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Quartz from
Mill Canyon, Cortez Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Canyon
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mill Canyon, Cortez Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:278852
Long-form Identifier:1:3:278852:4
GUID (UUID V4):535ef9e6-50cf-4605-a944-666961e91fd7
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.0km (1.2 miles) Mill Canyon Property, Cortez Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Horse Canyon prospect, Lewis Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) Cortez Hills underground, Cortez Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Horse Canyon mine, Cortez Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Pediment Gold Property, Cortez Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Pediment Gold Property, Cortez Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Cortez gold mine, Cortez Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Cortez mine (Cortez Hills deposit; Cortez Hills underground mine; Garrison mine), Cortez Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Buckhorn Mine, Buckhorn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Valley View mine, Cortez Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Reconnaissance of the Cortez-Buckhorn Area, x Southern Cortez Mountains, -v Nevada By JOHN D. WELLS and...distribution of silver, Cortez-Buckhorn area, Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada. 2. Geochemical maps showing...arsenic, and antimony, Cortez-Buckhorn area, Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada. 3. Geochemical maps showing...zinc, and molybdenum, Cortez-Buckhorn area, Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada. Pago P3 FIGURE 1. Index...for selected metals in samples collected from the Cortez-Buckhorn area..__.___.__ 2. Range of values, median
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..._____-_______---_--_-_Geologic interest of the Cortez quadrangle.____--___-.__--__--__-Location and ...System____-_-____--_-_-_-_--_---__-----___-_-. Eureka Quartzite__ __-___-_-_--_-__-_---_---___-_-_____...System________-_______-_-_____--____--_---_-_____ Fourmile Canyon Formation__-______----__-__--________ Elder Sandstone-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Collapse Breccia Formation, Cortez Hills Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, USA Lindsey R. Clark Maroun,1...Parkway, Box 454010, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 2 California 3 Earth Resources...48109 4 Barrick 5 Nevada Gold Exploration Incorporated, 293 Spruce Road, Elko, Nevada 89801 Bureau of...University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 Abstract The Cortez Hills breccia zone, a Nevada Carlin-type...gold deposit located in the Cortez district on the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend, formed within a high-grade
Report (volume)
RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.......................................... Secret Canyon shale............................................limestone............................................. Eureka quartzite.................................................................. Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................ Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location
Report (issue)
Metals in the Mill Canyon Area Cortez Quadrangle, Eureka · and Lander Counties, Nevada Anomalous Concentrations...Other Metals in the Mill Canyon Area Cortez Quadrangle, Eureka and Lander Counties, Nevada By James E. Elliott...ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURE 1. Index map showing location of Mill Canyon area .. ... .. . .. .... ... .. .. .. .. .. ... .. . 2. Map showing general geology of the Mill Canyon area, including mines, mineralized faults, and...Geologic map and sections of area near mouth of Mill Canyon................ 4-12. Maps showing element distribution:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
section on Periods of Plutonism in North-Central Nevada MILES L. SILBERMAN AND EDWIN H. MCKEE Abstract...ve yielded significant production in only one district, Battle Mountain (Copper Canyonand CopperBasin)...Copper Canyon (copper-goldand zinc-lead-silver). Peripheral gold-silver depositsoccur at Eureka and Copper...Copper Canyon. Disseminatedgold depositssuchas Carlin, Cortez, Getcheil,and Gold Acres, which are relatively...generallylow-temperaturemineral assemblages which includepyrite, quartz, gold, realgar,stibnite,cinnabar,sphalerite,and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
526-537 Geologyand Geochemistry of the Cortez Gold Deposit, Nevada John D. WmJ.s, L•.•. R. STO•SER, ^NDJ^M•...Abstract Gold has been discoveredrecently at Cortez, Nevada, about 45 miles southwestof Carlin in carbonate...zone envelopsa 34-m.y.-oldintrusivebodyof biotite-quartz-sanidine porphyry,which is also altered. No ge...betweenoriginal silt grains and to a lesserextent in quartz-filled microfracturesand hematite-goethitepseudomorphs...anomalyknownin the area. Other gold depositsin north-central Nevada are associated with such anomalies. Contents PAGE
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)
Part of the Toquima Range, Lander, Eureka, and N ye Counties, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL ...Part of the Toquima Range, Lander, Eureka, and Nye Counties, Nevada By EDWIN H. McKEE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...part of the Toquima Range, Lander, Eureka, and Nye Counties, Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional Paper...Paper 9 31) Bibliography: 48-49. 1. Geology-Nevada-Toquima Range. I. Title. II. Series: United States...Petes Canyon sequence ___ _____ _____ ___ August Canyon sequence ______ ___ _____ Mill Canyon sequence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evolution of Vein Sets at the Pipeline Gold Mine, Nevada Nigel J. F. Blamey 1,2, *, Andrew R. Campbell 1...Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, USA; campbell@nmt.edu (A...June 2017 Abstract: The origin of sediment-hosted Nevada gold deposits has been highly debated, especially...examined the Pipeline gold mine in north-central Nevada, focusing on data from the four vein sets in this...Cretaceous gold mineralization. Only the third, a quartz-sericite-pyrite-calcite vein set, has any link
Report (issue)
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT NEVADA CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF CULTURAL RESOURCES ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES...STUDIES IN THE ~ CORTEZ MINING DISTRICT, 1981 TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 8 THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF FENELON...HISTORIC RAILROAD CAMP TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 9 RENO, NEVADA 1982 FORWARD The two reports offered in this...sites in rural northern Nevada, and are part of a continuing effort by the Nevada BLM to disseminate information...on public lands in Nevada. "Archaeological Studies in the Cortez Mining District, 1981 by Donald L. Hardesty
Report (issue)
resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada by George Wong Open-File Report 83-721 This...Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities as well as areas of...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analysis: granitic plutons of the eastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah RICHARD Yale University, (Received Department...to N 52 m.y. Thirty granitic plutons in eastern Nevada and western Utah have been dated. Plutons in the...Varden Mountains, Whitehorse Range, Cortez Range, Austin mining district, and at Mount Hamilton and Whistler...The Ruby Hill stock, Eureka mining dist)rict is latest Cretaceous, the Bingham Canyon stock early Eocene...indicate that’ the h’evadan orogeny affect,ed all of Nevada and not just the western half where eugeosynclinal
Book
Mining Archaeology Bera sat ewan selon (1 PO cug cuknetn asc Boe BMe cry Mining played a prominent...Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology, society...world. In the wake of these changes Nevada became an important mining region, with new people and technologies...technologies further altering the ways mining was pursued and miners Tetae Historical archaeology offers...offers a research strategy for understanding mining and miners that integrates three independent sources
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
Report (issue)
Cu-Mo Deposits: Yerington, Robinson, Hall, Bingham Canyon October, 1994 [ ,l I : f l [ l l, l. L. L ...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)
Stratigraphic-Devonian. 3. Rugosa. 4. Geology-Nevada. 5. GeologyCalifornia. I. McKee, Edwin H., joint..._____________ Coal Canyon area ______________________________________ Coal Canyon fault zone _______...HilL_____________________ Fossils collected within the Coal Canyon fault zone __ Physical stratigraphy of the Pyramid...Formation at Copenhagen Canyon ______________ Roberts Mountains Formation at Brock Canyon, Monitor Range --...---------------Petes Canyon window---------------------------------Ikes Canyon window --------------
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...large gold ore deposits at the Carlin and Cortez mines, Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...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)
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 (volume)
Geology of Deep Drill Holes at Iron Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and RALPH J. ROBERTS...---------------------------Geology of the Iron Canyon area__________________________________________...showing the location of the Copper Canyon area of the Battle Mountain mining district________________________________...Structural map of the area near Copper Canyon, Lander County, N ev ---------------------------------...gold in all surface samples collected in the Iron Canyon area______________ _ Map showing elements that
Report (issue)
Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 459-A...Lander Counties Nevada By RALPH J. ROBERTS, GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...regional relations of geologic units in a complex mining district \ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...Peak quadrangle, Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. v, 93... in pocket. Bibliography: p. 87-90. 1. Geology-Nevada-Antler Peak quadrangle. I. Title. II. Title: Antler
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 (issue)
___________________ -_-----Lode and placer gold deposits, Mohave County _______________________ _ California ________________________...Mother Lode, Amador County __________ _ Tertiary gravels, Nevada City area, Sierra Nevada ________________..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Silver and copper in McEJmo Canyon ______ Copper and silver in Precambrian rocks near..._ _ _ _ _ Copper Canyon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Cortez-Mill Canyon-Buckhorn area_ _______..._---Central North Carolina _-------------Moore County __ ---------- -- ------South Carolina ____ -- __
Report (issue)
IGNEOUS GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN SHOSHONE RANGE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER .465 Tectonic...Igneous Geology of the Northern Shoshone Range Nevada By JAMES GILLULY and OLCOTT GATES With sections...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 465 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...__________________ _ Middle Ordovician Series ______ _________ _ Eureka Quartzite __________________ _ Middle and Upper...Pennsylvanian and Permian Systems ____ -_- __ _ Brock Canyon Formation _______________ _ Antler Peak Limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Thrust Slices, Central Nevada Abstract: The Toquima Range, in the center of Nevada, has a remarkable set...sequence . Caesar Canyon Limestone Perkins Canyon Formation Clipper Canyon Group Charcoal Canyon Formation Petes...Sams Spring Formation Joes Canyon Formation Pinecone Formation Willow Canyon Formation 426 . 427 428 428... 435 436 436 436 Ordovician in the Manhattan district . . . . Silurian and Devonian systems . Introduction... 426 KAY AND CRAWFORD—PALEOZOIC FACIES, CENTRAL NEVADA Late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic structural history
 
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