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Smithsonite from
Ruby Mine, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruby Mine, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:518040
Long-form Identifier:1:3:518040:0
GUID (UUID V4):ac04c6d7-5922-4e29-83c7-2817a15e5348
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
2.4km (1.5 miles) North Star Mine (Star Consolidated Mine), Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) Upper dumps, North Star Mine (Star Consolidated Mine), Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Lower dumps, North Star Mine (Star Consolidated Mine), Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) Sioux Mine (Sioux Consolidated Mining Company; Sioux shaft), East Tintic Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Trixie Mine (Trixie shaft; Old Trump prospect), East Tintic Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Shaft No. 1, Colorado Mine, East Tintic Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Colorado Mine, East Tintic Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Mammoth Mine, Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Lower Mammoth Mine, Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Buckeye prospect (Panacea claim group; Buckeye and Bull Domingo), Diamond, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 2. Utah By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...detailed study of the supergene zinc deposits of Utah UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache..._______ Utah County_________________________________________________ American Fork district (Alta ar...__________ East Tintic district_ _ _____ ______ ____ _______ _____ ____ _______ Juab County_________
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (issue)
Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Book (edition)
TN 2.4-' Bixby j| atalogue of Utah minerals and localities THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...for Collectors MAYNARD BIXBY A CATALOGUE OF UTAH MINERALS AND LOCALITIES With Descriptive List,...Collectors. -byMAYNARD Salt Lake BIXBY. City, Utah. 1904. Copyright, 1902, by MAYNARD (Third ...CHEMISTS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. WRITE FOR PRICES. YOU WANT A GOOD MINE! MANY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN...MAYNARD BIXBY. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MINERAL LOCALITIES. BEAVER COUNTY. (Vy Beaver City, near; hyalite
Report (issue)
United States: Part 1. General geology. Part 2. Utah. Part 3. Colorado. 0 Oxidized Zinc Deposits...gold-bearing oxidized zinc and zinc-lead ores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California______________ 3. Types of...oxides of zinc, and most are of supergene origin. Smithsonite and hemimorphite are the main oxidized zinc minerals...Rocky Mountains. Saprolitic accumulations of smithsonite and hemimorphite in solution pockets of decomposed...although recently production has been increasing in Utah and Nevada. The term "oxidized zinc deposits" is
Book (edition)
KYANITE LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS ...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose... a trip. desert, such Green River country of Utah or the far southern part of California, is no place...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Journal (issue)
pertaining to it being erected upon them . The first mine , called San Juan del Iris , was opened in 1870...hill of Ceja de Leon ( the Lion's Eyebrow ) . “ The mine called the simpatica is the most noted for its great...and presenting an infinite play of color , from ruby and metallic luster , to violet blue , which is...of porphry , without any apparent system , their mining consists merely in sinking various wells , or small...carbonates , Smithsonite , ZnCO , or 2Zn ( OH ) , + ZnCO ,, which is hydrozincite . Smithsonite gives little
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF ORE DEPOSITS IN AND ADJOINING THE LEADVILLE DISTRICT, G. F. LOUGHLIN COLORADO. • AND CHAS. H. BEHRE................................ the Leadville district :2:2I .......................... Pyrometasomaticand........................... :23• Continental Chief mine ............................... :23• Other mines............................... :239 Weston Pass district ................................. :240 Structural...other districts in Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, and Utah ..................................... :247 Derivation
Journal (issue)
Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS · OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND G. F. LOUGHLIN... 22 Cambrian system.-~ ................ . 23 · Tintic quartzite (Lower Cambrian) _ 23 Distribution ....Cambrian .......... . 30 Regional correlation of the Utah Cambrian .................... . 30 0 0 ••••••...hyolite dikes ................. . 52 Rhyolite of Tintic Mountain .... . 53 Postrhyolite igneous rocks ....... . PART II. History of mining 'and· metallurgy in the Tintic district, by V. C.l!eikes .........
Journal (issue)
scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands
in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and...parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale, Utah, and around fumaroles in Yellow¬ stone Park. Also...Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped
Journal (issue)
stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,
Report (volume)
Geology of the Eureka Quadrangle Utah and Juab Counties, Utah ~y HAL T. MORRIS :oN.TRIBUTIONS TO }EOLOGICAL...the principal productive parts of the Tintic and East Tintic mining districts JNITED STATES GOVERNMENT..._____________ Tintic Standard thrust fault _____ --------------------------East Tintic thrust fault_...1. Geologic map and section, Eureka quadrangle, Utah ______ In pocket FIGURE 1. Generalized plan of ore...GEOLOGY GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH BY HAL T. MoRRis ABSTRACT The Eureka
Journal (issue)
Aquamarine-Glenn & Janis Rising collection, page 218; Ruby-Michael Biavati collection, page 22; AmazoniteDoug...Spann collection, page 253. (right colurnn) Smithsonite-Mark Hughston collection, page 144; Variscite-Gus...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines
Book (edition)
in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale, Utah, and around fumaroles in Yellowstone Park. Also...and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped
Report (volume)
depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...Arizona________________________ 228 San Francisco region, Utah, by B. S. Butler_________ 229 Yerington, Nevada...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235
9/ azurite 46, 49 babingtonite /0/, 102 balas ruby 24 barite 57, 57 barytocalcite 58 barytocelestine...tennantite 11 rosasite 47, 49 rubellite 96 ruby 25 ruby spinel 24 rutherfordine 53 linarite 59, 60...uraninite 36 skutterudite 17, 17 smaltite 17, 17 smithsonite 38, 39, 40 soda 50 uvarovite 77, 78 vanadates...Native silver has no great importance from the mining point of view due to its comparative rarity; it...in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California). The major
Book
97 azurite 46, 49 babingtonite /0/, 102 balas ruby 24 barite 57, 57 barytocalcite 58 barytocelestine...crystal 28, 31 rosasite 47, 49 rubellite 96 ruby 25 ruby spinel 24 rutherfordine 53 rutile 33, 33 sagenite...silver 4, 5 skutterudite 17, /7 smaltite 17, 17 smithsonite 38, 39, 40 soda 50 sodalite 114 sorosilicates...silver has no great importance from the mining point of view due to its comparative rarity; it...in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California). The major
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
Book
museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...cubic. Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...emeralds and other beryls; chromium gives the red of ruby and red spinel and the green of emerald and jadeite;
 
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