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Pyrite from
Star Peak mine, Imlay Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Star Peak mine, Imlay Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1365984
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1365984:2
GUID (UUID V4):b5dd7f0f-1464-409c-ab07-7b8b55aaa9c9
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Book
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
Report (issue)
Stratigraphy of the Star Peak Group (Triassic) and Overlying Lower Mesozoic Rocks Humboldt Range, Nevada GEOLOGICAL... Stratigraphy of the Star Peak Group (Triassic) and Overlying Lower Mesozoic Rocks Humboldt Range, Nevada By N. J...Terminology___________________________________ Star Peak Group___________________________________ Prida...21 24 Paleogeographic interpretation of the Star Peak Group_______________________________________ ...the base of the Star Peak Grouv----------------------------------- 25 Page Star Peak Group-Continued
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 (volume)
'r v.·,,.,. . ... Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...------------------------ 1 History of placer mining in Nevada_____________________________________... Holy Cross district..-----------------------------------------------2. Jessup district.. ____________...------------------------_-------_ 3. Sand Springs district----------------------------------------------...Eldorado Canyon district..-----------------------------------------5. Gold Butte district--------------
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)
Mineralizationin the RochesterDistrict, PershingCounty, Nevada PETER g. VIKRE Incorporated,Southwestern ExplorationDivision...y altered ona regionalscaleto quartz-sericite-pyrite asa resultof boththeemplacement of comagmatic ...about 25 miles northeastof Lovelock,Nevada (Fig. 1). Within the district preciousmetals valued at $7 concernedwith...Wallace,1969).Currentemphasis ploration and surface mining of precious metal deand 0.10 ouncesof gold per...1986; posits prompted this study of the Rochester district. Couch and Carpenter, 1948; Johnson,1977). The
Report (volume)
DIRECTOE 4:14: NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEYADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME.............................. General history of mining development..................................................................... Seven Troughs district.................................................Outlook for the district................................................. Rosebud district................................................... Red Butte district..............................................
Report (issue)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...Rock National Conservation Area), and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been...Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource...of mineral deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ROCHESTER DISTRICT, NEVADA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...___________ __________________.______. Situation of the district ________________________ Physical features _______________-...________________ Geologic investigations of the district-^_________________ Bibliography______________...______________________ Geology of the Star Peak Range______________________ Part II. General geology... IV CONTENTS Part II. General geology of the district Continued. Page Geologic structure ___ ____ _______________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brecciationchaoticallydisruptedthe golddeposit. Gold,fluorite,pyrite,silver,calcite,andfine-grained silicaarethe principalhydrothermal...the Humboldt Range and 25 km east of Lovelock, Nevada (Fig. 1), is a variant on the theme of "sedi- the...grade(averageof 0.03 oz Au/ton),but the occurrence Mining, Inc., purchasedthe propertyin 1982 andbeganopen-pitminingin...spar prospect,where irregular pods and veins of mine andthe goldreleasedby cyanideheapleaching fluorspar...high-puritylimeBasedon detailedbenchmappingin the mine and stone and one diamond core was drilled to evaluate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION AT OREANA, NEVADA. PAUL F. KERR. ABSTRACT. The Oreana tungsten deposit...INTERPRETATION of the ore forming processesat Oreana, Nevada, involvesa number of problemsthat differ somewhat...39o TUNGSTEN MINER,'lLIZ,'1TION AT ORE,'iN,'t, NEVADA. 39x dikesandthetwotypesof orebo.dies differbothin...D TOP eOREANA j NIGHTINGALE •)ß "• • • i NEVADA TUN•TEN Cl• TUN•RE ßeATOL,• • •OmA.A • CONTACT... deposits,the intrusivehistory of the Orearia district is somewhat involved. Six different in- trusivesoccur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALIZATION OF THE NORTHEASTERN HUMBOLDT RANGE, NEVADA BY EUGENE N . CAMEKON CONTENTS Abstract..................................................... Star Peak formation...................................................................... Structure of Star Peak Range............................................................ Supergene minerals of Arizona mine...................................................628 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure Page 1. Index map of Nevada...............................................
Report (issue)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties. Table 2 lists...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California:...shown is the location of the Champion dumortierite mine 23 Figure 5. Location of known mines, prospects...been produced for many years in the Winnemucca District, and to a lesser extent in the Surprise Resource...change or population increases in northwestern Nevada and adjacent California. Development of new mines...construction and for metallurgical use by the gold-mining industry. INTRODUCTION The U.S. Geological Survey
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
103, pp. 759–782 Geology of the Cove Mine, Lander County, Nevada, and a Genetic Model for the McCoy-Cove...Inc., 240 South Rock Boulevard, Suite 117, Reno, Nevada 89502 TOMMY B. THOMPSON, Ralph J. Roberts Center...Research in Economic Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID L. EMMONS, Round Mountain Gold...Mountain, Nevada 89045 AND KEITH JONES Small Mine Development, P.O. Box 251, Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820...Fish Creek Mountains, Lander County, Nevada. Through the end of mining in 2001, large-scale open-pit
Report (issue)
THE ROCHESTER MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA. By FRANK C. SCHRADER. INTRODUCTION. This report is based on a...a two weeks' visit made to the Rochester district and vicinity by the writer in May, 1913. A brief preliminary...given by mining companies, prospectors, engineers, and surveyors operating in the district has been of:... The Rochester district, comprising about 25 square miles, is in west-central Nevada, in the southern...southern part of Humboldt County. It is 9 miles southeast of Nixon, formerly Oreana, on the main line of the
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in...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
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in...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
Book (volume)
nodules, fossils, Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townď‚ľagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityď‚ľagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BUL.LETIN - - VOL.XXII - - - -- MARCH 15,1928 No. 2 A BULLETIN ON THE MINERAL...THE UNIIrERSITY OF S RENO, NEVADA Entered in the post office at Reno, Nevada, as second-class matter under...D JOHN A. FULTOR, E.M .............rrofessor of Mining Engineering and Director of the Mackay School of...COLJ('H ............................Instructor in Mine Accounting nlltl Secretary JAY FOREWORD 6 T H E...DUMORTIERITE I N HUMBOLDT QIJEERCANYOX, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA, .I G. Jones .........................
Thesis/Dissertation
University of Nevada Reno Metamorphism and Tungsten Mineralization ^ in the Nightingale Range Pershing County...County, Nevada A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of...1982 Mines Library __ University or Nevada • Reno Reno, Nevada 89557 MINES LIIRAST !h?_s/s The Thesis...H/Ul; Dean, Graduate School V_,- University of Nevada Reno May, 1982 nss 11 Table of Contents Abstract...Southern Portion of the Nightingale Range, Pershing Co., Nevada...... In Pocket Plate 2. Cross-sections
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...of the ore deposits 2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility...filling 3 42 CONTENTS. Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued...shoots Milling High Grade district, Modoc County, Cal Location History of mining Accessibilty Previous descriptions
Report (issue)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ......
 
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