Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online
Museum:
Wolverine Datolites
Wolverine #2 & #4 Mines, Kearsage,
Houghton
Co., Michigan.
Field-collecting
Status: Ownership unknown but OK to Collect at one's
own risk.
I found one datolite nodule while looking for the
rare
agates with copper inclusions in August 2005, and I came back to the
same
place and found more in August 2006. As of August 2007, I did some
digging
in an attempt to locate the source of datolites out of hope that I
might
find larger datolites, and all I found are tiny datolites. All
datolites found at the Wolverine Mine are enriched in copper. The
tiny datolites still can be found from time to time at the Wolverine
#2
and there had been reports of datolites slightly bigger than an inch
found
from the dumps. Few more may come up as it get bulldozed for copper
replacement agates (or "Copper Agates" for short). Some datolites
are also found at nearby Wolverine #4 when its rocks were hauled away to
be crushed to make roads.
You can click on
the pictures to see larger pictures.
All with flakelike copper inclusions.
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August 2012
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August 2005-2012
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