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Quartz from
Landmark Mine, Landmark-Life Preserver group, Tolicha Peak, Tolicha Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Landmark Mine, Landmark-Life Preserver group, Tolicha Peak, Tolicha Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1587565
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1587565:7
GUID (UUID V4):30d5d3f0-b72c-4556-a39f-7059b8bce885
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.3km (0.2 miles) Prospect Pit (Sample Location #1909), Tolicha Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Life Preserver Mine, Landmark-Life Preserver group, Tolicha Peak, Tolicha Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
12.2km (7.6 miles) Clarkdale Mine (Clarkdale Camp; Clarksdale Camp), Clarkdale Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Yellow Gold Mine, Clarkdale Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Oasis Valley, Nye County, Nevada, USA
27.2km (16.9 miles) Golden Chariot group (Golden Chariot claims; Chariot claims), Jamestown Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
27.6km (17.2 miles) Franz Hammel Mine (Franz Hammel prospect; Hammel; Guy Puh property), Jamestown Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Gold Crater Mine, Gold Crater Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) NBMG Sample Sites 1216,1217,1218, Bullfrog Mining District, Bullfrog Hills, Nye County, Nevada, USA
31.9km (19.8 miles) Pioneer Mine, Bullfrog Mining District, Bullfrog Hills, Nye County, Nevada, USA
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Geologic Map of the Pahute Mesa 30* x 60* Quadrangle, Nevada By Scott A. Minor1, David A. Sawyer1, Ronald R...geologic synthesis of the southern Great Basin in Nevada. One of the central objectives of the program was...elements; it covers most of the Miocene southwest Nevada volcanic field (SWNVF), and includes partly overlapping...faulting. Including all major testing areas in the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and near the proposed Yucca Mountain...Mountain caldera complex region were reported in a landmark paper by Byers and others (1976b). An important
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Air Force Base Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nye County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared...Air Force Base Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nye County, Nevada By E. B. EKREN, R. E. ANDERSON, C. L. ROGERS...Ordovician_ _ ___________________________________ Pogonip Group.____________________________ Goodwin Limestone,...Devonian._____________________________________ Nevada Formation._________________________ Limestone and...Cactus Peak___-__--------------Rhyolite of Belted Peak and Ocher Ridge. Rhyolite and coarse porphyritic
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DIRECTOR GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA SYDNEY H. BALL WASHINGTON...______ . _________i________________ History of mining development..--_________ r ________ Economic c..._ ________ Northeastern extension of the Silver Peak Range._________ Topography and geography _________...quartzrnonzonite porphyry _______________ White quartz-monzonite porphyry_____________ Diorite porphyry_______________-_...dacite _._______________i__ Quartz latite and rhyolite.________________ Quartz basalt _.i_____________________
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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
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wu OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY— Joseph V: Tingley a RobertC.Horton _ Francis C. Lincoln 3 . ...Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was made — possible with the assistance...eh aa nearly 48 million acres of public land in Nevada. Most of the minerals, _ _ geothermal energy, and...ahij 4 = Wh A a ‘ a a y 4 Pte Es in Nevada comes from publicland. First edition, first printing...Leshendok, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Eric Moody, Nevada Historical Society é Jon Price, National Research
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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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Mesa and The Wall Wilderness Study Areas, Nye County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1731-B ...Mesa and The Wall Wilderness Study Areas, Nye County, Nevada By MICHAEL F. DIGGLES, J. THOMAS NASH, DAVID...MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: CENTRAL NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Mesa and The Wall Wilderness Study Areas, Nye County, Nevada U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1731-B Bibliography...mineral resources Nevada Palisade Mesa Wilderness. 2. Mines and mineral resources Nevada Wall Wilderness
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documented the rest in his own unique collection of mining lore, maps, and records. (continued on back flap)...Includes index. Gold mines and mining-The West. 2. Silver mines and mining-The West. I. Title. 1N413.A5J...waybill to a lost mine • Foreword Through6ut the great days of American mining, the price of gold...against today's greatly increased cost of operating a mine. The greater value of gold also has been an incentive...description of known mines, lost mines, and of promising mining districts and is not concerned with the weighty
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Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 Maynard Bixby - Part 1 Mining Expert, Mineral Dealer and Sharp Shooter Mark Ivan...mountain ranges of Utah. He was a Salt Lake City mining expert often contracted to evaluate mines, a mineral...Township, along the Susquehanna River, Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Bixby 1914). This farm was just...town of WilkesBarre, a center for anthracite coal mining. The 1870 Census shows both Maynard and Charles...Champa Street, where he worked as a mining expert, probably in mine appraisal and development. In 1890-91
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rocks and gems, beautiful sandstone formations, wild life, scenic canyons—these and many more. 9 Be sure to...and climbing appeal to you? Try climbing Monument Peak, the demon pinnacle that for centuries defied all...CALENDAR LOST MINE PERSONALITY PHOTOGRAPHY DISCOVERY BOTANY FIELD TRIP FICTION ART LANDMARK DIARY POETRY...NAMES CONTRIBUTORS HOBBY WEATHER LETTERS HOBBY NEWS MINING COMMENT BOOKS JANUARY, 1941 Number 3 DESERT...Devil's Protege By MARY BEAL 12 Specimens From a n old Mine Dump By JOHN W. HILTON 13 Hard Rock Shorty of Death
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years later. He had lived in Arizona 72 years of his life. The business that my grandfather started on the...deer in Nevada, tentatively set by State fish and game commission, subject to revision by county commissioners...commissioners. 1-Nov. 15 Imperial county dove season. 3-4 Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi (Patron Saint...Southwest District convention Kiwanis International, at Albuquerque; Frank Lawrence, Gallup, district governor...partridge) in Nevada, tentatively set by State fish and game commission, subject to revision by county commissioners
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buffalo hunt in Houserock canyon, northern Coconino county, Arizona. Permits to be issued for 14 buffalo this...RECREATION HOBBIES WRITERS FICTION MINING HOMES NEWS WEATHER PRIZES TRAVEL LANDMARK PLACE NAMES BOOKS COMMENT...which by means of their magic powers they brought to life. Immediately the bird asked the council: "What do...becoming a part of me. I feel more detached from life and somehow gentler. Except for passing flurries...frum the ni'est town. "Then a blast misfired in the mine one day And blowed my ole pard Bill away. I buried
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Pacific Gold-Copper Mine, Stedman District. The Photo of underground workings in the mine, in San Bernardino...Bernardino County, was taken in the early 1900s. Photo courtesy of California Department of Mine and Geology...Rosamond-Mohave Area This district is the closest to Los Angeles. Shown as the Mohave-Rosamond district by the State...Lancaster and Mohave. The hills are studded with old mine shafts and tunnels. Abandoned shacks and head-frames...if you’re trespassing on one of them. The first mining here was for fire clay and began in the 1870s.
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E. True, president, to search for Lost Dutchman mine. Chuckwagon dinner, western campfire program. 3...meeting, Needles, California. Rotarians from Arizona, Nevada, California. 22 Swiss Swing, Holtville, California... 21 By ARTHUR W O O D W A R D LETTERS LANDMARK PUZZLE MINING NEWS HOBBY HUMOR 22 C o m m e n t from...highest mountain in the deep snows of San Francisco peak serves as a fair example of what I have in mind...to the east of the big mountain suddenly came to life. Today prehistoric villages are found there covered
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2012 Figure I (left). Early postcard showing gold mining near Phoenix, Arizona. Arthur E. Smith collection...deposits, the state has produced far more “lost-mine’’ stories than spectacular mineral specimens. Wilson...stories, the most famous being the Lost Dutchman mine and the Lost Adam’s diggings. This gives the impression...chance of starving to death if he tackles placer mining in Arizona. If, however, a man in good health i...smaller than that in Colorado (40 million ounces) and Nevada (30 million ounces). Further, most of the gold
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AZURITES 16 Part I: Electric blues from the Milpillas mine. By Bob Jones 16 PREHISTORIC TEXAS Lubbock landmarks...others, at an auction. I was told it was taken from a mine in Alaska called Aurora Borealis in the ’60s. I...Gold Rush (circa 1849-52), attest to the extent of mining activity and richness of the North Fork of the...study titled The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California, originally printed in 1911 as a...“California” from the State menu, and “Placer” from the County list. Press Enter and click on the Stevens Trail
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only with which accompanied the decades of lost mine hunting and For the original party, other parts...be fleshed out only through the histories of lost mine hunters. Lost silver and gold proved a stronger...I have selected some of the more important lost mine legends of the Death Valley area, in the first serious...edition of Lost Mines of Death Valley, part of it in Nevada and California newspaper files spanning more than...confusions make the whole story of the Death Valley mine Breyfogle" whose identity a century before the
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Desert Magazine regarding the much disputed Pegleg mine. As I have been following up clues, stories, newspaper...This was John O. Smith. The other, Thomas, had a mine and seems have been given considerable publicity...story was true. Also, he told me much about the mine that Thomas Smith worked. This account had appeared...for. I never did try to locate the Thomas Smith mine. From the information I have gathered these many...Jackson Hill had discovered the Pegleg Smith gold mine in the Chuckawallas 14 miles southwest of Desert
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but plans to return to the desert and her Arizona mining claims as soon as the war is over and gold mines...of bees from such sources as rock crevices, old mining shafts and what-have you. My experience in the...Desert M a g a z i n e r e a d e r s . . . 25 LANDMARK Yellow Aster, b y EL WAIN S. CULBERT a n d L...g e NEWS Here a n d There on the Desert 29 MINING Briefs from the desert region 32 HOBBY G e...made Anaho island, in Lake PyraPyramid in western Nevada. Mary Pepo stated the triangular problem: mid,
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Sir: I enjoyed the story of the Lost Dutch Oven mine by Mr. Rexford Bellamy in the October issue of the...information as to the location of this lost mine. I am convinced that the mine now being worked by Clifford Gillespie...Dutch Oven Mine," said to have been found years ago by Tom Scofield. The fact that the mine is located...telling the story often deliberately placed the mine in a nearby range or mountain as they sometimes...and treasure hunter at heart. To discover a lost mine or dig up a buried treasure is the dream of Eternal
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that time when Fr. Garces was in charge of the district around Tucson, the mission was founded. For information...townsite. — R. H. Gila Monster . . . Las Vegas, Nevada Dear Sirs: In marking answers to your questions...have a philosophical outlook on life and that, because of his way of life Marshal South is well qualified...ride old Anza trail from Yuha well in Imperial county, California to Rivside. 15-18 Federation of Natural...16-18 Helldorado celebration and rodeo. Las Vegas, Nevada. E. W . Craig. rodeo chairman. 25-JUN. 9 Navajo
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throughout the winter on Mount Rose, out of Reno, Nevada. Winter Ski Carnival, Upper Hyde Park area, 12...1942 Number 3 Southern California's San Antonio peak (Mt. Baldy) from Baldy mesa. Photograph b y Loyd...Comment from Desert Magazine readers . . . 32 LANDMARK Old Arizona Prison By SARA E. BADGLEY and V. G.... 34 CONTEST Prize announcement for January 35 MINING Briefs from the desert region 36 NEWS Here and...the Colorado in 1858. In the background is Chimney peak—so named by Lieut. lves—but now generally called
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nearest neighbor is three miles away. Leading a simple life far away from a world gone mad, we consider ourselves...Southwestern subjects. GEORGE E. PERKINS of Overton, Nevada, who has supplied much authentic historical data...Indian, Mouse, has filed as a candidate for the Nevada state assembly subject to the will of the voters...mark of quality. Beware of inferior imitations. LIFE-ERIZE—Rust Inhibiting Base Coat. BAKED ENAMEL—Prime...Albuquerque; drive 15 miles to Acoma. 2-3 Duchesne county Stampede, Duchesne, Utah. 6-7 Peach Day at Brigham
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badlands of South Dakota. CHARLES KELLY. Reno, Nevada Dear Mr. Henderson: While on the desert collecting...Small Mine operators association at Tucson. C. M. d'Autremont, general chairman. Parade of mining progress...California Federation of Womens' clubs, southern district, to hold annual convention in El Centro, California...and DEC. 2-3 Annual Horse race meet at Las Vegas, Nevada. Tommy Thebo, chairman. NOVEMBER, 1939 m Volume...Colorado By ARTHUR WOODWARD 4 RECREATION To the Peak of White Mountain By ELIZABETH LEWIS 9 PERSONALITY
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TO SEE IF YOUR BATTERY NEEDS WATER MAY SAVE ITS LIFE ) THE DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT MAY 1 Annual fiesta...festival, Roosevelt, 1-2 Utah. Music festival, Elko, Nevada. 1-2 First annual Mojave Desert re3 union, Perris...19th St. Fishing season opens in White Pine Co., Nevada. Comins lake and Cave creek remain closed. Ceremonial...15 21-22 23-24 26 28-31 30 30-31 MAY, Five-county school track meet, Huntington, Utah. Sierra club...Las Vegas, Nevada. Imperial Highway association meets at Mount Palomar, San Diego county. Mt. San Jacinto
 
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