 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | recently in the various serialized articles on the Michigan Copper Country by Tom Rosemeyer (including the... Associated minerals include calcite, quartz, prehnite, danburite, axinite, garnet, and the zeolites...Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from this locality...century at the Lane quarries at Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found...green datolite crystals from the Second Sovietski mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. The 18.5 ⫻ |  | | 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 Lake...fissure vein, (3) hundreds of copper from the Indiana mine, and (4) more than two hundredV aecilS mens of ...analcime/calcitecrystal groups from the Rhode Island mine. This article describes these and other finds...the White Pine mine at the southern end of the district. Keweenaw Point, Keweenaw County The waters off |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes |  | | 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 (issue) | | PUBLISHED MONTHLY 1938 CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1938 PREHNITE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... . . . . .. . ......... . .. . .. 144 ANCIENT MINE SAVED GREEK CIVI L I ZATION . ............... 147...131 PREHNITE One of the loveliest of green minerals which always excites admiration is prehnite. It must...green, as prehnite is also found in a gray, white, yellowish and even a bluish color. Prehnite is an old...found it at Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Prehnite is now a common mineral at many localities. Very |  | | 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...Superior native copper district, also known as the Michigan Copper Country, is located on the sparsely populated...into Lake Superior near the western end of Upper Michigan. The Keweenaw winters can be long and cold with...feet (6,400 vertical feet), making it the deepest mine shaft in the Western Hemisphere. Tom Rosemeyer collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | after a variety of minerals, including feldspars, prehnite, laumontite, and leucite, have been reported....heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and, occasionally...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 |  | | Book | | completing my work. I am grateful to the members of the Boston Mineral Club who both inspired and motivated me...Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission of The Boston Globe 2008 UNDER THE...128 IS GOLDEN Jerry Ackerman, Globe Staff. Boston Globe Boston, Mass. Apr 7, 1987. pg. 45 Abstract (Summary)...intersection of Courtesy Google maps Copyright Boston Globe Newspaper Apr 7, 1987 Route 128 and Route...Route 3, where traffic from the west and south of Boston meets and passes at the rate of 168,000 cars a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...dogtooth calcite have been found at the Holland mine in Washington Camp Mining District near Nogales...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...from the Red Ledge gold mine in Washington, Nevada Co., Calif. The Red Ledge mine has a unique history, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | — note from Mrs. Strong. Inyo Mts. are in Inyo County in S/E California. COLORADO — "A friend and I,...item sent in by Gunnar Bjareby, 14 Palace Road, Boston 15, Mass. "It is not often that we find native...Dunton Quarry, a few minutes hike above the Nevel Mine.'' Newry, in western Oxford Co., is in S/W Maine...found in most gravel pits here in eastern Itasca County in northern Minnesota. There are no commercial...you some crystals found in the wall of a barite mine in Potosi, Washington Co., Missouri. They occur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the associate curator of minerals, about some prehnite I had collected in Quebec, he stopped me with...referred to the National Museum. It wasn't very good prehnite compared to a specimen from any one of the New...locality that I had not previously realized was a prehnite source. It had never occurred to me that the Smithsonian...localities. A quick check showed that they had no prehnite from Quebec. A further review of my last summer's...is a foreman ROCKS AND MINERALS in the Faraday Mine at Bancroft, Ontario. He says that this datolite |  | | 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) | | in a letter I distributed to members of the Rhode Island Mineral Hunters. They added their own sugges...commemorative stamps. Jean K . McKenna President Rhode Island Mineral Hunters The following is Jean McKenna's...Fluorite, Hardin County, Illinois Malachite/azurite, Bisbee, Arizona Copper, Houghton, Michigan Quartz, (Herkimer...Newry, Maine, or the Pala District, California Prehnite, Paterson, New Jersey Smoky quartz and amazonite...amazonite, Col orado Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona Galena, Vibernum Trend, Missouri Beryl, New Hampshire |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | separate cover a mineral specimen from the Anderson Mine, near Wickenburg, Ariz. Could you please tell me...brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a...road cut recently made near the old "Dallas Gem Mine" that produced the fine benitoite and neptunite...still be available'. The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | an in a recent letter he writes: "Bastnaand old mine tunnel located west of Tucson. There were also calcite...much of the barite with cal- tain Pass, Calif. The mine is about 3 miles cite and galena." David P. Record...Mart, 4400 Mission Road, road leads to the mine. The mine consists of one shaft. Some bastnasite has...crystals. It is an attractive speciassaying. This mine will be a potential men. source of cerium metal...March-April, 1950, manganese mine near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123. County, Arkansas. Mr. Young |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Book | | D. MEMBER OE THE AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825...Hall ; also, from the Messrs Dana's Mineralogy of Boston and its Vicinity, The Journal of the Academy of...Philadelphia, The Annals of the Lyceum of New York, The Boston Journal of PhiAnd he feels himself under particular..." " Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and its Vicinity, by J. F. Dana, M. D. and S. L...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in a letter I distributed to members of the Rhode Island Mineral Hunters. They added their own sugges...commemorative stamps. Jean K . McKenna President Rhode Island Mineral Hunters The following is Jean McKenna's...Fluorite, Hardin County, Illinois Malachite/azurite, Bisbee, Arizona Copper, Houghton, Michigan Quartz, (Herkimer...Newry, Maine, or the Pala District, California Prehnite, Paterson, New Jersey Smoky quartz and amazonite...amazonite, Col orado Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona Galena, Vibernum Trend, Missouri Beryl, New Hampshire |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...over heels into the black depths of an abandoned mine. All of this effort was expended on clandestine...and Sciences Michigan Technological University Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology Emeritus, Boston University. In 1946 he founded the Department of Geology at Boston University and...England, and for his work on the geology of the Boston region. ‘Although an authority in these areas,...Massachusetts and New Hampshire. High-grade and low-grade (prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and...Robert E. Zartman Prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism in central Aroostook County, Maine eee re il... Borns Nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits, Knox County, southeastern Maine Er it atte era (Seale 8 George |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | -Dec. Pages 305-376 Downloaded by [University of Michigan] at 09:24 04 August 2017 Cover Photographs January-February:...Smithsonian Institution March-April: Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; photo by Jeffrey Scovil May-June: Calcite...September-October: Amethyst sceptered quartz, Hopkinton, Rhode Island; photo by Victor E . Krantz (Smithsonian Institution)...Crystallized gold on quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. © Harold and Erica Van Pelt...Sceptered Quartz from Ashaway Village, Hopkinton, Rhode Island, W. C. Metropolis, J . Rakovan, S. Avella, 247 |  | | 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 ....................... 243 by T. A. Rickard Allactite from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey...................Topaz-Mineral Exploration (1605 Hillcrest, Grand Haven, Michigan 49417) wishes to announce that he is now stocking |  | | 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 George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona.................................................I l l by G. Novak & W. W. Besse The Michigan gold belt ......................................Maguire Marsturite expitaxial on rhodonite from Franklin, New Jersey . . . . 123 by P. J. Dunn & P. B |  | | Book | | (41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite...Left: Quartz (Variety Amethyst); Hopkinton, Rhode Island; Scepter crystal 4 cm ( l % in.) across. Right:...a zinc iron oxide, is named for its source at Franklin, New Jersey, and wille1nite, a zinc silicate,...189 Lep,dolite K(Li.Al'3(S1.Al).O,0(F,OH)z 202 Prehnite Ca2 Al2Si 3O,o(OH),, 203 Fluorapophylfite KCa...Octahedral Diamond Crystal in Kimber lite Premier Mine, Kimberley, South Africa On loan from Mrs Charles |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...hydrofluoric acid which it gray and pitted. To from prehnite, heat the mineral in a closed glass tube. Smithsonite...minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some gems may also... even an unfenced range, a deserted cabin, or a mine dump. Be ready to sign a waiver absolving the owner...slope above you may start a rock slide on you. Open mine shafts and water-filled pits are obvious dangers |
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