Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online Museum: Franklin Datolites
Franklin Mines,
Hancock, Houghton Co., Michigan
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"Old Reliable" Quincy Mine is considered a historical landmark of the Copper
Country, a nickname for copper producing Keweenaw Peninsula, and many of
the original buildings are still standing and preserved. The Quincy and
Mesnard Mines are very well known for producing many highly prized colorful
datolites and some coming in baseball-sizes. Since Quincy, Mesnard and
Franklin mines are connected to each other that it's not easy to tell the
datolites from the mines apart. The mine dumps of Franklin already have
been taken away for road-making so no more datolites coming from Franklin.
Faint yellow color with red dots.
Pinkish with dark dots all over.
Largest colored datolite in my collection! Found in Tuscon shows, Identified
as Franklin datolite by John Peoria