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Specularite from
Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Hematite var: Specularite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Specularite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:184834
Long-form Identifier:1:3:184834:2
GUID (UUID V4):6dbb4e4b-9936-46ff-be12-a131ff3a93d8
Nearest other occurrences of Specularite
5.4km (3.4 miles) Starvation Canyon, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA
40.7km (25.3 miles) Unknown Prospect, Desert Mountain, Desert Mountain Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
55.4km (34.4 miles) Utah Prospect (White Rat Prospect; Sheeprock Fluorite Claims), Columbia-East Erickson Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
57.9km (36.0 miles) Hilltop Mine (Silver Hill Top 1-5 claims), Columbia-East Erickson Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
59.1km (36.7 miles) Godiva Occurrence, Columbia-East Erickson Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
61.1km (38.0 miles) Iron King Mine, West Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
61.2km (38.0 miles) Tintic Western Mine, West Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
61.4km (38.2 miles) War Eagle claims, West Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
65.7km (40.8 miles) Goshute Canyon Property (Lower Goshute Canyon Properties), Willow Springs Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
66.8km (41.5 miles) Bueno Mine, Willow Springs Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most...State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings.... . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
Geology of the Beryllium Deposits in the Thomas Range Juab County, Utah By MORTIMER H. STAATZ CO~~TRIBUTIONS...STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Thomas B. Nolan, Director For sale by the Superintendent...Geologic map of the southwestern part of the Spor Mountain area ______________________________________________...______ In pocket FIGURE 1. Index map of the Thomas Range__________________________ 2. Distribution...Distribution of mineral deposits in the Spor Mountain area___ 3. Outcrops of volcanic rocks of the older group. A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PSEUDOBROOKITE FROM THE TIN-BEARING RHYOLITE OF THE BLACK RANGE, NEW MEXICOX Cenl Fnrns, Jn., War,nBuanT. Scuar...the Black Range in southwestern New Mexico. It occurs as small cubes implanted with specularite and cassiterite...and in cavities and lithophysae with topaz, quartz, specularite, and opal. Two new forms, zl[554] and...and a neu. analysis of material from the Black Range substantiates the formula (Mn"', Fe"')zOr. This...minerals in the tin-bearing rhyolite of the Black Range to vapors escaping from the cooling flows. INrnorucrroN
Report (volume)
Fluorspar Deposits of Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1005 Fluorspar Deposits of Utah By W. R. THURSTON...in cooperation with the State of Utah through the University of Utah. This report concerns work done partly...________ ___________ History of fluorspar mining in Utah __ --__-_________--_____--___ Classification of..._____ Deposits in Indian Peak Range and Monarch claims, Beaver County, by W. R. Thurston. __ ____ _______...prospect _ ________________________________________ Utah mine____--____________-______________-__________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ArizonaState University,Tempe,Arizona85287 Abstract Topaz rhyolitesare fluorine-richalkaline siliciclavasand...shallowintrusivesthat are characterizedby the presenceof topaz(A12SiO4F2) in gascavities,commonlyassociated with...with MnFe garnet, bixbyite, pseudobrookite, specularite,quartz, and other minerals.In the western United...ColoradoPlateau (in Colorado,New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada) and in Idaho and Montana. They alsooccur...volcanogenic depositsof Be, U, Sn,and F. SporMountain,Utah, providesthe bestexample of this type of mineralization
Report (issue)
Mineral Deposits of the Thomas and Dugway Ranges Juab and Tooele Counties Utah By MORTIMER H. STAATZ and...STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Thomas B. Nolan, Director The U .8. Geological Survey...Cambrian age_~-----------------------Prospect Mountain quart2ite (Lower Cambrian)_ Cabin shale (Lower...Woodman formation (Upper Mississippian)____ Ochre Mountain limestone (Upper Mississippian)--------------...________________ ._______ --·-..; __ ... _·. 102 Topaz __________________ .;. _____ _: __ _:·_._: .102
Book (volume)
rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination of these pegmatites...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides
Report (issue)
INTERIOR FRED A. SEATON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Thomas B. Nolan, Director The TJ. S. Geological Survey..._________________ ___. Nevada ___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____...Good Hope barite mine, Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten depositNorth...County__-__--__----__-.___-_-__ Barite deposits, Battle Mountain area.. California-Nevada Barite Co. 63 64 64...naine________________ Mine near Green Talc mine. _____ Nye County ____ _._-___-________-___ Gabbs area __ _____________________
Report (volume)
............................................... Utah...................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Report (volume)
H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville. Washington....... Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 1996ElsevierScienceLtd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/96 $15.00 + .00 Pergamon...NY 10024-5192, USA 2Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA 'Institute of...metals in magmatic-hydrothermal fluids. Tin and topaz rhyolites are chemically-evolved, high-silica rhyolites...genetically associated with low-grade cassiterite and topaz mineralization. These complexes, Cerro el Lobo (herein...include various silica minerals, sanidine, and specularite. Silicification and oxidation have influenced
Journal (issue)
Mark C. Blazek and Richard N. Molsbee 14 UTAH IS TOPAZ COUNTRY Discover these gems on the way to the...State street In downtown Carlsbad, Calif. (Outside USA send $2.00 for catalOC) GEMS & MINERALS - 7 KEIJIJY...Springs near the tiny village of Magdalena, Socorro County. No notable production resulted, but this discovery...also send you a free price list-covering our full range o f opal values. * ** *** Coming to Australia...- 13 Come to the National Show e e e UTAH IS TOPAZ COUNTRY By Joe Bybee Director of Publicity
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Catalog/List
association. 2-txltxlt". l:1l.oo. PSEUDOBROOKITE. Topaz Mountain, Utah, U.S.A. Bright, blackish, elongated sharp...colouration due to inclusions of Hematite. The crystals range in size up to It'' and completely encrust a botryoidal...Hematite, with odd small plates of blackish Specularite scattered in places on the Quartz crystals. Fine
Report (issue)
upper part of the Hanson Creek Formation in Eureka County, Mullens and F. G. Poole . . . . . . . . . . ....distribution in a granite stock near Bull Canyon, Lemhi County, Idaho, by M. H. Staatz, C. M. Bunker, and C. A...mineral potential of Thomas, Keg, and Desert calderas, central Juab County, Utah, by D. R. Shawe 43 51...reconstituted rocks of Mule Ear diatreme, San Juan County, Utah, by R. A. Cadigan and D. E. Stuart-Alexander...nitrate in ground water and streams, southern Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., by N. M. Perlmutter and Ellis
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES.... . . . . . . . . . . . Correlation with Uinta Range ......................... _......... _............81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S. F. Emmons; the Park City district, by...reconnaissance of the other districts in southern Utah, and eventually of the districts farther north,
Journal (issue)
including the Midwest and matrix that is called specularite. Alabama – specifically have vast Hematite can...arrange many metal deposits have. Granted, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah. themselves in a radiating pattern that...limestone quarry collecting sites. Within the Mesabi range of Minnesota, we find fascinating hematite in long...specimens have come from the mines of the Mesabi Range. But superb fluorite, calcite, pyrite, celestine...brilliant, bright black rosettes of hematite. They range in size from under an inch to several inches across
Book (volume)
Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...facet-grade, found in the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah are to be mined by conventional open-pit methods
Report (issue)
enews: Wieyei aia wave tie"weue'e shetout 266 Bagte Mountain secccccsetee ves eeoee ee eevee ecs ee 268 Engels...no OIL ORO OIG ZoZ 292 Boulder County Tellurides .... 294 Boulder County Tungsten ...... eeoeeesee 296...orele Sele e@eeeeeeoe 323 COLORADO PLATEAU (COLORADO-UTAH-NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA) ... 323 A. Rifle area, Colorado...Shiprock District, Utah—Arizona ....vccccsnens F. Monticello-Moab-Thompsons District, Utah .....secvceee 326...White Canyon-Elk Ridge, Utah .....cccseeccceee 332 J. Monument Valley, Utah .... 333 K. Black Mesa-Hopi
Book (volume)
Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25 .30 et), Ra1nona, Caufornia; brownish yellow...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...of facet-grade, found in the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah are to be mined by conventional open-pit methods...market and fetch prices comparable to similar size-range emeralds. The United States continues to supply...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
Catalog/List
in radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...A basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline...crystal vugs ALTAITE Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...PRINCIPAL GEMSTONES Diamond, Corundum, Beryl, Topaz, Opal. II 68 IMPORT ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar...Beryl-bearing pegmatite, Baja California 19. Sequist Ranch topaz area, Texas 20. Little Three mine, Ramona, California...pocket in pegmatite, Baja California 22. Drawing of topaz crystal forms 23. Views of opal mines, Spencer,...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and
Journal (issue)
Superior Oil Co. contends is the deepest Caddo county, Okla. (See Rocks and ""ell in the world is sti...and Minerals is indebted to Vic• coy in Ventu ra county, Calif. was 17,926 tor H . Larson. of Petaluma...for spec:mens ; W-Wiring. 118 nish sufficient range for most color photography. The size of the shado...dealing wth geology in the Dugway region in north-west Utah. 1 am well acquainted with this region and Mr. Ives...support you, too. Junius J . Hayes, Salt Lake City, Utah. D ec. 9 , 194 8. 124 ROCKS AND MINE ROCK-HUNITING
Book (volume)
Graton-Sales Volume Other Volumes in the Rocky Mountain Fund Series CONFERENCE ON REVERBERATORY SMELTING...editor FIRST EDITION Sponsored by The Rocky Mountain Fund Volume I! Published by : : The American...Springs District, Southwestern Utah J. HooveER MACKIN 50. The Marysvale, Utah, Uranium Deposits PAUL sl:...Tintic Mining District, Utah Hav T. Morris 2: Mountain City Copper Mine, Elko County, Nevada RoBERT R....Structures in the Ontario Mine, Park City District, Utah W. J. GARMOE 54. The Geology of the Ore Deposits
 
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