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Fornacite from
Smithsonite Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fornacite
Formula:Pb2Cu(CrO4)(AsO4)(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fornacite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Smithsonite Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:354731
Long-form Identifier:1:3:354731:1
GUID (UUID V4):e394119f-3876-42cd-aecf-855bd67db5c8
Nearest other occurrences of Fornacite
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘRosella claim, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) ⓘRoot Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) ⓘAlice Mine (Yellow Pine Extension Mine; Green Mountain Mine), Goodsprings, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ⓘSinger Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
6.5km (4.1 miles) ⓘFredrickson Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) ⓘCrystal Pass properties, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
51.8km (32.2 miles) ⓘQuo Vadis Mine, Alunite Mining District, Clark County, Nevada, USA
56.7km (35.2 miles) ⓘBudget group, Crescent Mining District, New York Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
78.0km (48.5 miles) ⓘNE2 vein, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
78.3km (48.7 miles) ⓘOtto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...'Ike Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain...Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite
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Study Group MICRO PROBE VOLUME X, Number 1 SPRING, 2005 SPRING MEETING ...............HILLSBORO, OREGON...Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada. He was inordinately proud...great grandchildren. His interest in mineral and mining was something that he liked to share with schools...address, payable for each calendar year at the Spring meeting or by mail to the Secretary-Treasurer:... Recent rare mineral finds in Southern California and Nevada Desert Mines Robert M. Housley 210 S. Catalina
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University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite. A...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as
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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
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
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net The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province, Thailand .........731 . by M. P. Sacchi The Santa Rosa mine, Inyo County, California ................................SCORODITE crystal, 1.6 cm wide, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Unique Minerals...$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...supplement showing many details of the Berezovsk mining district, the subject of the July–August 2016 issue
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Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isùre, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo
Book
PISTOLS I THE BLUE BELL CLAIMS San Bernardino County, California by Millard F. Maynard, Editor A1...Jean Hall Mac and Elyga Mansfield San Bernardino County Museum Department of Earth Sciences 2024 Orange...This report has been prepared by San Bernardino County Museum volunteers. It is one of a series we plan...on the mines in this county. Mining activity for metals in San Bernardino County has been very limited...limited since 1960. Some mining for metals is still being done, but it is principally for gold, silver, and
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Turley & M. Koval Mineralogy of the Killie mine, Elko County, N ev a d a ........................413 by...UK Journal o f Mines and Minerals. Issue no. 2 (Spring 1987) is 36 pages, large format (21 x 30 cm), properly...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...have been col­ lected at the Duff quarry in Logan County, Ohio, for more than ten years. The crystals are...approximately 2 kilometers north of Huntsville, Logan County, in west-central Ohio. The quarry produces crushed
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Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner...1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon Famous mineral...mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona............................................ ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and nearly...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens
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with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary
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Trevor F. Bridges 61-65 A report on Westernhope Old Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges Journal...occurrences’ of a number of minerals, such as fornacite, kombatite, and sahlinite. ‱ Redefinition of several...LĂ„ngban in Sweden, the Kombat Mine in Namibia, and the Mammoth St. Anthony Mine in Tiger, Arizona. ‱ Production...from localities around Bristol such as the Wesley Mine and Coombe Farm and from other quarries around Frome...localities around Priddy including the Higher Pitts Mine. Consequently, we have good knowledge of these particular
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microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains), NE of...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite
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The Mammoth- St. Anthony Mine TIGER, ARIZONA The Mohawk mine. Photo courtesy Arizona Historical Society...Location The Mammoth-St. Anthony mine is located at Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona, Section 26, Township...who named the new mining area the Old Hat Mining District. In the early 1880s a mine was started on the...developing into the town of Mammoth. The ore from the mine was hauled the three miles by 20 mule team wagons...hill to and from work at the mine. Soon a camp developed around the mine JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1982 5 KEY
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
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Mineral Study Group MICRO PROBE Spring, 2013 VOLUME XI, Number 7 SPRING MEETING . . . . . . . . . . ....WASHINGTON May 4, 2013 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...Lead Minerals from Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington Randy Becker --- huntbecker @aol .com...Linarite from the Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington, Micro Probe Vol. XI Number 6, p 24...Hematite from the Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington by Rudy W. Tschernich, 300 Alps Road
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by D. Jones The minerals of Malpais Hill, Pinal County, Arizona..............................109 by R...Shannon Calciovolborthite from the New Water Mountains ................................119 by W. Hunt...Hunt Famous mineral localities: the Hilltop mine ..........................................121 by D. K.... Miller and W. E. Wilson The Silver Bill mine, Gleeson, Arizona .......................................years ago. Evidence of their work in the form of mining artifacts occasionally turns up, and in one instance
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Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express
fluoborite 54 fluorite 20, 20, 2/ foresite 119 fornacite 63 forsterite 75 franklinite 24 freibergite 11...uraninite 36 skutterudite 17, 17 smaltite 17, 17 smithsonite 38, 39, 40 soda 50 uvarovite 77, 78 vanadates...(especially northern Michigan), the Rocky and Andes mountains, and central Africa. Excellent examples occur...Native silver has no great importance from the mining point of view due to its comparative rarity; it...regions of (especially the Comstock Lode in Nevada), and in the Canadian Shield (Sudbury, Ontario)
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fluoborite 54 fluorite 20, 20, 21 foresite 119 fornacite 63 forsterite 75 franklinite 24 freibergite 11...silver 4, 5 skutterudite 17, /7 smaltite 17, 17 smithsonite 38, 39, 40 soda 50 sodalite 114 sorosilicates...(especially northern Michigan), the Rocky and Andes mountains, and central Africa. Excellent examples occur...silver has no great importance from the mining point of view due to its comparative rarity; it...regions (especially of the Comstock Lode in Nevada), and in the Canadian Shield (Sudbury, Ontario)
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Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Montgomery collection; collected by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. ' INERALOGY OF A ZONA THIRD EDITION John...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
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Little Mary mine, Steppe district. ROCKS AND MINERALS Below: Dumps of the Arizona-Indiana mine, Watterman...collecting on mine dumps or exploring under­ ground in abandoned mines. Active mining companies occa­...Williams and Bideaux 1977) recognizes 246 major mining districts, each o f w h i c h may have several...to collectors do not even appear in this list of mining districts. The following discussion focuses on...Anderson Mine Antler Mine Apache Mine Bisbee (Warren District) Bruce Mine C & B Vanadium Mine Castle Dome
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and Manila Mine Downloaded by [New York University] at 00:58 20 June 2015 Cochise County, Arizona ROBERT...mm, from the Gallagher mine. T HE TOMBSTONE MINING DISTRICT in Cochise County, Arizona, is one of the...the country’s most notorious nineteenth-century mining camps (Williams 1980). Apart from yielding silver...and wulfenite. History The Gallagher and Manila mining claims are located approximately 13 kilometers...near its intersection with Highway 80 in Cochise County, Arizona (fig. 2). The mineral claims are typical
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Mineral Study Group MICRO PROBE Spring, 2016 VOLUME XII, Number 3 SPRING MEETING . . . . . . . . . . ...and finding new material, such as:  Current day mining operations – Blast it!  Litigation-minded people...material recently discovered at the Blue Lizard Mine in southeastern Utah has produced a whole set of...Silver Coin Mine. IMA No. 2015-077 Fluorwavellite Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron...Iron Point district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA (40°55’44”N, 117° 19’26”W), and Wood mine, 5 miles NE of Del
 
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