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MS Book and Mineral Company Minerals from the Lake Superior Region: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota You might want to check out the Michigan - Minnesota Mineral Catalog also |
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Images below are hyperlinked....click mineral to enlarge To order a mineral give the mineral name and the number of the specimen(s) you wish to purchase. You will receive that exact specimen. Satisfaction is guaranteed. |
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Native Copper in matrix with a drill head impression Mineral # 861 Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan $ 395 11 x 9 x 7.5 cm over 800 grams |
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Native Copper in matrix with a drill head impression Mineral # 861 Another view showing native copper on and in this specimen Drill impression is still visible from this side view; the tag holds a specimen identification held in place by, wait for it, copper wire which loops through a natural hole in the specimen |
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Native Copper in matrix with a drill head impression Mineral # 861 View of another side of this specimen showing seams in and on the attractive matrix rock which has bits of copper through it also; remember to click all specimens to enlarge them |
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Native Copper in matrix with a drill head impression Mineral # 861 Another view of this attractive copper specimen showing another structual feature: a pocket near the bottom in this view and just below the drill impression which has strange, little, attractive elevations in it |
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Celestite Mineral # 851 Maybee, Michigan 5 x 3.5 x 4.5 cm $ 65 Beautiful light blue crystals scattered over this specimen; it also has unidentified yellow crystals, perhaps sulfur? |
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Copper Arsenides (mainly Algodonite) Mineral # 1955 Pancake Bay, Lake Superior, North of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario 8 x 5 x 1 cm $ 195 Thick rock slice (7mm), of calcite and host rock with embedded copper Arsenides with copper |
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Copper Arsenides (mainly Algodonite) Mineral # 1956 Pancake Bay, Lake Superior, North of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario 9.5 x 8 x 1 cm $ 175 Thick rock slice (7mm), of calcite and host rock with embedded copper Arsenides |
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Copper with Black Shale Mineral # 852 White Pine Mine, Ontonagan County, Michigan 9.5 x 4.5 x 0.5 cm $ 59 Flat specimens with a sharp contrast between the bright copper and the black shale; some specimens with native rock matrix |
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Copper Mineral # 853 Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan 5.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm $ 49 This copper is very bright and has slight reddish coloration |
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Copper Mineral # 854 Mohawk Mine, Michigan Upper Peninsula 7 x 4 x 2 cm $ 69 Native copper with a natural green-gray rock matrix |
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Copper Nugget Mineral # 855 Keweeknaw County, Michigan 7.5 x 5 x 1.5 cm $ 55 Large Natural Nugget of Copper |
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Copper Float Mineral # 856 Michigan Upper Peninsula 6.5 x 4 x 2 cm $ 69 Pieces of copper dropped by glaciers; the copper is exposed and polished on one surface The unaltered surface is a bright green Float specimens can also be found in Wisconsin and upper Michigan |
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Copper, Kearsarge Amygdaloid Mineral # 857 Mohawk Mine, Michigan Upper Peninsula 11 x 4 x 1 cm $ 45 An elongate, slender piece of native copper as mined surrounded by rock matrix |
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Copper, Kearsarge Amygdaloid Mineral # 857 Mohawk Mine, Michigan Upper Peninsula Another closer view of above specimen so you can see copper through the matrix rock; a native rock is still attached to the left surface of the specimen |
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Mohawkite Mineral # 858 Keweenaw County, Michigan USA 6 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm $ 95 These are silver and/or copper colored metallic rocks composed of copper Arsenides and contain cobalt, silver, nickel and iron These are thought to have dropped by the glaciers (i.e., they always have one flat side) |
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Prehnite pseudomorph after Laumontite containing copper inclusions Mineral # 859 Knife River, North Shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota 7 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm $ 85 A light green to pink mineral with copper specks throughout the specimen |
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Chalcocite, Bornite, and Copper Mineral # 860 Flambeau Mine, Lady Smith, Wisconsin 5 x 4 x 4 cm $ 150 |
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Chalcocite, Bornite, and Copper Mineral # 860 Flambeau Mine, Lady Smith, Wisconsin View on the opposite side from above; attractive dark bluish purple ore specimen ; if you cut these ore samples open you sometimes find covellite inside also |
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Chalcocite, Bornite, and Copper Mineral # 860 Flambeau Mine, Lady Smith, Wisconsin A closeup jpeg taken showing one side of the ore sample |
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