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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| (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...the Bicentennial celebration: "to forge a new national commitment, a new spirit for '76, a spirit which...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 |
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| 2023 The Mineral Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 National Bureau of Standards Mineral Samples Tony Nikischer...on jarosite samples requested by researchers at National Laboratories, government agencies and post-docs...cardboard sleeves (10.5 cm) provided by the (then) National Bureau of Standards. While Dolomite is self explanatory...—————————— Mineral News —————————————————Page Page 2 National Bureau of Standards Some Interesting NIST-prepared...brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was |
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| 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.... 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...fresh water seas, with waters of Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and |
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| retired after twenty-three years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; he is now a registered patent agent...forms dark green pleochroic rims on colloform calcite veins; individual crystallites are generally fibrous...pseudomorph of chamosite after garnet from Marquette, Michigan. The altered crystal is about 3 cm tall....pseudomorphs of “chlorite after almandine” from Marquette, Michigan, have been shown to be chamosite (George...black crystals are found at the Atlantic City iron mine, Wyoming. The obsolete varietal names thuringite |
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| Pinebrook Trailer Park, RFD 4, Box 504, Hot Springs National Park, Ark., has found some interesting chert in...Shalevetz, were received. One was greenish with white calcite vein (specked with red and brown) and the other... sists of poorly xled white calcite on dark gray limestone; the calcite fluoresces pink under the Mineralight...limestone containing veins of white xline calcite; this calcite fluoresces a bright red (one of the brightest..."flame" fluorescence. The pinkish fluorescent calcite was found on the Crystal River, the other near |
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| Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur Roe Univ....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 ......................................reports whicl sometimes contain photos, maps and mine diagrams. This i: valuable information to have preserved |
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| 51. A classic calcite that is attributed to the Owl Creek fissure of the Copper Falls mine, this complex...3rd level of the Gribble vein in the Copper Falls mine. Of all the copper specimens recovered from the...Figure 50. One of the finest calcite crystals recovered from the Copper Falls mine in the early days of mining...recovered in the Copper Country in recent times. On the mine surface, beautiful microcrystals of analcime and...Petherick mine workings along the Copper Falls fissure. 320 ROCKS & MINERALS Clark Mine The Clark mine, about |
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| Places of Geological and Mineralogical Interest in Michigan LOWER PENINSULA ARTHUR Y. JOHNSTONE Cranbrook...of Science 500 Lone Pine Road Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48013 The Upper Peninsula has pronounced geological...form the northern rim of the Southern Michigan Basin; from Marquette westward, the early Precambrian (Archaean)...beds, forming the northern rim of the Southern Michigan Basin, are evident as soon as you cross the 5-mile...Seaman Mineralogical Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 away softer surrounding |
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| Newsletter $3.00 Opinion: Sulfides and Uranium in Michigan Addressing Popular Myths and Misconceptions Shawn...Shawn M. Carlson PO Box 24 Norway, Michigan 49870 The state ofWiseonsin has a proud mining history. From...northern Wisconsin in the 1980s, I think many of us Michigan geologists looked on with a mix of bewilderment...industry, admixed with pride at our pro-mining Michigan next door; that somehow our earth science education...than Wisconsin's, such that the good people of Michigan would never fall for the tactics of "big environmentalism" |
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| CONNOISSEUR'SCHOICE PAUL W. POHWAT Division of Mineralogy National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution... DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province...include azurite, pyromorphite, fluorite, quartz, and calcite. Then there are the minerals that collectors have...carbonate, or Fe2+CO3, and is a member of the calcite _ group, crystallizing within the trigonal system...Mineralogy at the National Museum of Natural History. Figure 1. Gemmy siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla |
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| collectors. (Continues on page 4) 2 Fluorescent Michigan Sodalite (Continued from page 1) "I have a little...Oldsphotograph.Althoughthe fluorescentintensityof this Michigan sodalite is best describedas moderatewhen illuminated...reported from Michigan before; no mention of it is made in The Mineralogy of Michigan (Heinrich, I 976)...Mineralogy of Michigan by E. Wm. Heinrich (Robinson, 2004), or in Mineralogy of Michigan Update (Robinson...primary Preliminary SEMJEDS analyses conducted at Michigan Technological University showed only Na, Al, Si |
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| Meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, Hew York, to Bradford,County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. Williams............ 23 In the iron-bearing series of Marquette, Mich ...................... 27 In the iron-bearing................... In the folded schists of the national boundary line, north of Lake Superior ..........quarry on the Torch Lake Railroad, Keweenaw Point, Michigan. No. 90 of the list, p. 40. Enlarged 67 diameters...Peter's sandstone, Arlington Prairie, Columbia County, Wisconsin. No. 95 of the list, p. 42. The enlargements |
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| Elder, Audrey E. Smith P.O. Box 234 Crystal Falls, Michigan 49920 shawncarlson@hotmail.com markelder@juno...gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of the...Formation (Marquette Range Supergroup ), the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum in Houghton, Michigan. (Continued on page 5 ) MARTIN ZINN EXPOSITIONS |
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| length of arsenolamprite in matrix from Alacaran Mine (Pampa Larga, Copiapo, Chile). All the specimens...Precious Stones report stated that the Himalaya Mine was brought into notice in 1898 by Mr. Charles Russell... A. E. Heighway who had operated the tourmaline mine? And how did this lead to the work by the Himalaya...well-earned since he was 6 foot, 3 inches in height (USA passport app Iication 1921 ). As a canoer and sail...190 I), Los Angeles Public Library and the U. S. National Museum ( 189 I). Perhaps it was his canoeing trips |
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| on the campus of the sault Ste. Marie Branch of Michigan Technological university in conjunction with the...deposits, Houghton, Baraga and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan A. P. Ruotsala, G. J. Koons, and S C. Nordeng...minerals of Champion mine, Champion, Michigan 10:2.5 Unique intergrowth of calcite and pyrite 9:45 Larry...BEARING X{INERALS OF CHAMPION CHAMPION, MICHIGAN L. Belcocx, MINE. Michigut, Tecl,tnol,ogi.cal Llniversi...Michigon champion Mine is a "hard" iron ore producer on the southern limb of the Marquette synclinorium. |
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| specimen from the same locality in Humboldt, Marquette Co., Michigan. Perhaps it is a dastardly, evil murder...full year (12 color issues) is just $35.00 in the USA. Mineral News 1885 Seminole Trail—Ste 202—Charlottesville...News —————————————————Page Page 3 The Tenderfoot Mine: Mining Myth or Lost Subterranean Treasure Fred...are located near the town of Corona in Lincoln County. Since 1881, the area has seen sporadic mining... and rare earths. The best known mine is the Red Cloud Copper mine, located on the southern portion of |
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| 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 . |
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| Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 1404 E. Sharon Avenue Houghton, Michigan 49931 cjstefan@mtu...WILLIAM B. BARR JR. 1405 Hewett Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 wbarr@umich.edu Figure 1. Portrait of young...and then working as an exploration geologist and mine manager at various mines in Michigan’s Keweenaw...native copper deposit, which became the Champion mine. His academic interests ranged across the disciplines...curator of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological University. His interests span mineralogy |
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| Abstracts of Contributed Papers The Mineralogy of Michigan by George W. Robinson 6 1 7 The Mineral Treasures...Banquet Dinner - Poolside 8:00-9:15 MINERALS OF MICHIGAN - Dr. George W. Robinson Dr. George Robinson is...is the Gabriel Professor of Mineralogy at Michigan Tech University, where he has curatorial responsibility...of Heinrich's classic book on the minerals of Michigan and that is his topic this evening. We most warmly...t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00 |
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| Historic State Park 13700 13.25 Lane Garden, Michigan 49835 Tel: (906) 644-2603 Keweenaw Peninsula Jill...Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton...Instructor, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore P.O. Box 40, Munising, Michigan 49862 Tel: (906) 387-2607...Engineering and Sciences (adjunct) Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 49855 Tel: (906) 227-1176 / Email:...wildr@michigan.gov Mine Descriptions Rob Porritt, Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering, Michigan Technological |
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| 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 |
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| "scratched" scratch was Many which is area, Wet is calcite, a pocket knife blade tests, make sure that...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...central Indiana, near Cincinnati, and Dowagiac, Michigan. Few have been reported years, in recent perhaps...Lincoln Co. Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell |
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| Tom Rosemeyer 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure 1... 1 mine in summer 2009 by Steve Whelan. The specimen is 12.4 × 6.2 cm and was encased in calcite. Tom...Copper Country Figure 2. Generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location of the new...Mineral Finds in Michigan’s Copper Country T he Michigan Copper Country, also known as the Lake Superior...into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The now-dormant copper mining industry, which |
