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| 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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| 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 |
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| Geologist C. A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...J. C. District Mining Engineer District Mining Engineer Mining Engineer O'Brien, District Mining...Engineer George John District Sampson, Assistant Chas. V. Averill, Mining Engineer L. Gary, Mineral... Statistician and Curator G. Hubbard, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) Elisabeth L. Egenhoff,...SAN FRANCISCO FIELD DISTRICT Mines and mineral resources of 7 11 Santa Cruz County, by Henry G. Hubbard |
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| showing a fibrous radiating structure. Opposite: gold on quartz from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...Magnificent hexagonal crystals of chalyblte, an Iron carbonate. The triangular 'growth shadows' that...describing some of its chemical properties. Within each group the minerals are listed accord¬ ing to CIM; and...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area |
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| 000unse FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ‘MINING INDUSTRY. of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR ARTHUR CAMPBELL...OF THE MINING INDUSTRY of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 19 2476 IDAHO AND PRODUCED COPPER IN GOLD, SILVER...e ae ie The Miner’s Guide A Placer Gold Sluice Box Wash Gold Sand in Salmon : = River Processing...Processing Mills, 34 Located in Coeur d’Alene District Lucky Friday Makes Rich Silver Strike South Side Geology...Custer Mine Still Lingers Giant Explosion at Arco 2 Leesburgh—A Ghost Town : Clark Fork District, Lead |
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| _________________ Alaska ________________________ Rocky Mountains and Great Plains ________ Great Basin and California...__________________ Missouri ________________________ Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains _ — _ — ___ Economic geology...Regional geologic investigations—Continued Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains—Continued Environmental geology..._______________________ Idaho ________________________ Nevada ____________________ Oregon _______________________..._____________. Assessing the impact of surface mining _. Forest defoliation—————————————. Studying the |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 'Vasatch Mountains............................................................ .. ................... Uinta Mountains ....................................................INTRODUCTION. reports are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham...Bingham The senior author, J3. S. Butler, began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on...deposits of Utah in the S. F. Emmons; the Park City district, by J. M. FIELD .WORK AND AUTHORSHIP. summer |
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| Behnke, T. J. Bornhorst, P. Brandes, R. Clark (Cliffs Mining Services Co.), B. C. Cornilsen, R. V. Dietrich...helpful suggestions throughout the project; to Ashton Mining of Canada, Inc. and Crystal Exploration, Inc.,...APPENDIX I: MICHIGAN MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITS FEATURING MINING, MINERALS, ROCKS, AND FOSSILS .......................243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...Because of the discovery of the native copper and iron deposits in the Northern Peninsula, that region |
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| (bottom), also known for obvious reasons as ‘fool's gold'. and there in the stone you may actually see fossils...Copper and gold were first used at hunted and exploited a range of metal create new mountains. So the...though, it required a real knowledge of German mining engineer Georgius breaks in the rock sequence...great unconformities (see Reading the Copper and gold were both too soft to geology book, De Re Metallica...water, earthquakes and volcanoes, which have worn mountains down and risen new ones up. Yet it is only in |
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| hydrated silica; and limonite, an amorphous hydrated iron oxide. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY The...trigonal copper trisocta- silver hedron trisocta- gold platinum galena hedron halite for tetragonal...result take different names depending on the ratio of iron to magnesium (breunnerite, mesitite, pistomesite)...affinity the new cations have with magnesium and iron. Solid solubility is a very complex phenomenon,...minerals, such as the "hourglass" in augite and the "iron cross" in anular dalusite (chiastolite). Certain |
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| Earth, Editorial and Design by T he Brown Reference Group pie ISBN O 7489 7935 2 NO i 07 04 18 Printed in...of London are paved with gold' is believed to come from the flecks of iron pyrite that can be seen in...in the pavements, and which shine like gold in the sunlight. Similarly, the 'golden' particles that glisten...a common mineral, pyrite - also known as 'fool's gold ' - has a fascinating history. Brittle, and poisonous...prospectors into believing it is gold. n 0 3 3 Pyrite is made up of the elements iron and sulphur. Because pyrite |
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| Magnificent hexagonal crystals of chaiybite, an iron carbonate. The triangular 'growth shadows' that...In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...the section on isotopes). Let us take an example. Gold is an element; it can combine with other elements...more fundamental metals. If you wished to hoard gold, you could start with a single atom. This would... but the resulting fragments would no longer be gold. There are three main types of sub-atomic particle |
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| (CaBSiO4OH) vesicle filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur...eventually led to one of the biggest and most important "mining booms" in this country's first century. Despite... the 1845 discovery of the Cliff Mine ( first in the world to mine native copper as its sole product)...instilled confidence in North Country mining and initiated the modern mining era. Choice 'Lake Copper' furnished...never documented by geologists working in the district during its decades of maximum activity. Hence |
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| Magnificent hexagonal crystals of chalybite, an iron This book has several purposes: to introduce readers... but the resulting fragments would no longer be gold. There are three main types of sub-atomic particle...the section on isotopes). Let us take an example. Gold is an element; it can combine with other elements...into other more fundamental If you wished to hoard gold, you could start with a single atom. This would...(which, by con- aoe Gadolinium oe ermanium Gold | Hafnium vention, means their average weights) |
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| thi^ facts in crys- Mr is E. as to miiu'S and mining industry referred to the Text-book of Mineralogv...BasH' I] LEM ENTS Pi SiLKATES LNd.lOEO. II — the Gold too Siiv(T and its CO (Vjmpounds. Plathmin...Iheir Cornjiounds Vraniuiji and its (5mii/ounds Iron and its (''omp>)undB. Alaijpane.se and its (‘omponndb...etc 252 251 Fjiisilicales Cbrysoliie Croup Garnet Grou]) 25 (> 259 Zircon (D'oyj) JdocTMiue E])i(lo(e...Zeolites Section 'riioiusonit(\ b. 1 2h\S Group 1 i singcrite Chlorite Gi\>uj> . 397 310 312 |
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| grains are nothing else but garnets, the same 'garnet' which, when cut and mounted, can be seen in any...mineral is not always a rock. On the other hand, gold and silver, found pure or in the 'native' state...mica schist of quartz and mica, and eclogite of garnet and augite. There are also rocks which consist...of a single chemical element, such as sulphur or gold, but more often it consists of a chemical compound...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished |
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| For the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the Mining Engineer, the Geologist, the Prospector, the Collector...solution ,,ill by the laws of molecular aLtraction group themselves togct,her and grad ually build up a...state. As the magma cools these elements gradually group themselves into differe11t, mineral molecules, ...faces a definite symmetry which enables one to group them int.o different classes. The various operations...features on many crystals is the arrangement of a group of faces in such a manner that their intersection |
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| in connection some information as to mines and mining renovation ; industry. " The student is referred...1. 2. 3. 4. II. Sulphur Group Boron Group Arsenic Group Carbon Group 104 106 109 110 115 MINERALS...WITH OR WITHOUT ACIDIC THE SILICATES EXCLUDED. Gold 122 and Compounds Platinum, Iridium, Ruthenium...Nickel and their Compounds Uranium and its Compounds Iron and its Compounds Manganese and its Compounds 139...Amphibole Group 274 275 277 278 Beryl, etc 2. Unisilicates Chrysolite Group Garnet Group Zircon Group |
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| chlorine as they separate from the solution will group themselves together and gradually build up a definitely...faces a definite symmetry which enables one to group them into different classes. The various operations...symmetry (point group) but also the far more complicated internal symmetry (space group). A brief explanation...and restricted sense. Thus, a form consists of a group of crystal faces all of which have the same relation...features on many crystals is the arrangement of a group of faces in such a manner that their intersection |
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| nephelite group .............................................. The cancrinite-sodalite group. ............................................ The olivine group. .................................................................................. The melilite group .................................................................................... The zoisite group. ................................................................................ The andalusite group ............................................. Staurolite |
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| from power stations fuelled by locally mined coal. Mining directly employs half a million people and another...million people formally employed in the country. The mining industry returns billions to the economy in operating... taxes, royalties, dividends and interest. The mining industry, and the minerals on which it relies,...308 1 Introduction Chemical elements such as iron, aluminium, oxygen, carbon and many others are familiar...which we extract essential commodities, such as iron (figure 1.3), manganese, silicon or aluminium, on |
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| nephelite group................................................ The cancrinite-sodalite group.............................................. The olivine group.................................................................................... The melilite group............................................... The..................................... The zoisite group............................................................... t ................ The andalusite group. ............................................ Staurolite |
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| nephelite group.................................................. The cancrinite-sodalite group............................................. The olivine group.................................................................................... The melilite group..................................................................................... The zoisite group.................................................................................. The andalusite group..............................................'. |
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| français. Cover illustration Pendant: almandine garnet cabochon set in silver. Cut and set by Jim Robertson...Ontario. The cabochon measures 12 mm by 10 mm. The garnet is from River Valley, Ontario. Photograph by R...Geological Survey of Canada. GSC 2005-244 Almandine garnet crystal from Laniel, Quebec. Collected by Philip...dyke, Purdy mine, 1942. Photograph by N.B. Davis, courtesy of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy...road log South March feldspar mine March mica mine Humphreys feldspar mine Currie barite occurrence Pakenham |
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| prepare students for later encounters with space group notation so modern mineralogical references and...angles for minerals commonly in good crystals; space group data; unit cell dimensions; axial ratios for nonisometric...very slow, the ions of sodium and chlorine will group themselves together to form a crystal or a few crystals...most densely populated. CRYSTAL SYMMETRY Point Group Symmetry. regularity or On close examination ... at illustrated in Fig. 8. Space Group Symmetry. Space group theory was developed, as a kind of |
