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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...Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant...significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured |
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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 Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved |
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| diamonds” > 30 Arizona—Safford claims to PD p> 19 Nevada—US Steel buys claims > 40 Colorado—Standard hits...ARE ENDORSEMENTS... PH is the no.1 choice of the mining industries In recent years shovels 68% of all...P&H has earned such widespread acceptance in the mining industries because of lower per-ton loading cost... 4.5 to 9 yard the world have electric been mining PsH 2. Vastly superior service and parts availability... OF FICE: « Ltd., Montreal MINING WORLD GRAB SAMPLES MINING from the mail ee Congratulations |
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| PHYSICAL SCI. COUNTY REPORT 7 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Uk ... R&daubced. oj COUNTY IMPERIAL Gedifansua By Paul K. Morton Geologist COUNTY REPORT California...Sand Hills, as viewed toward the northwest from County Park. The prevailing wind direction, as indicated...PREFACE vi ABSTRACT vii INTRODUCTION Summary of County 1 Mineral Trends and Needs Principal Geographic...Quaternary lake beds Eastern and northeastern Imperial County Sedimentary breccia 1 1 1 1 1 19 19 19 1 Andesite |
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| 1. Early Explorers 9 2. Early Mines 11 3. Iron Mining 15 4. Cranberry Forge 19 5. Gem Mecca 23 6. Gold...& Emerald 33 9. Mica Mining 37 10. Feldspar 55 11. Corundum 61 12. Copper Mining 69 13. Graphite, Chromite...Unakite 91 17. Other Minerals 95 18. Scrap Mica Mining 101 19. Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western...Kingdom 121 22. Mineral Rights 127 23. Pioneer Mining Families 24. Amos Presnell 25. Lonnie Lee Presnell...Miners 35. Bassey Bennett 36. Feldspar Miners 37. Mining Corporations 38. Sacrifice & Changes 39. Old Mines |
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| rocks with perfect leaf and shell impressions, and quartz crystals of unusual beauty. While his comrades...state. Jolting his way through every Alabama county in a mule-drawn wagon he came to know the state and...for blacksmith services (twenty cents to shoe one mule foot and thirty-five cents for mending the wagon’s...visited the Cahaba River below Pratt’s Ferry, Bibb County, in 1877. He made this photograph on August 12...Gibbons had fertilized his flourishing crops with pine straw, a system advocated by Dr. Hilgard of Oxford |
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| International Four-States Highway convention at Las Vegas, Nevada. 12-15 First of two 1940 buffalo hunts in Houserock...CONTRIBUTORS NEWS LANDMARK CONTEST HOBBY PLACE NAMES MINING BOOKS WEATHER COMMENT LETTERS JANUARY. 1940 Number...Fred C. Smith of El Centra was general contractor. Nevada-California corporation designed the electrical...Address all entries to: 4—Prints must be in black and white, 2y4xiY4 or larger, and must be on glossy paper...pestilence visited them as in the days before the white priests, and as the padres' stores of supplies became |
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| than they should have. They knew the decaying mining camps of Magnolia, Wall Vv GREAT SuRVEYS of the...miners—proud characters who preferred sifting old mine dumps to going on Relief in those dismal days of...rising sun an enormous, nearly perfect cross of white snow? Then there was the question of mineral wealth...AMERICAN WEST road builders, timber barons, and mining engineers, could take over. The West would be populated...or as Clarence King has given us upon the Sierra Nevada.”® In spite of the recognized need for a chronicle |
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| made out of beargrass and ponderosa pine needles. Carvings in pine bark, some of them so beautiful they...ged and Four-Legged Playmates-The Indispensable Mule-VacationjourneyingsRacial Characteristics-Accidents-Fighting...and from one to three feet deep. Fine forests of pine, oak, cedar, and maple surround it, and make it...is light brown, sometimes almost grey, or even white. The ancient builders simply had to mix it with...to eight rooms on the ground floor. The entire district is richly srudded with mounds. On an excursion |
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| of one part of oil of lavender and ten parts of white petroleum. This slowly dissolved away the asphaltum...the first to use a glass plate. He coated it with white of egg containing potassium iodide. The plate was...image was treated chemically to convert it into a white compound, and the final result was placed in a frame...contact with a black backing. Thus, the white image would stand out clearly against the black background...whitened photographic image is carried on a sheet of black-enameled iron. The hinged, leatherette-covered cases |
