 | | Report (issue) | | Mineral Deposits of Luna County, New Mexico by GEORGE B. GRISWOLD 1961 STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...L. Mechem....................... Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley ............................................ Albuquerque For sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station, Socorro |  | McLemore, Virginia T., Donahue, Kelly, Breese, Michael, Jackson, Meghan I., Arbuckle, Jeffrey, Jones, Glen (2001) Introduction to mineral-resource assessment of Luna County, New Mexico. Open-file Report 459. New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources doi:10.58799/ofr-459 | Report (issue) | | MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly Donahue, Michael...Report OF-459 New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology...Technology Socorro, New Mexico 87801 September 2001 Prepared for the New Mexico State Land Office 1 SUMMARY... SUMMARY Luna County, in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1) is not well known for its mineral potential...metals and nonmetals have been produced from the county from 1876 to 2000. Much of this production has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...the lead, zinc, and barite mines of Missouri’s several world-class mining districts could have been chosen...these metals, such as smithsonite, hemimorphite, cerussite, and anglesite. However, late in the nineteenth...morphology and color were recovered from a mine in the Joplin area. The best known of these specimens was...the Harborside open pit of Callahan Mining Company, Hancock County, Maine. Small, well-formed hemimorphite |  | | Book (edition) | | org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1 |  | | Report (volume) | | 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...Sanford. Upon Mr. Sanford's transfer to the Bureau of Mines the work was put into the hands of Frank L. Hess...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of sandstone, shale, bituminous...ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...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, regional |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of sandstone, shale, bituminous...ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...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, regional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...mill. So it has been at places such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, where linarite’s legacy is primarily...brochantite, caledonite, malachite, aurichalcite, cerussite, anglesite, leadhillite, hemimorphite, and chrysocolla...occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in |  | | Book | | decade, however, the need has been growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year index suffered... Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort. The current 25-year index is divided into...appears n Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration |  | | Book (volume) | | erosional debris spreading out from the Rocky Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution of...Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup River with the...jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R...townagate, 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Montague Claims, Teller Mountain, Montezuma District, Summit Co., Colorado Benjamin S. Murphy (ben@murphygeo...localities for pyromorphite in the Montezuma District, Summit County (Eckel et al., 1997): 1. “Pyromorphite...on the eastern side of Summit County, in the Montezuma Mining District (Figure 1). Access is via a series...sloping mountain. Mountain goats are common in the area (Figure 2, next page). The coordinates for the locality...lines denote 4x4 roads used to access the parking area for the locality (adapted from GPS tracks provided |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....outwash deposits. The Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district in the extreme southeast corner of the state has...to the mid-1970s were documented with the exact mine or in many cases even the correct subdistrict. In...Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. This area has been an active mining district from about the middle of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COOK Department of Geology Auburn Universit Cerussite Downloaded by [Australian National University]... One of these minerals is the lead carbonate cerussite. The artificial compound was described at least...to the Romans as cerussa. Natural cerussa or cerussite was mentioned in texts that date from the mid-sixteenth...in certain German deposits. Today, outstanding cerussite specimens are displayed in nearly all important...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice, a fine Tsumeb cerussite. Cerussite is a relatively easy mineral to recognize |  | | Book | | A Range Guide to MINES and MINERALS " How and Where A ,-A 1 to Find Valuable Ores and Minerals...”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by Jay Ellis Did you know that...stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...generally absent. He tells where major existing mines are United States— from gopher size the in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Locality Index 300 T ennessee covers an area of 41,220 square miles in the southeastern United...on the east by high ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. It is geologically diverse. Traveling east from...Plateau. Continuing east beyond the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau escarpment, the collector...(top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |  | | Book (volume) | | the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast corner...where Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at...in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily...Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain (about 30% of the state),...mineralized and dotted with once-rich abandoned mines. Dividing the stratigraphically complicated Piedmont |  | | Book | | ‘ | » tes MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ ...OC ARC RO2MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes...Marrianna B. Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing... Richard Walker. Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: |  | Palero, F. J., Both, R. A., Arribas, A., Boyce, A. J., Mangas, J., Martin-Izard, A. (2003) Geology and Metallogenic Evolution of the PolymetallicDeposits of the Alcudia Valley Mineral Field, Eastern Sierra Morena, Spain. Economic Geology, 98 (3) 577-605 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.3.577 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fractures and are widely distributed through the district in rocks ranging from Neoproterozoic to Late Ordovician...heat driving fluid migration through the fracture system. Fluid inclusion and oxygen isotope data are typical...0361-0128/01/3341/577-29 $6.00 times and was an important mining field in the last quarter of the 19th century and...and the early part of the 20th century. This district, along with the neighboring Linares and La Carolina...Pb-producing countries during that period. The district is characterized by 577 578 PALERO ET AL. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and it seems that, with the closing of several mines famous for their azurites in the last century, “cornerstones”...chrysocolla after azurite and of azurite after cuprite, cerussite, libethenite, pseudomalachite, and tetrahedrite-tennantiteare...as the gossans of copper sulfide occurrences in Hancock and Washington Figure IA. A fine 2.5-cm-high azurite...Hill, Carroll County, Maryland; French Creek and Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; the Pontiac mine, Halifax County...Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey; and the Clegg and Snipes mines, Chatham County, North Carolina. |  | | Journal (issue) | | located near towns with well-known mining histories: the mountains lie northwest of Anaconda, east of...several mining districts that are well known to mineral collectors, with the Philipsburg area with its...specimens that area produced in the past, and on occasion still provides. There are no major mining operations...operations in the mountains now, but there are many old mines and mine dumps to attract the mineral collector...the lower ridges and valleys are forested. The mining districts are typically accessible after May, but |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones... MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION Introduction Many new mineral species have been documented in Arizona since...Mineralogy of Arizona was published in 1995. This new edition adds to the extensive work of the previous...authors, who built the foundation on which this new effort rests. This edition is dedicated to these...others have been discredited for various reasons. The new analytical equipment available today has made it |  | | Journal (issue) | | (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...O; Elbaite-Jack Olivier collection, page 204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim &...localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have...illustrated the first time around, and some that are new acquisitions. Together the two Texas supplements...money. lnspired by promotional brochures touting "mountains füll of rich gold and silver ores, sulphurets |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com There |
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Hancock Mine, Cincinnati vein system, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA