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Kaolinite from
Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Kaolinite
Formula:Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kaolinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:286228
Long-form Identifier:1:3:286228:6
GUID (UUID V4):f7a18850-25c0-4e71-921c-88e6679980c9
Localities for Kaolinite in this Region
Mizpah Mine (Mizpah shaft), Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Tonopah Divide Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Kaolinite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Mizpah Mine (Mizpah shaft), Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Lambertucci Property, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
6.0km (3.8 miles) Tonopah kaolin deposit (Lambertucci deposit), Tonopah Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
14.1km (8.7 miles) Gold Coin claim, Diamondfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
36.4km (22.6 miles) Goldfield-Belmont Mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
36.4km (22.6 miles) Goldfield-Belmont Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
37.0km (23.0 miles) Black Butte mine, Diamondfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
37.9km (23.6 miles) Kendall mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
38.2km (23.8 miles) Sandstorm mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
40.4km (25.1 miles) Red Top Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm 504, 555 Battery...Goldfield Gold District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Tonopah Precious-metal...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
Report (volume)
and Gold Depo~its, Tonopah.l,0 X,2° Qu.adrangle, Nevada~ Description and Applications to Exploration~ ... Geochemical Signatures of Silver and Gold Deposits, Tonopah 1°X 2 o Quadrangle, NevadaDescription and Applications...signatures of silver and gold deposits, Tonopah 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada: description and applications to...Gold mines and mining-Nevada-Tonopah region. 2. Gold mines and mining-Nevada-Tonopah region. I. Title.............. . Silver and Gold Deposits in the Tonopah Quadrangle ...................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theTonopah,Comstock Lode, andGoldfieldMiningDistricts,Nevada* Hos• P. TAYLOR,J'R. Abstract Oxygen isotopeanalyseswere...and hydrothermal veins at Tonopah,Goldfield,and the ComstockLode. At Tonopah,the $Ots valuesare as follows:...areas at the time of mineralization. ßTuscarora NEVADA 'COMSTOCK %A• ODE rata ß Round Mtn. This ...Forester, 1971; Forester and FIG. 1. Index map of Nevada showing locations of the ore Taylor, 1972) that...the Tonopah (•$150 million), ComstockLode (•$400 million), and Goldfield (•$100 million) mining districts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
andesite assemblage and include the Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, Bodie, Paradise Peak, and Rawhide...1998). Famous districts include Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, and Bodie, and significant...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
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
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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)
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)
4. A, The "eggshell" beds, West End area, Clark County, Nev.; B, Anniversary mine, West End area_____________________...near Bissell, Kern County, Calif.; B, Magnesite mine, Afton area, San Bernardino County, Calif _______________________...of brucite-magnesite area in Paradise Range, Nye County, Nev_-----___________________________ 122 142...Annual production of nonferrous metals in Vulture district, Arizona, 1907-32__----_____--_ ._.____ 2. Annual...Bentley district, Arizona, 1901-32__ .._-.. _ .._-_ 3. Annual production of nonferrous metals in San Francisco
Report (volume)
east-west, northwest, and northeast within the district. Hawkins (1982) postulated that the east-west­...exposed the lower plate as windows in the Roberts Mountains thrust (fig. 58). In most areas, the contact between...Jerritt Canyon district is thought to be a high-angle fault. Exposure of the Rob­ erts Mountains thrust is...cover in the district. REGIONAL STRATIGRAPHY Most of the rocks in the Jerritt Canyon district are Paleozoic...to the upper and lower plates of the Roberts Mountains thrust (Hawkins, 1973). Osc North Generator
Report (issue)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOLOGY OF THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA BY JOSIAH EDw-ARD SPURR .. . =. ...·_____________ . __________ . ______________ .. Tonopah rhyolite:dacite .... _. _.................... _...... __ .... _.............. ----.-Analyses of Tonopah 'lavas. _____ ______ . _____________ . ____________...vents-------------·------------·----Theory of differentiation of Tonopah lavas from a uniform type. _.... . ........ Pseudomorphs........................... _..... Hornblende in Tonopah lavas ... _....... _.. __ ._._ .... . __ ... _
Report (issue)
66 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOLDFIELD, NEVADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME ASSISTED IN THE FIELD..._____ . ___________________ . _. Situation of the district.-~ ............... _..... ______ .. ________________________...______ ..... __ ........... _·_..... History of mining ....................... ............ . __ .. _... . . . . . . . CHAPTER X.-MiJ?-eralogy of the district ................... .............. r • • • • •... CONTENTS. 5 CHAPTER X.-Mineralog y of the district-Conti nued. Page. Notes on the more important
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
paleontology of a portion of the metropolitan district of Los Angeles, California [abstract];by E. K...S. Grant,IV 148i Bedrock complex of the Sierra Nevada, west of the southern end of the Mother Lode [abstract];...cross-sections through the coast ranges immediately north of San Francisco Bay [abstract]; by Charles E. Weaver.....quicksilver ores and associated minerals from Pike County, Arkansas [abstract]; by Rudolph G.Sohlberg.......... Certain pegmatite facies of the Wallowa Mountains batholith in north­ eastern Oregon [abstract];
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Purisima-Colon Vein System, Pachuca Real del Monte District, Hidalgo, Mexico* JOHN E. DREIER† 13790 Braun...Monte district is a leading example of a low total sulfide epithermal vein-type silver district. In its...percent. Hosting the more than 100 veins of the district are calc-alkalic series volcanic rocks of Oligocene-mid...Purisima-Colon vein system of the Pachuca Real del Monte district where field, petrographic, and fluid inclusion...altered or totally replaced by sulfides + illite + kaolinite + carbonate + Mg-chlorite. Orestage fluids, with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic terranes (western Cascades,Tonopah, Comstock, Goldfield, the San Juans) were formed by such low-•80...is fundamental to any theory of ore formation. mining the isotopic compositionof the fluid that formed...serpentine-H20and chlorite-H•O (Wennerand Taylor, 1971); kaolinite-H,.O (Savin and Epstein, 1970a); and gibbsite-H...in Figure 4 are approxirite, serpentine, and kaolinite are incorporated mately valid, it means that hydrogen...experimentsby Sheppardand Taylor (unpub. data, 1969) on kaolinite-Ho.O at 300øC. APPLICATION OF OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN
Report (issue)
mineral deposits to Tertiary volcanic centers in Nevada, by J.P. Albers and F. J. KleinhampL_______ Quaternary...significance of the Platoro caldera, southeastern San Juan Mountains, Colo., by P. W. Lipman and T. A. Steven...and F. F. Wright___________ Rutile in the Harford County, Md., serpentinite belt, by Norman Herz and L...._____ Phosphate occurrences in Nye County and adjacent areas, Nevada, by C. L. Rogers, F. J. Kleinhampl...actinolite in latitic dike rocks, Bingham mining district, Utah, by W. J. Moore_____________________
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...... 28 Piedmont.. ........ Md.-W. Va... 29 Nevada City special. Ycllowstono Nationul Park. 30 Cal........ 932 Hague, A.; Weed, National Park; no mining W. H.; . Iddings, permitted. J.P. Lindgren, W.... No. 38. Economic geology of the Bingharn mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and...F. Emmons. No. 42. Geology of the Tonopah mining district, Nevada, by J. E. Spurr. No. 43. Copper deposits
Report (volume)
FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME NOTES ON THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT G. H. GARREY AND W. H. EMMONS WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT..................................... Gold field district............................................................................................... Mining development....................................... 20 22 22 22 25 25 28 34 37 38 39 Bullfrog district.............. .............................................................. Situation of the district .............................................
Report (issue)
Professional Paper 104 THE GENESIS OF TI-lE ORES AT TONOPAH, NEYADA BY EDSON S. BASTIN AND FRANCIS B. LANEY...lritroduction..................................... The Tonopah district. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Calamine ............................ ; ... . KaOlinite .............. ·................. . Dahllite ...Murray vein, Tonopah Extension mine. II. A, B, Supposed hypogene veinlets of pyrargyrite, Tonopah Extension...sericitized wall rock· partly replaced by pyrargyrite, Tonopah Extension mine ............ . 10 11 III. A,
Report (volume)
_____ 39 Mount Robinson__ _ _ ______ 40 Rico Mountains, Colo _ 41 Silverton, Colo __________ .______-____________..._____ ________ 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...known is covered by mining-claim locations. Marysvale is the present terminus of the San Pete & Sevier branch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(8)[ (9) g. per 100 ceo D. 9. 10. Goldfield, Nevada Dacite, fresh 1 Dacite, alt. 2 unalt. A Fe ...percent of that contained in fresh rock. 1. Ely, Nevada (28)* 35. Monzonite prophyry, Weary Flat, Nev....Mine. * Numbers in parenthesesfollowing name of district refer to "References" at the end of the 744...5. Same adjoining Ophir vein'. 8. Yellowknife District, Northwest Territories, Canada (2) Samples were...locality. Across 2 feet. Same locality. 9. Goldfield, Nevada (22) 1. Fresh dacite • mile N.E. of Columbia Mountain
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;...Academy of Sciences: Proceedings, vol. 3, pp. 49-56. San Francisco. California Journal of Technology, vols...Oakland, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 54-56. San Francisco, Cal. California, University...Transactions, vol. 8, pt. 3. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 30. Toronto and Montreal, Canada
Report (issue)
geochemical anomalies in the Comstock, Tonopah, and Silver Reef districts, Nevada-Utah, by H. R. Cornwall, H. W...hercynicus nevadensis n. subsp., from the Devonian in Nevada, by W. B. N. Berry ________________·_____ Paleogeographic...for correlation of Paleocene strata in Ballard County, Ky., with the lower part of the Porter Creek Clay...landsloides on the course of Whitetail Creek, Jefferson County, Mont., by H. J. Prostka______________________...investigations in the Wood Hills area of northeastern Nevada. by C. J. Zablocki__________ 145 Photogeology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralizationin the RochesterDistrict, PershingCounty, Nevada PETER g. VIKRE Incorporated,Southwestern ExplorationDivision...about 25 miles northeastof Lovelock,Nevada (Fig. 1). Within the district preciousmetals valued at $7 concernedwith...Wallace,1969).Currentemphasis ploration and surface mining of precious metal deand 0.10 ouncesof gold per...1986; posits prompted this study of the Rochester district. Couch and Carpenter, 1948; Johnson,1977). The... SILVER MINERALIZA TION, ROCHESTER DIS TRICT, NEVADA weredeposited in the vicinityof NenzelHill. Post-MioWINNEMUC%A
Report (volume)
Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Morenci, Arizona. _________________ ___ 217 Ely, Nevada, by A. C. Spencer_________________ 219 Santa Rita...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...________ 228 San Francisco region, Utah, by B. S. Butler_________ 229 Yerington, Nevada _______________1________...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235
Report (volume)
.................................... Review of mining districts...................................................................... Burro Mountain district, N. Mex.........................................187 189 191 192 193 194 6 CONTENTS. Review of mining districts Continued. Nacozari, Mexico.......................................................... San Francisco region, Utah, by B. S. Butler........................... Snowstorm lode, Cceur d'Alene district, Idaho........................... Copperopolis
 
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