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Sphalerite from
Dan Patch Mine, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dan Patch Mine, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:117628
Long-form Identifier:1:3:117628:5
GUID (UUID V4):5fe91fe0-8340-4acb-97cc-e94a58f77a3d
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
1.4km (0.9 miles) Cold Spring Prospect, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Goldsmith Claim, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Black Hawk Prospect, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Drummond Prospect, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Longstreet Mine, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Robert E. Lee Mine, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) Silver Leaf Mine, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Big Chief Prospect, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Stray Dog Mine, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Silver Bell Mine, Covada Mining District (Enterprise Mining District), Ferry County, Washington, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
INDIAN RESERVATION WASHINGTON BT J. T. PARDEE SCHOOL OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING................................................. Covada group............................................................................ 50 History of mining............................................................................ 54 Condition of the mining industry.................................................................. 56 Nespelem (Moses) district.............................................
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES DIVISION OLYMPIA, WASHiNGTON 98504 METAL MINES OF WASHINGTONPRELIMINARY REPORT...DERKEY NANCY L. JOSEPH and RAYMOND LASMANIS WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN...Earth Resources standards and nomenclature. 1, WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF Natural Resources Brian...DERKEY NANCY L. JOSEPH and RAYMOND LASMANIS WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN...standards and nomenclature. • CONTENTS Page Page County and site name Kelly Camp Kettle Key East Knob
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the CusterKeystone area, to the Homestake gold mine in Lead, to golden barite-bearing concretions east...'CITY MINES 1. Homestake 2. Bob Ingersoll 3. Don Patch 4. Etta 5. Hugo 6. King Lithia 7. Big Chief 8. Bull...Homestake mine has since grown to be the largest gold mine in the western hemisphere. The Homestake mine has...quartz crystal groups, many of which have pyrite, sphalerite, dolomite, and calcite crystals scattered on...Keystone, in the central Black Hills, is another gold district where there are numerous small mines and prospects
Report (volume)
of the Lemhi Pass district J UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1972 UNITED STATES...Government Printing Office Stock Number 2401-02207 Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract .... -...-----------------------------Future of thorium mining ................ -----------------------------...Lemhi Pass quadrangle, Page Lemhi County, Idaho, and Beaverhead County, Mont ..... Jn pocket FIGURE 1....only a part of the much larger Lemhi Pass thorium district, is the area of the most abundant thorium veins
Report (issue)
Asbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N. Y. Chromite, chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore, Friedensville, Pa...and Mineral Resources of the Lemhi Pass Thorium District, Idaho and Montana By MORTIMER H. STAATZ With...in the Lemhi Pass district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1979 UNITED...and mineral resources of the Lemhi Pass thorium district, Idaho and Montana. (Geology and resources of...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock Number 024-001-03208-2 CONTENTS
Report (issue)
others UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1964 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 20402 CONTENTS Abstract____________...mine_____________________________. Dan Patch feldspar mine___--_____________________ Dan Patch West pegmatite._____...prospect.____________________________ Etta spodumene mine.______________________________ Geology-___ . __...303 305 305 307 310 312 314 315 Etta spodumene mine Continued Mineral deposits____--__--------------_-_------Eureka
Report (Issue volume)
State of Washington ARTHUR B. LANGLIE, Governor Department of Conservation and Development W. A. GALBRAITH...GLOVER, Supervisor Bulletin No. 37 INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS PART II METALLIC MINERALS By MARSHALL...Volume 2 - MAPS STATE PRINTING PLANT. OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON lll!UI For sale by Department of Conservation...volumes-text and maps) $4.50. INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS PART II METALLIC MINERALS Volume 1...Bulletin 33, "Nonmetallic Mineral Resources of Washington," published in 1936. Since then the catalogue
Journal (issue)
It was extracted from the Earth at the Pedra Alta Mine, San Geraldo do Baixio (Brazil). Below: A brooch...(1894-1956), Curator of the National Museum in Washington DC (USA), who made a particular study of the geology...geology of Crestmore in Riverside County, California, where the mineral was first discovered in 1958. CHARACTERISTICS...foshagite is at Crestmore in Riverside County, California (USA)—it is against specimens from here that...Durango (Mexico) and at Bingham Pit, Salt Lake County, Utah (USA). Other small deposits have been recorded
Report (issue)
Professor Edwin H . Oshier, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, made the photographs included in this...7 Bibliography . . . . . 229 Appendix: 252 Mine Index iii NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS CHEMICAL...purchased from the United States Geological Survey in Washington, D. C., or Denver, Colorado, or from the Department...in the U. S. National Museum (Smithsonian) in Washington, D. C. The National Museum is the depository...Tetradymite Argentite Chalcocite Bornite Galena Altaite Sphalerite Chalcopyrite Stannite Greenockite Pyrrhotite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
monly found in granite pegmatite as ga­ lena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, bismuthinite, pyrite... and bismuth­ inite are most often observed. Sphalerite is less common, fallowed by chalcopyrite, molybdenite...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo­ rado. It is an economic mineral...peg­ matite in the Temiskaming District in Canada, in the tin district in the Trans­ vaal, South Africa;...near the center of the pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New
Journal (issue)
Editorial Board written content: Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson, J....Roman, C/z£vei/i deposits of jf v l t h e Ems district in West Germany have yielded over 50 mineral species...The ore-carrying system which comprises the Ems district is known as the Ems-Braubach belt. It consists
Catalog/List
good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens...00 eaoh. CLEANED COPPER AND MALACHITE: Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona: I've had these for a few years...00 each ENARGITE, BOURNONITE, PYRITE, GALENA, SPHALERITE: Various localities, Peru: Check out our Peruvian...specimen material comes from a collection from Mining Engineer Eben Bebee who first arrived in Cripple...volcanic crater 4 miles long and 2 miles wide. Mining at Cripple Creek lasted from 1891 to 1962 with
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted excellent
Report (issue)
feldspar UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1953 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. - Price 33.50 (paper cover) FOREWORD..._______________________ Mining, preparation, and uses of mica. _____________ Mining.___________________________________...mines and prospects___________________ 60 Addie tin mine._________________________________ 60 Ajax claim...___________60 Aladin mica mine by J. W. Adams____________ 60 Ann mica mine by T. A. Steven_________________
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Book
what was probably one of the earliest hard-rock mining operations in the world. A necklase with a turquois...rather convoluted account of the prospecting and mining of this mineral (Pliny, 38:33): "It [cal/aina,...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded
Book (volume)
(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... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountains,New Mexico; (8) Gold Hill district, New Mexico; (9) Quartzite district, Arizona; (10) Cottonwood area...scatteredareasin the United States (Fig. 1): the Lemhi Pass district in Montana and Idaho; the Diamond Creek and Hall...in eastern and northern Idaho; the Powderhorn district and Wet Mountains in southern Colorado; the Mountain...Pass area in southern California; the Wausau district in Wisconsin; the Laughlin Peak, Capitan Mountains...over a large area. The veins in the Lemhi Pass district, Idaho, occur in an area of at least 160 square
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...to thank the various photographers, particularly Dan Behnke, for contributing their work to this volume
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AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY...GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC ELMO CREEK DRAINAGE AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER...VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION...REGION DRY VALLEY DISTRICT COTTONWOOD AND BUTLER WASH AREAS MONTEZUMA CANYON DISTRICT SEVEN-MILE CANYON...PLATES Paradox Basin Uranium Districts Uranium Mining Areas Within Districts Paradox Basin Domes and
Report (volume)
periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll in the 1950 IS. Since I ts meager start...Tallahassee Creek distrIct in Fremont County. Uranium, recoverable by solution mining of Upper Cretaceous...evaluated In Weld County. VBlntype uran I urn occurrence 5 are typ I fled in Je f farson County by the Schwartzwal...Schwartzwal der Mi ne, the largest uranium mine In Colorado. Part 2 contains in the bibliography of approximately...occurrences In the state, with cross-Indexes by county, host rock, and the special categoriesof "Front
Journal (issue)
call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud­ dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road...superb minerals have been coming out of the Jeffrey mine at Asbestos, Quebec. The grossulars, prehnites,
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...to thank the various photographers, particularly Dan Behnke, for contributing their work to this volume...Arnold Hampson Anonymous photographer David Baker Dan Behnke Eric Offermann Jack Lowell Les Horvath Michael
Book (volume)
Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
 
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