MS BOOK AND MINERAL COMPANY

Mining History and Geology of the United States

Michigan

PP 154 A / James H. L., et.al. / MORAINES AND SHORE LINES OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, 1929, afb, 72 pages, 8 plates (2 in pocket), 10 figs., slight repair to edges of two pages, $ 15

PP 184 / Leith, C. K., et.al. / PRE-CAMBRIAN ROCKS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, A REVIEW OF NEWLY DISCOVERED GEOLOGIC FEATURES WITH A REVISED GEOLOGIC MAP, 1935, afb, 34 pages, 1 plate (in pocket), 1 insert, slight wrinkling of the top right corners of pages, ovg, $ 28

PP 310 / James, H. L., et.al. / GEOLOGY OF CENTRAL DICKINSON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, 1961, pb, 176 pages, 13 plates (in pocket), 98 figs., $ 45

PP 310 / James, H. L., et.al. / GEOLOGY OF CENTRAL DICKINSON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, 1961, afb, 176 pages, 13 plates (in pocket), 98 figs., $ 55

PP 314  /  Cooper, G. A., et. al.  /  SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY 1957, 1959, Includes 8 sections including papers on the classification and delineation of nonparallel folds, the pre-Atoka rocks of northern Arkansas, several paleontology papers and THE STRATIGRAPHY OF PRE-KEEWEENAWAN ROCKS IN PARTS OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN, 189 pages, cl, 5 plates, $ 25

B 1044 / Gair, J. E. and Wier, K. L. / GEOLOGY OF THE KIERNAN QUADRANGLE, IRON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, 1956, pb, 88 pages, 5 plates (in pocket), 21 figs., $ 28

B 1077 / Bayley, R. W. / GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE MARY QUADRANGLE, IRON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, 1959, pb, 112 pages, 7 plates (in pocket), 33 figs., $ 28

B 1226 / Wier, K. L. / GEOLOGY OF THE KELSO JUNCTION QUADRANGLE, IRON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, 1967, pb, 47 pages, 3 plates (in pocket), 3 figs., 6 tables, $ 30

B 1407 / Schmidt, R. C. / GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN W (LOWER PRECAMBRIAN) ROCKS IN WESTERN GOGEBIC COUNTY, MICHIGAN, 1976, pb, 40 pages, 1 plate (in pocket), 11 figs., 7 tables, $ 16

B 1460 / Schmidt, R. G. / THE MARQUETTE RANGE SUPERGROUP IN THE GOGEBIC IRON DISTRICT, MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN, 1980, pb, 96 pages, 12 figs., 7 tables, $ 24

B 1904 A / Located in the Wisconsin Catalog

B 1904 B / Located in the Wisconsin Catalog

B 1904 CD / Located in the Minnesota Catalog

B 1904 E / Sims, P. K. / GREAT LAKES TECTONIC ZONE IN MARQUETTE AREA, MICHIGAN – IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCHEAN TECTONICS IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL U.S., 1991, pb, 17 pages, 8 figs., 2 tables, $ 6

B 1904 F / Johnson, R. C. and Bornhorst, T. J. / ARCHEAN GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN BLOCK OF THE ISHPEMING GREENSTONE BELT, MARQUETTE CO., MICHIGAN, 1991, pb, 20 pages, 11 figs., 2 tables, $ 6

B 1904 GH / Barovich, K. M, et.al. / NEODYMIUM ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR EARLY PROTEROZOIC UNITS IN THE WATERSMEET GNEISS DOME, NORTHERN MICHIGAN <and> TEMPERATURE-PRESSURE ESTIMATES OF DYNAMICALLY RECRYSTALLIZED ROCKS IN THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC MOUNTAIN SHEAR ZONE, NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN, 1991, pb, 3 figs., 1 table, $ 5

B 1904 I /  Located in the Wisconsin Catalog

B 1904 J /  Located in the Wisconsin Catalog

B 1904 K / Klasner, J. S., et.al. / NATURE AND STYLE OF DEFORMATION IN THE FORELAND OF THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC PENOKEAN OROGEN, NORTHERN MICHIGAN, 1991, pb, 22 pages, 13 figs., 2 tables, $ 6

B 1904 L / Klasner, J. S. and Sims, P. K. / THICK-SKINNED, SOUTH-VERGING BACKTHRUSTING IN THE FELCH AND CALUMET TROUGHS AREA OF THE PENOKEAN OROGEN, NORTHERN MICHIGAN, 1993, pb, 28 pages, 20 figs., 1 table, $ 5

B 1904 M / Sims, P. K. and Day, W. C. / A REGIONAL STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ARCHEAN SUPERIOR PROVINCE, UNITED STATES, 1922, pb, 19 pages, 10 figs., $ 6

B 1904 O / Nachatilo, S. A. and Bauer, R. L. / STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ARCHEAN ROCKS IN THE NEGAUNEE AREA, MICHIGAN – CONSTRAINTS ON ARCHEAN VERSUS EARLY PROTEROZOIC DEFORMATION, 1933, pb, 29 pages, 20 figs., 1 table, $ 7

B 1904 P / Bornhorst, T. J. and Johnson, R. C. / GEOLOGY OF VOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE SOUTH HALF OF THE ISHPEMING GREENSTONE BELT, MICHIGAN, 1933, pb, 13 pages, 7 figs., $ 5

B 1904 Q / Gregg, W. J. / STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF PARAUTOCHTHONOUS AND ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANES OF THE PENOKEAN OROGENY IN UPPER MICHIGAN – COMPARISON WITH NORTHERN APPALACHIAN TECTONICS, 1993, 28 pages, 16 figs., 2 tables, $ 6

B 1904 R / Gregg, W. J. / SEDIMENTARY AND PROVENANCE OF THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC MICHIGAMME FORMATION AND GOODRICH QUARTZITE, NORTHERN MICHIGAN – REGIONAL STRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTED CORRELATIONS, 1994, pb, 31 pages, 21 figs., 5 tables, $ 6

B 1904 S / Located in the Minnesota Catalog

B 1904 T / Sims, P. K. / ARCHEAN AND EARLY PROTEROZOIC TECTONIC FRAMEWORK OF NORTH-CENTRAL UNITED STATES AND ADJACENT CANADA, 1955, pb, 12 pages, 1 plate (in pocket), 2 figs., $ 7

B 1904 U / Located in the Minnesota Catalog

Michigan USGS Circulars:

C 133 / Landes, K .K. / DETROIT RIVER GROUP IN THE MICHIGAN BASIN, 1951, pb, 23 pages, $ 8

C 153 / Pettijohn, F. J. / GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN CRYSTAL FALLS AREA, Iron County, Michigan, 17 pages, 8 plates (in pocket), 3 tables, 1 fig., $ 20

C 183 / Wisler, C. O., et.al. / WATER RESOURCES OF THE DETROIT AREA, MICHIGAN, 1952, pb, 36 pages, 3 of 4 plates, 30 figs., 9 tables, $ 15

C 887 / Cannon W. F. / MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE IRON RIVER 1X2 QUADRANGLE, MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN, 1983, pb, 21 pages, 2 figs., 1 table, $ 8

Michigan USGS Folios:

# 155, ANN ARBOR, 1915, $ 35

Michigan Mineralogical Records:

Listed by volume, issue, title, cost
23,2 / MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY, $ 20
23,2 / MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY, cloth version, $ 50

Rocks and Minerals Magazines:

Listed by volume (Issue), year, topic and cost

71(6) 1996 THE CLIFF: AMERICA’S FIRST NATIVE SILVER MINE, $ 15
72(2) 1997 A KEWEENAW ADVENTURE, CALEDONIA MINE, $ 15

Michigan Miscellaneous Publications:

1898 SKETCH MAP OF PART OF THE PORTAGE LAKE AREA, Lake Superior, Michigan, showing the position of the principle conglomerate beds, wear to map along folds, two slight stains, linen-backed map, will fit into a 19 x 21" frame, - 3 -, $ 50

MAP OF THE COPPER RANGE IN T.54 R.34 AND ADJACENT PARTS, Houghton County, Michigan, Showing the location of Princial Beds and Mining Properties, map bound to a cloth backing, hand colored areas outlined on map (assumed to be mining properties), map is from the Geological Survey of Michigan Volume 6, 1898, $ 60 [Another map suitable for framing]

Bornhorst, T. J., et.al. / FIELD GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY OF THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA, MICHIGAN, 1st Edition, Houghton, various printings from 1983 to 1989, sprial bound, 116 pages, 30 maps, 37 figs., - 3 -, $ 45

Burt, J. S. / "BOYS, LOOK AROUND AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN FIND [Discovery of Iron]," FROM SURVEYORS TO SCIENTISTS [locating iron ore became a science]," In: Michigan History Magazine, Nov/Dec 1994 issue, 80 pages, Lansing, - 3 -, $ 20

Crowell & Murray, Chemists and Metallurgists / THE IRON ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR CONTAINING SOME FACTS OF INTEREST RELATING TO MINING AND SHIPPING OF THE ORE AND LOCATION OF PRINCIPLE MINES OF MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA, 2nd Edition, Cleveland, 1914, cl, 257 pages, index to mines and ores, 7 pages of advertisements, - 3 -, $ 125

Crowell & Murray, Chemists and Metallurgists / THE IRON ORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR CONTAINING SOME FACTS OF INTEREST RELATING TO MINING AND SHIPPING OF THE ORE AND LOCATION OF PRINCIPLE MINES OF MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA, 7th Edition, Cleveland, 1930, cl, 332 pages, index to mines and ores, colored, folded maps showing ore deposits, - 3 -, $ 175

Friggens, T. G. / NO TEARS IN HEAVEN: The 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster, 2nd Edition, 1988, pb, 31 pages, - 3 -, $ 6

Gregory, H. E. / LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, International Geological Congress Guidebook, XVI Session, Guidebook 27, Excursion C4, 1933, pb, 101 pages, 8 plates, 22 figures, - 3 -, $ 25

Hamblin, W. K. / PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION FROM LATE KEWEENAWAN TO LATE CAMBRIAN TIME, In: GSA Bulletin, Volume 72, # 1, 1961, pages 1 - 18, - 3 -, $ 10

Harbaugh, M. D. / LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES MINING DIRECTORY AND STATISTICAL RECORD OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR ORE DISTRICT OF THE UNITED STATE AND CANADA, 2nd Edition, 1952, cl, Cleveland, very similar to the first edition volume (see Hickok below), except the maps have been moved from the end of the text to the beginning of each respective mining district, and more Canadian material has been added; two pocket plates including a bedrock map of Michigan and a map showing the Huron Creek area of West Houghton, Michigan, 334 pages, - 3 -, $ 175

Hatcher, H. / A CENTURY OF IRON AND MEN: Flow of Iron Ore from Lake Superior Region, Indianapolis, 1950, cl, 295 pages, - 3 -, $ 45

Hough, J. L. / GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT LAKES, 1972, cl, 313 pages, - 3 -, $ 20

Jackson, C. T. and Hodge, J. S. / REMARKS ON THE GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, AND MINES OF LAKE SUPERIOR, and ON THE MINERAL REGION OF LAKE SUPERIOR, 1996 reprint of 1849, 26 pages, - 1 -, $ 8

Kelley, R. W. / MICHIGAN’S SAND DUNES - A Geologic Sketch, Lansing, 1962, pb, 22 pages, - 3 -, $ 10

Kelley, R. W. / THE GLACIAL LAKES SURROUNDING MICHIGAN, Lansing, 1960, pb, 20 pages, - 2 -, $ 10

Kilpela, T. / COPPER MINING IN ONTONAGON COUNTRY: A CHRONICLE OF OPERATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLE ORE BODIES OF THE ONTONAGON MINING DISTRICT, 1996, pb, 17 pages, -1 -, $ 15

Kilpela, T. / THE BYGONE ERA OF KEWEENAW COPPER: BRIEF SKETCHES OF HISTORY AND HUMAN INTEREST STORIES, 2002, pb, 32 pages, - 1 -, $ 20

Kilpela, T. / THE HARD ROCK MINING ERA IN THE COPPER COUNTRY: A CHRONICLE OF OPERATIONS ON THE SEVEN MAJOR LODES OF THE KEWEENAW MINING DISTRICT, 1995, pb, 89 pages, - 1 -, $ 25

Krause, D. J. / THE MAKING OF A MINING DISTRICT: Keweenaw Native Copper, 1500 - 1870, Detroit, 1992, cl, 297 pages, - 1 -, retail $ 45, our price, $ 25

LaBerge, G. L. / GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, Phoenix, 1994, pb, 313 pages, - 1 -, $ 22

LaBerge, G. L. / GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, Phoenix, 1994, pb, 313 pages, - 4 -, some ink marking in text, ovg, $ 10

Lane, A. C. and Seaman, A. E. / NOTES ON THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION OF MICHIGAN FOR GEOLOGISTS, TEACHERS, AND DRILLERS, from 10^th Annual Report of the State Geologist, 1909, pb, 120 pages, 3 plates, 6 figs., - 5 -, $ 30

Lankton, L. D. and Hyde, C. K.  /  OLD RELIABLE: An Illustrated History of the Quincy Mining Company, 1998, cl, 160 pages, numerous illustrations, vg, $ 33 [This is the story of the Qunicy Mining Company which began in 1846; the mine was so successful that it became known as "Old Reliable" because it payed dividends on such a regular basis]

Lankton, L. D. / BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840 - 1875, New York, 1997, pb, 247 pages, - 1 -, $ 22

Miller, L. A. / INDEX AND REFERENCE GUIDE FOR THE COPPER MINING INDUSTRY OF MICHIGAN, 3 volume set, Keweenaw County, Houghton County, and Ontonagon County, 1995 reprint of 1986 original, $ 16

Robinson, O. W. / EARLY DAYS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER COUNTRY, Houghton, 1938, pb, 39 pages, - 3 -, $ 125 [Orrin W. Robsinson moved to Copper Country from New Hampshire in 1854 where he lived until his death in 1925; contents include: arrival, early copper mining, food shortage, winter travel, civil war, early days of Houghton and Hancock, first railroad, more...]

Smith, E. B.  /  CALUMET AND HECLA MINING COMPANY and CALUMET AND HECLA: THE FINAL CHAPTER, two books; first is a reprint of a 1923 original, includes three parts: human history, business history and the consolidation of Calumet and Hecla and subsidiary companies, second book is a photocopy of C& H liquidation catalog, $ 20

Thurner, A. W. / CALUMET COPPER AND PEOPLE: HISTORY OF A MICHIGAN MINING COMMUNITY, 1864 - 1970, 1974, pb, 108 pages, -1 -, $ 20

Winchell, N. H. / ANCIENT COPPER-MINES OF ISLE ROYALE, 1997 reprint of 1881 original, 20 pages, - 1 -, $ 8

Wold, R. J. and Hinze, W. J. / GEOLOGY AND TECTONICS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR BASIN, GSA M 156, Boulder, 1982, cl, 280 pages, - 5 -, $ 40

Lake Superior Area Maps:

MAP OF THE MINERAL DISTRICT OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN, same map as listed above without the red numbering of associated with the field trip, slightly more wear, - 3 -, $ 55

MAP OF PORTAGE LAKE MINING DISTRICT, Michigan College of Mines Yearbook, date unknown, showing Houghton in the center of the map, Portage Lake to the southeast, Torch Lake to the northeast, shown on this map are rails of local railroads (named), incline and vertical shafts, and stamp mills; printed in black on thin vanilla-colored paper, - 3 -, $ 100