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Almandine from
Garnet Hill, Ely, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ16 photos of Almandine associated with Quartz at this locality.
Topazⓘ1 photo of Almandine associated with Topaz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Garnet Hill, Ely, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (82 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:566502
Long-form Identifier:1:3:566502:0
GUID (UUID V4):83f94315-e4af-4be6-a00a-bd0264f32d05
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
76.0km (47.3 miles) ⓘHendrys Creek Canyon, Mount Moriah Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Almandine Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville]...New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group represent some of...deposits. In fact, in some types of economic deposits, garnet constitutes an important gangue mineral, and such...sources of fine specimens. Common species, such as almandine, are produced today for abrasive purposes and...America’s largest hard-rock garnet mines within its borders, a famous New York garnet specimen has been chosen
Leaflet/flyer
HC33 Box 33500, Ely moe!ng rs OO ee nas ee ee ee Ter. GARNET FIELDS ROCKHOUND AREA ELY BLM IDISTIRICT...ee Garnet Fields Rockhound Area is located between 3% and 5„%2 air miles northwest of central Ely, Nevada...traffic signal at the US 93 and US 50 junction in Ely (4% mile north of the turnoff to Ruth). See the area...reverse side of this page. Locally referred to as Garnet Hill, this nationally known rockhounding area is famous...or west of the parking area near the top of Garnet Hill. This parking area is about 3.1 miles east of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry of vapour-phase garnet from the Topopah Spring Tuff at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA R. J. MOSCATI* AND...Federal Center, Box 25046, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225, USA [Received 20 January 2014; Accepted 10 April 2014;...Paintbrush Group from Yucca Mountain, in southern Nevada. The Miocene-age Topopah Spring Tuff is a 350 m...quartz), sanidine and locally, hematite and/or garnet. Vapour-phase topaz and economic deposits associated...1% which, when coupled with the garnet d18O values in a quartz-garnet fractionation equation, indicates
Journal (issue)
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...de Grys, M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada ..................................................................199 by G. W. Robinson & D. C. Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from...from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An unusual quartz crystal from Zaire
Report (issue)
Garnet Great Balls of Fire ISBN 978-0-9790998-4-7 Publisher Lithographie, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut...Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 ‱ East Hampton, CT 06424 ‱ USA Phone 1.860.267 .1512...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Garnet Great Balls of Fire Contributors Lothar Ackermann...2008, I attended the John Sinkankas Symposium on garnet at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Analysis of Garnet by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy—Two Practical Applications...Harmon, R.S.; Hark, R.R.; Hilferding, K. Analysis of Garnet by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy—Two Practical...98195, USA; defnep@uw.edu Department of Chemistry, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652, USA; richard... Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA; wisem@si.edu Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric...North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Report (issue)
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...Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant...significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Virginia Tech Libraries] at 03:28 25 February 2015 GARNET PETER J. MODRESKI U.S. Geological Survey Box 25046...as a separate and distinct mineral species. In garnet, we deal not with just a single series between...these different endmembers help to explain the garnet group’s wonderful variety of color, environment... and hardness. Etymology and History The name garnet and the names of its many species and varieties...carbuncle, the term used for any fiery red gemstone. Garnet is derived from the Latin granatum (pomegranate)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1017/S0016756808005293 Printed in the United Kingdom Almandine garnet phenocrysts in a ∌ 1 Ga rhyolitic tuff from...Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA (Received 23 October 2007; accepted 17 January 2008;...Abstract – We report on the newly discovered almandine garnet phenocrysts in rhyolitic ignimbrites (Sukhda...monazite and garnet. There are no metamorphic or granitic xenoliths in the ignimbrites. Garnet grains occur...indicative xenoliths or xenocrysts, that these almandine garnets (Al78.7 Py12.3 Gr7.4 Sp1.6 ) are phenocrysts
Book
derfoot0000ornd GEOLOGY UNDERFOOT IN CENTRAL NEVADA Richard L. Orndorff ~ Robert W. Wieder Harry...Official Highway Map of Nevada (Nevada State Department of Transportation) and from Nevada Atlas and Gazetteer...Orndorff, Richard L. Geology underfoot in central Nevada / Richard L. Orndorff, Robert W. Wieder, Harry...0-87842-418-0 (alk. paper) 1. Geology—Nevada—Guidebooks. 2. Nevada—Guidebooks. I. Wieder, Robert W., 1958—...miner’ cabin sits next to U.S. 50 near Eureka, Nevada. —Dave Futey photo Winnemucca 12,3 3 0 50
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Index of Publications, Division of Mines and State Mining Bureau, 1880-1943 (Bradley 1945). Northern Provinces...area around Glass Mountain near the ModocSiskiyou county line. Also of minor importance is the extension...deposits of southeastern Oregon into northern Modoc County. Ultramafic rocks, largely altered to serpentine... Trinity River, Trinity County at the High Plateau mine in Del Norte County, and kammererite (clinochlore)...(clinochlore), as at the Veta Grande mine in Siskiyou County. The ultramafics also host occurrences of the massive
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...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise...identifying stones, but the most useful clues toid garnet are these: 1. Hardness. 2. Crystal structure...fluorite, octahedral diamond, and trisoctahedral garnet are typical examples of this system. The tetragonal...BERYL EMERALD FELDSPAR EPIDOTE ^?^ (& \ ^^ GARNET KYANITE IOLITE SPHALERITE RUBY i^b TOPAZ
Journal (issue)
pocket in 1955 at least 25 others were found as mining progressed. The contents of these, which ranged...display at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, 2012. Lyda Hill collection; Jeff Scovil photo. pass through by...granular and crystalline albite, most of it snow white and very pretty. Enlarged the pocket in the afternoon...pillars of purple lepidolite with very crystalline white albite piles between. Protruding from the albite...Colorado, and their most publicized effort, the mining of variscite nodules at Fairfield, Utah (the type
Journal (issue)
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...........................when I first took this job, then-publisher John White offered to buy me a steak dinner if I ever managed...the Little Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking...gem-quality and specimen-quality orange spessartine garnet, and blue topaz equalling or surpassing material
Book (edition)
characteristic features shown in many black-and-white and color illustrations, over 100 in all. Peninent...interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Harold Noble, Leo
Journal (issue)
Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Founder John Sampson White Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris...University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...Dunn Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ..................................Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado .......................................41 by J.-M . Fourcault FMrTGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet: Abstracts ....................... 61 Colum ns
Book
A FIELD GUIDE Rockhounding Nevada is a must-have book for anyone interested in collecting rocks, minerals...Globe Pequot Press NEVADA A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites NEVADA 2nd Edition Essential...and minerals WILLIAM A. KAPPELE Rockhounding Nevada RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 1 6/27/11 3:02 PM Help...RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 2 6/27/11 3:02 PM Rockhounding Nevada A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites...ion Data Kappele, William A., 1931Rockhounding Nevada : a guide to the state’s best rockhounding sites
Book (volume)
particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;... Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion...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
Book
ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...22:65-69 [Abstracts of the] FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet (chairman: K. J. Wenrich) 24:61-68 Abstracts of...the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous mineral...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum, MTU Houghton, Michigan...Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White Editing, advertising 4631 Paseo Tubutama Tucson...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................Pohs was well known to every serious collector of mining antiques and memorabilia in the U.S. In the late
Book
rich in such minerals as quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline, magnetite, zircon, gold, platinum...the gneiss rocks. Schists often contain feldspar, garnet, mica and quartz. With sapphires are often found...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...possibility. such other minerals as hematite, garnet, tourmaline, gold, etc. Inclusions in diamonds...of unbelievÂŹ able verisimilitude to a sunset, a pine tree, or an abstract painting. Most mineral and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
Book
Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA — This publication has been registered with the Copyright...made in the USA. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be referred...easy. Similar minerals occur in both types (e.g. garnet, pyroxene) which, in some cases, may have similar...usage continues. Thus Cotta (1864) classifies "garnet rock" in Fe-Cu-Pb-Zn skarns of the Bonat area,...deposits" style of mineralization. He believed the garnet + wollastonite + vesuvianite + amphibole rock was
Book (edition)
House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington MA 01803, USA First published...Canada, Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and the USA, making this a truly international collaboration...‘scare’ caused by the skilful promotion of synthetic white spinel as a diamond substitute, both the trade and...including, most importantly, synthetic opal, both white and black, and a corresponding ingenuity in the...extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance
 
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