| | Report (volume) | Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work...Commission 1046-1 Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada By ALBERT F. TRITES, Jr., and RALPH...production________________________________________ Mine workings ________________________________________________...pocket] PLATE 7. Geologic map and section of Majuba Hill. 8. Geologic map of surface above Middle adit... Page FIGURE 25. Index map showing location of Majuba Hill___________ 184 in CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk | | | Report (issue) | '<:: ~·-· ,''~;:!~}~~,~~. ;:,~-~ :}:jJI::sfi~ Nevada Mineral-Resource Data: Information Available Through...Geological Survey Mineral Resource Data System Nevada Mineral-Resource Data: Information Available Through...Cataloging in Public~tion Data Sherlock. ~Iaureen G. Nevada mineral-resource data: information available through...Mines and mineral resources--Nevada--Information services. 2. Geology--Nevada--Information services. I....• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Purpose of the Nevada MRDS Data Set • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • | | | Report (issue) | a = 13.472(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA; identical to mixite. 11.63 (100), 2.920...3.40 46.77 1.37 11.00 Total 98.94 (1) Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, average of five...orebody in rhyolite porphyries and breccias (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Association: Olivenite, clinoclase,...strashimirite, scorodite, pharmacosiderite, arthurite, metazeunerite, chalcanthite, chrysocolla, spangolite, chalcophyllite...chalcophyllite, malachite, azurite, brochantite (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA); malachite, montmorillonite (Chessy, | | | Journal (issue) | Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...(phroth@sunrise.ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting...minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from Majuba Hill. FOV 3.8 mm...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907...1907 by A.J. McCauley of Imlay, Nevada. No work of importance was undertaken until 1914, when the property | | | Journal (issue) | Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg- | | | Report (issue) | 16H2O. Radioactive; commonly dehydrates to metazeunerite. Optical Properties: Transparent, becoming translucent...Germany, from the Walpurgis vein, Weisser Hirsch mine, Neustädtel-Schneeberg, Saxony; at Sailauf, northeast...northeast of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; in the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach, from Menzenschwand,...Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannel; at Wheal Edward, St. Just. In France, from the Cap Garonne mine, near...near le Pradet, Var; at the Margnac mine, Compreignac, Haute-Vienne; in the Rabéjac uranium deposit, seven | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent...Southampton University. A consultant geochemist in the mining industry, he is also an avid collector of micromounts...Mountain states. In the copper mines of Houghton County, Michigan, where primary arsenides have provided...from Hinsdale County, Colorado, and from the Blackbird and Nickel Plate mines in Lemhi County, Idaho. In | | | Report (issue) | Metazeunerite Cu(UO2 )2 (AsO4 )2 • 8H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...10 c = 17.42 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Anton mine, Germany. 8.86 (10), 3.73 (10), 5.57 (8), 3.30 (8)...at the Weisser Hirsch mine, Neustädtel-Schneeberg, Saxony; in the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach...Edward and the Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var...the USA, in the Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah; from the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope | | | Journal (issue) | Allingbam Court .Haverstock Hill London l\1W3 2AH 12A Allingham Court Haverstock Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS...localities when I lived in South Africa was an old tin mine by the name of Stavoren in what used to be called...similarities also springs to mind, and that is Majuba Hill, in Nevada. So as I went through the specimens in...recovered from the Mutue Fides mine, but at the adjacent Stavoren mine, it seems that tin recovery was...are of interest to collectors. Gorland is an old mine with a chequered history because, like Stavoren | | | Report (issue) | olivenite, parnauite, goudeyite, arthurite, metazeunerite, chalcophyllite, cyanotrichite, scorodite, pharmacosiderite...from Kamsdorf and Saalfeld, Thuringia; at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest; in the Richelsdorf...Mountains, Hesse; and elsewhere. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, and Triembach-au-Val, Haut-Rhin...Tynagh mine, near Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland. In the USA, in Nevada, at the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope...Antelope district, Pershing Co., in the Nickel mine, Table Mountain district, Churchill Co., from the San | | | Report (issue) | Powder Pattern: Cornwall, England or Tintic, Utah, USA. 2.98 (10), 4.82 (9), 5.91 (7), 2.47 (7), 2.39 (7)...clinoclase, tyrolite, cornetite, cornwallite, metazeunerite, scorodite, pharmacosiderite, spangolite, chalcophyllite...localities. In England, from Cornwall, at the Carharrack mine, Wheals Gorland, Unity, and others in Gwennap, Linkinhorne...Devon. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France. In the Clara Mine, near Oberwolfach, and many...Forest, Germany. At the Kamariza mine, Laurium, Greece. From the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. Large | | | Report (issue) | Portugal. Large crystals especially at the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, and as rich specimens from Shinkolobwe...Valley, Northern Territories, Australia. In the USA, at Chalk Mountain, near Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co...large crystals from the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district, Pershing Co., Nevada. Name: To honor Torbern...groups: torbernite, zeunerite, metatorbernite and metazeunerite. Can. Mineral., 41, 489-502. (4) (2004) Amer | | | Journal (issue) | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com | | | 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.— Ist | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Figure 2: Meta-torbernite, Chalk Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina. RICHARD D. GREEN 1745 13th Street...and, probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure 6 (right):...(right): Uraninite, Deep Creek, Bayson City, Swain County, North Carolina. Photo by Lou Perloff. 248 ROCKS...weathering of the crystal surface. The Daybreak mine in Washington has produced the finest United States | | Mills, Stuart J., Kampf, Anthony R., McDonald, Andrew M., Bindi, Luca, Christy, Andrew G., Kolitsch, Uwe, Favreau, Georges (2013) The crystal structure of parnauite: a copper arsenate?sulphate with translational disorder of structural rods. European Journal of Mineralogy, 25 (4) 693-704 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2329 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA 3 Department of Earth...for parnauite from the type locality, Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA (MH; type specimen), and also from Cap...Cap Garonne, Var, France (CG), and the Clara Mine, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, are presented. The average...disorder, chemical analysis, Raman spectroscopy, Majuba Hill, Cap Garonne. (SO4)0.94 (PO4)0.43 (CO3)0.19...(SO4) (OH)107H2O, from the Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, USA (Sec 8, T32N R32E). Parnauite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | two "iir"r,flnffHffHjirffifls fromtheMajuba Hill Mine, Wrlr-reu S. Wrsr Departmentof GeologicalSciences... the middle adit level of the Majuba Hill Mine, PershingCounty, Nevada. Parnauiteoccursaspale-bluefansand...in ditute HCl. The name honors Hatfield Goudey,a mining geologistand mineralcollectorof San Mateo, California...strashimirite. scorodite,pharmacosiderite, arthurite, metazeunerite, chrysocolla,spangolite,chalcophyllite, malachite...bronchantite. Introduction The Majuba Hill Mine (northernPershingCounty, Nevada)is locatedin a subvolcanic | | | Journal (issue) | Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ................................ U p d a t e o n t h e M in e r a l o g y OF THE MAJUBA HlLL M lN E, P e r s h in g C o u n t y Martin...of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several companies have held the Majuba Hill property | | | Journal (issue) | Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur Mineral...lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit had been worked as...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...of the Big Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing Co., Nevada. The Big Mike copper...and cuprite, Cu2O. Mining of the ore body took about three years. Open pit mining was followed by a leaching | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus and vanadium...Sagadahoc County (King and Foord 1994); other occurrences include the Mount Mica and Ryerson Hill quarries...Oxford County. Scorodite occurred in small, pale green masses in oxidized ore at the cobalt mine at Great...Great Hill north of Cobalt, Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield County; and the...arsenic mine between Seymour and Derby on the west bank of the Naugatuck River, New Haven County, Connecticut | | | Journal (issue) | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...Mineralogical Club field trip to Penitentiary quarry, Snake Hill, New Jersey, on September 4, 1893 (photo courtesy...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | phenakite, native copper, yanomamite, dzhalindite, metazeunerite and rare arsenates, like pharmacosiderite, segnitite...contents between 0.01 and 0.40 wt% In. At the Goka mine, the mineral contains 0.34 to 0.48 wt% In (Murao...the association of those minerals at the Ikuno mine, Japan. In their opinion, the observed compositional...pharmacosiderite, segnitite, chenevixite, goudeyite, metazeunerite and unknown bismuth, barium and tin hydrated...a new mineral in the lusungite group from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Am. Mineral. 77, 656-659 |
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Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA