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Famatinite from
Florence Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Famatinite
Formula:Cu3SbS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Gold87 photos of Famatinite associated with Gold at this locality.
Bismuthinite80 photos of Famatinite associated with Bismuthinite at this locality.
Alunite33 photos of Famatinite associated with Alunite at this locality.
Goldfieldite5 photos of Famatinite associated with Goldfieldite at this locality.
Dacite2 photos of Famatinite associated with Dacite at this locality.
Andesite1 photo of Famatinite associated with Andesite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Famatinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Florence Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (12 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:284242
Long-form Identifier:1:3:284242:4
GUID (UUID V4):35d5c976-be1d-484e-9c12-d737ca0c1538
Nearest other occurrences of Famatinite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Atlanta mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Goldfield Deep Mines, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Rogers Syndicate Mine (Rustler No. 2 Mine; Rogers Syndicate lease; Red Hills shaft), Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Jumbo Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Clermont Mine (Claremont Mine), Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Jumbo Extension Mining Company, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Jumbo Extension mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Combination Mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Blue Bull mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
PAPER 66 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOLDFIELD, NEVADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME ASSISTED IN THE..._____ . ___________________ . _. Situation of the district.-~ ............... _..... ______ .. ________________________...______ ..... __ ........... _·_..... History of mining ....................... ............ . __ .. _.......... ............... . Correlation of the Goldfield rocks with those of the surrounding region_ .... . . . . . . . CHAPTER X.-MiJ?-eralogy of the district ................... .............. r • • • • •
Report (issue)
Elen1ents Near Ore Bodies in the Oxidized Zone at Goldfield, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL SPOkANE~...at Goldfield, Nevada By R. P. ASHLEY and]. P. ALBE~S GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE GOLDFIELD MINING...MINING .DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 843-A An evaluation of nine elements...prospecting in the hydrothermally altered area at Goldfield ·.': '• !.'· UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTIN·G...zone at Goldfield, Nevada. (Geology and geochemistry of the Goldfield Mining District, Nevada) (Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SecondarySulfatesat Goldfield, Nevada Abstract The Goldfield mining district of western Nevada is at the site...underlyingpre-Tertiary plutonic and metasedimentary rocks of the district are intensely and extensively altered. Tabular...fractures. Alunite is widespreadthroughout the district in the altered areas. Primary alunite pervadesthe... 618 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SULFATES AT GOLDFIELD, NEVADA forms sulfides,and SO2 is ultimately oxidized...hydrothermalfluid. In con- northeastof the town of Goldfield, at the intersection trast to hypogenesulfates
Report (issue)
Deposits-Part I The Goldfield Gold District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY ...Precious-metal District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Republic Gold District, Ferry...Ferry County, Washington By MORTIMER H. STMTZ and ROBERT C. PEARSON The Comstock Lode Precious-metal District...District, Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada By WILLIAM C. BAGBY and ROGER P. ASH LEY U.S. GEOlOGICAl...1857H 1 Gold ores-Nevada 2 Gold ores-Wash1ngton-Ferry County 3 Hydrothermal deposits-Nevada 4 Hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY AND ORE-DEPOSITS DISTRICT, OF THE GOLDFIELD NEVADA2 F. L. RANSOME. PART II. MINES AND...divisions,which may be cohvenientlydesignatedthe "Goldfield" and "Diamondfield" groups. Of these the first...output of the district and includessuch well-known mines as the Mohawk, Combination, Florence, Jumbo,January...in rhyolite; a very importantgroup northeastof Goldfield,which is mainly in dacite, although latite is...Company,the Combination Fraction mine, and part of the Florence mine; and, finally, some mines, principally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE RICH ORES OF GOLDFIELD, C. F. TOLMAN NEVADA. • A•D J. W. AMBROSE. INTRODUCTION RICH gold and..."bonanza"goldoresnoneare moreinteresting than thosefrom Goldfield,Nevada. They are extraordinarily richin freegold...Ransome,F. L.: The Geologyand Ore Depositsof Goldfield,Nevada. U.S. Geol. Surv., Prof. Paper 66, •9o9. 255...metacolloidaltextureswere recognized. THE RICH ORES OF GOLDFIELD, NEV./ID./I. 257 ALUNITE AND THE THEORY OF...but possibly before it had entirely cooled,the district and part of the surrounding region was subjectedto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ASSOCIATION THE OF GOLDFIELD ALUNITE DISTRICT, WITH GOLD IN NEVADA. • FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME...on Calico Peak near Rico,4 in the NationaI Belle Mine near Silverton, 5 and at CrippleCreek,ø all in Colo•...TresCerritos, Ma[iposa County,California. • Mr. W. Lindgren2 found alunite in the Ryerson mine near Morenci,...oxidized ore, and, like the kaolinite of that district,is probablySecondary with referenceto the original...in geneticrelationwith ore-veins." In the Goldfield district alunite is so abundant and so gener- ally
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STUDIES OF THE EPITHERMAL ß DEPOSITS AT GOLDFIELD, H. NEVADA. D. B. WILSON. ABSTRACT. Approximately...material and wallrock from the ore depositsof Goldfield, Nevada, were quantitatively analyzed by means of...wallrock sample from a vein. Vertical zoning at Goldfield is evident with respectto 'tin, less definite...rarer elements in veins and rocks. In the Goldfield district the ore is char- acteristicallydistributedin...centactuallypresentfor one EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS AT GOLDFIELD, NEVADA. 39 elementwhile the sameratio for anotherelementmay
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)
ACCOUNT OF GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG, AND FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME NOTES ON THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT G. H. GARREY..................................... Gold field district............................................................................................... Mining development..................................................................................... Mine maps......;........................................ 20 22 22 22 25 25 28 34 37 38 39 Bullfrog district.............. ...............................
Journal (issue)
Desert Magazine regarding the much disputed Pegleg mine. As I have been following up clues, stories, newspaper...This was John O. Smith. The other, Thomas, had a mine and seems have been given considerable publicity...story was true. Also, he told me much about the mine that Thomas Smith worked. This account had appeared...for. I never did try to locate the Thomas Smith mine. From the information I have gathered these many...Jackson Hill had discovered the Pegleg Smith gold mine in the Chuckawallas 14 miles southwest of Desert
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles
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 (volume)
_____ ________ 44 Miscellaneous occurrences in Nevada __ __ ______ 48 Tres Cerritos, Cal______________________________...__ 49 Cl if ton-Mo reuci district, Ariz__________ ,______ 50 Beaver County, Utah __ _____ _ ______ 50...about 7 miles due southwest of Marysvale, Piute County, Utah. It is located in and near sec. 16, T. 28...S., R. 4 W., and so far as known is covered by mining-claim locations. Marysvale is the present terminus...control of the Florence Mining & Milling Co., lessee of the Utah Gold Mountain Mining Co., including
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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excavations under the guid ance of the Los Angeles County Mu seum. Only nine per cent of the fauna re mains...Angeles Times and data gathered by the Los Angeles County Museum. TO OUR The skull READERS We wish to...it Sent Postpaid for $2.00 Write: A. O. BARTELL Mining Engineer Platt Bidg., Portiand 5, Ore THE MINERALS...Oregon, Washington, and Montana. He told of the old mining towns and mines he visited. After his interesting...work, as well as the natural heritage of San Diego County as the sixth greatest gem-producing area in the
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
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SCIENCE MINERAL RICHARD Colorado Climax Molybdenum Mine. Bartlett M. LOCALITIES PEARL College Mt....minerals is significant from the standpoint of the mining industry, as well as that of the mineral collector...Western states, Colorado is noted for its many mining properties rather than for a relatively few large...large ones. The great Climax Molybdenum Mine at 5 DIGEST in center. Tailings dump in foreground. ...originally found in the Keystone mine, Magnolia mining district, Boulder County, was the first mineral to bear
Report (volume)
Bulletin, vol. 41. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 25-36; Transactions,...series, vols. 27, 28. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, llth Annual Session;... vol. 2, no. 2. Oakland, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 54-56. San Francisco, Cal...Transactions, vol. 8, pt. 3. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 30. Toronto and Montreal, Canada...vol. 12, pp. 95-222. Davenport, Iowa. . Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 4, nos
Report (Issue volume)
new data as often as is practicable to users of mining and mineral information. The volumes of Minerals...reported minerals come from re-examination of old mining properties. Restudy of Darwin silver- (3) lead...especialh^ Death Valley, and Boron (Kramer borate district). It appears likely, as intensive studies of boron...GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES CRESTMORE Crestmore, Riverside County, general reference Murdoch (38) ; Burnham (1)...MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES * ALLANITE Kern County: 1, Allanite is reported as a minor constituent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz-magnetlte-schists in the Bababudan Hills, Kadur district, Mysore. Baeumlorite. O. Reuner, 1912. Centralblatt...22. A greenish, foliated mineral, from Mt. LyeU mine, Tasmania ; it had previously been described as...T. Batchelor, formerly manager of the Mr. Lyell mine. SIXTH LIST OF NEW MINR~ar. NAMES. S~5 ~suerite...six-sided plates. Named from the locality, Beaver County, Utah. Belmontite. G. Kttstel. R. Koechlin, Mineralogisches...lead, occurring with stetefeldtite at Belmont, Nevada Named from the locality: A specimen so labelled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz-magnetlte-schists in the Bababudan Hills, Kadur district, Mysore. Baeumlorite. O. Reuner, 1912. Centralblatt...22. A greenish, foliated mineral, from Mt. LyeU mine, Tasmania; it had previously been described as pyrophyllite...T. Batchelor, formerly manager of the Mr. Lyell mine. SIXTH LIST OF NEW MINR~ar. NAMES. S~5 ~suerite...six-sided plates. Named from the locality, Beaver County, Utah. Belmontite. G. Kttstel. R. Koechlin, Mineralogisches...lead, occurring with stetefeldtite at Belmont, Nevada Named from the locality: A specimen so labelled
Journal (issue)
AND MARCH, 1948 • • • • Exhibit at Kootenai County Fair, Idaho, by Future Archeologists and Collectors...D�N BEAR v¼tes THE CALIFORNIA FEDERATION PLACER COUNTY ♦ CALIP. • ANDv1/'ew s MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES...•1rer; Mable Andersen, Parlier, �cretary-treasurer; Florence :::11110, Federation director; Carl .,10, Alternate...Taylor, _md Oscar Venter, directors. � president, Florence Chapin, -,-d with a fine collection of iiilshed...work, as well as the natural heritage of San Diego County as the sixth greatest gem-produc­ ing area in the
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and Butler, G. M.-Arizona lode gold mines and mining: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 137, 1934...Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 148, 1941. Apache County 2: 17 Gregory, H. E.-Geology Prof. Paper 93, 1917...the Navajo country. U.S. Geol. Survey Cochise County 3:04 Ransome, F. L.-The geology and ore deposits...Tombstone district, Arizona: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 1938. Gila County 4:03 Ransome...Ransome, F. L.-Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 12, 1903. 4:19
 
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