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Sphalerite from
Eldorado Mine, Eldorado, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eldorado Mine, Eldorado, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:63694
Long-form Identifier:1:3:63694:8
GUID (UUID V4):2a4319fa-1916-4ab2-9cb6-f1d28c070c41
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.9km (0.5 miles) Henderson Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Russell Mine, Ophir, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
18.4km (11.4 miles) Star Mine (Reynolds Mine), Carolina Slate Belt, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
26.5km (16.4 miles) Emmons Mine (Davidson Mine; Hercules Mine), Cid Mining District, Carolina Slate Belt, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA
30.0km (18.6 miles) Troutman Mine (Trautman Mine), Gold Hill Mining District, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
30.5km (18.9 miles) Southern Copper Company Mine, Gold Hill Mining District, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
30.6km (19.0 miles) Bat Shaft, Gold Hill Mining District, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
30.6km (19.0 miles) Silver Valley Mine (Spring Valley Mine), Silver Valley, Cid Mining District, Carolina Slate Belt, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA
30.6km (19.0 miles) Union Copper Mine, Gold Hill Mining District, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Silver Hill Mine, Silver Hill, Silver Hill Mining District, Carolina Slate Belt, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott
Report (volume)
State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can
Report (issue)
METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA by P. Albert Carpenter, m Reprinted...Previous investigations Mine descriptions Alamance County Copper prospect Foust copper mine Robeson gold prospect...Cabarrus County Allman prospect Buffalo mine Cabarrus? mine Clinemine Crayton mine Furniss mine Eva Furr...Furr mine Isenhour mine ..; : Newellmine Nugget mine Phoenix mine Pioneer Mills mine Propst mine Quaker...City mine Reed mine Rocky River mine Silver shaft Snydermine Troutmanmine Tucker mine Whitney mine Chatham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 20:52 13 January 2015 Mineralogy of the Eldorado Mine YA N K E E B O Y B A S I N , O U R AY C O U...rapidly acquired. The English language version, Eldorado, is usually the way it appears in print. Prospectors...or mine with that name. This article details the history, geology, and mineralogy of the Eldorado mine...did not bring wealth to its many owners. The Eldorado mine is located about 8.6 miles southwest of Ouray...The portal to the mine is at an elevation of 11,600 feet and is situated on the north slope of Stony Mountain
Report (issue)
Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological... Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:
Report (issue)
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Through the 'Scope 1 OURAY Eldorado mine IfXCamp Bird mine TEIXURTOE 'TMdarado mine q Eureka Red Mountain...00:19 07 August 2017 TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P . O . Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 Tom...they haw vielded. 140 ROCKS & MINERALS ^Brooklyn mine ^-—O Howardsville Scale in Miles Figure 1: Location...mines described in the article. Camp Bird Mine The Camp Bird mine, located 6 miles southwest of Ou­ ray,...millionaire many times over. Through the years the mine was worked more or less con­ tinually until operations
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localilies, such as a mad cut dong Route I1 7 in North Bridgton; in miarolitic cavities in the Red Beach...Providence County, Rhade I s W at 3e&lehern, New Hampshire: near Watertown, Litchficld County, Connecticut;...quarry, Wrightsvilk, Yurk County; the Safe Harbor quarry, Lancavter County; the H. J. Smith quarry, where...golden-brown sphalerite and pyrite, and the UniversaLAtias Cement Company quarry, Monroe County, where it...Historically, it has been fouud at Arvon, Buckinghatn County, Virginia. SmaH but excellent anatase crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Makapa–Kuribrong shear zone ŽMKSZ.. In French Guiana, the North Guiana Trough ŽNGT. is interpreted as a sinistral...units. Pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, scheelite, molybdenite and tellurides are the...with the discovery and development of the Omai gold mine in Guyana that the Guiana Shield may be endowed...Shield Ž3400–3700 Ma, whole-rock U–Pb method, Montgomery, 1979; Bernasconi, 1987; Cohen and Gibbs, 1989;...succession and associated mafic volcanic rocks north of Omai, previously described as Cuyuni conglomerates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side...LEVYNE, PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular...grossular, malachite, powellite, and scheelite. Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim...about 4 miles north-northeast of Cuprum: chabazite, heulandite, and stilbite. Copper Bo~' mine, Seven Devils
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photo March/April: Fluorite, Dow Scar vein, Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England; Jesse Fisher specimen...May/June: Uvite, Powers farm, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York; Steven C. Chamberlain specimen, Michael... and albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil...September/October: Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen, Jeff...York City, New York County, New York State, R. B. Cook, 244–52 Amethyst, South Carolina, 66–68 Amphibolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IsotopeStudiesto MassiveSulfideand Vein Depositsof the Carolina Slate Belt STEPHEN A. KISH AND P. GEOFFREY FEISS...Department of Geology,Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 Abstract Samplesof ore...Carolinaslatebelt of the Charlotte2ø quadrangle,North Carolina,havebeenanalyzed.In generalthesedeposits are...with the peak metamorphism in the North Carolina portionof the Carolina slatebelt. Introduction a mult...0861-0128/82/07/852-1152.50 352 Pb ISOTOPE STUDIES, CAROLINA SLATE BELT mixingof severalisotopically heterogeneous
Report (volume)
............................................... Mine maps......;.......................................mines ......................................... Montgomery-Shoshone ......................................61 61 62 62 3 4 CONTENTS. Searchlight and Eldorado districts............................................................. 72 72 75 75 Mines of Eldorado Canyon .........................................Searchlight and Eldorado districts..... 64 . V. Geologic sketch map of the vicinity of the Quartette mine......
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ mounmined...tains, New Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center...chalcocite of mine near Penland and the McKinney secondary origin in the School Section mine near Little
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abandoned mercury mines in West-Central Nevada, USA John E. Gray*, James G. Crock, David L. Fey US Geological...25046, Federal Center, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA Abstract The Humboldt River is a closed basin and...some deposits; pyrite (FeS2), marcasite (FeS2), sphalerite ((Zn, Fe)S), and stibnite (Sb2S3) are rare (Bailey...between about 1907 and 1991, when the McDermitt mine closed. Mercury mines in Nevada and throughout the...kg), about 90% of which came from the McDermitt mine (Willden, 0883-2927/02/$ - see front matter # 2002
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA 2 Eldorado 3 Geology 4 Mineral Gold Corporation, Vancouver...University of New York, Cortland, New York 13045, USA Deposit Research Unit, University of British Columbia...146 g/t Ag, 4.9% Pb, and 6.5% Zn, respectively (Eldorado Gold Corporation, 2017a). The Piavitsa prospect...inferred resource of 10.5 Mt grading 5.7 g/t Au (Eldorado Gold Corporation, 2017a). At the present time...Fig. 2 Thessaloniki Athos-Volvi Suture Zone North Aegean Sea Ouranoupolis Pluton Chalkidiki Peninsula
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
separate cover a mineral specimen from the Anderson Mine, near Wickenburg, Ariz. Could you please tell me...brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a...road cut recently made near the old "Dallas Gem Mine" that produced the fine benitoite and neptunite...still be available'. The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
........................... Geology of the Eldorado Mine............................................................................ Mineragraphy of Eldorado ores.................................................................................... 912 Sphalerite................................................account1 of the geology and mineralization at the Eldorado mine, the most important deposit in the district...a mineragraphic study of the ores from the Eldorado mine, which resulted in this joint paper. This was
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Report (issue)
.'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1) Mineralogy Gold Unsure Rare? Pyrite + sphalerite + galena + ehaleopyrite <0.01 Quartz Variablecarbonate...assays of up to 32 meters) on veins in the Lone Star mine area and zones of g/t (Minfile,1998). crushbreeeiaalongveinmargins...1948,1970;Tempelman-Kluit,1980). Thissubdued, sphalerite, ehaleopyrite, tetrahedrite, andrarepyrrhotite...lowerpartof theBonanza valley;B.below mentof igneous Eldorado Forks(junction of Bonanza andEldorado v'alleys)...170 288 490 539 539 I Bonanza-Eldorado S S Bonanza Eldorado Jackson Yes Trail Yes Cripple
 
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