 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Iuyw 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...stratiform sulfide (chalcocite) deposit at the White Pine mine and (2) the world-class native copper deposits that...were recovered from such mines as the Cliff and Minesota (the second "n" in Minnesota was left out because...this type of lode start- ed in 1856 at the Quincy mine. Later came the conglomeratehosted deposits, in |  | | 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 . |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting community...be observed in the minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907... Prospects for production were mediocre and the mine remained relatively idle until 1942 when E.J. Myler |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | memories are of collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst...Ward Mineral Collection 7 (ener weapYILVER, CALCITE, & ACANTHITES L Kongsberg Silver Mines — ' Kongsberg...combination of native wire silver growing atop calcite crystals with acanthite. This represents one of...there are two absolutely perfect rhombs of white calcite with sharp crystals of gray acanthite to the left...QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly difficult it is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Palache (1898) describes pseudocubic calcite from the Ridge mine and other copper mines in the Keweenaw...Several articles on pseudo-octahedral calcite appeared in the calcite collectors’ newsletter, The Spar Box...domains (Palache, Berman, and Frondel 1951). The calcite crystals that are the subject of this article are...PETER RODEWALD These calcites, however, N. 7604 County Road Qq do an excellent job of River Falls, Wisconsin...Materials The calcite crystals were collected by one of us (Pete Rodewald) at the Minesota mine near Rockland |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Show (in Houghton) sponsored by the Copper County Rock and Mineral Club, and more are planned. Collecting...Knowlton, Champion No. 4, Baltic, Quincy No. 6, Minesota, National, Cliff, Phoenix, Central, Copper Falls...at the Mesnard mine, another on barite crystals with phantoms found in Ontonagon County, and a third on...on pseudo-octahedral calcite found at the Minesota mine. If you are headed East, not North, this summer... objects, copper memorabilia from Montana and Michigan, and objects related to the Klondike gold rush |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 I first went to the mine in the spring of...epidote. In 1985 mineral rights for the Caledonia mine were bought by Richard Whiteman, president of Red...rehabilitated the No. 4 adit of the mine and are presently operating the mine for the re covery of mineral...collecting trips. Over the past five years the Caledonia mine has produced many fine hand specimens and an abundance...venture, Michigan, Hilton, Minesota, and other mines. Microminerals of the CALEDONIA MINE Ontonagon County |  | | 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) | | shoreline shift with Lake Superior storms, exposing calcite/quartz veins in the Copper Harbor Conglomerate...Tom Rosemeyer is a native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton...terminated scalenohedral calcite crystals on crystallized quartz. The longest calcite crystal is 7.9 cm and...and was collected from the calcite/quartz vein by Bob Williams in July 1975. Pam and Jerry Hall specimen...year. During the last four years, the crushing of mine dumps (poor-rock piles) for road repairs and construction |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...perfect bound for just: $35.00 Postage $5.00 in the USA; $23 for foreign. Excalibur Mineral Corp Tel: 434-964-0875...shipping. Figure 5: Native copper crystals from Michigan, size 7 cm. In the late 1800’s, two prominent...exceptional Kongsberg silver and Langban native lead, Michigan native copper, Freiberg argentopyrite, Leadhills...book filled with historical work involving Oxford County, describing and intertwining its minerals, miners |  | | 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) | | 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) | | rest of his life, attending schools in Mineral County and later in Reno at the University of Nevada where...Wolverine mine. Pete was a frequent visitor to the copper mines in Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan (Copper...representative suite of materials from the Flambeau Copper mine in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, in the 1990s, Pete was...Richards, “Pseudo-Octahedral Calcite from the Minesota Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan” (Rocks & Minerals, July/August...program for the AFMS titled Michigan’s White Pine Mine. A third program, based on his iris agate slides |  | | 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) | | occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more...more than 750 million ounces to occurred in a mine about a mile its credit. Fine wire- and crystallized-silver |  | | Journal (issue) | | having been sporadically mined for fluorite, calcite, sphalerite and barite over the last I 00 years...one of the umps of the Diamond Mine northeast of Grand Rapids, Minesota. Although not spectacular in appear~nce:...mined at this location was deposited during Pre- Mine, Minnesota Cambrian times and has been determined...from the United Verde Mine (burning pyrite orebody in 1934) in Jerome, Yavapai County, AZ, thought to be...native copper sheet from the White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County. MI, thought to be calumetite. The mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Porcelaneous Datolite of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan ........................... 12 Faceting Section...I can remember, my family has always had a gold mine claim. But during the Second World War, all gold...Dakota, we noticed a sign saying, “Join us at our County Fair.” We thought it would be a good way to walk...small affair that had the normal displays that all County Fairs have, but they had a few things that were...carload of ore, however, was extracted from the Mohawk Mine in 1906 and produced 609.6 oz/ton gold and 75.4 |  | | Journal (issue) | | P708324 geoniieuw ge ws w maandb blad va an de mine eralogiische kring k a antwer rpen v..z.w. 34((1)...oactivite eit • en ve eel ande er Geo--nieuws s... Mine eralogiische Kring Antwe erpen vzw Oprichtin ngsdatum...Extreme e en minder extreme e minerale enmusea a Als mine eralenverzam melaar streef je er ongetwijfeld d...en voor een n bezoek aan de om tijd plaattselijke mine eralenmusea a. Zo krijg je j niet alleen een heel...instelllingen die de d nazijn. Dat zijn nam p één mine eraal, meesstal in druk leggen op binatie met één |  | | 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...................................... Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan................................... |  | | 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...............................19 by O. Johnsen Michigan Native silver occurrences in the copper mines...Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SOCIETY NOVEMBER, RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MICHIGAN T. M. BRODERICK, OF GEOLOGISTS 1946 TO COPPER...previously publishedin geologicalstudies of the Michigan copperdistrict by the Calumetand Hecla GeologicalDepartment...ProfessionalPaper 144, "The Copper Depositsof Michigan," and the continuationof geological studiesby...deposits of Michigan, U.S. Prof. Pap. 144, p. 2, 1929. Geol. Surv. GEOLOGYOF MICHIGAN COPPERDISTRICT...These are as follows: T. M. Broderick, Zoning in Michigan copperdepositsand its significance. EcoN. Gv.ox |  | | Book | | variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 |
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Minesota Mine, Rockland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA