 | | Book (edition) | | and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...the mother rock. In general, the United States mountain them. is divided geologically into the areas...the east and west, and the plains between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through...recent perhaps because of the decline in placer mining for gold in made dis- faces helps to distinguish |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.â Ist |  | | Journal (issue) | | month's Landmark contest, I republic. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico main, and Utah offer the best opportunities...suggest to collectors that they keep More Light on Myrickite . . . their magazines on file for the day when...with cinnabar having been sold as "myrickite," genuine myrickite is not opalite Bouquets for the Living...evidenced by the following: Taft, California "Myrickite is a local name applied to Dear Mr. Henderson:... and you and your staff have a lished 1939: "MyrickiteâA local trade name for a big bouquet coming. variety | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Book | | Gold mines and miningâDeath Valley (Calif. and Nev.)âHistory. 4. Gold mines and miningâAmargosa River...mineral wealth, has been the work of many hands, mining and refining it. The final metal owes much to the...valley was several thousand feet above sea level. Nevada papers championed Gabb, chiding Whitney for wanting...in the valley that day carrying hot air from the Nevada desert over the Amargosa Range, where it was superheated...The name was clearly in common use by 1866, when Nevada Governor Blasdel entered the valley.* Se ae |  | | Journal (issue) | | H. THRALL "Mosquito Rock" . . . Boulder City, Nevada Dear Mr. Henderson: I wish to point out an error...and startling color. Being a newcomer to southern Nevada, I am not writing as a booster for this locality...landed, 3,000 feet below. The man who did that mining work in the canyon was Adam Chunning. He stopped...Carson City, Nevada Dear Sir: I was mildly surprised at the use of the word "Myrickite" in your item...thing you ever sawâand they're going to name it "myrickite." Since then, whenever I have seen any of the |  | | Book | | A FIELD GUIDE Rockhounding Nevada is a must-have book for anyone interested in collecting rocks, minerals...Globe Pequot Press NEVADA A Guide to the Stateâs Best Rockhounding Sites NEVADA 2nd Edition Essential...and minerals WILLIAM A. KAPPELE Rockhounding Nevada RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 1 6/27/11 3:02 PM Help...RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 2 6/27/11 3:02 PM Rockhounding Nevada A Guide to the Stateâs Best Rockhounding Sites...ion Data Kappele, William A., 1931Rockhounding Nevada : a guide to the stateâs best rockhounding sites |  | | Journal (issue) | | miles away) they travel over 40 miles of rough mountain road before they reach the paved highway. "We...Southwestern subjects. GEORGE E. PERKINS of Overton, Nevada, who has supplied much authentic historical data...Indian, Mouse, has filed as a candidate for the Nevada state assembly subject to the will of the voters...Albuquerque; drive 15 miles to Acoma. 2-3 Duchesne county Stampede, Duchesne, Utah. 6-7 Peach Day at Brigham...PERSONALITY HOBBY MINING BOTANY BOOKS 12-15 Nevada livestock show and Elko county fair, Elko. Donald |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern 'âSchoolmarmâ Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Journal (issue) | | "Chief Turkey Foot," by Ted Jerome, Las Vegas, Nevada. "Lizard Eye View of Yucca," by Joe Orr, Los Angeles...Gems and Minerals âEdited by ARTHUR L. EATON . . MINING Briefs from the desert region LETTERS Comment...Landmark contest is Theodore Jerome of Las Vegas, Nevada. He identified the accompanying picture as Elephant...direction of W. G. McGinnis of the Southwest forest district. The locations are widely scattered, extending...;> w \ By THEODORE JEROME ^ / / REAK rocks in Nevada are as common as boulders on a Vermont farm. The |  | | Book | | IN U.».A. R-m DESERT FEVER f An Overview of Mining in the California Desert Larry M. Vredenburgh...an overview of mining in cl981, S. F. PUBLIC LIBRARX This publication and related mining and historical...Special First Edition of Desert Fever: An Overview of Mining in the California Desert has been limited to 1...Future Imperial County 7 Riverside County 24 San Bernardino County Kern County 181 Inyo County 222 58 269...269 Summary of Mining in the California Desert Bibliography 284 Glossary of Mining Terms 299 Index 305 |  | | Journal (issue) | | dance, Zia Pueblo, New Mexico. August 15-17âQuay County Sheriffs Posse Rodeo, Tucumcari, New Mexico. August...LETTERS Comment from Desert's r e a d e r s 28 MINING Current news of desert mines 30 NEWS From here...Amargosa and Panamint Ranges in desert California and Nevada, Shoshonean Indians watched a strange caravan invade...prospectors come and go. They have watched boom mining camps spring up almost overnight, and then fizzle...an annual influx of more than 200,000 motorists. Mining has brought intermittent strikes of wealth, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | November number of Desert Magazine will be MRS. WHITE MOUNTAIN SMITH'S biographical sketch of Lorenzo Hubbell...Products Corp. Los Angeles, Calif. DESERT OCT. 1-30 Nevada deer hunting season. 2-4 3-7 Southwestern Library...Polzer, chairman. 13-27 Nevada open season on pheasant, valley and mountain quail, grouse, partridge...California. 15 California dove season closes. Imperial county only: Oct. 1-Nov. 15. Sunrise to sunset. 16-NOV...Mann, Williams, Arizona. 16-DEC. 14 California, Nevada and Utah duck and geese hunting season, sunrise |  | | Journal (issue) | | area, California. June 1âLincoln County Homecoming Day, Caliente, Nevada. June 1-30 â Special exhibit, California...Volume 15 COVER Golden Turret in Cathedral Gorge, Nevada CALENDAR CINEMA NATURE On Entering Cat Canyon...PERSONALITY Writer of the Chiricahuas By DOR WOODS 16 MINING Current news of desert mines . 18 EXPLORATION...on the Desert June 26-29 â American and Rocky Mountain Federations of Mineralogical Societies convention...conventional cars. In recent months, however, San Diego County has built a new graded highway paralleling the |  | | Journal (issue) | | of clay at Cathedral Gorge State Park in eastern Nevada SOUTHWEST DISERT RAT 4fARRY 0UVER1 1888 âą ...ledge showed "good c o l o r " (gold). Now he's mining his well, and taking his drinking water from the...an eroded corner of Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada. Photograph is by Josef Muench. Yaqui Easter Rites...TravelâWildflowers Arizona TravelâWildflowers News Briefs Nevada TravelâRhyolite New Mexico TravelâPenitentes Editorial...minerals and gemstones you may be overlooking while mining, prospecting or gem hunting. Uranium, vanadium |  | | Report (issue) | | said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely |  | | Book | | Several other club members supplied photographs. The mining bureaus of several states were helpful in information...the Egyptians had a well organized industry for mining rock crystal north of Assuan and amethyst near...like glass. Those found in Thrace and near the mountain Oeta, upon Mount Parnassus, on the isle of Lesbos...unimpressive group of buildings beside a swiftly flowing mountain stream between precipitous walls of rock. The...and Moguntiacum, now Mayence. They crossed the mountain range and penetrated a valley running amethyst |  | | Book (volume) | | particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete |  | | Book | | gained some practical nize the metals experience in mining and further knowledge of the nature of quartz...mineralogy and mining he quietly acquired the Original, Colusa, Mountain Chief, and Gambetta mining claims at...stamp first of its kind in the Butte district. From then on, his mining properties expanded with remarkable...well-developed quartz crystals found in Herkimer County, New York. Again the terms "Medfordite" and ""Oregonite"...Barstow, CaHfomia, and similar areas throughout Nevada and Wyoming, where specimens in profusion were |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pinheiro. An:elope Valley Branch, Los Angeles County Library, Lancaster, CaliforMay 1-3âFourteenth Annual...Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. MINING May 8âSong Festival, Encanto Band Shell, Phoenix...15-18 â Elk's Helldorado and Rodeo, Las Vegas, Nevada. HOBBY Forecast of Colorado River flood discharge...California. May 17-18âSpring Rodeo, Winnemucca, Nevada. May 27-28 â Uintah Basin Junior Livestock show...on the HanksvilleGreenriver road to the Temple Mountain turnoff, marked by a rusty mailbox and weathered |  | | Report (issue) | | org/details/reportofstatemin15cali CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO ^LETCHER...Statement xxiii Participation of the California State Mining Bureau in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition...Production General Features I. Alpine County. 5 6 6 , Mining Districts The Mogul and Monitor Districts...Hercules Company 14 23 Silver Mountain District Silver King District Mineral Water Grover's Hot Springs...27 27 27 , , Bibliography Chapter II, Inyo County. Introduction and Acknowledgments Location and |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...included contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, stretches of stream beds, and easily identifiable...live. The Appalachians, the Smokies, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies and Black Hills, the Cascades and...these mountains enclose. In the East, an ancient mountain system of folded and metamorphosed sediments and...Carolina. In the West, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, and the Coast ranges dominate a vast geological |  | | Journal (volume) | | Geologist C A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Reid J. Frank Sanborn, District Mining Engineer District Engineer Mining Engineer Mineral Technologist...Henry H. Symons, J. C. District Sampson, Assistant Ohas. V. Averill, John Mining Engineer Statistician...Statistician and Curator O'Brien, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco â Sacramento San Francisco...Reports of District Milling' Engineers Redding Field District Sacramento Field District San Francisco |  | | Journal (volume) | | Geologist C. A. Logan, District Mining Engineer O. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Sacramento San Francisco Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer Los Angeles Los...Los Angeles District Engineer Chas. V. Averell, District Mining Engineer Frank Sanborn, Mineral John...Francisco San Francisco and Curator O'Brien, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco » v- f»|...Reports of District Mining Engineers 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco |  | | Book (volume) | | Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert...Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and by A. L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Hiddenite crystals Hiddenite crystal Map of Pala District Clays and crystals in pocket Vanderberg Mine Pile |
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