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Diopside from
Ward Mine, Ward Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ward Mine, Ward Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1015914
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1015914:7
GUID (UUID V4):4b87e658-e117-44af-b8aa-44626b09ad5b
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
22.2km (13.8 miles) Liberty pit (Big pit), Liberty pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
22.5km (14.0 miles) Ruth pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
52.2km (32.5 miles) Schwartz Canyon Deposits, Patterson Mining District, Lincoln County, Nevada, USA
52.2km (32.5 miles) Ad adit (Schwartz tunnel), Patterson Mining District, Lincoln County, Nevada, USA
53.6km (33.3 miles) White Pine prospect, Currant Mining District, Horse Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
59.3km (36.9 miles) Mount Hamilton, White Pine Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
93.6km (58.2 miles) Terrell Mine, Troy Mining District, Grant Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant...significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralizationin the Ruth PorphyryCopperDeposit near Ely, Nevada GERHARD WESTRA Exxon'Minerals Company, 2425NorthHuachuca...pophyses of a largerpluton that underlies the district. Prior to intrusionthe sedimentaryrockswere folded...emplacementof an earlyquartzmonzoniteporphyrypluton.In the mine areathisintrusionis cylindricaland plunges25ø westwith...sulfide-richgarnet-pyroxene skarnselsewherein the district,the predominantskarntype at Ruth is a massivegarnetskarnlow...Chainmanhornfelsadjacentto Ely skarncontains epidote,actinolite, diopside, garnet,calcite,pyrite,chalcopyrite, andmagnetite
Report (volume)
Director ' Bulletin 648 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Clark County.......................................................'.. Gold Butte mining district.................... Lincoln mine........................................ Bennett mine.........................gneiss............................. Gold Butte Mining Co................................. New Era group...prospects...................................... Elko County...............................................
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...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved
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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theCopper-Bearing Skarnat theMasonValley Mine, YeringtonDistrict,Nevada MARCO T. EINAUDI Abstract Skarn formation...formation at the Mason Valley mine occurred at a depth of 2,000 m on the outer fringe of a contactmetasomaticaureole...rapid increasein iron contentof tremolite and diopside over a few centimetersfrom vein envelopeto vein...the Yerington district, field relationsand chemicalcompositionof coexistLyon County, Nevada, 2.5 km west...garnet, pyroxene, and amphibole. The MasonValley mine (MVM) is ideallysuited is a small copper-bearingskarn
Book
MIN6RRLS of New Vork State David E. Jensen up WARD PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc...enteri versity of Roches Harold L. Ailing's the mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York...as tools, weapons and ornamentation long before white settlers set foot in the area. It is reported that...searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research
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farm above Keuka Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn...Harold L. Alling's geology students on a trip to the mining districts and the high peaks of the Adirondack...Lake area. of New York State David E. Jensen WARD UP PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment,...as tools, weapons and ornamentation long before white settlers set foot in the area. It is reported that...searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits,Ely, Nevada L^UI•F.NCV.P. J^•Es Abstract The porphyry copperdepositsnear Ely, Nevada, occur within...characterizedby bleaching and local development of saponite,diopside, and tremolite, extends outward to unaltered limestone...origin(Nielsen, 488 PORPHYRYCOPPERDEPOSITS,ELY, NEVADA 489 Present Work available. Sedimentaryunitsare...miles beyondthe ore deField work in the Robinson district was carried posit and its alteration aureole....aid in explorationfor madethroughall areasof the district, but the major concealeddeposits. effort consistedof
Report (issue)
Part II Geology and Gold Deposits of the Oatman District, Northwestern Arizona By ED DEWITT, JON P. THORSON...Marysville Mining District, Montana By JAMES W. WHIPPLE Gold Deposits of the Boulder County Gold District... Gold ores Nevada. 2. Gold ores Washington Ferry County. 3. Hydrothermal deposits Nevada. 4. Hydrothermal...Hydrothermal deposits Washington Ferry County. I. Geological Survey (U.S.) II. Series: Geology and resources... CONTENTS Geology and gold deposits of the Oatman district, northwestern Arizona Abstract II Introduction
Journal (issue)
A New Occurrence of Allophane From the Laochang Mine, Gejiu City, Yunnan, China Tony Nikischer Excalibur...exceptional allophane specimens from the Laochang Mine (see figure I) came as a complete surprise. Our...neither species had previously been reported from this mine, best known for its pale blue hemimorphite. Figure...colorful specimenof allophane from the laochang Mine, near Gejiu City in YunnanProvince.This sample providedthe...Discovery of Gem-Grade Chrysocolla From Ontonagon County, Michigan Tom Rosemeyer datolite@charter.net This
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
Catalog/List
processes, reactors, weapons, etc., much of its mining and production information is classified . As late... Belgian Congo). Mr. Gilbert Gauthier, a noted mining engineer in Shaba Province at the time, states...of the Mine" collection, assembled as a museum display in the offices of the Shinkolobwe mine, was ordered...Despite the rigid ban on collecting, some miners and mining officials did manag_ e to assemble small personal...unique addition to any serious mineral collection . Ward 's is pleased to make available a limited offering
Report (issue)
OF MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES ALLANITE Inyo County: 1, Coarse grained allanite occurs in a pegmatite...quadrangle, McAllister (4) p. 52. Los Angeles County: Additional reference, Patchick (2) p. 237. This...diagrams. 1, AMPHIBOLES ACTINOLITE San Bernardino County: 3, Additional Wrightwood, reported by Berkholz...locality in alluvium, near 21. HORNBLENDE Inyo County: 1, In large prismatic crystals up to 2.5 inches...Panamint Range, McAllister (4) p. 52. San Bernardino County: 2, Pargasite variety of hornblende occurs in coarsely
Book (volume)
particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Report (volume)
Carolina and east-central South Carolina, Lauck W. Ward and Blake W. Blackwelder..........................northwestern Nevada Johnson, M. G., 1977, Geology and mineral deposits of Pershing County, Nevada: Nevada Bur...Silver Cliff and Rosita volcanic centers, Custer County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Misc. Geol. Inv. Map...North Carolina A6 CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY Ward, L. W., Lawrence, D. R., and Blackwelder, B. W....Geology of central Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bur. Mines and Mineral
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f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
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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...PLATEAU I7 COAST RANGES 7 GREAT VALLEY :2f SIERRA NEVADA ~ BASIN RANGES Ell MOJAVE DESERT II TRANSVERSE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wilson (1 994). Silver is well known as a bright white metal (when untarreplaced by various silver halides... occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more
Report (volume)
publicationl (A) The Rose Creek Tungsten Mine, Pershing County, Nev., by R. J. Roberta (.published in June...Geophysical Surveys in the Ochoco Quicksilver district, Oreg., by E. L. Stephenson (published in October...magnetite-ilmenite deposits, near Lake Sanford, Essex County, N. Y., by J. R. Balsley, Jr. (published in January...Occurrence of manganese in eastern Aroostook County, Maine, by W. S. White (published in December 1943)....,.....'Manganese deposits of the Lyndhurst-Vesuvius district, Augusta and Rockbridge Counties, Va., by M. M
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 338 THE IRON ORES OF THE IRON SPRINGS DISTRICT SOUTHERN UTAH BY C. K. LEITH AND E. C. HARDER.................................... Bull Valley district.................................................XV. Map of mining claims in the Desert Mound and Iron Springs areas, Iron Springs district................. 66 XVI. Map of mining claims of the Iron Mountain area, Iron Springs district .....................of Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, showing geographic relation of Iron Springs district to physiographic regions
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
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volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
 
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