Copper Country Mineral Retreat©
August 6 to 12, 2011

Photo Gallery

If you have photos of your retreat specimen treasures or collecting photos please send them to tjb@mtu.edu to be considered for posting.

Thanks to Lauren Vaughn who supplied the mineral retreat photos posted below:

Searching for native copper and other minerals at the Cliff Mine Prepared Surface Mineral Collecting event - Summer 2008 (PDF)

Searching for datolite at the one time only Mesnard Prepared Surface Mineral Collecting event - Summer 2008 (PDF)

Underground at the Caledonia Mine - Summer 2008 (PDF)

Thanks to Jim Beck who supplied the mineral retreat photos posted below:

Mesnard Prepared Surface Mineral Collecting one time only event - Summer 2008 (PDF files - click on numbers below)

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10

Preparing for Ontonagon History Tour - Summer 2008 (PDF)

Mineral finds from Summer 2008 Mineral Retreat by Lauren Vaughn

(jpg files)

Greenstone in matrix from Phoenix Mine  

Copper in prehnite from the Phoenix Mine #1

Copper in prehnite from the Phoenix Mine #2

Mesnard Prepared Surface Mineral Collecting one time only event

Apophyllite crystal in a vug with copper from Caledonia underground collecting

Copper, epidote and quartz in matrix from Caledonia underground

Copper in calcite etched with muriatic acid from Minesota Mine

Summer 2007 Mineral Finds by Lauren Vaughn (jpg files)

23 of the 27 chisel chips found at the Minesota Mine

14 chisel chips from the Cliff Mine

Last Picture Update March 30, 2009
Text Updated March 23, 2011