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Uraninite from
Moonlight Mine, Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moonlight Mine, Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:292250
Long-form Identifier:1:3:292250:8
GUID (UUID V4):0b3a9aef-71bf-4f11-931c-7ca12caa23db
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
1.9km (1.2 miles) Granite Point Mine (Granite Point claims; Chevron claims), Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
34.3km (21.3 miles) Aurora Uranium Prospect, Opalite Mining District (McDermitt Mining District), Malheur County, Oregon, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...Buckhorn claims, Nevada; the Midnite and Daybreak mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White...White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor Mountains 327 328 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF URANIUM...GEOLOGY area, Montana and Wyoming, and the deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium deposits in northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, USA Stephen B. Castor ) , Christopher...NV 89557, USA Received 14 June 1999; accepted 24 September 1999 Abstract Northwestern Nevada and southeastern...enriched in epithermal trace elements and contain uraninite, coffinite, chalcedony, opal, and numerous sulfides...material, and pyrite. Deposits in the Lakeview U district, Oregon are hosted by weakly peraluminous rhyolite...numerous sulfides. Minor U occurrences at Buff Peak, Nevada, the newly recognized, westernmost topaz Žperaluminous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which less canicallyassociated, radioactiverocks in Nevada; than 10 percentof glassand/or feldsparis replaced...tuffs from the 40-ft level of the Moonlight mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. The sampledveins include fluorite...identifiable uranium minerals are autunite and uraninite. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS 105 HtG: Specimenfrom...Metals in Samples of Volcanic Affiliation from Nevada 90 ft directly aboveHtF and in the samevein system...Cu Co Mo Li Pb U HxF exceptthat no pyrite or uraninite is presentin H•F 300 115 81 41 1268 1500 this
Report (issue)
predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...batholith area, Montana ; the Sierra Ancha region, Arizona ; and the Marysvale district, Utah. All the...including Arizona, California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and FRANK W. OsTERWALD Oregon...comments on the history of uranium geology and mining. The other chapters deal principally with pertinent
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
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...Tallahassee, Fla. GA Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, 425 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga. IM...Director, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte, Mont. NEV Office of Director, Nevada Bureau of
Report (volume)
1956, Uranium deposits of the Boulder batholith, Montana: Internat. Conf. on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy...for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...from Washington, Oregon,, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, and Arizona were...C. F., 1951, The distribution of radioactivity: Mining Mag. [London], v. 85, p. 329-340. See p. 330-331...dikes, in schists, in the Ohio City area, Gunnison County, Colo. The microlite, associated with lepidolite
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana.......................................................................................... 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
Report (issue)
) and copper-leach operations (Utah, Arizona, Montana) during the period 19802000. According to DOE,...Uranium is a geochemically persistent element. Uraninite, a common uranium mineral, has been precipitated...and brown uranium ore minerals, pitchblende and uraninite, occur either in extensive bedded deposits in...conditions, concentrations large enough to warrant mining are restricted mostly to the western U.S. Principal...Northern Rockies and Columbis Plateau (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming) V 12 Appalachian Highlands VI 14
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
~ ) : • ,- '1-/Challis r--, - qa'wtooth Mountains r i ~ Elmore'~. -C- -J'-,/,_~, ~ l I ...specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Role of Continental Crust in the Formation of Uraninite-Based Ore Deposits Stefanie R. Lewis 1, * , Antonio...University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; Antonio.Simonetti.3@nd.edu (A.S.); lcorcora@nd.edu...University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA Correspondence: stefanie.lewis08@gmail.com Received:...abundances and Pb, Sr, and U isotopic signatures of uraninite from a variety of ore deposits in order to establish...concentrations, reported here, provide insights into uraninite crystal substitution mechanisms and possible crustal
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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
· as a joint program of the Manhattan Engineer District and its successor, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...___ _ Pitchblende deposits in the Central City district and adjoining areas, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties...pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard...------Uranium deposits of the Boulder batholith, Montana, by George E. Becraft___________________________...to pitchblende-bearing veins at Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, by George W. Walker and Frank W. Osterwald
Report (issue)
____________________________________ _ History of mining and production ________________ _ General description...Cordilleran-Ouachita forelands uranium region_ California and Nevada __ ----- ______________ _ Texas Coastal Plain ...States. FIGURE 1. Map showing location of uranium-mining districts in West-Central United States-------------------------2...generally forms uranium-rich minerals, such as uraninite (pitchblende), which-in sufficient quantityare...in 1874 at Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Carbon County, Pa. ('Genth, 1875, p. 144B). In 1898 a deposit
Journal (issue)
other than Earl Parot, who is a personal friend of mine and whom I esteem very highlyOf course you have...along with you there will be no difficulty. —K.H. Mine was Too Rich . . . Pasadena, California Dear Mr...Hill"—it is stated that silver ore at Hamilton, Nevada, yielded $27,000 to the ton. I visited this old...Jitterbug, is really ideal for rock hunting, in the mountains as well as the desert. I believe that if mineral...traveling on foot towards Needles from the Black Metal mine of Pete McGuire down the river, he came upon the
Book
doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...... ... .... . .... ..... . . ...... . Zoned Uraninite Pegmatites ..................................... . Zr-Fe 3.......... . 5. Anions Examples Uraninite Pyrochlorc-microlite, apatite, zirkelite, crandalJite...cro]j te Uraninite, zircon Uraninite Uraninite, fergusonite, samarskite, xenotime Uraninite Urau.inite...always well crystallized. Metamict pitchblende ( uraninite) has been reported ( Conybeare and Ferguson, 1950)
Book (volume)
the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast corner...where Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at...in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily...Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain (about 30% of the state),...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
enjoyed an all day excursion to the Spokane Molybdenum Mine about 70 miles north of Spokane on May 13, 1951...metamorphic deposits changing to limestone at the Tungston Mine at Trumbull there is wolframite, scheelite, topaz...crystallized at moderate depth at the Iron Mine, Roxbury; a fault zone mine, good specimens of siderite, arsenopyrite...sphalerite were found. The Connecticut Valley Copper Mine, Bristol, furnished malachite, azurite. and chalcocite...the pegmatite of Strickland Quarry, Portland, uraninite, lepidolite, beryl, columbite and autunite were
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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
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS... deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon (Hotz...ore is associated with some veins in the Sierra Nevada and was locally worked with the vein deposits (Clark...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills (Knopf, 1929). Newhouse
Report (issue)
____________ Nevada and California, by E. N. Cameron and L. A. Warner__ _________________ ___. Nevada ___________...___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____ ____ Pag« 59 61 61 63 63 63 Good...Good Hope barite mine, Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten depositNorth...California-Nevada Barite Co. 63 64 64 64 64 65 65 65 65 Barium Products Corp., Ltd., mine...... --_--______...Lincoln County__-__-----_-----_-----___ Tern Piute district....... __ ___ ... Mineral County____-_______________
Journal (issue)
Xavier, Arizona. LETTERS GHOST TOWN LOST MINE NEWS MINING Jan. 15—Phoenix Don's club Travelcade, over...summit of an unnamed peak in the San Bernardino mountains. Howard Hill, leader. January—Exhibit of paintings...their life design. No bleak, cold heights of mountains No billows of ocean grand, Can fill the heart...distinctly seen flashing and sparkling in the moonlight, extending from one bank to the other, and advancing...launching. Shortly after midnight on December 30, in moonlight almost as brilliant as day, the high tide floated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORIGINAL PAPER Uranium minerals from the San Marcos District, Chihuahua, Mexico Manuel Reyes-Cortés & Luis...Ca(UO2)(V2O8)·3(H2O) were observed. Uranophane, uraninite (UO2+x), masuyite Pb(UO2)3O3(OH)·3(H2O), and becquerelite...mineralization: (1) deposition of uraninite, (2) alteration of uraninite to masuyite, (3) deposition of...Chihuahua, Nuevo campus, Chihuahua, Chih, México uraninite with geothermal carbonated solutions, which led...almost complete dissolution of the precursor uraninite. The Victorino deposit represents the second known
 
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