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Pyrite from
Lone Mountain mine, Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lone Mountain mine, Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:197022
Long-form Identifier:1:3:197022:7
GUID (UUID V4):617c12d3-0f75-4c48-a172-92fb9da86b49
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Baltimore mine, Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Hunter prospect (Silver Tip; Merrimac), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Rip Van Winkle Mine (Rip claims), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Lone Wolf Mine (Fern #4 Mine; Hunter Mine; Malachite Mine; Merrimac Mine; Silver Tip Mine; Lone Mountain Mine; Reincarnation Mine), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Fox Creek Ranch, Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) Garamendi Mine, Coal Mine Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
24.1km (15.0 miles) Black Beauty claims (B. B. claims), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Coal Canyon Mine (Garnet claims), Coal Mine Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) Mill Creek gold deposit, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
26.7km (16.6 miles) Pattani Springs gold deposit, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
Report (volume)
RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.................................-- - --Prospect Mountain quartzite................................... ............................................. Lone Mountain limestone......................................................................... Mountain ranges and mining districts...................................................... Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location
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
Report (issue)
Paleozoic and Mesozoic Rocks Exposed in Central Elko County, Nevada By Keith B. Ketner Open-file report No...Mountains Formation------------------ 47 Devonian--Nevada Formation------------------------ -------------...Range, the Adobe Range, the Elko Hills, the Peko Hills, Double Mountain area, and adjacent small exposures...accurate and are still useful. The Merrimac mining district at Lone Mountain was discussed briefly by W. H...mapping done by S. F. Emmons. Lovejoy's work at Lone Mountain (1959) was the first careful detailed study
Book
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
Report (issue)
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...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND THE NANNIE'S PEAK INTRUSIVE, LONE MOUNTAIN, ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA BY DONALD W. LOVEJOV ABSTRACT The...facies, composed of carbonate rocks, in eastern Nevada and western Utah, and a western facies, composed...cherts, and volcanic rocks, in central and western Nevada. Major thrust faults have moved the rocks of the...fault is exposed on the flanks of Lone Mountain in Elko County, Nevada. The rocks of the eastern facies...by Silurian siltstone. The thrust fault at Lone Mountain is domed up by intrusive rocks of probable Miocene
Report (volume)
Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared in...the Nevada Bureau of Mines 1162-B Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada By KEITH...BULLETIN 1162-B Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING..._____________ Geologic setting of the Railroad mining district______________________ Geologic history...______________________________________________ Lone Mountain Dolomite_________________________________ Devonian
Report (issue)
Preliminary report on the Rip Van Winkle mine, Elko County, Nevada T. S^ Lovering^and W. M. Stoll '~~- "...Van Winkle mine and mill are in the Merrimac (Lone Mountain) district, Elko County, Nevada. Both are...miles northwest of Elko, Nev. in an air line, but about 38 miles by road. The mine workings above the...relation to one another are shown on the composite mine map. JFhe elevation of the portal of the tunnel...work. T. S. Levering and W. M. Stoll studied the mine in January, 1943 in connection with explorations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magmatism in Gold Mineralization of the Carlin Trend, Nevada MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD C. NOBLE, Department...Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...Geology, Mail Stop 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Gold...Gold Company, P.O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Beast, low-grade (7.3 Mt @ 0.7 g/t), disseminated...disseminated Au deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, is unique among Carlin-type Au deposits in having
Report (issue)
the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Some Fossil Data...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada By THOMAS E. MULLENS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...gold ore deposits at the Carlin and Cortez mines, Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1063) Bibliography:...Stratigraphic Devonian. 3. Petrology Nevada. 4. Paleontology Nevada. 5. Geology Nevada. I. Title. II. Series: United
Report (issue)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....within the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlin-Type Gold Deposits in the Jerritt Canyon Mining District, Nevada STEPHEN G. PETERS,† U.S. Geological Survey...University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557-0138 Abstract The Jerritt Canyon mining district in the northern...northern Independence Range, northern Nevada, contains multiple, nearly horizontal, thrust masses of platform...Carlin-type gold orebodies in the Jerritt Canyon mining district were controlled by structural and host-rock...JERRITT CANYON mining district in the northern Independence Range, Elko County, Nevada, contains clusters
Report (issue)
ISLAND NW QUADRANGLES, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH, AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By David M. Miller, Andrew P. Lush...in shaly limestone. Maximum thickness 365 m. LONE MOUNTAIN DOLOMITE (Silurian and Lower Devonian) Off-white...limestone and phyllite about 175 m thick. PROSPECT MOUNTAIN QUARTZITE (Lower Cambrian and Proterozoic Z) Lightcolored... INTRODUCTION The Pilot Range, located on the northern Nevada-Utah border about 80 km south of Idaho (Fig. 1)...Location map showing Pilot Range and adjacent mountain ranges. Light stipple = Tertiary rocks; heavy
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...MINERALIZATION ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised...216-mile-long stretch ofInterstate 80 from Reno to Battle Mountain traverses several major mineral belts which contain...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain
Report (issue)
Pegmatites in the Ruby Mountains and Other Areas in Nevada and Northwestern Arizona By JERRY C. OLSON and...acknowledgments.--------.---------------------Pegmatite mining in the region...________-__-__--__.______-_-_-General..._______________________ Dawley Canyon area, Elko County-______--_--_------_-_-_-_-_---_-_ Location and...-----_--_---_------_ Errington-Thiel (Big) mica mine.--------------------------Other localities.____________________...____________________._--_-_-_____-_-__-_.__ Other areas in Elko County__-__________-_-_-_---_-______.__-_-_-_ Corral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Igneous and Sedimentary Rock Sources in Northern Nevada: Implications for Fluid and Metal Sources* R. M...J. S. CLINE, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89104 C. MARK FANNING, Research...conventional techniques and of ore-stage arsenian pyrite using the Sensitive High Resolution Ion-Microprobe...10-µm-diameter spot SHRIMP analyses of ore-stage arsenian pyrite. These values approximately correspond to 206Pb/204Pb...compositions over the same range as in ore-stage arsenian pyrite are similar to those of Ordovician to Devonian
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
___________________ -_-----Lode and placer gold deposits, Mohave County _______________________ _ California ________________________...Mother Lode, Amador County __________ _ Tertiary gravels, Nevada City area, Sierra Nevada ________________...Geology of Hahns Peak and vicinity _______ Lookout Mountain area, eastern San Juan Mountains ________ _ _... _ Aurora district_ ___________________ _ arlin mine __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Copper..._---Central North Carolina _-------------Moore County __ ---------- -- ------South Carolina ____ -- __
Report (volume)
Director ' Bulletin 648 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Clark County.......................................................'.. Gold Butte mining district.................... Lincoln mine........................................ Bennett mine.........................gneiss............................. Gold Butte Mining Co................................. New Era group...prospects...................................... Elko County.............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry of jasperoids from the Gold Bar district, Nevada Received: 17 May 2005 / Accepted: 11 June...Carlin-type gold mining districts located in the Battle Mountain–Eureka trend, Nevada. It is composed...faults in slope facies limestones of the Devonian Nevada Group exposed in windows through Ordovician basin...magnetic anomalies are notably absent. The Gold Bar district contains a variety of discordant and stratabound...apparent absence of any Eocene intrusions in the district, Gold Bar may be the product of a nonmagmatic
Report (volume)
Geology of the Cortez Quadrangle Nevada By JAMES GILLULY and HAROLD MASURSKY With a section on Gravity...BULLETIN 1175 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada State Bureau of Mines The area includes a thick...faults______-_____-__------_--__--_-----__-___-___ Mining history.___________________________________________________...Geologic map and sections of the Cortez quadrangle, Nevada 2. Map showing location of fossil collections...quadrangle and topographic features of north-central Nevada._______ 2. Scarp of the Cortez Mountains from the
Report (issue)
Grade and tonnage model of tungsten skarn deposits, Nevada by David A. John1 and James D. Bliss2 Open-File...tungsten skarns in Nevada, primarily worked during times of war Tungsten skarns in Nevada, primarily worked...(1986, fig. 32) (fig. 11 herein) Tungsten skarns in Nevada have WOs grades indistinguishable from the tungsten...herein) Sizes and WOs grades of tungsten skarns in Nevada are independent of pluton composition as defined...tungsten skarns in Nevada are independent of pluton age Size of tungsten skarns in Nevada are independent
Report (issue)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOLD METALLOGENY OF NORTHERN NEVADA Richard M. Tosdal editor Open-File Report 98-338-6...Contributions to the gold metallogeny of northern Nevada Preface R.M. Tbsdfl/.............................understanding the crustal structure near the Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral trend from geophysical constraints...Regional crustal structure beneath the Carlin Trend, Nevada, based on deep electrical geophysical measurements...and its relation to gold belts in north-central Nevada: Overview and progress report V.J.S. Grawc/i..
 
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