 | | Report (issue) | | FOR THE OPHIR AND MERCUR 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, UTAH By Edwin W. looker 1 Open-File Report 87-152 ...thrust fault in the Ophir and Mercur quadrangles, Utah....... Figure 2. Generalized stratigraphic section...FOR THE OPHIR AND MERCUR 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, UTAH By Edwin W. looker INTRODUCTION The adjoining Ophir...north-central Utah, and include the Ophir and Mercur mining districts and the neighboring Sunshine (South Mercur)...Mercur) and West Mercur mining areas. The Mercur district, closed since the 1940's, was reactivated in |  | | Report (issue) | | CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most common mineral, quartz, in this beautiful.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material; indeed...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dolomite is self explanatory, the Plastic Clay (SRM 98b) is plastic clay that typically contains three minerals:... mica and quartz. The SRM consists of 60 grams of air-dried and ball-milled powdered clay and helps determine...determine the elemental components in clay or material of a similar matrix. NIST Price: $502.00 Author’s...to preserve and promote the unique geologic and mining heritage of Wisconsin while underscoring the importance...history are welcomed additions to my “mineral and mining memorabilia” collection. If you have some of these |  | | Report (issue) | | = 16.192(1) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fairfield, Utah, USA. (ICDD 33-257). 2.938 (100), 2.163 (60)...00 (1) Brooklyn mine, Utah, USA; after deduction of insolubles 35.13% as quartz, barite and sulfides....authigenic mineral in anoxic marine sediments or in clay-rich sediment beneath a tropical swamp. Association:...Fluorapatite, hydroxylherderite, quartz. Distribution: In the USA, in Utah, from the Brooklyn mine, near...Silver City, Tintic district, Juab Co., at the Little Green Monster mine, Clay Canyon, about nine km west |  | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah by Edwin W. Tooker Open-File Report OF 99-571 1999 This report...Acknowledgments Geologic setting of north-central Utah 11 13 15 17 Precambrian basement terrane and the...main nappes 30 31 Pass Canyon nappe 32 Bingham nappe 33 Rogers Canyon nappe 34 Significance of...nappe rocks in the Oquirrh Mountains 41 Pass Canyon nappe 42 Stratigraphic characteristics and correlation...Fork unit of looker and Roberts (1988) 45 Flood Canyon unit of looker and Roberts (1988) 46 __ __ __ |  | | Report (issue) | | 99-19.07 Z = [2] X-ray Powder Pattern: Fairfield, Utah, USA. 4.84 (100b), 2.98 (80b), 2.81 (80b), 3...99.9 100.00 6.87 2.66 1.73 16.54 (1) Fairfield, Utah, USA; average of two analyses, corrected by removal...variscite nodules (Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA); in phosphatic laterite (Taiba mine, Senegal);...Florida, USA). Association: Wardite, apatite, crandallite (Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA); crandallite...goethite, kaolinite, quartz (Homeland mine, Florida, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from the Little Green |  | | Report (issue) | | 19 20.48 Total 99.53 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Fairfield, Utah, USA; Sc2 O3 originally reported as Al2 O3 ,...metallic veins and phosphate Association: Chlorite, quartz (Sadisdorf mine, Germany); miargyrite, diaphorite...crandallite, variscite (Fairfield, Utah, USA); mahlmoodite (Wilson Springs mine, Arkansas, USA); lithiophorite...the USA, from the Little Green Monster mine, Clay Canyon, about nine km west of Fairfield, Utah Co.,... Utah; in Arkansas, in the Wilson Springs (Potash Sulphur Springs) mine, Garland Co., and as large crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in cavities in altered variscite at Fairfield, Utah County, Utah; also manganoan overite recently has...minerals from around Colorado Springs ( E l Paso County), Colorado. His first professional collecting venture...Over also searched in Mineral County, Nevada, and in the Thomas Range, Utah, in 1933. During this period...spent much of the summer season in the Thomas Range, Utah, where they found ex ceptional specimens of bixbyite...Overite crystals (maximum length 4 mm) from Fairfield, Utah. D. W. Schmerling photograph. J A N U A R |  | | Book (volume) | | from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination...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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the boxwork is calcite, the remaining 20% is quartz. The boxwork, as seen under the microscope, has...smaller crystals, and is probably the location of the quartz. The two outer layers are brown, rather coarsely...throughout the entire cave, and always filled with cave clay. "Some caves have minute amounts of this and Wind...quarry on the east side of Highway 101 in Mendocino County, 5.4 miles south of Laytonville or 4.8 miles north...disseminated in quartz and stilpnomelane. At the quarry all three of these minerals occur in quartz-rich rocks |  | | Journal (issue) | | weekly meeting of the Denver Mining Club, “Mining History of Jefferson County, Colorado”, by Pete Modreski...Society annual dinner meeting, at Mount Vernon Canyon Club, 24933 Clubhouse Circle, Golden [Lookout Mountain]...Ryan Bowling, The Pala Gem Pegmatite District, San Diego County, California. Meeting in Berthoud Hall...Collector’s Edge, one of the world’s leading firms in mining, cleaning, repairing, and selling high end crystal...mountain Looking for pretty crystals Oh look! I found quartz. Dinosaurs eat meat Dinosaurs have lots of teeth |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................more extensive deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite |  | | Report (volume) | | more extensive deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...excellent museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | -crystal COLORADO—An attractive specimen of rose quartz was recently sent in by Ralph Wayman, 934 Bross...Its label reads: "Rose quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is...Abundant white quartz float lies on the steep slope of the hill. The country rock is a dark quartz-mica schist...minerals of interest are euxenite, allanite, and rose quartz, the last of which is abundant, some of it being...localities swell this book to 223 pages). Chaffee County is in the central part of Colorado. CONNECTICUT—"I |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bross Ave., Longmont, Colo. Globe, in southern Gila County, is in S/'E Arizona. FLORIDA—"I am sending some...chalcedony—almost an agate ! Lakeland, in N / W Polk County, is in central Florida. GEORGIA — "The enclosed...Springs, near Summerville, Ga. From the cave they are mining red marble used in terrazo. The entire face of...Ro.r.e, Ga. Summerville is in centra! Chattooga County in N / W Georgia. MAINE — A few months ago David... Vaughan in Belfast, Maine, concerning the new mining strike in Blue Hill. I am sending you a few specimens |  | | Book (volume) | | quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area |  | | Book (volume) | | quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | spent more and more time in the field exploring and mining for minerals. His death came last October. He is...all done the hard way, most of it by small-scale mining operations. Drilling was performed with a single-jack...possible, and carried in our car food provisions and mining equipment needed for a long siege of work. Jeeps...slept in an old cabin at 9,200 ft. elevation. His mining areas all lay close to 14,000 feet. Every day he...mine tunnels deep below surface, difficulties of mining exploration that would have defeated any- one |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 Maynard Bixby - Part 2 Mining Expert, Mineral Dealer and Sharp Shooter Mark Ivan...handwritten booklet on all the known minerals in Utah with a listing of where they are found. The Salt...story of her exploits in the woods of Rappahannock County, Virginia, follows.—Editor) This past winter I...in the form of what looked like quartz crystals, like a vein of quartz crystals in a much larger rock...the Salt Lake Mining Review announced the publication of Bixby’s ‘Catalogue of the Utah Minerals and Localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | where I found on display some very fine acicuiar quartz doubly terminated xls, singles and in clusters...Little Rock city limits on State Hwy 65 in Pulaski County, Ark." — letter dated July 31, 1963 from Richard... "That same day we followed the Arkansas River Canyon from Salida to Canon City, a very scenic drive...but got on some back trail and ended up at an old quartz-feldspar mine back in the boondocks. "We returned...interesting specimens. CONNECTICUT — "I am sending two quartz xl specimens found in the town of Collinsville |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the big ones."—on label! Globe, in southern Gila County, is in central Arizona. COLORADO — "Enclosed are...identified. They are all from southwestern Fremont County in the Hayden Creek area of Colorado. Pegmatite...massive smoky quartz; and tiny sanidine xls (dark gray with bluish opalescence). Fremont County is in central...the grey material with the spar was quartz, but I've never seen quartz that looked quite like this before...consists of orange-brown microcline (feldspar), smoky quartz xls, and black biotite. The other specimen consists |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol. 40, No. 4, 405--420, 1992. CHARACTERIZATION OF HYDROTHERMAL TOBELITIC...TOBELITIC VEINS FROM BLACK SHALE, OQUIRRH MOUNTAINS, UTAH PAULA N. WILSON, W. T. PARRY, AND W. P. NASH Department...William Browning Building University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Abstract--Hydrothermal tobelitic...Mercur Au district (Wilson and Parry, 1990a, 1990b). Associated minerals include kaolinite, quartz, chlorite...product o f andesite and rhyolitic tuff at pottery clay and pyrophyllite deposits in Japan (Higashi, 1982) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical...deemed more appropriate (and more likely to gain mining industry support) to propose designating copper |
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