 | | Journal (issue) | | in Nevada Martin Jensen Earth Science Consultants Associated 1242 Glendale Avenue Sparks, Nevada 89413...may come as somewhat or a surprise to learn that Nevada could actually be considered a prominent worldwide...aluminum phosphate minerals, including wavellite, variscite, metavariscite, Ouellite, planerite, vashegyite...have been exposed by recent or currently active mining operations. The following disContinued on page...Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana Mike |  | | 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) | | 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) | | December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...traditionally includes such species as crandallite, variscite, turquoise, and the apatite group. Wavellite is...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one |  | | Report (issue) | | “Gumeshevsk copper mines,” Russia. (2) Mt. Ida, Arkansas, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2 O3 , H2... Association: Wavellite, variscite, metavariscite (Mt. Ida, Arkansas, USA). Distribution: From Mt.... Barcelona Province, Spain. In the USA, at General Trimble’s mine, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; in Arkansas...near Mt. Ida, Montgomery Co., at the Coon Creek mine and Buckeye Mountain, Polk Co., and on Dug Hill...Teller Co., Colorado; from the Rain mine, Carlin district, Elko Co., Nevada. At Toyoda, near Kochi, Shikoku |  | | Journal (issue) | | were some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army...Army had closed the area in the 1940s. The "mine" was really a prospect as it consisted of a trench cut through |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...in y u lite from the W illard m in e, P ershing County, N e v a d a ....................................Record, volume 31, July-August, 20C Sweet Home Mine Special Issue. Since living in Connecticut I have...fund-raising technique being used by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. It’s called the “Adopta-mineral”...Education instructor in the Long Beach Unified School District, at Long Beach City College, and in the Long Beach |  | Rossi, Manuela, Rizzi, Rosanna, Vergara, Alessandro, Capitelli, Francesco, Altomare, Angela, Bellatreccia, Fabio, Saviano, Michele, Ghiara, Rosaria M. (2017) Compositional variation of turquoise-group minerals from the historical collection of the Real Museo Mineralogico of the University of Naples. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (6) 1405-1429 doi:10.1180/minmag.2017.081.055 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | wavellite, crandallite, goyazite, gorceixite, variscite, metavariscite, fluorapatite; and (3) other minerals:...by Hyršl (2011), who reports a new variety of variscite, discovered in Peru, which was initially thought...particular colour, but was identified subsequently as variscite by X-ray diffraction (XRD). According to Foord...and extended exposure to sunlight and meteoric (rain) water, turquoise weathers to chalky-white clay...(Naples, Italy). They originate from historical mine sites and entered the collections of the Museum |  | | Journal (issue) | | Exhilarating New Arizona Find REGULAR COLUMNS 56 MINERAL COUNTY WANDERINGS Field Notes ......................... Chance Encounter Creates Opportunity to Mine for Variscite By Helen Serras-Herman 20 CRYSTAL TWINNING... www.PrescottGemMineral.org ROYAL PEACOCK OPAL MINE Dig your own Virgin Valley Fire Opals ALL YOU FIND...(weather permitting) Rock Shop Hours: 7:30 am-4:30 pm Mining hours: 8:00 am-4:00 pm 775-941-0374 Come enjoy...hunting!! Located in the North-Western Corner of Nevada www. royal peacock.com 8 ROCKNGEM.COM REVELATIONS |  | | Book | | Pale-blue turquois; Gove Turquois mine, near Cottonwood, San Bernardino County, Cal. Fie. . Turquois matrix;...Turquois mine, m Nye County, near Millers, Nev. Fia. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev...Azure mine, Burro Mountains, N. Mex. Fic. . Cobweb turquois matrix; Southwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral...Myers and Bona Turquois mine, 13 miles north of west of Millers, Esmeralda County, Nev. -7. Split veinlet...student at Yale University; Los Angeles Gem Co. mine, Mineral Park, Ariz. Fia. Fi. Fic. Fic. Fic. ia |  | | Journal (issue) | | phosphate minerals from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, A rkansas.......................................unusual quartz pipe deposits o f the Kingsgate mining area were among Australia's leading producers o...bismuth in the early 1900s. In the course o f active mining some o f the world's finest specimens o f molybdenite...micromount material. T INTRODUCTION The Kingsgate mining area lies in rugged, heavily wooded coun try near...1800s, one of the richest and most important tin mining districts in the world. The early prospectors, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA AND JOSEPH E. TAGGART, JR. M.S. 973, U.S. Geological...Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA The turquoise group has the general formula: Ao...deficient) faustite. The turquoise from the Kelly Bank mine, Rockbridge Co., VA (Mitchell and Freeland, 1978;...obtained some turqoise (USNM # 97340) from the Bishop mine, Lynch Station, VA that had been studied by Schaller...varieties of 'coeruleolactite' from the Rindsberg mine, Katzenelnbogen (als0 spelled Katzenellenbogen) |  | | Book (edition) | | ............................................ . Nevada .................................................Ledbetter amethyst mine .......................................... . North Geor~ia Co. mine ........................................... . Littlefield beryl mine ............................................. .............. _............ ___. __. _. Beck beryl mine .................................................... . Siskiyou County ................................................. . Butte County .............. |  | | Book | | rhyolite ("wonderstone"); scheelite; topaz; and variscite. Production of gem materials in Utah depends on...Reservation, topaz from the Thomas Range, and variscite from several localities in western Utah have been...quartz R-Banded rhyolite S-Scheelite T-Topaz V-Variscite FIGURE 1. Selected semiprecious gem materials...Snowville (variscite), Box Elder County 2. Lucin (variscite) , Box Elder County 3. Promontory (variscite, obsidian)...obsidian), Box Elder County 4. Cedar Mountains , south of Low (onyx), Tooele County 5. Grantsville (onyx) |  | | Book | | were no other types. However, as the waves and the rain and the wind attacked those rocks they crumbled...harsh wind carries sand which scrapes the rock, and rain washes it down. Glaciers not only cut huge valleys...often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...intrudes a sloping bed of limestone. As the Yogo mine has been worked at various times in the past hundred...opposite of the pegmatite formation because here rain water carries decomposed elements down into the |  | | Book (edition) | | interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Harold Noble, Leo |  | | Journal (issue) | | you want to get into trouble. Of course the Pala district is famous the world over as containing a greater...getting permission from the various mine owners of the district and that is not so easy. These are but...Texas Mine, owned and operated by Miss Grace M. Sparkes, located in the Hartford Mining District, Cochise...Cochise County, within a mile of the Mexican Border, and 28 miles west of Bisbee, Arizona. While in camp...camp, Grace Sparkes had taken us through her mine and, with the aid of an Ultra Violet Ray lamp, displayed |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 MINE PRODUCTION OF SILVER IN THE UNITED STATES, 1939...presented me with a quartz crystal from Herkimer County, N ew York, and from that day to this minerals...visit I met Mr. Pulsifer, the owner of a feldspar mine on Mt. Apatite noted for the wonderful apatite crystals...Judds Bridge, the garnets ~e at Redding and the iron mine dumps at It. Roxbury. 11 d A locality that stands...ory is the D iamond H ill section of Her:rn kimer County, New York, noted for the as remarkable quartz crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...Burkhardt Steve Bussan Steve Chamberlain & Donnie Carlin Tom Cooper John Cornish Christi Cramer Michael | | | Book | | Turquoia mine, near Cottonwood, San Bernardino County, Cal. Turquois matrix; Royal Blue Turquoie mine, in...in Nye County, near Millers, Nev. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev. Dark-blue turquoisj...turquoisj AzUJ'8 mine, Burm Mountains, N. Mex. Cobweb turquois matrix; Southwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral Park...Myen &nd Bona Turquoia mine, 13 miles north of we!Jt of Yillen,, EsmentJda County, Nev. • Flo. 7. Split...Gem Co. mine, Mineral Park, Ariz. Flo. 8. Pendant of turquoia matrix; ~ti.thwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | of Death V a l l e y By MARGARET CARRICK 72 23 MINING N e w s briefs from t h e d e s e r t 27 ADVENTURER...San Diego, California; Gene O. Parks, Las Vegas, Nevada; Tad Nichols, Tucson, Arizona; Clayton J. Beach...or near this abandoned ranch in Steptoe valley, Nevada, the remaining wagons oj Bidwell's party were abandoned...travelers. When they reached Steptoe valley in Nevada, Bidwell saw before him a high mountain over which...Between Soda springs in Idaho and Pilot peak in Nevada, the Bidwell route never again was used as an emigrant |  | | Journal (issue) | | am lost in the maze of the city, I am sick of the rain and the cold. I want to see distant horizons, Feel...Dam, from Phoenix, Arizona. Feb. 9—University of Nevada Winter Ski Carnival, Reno. Feb. 9-10—Jaycee Silver...Conference Ski Championship Meet, Reno, Nevada. Feb. 16-24—Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival,...FRAIZER NEWS From here and there on the desert MINING Current news of desert mines URANIUM Latest developments...Vague about the exact location, he hinted that the mine might be in Arizona. Roberts, who was a friend of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Speaker: Amber Sanderson Topic: “Staking Unpatented Mining Claims on Fed- eral Land” Please note: Members...Dates Epidote: Green MonPebble Pups Corner ster Mine, Alaska. Over/Montgomery Brad’s Bench Tips Pebble...Pictured at left, Sanderson explains the importance of mining operations - from locating a deposit to reclamation...Trips 2019 June 8, 2019 August 24, 2019 Sedalia Mine, Salida CO Collectible Minerals : Garnet Leader...Status : Confirmed June 15, 2019 Topaz Mountain Gem Mine, Tarryall CO Collectible Minerals - Topaz, Quartz |  | | Book (volume) | | 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert...Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and by A. L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken |  | | Journal (issue) | | compiled by Harry Critchley ......... 26 Cornwall's Mining Inheritance by Dr Colin French ..................collaborating with other societies geological , mining history and the like - in a range of activities...mineral which I had enquired about from that kindly mine of info rmation which was Peter. He was always willing... perhaps, his favourite mine. His collection of Cornish minerals and mining memorabilia was exceptionally...geology ofsome oft he National Parks ofthe Western USA. This time the highly glaciated granite scenery ofY |
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