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Goethite from
Copper Stope, Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Stope
Classification
Species:Goethite
Formula:Îą-Fe3+O(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Brochantiteⓘ3 photos of Goethite associated with Brochantite at this locality.
Mixiteⓘ2 photos of Goethite associated with Mixite at this locality.
Malachiteⓘ2 photos of Goethite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ1 photo of Goethite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Goethite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper Stope, Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1437952
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1437952:7
GUID (UUID V4):8d4cdb68-db32-4f61-8c5b-7f786ddddf41
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
O Fluorwavellite Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group: 2/m 2/m 2/m. Prismatic crystals display {010}...9946(3) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Silver Coin mine or Wood mine, USA (unspecified). 8.53 (100), 3.223...26.11 1.93 100.00 (1) Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA; average of 9 electron microprobe...)2 (OH)1.98 F1.02 ¡5H2 O. (2) Wood mine, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA; average of 9 electron microprobe...secondary mineral. Association: Barite, fluorowardite, goethite, gypsum, kidwellite, quartz, rockbridgeite, chlorargyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County, Nevada, and the Wood mine, 5 miles...miles NE of Del Rio, Cocke County, Tennessee; at both occurrences it is a low-temperature secondary mineral...H) for the Silver Coin mine and Al2.98(PO4)2(OH)2.11F0.89¡5H2O (+0.06 H) for the Wood mine. Fluorwavellite...Pcmn, with the cell parameters determined on a Wood mine crystal: a = 9.6311(4), b = 17.3731(12), c = 6.9946(3)
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2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal copper deposits are dominated...dominated in their primary mineralogy by copper-bearing sulfide minerals such as chalcopyrite. When these deposits...2005), the sulfides become unstable and oxidize. Copper released from this reaction can form a plethora...“supergene” minerals, ranging from simple native copper and copper oxides to complex secondary minerals such...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent
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PHOSPHATE MINERAL PARAGENESIS AT THE SILVER COIN MINE, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA, P. M. Adams. 126 S. Helberta...2, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. The Silver Coin mine was a small silver producer where a diverse assemblage...minerals is given by Thomssen and Wise (2004). The mine has become known for crystalline turquoise and is...krĂĄsnoite, fluorowardite, and ferribushmakinite. At the mine, small Cretaceous igneous bodies intrude black cherts...specimen-producing areas are the phosphate, copper, arsenate, and silver stopes, named for their predominant
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identify many minerals in my collection. 4 A Point to Ponder Noel Kennon (Reprinted from the Australian...and finding new material, such as:  Current day mining operations – Blast it!  Litigation-minded people...material recently discovered at the Blue Lizard Mine in southeastern Utah has produced a whole set of...the Silver Coin Mine. IMA No. 2015-077 Fluorwavellite Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron...Iron Point district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA (40°55’44”N, 117° 19’26”W), and Wood mine, 5 miles NE of
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Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it to be the silver analogue of bindheimite...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
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
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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 CopyrightŠ 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
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Deposits of the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada By RALPH J. ROBERTS and D. C. ARNOLD...ARNOLD GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL Summary of base- SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE..._ _ Ordovician System __ ____________ -- _____ Valmy Formation ____________ -- ____ Transitional assemblage_
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The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper Minerals Daniel J...ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting community...variety of colorful and unique copper-arsenate and other secondary copper mineral specimens. With the recent...be observed in the minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from...photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907 by
Catalog/List
S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...is passed through a short piece of cork and the point cut to fit the crystal. The thorn is now adjusted...secondary minerals and concentrates ful oxidized copper minerals. Cat. No. 26 on the color$160.00 40
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on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ......................................operated their business, under the name of “ The Silver Pick,” for 40 years, and attended the Tucson Show...of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...presented here. As o f October, 1991, access to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several
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from the Greek words for both its major element (copper) and its typical morphology (leaflike). This attractive...location; the type material is in the Freiberg Mining Academy collection in Germany (Anthony et al. 2000)...Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining industry, is an avid collector of microminerals...compared to other copper arsenates that occur in the supergene weathering zones of copper-bearing ore deposits...now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine. It is, however
Catalog/List
Normandite. Native Elements, Two new Gold locations and Copper after Aragonite. Metallic minerals , Arsenopyrite...South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond..._ _ magnification there arc small cr stals _ __ County. _ AI1zona 60 AMAZO:-;ITE 2x3i nch£5 Madagascar...IxI£4 TiO --- - 37 ANC\'LITE Cc Ix1/, £2.50 Ix I£4 County. Rich pinkish fine grai ned mass in calc i te Dark
Report (issue)
Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy Cal and Kerith...cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection...978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie...1867. ·thsonian Smithsonite First Oxide Zone, Tsu Mine, Tsumeb, Nami 10cm tall Brent Lockhart coll Joe
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Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Backcover (above) Stock certificate for the Rowley Copper Mines Company (1914) Dick Morris collection (below)...Certificate (only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered
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Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur Mineral...lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit had been worked as...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing Co., Nevada. The Big Mike copper deposit...sulfide ore that was located in the mid 1960's. Copper staining of some surface rocks had been noted for
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......... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ..................................Alexander The Morenci and Metcalf mines, . Gila County, Arizona ........................................& W. E. Wilson Mineral collecting at the Magma mine, . . Superior, Arizona ..........................Presmyk & M. Hay Treasures of the Magma mine, Pinal County, Arizona ...............................
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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...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
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Gilbert Gautier; Eric Greene, Treasure Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes, Minerals America; Shelley and Dan...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...statistical "snapshot" of worldwide uranium mining activities and reserves, representing data that are believed...deposit. These methods include underground mining, open-pit mining, in situ leaching (ISL), heap leaching
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...............................McGlasson, Symposium Co-chair (The Collector s Stope, 9641 East Hickory Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85749;...Santa Cruz, California 95060 Namibite, a rare copper-bismuth vanadate, has been identified previously...because o f its resemblance to other dark green copper minerals, namibite has recently become more common
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING,...fault _ 88 56 011ie Reed pipe_ Iron-Mikado group_ 88 57 Josie pipe _ 89 Iron fault _ 58 Eureka pipe_ Mikado...Nine fault _94 61 Mike anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group...fold-fault _ Faults in the eastern part of the district 95 62 Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _..._ Leadville 62 the_ Fryer Hill folds _ 62 district _ 95 Warping and drag along normal faults, _ _ _ 96
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GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS ¡ OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND G. F. LOUGHLIN...Alteration products .......... . 63 Monzonite (Silver City stock) ... . 64 Distribution and structural....... . PART II. History of mining 'and¡ metallurgy in the Tintic district, by V. C.l!eikes ................. . Copper ore.: ....................... . Lead ore .......................... . Copper-lead ore...water: .. ~.~~ ............... . Drainage of the district ....-... ¡......... . Mineralization ........
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...accorded special varietal names all their own. Copper impurities, for example, can impart a blue or green...Tsumeb which owes its color to the presence of copper was called “herrerite” (named after the local Herero...indicative of its valence. In the case of copper impurities, if the copper was in the +1 state it would be “cuproan... which is +1 for copper and +2 for cobalt, the “-ian” suffix applying to +2 copper and +3 cobalt. Confusing
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CPGeo Published by THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton...Australia 3053 i © The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 2001 The Institute is not responsible...and Angie Spry for The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Printed by: New Generation 12 Barkly...Geology and Exploration Within the Mining Cycle at the Osborne Mine, NW Queensland F J Tullemans, P Agnew...157 Structural Block Modelling at BHP Iron Ore’s Mt Whaleback Mine T Johnson 169 Mineral Resource Estimation
 
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