 | | 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.â Ist |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent | | | 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 (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Obituary: Gilbert Gauthier by V. T. King Whatâs new in minerals:...specimens from this interesting group of localities. Gilbert Joseph Gauthier was born December 24, 1924, in...could earn a better living as a mining geologist with the then robust mining company, Union MinĂ©re du Haut...Shinkolobwe uranium mine. His supervisor was Johannes Vaes (1902â1978). Gilbert had been a mineral collector |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20:52 13 January 2015 Mineralogy of the Eldorado Mine YA N K E E B O Y B A S I N , O U R AY C O U N T...the name, as almost every major mining camp had a vein, claim, or mine with that name. This article details...history, geology, and mineralogy of the Eldorado mine in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado...not bring wealth to its many owners. The Eldorado mine is located about 8.6 miles southwest of Ouray, Colorado...Yankee Boy Basin in the Sneffels mining district. The portal to the mine is at an elevation of 11,600 feet |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..........191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................typically abraded specimens youâve found in the old mine dumps. And youâve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...commonality: They can be very dangerous. Each year mine rescue specialists and conventional search and rescue...Statistically, shafts are the most dangerous part of any mine; 90 percent of all accidents and entrapments in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Correlations at Buckskin Mountain, National District, Humboldt County, Nevada PETER G. VIKREâ U.S. Geological...Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 Abstract At Buckskin Mountain (elev 2,650 m, 8,743...743 ft), Humboldt County, Nevada, a hydrothermal system, imposed on a middle Miocene volcanic sequence...resistance among altered and unaltered rocks, Buckskin Mountain represents inverse topography with sinter and...immediately east of Buckskin Mountain, lowered the pieziometric surface at Buckskin Mountain, terminated sinter |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...FLUORITE crystal group, 8.1 cm, from the Shangbao mine, H unan, China. Collector's Edge Minerals specimen;...daughter of a mining family, she has maintained an intense interest in minerals and mining throughout her...pursuits in this regard was the collecting of old mining stock certificates, a collection which grew to... and give a historical background for each mine or mining venture. These catalogs, still available while |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wavellite Find at the State Pit Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...wavellite from Mauldin Mountain located about 2 miles north of Mount Ida in Montgomery County. Arkansas has been...previously collected specimens. - History The Mauldin Mountain wavellite locality has been producing most of...1983). Most of these specimens have come from the County Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 Planerite with colorless...colorless wavellite, State Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. New Finds and other News |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | production continues today from large deposits at Round Mountain, Midas, and Rawhide (Fig. 2). As shown by many...showed that lowsulfidation deposits in northern Nevada could be divided into two subtypes based on their...ve Ri Yellowstone Hot Spot Wyoming 0 Ma 40° Nevada S ie GREAT BASIN rra NNR Utah Ne da va California...tectonic features. Heavy line indicates the northern Nevada rift. The heavy star at the north end of the rift...from Stewart (1988). NNR = northern Nevada rift, SM = Steens Mountain. mineral assemblages transitional |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.â The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote...an underground stope at Butte, Montanaâs Kelley mine in the early 1970âs (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montanaâs mining origins. Montanaâs production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montanaâs first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | REVIEWS Minerals of Nevada. STEPHEN B. CASTOR AND GREGORY C. FERDOCK. 502 Pp., 1 map. Nevada Bureau of Mines...Publication 31, University of Nevada Press. 2004. Price US$75. Nevada is well known for its numerous...Carlintype gold deposits that help make Nevada one of the foremost mining regions in the United States. Less...minerals identified in Nevada are 37 minerals that were first described in Nevada. These include several...(Hg3S2Cl2). Minerals of Nevada describes the complex and unusual mineralogy of Nevada and presents 102 color |  | du Bray, Edward A., John, David A., Cousens, Brian L., Hayden, Leslie A., Vikre, Peter G. (2016) Geochemistry, petrologic evolution, and ore deposits of the Miocene Bodie Hills Volcanic Field, California and Nevada. American Mineralogist, 101 (3) 644-677 doi:10.2138/am-2016-5440 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Miocene Bodie Hills Volcanic Field, California and Nevada Edward A. du Bray1,*, David A. John2, Brian L....Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047, U.S.A. 2 Abstract The southern...Hills volcanic field (BHVF), astride the California-Nevada border north of Mono Lake, is one of the largest...the Bodie Hills north of Mono Lake, in western Nevada and eastern California, represents a large (>700...plutonic rocks in California (Kistler 1990) and Nevada (Tosdal et al. 2000). Blue dashed line is the 208Pb/204Pb |  | | Journal (issue) | | . ..... 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ......... .... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona .................................. 531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .....Wilson & E. Jones Fluorite from the Oatman District, Mohave County, Arizona ............. .... ..... 569 M...M. Hay & D. Morris The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ............. .......................... |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Large barite crystals from the Elandsrand gold mine, South A fr ic a .................................Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya mine $10 (Brazil), Bosch...Pit (PA-MD), Mcguinnessite v Pereta Mine (Italy), Cetine Mine (Italy) v Mineral Fraud, LeadhillsWanlockhead...$10 v .15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Brazil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $10 .16/#4 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, âFamous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,â in vol....owned by Richard Bideauxâs Arizona Exploring and Mining Company for quite a few years. Bideaux and Wayne |  | | Journal (issue) | | is rarely mentioned in many references. The Husky mine in the Yukon Territory near Elsa (Canada) has crystal...stephanite is often associated with pyrargyrite, acanthite and other silver sulfosalts. Mexico is very well-known...the marketplace in the future; at least until the mining methods shift and put an end to most specimen recovery...display as recently as December 2005 of silver, acanthite and polybasite. Bancroft ( 1973) illustrated a...as Freiberg and St. Andreasberg where silver, acanthite and pyrargyrite also occur. Bancroft ( 19730 illustrates |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California...............................Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi ........................................Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland .......................................visiting the Blanchard mine or other mines in the Hansonburg mining district near Bingham, New Mexico...signed in at Bingham for entry to the Blanchard mine area for surface collecting. Underground collecting |  | | Journal (issue) | | âContinued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ........................................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................duplicated in miniature with a home-made plywood stream table). The editor, in his introduction to the issue,...Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner...1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon Famous mineral...mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona............................................ ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and nearly...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | by R. W. Eveleth S tib n ites o f the Stayton district, H o llister, C a lif o r n ia .................emphasis or clarity, and (d) proper names, e.g., mine levels. 8. Credits. Caption data for specimen photos...from the New Nevada mine in Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico and legrandite from the Ojuela mine in Mapimi,...sig nificant mining properties, including, but not limited to, the Sar Francisco mine in Sonora, the...the Veracruz amethyst locality, and the sulfur mine in Baja. He was a long-time wholesale dealer in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA âą Tel: +1 949 494 5155 âą Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...spherical shapes, Indian minerals, odd crystal habits, Nevada minerals, and those precious (but generally unlovely)...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...Phoenix Mineral & Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geologyand K-Ar Geochronologyof the ParadisePeak Mine and the Relationship of Pre-BasinandRangeExtensionto...Precious Metal Mineralization in West-Central Nevada DAVID A. JOHN, U.S. GeologicalSurvey,345 MiddlefieldRoad...Low-anglenormalfaultsare present5 km northeastof the ParadisePeak mine,buttheyformedmorethan2 Ma afterformation of theParadise...theFMC and more detailed studies of the Paradise Peak mine 1986, 1987; unpublished mapsby Corporationin the...Comstock,Tonopah, Goldfield, Bodie, and vicinity of the mine. We utilize thesedata aswell as Rawhide(Silbermanet |
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