lake superior agate found in wisconsin
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Lake Superior agate A cabochon of Lake Superior agate. The Lake Superior agate is a type of agate stained by iron and found on the shores of Lake Superior. Its wide distribution and iron-rich bands of color reflect the gemstone's geologic history in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. In 1969 the Lake Superior agate was designated by the Minnesota Legislature as the official state gemstone.
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Gallery: Lake Superior Agate Gallery: Lake Superior Agate. Also known as Lakers this agate is found mostly in Minnesota and Wisconsin near and along the shores of Lake Superior. Formed from lava eruptions in Minnesota nearly a billion years ago. Large nodules of this agate are rare. It is the state rock of Minnesota.
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Lake Erie Lake Superior is bordered by the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and the province of Ontario. Lake Michigan is the only lake that is fully contained within the United States, bordered by Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana. Lake Huron is bordered by the state of Michigan and the province of Ontario.
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Dolomite ASHLAND COUNTY: Dolomite is a common rock-forming mineral in the Bad River dolostone found throughout the Penokee Range area. It is associated with calcite, tremolite, chlorite, quartz, sericite, pyrite and magnetite.Some localities mapped by Van Hise and Irving (1892) are: NW NW Sec.escription: Dolomite is an abundant mineral in Wisconsin. It is a major rock-forming mineral in the sedimentary dolostones within the Prairie du Chien group (Oneota and Shakopee formations), Sinnepee Group (Platteville, Decorah and Galena Formations) and the Niagaran rocks.
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Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore is located along the 40 mile stretch of Lake Superior's shoreline in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, between Munising and Grand Marais. You can get a detailed map of the area from the Pictured Rocks headquarters in Munising. Here is a general map of the area.
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- THE BAY BEYOND BELIEF. Baraga County’s location affords many the opportunity to enjoy the pristine waters of Lake Superior, while being in the protected shores of Keweenaw Bay. This beautiful bay is rich with history, beginning in the early 1800s as a major port of trade for fur pelts, fish and timber.
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Wonderful World of Agates, Wisconsin For a weekend in July 2008, the town of Menasha, Wisconsin became the center of the world for agates of all descriptions. The UW Fox River Valley campus was turned over to all things agate. 40 dealers competed for attention with 70 display cases filled with all kinds of agates (including cases from the Smithsonian and Seaman Museums).
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The Gemstone Agate Agate deposits exist in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Poland, Botswana, India, Australia, and the United States (Oregon, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Michigan). Agate Geode-Layer of Agate surrounding a cavity in a geode that is usually lined with a layer of small Quartz crystals. 2  Blue Lace Agate-Agate with light blue bands in a lacy or wavy pattern. 3  Botswana Agate-Agate from the African country of Botswana banded with fine parallel lines of white, purple, or peach.
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Seafood & Gourmet Products Wisconsin Ivory Char comes to Fortune from AquaTerra Farms, a family owned business in Wisconsin. In the 1980’s the Pigott brothers made their name in the plastic pallet business using recycled materials. They sold their business and continued with their forward thinking practices to build a state of the art fish farm in Bristol, Wisconsin.
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Moss Agate... Montana Moss agate is well-known and comes from the Yellowstone River, but much of this stone is a red color as the soil there has a lot of red in it. This stone may be green, and it also commonly has blue, yellow, brown, black, white or red in the stones. Sometimes these other colors are the dominating color in a stone rather than the green color of the heart based Green Moss Agate.
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"""Rail Relics Today"" Railroad Locks" Lake Superior is bordered by the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and the province of Ontario. Lake Michigan is the only lake that is fully contained within the United States, bordered by Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana.
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Blown Head Gasket Causes Engine Overheating. The prime nemesis of a head gasket is heat, caused by engine overheating. The heating leads to expansion of the blown head gasket, resulting in a breakdown. So engine overheating needs to be checked to avoid a situation where you have a blown head gasket on your hands.
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- SuperiorTrails Agate Hunting & Rock Picking Directory (Pictures and Guides to Identifying Lake Superior Beach Rocks, Minerals, and Agates) Veteran Agate Hunters will troll gravel pits, riversides, hiking trails, roadsides, as well as beaches looking for agates.
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Halite Halite occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas. Salt beds may be hundreds of meters thick and underlie broad areas.In the United States and Canada extensive underground beds extend from the Appalachian basin of western New York through parts of Ontario and under much of the Michigan Basin. Other deposits are in Ohio, Kansas, New Mexico, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.alt beds may be hundreds of meters thick and underlie broad areas. In the United States and Canada extensive underground beds extend from the Appalachian basin of western New York through parts of Ontario and under much of the Michigan Basin. Other deposits are in Ohio, Kansas, New Mexico, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.
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Island Hopping by Kayak at Americaâs Ceiling in Wisconsin My wife, Susan, and I were paddling amid the Apostle Islands in northern Wisconsin, at the western end of Lake Superior. Despite the name, bestowed by Jesuit missionaries in the 18th century, the islands number 22, not 12.
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- The Pike Lake Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest is located in the middle of the Kettle Moraine, a strip of glacial landforms which extends through southeastern Wisconsin to Lake Winnebago. This provides for a beautiful glacial remnant landscape of kames, kettles, and eskers.
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- The reservation of the Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is located within beautiful mixed forest woods, where the broad leaf and great pine trees create extremely diversified ecosystems.
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- Gold Miner's Cabin - Rainy Lake 1894. Little American Gold Mine - Rainy Lake 1894. The iron deposits of Minnesota are found in three ranges, the Vermillion, Cuyuna and Mesabi. The first range, the Vermilion Range, runs between Tower and Ely, Minnesota, and contains significant deposits of iron ore.
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is located on Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and contains some outstanding scenery and outdoor opportunities. With over 40 miles of incredibly scenic shoreline, Pictured Rocks provides some great paddling opportunities.
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Dan Fagnan, Wisconsin Man, Finds Diamond In A Well Dan Fagnan, Wisconsin Man, Finds Diamond In A Well. 540. Dan Fagnan's friends think he's a fruit loop for panning for gold near his home in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, but when the amateur prospector recently scooped up a 1.22-carat diamond, his unusual hobby finally paid off.
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Lake Superior Lake Superior is located on the northern edge of Wisconsin and stretches between the Upper Peninsula of Michigan north to Ontario Canada. It also spans west to the eastern edge of Minnesota. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes by surface area and volume.It is like a mini-freshwater ocean, you can't even see the other side from the Wisconsin shoreline.he land area surrounding the lake also provides Lake Superior with water in the form of rain and snowmelt runoff from Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ontario Canada. Most of the land around Lake Superior is heavily forested. Not many people farm near the lake because the temperatures are cool and the soil is poor.
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Lake Wobegon Although Keillor has revealed that his original model for Lake Wobegon was actually Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, it also resembles many small farm towns in the upper Midwest, especially western Minnesota, North Dakota, and to some extent, northern Iowa, Wisconsin, eastern South Dakota and northeastern Montana.
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- Copyright 1994 Frederick J. Shannon. Fullscreen. Part of the Edmund Fitzgerald's last cargo- 26,116 tons of taconite iron ore pellets loaded at Burlington-Northern Ore Docks in Superior, Wisconsin on November 9, 1975 and bound for Zug Island in the Detroit River. These pellets are on the forward section's main deck. Copyright 1994 Frederick J. Shannon.
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- Whitefish, Montana; Whitefish, Ontario; Whitefish Bay, a bay in Lake Superior between the United States and Canada; Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin; Whitefish Falls, Ontario; Whitefish Lake First Nation, Ontario; Whitefish Range, Montana and British Columbia; Whitefish Township, Michigan; Other uses
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Forest Information Located in the Arrowhead of Minnesota, Superior National Forest is bound on two sides by water-Lake Superior along its southeastern side and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) along the northern edge.Water and ice are the defining features of the Superior National Forest and its history.ther contributions the CCC made to the Superior are the roads, such as Gunflint Trail (State Rt. 12), Sawbill Trail (State Rt. 2), and The Grade (Forest Rt. 170) and some of the developed campgrounds. Retaining a great deal of its CCC character and charm, is Lake Jeanette campground.
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- Description. The Lake Superior agate differs from other agates found around the world in its rich red, orange, and yellow coloring. This color scheme is caused by the oxidation of iron. Iron leached from rocks provided the pigment that gives the gemstone its beautiful array of color.