 | | 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...this type of lode start- ed in 1856 at the Quincy mine. Later came the conglomeratehosted deposits, in...type of lode is credited to the Calumet No. 1 mine on the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which started |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | courtesy Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological...started with the closure of the Champion mine in Houghton County by the Copper Range Company in September...reserves (Fields 1997).This was the last native copper mine in operation by the Copper Range Company and was...industry was the shutdown of all Calumet & Hecla, Inc.* mines in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties by a labor...came with the closing of the White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, in September 1995. New, stringent environmental |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY Figure 1: Shaft house of the Ahmeek mine, Keweenaw County. 1962 photo by Terry...been and probably never will be anything like the Michigan Copper Country. For the mineral-minded, it is...native metal. For the collector, its scores of old mine dumps never cease to provide rewards of specimens;...and to Douglass Houghton, who made the first systematic explorations on which Michigan laid its claim...claim to the region. Houghton lost his life in a Lake Superior storm, but by the early 1840s his reports of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan -- Downloaded by [University of Michigan] at 08:51 04...Caledonia mine, owned by Red Metal Minerals, is located at the southern end of the famous Michigan native...native copper district and is the last operating mine on the copper range. It is presently being operated...and Whiteman 1992). The early development of the mine included sinking shafts and driving adits on the...1873. In the same year Captain Martin leased the mine and sporadically operated it until 188 I , producing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | native of Upper Michigan and a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Since retiring...year. During the last four years, the crushing of mine dumps (poor-rock piles) for road repairs and construction...operations, primarily in Keweenaw County, have increased the need for mine-run rock for the construction... resulting in the slow disappearance of smaller mine dumps. The end of copper mining in the Portage Lake...of the Copper Range Company’s Champion mine in Houghton County. Downloaded by [Florida State University] |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copper-bearing Amygdaloidal Lode Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369, 506...5.5 × 10.0 cm, attributed to the South Kearsarge mine. Author’s specimen, Terry Huizing photo. 276 ROCKS...naval officer who became an employee of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company (Monette 1975). It was developed...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...the district, was only out-produced by the Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate lode, which accounted for 4,218 |  | | 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) | | University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...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)... time, we considered that that "It is held at Michigan Technological presumptuous for for us us to put |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Dyl II, Director A. E. Seumnii Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 170 ROCKS 81MINERALS...81MINERALS ’ .1-. . TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 rosemeyer@ocinet...Florida] at 00:43 01 January 2015 1. Cliff mine 2. Phoenix mine 3. Centralmine 4. Central Exploration 5...of mines 6. Mandan SW-vel pit 7. IronCity(Empire)mine 8. Capemine 9. Clatkmine 10. starmine 11. Keweenaw...the Copper Coun- try that Datolite Street in Houghton was named aRer the colorful mineral. The street |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PrOlitleEt - K EWEENAW I - COUNTY, -~ __ -- ---K--- MICHIGAN Tom Rosemcyer n 1990 dodecahedra1...the Keweenaw Peninsula Peninsula. in northern Michigan. The vein History outcrop, known locally as Point...Flood, owner of Keweenaw Gem & Gift, Inc., in Houghton, Michigan. When Flood inquired as to the source of...Harbor, L Keweenaw LmESu?~OB OO?PMb DISTRIOT County Copper Harbor Eagle River 20 miles 20 kilometers...Series r-I I I I I 1 -- Baraga County I, Marquette County Figure 3. A generalized map of the |  | | Catalog/List | | Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Austrian micromounter. Dioptase frome Harquahala Mine, La Paz Co., AZ. capture. Sometimes, the colors...Cacoxenite on quartz, collected from Chala Gold Mine, Spahievo Orefield, Bulgaria. Field of view is less...containing native copper, native silver, cuprite, tenorite, malachite, bornite, epidote, pumpellyite and...elsewhere. They were found in Keweenaw County at the Wolverine #2 mine dump (now taken away for road gravel)...of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, along with a Calumet & Hecla, Inc. stock certificate. Donated by Pam Hecht |  | | Catalog/List | | limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock 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 floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Journal (volume) | | Flotation Processes at F. II. Jackson Proprietary Mine, He Treatment at G. D. Del prat Brown, Walter 8...Changes at Cherry Creek John A. Reld The Vulture Mine C. W. Purlngton Arnold, C. Everard The Sherman Concentrating...Channels of 567 Copper In Shasta County Copper of Shasta County (I, The Mineral Industry During...Association, The 144 Calumet Jt Hecla Editorial Campbell, Donald F copper ol Shasta County, California (1...Walter 189 284 The 320 Boarding House, The Mine F. N. Fletcher Bob-Tailed Words. Those Matt. W. |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Book | | enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground...oFtne ato aa Gem Ghd nQkTeane Uva a nes ly ia" mine Ui nrobs inesob cere ts ou ioe tok us 'aaieomolitt...exception of the rhodochrosites of the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, which were loaned for photography...Rita Area and the Central Mining District, Grant County Burro Mountains Apache No, 2 District Lake Valley...section of Upper Arkansas Valley near Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Adapted from U.S.G.S., P.P. 726-c, 1972 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...The Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological Uni versity in Houghton recently announced the appointment...Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York; the Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin |  | | Journal (issue) | | Specify Securityflex—the safe, sure ones for your mine—and your miners. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company...conform does not MINING result in CONGRESS mine JOURNAL Miners Datebook John P. Weir and David...26-29 | International Scientific Symposium on Mine Surveying, Mining Geology and Geometry of Mineral...2-12 | Gyroscopic Determination of Direction in Mine and Other Surveying (Short Course) Colorado School...near mine has its open been planned pit mine by Phelps at Morenci, Ariz. The new mine will |  | | Book (edition) | | Hornsilver Mine, 275, 276; Example 33a, Car bonate Mine, Beaver Co., 276; Example 326, Cave Mine, Beaver...39. Bassiok Mine. 29(1. 297: Example «9o. xii TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAOK Bull Domingo Mine, 297-299; Humboldt-Pocahontas... Maricopa, and Final Counties, 335; Silver King mine, 385, 336; Graham and Cochise Counties, 336; Tombstone...Gap mine, Penn., Sudbury, Ont., 431-438; Example 49a, Riddle's, Oregon, 438-440; Example 23a, Mine la...America 88 8. Cross-section of the Prosser iron mine near Portland, Ore., show ing the bed of limonite |  | | Book | | Age I ore of deposits, 18-20. constitutes a mine?, 20-23. CHAPTER II Origin op Ore Deposits 24-51...largest ore deposits like the copper deposits of Michigan have sometimes been formed by a single ascending...— Section across a vein in the Hillside mine, Yavapai County, Arizona, showing the ore scattered through...both vertical and horizontal faulting Enterprise mine, Rico, Colorado. Fig. 7. — Illustrations of single...the veins. (3) A change in the character of the county rock which a vein may determine a change either |
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