:............................................. Michigan.................................................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.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Report (volume)
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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Report (issue)
known to occur in the Leyden Coal mine~ Jefferson County, Colo., as early as 1875 (Berthoud, 1875, p. 365)...called the mineral coracite because he thought Routt County, Colo. (Gale, 1908); and deposits at San that although...(Sprigg, 1954, p. 8) extracted from an unGilpin County, Colo., in 1871 by Ric}lard Pearce known tonnage...uranium was discpvered at the Red Bluff mine, Gila County, Ariz. (Kaiser, 1951, p. 1), in the Dripping Spring...was discovered at the Huron River deposit, Baraga County, Mich. (Vickers, 1953), at several localities
 
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