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Garnet Group from
Ruby Creek Mine, Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Garnet Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:X3Z2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Garnet Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruby Creek Mine, Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:588727
Long-form Identifier:1:3:588727:9
GUID (UUID V4):5666fcb0-2cd5-40ae-8731-e4e0de5c9731
Nearest other occurrences of Garnet Group
1.5km (1.0 miles) Casadepaga River Mine (ARDF - SO098), Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Casadepaga River Mine (ARDF - SO093), Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Casadepaga River Mine (ARDF - SO081), Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Casadepaga River Mine (ARDF - SO080), Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Goose Creek Mine, Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Quartz Creek Mine, Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Casadepaga River Prospect (ARDF - SO075), Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Casadepaga River Mine (ARDF - SO067), Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) Adams Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
14.3km (8.9 miles) Dawson Creek Mine, Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
References
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Book
os eua come] a.Batis aS i Ce. = of Alaska Ernest Wolff ALASKA Eastofof Green! Gre nwich MAP 170°...Barrow 10. Anchorage 22. Kobuk 5 11. Seward 23. Nome 12. Kenai-Cook Inlet 24, Wade Hampton Re Birchaket...—GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. WASHINGTON, DC, MA ITOT ALASKA MAP A "sO 4 * « PSI1 TOA He REA LA Ope e...University of Alaska ERNEST WOLFF Formerly, Research Associate University of Alaska With Contributions...Formerly, Professor of English, University of Alaska Printed in the United States of America By Edwards
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Marble 22 22 Zo 24 * Connecticut OG G& BY WW * Alaska Mineral-Gold Gem-Jade Fossil-Woolly Mammoth *...* Arizona Gemstone-Turquoise Mineral-Garnet Fossil-Eubrontes 26 27 * Delaware Mineral]-Sillimanite...Fossil-Belemnite Soil-Greenwich Loam Series 29 30 31 * District of Columbia Dinosaur-Capitalsaurus fo, Fossil-Petrified...Joaquin Series iii 4] * Idaho Gemstone-Star Garnet Fossil-Hagerman Horse 43 44 * Illinois Mineral-Fluorite...Gem-Turquoise Fossil- Coelophysis * New York Gem-Garnet Fossil-Eurypterus remipes 102 103 104 * South
Report (volume)
Miners' Association Cal St :M Bur California State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M...Adams (F D), 18 Federal Government, relation to the mining industry: Hayes, 06 Fossil insects: Cockerell,...to geology: Davis ( W M), 12a Geologic bases of mining law: De Kalb, 10 Geologic basis for artesian prediction:...relations: Branner, 90a; relations to successful mining: Winslow, 9lc Geological work in the Southwest:...Geology: Kemp, 08; Marbut, 13 Geology, relation to mining industry: Lawson, 05 Geology and agriculture, relations:
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amethyst (left, upper group) which measures about 25 mm (1 in.) across. TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121... Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion...cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County...gold. The necklace is 45 cm (18 in.) long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spinel red oligoclase feldspar (5.04 ct)...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete
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growing upon milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of...others. I express thanks to the assemblage of Seattle area mineral col­ lectors, who made suggestions and offered...oligoclase, albitc, blotite, muscovite, hornblende, garnet, apatite, sphenc, ilmenite, anatase, tourmaline...scheelite, zoisite, idocrase, sphene, scapolite group, pyrite, phlogopite RARE: hillebrandite, prehnite...Quartz, albite, oligoclase, microcline, beryl, garnet, apatite, uraninite, sanarskite, columbite, sillimanite
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amethyst (left, upper group) which measures about 25 mm (I in.) across. TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121... Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion...gold. The necklace is 45 cm (18 in.) long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spine! red oligoclase feldspar (5.04 et)...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
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_____________________________ _ Alaska _______________________________ _ Southeastern Alaska ___ ------------South-central...------------South-central Alaska _______________ _ East-central Alaska ________________ _ Northeastern Alaska_------...Central Alaska ____________________ _ Southwestern Alaska _______________ _ West-central Alaska ________________...Blue Ridge province _____________ _ Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County...County _____________________ _ Zirconia district ___________ ----Macon, Jackson, and Clay Counties __ ----
Report (issue)
\ \I Cover: The De Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia)...As-tsumebite La-florencite Buszite Manganese-iron garnet (Cadmocite) Mg-riebeckite (Cufegesulite) Paraurichalcite-1...Paraurichalcite-11 Rossingite Physical varitites Group names Ba feldspar Heliodor(e) Tantalo-columbite...proved mineral names (uncertain status, mixtures, group names and physical varieties). 11 2. Approved...information on chemical formula; analogue and mineral group status; up-to-date crystal structure and unit cell
Report (volume)
Ala. Alberta, Scientific and Industrial Research Council: Annual Report, FirstEighth; Reports 1-22. Edmonton...vols. 3-12. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Technical Publication...1-157; Transactions, vols. 60-76. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Science, 4th...vols. 9-17. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletins 79, 85-101. San Francisco, Calif...vols. 33-42. Ottawa, Ont Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 23-30; Monthly
Report (issue)
Professor Edwin H . Oshier, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, made the photographs included in this...7 Bibliography . . . . . 229 Appendix: 252 Mine Index iii NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS CHEMICAL...working on Black Hills minerals. The geographical area covered is more extensive than the title indicates...data on each known meteorite recovered from the area. An extensive and, it is hoped, fairly complete...public and private collections. In the Black Hills area itself, two may be mentioned. The Museum of Geology
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Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Report (issue)
gold at the Jewel and other mines in the Greenwood Mining Division (R. Bell , 1902-3: Geo l. Surv. Can ....masses and crysta l s in vugs at the Highland Bell Mine , Wallace Mountain , n ear Beaverdell , 23 miles...3 Argentite has b een found at the Silver King Mine , Toad Mountain, about 5 miles south of Nelson (G...Surv . Can ., Ann. Rept. , IX, 27A). At the Slocan mining camp , argentite is present as a primary min eral...supergene mineral replacing galena at the Hewitt Mine, and as films associ ated w ith nativ e silver coating
Catalog/List
resources of Montana, and the prevailing practice in mining and metallurgy”. $50.00 3. Allen, W.W. & R.B. Avery...materials. $30.00 6. Barton, D.B. ESSAYS IN CORNISH MINING HISTORY (2 Vol) Truro: Pub by author, 1968. 8...Very good. A collection of 12 essays on Cornish mining in two volumes. Includes the Cornish miner in fact...Australian copper; mine names in the west of England; some characters in Cornish mining; arsenic production...west Cornwall, seven more. $50.00 7. Beard, J.T. MINE GASES AND EXPLOSIONS NY: John Wiley 1st ed, 1908
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describing some of its chemical properties. Within each group the minerals are listed accord¬ ing to CIM; and...must consult the mineralogical literature of the area he is interested in. Treatment. In most cases the...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the...the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico. Treatment. Copper specimens should
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help bring you the t r u e picture o f a fabulous area t o fay_ M i c e the collecting in the East is different...p o p u l a r c a b i n e t specimens o f t h e area, f o r micromounts, fluorescents, a n d i n a f...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...Appalachians as well as crystals such as staurolite or garnet, specimens such a s gold nuggets, a n d a n assortment...collectors from the Washington D.C. area visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee
Report (issue)
California 16 Borax 18 Crestmore Pegmatite gem area of southern California Cerro Gordo The glaueophane...rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...stone hammers, and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...of the find and of the general character of the area, which is in the Turquoise Mountains, T. 16 N.,...circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Slining Bureau reported at about the
Book
In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...of this here. Next we must consider a peculiar group of Magnesium (Mg) has two more electrons than elements... made with a field-ion microscope, shows a tiny area of the crystal's surface magnified five million...appropriate and, indeed, these are linked with an (Si04) group in the mineral forsterite. The chemical short¬ hand...valencies and a bracket around the dis¬ tinctive (Si04) group would result in forsterite symbolized thus: (Mg2)4
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of this here. Next we must consider a peculiar group of elements known as the imert gases. The first...made with a field-ion microscope, shows a tiny area of the crystal’s surface magnified five million...appropriate and, indeed, these are linked with an (SiO4) group in the mineral forsterite. The chemical shorthand...about valencies tinctive (SiO4) and a bracket group would around the dis- result in forsterite ...because the phosphorus ion P°* the (PO,)3~ group the oxygen group in merwinite SOLUTION ion O*~ Notice
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...to the chemical formula, allegiance to a mineral group, symmetry and crystal structure as well as the strongest...chemical formula, structure (crystal system, space group, and unit cell dimensions), and at least some other...site occupancy. The Sb members of the tennantite group (2.G) will serve as a good example: tetrahedrite...registered in this book (e.g. in the amphibole group). For more detailed information see "Dana's System
Book (edition)
Publtllh1d by THB AMKl-MINING ANO MltTAl.l,Ol~...the ,•11mu•1p1rnt more elaborate mining n11ttmd1: the nMd for mining um of luwer grade, N!1ntltin1 in...times the only known use for corundum was as jewels, ruby and sapphire being transparent forms of the finest...from samples found in South Carolina, but corundum mining did not start until 1871. CoMPOSI'l'ION Corundum...by name according to their color, thus the red is ruby, blue is sapphire and the yellow and green are sometimes
Book (edition)
extensively rewritten by the book’s distinguished group of authors in the light of new research and important...Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...all varietal names, synonyms, spelling variants, group names, and so forth; only names in contemporary
Book (edition)
extensively rewritten by the book's distinguished group of authors in the light of new research and important...Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...all varietal names, synonyms, spelling variants, group names, and so forth; only names in contemporary...contemporary use have been included. Most of the mineral group lists presented were taken from the Glossa,y of Mineral
Report (Issue volume)
Papua New Guinea The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy MONOGRAPH 1.* Detrital Heavy Mineral...W. Ryall — 2nd Edition* — 3rd Edition 10.* Mining and Metallurgical Practices in Australasia (The...Willis Connolly Memorial Volume) Australasian Coal Mining Practice Mineral Deposits of New Zealand Geology...be obtained from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic...Wright Published by The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Clunies Ross House, 191 Royal Parade
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Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...attempt a complete description of a small mineral group to uncover the unsatisfactory state of our present...well render the volume difficult to use by a large group of potential readers not familiar with structural/chemical...with the inherent problems of end-member names vs. group names and related aspects of nomenclature. Rather...spelling variants, descriptive names, mixtures, group names, chemical names, etc., found in the literature
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Species containing more than one anion or anion group may be assigned to a separate class or may be assigned...specifies the atomic (cation to anion, or to anion group) ratio for the mineral. This and the remaining numbers...appropriate Dana number. When recognized, membership in a group is noted. Occasionally, the phrase “an inadequately...internally contradictory. 5A. Groups The term group refers to an aggregate or multiple (usually three...identical or closely similar structure and chemistry. A group may be named when there are several end members
 
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