Today the campers went to Houghton, MI for a tour of the Quincey Copper Mine and to explore the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum where the University of Michigan mineral collection is displayed.

While in the Marquette region, the students went to Jasper Knob to see banded iron formations – the backbone of the iron industry in Michigan. Today they saw and learned about the copper industry, another important piece of Michigan’s economic geology and one closely linked to our department. Michigan State Geologist, Douglass Houton, reported on the copper deposits in 1841 and later became the first professor the the Geology Department at The University of Michigan.