Michigan Minerals Listed by Mineral Name
Based on MI DEQ GSD Bulletin 6 “Mineralogy of Michigan”
Actinolite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Gratiot, and Anthonyite, Houghton County Marquette counties Anthophyllite, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Aegirinaugite, Marquette County Antigorite, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Aegirine, Marquette County Apatite, Baraga, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, Albite, Dickinson, Gratiot, Houghton, Keweenaw, Kalkaska, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Monroe and Marquette counties counties
Algodonite, Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Aphrosiderite, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette Ontonagon counties counties
Allanite, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette counties Apophyllite, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties
Almandite, Dickinson, Keweenaw, and Marquette Aragonite, Gogebic, Iron, Jackson, Marquette, and counties Monroe counties
Alunite, Iron County Arsenopyrite, Marquette, and Menominee counties Analcite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties Atacamite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties Anatase, Gratiot, Houghton, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Augite, Dickinson, Genesee, Gratiot, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Andalusite, Iron, and Marquette counties Awarurite, Marquette County Andesine, Keweenaw County Axinite, Gogebic, and Marquette counties Andradite, Dickinson County Azurite, Dickinson, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Anglesite, Marquette County Ontonagon counties
Anhydrite, Bay, Berrien, Gratiot, Houghton, Babingtonite, Keweenaw County Isabella, Kalamazoo, Kent, Keweenaw, Macomb, Manistee, Marquette, Mason, Mecosta, Midland, Barite, Alpena, Baraga, Eaton, Gogebic, Houghton, Monroe, Muskegon, Newaygo, Ogemaw, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, Monroe, and Ontonagon, Osceola, St. Clair, and Wayne counties Ontonagon counties
Ankerite, Alpena, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Bassetite, Iron County Marquette counties Bastnaesite, Ontonagon County Annabergite, Keweenaw County Beryl, Baraga, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Anorthite, Dickinson County Biotite, Marquette County
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Bismuthinite, Marquette County Chlorite, Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Gratiot, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Blomstrandine, Marquette County Ontonagon counties
Bornite, Gratiot, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Chloritoid, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, and Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Marquette counties
Brannerite, Marquette County Chromite, Dickinson, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Braunite, Iron, and Keweenaw counties Chromium Silicates, Gogebic, and Marquette Brochantite, Keweenaw County counties Houghton, Keweenaw, and Brookite, Genesee, and Jackson counties Chrysocolla, Ontonagon counties Brucite, Houghton, and Marquette counties Chrysotile, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Brunsvigite, Marquette County Cinnabar, Baraga County Buttgenbachite, Houghton County Clinochlore, Baraga, and Marquette counties Bytownite, Dickinson, and Keweenaw counties Clino-Chrysotile, Marquette County Calciovolborthite, Keweenaw County Clinozoisite, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Calcite, Alpena, Arenac, Baraga, Calhoun, Chippewa, Dickinson, Eaton, Gogebic, Houghton, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Huron, Iron, Jackson, Kent, Keweenaw, Marquette, Columbite, Monroe, Ontonagon, Ottawa, Presque Isle, Shiawassee, St. Clair, St. and Joseph counties Copper, Alpena, Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Gratiot, Houghton, Iron, Kent, Keweenaw, Calumetite, Houghton County Marquette, Ontonagon, and Tuscola counties Marquette County Carnallite, Wayne County Cordierite, Iron, Marquette, and Wayne counties Celestite, Chippewa, Eaton, Kent, Marquette, Corundum, Monroe, Newaygo, and Wayne counties Covellite, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon Chalcocite, Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, counties Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Cubanite, Marquette County Chalconatronite, Houghton County Cummingtonitep, Dickinson, and Marquette Chalcopyrite, Alpena, Baraga, Dickinson, counties Gogebic, Gratiot, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Cuprite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties Chamosite, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette County Datolite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties Chloanthite, Keweenaw County Delessite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties
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Diabantite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Marquette Gibbsite, Marquette County counties Glauconite, Alger, Eaton, Huron, and Jackson Diamond, Cass, Ingham, Iron, and Kent counties counties
Dickite, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette counties Goethite, Baraga, Calhoun, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Jackson, Marquette, Monroe, Schoolcraft, Van Digenite, Gratiot, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon and Buren counties counties Gold, Allegan, Antrim, Baraga, Charlevoix, Dickinson, Diopside, Dickinson, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Emmet, Gogebic, Ingham, Ionia, Iron, Kalkaska, Marquette counties Kent, Leelanau, Livingston, Manistee, Marquette, Montcalm, Newaygo, Oakland, Oceana, Ontonagon, Dioptase, Ontonagon County Ottawa, St. Joseph, and Wexford counties Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Djurleite, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties Graphite, Livingston, and Marquette counties Alpena, Charlevoix, Dickinson, Gogebic, Dolomite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Houghton, Huron, Iron, Jackson, Keweenaw, Greenalite, Marquette counties Mackinac, Marquette, Monroe, Newaygo, Ontonagon, Ottawa, and Wayne counties Greenockite, Iron, and Ontonagon counties Domeykite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties Grunerite, Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette counties Enstatite, Dickinson, Genesee, Iron, and Marquette counties Guerinite, Keweenaw County
Epidote, Gratiot, Houghton, Keweenaw, Marquette, Gypsum, Arenac, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Eaton, and Ontonagon counties Gogebic, Houghton, Huron, Ionia, Iosco, Iron, Kent, Keweenaw, Mackinac, Marquette, Monroe, Epsomite, Wayne County Newaygo, Ogemaw, Ontonagon, and Wayne counties Erythrite, Keweenaw County Halite, Alpena, Bay, Houghton, Manistee, Mason, Midland, Newaygo, Presque Isle, Saginaw, St. Clair, Marquette County Euclase, and Wayne counties
Euxenite, Marquette County Halloysite, Marquette County
Faujasite, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Halotrichite, Iron County
Fluorite, Bay, Dickinson, Eaton, Gogebic, Hausmannite, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette Houghton, Isabella, Kalkaska, Keweenaw, counties Marquette, Monroe, Ontonagon, Wayne, and Wexford counties Hematite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Freirinite, Keweenaw County Heulandite, Keweenaw County Fuchsitep, Keweenaw County Hisingerite, Gogebic County Galena, Baraga, Branch, Dickinson, Dickinson, Eaton, Gogebic, Huron, Huron, Huron, Iron, Keweenaw County Keweenaw, Marquette, Marquette, and Ontonagon Hollandite, counties
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Hornblende, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Keweenaw, Magnesiosussexite, Gogebic County and Marquette counties Magnetite, Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Hydrocarbon, Ontonagon County Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Hydrohausmannite, Iron County Malachite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Hypersthene, Genesee, Keweenaw, and Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Marquette counties Manganite, Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Iddingsite, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties Keweenaw, and Marquette counties
Illite, Baraga, Houghton, Iron, Marquette, and Manganocalcite, Marquette County Ontonagon counties Marcasite, Alpena, Antrim, Baraga, Calhoun, Ilmenite, Dickinson, Genesee, Gratiot, Houghton, Charlevoix, Chippewa, Dickinson, Eaton, Huron, Iron, and Keweenaw counties Iron, Jackson, Marquette, Monroe, and Ontonagon counties Jacobsite, Marquette County Margarite, Marquette County Julgoldite, Keweenaw County Maucherite, Keweenaw County Kamiokite, Keweenaw County Melanterite, Baraga, and Huron counties Kaolinite, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Melilite, Houghton County
Kinoite, Houghton County Mesolite, Iron, and Keweenaw counties
Kutnahorite, Marquette County Meta-Autunite, Iron County
Kyanite, Genesee, Iron, and Marquette counties Metatorbernite, Iron County
Labradorite, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, Metatyuyamunite, Iron County Keweenaw, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Microcline, Dickinson, Gogebic, Gratiot, Houghton, Langite, Keweenaw County Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Laumontite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties Millerite, Huron, and Marquette counties
Lavendulan, Keweenaw County Minnesotaite, Baraga, Gogebic, and Marquette counties Leonhardite, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties Mirabilite, Dickinson, and Houghton counties Lepidocrocite, Dickinson County Molybdenite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Marquette, and Leucoxene, Genesee, Houghton, and Keweenaw Ontonagon counties counties Monazite, Houghton, and Marquette counties Lizardite, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Montmorillonite, Baraga, Emmet, Gogebic, Mackinawite, Marquette County Houghton, Marquette, Ontonagon, and Wexford counties
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Muscovite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Pharmacolite, Keweenaw County Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Phlogopite, Dickinson, Iron, and Marquette counties Nacrite, Marquette County Picropharmacolite, Keweenaw County Nantokite, Ontonagon County Pigeonite, Dickinson, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, Natrojarosite, Iron County and Ontonagon counties
Natrolite, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties Plancheite, Ontonagon County
Neltnerite, Keweenaw County Polyhalite, Newaygo, and Wayne counties
Neotocite, Gogebic, and Iron counties Posnjakite, Keweenaw County
Niccolite, Keweenaw County Powellite, Houghton, and Marquette counties
Nontronite, Dickinson, Gogebic, and Marquette Prehnite, Gratiot, Houghton, Keweenaw, and counties Ontonagon counties
Oligoclase, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Prochlorite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Olivenite, Houghton County Pseudomalachite, Marquette County Olivine, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Psilomelane, Calhoun, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette counties Orientite, Keweenaw County Pumpellyite, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties Orthoclase, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Pyrite, Alger, Alpena, Antrim, Baraga, Branch, Calhoun, Clare, Dickinson, Eaton, Gogebic, Gratiot, Palygorskite, Baraga, and Gogebic counties Houghton, Huron, Iron, Jackson, Keweenaw, Marquette, Monroe, Newaygo, Ogemaw, Paragonite, Dickinson, and Marquette counties Ontonagon, Presque Isle, Saginaw, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties Paramelaconite, Ontonagon County Pyrolusite, Baraga, Calhoun, Gogebic, Iron, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Pararammelsbergite, Keweenaw County Pyrope, Iron County Paratacamite, Houghton, and Ontonagon counties Pyrophyllite, Marquette County Pargasite, Marquette County Pyrostilpnite, Marquette County Patricianite, Keweenaw County Pyrrhotite, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, and Keweenaw County Pyrrhotite, Pectolite, Marquette counties
Pennine, Dickinson, Houghton, and Keweenaw Quartz, Alger, Antrim, Arenac, Charlevoix, counties Chippewa, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Huron, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Marquette, Monroe, Pentlandite, Marquette County Ontonagon, Schoolcraft, Van Buren, and Wayne counties
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Rammelsbergite, Keweenaw County Staurolite, Baraga, Dickinson, Iron, and Marquette counties Rauenthalite, Keweenaw County Stilbite, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties Rhodochrosite, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Stilpnomelane, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette counties Rhodonite, Iron, and Marquette counties Strontianite, Alpena, Iron, and Monroe counties Riebeckite, Dickinson, Gogebic, and Marquette counties Sulfur, Monroe County
Rutherfordine, Dickinson County Sussexite, Iron County
Rutile, Iron, and Marquette counties Sylvite, Midland, and Newaygo counties
Sanidine, Iron, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties Synchisite, Ontonagon County
Saponite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon Talc, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Marquette counties counties
Scapolite, Dickinson County Tellurium, Marquette County
Scheelite, Marquette County Tenorite, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties
Schefferite, Marquette County Tetrahedrite, Marquette county
Seamanite, Iron County Thomsonite, Alger, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties Siderite, Alpena, Branch, Dickinson, Eaton, Gogebic, Houghton, Huron, Iron, and Marquette Thuringite, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties counties Tourmaline, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, Marquette, Sillimanite, Iron, and Marquette counties and Monroe counties
Silver, Baraga, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, Tremolite, Dickinson, Gogebic, Gratiot, Houghton, Keweenaw, Livingston, Marquette, and Ontonagon Iron, and Marquette counties counties Trichalcite, Keweenaw County Smaltite, Keweenaw County Tridymite, Ontonagon County Spessartite, Marquette County Tyrolite, Keweenaw County Sphalerite, Alpena, Baraga, Branch, Eaton, Gogebic, Huron, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, Uraninite, Dickinson, and Iron counties Ontonagon, and Tuscola counties Uvarovite, Genesee County Sphene, Gogebic, Gratiot, Houghton, Iron, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Vermiculite, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Marquette counties Spinel, Huron, Iron, and Marquette counties Violarite, Marquette County Spodumene, Marquette County Vivianite, Eaton County Minerals Found in Michigan – www.deq.state.mi/gsd - 6 of 11
Vladimirite, Keweenaw County Zircon, Dickinson, Houghton, Keweenaw, Marquette, and Ontonagon counties Wollastonite, Dickinson, and Keweenaw counties Zoisite, Dickinson, and Genesee counties Wurtzite, Ontonagon County Zonochlorite, Keweenaw County Xonotlite, Keweenaw County
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Michigan Minerals Listed by County
Magnetite, Malachite, Marcasite, Microcline, Glauconite, Pyrite, Quartz, Alger County, Mirabilite, Molybdenite, Muscovite, Nontronite, Thomsonite Oligoclase, Paragonite, Pennine, Phlogopite, Pigeonite, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Allegan County, Gold Riebeckite, Rutherfordine, Scapolite, Siderite, Silver, Staurolite, Talc, Tourmaline, Tremolite, Uraninite, Alpena County, Ankerite, Barite, Calcite, Wollastonite, Zircon, Zoisite Chalcopyrite, Copper, Dolomite, Halite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Siderite, Sphalerite, Strontianite Eaton County, Barite, Calcite, Celestite, Fluorite, Galena, Glauconite, Gypsum, Marcasite, Pyrite, Antrim County, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz Siderite, Sphalerite, Vivianite
Arenac County, Calcite, Gypsum, Quartz Emmet County, Gold, Montmorillonite
Baraga County, Algodonite, Apatite, Barite, Beryl, Genesee County, Augite, Brookite, Enstatite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Cinnabar, Hypersthene, Ilmenite, Kyanite, Leucoxene, Clinochlore, Copper, Galena, Goethite, Gold, Uvarovite, Zoisite Graphite, Grunerite, Gypsum, Illite, Magnetite, Manganite, Marcasite, Melanterite, Minnesotaite, Gogebic County, Actinolite, Allanite, Montmorillonite, Palygorskite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Aphrosiderite, Aragonite, Axinite, Barite, Calcite, Silver, Sphalerite, Staurolite Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chamosite, Chlorite, Chromium Silicates, Copper, Dickite, Dolomite, Bay County, Anhydrite, Fluorite, Halite Fluorite, Galena, Goethite, Gold, Graphite, Greenalite, Grunerite, Gypsum, Hausmannite, Berrien County, Anhydrite Hematite, Hisingerite, Hornblende, Kaolinite, Laumontite, Magnesiosussexite, Magnetite, Galena, Pyrite, Siderite, Malachite, Manganite, Microcline, Minnesotaite, Branch County, Molybdenite, Montmorillonite, Muscovite, Neotocite, Sphalerite Nontronite, Palygorskite, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Riebeckite, Calhoun County, Calcite, Goethite, Marcasite, Siderite, Sphalerite, Sphene, Stilpnomelane, Talc, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite Tremolite
Cass County, Diamond Gratiot County, Actinolite, Albite, Anatase, Anhydrite, Augite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Charlevoix County, Dolomite, Gold, Marcasite, Copper, Digenite, Epidote, Ilmenite, Microcline, Quartz Prehnite, Pyrite, Sphene, Tremolite
Chippewa County, Calcite, Celestite, Marcasite, Houghton County, Albite, Algodonite, Analcite, Quartz Anatase, Anhydrite, Ankerite, Anthonyite, Apatite, Apophyllite, Atacamite, Augite, Barite, Bornite, Clare County, Pyrite Brucite, Buttgenbachite, Calcite, Calumetite, Chalcocite, Chalconatronite, Chalcopyrite, Delta County, Gypsum Chamosite, Chlorite, Chloritoid, Chrysocolla, Clinozoisite, Copper, Cuprite, Datolite, Delessite, Diabantite, Diopside, Dolomite, Domeykite, Epidote, Actinolite, Albite, Almandite, Dickinson County, Fluorite, Gypsum, Halite, Hematite, Iddingsite, Illite, Andradite, Anorthite, Anthophyllite, Antigorite, Ilmenite, Kaolinite, Kinoite, Labradorite, Laumontite, Apatite, Augite, Azurite, Beryl, Bytownite, Calcite, Leonhardite, Leucoxene, Magnetite, Malachite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Chromite, Chrysotile, Manganite, Melilite, Microcline, Mirabilite, Monazite, Clinozoisite, Columbite, Copper, Cummingtonitep, Montmorillonite, Muscovite, Natrolite, Olivenite, Diopside, Dolomite, Enstatite, Fluorite, Galena, Olivine, Orthoclase, Paratacamite, Pennine, Galena, Goethite, Gold, Graphite, Greenalite, Powellite, Prehnite, Prochlorite, Pumpellyite, Pyrite, Grunerite, Gypsum, Hematite, Hornblende, Ilmenite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Saponite, Labradorite, Laumontite, Lepidocrocite, Lizardite, Siderite, Silver, Sphene, Stilbite, Thomsonite,
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Thuringite, Tourmaline, Tremolite, Vermiculite, Guerinite, Gypsum, Hematite, Heulandite, Zircon Hollandite, Hornblende, Hypersthene, Iddingsite, Ilmenite, Julgoldite, Kamiokite, Kaolinite, Huron County, Calcite, Dolomite, Galena, Galena, Labradorite, Labradorite, Langite, Laumontite, Galena, Glauconite, Gypsum, Marcasite, Lavendulan, Leonhardite, Leucoxene, Magnetite, Melanterite, Millerite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite, Malachite, Manganite, Maucherite, Mesolite, Sphalerite, Spinel Microcline, Muscovite, Natrolite, Neltnerite, Niccolite, Olivine, Orientite, Orthoclase, Pararammelsbergite, Ingham County, Diamond, Gold Patricianite, Pectolite, Pennine, Pharmacolite, Picropharmacolite, Pigeonite, Posnjakite, Prehnite, Prochlorite, Pumpellyite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Gold, Gypsum Ionia County, Rammelsbergite, Rauenthalite, Rhodochrosite, Sanidine, Saponite, Silver, Smaltite, Sphalerite, Iosco County, Gypsum Stilbite, Tenorite, Thomsonite, Thuringite, Trichalcite, Tyrolite, Vermiculite, Vladimirite, Wollastonite, Iron County, Allanite, Alunite, Andalusite, Apatite, Xonotlite, Zircon, Zonochlorite Aphrosiderite, Aragonite, Augite, Barite, Bassetite, Bornite, Braunite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Leelanau County, Gold Chamosite, Chlorite, Chloritoid, Clinozoisite, Copper, Corundum, Diamond, Dickite, Dolomite, Enstatite, Livingston County, Gold, Graphite, Silver Galena, Goethite, Gold, Graphite, Greenalite, Greenockite, Grunerite, Gypsum, Halotrichite, Quartz Hausmannite, Hematite, Hornblende, Luce County, Hydrohausmannite, Illite, Ilmenite, Kaolinite, Kyanite, Labradorite, Magnetite, Manganite, Marcasite, Mackinac County, Dolomite, Gypsum Mesolite, Meta-Autunite, Metatorbernite, Metatyuyamunite, Microcline, Muscovite, Macomb County, Anhydrite Natrojarosite, Neotocite, Olivine, Phlogopite, Pigeonite, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Pyrope, Manistee County, Anhydrite, Gold, Halite Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Rutile, Sanidine, Seamanite, Siderite, Sillimanite, Silver, Marquette County, Actinolite, Aegirinaugite, Sphalerite, Sphene, Spinel, Staurolite, Aegirine, Albite, Allanite, Almandite, Anatase, Stilpnomelane, Strontianite, Sussexite, Talc, Andalusite, Anglesite, Anhydrite, Ankerite, Tourmaline, Tremolite, Uraninite Anthophyllite, Antigorite, Apatite, Aphrosiderite, Aragonite, Arsenopyrite, Augite, Awarurite, Axinite, Isabella County, Anhydrite, Fluorite Azurite, Barite, Beryl, Biotite, Bismuthinite, Blomstrandine, Bornite, Brannerite, Brucite, Jackson County, Aragonite, Brookite, Calcite, Brunsvigite, Calcite, Celestite, Chalcocite, Dolomite, Glauconite, Goethite, Marcasite, Pyrite Chalcopyrite, Chamosite, Chlorite, Chloritoid, Chromite, Chromium Silicates, Chrysotile, Kalamazoo County, Anhydrite Clinochlore, Clino-Chrysotile, Clinozoisite, Columbite, Copper, Cordierite, Corundum, Covellite, Kalkaska County, Apatite, Fluorite, Gold Cubanite, Cummingtonitep, Diabantite, Dickite, Diopside, Dolomite, Enstatite, Epidote, Euclase, Euxenite, Faujasite, Fluorite, Galena, Galena, Anhydrite, Calcite, Celestite, Copper, Kent County, Gibbsite, Goethite, Gold, Graphite, Greenalite, Diamond, Gold, Gypsum Grunerite, Gypsum, Halloysite, Hausmannite, Hematite, Hornblende, Hypersthene, Illite, Jacobsite, Keweenaw County, Albite, Algodonite, Kaolinite, Kutnahorite, Kyanite, Labradorite, Almandite, Analcite, Anatase, Andesine, Anhydrite, Lizardite, Mackinawite, Magnetite, Malachite, Ankerite, Annabergite, Apatite, Apophyllite, Manganite, Manganocalcite, Marcasite, Margarite, Atacamite, Augite, Azurite, Babingtonite, Barite, Microcline, Millerite, Minnesotaite, Molybdenite, Bornite, Braunite, Brochantite, Bytownite, Monazite, Montmorillonite, Muscovite, Nacrite, Calciovolborthite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Nontronite, Oligoclase, Olivine, Orthoclase, Chamosite, Chloanthite, Chlorite, Chloritoid, Paragonite, Pargasite, Pentlandite, Phlogopite, Chrysocolla, Clinozoisite, Copper, Covellite, Cuprite, Pigeonite, Powellite, Prochlorite, Pseudomalachite, Datolite, Delessite, Diabantite, Digenite, Diopside, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Pyrophyllite, Djurleite, Dolomite, Domeykite, Epidote, Erythrite, Pyrostilpnite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Faujasite, Fluorite, Freirinite, Fuchsitep, Galena, Rhodonite, Riebeckite, Rutile, Scheelite, Schefferite,
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Siderite, Sillimanite, Silver, Spessartite, Sphalerite, Digenite, Dioptase, Djurleite, Dolomite, Domeykite, Sphene, Spinel, Spodumene, Staurolite, Epidote, Fluorite, Galena, Gold, Greenockite, Stilpnomelane, Talc, Tellurium, Tetrahedrite, Gypsum, Hydrocarbon, Illite, Magnetite, Malachite, Tourmaline, Tremolite, Vermiculite, Violarite, Zircon Marcasite, Microcline, Molybdenite, Montmorillonite, Nantokite, Paramelaconite, Paratacamite, Pigeonite, Mason County, Anhydrite, Halite Plancheite, Prehnite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sanidine, Saponite, Silver, Sphalerite, Sphene, Synchisite, Mecosta County, Anhydrite Tenorite, Tridymite, Wurtzite, Zircon
Menominee County, Arsenopyrite Osceola County, Anhydrite Calcite, Dolomite, Gold Midland County, Anhydrite, Halite, Sylvite Ottawa County, Calcite, Halite, Pyrite Monroe County, Anhydrite, Apatite, Aragonite, Presque Isle County, Barite, Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Goethite, Gypsum, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz, Saginaw County, Halite, Pyrite Strontianite, Sulfur, Tourmaline Schoolcraft County, Goethite, Quartz Montcalm County, Gold Shiawassee County, Calcite Muskegon County, Anhydrite St. Clair County, Anhydrite, Calcite, Halite Newaygo County, Anhydrite, Celestite, Dolomite, Gold, Gypsum, Halite, Polyhalite, Pyrite, Sylvite St. Joseph County, Calcite, Gold
Oakland County, Gold Tuscola County, Copper, Sphalerite
Oceana County, Gold Van Buren County, Goethite, Quartz
Ogemaw County, Anhydrite, Gypsum, Pyrite Washtenaw County, Pyrite
Ontonagon County, Algodonite, Analcite, Wayne County, Anhydrite, Carnallite, Celestite, Anatase, Anhydrite, Atacamite, Augite, Azurite, Corundum, Dolomite, Epsomite, Fluorite, Gypsum, Barite, Bastnaesite, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Halite, Polyhalite, Pyrite, Quartz Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Chromite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Covellite, Cuprite, Datolite, Delessite, Wexford County, Fluorite, Gold, Montmorillonite
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Mineral Names and Chemical Formulas
Actinolite ...... Ca2(Mg,Fe++)5Si8O22(OH)2 Kaolinite ...... Al2Si2O5(OH)4 Almandine...... Fe++3Al2(SiO4)3 Kyanite ...... Al2SiO5 = Al[6]Al[6]OSiO4 Amalgam ...... Ag2Hg3 Labradorite...... (Ca,Na)(Si,Al)4O8 Amber ...... [C,H,O] Laumontite ...... CaAl2Si4O12·4(H2O) Analcime...... NaAlSi2O6·(H2O) Lechatelierite...... SiO2 Andalusite ...... Al2SiO5 = Al[6]Al[5]OSiO4 Lepidolite...... K(Li,Al)3(Si,Al)4O10(F,OH)2 Andesine...... (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8 Magnesite ...... MgCO3 Andradite ...... Ca3Fe+++2(SiO4)3 Magnetite ...... Fe++Fe+++2O4 Anhydrite...... CaSO4 Malachite...... Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 Ankerite...... Ca(Fe++,Mg,Mn)(CO3)2 Marcasite ...... FeS2 Anorthite ...... CaAl2Si2O8 Melanophlogite.....SiO2 Anthophyllite ...... Mg7Si8O22(OH)2 Mercury ...... Hg Apatite...... Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl) Mesolite...... Na2Ca2Al6Si9O30·8(H2O) Apophyllite ...... KCa4(Si4O10)2F·8(H2O) Microcline...... KAlSi3O8 Aragonite ...... CaCO3 Millerite...... NiS Augite...... (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al,Ti)(Si,Al)2O6 Muscovite...... KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH,F)2 Azurite...... Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 Natrolite...... Na2Al2Si3O10·2(H2O) Barite ...... BaSO4 Oligoclase ...... (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8 Biotite...... K(Mg,Fe++)3(Al,Fe+++)Si3O10(OH,F)2 Olivine ...... (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 Bytownite ...... (Ca,Na)(Si,Al)4O8 Opal ...... SiO2·n(H2O) Calcite...... CaCO3 Orthoclase...... KAlSi3O8 Cassiterite...... SnO2 Paranatrolite...... Na2Al2Si3O10·3(H2O) Celestine...... SrSO4 Plagioclase...... (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8 Chabazite...... CaAl2Si4O12·6(H2O) Prehnite...... Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 Chalcocite ...... Cu2S Psilomelane ...... (Ba,H2O)2Mn5O10 Cinnabar ...... HgS Pumpellyite...... Ca(Al,Mg,Fe)3(SiO4)3(OH)·(H2O) Clinochlore...... (Mg,Fe++)5Al(Si3Al)O10(OH)8 Pyrite ...... FeS2 Coesite...... SiO2 Pyrope...... Mg3Al2(SiO4)3 Copper ...... Cu Quartz ...... SiO2 Corundum ...... Al2O3 Ramsdellite ...... MnO2 Covellite ...... CuS Sanidine ...... (K,Na)(Si,Al)4O8 Cristobalite...... SiO2 Scapolite ...... (Na,Ca)4[(Al,Si)4O8]3(Cl,CO3) Cummingtonite .... Mg7Si8O22(OH)2 Schorl...... NaFe++3Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4 Cuprite ...... Cu2O Scolecite ...... CaAl2Si3O10·3(H2O) Datolite...... CaBSiO4(OH) Seamanite...... Mn3(PO4)B(OH)6 Diamond ...... C Siderite...... Fe++CO3 Diopside...... CaMgSi2O6 Sillimanite...... Al2SiO5 = Al[6]Al[4]OSiO4 Dolomite...... CaMg(CO3)2 Silver ...... Ag Edingtonite...... BaAl2Si3O10·4(H2O) Spessartine ...... Mn++3Al2(SiO4)3 Enstatite...... Mg2Si2O6 Sphalerite...... (Zn,Fe)S Epidote...... Ca2(Fe+++,Al)3(SiO4)3(OH) = Staurolite...... (Fe++,Mg,Zn)2Al9(Si,Al)4O22(OH)2 Fayalite ...... Fe++2SiO4 Stishovite...... SiO2 Fluorite...... CaF2 Sulfur...... S8 Forsterite...... Mg2SiO4 Sylvite...... KCl Galena ...... PbS Talc ...... Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 Goethite ...... Fe+++O(OH) Tetranatrolite...... Na2Al2Si3O10·2(H2O) Gold ...... Au Thomsonite ...... NaCa2Al5Si5O20·6(H2O) Gonnardite ...... Na2CaAl4Si6O20·7(H2O) Titanite ...... CaTiSiO5 = CaTiOSiO4 Graphite ...... C Topaz ...... Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 Grossular ...... Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 Tosudite ...... Na0,5(Al,Mg)6(Si,Al)8O18(OH)12·5(H2O) Gypsum ...... CaSO4·2(H2O) Tremolite...... Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 Halite...... NaCl Tridymite ...... SiO2 Hedenbergite ...... CaFe++Si2O6 Uvarovite...... Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 Hematite ...... Fe2O3 Wollastonite ...... CaSiO3 Hypersthene ...... (Mg,Fe++)2Si2O6
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