| | 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 . | | | 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 (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 | | | 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...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 | | | 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...the secondmost-productive lode discovered in the Michigan copper district. In the heyday of mining it became...miners until 1967 when all mining ceased. Many of the mine dumps have disappeared through the years because...only massive concrete foundations mark the famous mine sites. Not all is lost, though. A trip to the A | | | 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...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............Topaz-Mineral Exploration (1605 Hillcrest, Grand Haven, Michigan 49417) wishes to announce that he is now stocking...Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named | | | Catalog/List | Arizona Lodestone, Magnetic Iron Copper, Michigan Velvet Malachite, Bisbee, Arizona Rhodonite Zincite, Micaceous...Franklin, N. J. Quartz, Blue Rhodonite Copper, Michigan Az.urite, Bisbee, Arizona Quartz Group. Hot Springs...England Salin Spar Malachite, Stalactite Agatized Wood, Adamana, Arizona Velvet Malachite Coral Turquoise...Dundas, Tasmania Quartz Group, Hou1Zhton Co., Michigan Carnotite, Montrose Co., Colorado Quartz var....Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | [Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...clinoatacamite, and paratacamite. Pseudomorphs of malachite and chrysocolla after atacamite have been reported;...brochantite, antlerite, linarite, caledonite, malachite, chrysocolla, and gypsum. Atacamite is essentially | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | = n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Centennial mine, Michigan, USA. 7.50 (10), 2.481 (8), 3.02 (6), 3.76 (5)...33.5 16.9 Total 99.97 (1) Centennial mine, Michigan, USA; Cu by electrolysis, H2 O:OH from charge...intermediate product in the alteration (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Association: Tremolite, quartz, epidote...buttgenbachite, malachite, paratacamite, anthonyite (Centennial mine, Michigan, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from...other nearby mines, near Calumet, Houghton Co., Michigan. From Laurium, Greece, in slag. In Germany, from | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen... 413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59 Apatite... B. Cook, 426–31 Calcite, 462; Colorado, 410; Michigan, 312; Nevada, 516; New York, 162, 253; Quebec...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, 250–59; Gemstone Deposits in Turkey...Connoisseur’s Choice, Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59; Calaverite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | un executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, al. Malachite is also well known as loosely coherent aggregates...excellent review article on the morphology of malachite, which includes a comprehensive discussion of...in-depth treatment of this aspect of malachite mineralogy. Malachite is basic copper carbonate with the...copper in the mineral’s structure is uncertain. Malachite pseudomorphs after a variety of minerals have...known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite | | | Catalog/List | diameter. USA £40 3 MERWINITE solid grey-white slightly glassy granular mass. Crestmore_Riverside County California...California USA 5x4 £15 7 ASTROPHYLLITE five golden brown lath like crystals from 3.5 1.5 long on fine...minute Astrophyllite. St Peters Dome. El Paso county Colorado USA 5x4.5 £15 9 SERANDITE small pink-orange cleavages...roughly half covering 3x2 surface Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall reference specimen £10 11 BAYLDONITE...micro crystals on one edge. La Finosa Mine (Fontana Rossa Mine) Corte, Corsica France £7 15 LAZULITE | | | 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) | A COPPER ANALOG OF LAURIUM, GREECE By WM. A. HEND RSOM, JR., Ph.D. 174 East Hunting Ridge Re d, Stamford...It looked like malachite, and later examination under a microscope revealed malachite as well as several...lead minerals found at Laurium, Greece. In the time of Pericles, lead ores at Laurium were smelted and the...first found and described in the lead slags of Laurium and are listed in Dana as legitimate species. At...derived from sea water, as was the case with the Laurium minerals. The presence of almost completely closed | | | Journal (issue) | Morehead Riverside. CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Gaol. Surv. of... ince it will be held at the giant Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, let ·s just call it the...· E · M · S · T· 0 · N · E Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona Send $7.50 for our Mineral...section with serendibite near Johnsburg, Warren County, New York (Schaller and Hildebrand, 1 955; Grew...excursion, with all 1he curaiorial parties. 10 the Laurium mines. Naiurally I was excited: so much so. as | | | Journal (issue) | Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of...since it will be held at the giant Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, let’s just call it the “Pomona...E - M - S - T - O - N - E Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona Send $7.50 for our Mineral...section with serendibite near Johnsburg, Warren County, New York (Schaller and Hildebrand, 1955; Grew...excursion, with all the curatorial parties, to the Laurium mines. Naturally I was excited: so much so, as | | | Journal (issue) | M. Gressm an tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic...COVER: METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo...three years, (Canada) $180 / one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's...west of the Mackenzie River Delta. The Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island was another prolific locality pioneered | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | of M ineral N ames Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona (Also a Source of Wulfenite)...the mine. Peacor et al. (1985) noted that, at the time, the species was also known from Laurium, Greece...Locality map showing the Mammoth–St. Anthony mine in Pinal County, Arizona; prepared by William Besse. Figure...Figure 2. A view of the Mammoth–St. Anthony mine headframe near the large pit. Barbara Muntyan photo (2010)...with a pale blue streak and vitreous luster. The Laurium, Greece, mammothite crystals are noticeably different | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | CULLEN LAUGHLIN-YURS 513 Iron Street Norway, Michigan 49870 kc9pjm@gmail.com TRAVIS A. OLDS Energy...the White Pine copper mine) coupled with the surprising rate at which old mine dumps are being OWEN...Analysis Laboratory Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, Michigan 49931 opmills@mtu...M. CARLSON 245 Jule Lake Road Crystal Falls, Michigan 49920 shawncarlson@hotmail.com Cullen L. Laughlin-Yurs...Department at Michigan Technological University. Shawn M. Carlson is a 1991 graduate (geology) of Michigan Technological | | | 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 George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ..............................................383...COVER: WULFENITE group, 6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Tewksbury, Great Britain; and Dr. George W. Robinson, Michigan Technological University. INVESTIGATION OF OXIDE...A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Tychnological University, Houghton, MI 49931. Text withdrawn pending...MICROMINERALS FROM BLACK JACK CANYON, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA. E. Grundel, 2000 S. 2d St., No. 8, Arlington...mileposts 162 and 163 near Black Jack Canyon, Greenlee County, Arizona. The specimens are found in the vesicles...Graham Counties,Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines, county geology map series 3-4. A NEW OCCURRENCE OF CUBIC | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...specimen of olivenite from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have...Mountain states. In the copper mines of Houghton County, Michigan, where primary arsenides have provided...from Hinsdale County, Colorado, and from the Blackbird and Nickel Plate mines in Lemhi County, Idaho. In...assemblages from the Black Pine mine in the Phillipsburg area of Granite County (Waisman 1992). Olivenite is | | | Journal (issue) | .. . . . . .. . ......... . .. . .. 144 ANCIENT MINE SAVED GREEK CIVI L I ZATION . ............... 147...specimens. When you bring home specimens collected at a mine, quarry, or other locality, WASH THEM in water with...COUNTRY By KIRIL SPIROFF Michigan College of Mining and Technology The Michigan Copper Country is of unique...1841 a report by Dr. Douglass Houghton, the first state geologist of Michigan, aroused interest in the economic...possibilities of the region. A monument to Dr. Houghton constructed from material from every geological | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Universitesi] at 11:52 22 December 2014 Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece E rythrite, an attractive...When massive or earthy, it can be confused with malachite and even the serpentine variety garnierite, and...green encrustations on chloanthite at the old cobalt mine dumps below Great Hill near the East Hampton–Portland...Jackson County, North Carolina. It has been reported from the Fredericktown district in Madison County, Missouri...nickel arsenides in the Mohawk No. 2 mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Annabergite has been found at scattered |
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Laurium Mine, Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan, USA