 | | 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) | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | MICROMOUNTING AT THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN By PAUL B. MOORE and RICHARD M. 6EGER Depr. of Geolophysical...limited time, may we suggest the Hancock Mine (on Ingot St., Hancock). The dump looks terrible — overgrown...due to the parallel growth of xls. At the Hancock Mine, Hancock, it occurs upon xls of epidote and quartz...at Centennial Mine, Calumet; Iroquois Mine, and Cliff Mine, Cliff; Quincy Mine, Hancock, with chlorastrolite;...chlorastrolite; Isle Royale Mines, Houghton; Seneca and Ahmeek Mines, Mohawk with epidote; in smaller amounts |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pewabic 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 |  | | 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 |  | Cornwall, H.R., Runner, J.J., Stromquist, A.A., Swanson, R.W., White, W.S. (1949) Detailed geologic map of the recently active copper mines; Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan. Open-File Report Vol. 1949 (50-4) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr504 | Report (issue) | | copper nines, -..- roughton and Keweenaw Counties, Michigan H. R. Cornwall, J. J. Runner, A. A. Stromquist................. 10 Central Exploration fissure mine, 12 Introduction................ + (- ; Stratigraphy...Distribution of copper,.*»...................... 33 The Houghton conglomerate *>re body, Allouez No* 3* shaft.*...copper*«...._................,.. 26 ->- Quincy mine ,..........*.......*................... Introduction............^.................... 32 Isle Royale mine ................................... 3U ; *" 30 |  | | Journal (issue) | | PUBLISHED MONTHLY 1938 CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1938 PREHNITE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... . . . . .. . ......... . .. . .. 144 ANCIENT MINE SAVED GREEK CIVI L I ZATION . ............... 147...131 PREHNITE One of the loveliest of green minerals which always excites admiration is prehnite. It must...green, as prehnite is also found in a gray, white, yellowish and even a bluish color. Prehnite is an old...found it at Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Prehnite is now a common mineral at many localities. Very |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ORE FLUIDS ON THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, NORTHERN MICHIGAN ALEX C. BROWN†,* Department of Civil, Geological...the incipiently buoyant brine at the scale of the mine district on that promontory. Introduction The restriction...district on the Keweenaw Peninsula in northern Michigan has long perplexed exploration geologists. Minor...compression and the probable development of a local, mine district-scale thermal plume of ore-forming fluid...minerals such as epidote, chlorite, quartz, calcite, prehnite, pumpellyite, and zeolites (Fig. 2). More precise |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bridge. In all the mitted. Inquiries to clubs in Michigan rugged beauty that makes up Michigan's were not...mountains of northern "Where?", and she said, "Michigan," Pennsylvania, stopping off to see the deep and...from a mineralogical and collecting standpoint, Michigan belonged on the map. W e next turned the nose...the Straits of Mackinac. In Charlevoix on Lake Michigan I saw a half of a large pebble that was exquisite...halved Michigan. Crossing the bridge we found ourselves in the U.P. and while this was still Michigan, there |  | | 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...Chairman, Rogers City, 1961-1977 E. M. LAITALA, Hancock, 1961-1978 CARL T. JOHNSON, Cadillac, 1963-1979 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan It was at one of last winter's meetings of the Michigan Mineralogical Society...of the six-day invasion of Marquette, Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw Counties. The response almost bowled...six days which we had scheduled for Ishpeming, Michigan. Bob Markert and his associates came through in...Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan, Marquette, Michigan, and were well supplied with information...arrangements with the Michigan College of Mining and Technology at Houghton, Michigan, for a joint field |  | | 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...shutdown of all Calumet & Hecla, Inc.* mines in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties by a labor strike that started...came with the closing of the White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, in September 1995. New, stringent environmental |  | | 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 (issue) | | scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net All mineral photography...History and Mineralogy of the St. Louis Mine Houghton County, Michigan Twentieth in a series of articles...at the St. Louis mine, located about 1.3 miles east of the village of Laurium, Michigan. This little-known...pumpellyite-(Mg), epidote, calcite, hematite, prehnite, laumontite, and copper, that occur as free-growing...microcrystals in amygdules contained in a lava flow top. The mine has also yielded uniquely banded agates that occur |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous...the Gordonsville mine, Central Tennessee Lead-Zinc district near Carthage in Smith County. Calcite from...northern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, approximately surrounding the western end of...cm tall, from the Ben Hogan quarry in Lawrence County, Arkansas. Terry Huizing specimen (No. TEH 273)...The copper deposits of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan formed in a massive series of interbedded volcanics |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | This is the case for the Tilley Foster mine (Putnam County), which was well described by Nightingale...geology and mineralogy of the Sterling mine, Antwerp (Jefferson County), which were well documented by Robinson...district; 3. Lyon Mountain mines; 4. Benson mine; 5. Jayville mine; 6. Chub Lake prospect; 7. Antwerp-Keen...Rock mine; 9. Clintontype; 10. Columbia County iron mines (Burden iron mine); 11. Dutchess County iron... Tahawus mine. Figure 2 (below). An old entrance to the former Sterling mine, Orange County. The stratabound |  | | Journal (issue) | | brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia |  | | Report (edition) | | much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...visiting those which are still open. The words "mine" and "quarry" are often used interchangeably in...localities. We have followed the convention of using "mine" only for sites that are chiefly underground workings...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...exposed on the Gilley property in western Cherokee County (O’Neill 1950); it is relatively common as purple |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of...George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum, MTU Houghton, Michigan Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville...crystal, 10.5 cm, with quartz, from the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan, China. Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo...well before the moisture and dust of an operating mine had had time to exert their destructive influences |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lustrous, glassy pale amber barite xls. "Barite, Anna Mine, Pribram, Bohemia (Czechoslovakia) — on label. ENGLAND...SCOTLAND — A beautiful pale green, botryoidal prehnite, was sent in by Sandy Ramsay, 1015 Aikenhead Road...1900 era. It was located on Michigan 26, in Keweenaw County, north of Hancock, Mich. The museum was on the |
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