| | 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 | | | Report (issue) | filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur as inclusions near the...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 | | | 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 | | | Book | Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem Guides Book... 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...and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan, and Ohio hugs the edge of Lake Erie. These states | | | 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...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2023 Articles Copper Country II Introduction..............................................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines.................................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...................................... | | | Journal (issue) | 132 A MINERALOGICAL TRIP THROUGH THE M ICH IGAN COPPER COUNTRY. By Kiril Spi roff . . . . . . . . . ....in the copper region of Keweenaw Peninsula, Mich., where is occurs in veins with native copper. Quite...often prehnite may inc!ude strings or grains of the copper and even silver. Prehnite also occurs in crystalline...Chrysolite: green prehnite from South Africa . Chlorastrolite: Impure prehnite from Lake Superior. Edelite...chlorastroli te. Creenstone: zonoch'.orite or chlorastrolite. Isle of Roya le Creenstone : chlorastroli | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MICROMOUNTING AT THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN By PAUL B. MOORE and RICHARD M. 6EGER Depr. of Geolophysical...INTRODUCTION The Keweenaw Feninsula is well-known for its fine specimens of copper, datolite, calcite...afford little material of interest besides the usual copper and silver. With mounting discouraging trips, we...minerals, particularly pumpellyite and chlorastrolite and copper xls can only be fully appreciated by use...chlorite minerals are the best found anywhere in the Keweenaw Peninsula. PUMPELLYITE (6Ca0.3Al 2 0 3 .7Si0 2 | | | Report (issue) | University University Michigan Townsend Drive Drive 1400Townsend 1400 Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Michigan49931-1...J. the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, Keweenaw Peninsula...Peninsula, Michigan: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, 40th 40thAnnual AnnualMeeting, Meeting..."Field Guide to the Geology Geology of the the Keweenaw Keweenaw Annual Institute Institute on on Lake Lake...Lake Superior Superior Geology Peninsula, Michigan" Michigan" (Bornhorst (Bornhorst and others, 1983) for | | | Book (volume) | the Atlantic Coast Fall Line, so named from the falls or rapids in rivers at places where they pass from...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: | | | Journal (issue) | with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...of Donald Pearce (1941-1989) The “Copper King” The MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY L. W i l s o n New Mexico...t a n l e y J. D y l II Seaman Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University % 1992 T h e M in e...COVER: Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard...Burbank) wrote the classic work on the copper deposits of Michigan in 1929. Photo by Wendell E. Wilson. | | | Book (edition) | hardness of less than 2V^ on Mohs' nail will copper coin is mark on scale usually leave a scratch...though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite, an ore of iron, will be heavy in...(aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates...Cross section of unpolished green malachite, a copper carbonate marked with curved bands in various...central Indiana, near Cincinnati, and Dowagiac, Michigan. Few have been reported years, in recent perhaps | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net Keweenaw Figure 1. A delicate group of copper crystals...minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Figure 2. Generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the...Michigan’s Copper Country T he Michigan Copper Country, also known as the Lake Superior native copper district...scenic Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts out into Lake Superior at the western end of Upper Michigan. The...The now-dormant copper mining industry, which flourished from 1844 through 1976, produced 10,525,922,136 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Lake Superior copper deposits, home to the world’s largest occurrence of native copper. Indeed, many...sport flecks of native copper, and specimens exist of datolite intergrown with copper crystals, but that’s...that’s getting ahead of the story. Michigan’s Copper Country datolite has been collected, prized, fashioned...in celebrating the rich mineral heritage of the Keweenaw Peninsula’s datolite by diving into this article...Dyl II, Director A. E. Seumnii Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 170 ROCKS 81MINERALS | | | 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........................... 215 by S. G. Bywater Copper Country microminerals............................Topaz-Mineral Exploration (1605 Hillcrest, Grand Haven, Michigan 49417) wishes to announce that he is now stocking...Czechoslovakia France Germany Japan Italy Mexico Namibia USSR USA Zaire Total Total number of species during 5-year | | | Journal (issue) | Texas 78204 Mlcrocry•tal Collectlng In Keweenaw County, Michigan by Jean R. Rentmeister .................CA. Host, Gem and Mineral Society ol San Mateo County. H.B. Murnan, P.O. Box 53, NAS Mollett Field, CA...Mineralogy Society. Annual Show. Benton-Franklin County Fairgrounds. Kennewick, WA. 10-10 and 10-6. Donald...Soc:lety. Annual " Artistry from Nature." Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA. 10-10 and 10-5. Ed Turner...Guard Armory, Twin Falls, ID. 10-10 and 10-6. George Holmes. P.O. Box 993. Twin Falls 83301. Competitive | | | Book (edition) | MISSOURI ILLINOIS • NORTH DAKOTA • OHIO • MICHIGAN • NEBRASKA • IOWA WISCONSIN Digitized by...and the Tourist Field includes SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS •...40 North Dakota 43 Indiana . 45 Ohio 46 Michigan 50 Missouri 53 j- Kansas 5Q Iowa 60 -...matrix. Or you may visit the beach at Petoskey, Michigan, and find a stone glistening from the receding...opening up a new world to them. Pictures of Niagara Falls or Mount Rushmore they had seen before but not pictures | | | Book (volume) | Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy...Castro Valley, CA; Lita R. Smith-Gharet, Steel Eagle, Tigard, OR; Harriet Snare & David Graham, Bad Boys | | | Book (edition) | Collector and the Tourist includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS •... 47 MICHIGAN ............. 63 WESTERN IOWA ............................ -47 THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA...ISLE ROYALE....................... .66 LOWER MICHIGAN .......... Crystals and Specimens Fossils.......datolites from be neath the cold waters of Lake Michigan. After a book such as this is published, it is...areas. Study all issues for possible help. 9. Get county maps if available, or Geological Survey Quadrangle | | | Book | variety, etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G ...five book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland;...I 1991 337--424 273-336 [ 1-128 129-208 [ COPPER] [ 177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400...the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich) 22:65-69 [Abstracts...Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON, STIG G. Hrucopper and cobalt deposit, Sweden 3:38-39 Notes on recent | | | Book (volume) | Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy...Castro Valley, CA; Lita R. Smitl1-Gharet, Steel Eagle, Tigard, OR; Harriet Snare & David Graham, Bad Boys... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA........................................... | | | Book | Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska...time when Neolithic man was picking up gold and copper nuggets to be hammered into ornaments ( 20,000-14...minerals, raw nugge ts of native metal-gold, silver, copper, bismuth, etc.-clumps and crystals of shiny yellow...mine to kick up a solid gold, silver, or native copper nugget simply because the early miners were unbelievably...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will | | | Report (volume) | geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290, pis. xliv-xlv...teeth, by Professor 0. C. Marsh, pp. 45-88. " The copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior, by Roland Dner...pis. Vi-xix. The Penokee iron-bearing series of Michigan and Wisconsin, by Koland Duer Irving and Charles...report on the Marquette iron-bearing district of Michigan, by Charles Richard Van Hise and William Shirley...George F. Becker, pp. 251-331, pis. xvi-xviii. Copper, by Charles Kirchhoff, pp. 332-358. Lead, by Charles | | | Book (edition) | Ruthenium 129 Palladium Mercury and its Compounds Copper and its Compounds 141 Silver its Lead and its...on windows, and in arborescent forms of native copper, silver, gold, etc. Fig. 11 represents, much magnified...under the hammer, as in native gold, silver, copper. When thin slices may be cut off with a knife...metallic are named after some familiar metal, as copper-red, bronze-yellow, brass-yellow, gold-yellow,...from the English, A A as follows: = Antimony = Copper Fe = Iron Ferrum Pb = Lead Plumbum Hydrargyrum |
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