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Quartz from
Martin Prospect, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA


Locality type:Prospect
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Martin Prospect, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:449095
Long-form Identifier:1:3:449095:1
GUID (UUID V4):609df42c-caae-4a81-a9f7-5c754bbcba8d
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.8km (0.5 miles) Jefferson Claim Prospect, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Big Boy Prospect, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Hornet Claim Prospect, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Doughboy Prospect, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Treasure Vault Mine (Twilight; Birmingham), Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Gray Eagle Claim Mine (Birmingham Group; Glacier Silver Lead Mining Company), Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Silver Queen Mine (Birmingham), Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Rising Star Mine, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Crescent Mine (Birmingham), Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
4.4km (2.8 miles) East Creek Mine, Flint Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Mines in Southern Idaho: Volume II: Flint Creek-South Mountain Area, Owyhee County, Idaho Earl H. Bennett...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...Mines in Southern Idaho: Volume II: Flint Creek-South Mountain Area, Owyhee County, Idaho Earl H. Bennett...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...2000 for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Idaho Operations Office, under Assistance Agreement No
Report (issue)
MINES IN SOUTHERN IDAHO: VOLUME I: SILVER CITYWAR EAGLE MOUNTAIN AREA, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO JOHN KAUFFMAN...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...MINES IN SOUTHERN IDAHO: VOLUME I: SILVER CITYWAR EAGLE MOUNTAIN AREA, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO JOHN KAUFFMAN...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...2000 for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Idaho Operations Office, under Assistance Agreement No
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jacobson. L. R. Ream Publishing, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. 126 pages; 1993; $19.95 (softbound), $34.95 (hardbound)...(hardbound). This book describes the history of mining and collecting, the geologic history, petrology...Stony Brook, NY 117942100. Alaskan Gofd: Placer Mining in lnterior Alaska, produced by KUAGTV, University...Alan Probert for the U.S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. It was made to illustrate their golddredging...excellent supplement to any program on placer gold mining or a short program by itself. Arthur E. Smith
Journal (issue)
crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In my view they are...largest are only 1.5 cm. (Continues next page) MARTIN ZINN EXPOSITIONS, L.L.C. 2007 SHOWS JAN. 27 -...Parking * Free Shuttle Bus to ALL 5 Locations Martin Zinn Expositions,L.L.C. • P.O.Box 665 • Bernalillo...Kvanefjeld, Point of Rocks (Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA) and a few from Aris. 5-15 mm free-standing crystals...epidote crystals (dark green, to 6-8 mm) on matrix of quartz crystals to 8 cm with pink prehnite. The epidote
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unusual boxlike cavities lined with comb-structured quartz. Although Dale (1924) named the vein after the...the outer walls of the quartz-lined cavities, at the boundary between quartz and calcite, pyrolusite...along the cleavage directions of calcite. Euhedral quartz characterized the interior of the cavities, Volume69...University Library] at 17:06 10 August 2015 Calcite and quartz mineralization typical of the box-vein of Lyonsdale...with Herkimer quartz) locally occurs on the surfaces and within the outer margins of quartz. Textural evidence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
painting by Stephen F. Greb. July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado. Barbara...Potosi, Bolivia. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest...Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen, Harold and Erica Van Pelt photo....310-13 Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado...Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite, Arkansas
Book
Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
Book (volume)
Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 ct), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Report (issue)
Pittsylvania counties, Bedford County, Grayson County, Fauquier County' Roanoke and Botetourt counties...Pyrite ------Chalcopyrite -:----------Oxides -----Quartz -.----.Limonite 3 I 4 4 6 6 General t 7 I...development _________, _____ Zs Prospecting ____-__ .r Mining and washing methods _____-____ Zs Commercial factors...Saunders mine ________ _________ 3l Phillips mine and prospect 32 Alteration of wall rock Hewitt mine ________...Mattox mine _-______ Cundiff prospect - Bragg mine ________ Haden ' Wood prospect Arthur mine ________ Ifamner
Report (issue)
Page Chapter I — Introduction 9 Location of district geologic Earlier 9 summary Historical 10...Minerals of the veins- 25 Fluorite 25 Calcite 25 Quartz Galena 25 26 Sphalerite 27 Pyrite 29 Chalcopyrite...deposits General statement 45 Distribution 45 Mining methods 45 Occurrence 46 Two 46 types of...58 58 59 59 Barite 60 Origin of barite 61 Quartz Galena 62 Chalcopyrite 63 Marcasite 63 62...Vein 77 Daisy vein Production 78 Dimmick 80 prospect shaft No. 2 79 Eureka Fluorspar mine Clement-Dyspeck
Journal (issue)
Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 3 Hollister prospect............................................................................... 4 Bemis Stream prospect ....................................................................................... 5 Rose quartz locality pegmatite ..............................America Arizona Independence Mine, White Picacho District, Arizona. Anthony et al. (2005, p. 155) mentions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3.5 cm attractively placed on a matrix of small quartz crystals. 248 ROCKS & MINERALS The specimen was...thousands of fine specimens during their years of mining and related scientific study, making acquisition...crystals have been found at the Martin prospect and Bennett quarry in Oxford County. Good crystals up to 25 mm... Middlesex County, Connecticut. Cassiterite as small crystalline grains in narrow quartz veins at Jackson...Conway Granite north of Moat Mountain, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Good cassiterite specimens, a few
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ME Black Mountain, ME Estes Quarry, ME v Martin Prospect, ME 1 0 / Ms .. Fe Downloaded by [Northeastern...Samples from the Martin prospect, Newry, Maine, are confirmed as zanazziite. Martin prospect zanazziite displays...of roscherite-group minerals from the Galileia district range from greifensteinite to zanazziite to roscherite...chromophoric metal cations, primarily lead. Foord and Martin (1979) suggested numerous possibilities for the...along a trend within the Morefield mine in Amelia County, Virginia. Brightwell (1999, 2001) analyzed amazonite
Book (volume)
1\1ontana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 et), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Unusual Quartz John Ebner of Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected...and Figure 7: Arizona quartz; John Ebner photo. Figures 2 & 3 Arizona quartz; John Ebner photos. unusual...unusual micromount-sized quartz crystals. The accompanying photographs illustrate the variety of groupings...distortions found in the specimens. Maine New Mining Activity Ever since the feldspar mill burned in...West Paris in the early 196Os, Maine pegmatite mining has been conducted only for the recovery of gems
Report (issue)
Alabama, University, Ala. Department of :ty.lines, Mining and Geology State Division of Conservation Atlanta...Jr ___________________________ _ Relationship of mining to other economic sectors, by Albert E. Schreck...Manmade features _____________________ _ Strip mining ______________________ _ Subsidence ________________________...265 Tripoli and rottenstone__ __ _____ ___ __ 266 Quartz abrasives____________________ 266 Artificial a...Shirley_______ Types of mica, uses, and prices___________ Mining and preparation_________________ History and p
Journal (issue)
present in specimens actually dug from a quarry or prospect. Of course, the list includes whatever species...in the Penrose Branch of the Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD), in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (See Exhibit...on page 4) Mineral News ----2 Newry, Oxford County, Maine (Continued from page 1) For example. chemical...The Crooker Pegmatite hosts the Crooker Prospect, Martin Prospect, Blue Pit. and several unnamed prospects...Quarry (""Twin Tunnels"'). Bell Pit. Perham Prospect. Swett Prospect and several unnamed prospects. The Main
Report (issue)
northeastward-trending system of steeply dipping normal faults. Mining activity started in the Mineral Ridge area in about...quantities of sphalerite, galena, smithsonite, quartz, marcasite, and pyrite. Fluorspar bodies are of...eastern part of Livingston County and the southwestern part of Crittenden County (fig. 5). The area can be...Mineral Ridge is applied to the entire mapped area. Mining hag been doHG at VarfOUS pUCCS ftlOllg both sides...feet above mean sea level. The first mention of mining iii the Mineral Kidge area was by Norwood (1876
Report (issue)
................. 66 44. Photograph of kyanite-quartz granofels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...marble are still being mined. Areas of extensive mining and (or) prospecting include the limestone, bauxite...iron and manganese deposits of the Cartersville district; volcanogenic massive sulfide and gold -deposits...the mineral location map for the Cartersville district. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation...first of two reports on the hydrology of Bartow County in which he indicated that much of the Lower Cambrian
Book
AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...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
Report (volume)
BLACK MOUNTAINS, AND.GRAND WASH CLIFFS MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZOiNA BY F. C. SCHRADER WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...__ .___ 44 Mining districts._____________ ______.____ ___ 45 Production of Mohave County._____________...Introduction _______________________________ 49 Chloride district-______________________________ 51 I vocation ______________...Continued. Cerbat Range Continued. Mineral Park district Continued. Tyler mine Lady Bug niine__ Rural and...Continued. Cerbat Range Continued. Stockton Hill district Continued. General outline Continued. Page. Topography
Journal (issue)
Dinmond Gra1,hitc GOLD Albemarle County.-"Streaks" occur in quartz veins in slate belt east of South­...South­ western Mt. (ll. 8). Buckingham County.-A placer gold specimen about 7 x 10 x 17 mm. which was mined...collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Culpeper County.-Two specimens with flakes of gold up to 1 cm....dimension perpendicular to the walls of the enclosing quartz vein were found near Richardsville and are now...specimen with irregularly shaped masses of gold in quartz from Loves Farm near Culpeper C. H. is also in
Report (issue)
have been considerable prospecting and mining in the district and notable advances have been mad.e in...Dolomite 78 Calcite 78 ----Barite -----Fluorite Quartz ----- StratigraphicrelationsofzincJeadmineralization...lead in Virginia-----Crystalline area -------- County Selected references Louisa and Spotsylvania counties-----Selected...ah County Botetourt County Troutville Bonsacks -Martin prospect Montgomery County Pulaski County Delton...counties ----------General statemenr Bertha district ----------Prospect at Carter Ferry ------Mineralized exposures
Report (issue)
(Prindle and Katz, 1913, p. 146). Both prospecting and mining have been reported (Mertie, 1934, p. 192). A sample...LG001 Workings/exploration: Both prospecting and mining have been reported (Mertie, 1934, p. 192). Production...Production notes: Both prospecting and mining have been reported, but there is no data on production (Mertie...Placer mining was reported in 1904 and 1918 in stream placers near the mouth of the creek; mining may have...Placer mining was reported in 1904 and 1918 in stream placers near the mouth of the creek; mining may have
Show/Event (guide)
pegmatite, Amelia, Virginia by L. E. Kearns and B. S. Martin. 4:00 M i n e r a l o g y of the hiddenite and...barite occurring in the Cartersville Mining District, Bartow County, Georgia by1..C. Gray. 4:30 A new...e x a h e d r a l faces on grossular from Inyo County, California by V. T King. 2 5:00 T w i n n e...2:00-3:00 COLLECTOR'S EDGEMINERALS INC.: RECENTSPECIMEN MINING DISCOVERIES: 1997-2003 - Bryan Lees BryanLees is...fine mineral specimens. His description of their mining of the outstanding rhodochrosites at RMS-23was
 
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