LA SALLE MINE
Osceola, Houghton Co., MI
August
7, 2003
The
LaSalle Mine Dump
At
this point, I deviated from my planned schedule. I had signed up for the
Minnesota Mine for Thursday afternoon, but instead went to the LaSalle Mine on
my own. I was more interested in the LaSalle, and by doing it this way we could
leave for home early on Saturday and make it home in one day. There aren’t many
campgrounds on the route we would take, and getting a site on a Saturday night
could be a problem.
The
LaSalle dump is easy to get to, and easy collecting. As you can see from the
picture above, it’s nearly flat. The dump is reached by a dirt road (sign says
Tower Rd.) that goes off US 41 to the west about 2 miles south of the traffic
light in Calumet. The road goes off between a church and a State Police
Barracks. The GPS coordinates are Lat. 47 deg. 13.121’, Lon. –88 deg. 27.688’.
The
sheet provided by Keweenaw Week lists copper, silver, agates, calcite,
datolite, feldspar, kinoite, prehnite, pumpellyite and quartz. I only found
epidote, quartz and pumpellyite (and a couple of little flakes of copper). The
epidote and quartz, however, are the best I’ve seen from the area.
On to the next field trip: the
Seneca Mine