 | | 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 (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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Cherokee County Kings Creek The Kings Creek, South Carolina, Barite Pits R O G E R BARNETT Simpsonville...CAROLINA HISTORY Cherokee County, South Carolina, has a long history of mining. Perhaps the most prominent...and Georgia deposits. Cherokee County also contains an iron ore district. An important iron industry flourished...until shortly after the War Between the Left: Pyrolusite, dendritic habit, length of largest central group...vugs in schist, West Pit Barite—four distinctive types, see text of article, West Pit Beraunite—deep red |  | | Book (edition) | | fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee | | | Book (edition) | | Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Apache County — 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437, 438 Gila County 439 Graham County Greenlee |  | | Report (volume) | | SMITH, Director Bulletin 737 MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF EAST TENNESSEE BY G. W. STOSE AND F. C. SCHRADER Prepared...________________ .__________________ Johnson County ___ ___ _ Shady Valley district _________________________ Reynolds...and prospects Continued. Johnson County Continued. Mountain City district ____ __________________ Taylor...Doe Valley mine______________1___________ Butler district ______________________________ Proffit prospe...prospect_________________________'. _ Carter County '. _ __ ________ Butler district _________________ __ _ __________ |  | | Report (issue) | | 74 75 75 Geology lo Manganese ore deposit Mining and preparation of St. Lukes Hospital tract .....Geology ..: .. . . 8t 82 83 Manganese ore deposit Mining and preparation of Rhesa A. Orndorff ore bD...counties Achenbach Bath . r00 t00 tract .. I00 County Stephenson prospect 101 101 Gillett prospeet... l0r Little Piney Mountain prospect Alleghany County X'alling Spring iron prospect r03 104 104 104...Botetourt County Horton prospect Cook mine Burman prospect Purgatory Mountain prospects Craig County X'enwick |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ Cartersville district, Ga............................ Gerae s mine................................... Coble, Hickman County, Tenn.......................... Silver Bluff, S............ Map of the Gemea mine, Cartersville district, Ga.............................................Oak Mountain manganese area, 276 52. Bradley County, Tenn........................ Geologic map of the...manganese prospects in the Rock Run area, Cherokee County, Ala.............. Maps of the Cedartovm, Ga,, |  | | Report (edition) | | particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...23 23 28 Adams County Native copper localities Teeter quarry zeolite Allegheny County Wittmer wurtzite...wurtzite Bedford County New locality 31 31 locality Paris fluorite locality Sherman Valley cryptomelane...locality Berks County Dyer quarry zeolite locality Frystown fetid barite locality Blair County Altoona barite...33 33 35 38 38 42 45 45 47 50 Page Butler County East Unity Church Sedwicks Mill 54 54 54 57 57 |  | | Journal (issue) | | (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...heard the term “vug hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full...history as well as minerals, the World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old...only comprehensive mineralogical study of the district. This work is as valuable today as it was 37 years...Office, in the Steward mine, 1897. World Museum of Mining photo. Snowfall is moderate compared to that in |  | Bonnet, Nicolas J., Beauvais, Anicet, Arnaud, Nicolas, Chardon, Dominique, Jayananda, Mudlappa (2016) Cenozoic lateritic weathering and erosion history of Peninsular India from 40Ar/39Ar dating of supergene K–Mn oxides. Chemical Geology, 446. 33-53 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.04.018 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CE second paleolandsurface (Fig. 2a). The Kumsi pit exposes a 21 m thick lateritic profile of a relict...other oxides, such as others Mn-oxides (e.g., pyrolusite, lithiophorite) and Fe-oxides (hematite, goethite)...lower elevations on the pediment in which the Kumsi pit is excavated. Therefore, the Kumsi pediment must...contrast was mostly controlled by dominant South-East moisture fluxes NU during the late Eocene and...a change in climatic regime, which increased the east-west wetness gradient over peninsular India and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Veuquelinlte. 3 ½ x 2 x 2 . . . • . • 10.00 Axl•le.. Nevada. Xis. In parallel position. 2 ½ x 2 ½ . . . . •...desert north of the old Pony Express trail, north and east of the Fish Springs Mountains, in the western parts...Tooele, St. John, and Simpson Springs: and from Nevada via Gold Hill or '!'rout Creek and Callao. Roads...usually not easily distinguishable ly in Tooele County, Utah, at approxi - from the more plentiful Pleistocene...large number of cold spings can be found south and east of Fish Springs, scattered through the marshes (swamp |  | | Book | | 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...Oronto Group a.. 3: co w C: _J 0 0 Marquette Iron District, Baraga and Marquette Counties diabase dikes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...heard the term “vug hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full...history as well as minerals, the World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old...only comprehensive mineralogical study of the district. This work is as valuable today as it was 37 years...Office, in the Steward mine, 1897. World Museum of Mining photo. Snowfall is moderate compared to that in |  | | Report (issue) | | (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...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...exceptionally fine, twinned analcite crystals from Houghton County ························-··-······-··-········ |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...“Platinum-group minerals from the Konder Massif, Russian Far East,” in 1997 (vol. 28, p. 97-106). Evgeni Burlakov...Valley. It serves as the center of a very active mining area; a narrow-gauge railway for hauling ore passes...(The name simply means “most distant or remote mining tow n”) HISTORY The area around Dal’negorsk was...mines, and in 1924 the mining rights were sold to a British company, Tetyukhe Mining Corporation. The lease |  | | Book (volume) | | ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...1 MAR 06 200 MAR 2 ¥ 2001 | NEVADA STATE LIBRARY CARSON CITY, NEVADA Digitized by the Internet Archive...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION |  | | Report (issue) | | PHYSICAL SCI. COUNTY REPORT 7 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Uk ... R&daubced. oj COUNTY IMPERIAL Gedifansua By Paul K. Morton Geologist COUNTY REPORT California...Sand Hills, as viewed toward the northwest from County Park. The prevailing wind direction, as indicated...PREFACE vi ABSTRACT vii INTRODUCTION Summary of County 1 Mineral Trends and Needs Principal Geographic...Quaternary lake beds Eastern and northeastern Imperial County Sedimentary breccia 1 1 1 1 1 19 19 19 1 Andesite |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........................................... UK Mining Snippets ........................................issue you will find – among other things: - UK Mining Snippets – a collection of news items about actual...surprised at the level of interest and activity in UK mining. I should point out that these are just plums pulled...Hooper at Chywoon Quarry, Mabe, Wendron & Falmouth District, Cornwall. David Green photograph. ISSUE NO....impressive and it provides a nice record of the mining heritage, much of which has now long since disappeared |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | comparable with the metalhferous sediments of the East Pacific Rise and other active ocean ridges [ 14...uppermost umber, north face oI Skourlotlssa west pit, NlCOSlaDistrict Umbers Sample 323 argillaceous grey...347 all from the north face ol Skourlonssa west pit, 1119 thin intercalanon of brown mnber-hke sediment...ochres, Skounotlssa east pit, 718 typical laminated brown umber, Drapla, Llmassol District Sub umber vems...the Upper Pillow Lavas, near kymbla Umber Pit, NlCosla District Sub-umber liras Sample 2040 decomposed pillow |  | | Journal (issue) | | horizontal, extending about 20 feet to the right (east) and 15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of...pocket in 1955 at least 25 others were found as mining progressed. The contents of these, which ranged...“The wulfenite cavern extended from the back of the east end of the main ore zone on the 240 level to about...calcite, coated with a thick layer of wad. At the east side of the opening, the passage narrowed and continued...tourmaline pockets were encountered at the Dunton gem pit in Newry, Maine. Dean McCrillis joined the dig, at |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | consists of four open pits: East Endako, West Endako, East Denak, and West Denak. Mining commenced in the West...West Endako and East Endako pits in 1965, with the Denak pits having been developed in 1977. Ore reserves...of the Francois Lake plutonic suite, and on the east by the JurassicCretaceous Stellako phase (Fig. 1)...are vertical. Ribbon-textured veins have north to east-northeasterly strikes of 70° to 350° with northwesterly...180 m dextral offset between the West Denak and East Denak ore zones (Fig. 2). Dips of ribbon-textured |  | | 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 .................he procured large amounts of silver from the New Nevada mine in Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico and legrandite...business. He had claims on several sig nificant mining properties, including, but not limited to, the...the ultimate effect it exerted upon the Sierra mining companies of Lake Valley. A GRASS-ROOTS DISCOVERY...discovery leaked out and caused a rush into the new district, which from the beginning appears to have been |  | | Report (volume) | | ____________ ----- _______________ .._______ History of mining ____ --------- _________________________ -----__...----------Pasasaguas district ___ ----------------------------El Retiro district _________ -- __ ----_-------...ore deposits__________________________ Metapan district __ -----------------------------___ San Juan ...deposits ___________________ --------_____ Alotepeque district _______ ----------------------___ San Pantale6n...ores___________________________ Chiantla-San Sebastian district ___________ --------------Cteology___________ |
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