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Molybdenite from
Ruth mine, Ruth pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruth mine, Ruth pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:270934
Long-form Identifier:1:3:270934:5
GUID (UUID V4):91dd5b5e-6991-4c57-bd62-4003575eab2f
Localities for Molybdenite in this Region
Ruth shaft, Ruth mine, Ruth pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Ruth shaft, Ruth mine, Ruth pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Liberty pit (Big pit), Liberty pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Robinson Mine, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Morris-Brooks mine (Brooks mine), Morris-Brooks pit, Tripp-Veteran pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Tripp pit, Tripp-Veteran pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
5.1km (3.1 miles) Veteran-Tripp Underground, Veteran mine (Veteran pit), Tripp-Veteran pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
21.3km (13.2 miles) Ward Mine, Ward Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
50.4km (31.3 miles) Mount Hamilton mine, Mount Hamilton, White Pine Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
62.2km (38.7 miles) Butte Valley Cu deposit, Butte Valley Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
72.6km (45.1 miles) McMurry prospect, Cherry Creek Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
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Report (issue)
Gold in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W...TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The...Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and DAVID...Gold in the Bingham District, Utah / by Edwin W. looker Gold in the Butte District, Montana / by Edwin...looker Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada / by Laurence P. James The
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Alterationand Mineralizationin the Ruth PorphyryCopperDeposit near Ely, Nevada GERHARD WESTRA Exxon'Minerals...Arizona 85745 Abstract The Ruth-RuthExtension porphyrycopperdepositin the Robinson miningdistrict,east centralNevada...pophyses of a largerpluton that underlies the district. Prior to intrusionthe sedimentaryrockswere folded...emplacementof an earlyquartzmonzoniteporphyrypluton.In the mine areathisintrusionis cylindricaland plunges25ø westwith...granodioriteporphyrysill exposedin the southwest wall of the Ruth pit postdates mineralization. Intrusionof the early
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31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...Particular thanks go to Forrest Cureton and Curtiss Robinson for their suggestions and additions. Figure 3...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk
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Major Mines of Nevada 2016 Mineral Industries in Nevada’s Economy NEVADA COMMISSION ON MINERAL RESOURCES...active mines in Nevada and maintains the State’s mine registry. Information concerning mining operations and...activities on both public and private lands in Nevada. Staff also monitors production of oil, gas, and...resources to ensure proper management and conservation. Nevada is a member of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact...Compact Commission. The Division’s abandoned mine lands program provides for public safety by identifying
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Paper· 96 THE GEOijOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF ELY, NEVADA BY .. ARTHUR C. SPENCER WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT............................. . Situation of the district ......................................................................... . Geology of eastern Nevada ....................... .'..... ·~ .................................... General geology of the district ................................................. , ......................·................. . Nevada lin1estone ...................................
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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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MAISHI yERiNGTON...i I!11 • •NAKATATSU •YOSHIOKA PINE CREEK• 11 •CANANEA SKARNTYPES: & % I Cu ß 120...whereasothershaveappliedthe term hornfels-marblecontactsat Pine Creek (Newberry, silicateskarnto suchmetasomaticreplacements...for endoskarnoid is described from the Yerington district skarn in granodioriteat Yerington,and to a lesser...Zinc-lead Shinyamadeposit, Kamaishimine, NE Japan Pine Creek, California MacMillan Pass (Mactung), Yukon-N...Japan Victoria mine, Nevada DouglasHill and CastingCopper mines(Yerington district),Nevada Caporebasin,Cananea
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specimen of aragonite crystals (encrusted with white drusy quartz) has been received from R. A. Richards...Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given permission...nearly three page article on the Arkansas Diamond Mine, with three pictures, and is quite true to facts...incrustations, has been found in the St. Kevin mining district, 8 miles west of Leadville, Lake Co., Colo...Delhi-Babb fluorite mine near Salem, Livingston Co., -Ky. LOUISIANA — Something new in mining technique will
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Country flep)LOSO ofrhe Copper Range Company, White Pine, Michrgm Used wuh permission. Downloaded by...Ouray, Colorado 81427 he White Pine mine and adjacent town of White Pine are located about 6 miles south...Lake Superior in the western part of Ontonagon County, Michigan. The area is accessible by Michigan Highway...to 500 feet in elevation above Lake Superior. The mine lies within a belt of copper-bearing Precambrian...Keweenaw Peninsula, a distance of 160 miles. The White Pine sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit is
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view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite
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volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Cou nty George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur Roe Tucson,...phosphate minerals from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, A rkansas.......................................f the Kingsgate mining area were among Australia's leading producers o f molybdenite and bismuth in the...the course o f active mining some o f the world's finest specimens o f molybdenite were recovered, along...micromount material. T INTRODUCTION The Kingsgate mining area lies in rugged, heavily wooded coun­ try near
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University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by... M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada ..........................................199 by G. W. Robinson & D. C. Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina...Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An unusual quartz crystal from Zaire ..........................
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Ala., a little village whose main industry is mining scrap mica. ALASKA—"I see that you like some rocks...a year ago a pocket of these were opened in the mine at Washington Camp. Patagonia (Santa Cruz Co.),...most, if not all, of them. One is a good friend of mine so I have several specimens. Recently another pocket...'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains...found in the North Star Mine. "It was found in the 1700 ft. level of the Portland Mine, Teller Co. (Cripple
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cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...elements manganese, sodium, lithium, and cesium and is white, gray, or pink. Aquamarine is most commonly found...Antero in central Colorado. and project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the...May 2015 Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Report (issue)
THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC OF WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA by Jeff L. Doebrich 1 ,...Open-File Report 96-9 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary...School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 'Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MS...MS 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 'U.S. Geological Survey, Retired, 8920 West 2nd....... THE PINE NUT SYSTEM ............................................................ Pine Nut Porphyry
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Editors. SPENCER . . R. TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both...where no maps were available. In southern Yuma County he even discovered and named a whole new range...specific mention are the mapping in southern Yuma County, studies on gold lode and placer deposits, work...Range Province, and work on a number of individual mining districts and on numerous mineral commodities....establish Tucson, Arizona, as the hub of the copper mining industry of the United States. In fact, an inscribed
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MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21
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Goodspringsdistrict, Nevada ..................................... Upper MississippiValley district ..................................... Southern Appalachian district ..................................... Theoretical...Wulfenite-Galena-Molybdenite ................................. Wulfenite-Cerussite- Molybdenite .............and hemimorphite in the Southern Appalachian district, and the predominanceof smithsoniteover hydrozincite...and hemimorphite in the Upper Mississippi Valley district can be explained by the pH of the ground waters
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Ltd. Printed in U.S.A. Rhenium behavior in molybdenite in hypogene and near-surface environments: Implications...Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 2Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro...Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA (Received June 1I, 1992; accepted in revised form October 15, 1992) Abstract-Rhenium...Abstract-Rhenium is concentrated mainly in molybdenite (MoSz) and occurs as a major cation in only a few...few rare minerals. This affinity makes molybdenite an ideal mineral for Re-0s geochronometry, but research
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....................................... Miami district, Arizona ....................................... New Mexico ......................... Ely district, Nevada ............................................simpleexampleof onekind of alterationbut eacfi district shows a dominanceof one or two of the above types...debtedto a great numberof individuals and also mining companiescontrollingthe properties. Without their... S., The origin of the tungstenores of Boulder County, Colorado: Ecoa. Gv.o•.o•¾ 36: 229-279, 1941.
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Great"Basin Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposits: Yerington, Robinson, Hall, Bingham Canyon October, 1994 [ ,l I :...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...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING Sc TECHNOLOGY............................................... 7 Mining ................................................................................. Rhenium in molybdenite ........................................................................ Petaca mining district, Rio Arriba County ...................................25 25 25 Page Other occurrences, Rio Arriba County ..............................................
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his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
 
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