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Quartz from
West Slope Mine, Miners Basin, La Sal Mountain Mining District, Grand County, Utah, 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 West Slope Mine, Miners Basin, La Sal Mountain Mining District, Grand County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:511167
Long-form Identifier:1:3:511167:1
GUID (UUID V4):cfdaf62e-f6a7-4633-9af2-115216ee5b97
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Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most common mineral, quartz, in this beautiful.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...GOLD LODES OF THE CARRVILLE DIS­ TRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By DONALD FRANCIS MACDONALD. INTRODUCTION...writer spent 10 days in the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., and, incidental to other work,... gathered some data on its mining geology. A paper on the gold gravels x was pub­ lished, but baggage...written. In November, 1910, another visit to the district was made, but inclement weather handicapped the
Report (volume)
Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., by D. F. MacDpnald...............account of the ore deposits of the Loon Creek district, Idaho, byJ. B.Umpleby..........................Antelope district, Nev., by F. C. Schrader................... Notes on the northern La Sal Mountains...Mountains, Grand County, Utah, by J. M. Hill. Survey publications on gold and silver..................................... COPPER: The Turquoise copper-mining district, Ariz., by F. L. Ransome........... Survey publications
Report (issue)
uranium-vanadium and copper deposits of the Lisbon Valley area, Utah-Colorado By Gordon W. Weir and Willard P. Puffett...Hermosa Formation in the northern part of the Moab district................................22 Regional stratigraphic.... 45 Lower part of the Chinle Formation in the La Sal Mountains................ 47 Church Rock member...member.................................78 Brushy Basin member..............................79 Contacts...Intrusive structures of the La Sal Mountains................... 126 South Mountain group.................
Report (issue)
OCCURRENCES IN UTAH by K. C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...Purple pit fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim...43 Floride Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Floride No. 1 Mine . . . . ...Floride No.5 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Floride No. 13 Mine . . . . . . ..... . . 45 Floride No. 18 Mine ............ ·.......... 45 Fluorine Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
other States the Rocky Mountain region of Wyoming contains few metalliferous mining camps. Moreover, not...from its other resources. Next to the Grand Encampment district, which yielded a fair amount of copper...copper ore from 1898 to 1908, and the South Pass district,, which has a record of producing $450,000 in gold...comparable to many camps in Colorado and other Rocky Mountain States. Since 1907, however, with decreasing activity...upon which a little work is done each summer, the district is practically abandoned. Ore was first discovered
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES................................................. Basin province ......................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Origin of the Basin ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . Correlation ofthe Great Basin with the other provinces .........................81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accompanying faulting 4. Mine adit in bleached-clay zone 5. Dolomite masses replacing quartz sandstone 6. Argillic...Most mining activity is con- Page Figure 12. Schematic diagram of alteration, Temple Mountain collapse... Structural pattern, southern San Rafael Swell, Utah 1098 18. Hot-springs deposition along Nacimiento...section of uranium-bearing pipe, Woodrow Mine 1103 27. Orphan Mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona... 1101 28. Circular...Collapse feature yielding uranium, River View Uranium Mine, Cameron, Arizona 1105 31. Volcanic centers of northeastern
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VOL. X DECEMBER. 1919 NO. 11 I~ E THE I MINERAL INDUSTRY OF UTAH I ! ! ~ ~ §§...VARLEY ~ i I ~ ~ ~ ~ == ~ I ~ ~ LETIN No. 12 Utah En.,i,."en. Department of III eta//urgicaJ Research...~ I I! ~ PUBLISHED BY THE ;== JNIVERSITY OF UTAH. STATE SCHOOL OF MINES S !liE I In Co-operation...CENTURY~PRJNTlNG I ) ./ Utah Engineering Experilllent Station The Utah Engineering Experiment Station...Mines, the engineering college of the University of Utah. The station is authorized "to carryon experiments
Report (issue)
By WALTER HARVEY WEED. INTRODUCTION. Copper mining in the United States has had a marvelously rapid...greatest individual increase that of the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz. The following table shows the production...States, 190J/.-5. State or Territory. 1904. 1905. Utah................. Pounds. 298,314,804 191,002,958...550,000 700, 000 10,000 814,035,719 "Salt Lake Mining Review, Annual Review number, January, 1906. The...Stevens, Horace J., Mining World, Jan. 27, 1905; and information furnished the writer by mine owners and managers
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah.................................................................................................. West Virginia..........................................vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier work, gives...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Ohio.............Prof. John A. Bownocker... Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin
Journal (issue)
Nelly Bariand Paris, France Wemer Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................AMAZONITE with smoky quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A...6 1 3 - 4 7 3 - 4 3 2 5 ) Fra n k & W e n d y M e la n s o n Fine Minerals from Worldwide Sources Cabinet...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all
Report (issue)
GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH BY HERBERT E. GREGORY WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY MALCOLM...Ridge-_-__--_------.___-.. Alien Canyon country ___________ Grand Gulch Plateau___________ Lime Creek Valley__-___-__..._--______-______Glen Canyon___________________ Beef Basin.____________________ Climate. ___-___^______--__________...Westwater Canyon sandstone member _ _. 27 Brushy Basin shale member______________ 27 Morrison-Dakota (...Linnaeus.______________ Dacite from Johnson Creek Basin.._________ Andesite from South Peak.__________________
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF UTAH TO 1966 compiled and edited by Barbara S. Childers assisted by Bernice Y. Smith Utah Geological...and Mineral Industries University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Bulletin 86 Price $4.00 October 1970...all graduate theses concerned with the geology of Utah; senior theses are omitted. Several theoretical...pertinence to a particular mineral deposit or locality in Utah. Others which should have been included may have...hoped that the reader will report omissions to the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey so that they
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Report (issue)
INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
Book (volume)
rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...oil resources of the Santa Maria oil district, Santa Barbara County, Cal., by Ralph Arnold and Robert Anderson...338. The iron ores of the Iron Springs district, southern Utah, by C. K. Leith and E. C. Harder. 340....and West Virginia, by W. C. Phalen. 350. Geology of the Rangely oil district, Rio Blanco County, Colo...Hess. 357. Preliminary report on the Coalinga oil district, Fresno and Kings counties, Cal., by Ralph Arnold
Report (issue)
.............................................. Grand Mesa, Gunnison, and Uncompahgre National Forests......................................... Ragged Mountain Wilderness (NF-181)......................... Raggeds...(2-184).................................... Electric Mountain (2-185)................................... Clear......................................... Priest Mountain (2-191)..................................... Salt...(2-193)..................................... Nick Mountain (2-194)......................................
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‘ BONDAD ie TO i ab LEADVILLE# 5b e JCT. “GRAND IS VD eso DILLON) HOLY OPN os : NATL. ¢? MON...FISHING-—-HUNTING—HUNTING WENTTERERHCREATIONG amet o)4m Sal Sh. gel ou 8he a uc e 5) a cal e a a o ....CONOMISTADORESHANT ©VOVAGEURSMe me Wien LEM, (ma PLAINSMEN AND MOUNTAIN MEN... . « ss PIRORS PERAK LORSBUST| 0 oc neeuis...METROPOLITAN Fort CoL.ins ee AREA 153 158 163 168 GraND JUNCTION GREELEY LEADVILLE PUEBLO TRINIDAD 179...Georgetown — Loveland Pass — Glenwood Springs— Grand Junction — (Thompsons, [US 6] ST Ve eee Section
Report (volume)
location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...and used agate, chalcedony, and other forms of quartz for weapons and tools; they used clay for pottery...for decorations, and they cherished crystals of quartz or other minerals as amulets. After the Indians...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...placer miners must have been familiar with other minerals, for they surely recognized the quartz sand,
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OF MADISON COUNTY/MONTANA. GEORGE F. COPE, COMPILER. VIRGINIA CITY, MADISON COUNTY, MONTANA. September...OF MADISON COUNTY, MONTANA, GEORGE F. COPE, COMPILER. VIRGINIA CITY, MADISON COUNTY, MONTANA. September... MINES, FARMS AND RANGES OF 1 v^*^ MADISON COUNTY, MONTANA. Messrs. Elling, Harrington, Hickman... Raymond and Farrell, constituting the Madison County Railroad Committee, Gentlemen: As instructed by...of Madison county, including the mines, farms and ranges, and the probable tonnage the county would afford
Report (issue)
George Otis Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT..._____ _ The location, area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________
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organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...Pisgah........ ...... N.C.-S.C..... 148 Joplin district...... Mo.-Kans .... 476 149 Penobscot Bay ...Devils Tower ....... Wyo.... ...... 849 151 Roan Mountain .... Tenn.-N. C ... 963 152 Md.-D. C..... ...Washington County, Pennsylvania, by F. G. Clapp. No. 304. Oil and gas fields of Greene County, Pennsylvania...Preliminary report on the Santa Maria oil district, Santa Barbara County, California, by Ralph Arnold and Robert
 
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