Leland MI: Van's Beach Leland Blue slag

Where: Midwest · North America · approx. 45.02, -85.77 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: blue-gray glassy slag from Leland's 1870-1884 iron smelter, wave-tumbled into collectible Leland Blue stones on Lake Michigan beaches

What turns up: Leland Blue slag in blue, purple and gray, beach glass, occasional Petoskey-type corals

Access: Open / legal.

Public village beaches, casual collecting accepted; Michigan's 25 lb per person per year rule applies on state-owned bottomlands, and national lakeshore beaches nearby are off limits

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.