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Quartz from
Copeland Mine, Shullsburg 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 Copeland Mine, Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:505591
Long-form Identifier:1:3:505591:3
GUID (UUID V4):ef85a85a-3be7-4a38-9e19-92ca7640d9da
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.6km (0.4 miles) O'Brien Mine, Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Calumet Mine (Calumet and Hecla Mine; C&H Mine; Shullsburg Mine; Eagle Picher), Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) New Mulcahy Mine, Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Mulcahy Mine (Trewartha Mine), Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Mullen Mine, Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) James Mine (Mullen Mine; Doyle-Harty Mine; New Harty Mine), Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Old Mulcahy Mine, Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Oakland Level Mine (Brady Mine; McFeeley Level), Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) B and C Mine (Brown and Croft mine; Brown-Croft mine), Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Little Giant Mine (Drybones diggings), Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
References
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Report (issue)
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...Platteville formation Decorah formation Galena dolomite Upper Ordovician series Maquoketa shale Silurian system
Book
SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN EDITED BY JOSEPH SCHAFER SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SOCIETY THE WISCONSIN LEAD REGION...REGION WISCONSIN DOMESDAY BOOK GENERAL STUDIES VOLUME III The Wisconsin Lead Region BY JOSEPH SCHAFER...SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN MADISON, 1932 COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN THE ANTES...EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN FOREWORD The present volume is the third in the General series of the Wisconsin Domesday...being the author’s Agriculture in Wisconsin, the second his Four Wisconsin Counties, Prairie and Forest.
Book
third of the men in Cornwall disappeared to the mining frontiers of the New World. This account contains...was a nightmare, the journey overland to the new mining districts an exhausting trial of strength and morale...their legendary mining skills and to bring social as well as religious stability to mining areas that extended...extended from Wisconsin to California. Told here for the first time is the saga of an unassuming people...lead mines and farms of Wisconsin, along the trails to Oregon and Death Valley, the Sierras and the Sacramento
Report (volume)
Calif., 1969, Proc.: New York, Soc. Mining Engineers, Am. lost. Mining, Metall. and Petroleum Engineers...inclusion piezothermometry, experimental calibration of quartz-almandine and sillimanite-almandine [abs.]: Geol...Adams, SamuelS. Geology in potash mining and exploration [abs.]: Mining Eng., v.22,no. 1,p.41, 1970. 04574...Adams, SamuelS. Ore controls, Carlsbad potash district, southeast New Mexico, in Third symposium on salt...gastropods and biostratigraphy of the Kern River area, California: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 642,
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................... Mississippi............................................................................................ Wisconsin.................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite
Report (volume)
I.M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Min. Br. Abs.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engineers, Mining, Geology,. and Geophysics Division Annual Meeting, Mining Branch Abstracts....New York. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...Alberta. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Canadian Mining Journal. Gardenvale, Quebec. Canadian Min. Metall. Bull.-Canadian Mining and Metallurgical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
values of 4 ± 1‰ in the Dalton district and of 8 ± 1‰ in the Lafayette, Trenton, and Dirtseller districts...Acadian/Alleghenian orogeny Introduction The outcrop area of Ordovician K-bentonites from the U.S. midcontinent...2013.4510 et al. 1996; Leslie et al. 2008). The area is conventionally divided into several intracratonic...homogeneous, even in the westernmost parts of the area (Hay et al. 1988). Lower smectite-layer occurrences...foreland basin that may have experienced up to 3 km of Upper Paleozoic cover and the inter-cratonic areas where
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horst, uplifted along the Austin-Amazonand Sprouse-Copeland faults. These boundingfaults also form the approximate...have existed above the chalcopyritedepositsin this area, have been removedas a consequence of the uplift...geologicprovinces:the Little Burro Mountains,the Mangas Valley, and the Big Burro Mountains(Fig. 1). The Little...from the gravelfilled Mangas Valley. On the southwestside of the Mangas Valley the gravelslap up ontothe...to the southwest,in the Bullard Peak and Redrock area 370 CH,4R,4CTER OF MINERALIZ,4 TION 3 71 A•
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L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay, R. L.,L Geophysicist in...the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson...Forresgeologic processes: Perry, ter, J. D., 3. T. G., 3. Mississippi River and Gulf Industrial minerals: Gillson,... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E...Reading: Military Service Pub. Co. Texas, Tordilla Hill area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6. South
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Geology and Ore Deposits of the Boulder County Tungsten District Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Geology and Ore Deposits of the Boulder County Tungsten District Colorado By T. S. LOVERING and OGDEN TWETO...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...present report. _________________ Previous work in the area. ______________ Regional geologic setting. ____...__________________________ Principal rocks of the district.________________________ Pre-Cambrian rocks__
Report (issue)
MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits of Western Grant County, New Mexico by Elliot...Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quartz diorite gneiss (tonalite) . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
March 2019 Fluorescent Opal From the Velvet District, Pershing Co., Nevada Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet...werner@lcturbonet.com The diatomite mines of the Velvet District haven't received much attention over the years... Diatomite (fig. I) was first reported in the District in 1923 (Vanderburg, 1936) on the west side ofTrinity...NV, about 30 km northwest of Lovelock. Initial mining was done by the Southern Pacific Co. (SP) and in...(EPM) who developed four open-pit mines in the District (Johnson, 1977). The diatomite consists of the
Report (volume)
M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Abs. Tech. PapersAmerican Institute of Mining and Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engineers, · Mining Geology Geophysics Division Annual Meeting, Abstracts of Technical Papers...New York. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York...Ontario. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...our.-Canadian Mining Journal. Gardenvale, Quebec. Canadian Min. Metall. BulL-Canadian Mining and Metallurgical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Adams'. McCall -j' ('I. ,I) , \' ,I ',Ji Valley L..yJashingtonf ( • _ _ .l- - ---r' .LJ I ya~J...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...by a few collectors for about fifty years, this area was popular for little more than a decade, providing...providing the collector with specimens of smoky quartz, aquamarine. topaz, and other minerals. Unfortunately
Journal (issue)
at Bowie, Md. VANADINITE from the Apache Mine, Gila County, Arizona. The largest crystals in the group...especially around western tour­ ist traps situated near mining areas. Most give fair warning to the wary by putting...stories about famous localities where the speci­ men mining activity of highgraders at night exceeded that...legitimate miners or quarriers during the day. Some mining ventures operated only for mineral speci­ mens...all the ore and rock legitimately removed. Most mining officials discourage collecting by their employees
Report (volume)
Geology California Div. Mines and Geology County Rept. Geology County Report. San Francisco, Calif. California...Canada. Canadian lost. Mining and Metallurgy Spec. Vol. - Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Special...the Mineralogical Canadian Mining and Metall. Bull. - The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin...Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Canadian Mining Jour. - Canadian Mining Journal...Ltd. London, England. Eng. and Mining Jour. - Engineering and Mining Journal. Co. New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Brucker (2022) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2022) Mineral Association...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...company, Phoenix Mineral & Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
His general advice was to look in the mineralized area of the quarry where the trap rock is decomposing...features in the state and reviewed the history of the mining industry in the state. The principle metallic localities...talk of the evening. In October it was "Genesee Valley Country" by Dr. Robert Sutton of the University...Camp Bird Mine. For December the topic was "The faceting of gem stones" by Mr. Laurence Copeland of R.I...Ruberoid Co. of Eden Mills, Vt. ; the wollastonite mine and mill of the Cabot Co., Willsboro, N . Y. Submitted
Book (edition)
w lsfaf'ld: Geology of the Carrickfergus area The area described in this memoir lies to either side...generally older rocks in County Down from the younger strata and volcanic rocks of County Antrim to the north...north. Although the area has been dealt with in part in several earlier memoirs this is the first comprehensive...comprehensive account of the geology of the area covered by the published one-inch geological map. Following...among other things, previous geological work in the area; the stratigraphy, palaeontology, petrography and
Report (issue)
__________________________________________ Adirondack district, New York___ ________________l_l__-_____ New Jersey..._-_ Birmingham district, Alabama-_____-__-___________-------__ Russellville district, Alabama-_--___...Alabama-_--_____-_-_-________---___-_Northwestern Georgia district..._____________________________ Lake Superior region...__________-___________-_----__.-Gogebic range, Michigan and Wisconsin._____________________ Menominee range, Michigan...--_-_-_-__--_------_-__-__________--___-_--__Iron Springs district, Utah_-___--__-___________------_____ Eagle Mountains
Journal (issue)
Kansas Front cover Quartz scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...reveled in the beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites...Monthly, including one on pseudomorphs and one on quartz in 1888, and he wrote a detailed article for the
Report (volume)
elementary geology Rock ·descriptions Entries Subject, area, or individual Individual names Listed by name of...information indexed Area listing of all formation tables and sections Area Area; some sketch maps included...organizations or geological investigations Subject or area Area; also includes articles discussing origin of minerals...minerals or ores Mineral name listing Area; includes- more than one mineral; not.".indexed to individual... Jr. Minnesota, Fillmore County: Pederson, C. A. New Jersey, Dover district, magnetite: Sims, P. K.,
Report (volume)
AMERLCAN GEOLOGY, 1959 Heading Entries Subject, area, or individual Individual names Listed by name of...sec- Area listing of all formation tables and sections tions, tables Geologic history Area Area ; some...geoHistory logical investigations Subject or area Industrial minerals Area ; also includes articles discussing...or ores Mineral name listing Mineral descriptions Area; includes more than one mineral; not Mineral resources...correlation by spores : Kosanke, R. M. Cook Mills area, Mississippian-Pennsylvanian: Whiting, L. L. INDEXES
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Producers Association. The annual awards recognize mining companies and individuals who lead by example,...of planning. operation, and reclamation at Oregon mine sites. "These companies are being recognized because...Ouarry is located 2 mi south of Seaside in Clatsop County. A small perennial stream, Sq uare Creek, flows...operating it for over ten years, expanding the affected area from about 2-3 acres to currently 17 acres. This...reduces t he amount of sediment generated by the mine operation. Reshaping and scalping of waste rock
Report (volume)
M.E., Mining Geology GeopJiysics ·v. Ann. Mtg., Abs. Tech. PapersAmerican Institute of Mining a d Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engi:peers, :Mining Geology Geophysics Division Ann I Meeting, Abstracts of Techpical Papers...Alberta. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Canadian Mining and Metallurgi~al Bulletin. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Min. J our.-Canadian Mining Journal...Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Pamph.-Idaho Bureau of Mine~j~· and Geology Pamphlet. Moscow, Idaho. Ill. State
 
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