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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online Museum:
Hill Fissure Datolites
Vicinity of Copper Falls, Keweenaw CO., Michigan
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    The Hill Fissure is the one hidden in the forest behind the Rest Area within the vicinity of Copper Falls and it is bit tricky to find it since the diggings are hidden behind a hill (mine tailing?). The area was pretty heavily dug out by so many datolite collectors and not much has been found despite my efforts to clear the
junk rocks off the now-depleted seam, and in August 2007, I decided to come back to this area to give it another chance. I happen to take a wrong turn and ended up in the place loaded with datolite-enriched rocks where very sparse digging had been done. As a result, I was able to obtain so many basalt rocks containing datolites which are commonly white due to bleaching but I have been turning up ones with red to orange dots, greenish tints and even yellow ones! It takes a lot of cutting and grinding to find those with come degree of colors (red dots, green tints, and yellow colors).
Typical white datolite in its 
unusally large size in the basalt matrix
Another typical datolite with
unbleached areas (grayish)
A couple of rare yellow datolites
August 2007
Gray datolites
August 2007
With reddish dots along the edges
August 2007
Rare very dark datolite from old diggings,
August 1995
Contains rare greenish datolites
August 2007
Both Contain red dots
August 2007

Semi-orangish datolites (contains lot of reddish-orange dots)
August 2007