 | | 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......................................53 |  | | Book (volume) | | Durango, Mexico, 65 Copper (with Silver) Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 52 Lake Superior Dist., Pewabic Lode...Mines, Houghton Co., Michigan, 12 (with Calcite) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 51 Emerald (on Calcite)...Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, 65 (on Copper) Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 52 Smithsonite (Cuprian) Tsumeb, Namibia... Vanadinite (on Barite) Mibladen, Morocco, 15-16 Vivianite (on Siderite) Huanuni, Dalence Prov., Oruro Dept |  | | Catalog/List | | Pine Canyon Deposit, Judith Lynn Claim, New Mexico, USA. The specimen consists of a thin white matrix block...1.5 cm. f 20.45 Fluorite. Denton Mine, Illinois, USA. Superb, sharp lustrous complex intergrown cubic... Fluorite / Sphalerite. Elmwood Mine, Tennesse, USA. Superb, sharp transparent purple intergrown cubic...8 x 2.5 cm. f, 11.70 Galena. Joplin, Missouri, USA. Two intergrown sharp silvery-metallic cubic crystals...x 5 x 4.5 cm. f, 9.00 Galena. Joplin, Missouri, USA. A suburb, shiny silver metallic specimen of Galena |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | kornerupine analcite cassiterite epidote kuiulte vivianite andalusite celestlte euclase wfl Jem ite kyanite...most all localities in Maine and parts of N . H. Michigan—Rick Chapaton, 32900 Colony Hill, Franklin, Mich...limestone quarries, iron and copper country. Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Montana—Donald R. Griffin, Geological |  | | Catalog/List | | Canyon Deposit, Judith Lynn Claim, Nc,,· Mexico, USA. The specimen consists of a thin white matrix blod;...5 cm.. f 20.45 Fluorite. Denton Mine, lllinois, USA. Superb, sharp lustrous complex intergrown cubic...75 Fluorite / Sphalerite. Elmwood Mine, Tenncsse, USA. Superb, sharp transparent purple intergrown cubic...x S x 2.5 cm. f 11.70 Galena. Joplin, Missouri, USA. Two intergrown sharp silvery-metallic cubic c1)...html 5 x 4.5 cm. f 9.00 Galena. Joplin, Missouri, USA. A suburb, shiny silver metallic specimen of Galena |  | | 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 (issue) | | selenite from the Bristol Mine, Crystal Falls, Michigan (figure 9). The deep blue color of an azurite...full color. $15- each or both for $25postpaid in USA Excalibur Mineral Corporation 1885 Seminole Trl—Ste...Fluorite in Slate from the Bacco 424 Quarry, Iron Co. Michigan Challenges in visual identification of Butte,...Mining Museum Chapin Mine Park - Iron Mountain, Michigan Ahmeek Mining Company Stamp Mill Quincey Mine...Subterranean Treasure 2022 Summer Finds in the Michigan Copper Country Crystal City The Purple Fox Hole |  | | Book (volume) | | Strengite, Strunzite, Switzerite, Uraninite, Vivianite and Zircon; and Tiger Bill Mine, drive 2.3 mi...Schorl, Sphalerite, Spodumene, Topaz, Vesuvianite, Vivianite and Zircon. Other mines in the Greenwood mining...Triphylite, Uralolite (fluorescent), Uraninite, Vivianite, Wadeite and Zircon; (c) the Scotty MineBeryl...Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Torbernite, Triphylite and Vivianite; Perry prospectAutunite, Spodumene and Triphylite...Torbernite, Triphylite, Uraninite, Uranophane, Vivianite, Whitlockite and Zircon; (b) Whitecap Mt., area |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...Continued-Collecting Underground Postcards Coppertown USA Mining Museum Badger Mine and Museum - Shullsburg...Ironwood, Michigan Mining Murals Wisconsin's Plummer Mine Headframe Flambeau Mine Memorabilia Michigan Mining |  | | Journal (issue) | | dickinsonite, vivianite, rhodochrosite, etc. This material is different: no vivianite, no strengite,...early June, I decided to travel to Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. On one of the days that I was out-and-about...a modest fee. It is a Keweenaw Heritage Site and an official partnersof Keweenaw National Historical Park...perfect bound for just: $35.00 Postage $5.00 in the USA; $23 for foreign. Excalibur Mineral Corp Tel: 434-964-0875...eruption at the Plosky Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It occurs as prismatic, needle-like transparent |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 . |  | | Catalog/List | | calcite or DOMEYKITE A copper arsenide Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula, Mohawk mine Very rich metallic masses... 0 . 35 MOHAWKITE Copper arsenide Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula, Houghton Tin white metallic veinlets...50 3.50 PARAMELACONITE Copper oxide Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula, Algomah mine Black massive with tenorite...A hydrated calcium aluminum silicate Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula, Hancock mine --Blue green acicular micro..... .... $. 25 each, 5/$ 1. 00 .......... . VIVIANITE A hydrated ferrous phosphate Africa Camerouns |  | | Book (volume) | | Strengite, Strunzite, Switzerite, Uraninite, Vivianite and Zircon; e and Tiger Bill Mine, drive 2.3 mi... Spodumene, Topaz, 189 Maine Vesuvianite, Vivianite and Zircon. Other mines in the Greenwood mining...Triphylite, Uralolite (fluorescent), Uraninite, Vivianite, Wadeite and Zircon; (c) the Scotty Mine⎯Beryl...Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Torbernite, Triphylite and Vivianite; e Perry prospect⎯Autunite, Spodumene and Triphylite...Torbernite, Triphylite, Uraninite, Uranophane, Vivianite, Whitlockite and Zircon; (b) Whitecap Mt., area |  | | Book (volume) | | Strengite, Strunzite, Switzerite, Uraninite, Vivianite and Zircon; e and Tiger Bill Mine, drive 2.3 mi... Spodumene, Topaz, 189 Maine Vesuvianite, Vivianite and Zircon. Other mines in the Greenwood mining...Triphylite, Uralolite (fluorescent), Uraninite, Vivianite, Wadeite and Zircon; (c) the Scotty Mine⎯Beryl...Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Torbernite, Triphylite and Vivianite; e Perry prospect⎯Autunite, Spodumene and Triphylite...Torbernite, Triphylite, Uraninite, Uranophane, Vivianite, Whitlockite and Zircon; (b) Whitecap Mt., area |  | | Journal (issue) | | Elder, Audrey E. Smith P.O. Box 234 Crystal Falls, Michigan 49920 shawncarlson@hotmail.com markelder@juno...prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of the village...of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum in Houghton, Michigan. (Continued on page 5 ) MARTIN ZINN EXPOSITIONS...==----• ...... . .. ._2.:.:J Excerpted Escanaba Michigan 1:100,000-scale USGS topographic map, showing...nearby village of Quinnesec, Dickinson County, Michigan. The prospect and associated quartz crystal pockets |  | | Report (issue) | | 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...of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 30028, Lansing, Michigan 48909 On deposf-t in public libraries, state |  | | 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...National Park 12:29-38 BEHNKE.DAN Copper Country [Michigan) microminerals 14: 219-226 Habits and haunts of...Leicht) 13:375-383, 13:386-387 New gold from [the Michigan Bluff district] California! (by D. Leicht) 13:384-385...locality index (by A. R. Kampf) 20: 129142 A vivianite occurrence in [Walnut Creek] Conta Costa County |  | | Journal (issue) | | citizen while living in Mass, Ontonogan County, Michigan; by the time his petition was granted in 1911...datolite, analcite and associated minerals from the Michigan copper district. This is an old time collection...localities such as Bisbee, Butte, Leadville, the Keweenaw, and several now-defunct Idaho mines were still...Copper (both sides), 13.6 cm, from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Jeff Scovil photo. 20 Supplement...probably from the Osceola mine, Houghton County, Michigan. Ex Bill and Carol Smith collection; Jeff Scovil |  | | Journal (issue) | | of time. the taken by University W. D. Michigan A within a Photo Keller of Missouri. the...Sylvania sandstone sheet on top) at Rockwood, Michigan. Michigan 3 (Wisconsin till Minerals Henry P....University, Detroit The collector of minerals in Michigan has two distinctly unlike regions in which to...interest season after season. The entire lower peninsula of the state, from the Ohio-Indiana line to the...only slightly disturbed Paleozoic strata of the Michigan “basin,” with exposures ranging in age from Silurian |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mark 421 East Ridge Street, Apt. B Marquette, Michigan 49855 Some new discoveries in New Mexico minerals...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineralnews.com...Hexahydrile Socrates Mine. CA 16-7: 1.4 Humboldtine Keweenaw Peninsula. Ml 16-7: 1.4 Hydroxylherderite Benncn Quan-)'...Bad Ems. Gem,an y 16- 1:7 Korobitsynite Kola Peninsula. Ru,-ia 16-9:9- 10 Kozoite-(Nd) N1ikoba. Saga |  | | Catalog/List | | ~e, light brown prismatic crystalline aggregate Michigan Champion, Spons mine White-tan fibrous aggregates...pyrite THURINGITE A hydrated aluminum iron silicate Michigan Champion, Champion mine Dark green rnicaceous...CHLORITOID A hydrated iron magnesium aluminum silicate Michigan Champion, Champion mine Dark green plates with...red cuprite; some with matrix, select ..... Michigan Keweenaw Pcnin:;ula, Calumet & Hecla mine Bright copper...conglomerate ........................ . Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula Groups of larg-c elont:atcd crystals; |  | | Book | | accumulations of primary copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...52 mm. Freiberg. Germany Copper. 120 mm. Keweenaw Peninsula. U.S.A. in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Fine...the basalt cavities in the Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4...of gold found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine |  | | Journal (issue) | | P .O . Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene , ID 83816 -2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com... Mine ral News 4 Ortob,-.r 2000 'I Fig. 3 Vivianite, about 10 inches long, Huanuni, Bolivia, from...from sales display of Crystal Springs. Fig. 2 Vivianite, about 12 inches high, Huanuni, Bolivia, from sales...including the twins. For those looking for old classic USA material, he had a couple Bristol, Connecticut chalcocite...cry tal o n coarse crystalline wi re from Keweenaw Peninsula, M I: inc red ible purple a patite o n q |  | | Journal (issue) | | was not the only early mineral dealer in Texas. Michigan-bom Clarence Lockwood Brock (1880-1946) moved...the Copper Falls mine, Copper Falls. Keweenaw County, Michigan. Ex Greg Thompson collection; Paul Bordovsky...Specifically, weil crystallized coppers, primarily from Michigan, but also from other localities in the US and...hole to explore; that interest even led to some Michigan copper mine ingots from a recovered 1865 shipwreck... Quartz, 10 cm, from Herkimer County, New York, USA. Joe Bµdd photo. Rose quartz, 9 cm, from the Jequitinhonha |  | | Journal (issue) | | Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...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...to the native copper deposits of western Upper Michigan, but it wasn’t until about 1844 that the first...district. The great native copper belt of Upper Michigan occurs in a series of rocks made up of interbedded |
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