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Fluorite from
Mercur Mine, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mercur Mine, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:194633
Long-form Identifier:1:3:194633:8
GUID (UUID V4):01547714-c980-46bc-bbfb-cd6d89e6e3ad
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
5.5km (3.4 miles) Buffalo Mine, Lion Hill, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Eastside Mine, Lion Hill, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Monarch Mine, Lion Hill, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Ophir Hill Consolidated Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
7.3km (4.6 miles) Ophir Coalition Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Cliff Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) Hidden Treasure Mine, Jacob City, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Queen of the Hills Mine (Mahogany; Flavilla), Jacob city, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) Honerine Mine (Bauer; Bullion Coalition; Great Basin; Tip Top Mine), Stockton Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
23.5km (14.6 miles) Bingham Canyon Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material; indeed...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades
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.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Utah by George Wong Open-File Report 83-722 This...Refereaces cited Appendix A - 2 7 Table Table 1. District descriptions Preliminary map of the resource...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Utah By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Range Province. These areas include past or present mining and prospecting activity as well as areas of potential...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent
Report (issue)
THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Tooele I°x2° Quadrangle, Northwest Utah A CUSMAP Preassessment Study by...Mel H. Podwysocki2 Prepared in cooperation with Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Open-File Report......................... CURRENT STATUS OF MAJOR MINING DISTRICTS......................... 28 28 37 39................................................. Mercur......................................................................................... Recent Mining Activity References...........................
Book (edition)
TN 2.4-' Bixby j| atalogue of Utah minerals and localities THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...for Collectors MAYNARD BIXBY A CATALOGUE OF UTAH MINERALS AND LOCALITIES With Descriptive List,...Collectors. -byMAYNARD Salt Lake BIXBY. City, Utah. 1904. Copyright, 1902, by MAYNARD (Third ...CHEMISTS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. WRITE FOR PRICES. YOU WANT A GOOD MINE! MANY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN...MAYNARD BIXBY. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MINERAL LOCALITIES. BEAVER COUNTY. (Vy Beaver City, near; hyalite
Report (issue)
5.3912(7) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mercur district, Utah, USA. 5.44 (100), 1.910 (80), 3.12 (50), 2...45%; corresponds to Cu3.06 V0.97 S4.00 . (2) Mercur, Utah, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds to Cu3...sphalerite, fluorite (Pay-Khoy, Russia). Distribution: From the Edelweiss mine, Burra district, South Australia...In the USA, in the Thorpe Hills, and near Mercur, Tooele Co., Utah; in the Redhouse Barite mine, near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Florida] at 23:45 31 December 2014 Realgar Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Hunan Province, China T here has been...rocks and has been identified as a product of coal-mine fires. Commonly associated minerals include orpiment...mines at Paris, Oxford County, Maine, and the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton County, New Hampshire. It occurred...jordanite in zinc ores mined at Balmat, Edwards County, New York (Jensen 1978). It was a rare mineral...mineral in zinc ores at Sterling Hill, Sussex County (Palache 1941) and was an unusual mineral occurring in
Report (issue)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ......
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES...81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. reports are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham... began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S...S. F. Emmons; the Park City district, by J. M. FIELD .WORK AND AUTHORSHIP. summer of 1908 by making
Journal (issue)
to preserve and promote the unique geologic and mining heritage of Wisconsin while underscoring the importance...brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Netherlands 245 [3] GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE MERCUR GOLD DEPOSIT (UTAH, U.S.A.) PAUL W. JEWELL* and W.T. PARRY...Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (U.S.A.) (Received April...Geochemistry of the Mercur gold deposit (Utah, U.S.A. ). Chem. Geol., 69: 245265. The Mercur gold deposits...deposits of west-central Utah are disseminated "Carlin-type" deposits which are hosted by the upper portion of...the Topliff Member. Hydrothermal alteration at Mercur can be separated into replacement and vein alteration
Journal (issue)
Occurrence of irhtemite and adelite at the Mercur Mine, Tooele Co., Utah; the western hemisph ere's first occurrence...lorandlle recovered from the Mercur Mrne (a Carlin-type gold deposit), Tooele Co., Utah, a white, s ilky, fibrous...associated with adelite and picropharmacolite at Mercur. A ll occur as white fibrous masses associated...cm quartz matrix whether it is an from Navegador Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas industrial product? Gerais...Teasing this year was vivianite from the Cigana Mine (very near Mineral News December 2003 the de
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlin trend and for the Barneys Canyon deposit in Utah. Complete resetting of sericite by hydrothermal...some of these deposits, such as at Getchell and Mercur, have been 235 236 AREHART ET AL. 120° 42°...major prospects are shown by circles. Deposit or district locations mentioned in the text are as follows:...Canyon, Bingham, Melco, and Mercur deposits in Utah, about 200 km east of the Utah-Nevada border); C = Cortez;...kaolinite/sericite As sulfides, galk barite stibnite, fluorite calcite Fe oxides alunite jarosite As, Sb oxides
Book (edition)
Locations - · -- v. � y Bessie W. Simpson UTAH GEM TRAILS A Field Guide for Collectors By Bessie..... . . ... ....... . .... Minerals - Ophir and Mercur . .. . ..... .. .12-13 Palm Wood and Agate - Nephi........................ 18-19 Mineral - Diamond District . ............... ......... ....... .. 20-21 Red...going to collect by obtaining ma­ terial from the Utah Travel Council, Salt Lake City, or from the National...also give you the Jaws regarding antiquities in Utah. The Antiquity Law covers ruins, pictographs, hieroglyphs
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 2. Utah By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...detailed study of the supergene zinc deposits of Utah UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache...district____ __ ____________ _________ __ __ ____ ______ Tooele County________________________________________________..._ ____________________ __ __ _______________ _ Mercur or Camp Floyd district_ ____ ____ _____ __ __ __
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof dolomiticzinc-leadtype in the Weston Pass district, Colorado, interpretedas formed at low temperaturesbut...: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bonanza Mining District, U.S. Geol. Survey, Prof. Paper x69, p. 86... C. H. Jr.: Zoning of Ore Deposits, Leadville District, Colorado. Ecoa;. Gzo•.., vol. 29, pp. 239-240...S. D. Complex sulphide-quartz veins, Bonanza District, 2000-300 ø C. 4- M oderate Great Colorado...(i) Pyrometasomatic mineral associations: Tintic, Utah;xa Enstatite, spinel, garnet (andradite), ß magnetite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by jasperoid and drusy quartz, and local late fluorite, orpiment, and galkhaite. The consistent spatial...2,400 ppm gold. Near the end of the ore stage, fluorite, orpiment, and galkhaite precipitated locally...to euhedral crystal faces of ore-stage quartz, fluorite, and galkhaite. Calcite filled most remaining...conforms to euhedral crystal faces of quartz, fluorite, and realgar. Significant textural observations...determined for fluorite and galkhaite at Getchell and adularia at the nearby Twin Creeks mine, respectively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meet., IMA, 1986. 102. Mira Flores mine, H u a n u n i district, Oruro, Bolivia. FeA16(PO4)a(OH)8.4H20...subhedral crystals to 1 mm in a quartz vein from Ankang County, Shaanxi Province, China. Ideal formula Ba(Ti,V...pleochroism; reflectance data are given. Named for the County in which the type locality is situated. Antimonselite...accordingly. Gen~ve, 47, 45. From the Cap Garonne mine, Arsenoflorencite-(Nd). B. Scharm, M. Scharmov~t...phosgenite in a vein at Bounds Aufschluss, 44, 250. Clara mine, Schwarzwald, Cliff, St. Endellion, Cornwall, England
Journal (issue)
Wisniewski of Wendell, Idaho, Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada...great grandchildren. His interest in mineral and mining was something that he liked to share with schools...occurrences. California Mines Aga Mine. Baker, San Bernardino County In January of 2004 the rare CulPb...with angle site, pyromorphite, and gold at this mine. Subsequently besides vanadinite, mottramite, and...recognized in the SEM. Bagdad-Chase Mine, Ludlow, San Bernardino County In January of 2003 exceptionally
Journal (issue)
ENGLISH MINERALS BARITE CRYSTA LS SILVERBAND MINE, KN OC H , WESTMORELAND, ENGLAND Lorge s harp perfectly...contact gon i omet er. They occur In a s ilver-lead mine w h e r e they o r e found loos ely a t tached to...TE C RYSTA LS Barium Carbonate SET TLINGSTONES MINE, FOURSTONES, N ORTH UMBLERLAND, ENGLAND A fine...barium, calcium a l u minum silicate WHI TESMITH MINE, STRONTIAN, SCOTLAND Type locality. Sharp w h ite...potassium barium a l u m i n u m silicate BELLESGROVE MINE, STRONTIAN, SCOTLAND Lorge lustrous w h i t e twin
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson, J....Logan Littleton, CO 80122 303-794-7803 Colorado-Utah Minerals Keith & Brenda Williams P .O . Box 1599...Roman, C/z£vei/i deposits of jf v l t h e Ems district in West Germany have yielded over 50 mineral species...The ore-carrying system which comprises the Ems district is known as the Ems-Braubach belt. It consists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
office. Except for a house a few hundred visit a mine (even if it means driving on yards back on the other...it is a sad story. It seems to Mrs. Blanchard's mine, but we found that any place which is accessible...Nevada. Behind the Contin66. Excellent Illinois fluorite and other ental Motel at the junction of Routes...at a gasoline station There are still many huge mine dumps 258 ROCKS AND MINERALS Downloaded by [University...copper mine, 5 miles west of Ely. Visitors may look at the huge crater of this open pit mine at any time
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Connecticut] at 04:22 12 October 2014 Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada he general association of arsenic...United States. such ;IS Nev;ida’s wellknown Getchell mine, have produced good arsenic sullide specimens for...gold mine in Huinholdt Coonty, Nevada. Fortunately for collectors and curators everywhere, the mine management...into an agrcenient with ;I commercial specimen-mining company. Collector’s Edge Minerals, Inc., to recover...fumaroles. It has also been identified as a product of mine fires. Commonly associated minerals include stibnite
Report (volume)
Director and State Geologist Utah Geological Survey Salt Lake City, Utah William C. Bagby, Chief Branch...U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office Salt Lake City, Utah Peter Behrens, President Great...Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemicals Corp. Ogden, Utah Earl H. Bennett, Associate Director and State Geologist...Interstate Bank of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Charles W. Berry, Professor Department of Mining Engineering University...University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Richard C. Bradt, Dean Mackay School of Mines University of Nevada
 
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