 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | uranium deposits in northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, USA Stephen B. Castor ) , Christopher...NV 89557, USA Received 14 June 1999; accepted 24 September 1999 Abstract Northwestern Nevada and southeastern...peralkaline rocks in the McDermitt and Virgin Valley calderas. At McDermitt, major deposits are along...ŽKings River. and northern ring fractures ŽBretz–Opalite. of the caldera complex. The Kings River deposits...contemporaneous with igneous activity. The Bretz–Opalite deposits, which include the large Aurora resource |  | | Report (volume) | | DEPOSITS OF THE OPALITE DISTRICT, MALHEUR COUNTY OREGON, AND HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA BY ROBERT G. YATES.................... Opalite mine......................................... Bretz mine.............................................. Cordero mine......................................... 325 326 327 329 329...Geologic map of the Opalite district, Malheur County, Oreg., and Humboldt County, Nev. In pocket 53....Geologic map of the Opalite mine area......... 342 54. Geologic sections of the Opalite mine......... 342 55 |  | | Journal (issue) | | OREGON'S OPALITE MINING DISTRICT ACTIVE AGAI N By Howard C. Brooks* Introduction The Bretz mine in the...the Opalite mining district of southern Mal heur County, Oregon, is again producing a substantial anount...in operation in late 1956 by the Arentz-Comstock Mining Venture of Salt Lake City, Utah. In the years 1931...to 1944 the property was operated by the Bradley Mining Company during which time it produced 10,309 flasks...producers of this strategic metal. , The Opalite mining district includes two other deposits having considerable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | geochemistry of abandoned mercury mines in West-Central Nevada, USA John E. Gray*, James G. Crock, David L. Fey US...80225, USA Abstract The Humboldt River is a closed basin and is the longest river in Nevada. Numerous...mines into surrounding ecosystems, including the Humboldt River, is of environmental concern. Samples of...the mines. Sediment samples collected from the Humboldt River basin contain 40.28 mg Hg/kg. Leachate samples...were found in water samples collected from the Humboldt River system, and these were below the 0.012 mg/l |  | | Book | | A FIELD GUIDE Rockhounding Nevada is a must-have book for anyone interested in collecting rocks, minerals...Globe Pequot Press NEVADA A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites NEVADA 2nd Edition Essential...experience—concisely describes the best places to locate agate, opal, jasper, fossils, fluorescent minerals, obsidian...and minerals WILLIAM A. KAPPELE Rockhounding Nevada RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 1 6/27/11 3:02 PM Help...RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 2 6/27/11 3:02 PM Rockhounding Nevada A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites |  | Mccormack, John K., Dickson, Frank W., Leshendok, Maureen P. (1991) Radtkeite, Hg3S2ClI, a new mineral from the McDermitt mercury deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada. American Mineralogist, 76 (9-10) 1715-1721 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HgrSrCl[ a new mineral from the McDermitt mercury deposit Humboldt County, Nevada JorrN K. McConvracr, Fn,lNr...Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557, U.S.A. Ansrnacr Radtkeite, Hg...corderoite at one locality in the McDermitt mercury mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. The mineral occurs mostly...Radtkeite, HgrSrClI, occursin the McDermitt mercury deposit in north-central Nevada, about 7 miles southwest of...of the town of McDermitt, Nevada-Oregon. The McDermitt mine is adjacent to the inactive Cordero, Crofoot |  | | 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 |  | Peters, S.G., Nash, J.T., John, D.A., Spanski, G.T., King, H.D., Connors, K.A., Moring, B.C., Doebrich, J.L., McGuire, D.J., Albino, G.V., Dunn, V.C., Theodore, T.G., Ludington, S.D. (1996) Metallic mineral resources in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1996 (96-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr96712 | Report (issue) | | Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource |  | | Report (volume) | | Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counties, Oregon...Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counttes, Oregon...Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counties, Oregon...appraisal of the Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Nevada and Oregon, by R C Greene (B) Interpretation of...graVIty data, Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Nevada and Oregon, by Donald Plouff (C) Geochemical evaluation | | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | DEPOSIT AT BUCKSKIN PEAK NATIONAL MINING DISTRICT HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY R. J... Mineralogy.................................... Mine workings................................. East workings...Figure 20. Index map of Nevada showing location of National mining district and other cinnabar-bearing...map and section of National mining district and Canyon Creek, Humbol'dt County, Nev.......................DEPOSIT AT BUCKSKIN PEAK NATIONAL MINING DISTRICT, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA A PRELIMINARY REPORT By Ralph |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Article Lithium-Rich Claystone in the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada, USA: Geologic, Mineralogical, and Geochemical...D. Henry * Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA; vgerboa@gmail...Lithium deposits in tuffaceous sediments of the McDermitt caldera constitute possibly the world’s largest...and origin are not established. The 40 × 25 km McDermitt caldera collapsed during the eruption of ~1000...illite; smectite; diagenesis; tuff; hydrothermal; McDermitt caldera 1. Introduction Lithium, essential to |  | | Journal (issue) | | Flatirons Gem & Mineral Show, “Rocks & Rails”, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont CO, Main...each day. Held in conjunction with the Boulder County Model Railroad Club Show. We’ll have a USGS booth...unique name for a mineral dealer: O'Dark Thirty Boyz Mining. BELOW: Joe and Susan Dorris of Pinnacle 5 Minerals...unique specimen in the Show: Cave pearl nest, Ouray County, Colorado. The Denver Area Mineral Dealers held...fall 2019 Gem and Mineral Show at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on November 15-17. I have attended |  | | Report (issue) | | Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California:...shown is the location of the Champion dumortierite mine 23 Figure 5. Location of known mines, prospects...mines, prospects, and occurrences of gems (chiefly opal) in the WSRA. Information from MRDS and MILS databases...been produced for many years in the Winnemucca District, and to a lesser extent in the Surprise Resource...change or population increases in northwestern Nevada and adjacent California. Development of new mines |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COMMUNICATIONS ORIGIN OF THE OPALITE BRECCIA AT THE McDERMITT MERCURY MINE, NEVADA M. JEANHETHERINGTON* ANDERICS...Opalitc, Bretz, Cordero, and other minesin the district producedapproximately135,000 flasksof mercurybetween1926...mercurybetween1926 and 1972, of which the Cordero mine producedover 100,000 flasksbetween 1935 and 1970 (Speer...The average ore grade is about 0.5 percent Hg. McDermitt currentlyisthelargestmercuryminein theUnitedStates...opalitcbrecciaat the McDermitt mine and to suggestits role in localizing ore. In the McDermitt calderaopalitcis |  | | Report (issue) | | UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Val,. S X X I T II I 1)ECEBIIIElZ 1944 No. 5 GEOLOGY AND MINING SERIES No...No. 41 er Deposits In Nevada BY EDGARH. BAILEY and DAVID A. PHOENIX Geologists, U. S. Geological Survey...Survey PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY NEVADA STATE BUREAU OF MINES IN COOPERATION WiTH UNITED STATES OEOLOOlCAL...SURVEY PRICE ONE DOLLAR j sin PUBLICATION OF THE NEVADA STATEBUREAUOF MINES A N D THE MACKAY &HWL OF MINES...THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO, NEVADA Entered in the Post Office at Reno, Nevada, as second-class matter |  | | Report (issue) | | Data for Environmental Studies of Mercury Mines in Nevada by John E. Gray, Monique G. Adams, James G. Crock...Geochemical data for sediment and rock samples in the Humboldt River study............. Table 5. Geochemical...Geochemical data for calcine samples collected in the Humboldt River study............... Table 6. Geochemical data...data for water samples collected in the Humboldt River study................. 10 11 12 22 31 40 FIGURES...districts studied and samples collected from the Humboldt River and Rye Patch Reservoir................ |  | | Report (volume) | | High Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Washoe County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1707-D .-...Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Was hoe County, Nevada By BRENT D. TURRIN, JOEL R. BERGQUIST, ROBERT...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: NORTHWESTERN NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Area, Washoe County, Nevada. Mineral resources of wilderness study areas northwestern Nevada, U.S. Geological...: I 19.3:1707-D 1. Mines and mineral resources Nevada High Rock Canyon Wilderness. 2. High Rock Canyon |  | | Report (issue) | | geochemistry of the Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada an interim report By J. T. Nash , W. C................................................. Mining and exploration history......................................................................... Mine geology...........................................Figure 1. Location and geology setting of the Sleeper mine. Regional geology is simplified from Wilden (1964)... 3 Figure 2. Generalized geology of the Sleeper mine area and western foothills of the Slumbering Hills |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Article Late Tertiary Petrified Wood from Nevada, USA: Evidence of Multiple Silicification Pathways...Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA; E-Mail: mustoeg@wwu.edu; Tel: +1-360-650-3582 Academic...Abstract: Late Tertiary fossil woods from the state of Nevada provide an opportunity for observing the mineralization...variations, several trends are evident. Features in Nevada specimens suggest that two fundamental processes...episodes of hydrothermal precipitation may produce opal, chalcedony, and quartz as deposits within a single |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite, |  | | Report (volume) | | High Rock Lake Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1707-A...High Rock Lake Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada By DONALD C. NOBLE, DONALD PLOUFF, and...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: NORTHWESTERN NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...High Rock Lake Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1707-A...No.: 119.3:1707-A 1. Mines and mineral resources Nevada High Rock Lake Wilderness. 2. High Rock Lake Wilderness |  | | Report (volume) | | Host Rocks, Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada Geology and Geochemistry of Tertiary...Host Rocks, Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada By J. Thomas Nash, William C. Utterback...host rocks, Sleeper gold-silver deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada I by J. Thomas Nash, William C. Utterback...Gold ores-Geology-Nevada-Humboldt County. 2. Silver ores-GeologyNevada-Humboldt County. 3. Geology, St...Stratigraphic-Tertiary. 4. GeologyNevada-Humboldt County. I. Utterback, W.C. II. Trudel, Wayne S. III. |  | Bawiec, Walter J., Abrams, Gerda A., Finn, Carol Ann, Pitkin, James A., Ryder, Jean L., Smith, Steven M., Theobald, Paul K., Meulen, Vander, Dean, B., Walker, George W. (1990) Assessment of the mineral resources for the Adel 1 degree by 2 degrees quadrangle, Oregon. Open-File Report Vol. 1990 (89-177) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr89177 | Report (issue) | | quadrangle is from the Opalite mercury district, which is associated with the McDermitt Caldera Complex and...specialty clays presently being rained in the McDermitt calderas (J. Rytuba, personal communication)....deposits. However, a CUSMAP study could stimulate the mining vi industry with its new products, and through...lies in the southeast corner of Oregon along the Nevada border (fig. 1) and is included in the northern...of mercury and clay from the Opalite mercury district, in the McDermitt Caldera Complex, other minerals |  | | Report (issue) | | MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...related to mining districts .................... Geochemical anomalies not aparently related to mining districts...Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Assessment Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California ....... in pocket Plate...Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Assessment Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California ....... in pocket Plate...Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Assessment Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California ....... in pocket Plate |
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McDermitt Mine, Opalite Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA