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Andalusite from
Mason Valley Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Andalusite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andalusite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mason Valley Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:573294
Long-form Identifier:1:3:573294:4
GUID (UUID V4):980c8808-5c29-4bed-a0c5-70c271848d78
Nearest other occurrences of Andalusite
14.9km (9.2 miles) Blue Metal Prospect, Buckskin Mining District, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Blue Metal prospect (Blue Danube prospect), Buckskin Mining District (Smith Valley Mining District), Buckskin Range, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
52.4km (32.5 miles) Loope (Monitor; Loopeville), Monitor - Mogul Mining District, Alpine County, California, USA
70.8km (44.0 miles) Dover claim, Barcelona Mining District (Spanish Belt Mining District), Toquima Range, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
70.9km (44.0 miles) Green Talc Mine (Donnelly Andalusite Mine), Fitting Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
77.2km (48.0 miles) Deep prospect, Hawthorne Mining District (Pamlico Mining District), Mineral County, Nevada, USA
80.3km (49.9 miles) Kenjay prospect, Hawthorne Mining District (Pamlico Mining District), Mineral County, Nevada, USA
82.6km (51.3 miles) Bismark prospect, Fitting Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
95.1km (59.1 miles) LaPlata mine (Michigan prospect), Mountain Wells Mining District, Churchill County, Nevada, USA
99.9km (62.0 miles) Bataan Mine, Garfield Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC OF WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA by Jeff L. Doebrich 1 ,...Open-File Report 96-9 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary...School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 'Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MS...MS 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 'U.S. Geological Survey, Retired, 8920 West 2nd........ YERINGTON SUPERSYSTEM ........................................................ Yerington Batholith
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
trend towardincreasing #Fe/#Mg. At the DouglasHill mine, apatite,quartz, and sulfidesreplacedandradite....magnesiumrich skarnare inferred to have been in the range 650ø to below 400øC. Temperaturesof formationof...pergeneore was of fairly high grade. The Casting Copper mine produced0.45 million tonsof oxideand sulfideore...sulfideore, muchof it averaging6 percent;the DouglasHill mine, 69,000 tonsof 5 percentoxideore; and diorite batholith...outward to the farthest extent of the nearbyLudwig mine,0.18 milliontonsof largely skarn formation. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theMasonValley Mine, YeringtonDistrict,Nevada MARCO T. EINAUDI Abstract Skarn formation at the Mason Valley mine...in the Yerington district, field relationsand chemicalcompositionof coexistLyon County, Nevada, 2.5 km...km west of Mason. It ing garnet, pyroxene, and amphibole. The MasonValley mine (MVM) is ideallysuited...400 ft. The 300 and mentary and volcanicrocks. 400 mine levels were mapped on the scale 1 in. = 40 ft. Normal...batholithcontact and recrystallizationto hornblendehornfels District Setting hornfelsesbelongto the grossularite-andradite
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...represented by numerous geothermal areas. The range of minerals found in mines, quarries, and prospect...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21
Report (issue)
Quadrangle, California and Nevada Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology...Walker lake 1° x 2° Quadrangle, California and Nevada By John H. Stewart, M. A. Chaffee, J. C. Dohrenwend...CIRCULAR 927 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology 1984 Department...Walker Lake 1° x 2° quadrangle, California and Nevada (U.S. Geological Survey Circular 927) Bibliography:...resources-California. 2. Mines and minerals resources-Nevada. I. Stewart, John Harris, 1928-. II. Title. Ill
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
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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
Report (issue)
__ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits................................ Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville (Eagle).. Genoa
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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...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of a lateritic profile showing changes in in a range of fresh rock and weathering minerals, including...including a zone of metasomatic alteration that a range of fresh rock and weathering minerals, including a zone...for operator adjustments of the data’s dynamic range during acquisition); (ii) blackbody calibration...powerful one for explorers as it delivers a wide range of mineral group information, including: (i) propylitic...Hillstyle style base metal deposits and“Mine theirSequence Mine Sequence (a) Map of the distributionofofBroken
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................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 (issue)
GENERATEDSALINEBRINESRELATEDTO MOLYBDENUMAT QUESTA, NEW MEXICO,USA J. Cline,D. Vanko..................................SALINEFLUIDSIN PORPHYRYCOPPER ITS:RESULTSFROMYERINGTO, NEVADA G.L Faratr,C.W. Fitkl ...........................= 1120 °c) to fuse a variety of xenolitbs for a range of ambient country-rock ~These values are re~rred...analysesof icolaGroup (3.6lo 1.9mole%) but is withinthe range adlarpeeDIChist-facics mcllmorphicrocks '-oci 1993)...Whiting, PublicationI, 319-336. CJ. Hodgson& R. Mason,eds.).Soc. Econ. Geol. SpecialPublication2, 213-283
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Japan(Sato, 1977b). TIlE Fujigatani mine is locatedin the Kuga district, The geologyof the Fujigatani depositwas...described the geolbearing scheeliteare known in this district. The ogy in more detail. Ito (1962) investigatedthe...mineralization. 1066 TUNGSTEN SKARN DEPOSIT, FUJIGATANI MINE 1067 • 'L• Outer Zone. SW Japan • • Kuga ...Nishiki Group Sangun metamorphic rocks Tungsten mine Fx(;. 1. Location map showing the Fujigatani, Kiwada...Cretaceousage (Kawano and Ueda, 1966). The The Fujigatani mine is locatednear the southern tungstendepositsare
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Julian 7.5' Quadrangle, San Diego County, California By Victoria R. Todd Open-File Report...Geologic map of the Julian 7.5' quadrangle, San Diego County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...San Diego County, California ii Geologic Map of the Julian 7.5' Quadrangle, San Diego County, California...between plutons as screens and inclusions in a wide range of sizes. The largest screen crosses the quadrangle...Julian Schist Series. In a study of the Julian mining district, Donnelly (1934) introduced the name Julian
Report (volume)
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (Revised) G. V. Gibbs 16 1986 570 J. W. Valley H. P. Taylor, Jr. STABLE ISOTOPES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE...knowledge of metamorphism. This evolution spans a wide range of scales from submicroscopic analysis of grain...requires a multidisciplinary analysis from a wide range of geological subdisciplines. This volume provides...anatectic zone Stability of kyanite + biotite in andalusite-sillimanite sequences ANATEXIS Significance...Methodology Experimental studies of selected reactions Andalusite =sillimanite Calcite + quartz -wollastonite +
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...deposits of the Mojave Desert area and of Death Valley by a group of U.S. Geological Survey workers, with
Book
P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University...California, and published in the fourth and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning in 1914 with a volume...platinum - have been found mainly in the Sierra Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These mountain...are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...following notation: Section (Sec.), Township (T.), Range (R.), and Meridian (M.D.M. Mount Diablo Meridian;S
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rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...stone hammers, and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Slining Bureau reported at about the...tlie desert region between Death Valley and Goff's Mining District, nearer the former, and that good
Book
P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining the at College of California, parent to the...mineralogist of California, and pub- and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning volume prepared...— gold and platinum — have been found mainly in Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain...species are reported by 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible, locations of mines...following notation: Section (Sec.), Township (T.), Range (R.), and Meridian (M.D.M. — Mount Diablo Meridian;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the minermineralizedskarn,termed chert ore by mine personalogically distinctive types of altered rock...deposits,are described.Following this, we describe andalusite(Zaw, 1976). the chemicalrelationships amongdifferentalteration...veins, adjacentto wherethe bedsare truncatedby the mine fractures, and skarn-altered carbonate beds in the...garnet-pyroxenefacies vertically away from the contact of the mine stock in the Ore lime- amphibole stonewas first...faciesin the lowerskarnzone,MacTungdeposit. the mine stock(Fig. 15). As at MacTung, the full facies
Report (volume)
Virginia--National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...shown conclusively that the classic Mississippi Valley-type ores cannot have originated from either syngenetic...rock types 133 Cross section through the Kalavos district Cyprus showing relationship of massive sulfide...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JULIAN DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY 331 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE JULIAN DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO...DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA * By MAURICE DONNELLY *• OUTLINE OF REPORT Page ABSTRACT __ _____ - - -- ___...------- -------- ---- - - - -- ______ __ - 369 Other Mine r a l D e posits -- -- -- -- -- ------ -- - -------...San Diego County, , California, includes the Julian, Banner, several other less important mining districts...districts, and the Stonewall Mine on the Cuyamaca land grant. In addition to being one of the few areas in
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Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PA..PER...MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT AND SURROUNDING AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA FRONTISPIECE. Buckingham area. Group of...foreground is Buckingham Camp. Reese River Valley and northern Shoshone Range make up background. View northwestward...Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, DAVID W. BlAKE, THOMAS...COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL
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Logan, District Mining Engineer O. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer...Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Ohas. V. Averill, District Mining...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS Page REPORTS OF DISTRICT MINING...Field District Sacramento Field District San Francisco Field District Los Angeles Field District 8 Miner...Miner al Resources of San Diego County 56 GEOLOGIC BRANCH 56 Current Notes Geology and Oil Possibilities
 
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