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Quartz from
Beacon Light Mine, Platteville east area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beacon Light Mine, Platteville east area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:505377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:505377:3
GUID (UUID V4):82145679-2c50-48a6-beed-d116c39ed52d
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.3km (0.8 miles) Mitchell Hollow Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Kingeter Mine, Platteville east area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Acme Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) Royal Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Columbia Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Empire Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Homestead Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Grant County Mine (Lucky Four), Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Enterprise Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Hibernia Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
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The Geology of the Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District By ALLEN V. HEYL, Jr., ALLEN F. AGNEW...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 309 Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural Histoyy Survey, the Iowa...Cultural development and facilities related to mining Field work and acknowledgments Scope of the report...geologic work in the district Geology Stratigraphy Precambrian rocks Cambrian system Upper Cambrian series...St. Peter sandstone Platteville formation Decorah formation Galena dolomite Upper Ordovician series Maquoketa
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1965. 1966. 1967. 1968. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and..._____ Base and ferrous metals.________________ Light metals and industrial minerals. _____ Radioactive...and the Coastal Plains. Appalachian Plateaus and Valley and Ridge provinces ____________________________...____________-__---_West-central Alaska _________-__----_ 50 50 East-central Alaska._______--__--------52 Southwestern...______-_-_-----------68 Minnesota.-___-__--------------------68 Wisconsin _____-__----------------69 Michigan ___-_____
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CRIB, compiled mineral occurrence records for the area of study from approximately the Fall of 1979 through...the mineral occurrence map for the Wallace 1° X 2° area during the summer of 1981. The user should be aware...A listing of the numeric codes used for drainage area, physiographic province, land classification, and... Stockholm Placer Triangle Mine Eclipse and Van Ness Placer Tucker Gulch Placers Quartz Creek Placer Mines Tami...Bonanza Group Barite Mine Gildersleeve Mine Windfall Creek Placer Meadow Creek Placer Mine Floodwood Creek
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P. SWINEFORD. MARQUETTE, (L S.) MICH. THE MINING JOURNAL. 1876. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS...Copper Miners of Lake The geology of the Iron District;, by Chas. E. Wright, Superior. 1 M. though... the same super In this respect they were far mining became an industry on the stitious reverence prevailed...or one hundred leagues from the Hurons there is a mine of copper from which Truchement Brusle showed me...island which is fifty in there is a very beautiful mine of in which circuit, leagues copper; it is found
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modern the buccaneer of Card of the Homestake Mining Co. Lead. 8. I am my not a member of any Labor...system that socialism in consideration HOMESTAKE MINING COM- is finance, The pirate who bought old obsolete...and earth in a cavein at the Jordon mine of the United States Mining Company 's properties early this morning...and one was killed tonight at the United States mine when he fell down a shaft 75 feet deep and broke...caught beneath a rock slide at the Highland Boy mine. Two received broken legs. One was injured internally
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OF CALIFORNIA'S PIONEER-TOWNS, GHOST-TOWNS AND MINING-CAMPS compiled by B. V. Terry. More than 400 place...equally recommended for research material in an area that was crossed by Anza, Kit Carson, the Mormon...Kern County. Map No. 2 covers the Opal Mountain and Black Canyon areas in San Bernardino County. Map...Paso Mountains area. All are on 16x17-inch parchment paper. $1.00 per map. DEATH VALLEY BOOKS Published...Published by the Death Valley '49ers these five volumes have been selected by '49ers as outstanding works on
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and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859–2009, Duane A. Smith 0 Trail @ Gold & Silver Mining in Colorado...Vendl, wonderful friends, fellow Cub fans, and mining historians. © 2009 by the University Press of...Smith, Duane A. The trail of gold and silver : mining in Colorado, 1859–2009 / Duane A. Smith. p. cm...paper) 1. Gold mines and mining—Colorado—History. 2. Silver mines and mining—Colorado—History. 3. Colorado—Gold...Photographic Essay: Nineteenth-Century Colorado Mining 173 10. 1900–1929: Looking Forward into Yesterday
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Mining properties in Idaho that were involved in the DMA...Illustration and table Plate 1. Map showing location of mining properties in Idaho that were involved in the DMA... or OME mineral exploration programs. Table 1. Mining properties in Idaho that were involved in the DMA...DMEA, or OME mineral exploration programs. 10 Mining properties in Idaho that were involved in DMA,...generated by the programs, presents information on mining properties in Idaho that were involved in the exploration
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Grand Canyon later. MAY 9 — Annual prospector's mining course to open at Winnemucca, Nevada, and continue...Prize contest pictures from Palm Springs . . . . 18 MINING The O'Briens of "Palo Verde Shack" By RANDALL HENDERSON...Magazine in March, this picture taken in Death Valley with a 4x5 Graflex, Panchromatic film, yellow filter...later. Anza had turned his face south to the Altar Valley for remounts. Don Bernardo had promised aid. Now...he wouldn't be punished. It Indian man, had fled east toward the seems he ran away from the priests at
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ROTHWELL, C. E., M. E., Editor of the “Engineering and Mining Journal.” These are the most thorough and exhaustive...been issued, and no person at all interested in mining or metallurgy can afford to be without them. THE...its mineral resources find the Engineering and Mining Absolutely Indispensable Journal indispensable...practice and the most im¬ proved machinery used in mining and reducing ores, and the most advantageous markets...correspondents in every import¬ Prospector Miner ant mining district in the world, who keep its readers informed
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................................ 8 1.4.1.2 Acid Mine Drainage ........................................... 24 2.2 Organization of the Boise Basin Study Area ..................................................Characteristics of the Ore and Relationship to Acid Mine Drainage .................................................................. 32 2.7.1 Quartzburg District ........................................................................ 32 2.7.2 Grimes Pass District .............................................
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1416 Ninth Sweet, ‘Secramento 95814 Los Angeles District Office: 1065 Junipare Sere Building, 107 South...Ninth Srmet, ‘Secramanto 95814 ‘Son Francisco District OMice: 2022 Ferry Building, Sen Francisco 94111...SEAMOUNTS DISCOVERED FRONT: of Monterey shore Valley MAGNETIC Craig Biddle, Riverside, in- recently...MAGNETIC/ATMOSPHERIC STORM LINK IS FOUND POLAR area. (Photo USGS SELLS NOS CHARTS OF Bay U-2 photo...(Escholtzia californica); State bird, official in 1931 valley quail (Lophortyx californica); state tree, official
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Mil' i I ';> ?mii Wmmh 11181 \ lMINING / DEPAfiTtriEiT Of Library Numbrr; M / Return...SD^al loan. / permJssie INDEX TO) VOLUME Mining and I imiin n ni 1920 it^!/f/vt n nun t...161 Science and industry. Allen, A. moving from mine-hoists Signaling Allen, C. A 232 cages 645 Allis-Chalmers...Consolidated Gold Fields of South 881 Africa 747 American Mining Congress Editorial. 752. 790, 826 Ditto 215 Co...book review Assaying methods at the Globe & Phoenix mine 4 51 H. R. Edmands. 108 Association of Accountants
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been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to...to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible to the mineralogical...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have
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DEPOSIT. ^ jflnzona mining Directory A DIRECTORY OF Arizona^s Mines^ Mining Districts Owners or...or Operators AND POSTOFFICE ADDRESSES (Yavapai County) Copyright RUSSELL H. J 903 MILLWARD PRESCOTT...PRESCOTT, ARIZONA Published by The Arizona Mining Directory Prescott, Arizona Price $2.50 '-^ '...#;^ XXc. No. a. PREFACE Yavapai, the treasure county of Arizona, has developed beyond the speculative...operators than to this county a greater is October 298 1, were 1876, of mining locations Hinton, the
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.................. 51 Wanlockhead and Leadhills Area. A Select Bibliography of the J . Williams.. . ...58, Redkirk Point, Gretna, Annandale & Eskdale District. A Mesolithic Hearth at L.Masters ................... 58, 16. Druid’s Grave, Kyle and Carrick District, Strathclyde Region: The Rediscovery of a Chambered... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upper Annandale. A Neolithic Scraper from S.E.Bird . ...Carlochan Round Cairn, Crossmichael, Stewartry District. Excavation of the L. J. MastersandM. J. Yates
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STRIKE AGAINST THE SCRANTON MINE THE ON AT THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT. IS STILL Miners should keep...keep away from the Tintic mining District. The camps are over-run with idle men, 300 being out of work...working at Britannia Beach have withdrawn tnem The mine and the tunnel camps are now practically deserted...be perpetrated on men of ordinary intelligence. MINE THEnualUNITED convention WORKERS in Peoria, made...United Mine Workers never hesitate in responding generously to an appeal for aid. The United Mine Workers
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Complete Working Manual for the Use of Ultraviolet Light in Locating and Recognizing Minerals INCLUDING ...laboratory, and the operating mine or mill. field, the home Ultraviolet light, in the hands of geologists...interesting on the bing to capitalize colors. MINING MEN AND PROSPECTORS may find new points of view...nonmetallic “ores” which are the breadand-butter of the mining industry. The story of ultraviolet rays and the...Ultra-violet Products, Inc. President, Black Light Corporation of America Past President, American
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Complete Working Manual for the Use of Ultraviolet Light in Locating and Recognizing Minerals INCLUDING ...home laboratory, and the operating mine or mill. Ultraviolet light, in the hands of geologists, miners...interesting effects possible with fluorescent colors. MINING MEN AND PROSPECTORS may find new points of view...nonmetallic “ores” which are the breadand-butter of the mining industry. The story of ultraviolet rays and the...President, Ultra-violet Products, Inc. President, Black Light Corporation of America Past President, American
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