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Bismuth from
Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismuth
Formula:Bi
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuth data
Locality Data:Click here to view Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96114
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96114:5
GUID (UUID V4):f0e391a2-000a-4acd-a7d4-a8c85222bbd8
Localities for Bismuth in this Region
Copper Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Bismuth
31.0km (19.3 miles) Humbolt-Springer mine, Nevada Massachusetts Company, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
'<:: ~·-· ,''~;:!~}~~,~~. ;:,~-~ :}:jJI::sfi~ Nevada Mineral-Resource Data: Information Available Through...Geological Survey Mineral Resource Data System Nevada Mineral-Resource Data: Information Available Through...Cataloging in Public~tion Data Sherlock. ~Iaureen G. Nevada mineral-resource data: information available through...Mines and mineral resources--Nevada--Information services. 2. Geology--Nevada--Information services. I....• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Purpose of the Nevada MRDS Data Set • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
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...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
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...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Journal (issue)
Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...(phroth@sunrise.ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting...minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from Majuba Hill. FOV 3.8 mm...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907...1907 by A.J. McCauley of Imlay, Nevada. No work of importance was undertaken until 1914, when the property
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Report (issue)
c = 5.920(1) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Anton mine, Germany. 12.03 (10), 2.46 (9), 3.57 (8), 2.95 (7)...(1) Jáchymov, Czech Republic. (2) Tintic district, Utah, USA. (3) BiCu6 (AsO4 )3 (OH)6 • 3H2 O. Mineral...deposits. Association: Bismutite, smaltite, bismuth, atelestite, erythrite, malachite, barite. Distribution:...Distribution: From the Geister vein, Werner mine, Jáchymov (Joachimsthal), Czech Republic. At Wheals Owles...England. In Germany, in the Black Forest, at the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach; on the Schmiedestollen
Journal (issue)
Allingbam Court .Haverstock Hill London l\1W3 2AH 12A Allingham Court Haverstock Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS...localities when I lived in South Africa was an old tin mine by the name of Stavoren in what used to be called...similarities also springs to mind, and that is Majuba Hill, in Nevada. So as I went through the specimens in...recovered from the Mutue Fides mine, but at the adjacent Stavoren mine, it seems that tin recovery was...are of interest to collectors. Gorland is an old mine with a chequered history because, like Stavoren
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been...Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource...of mineral deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tweed Mine, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah and Tin Stope, Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada, USA...analyses depend on the crystal studied, though the Majuba mixite gave analyses which matched the formula... from the Mineral Research Company (California, USA) and from the author's (RLF) personal collection...Tweed Mine, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah and from Tin Stope, Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada...Nevada, USA. 6 SEM and X-ray microanalysis Mixite samples were coated with a thin layer of evaporated
Journal (issue)
Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ................................ U p d a t e o n t h e M in e r a l o g y OF THE MAJUBA HlLL M lN E, P e r s h in g C o u n t y Martin...of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several companies have held the Majuba Hill property
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the...or greater earthquake has occurred somewhere in Nevada about once every thirty years. Most faults are...(analogous to a tilted deck of cards). However, some Nevada faults are strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus and vanadium...Sagadahoc County (King and Foord 1994); other occurrences include the Mount Mica and Ryerson Hill quarries...Oxford County. Scorodite occurred in small, pale green masses in oxidized ore at the cobalt mine at Great...Great Hill north of Cobalt, Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield County; and the...arsenic mine between Seymour and Derby on the west bank of the Naugatuck River, New Haven County, Connecticut
Catalog/List
South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond..._ _ magnification there arc small cr stals _ __ County. _ AI1zona 60 AMAZO:-;ITE 2x3i nch£5 Madagascar...IxI£4 TiO --- - 37 ANC\'LITE Cc Ix1/, £2.50 Ix I£4 County. Rich pinkish fine grai ned mass in calc i te Dark..._ _ __ ___ _____ _ _ _ _ 21 7 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bol ivia 6x6mm £3 Pure grey metallic mass
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 2: Meta-torbernite, Chalk Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina. RICHARD D. GREEN 1745 13th Street...and, probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...rutherfordine, Shinkolobwe, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. bismuth, and arsenic minerals. Also associated with these...another hydrothermal vein grouping, cobalt, nickel, bismuth, arsenic, and minor silver minerals occur in small...processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure 6 (right):
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...Mineralogical Club field trip to Penitentiary quarry, Snake Hill, New Jersey, on September 4, 1893 (photo courtesy...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...cobalt arsenides with or without uraninite and bismuth. nineteenth century resulted in the exploration...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more
Report (issue)
.............................................. Nevada .-o...................................................................... Western United States mining districts ....................... World distribution...(21) (22) *114 *115 Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome, 168 pp., 1903. The...The mineral resources of the Mount Wrangell district, Alaska, by W. C. Meudenhall and F. C. Schrader, 71...Encampment district, Wyoming, by A. C. Spencer, 107pp., 1904. Economic geology of the Bingham mining district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Peerless pegmatite at Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota, by Headden (1893) and shortly thereafter...Cove mine, Lander County, the Bald Mountain mine, White Pine County, and the famous Majuba Hill mine...mine, Pershing County, Nevada; with freibergite and andorite at the Bear Basin mines, King County, and with...Young American mine, Stevens County, Washington; the Old Dowdy mine, Gunnison County, Colorado, where...smaltite, and various sulfides; the Merrimac mine, Doña Ana County, Figure 1. A 2.5-cm-high stannite specimen
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Report (issue)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...Rock National Conservation Area), and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
Report (issue)
CALIFORNIA COLORADO GEORGIA IDAHO MAINE MISSOURI MONTANA NEVADA NEW MEXICO NORTH CAROLINA OKLAHOMA OREGON SOUTH...of the Pine Grove-B la*n Mountain area. Beaver County, Utah: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...wah wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah (abstract): American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum...Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 982-D...mineral deposits to Tertiary volcanic centers in Nevada: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 700-C
Report (issue)
the auspices, first of the Manhattan Engineer District, and later, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...Juab County, Utah ......................... 15 Geologic map and section of the Burlington mine, Jamestown...Geologic maps of the Fluorine Queen property, Juab County, Utah............................ .17 Chart showing...upper cut, East Slope no. 2 uranium prospect, Piute County, Utah...... 23 Map showing location of secondary........... 27 Section of cliff face, Oyler mine, Wayne County, Utah...................................
Report (volume)
most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...Buckhorn claims, Nevada; the Midnite and Daybreak mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White...White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor Mountains 327 328 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF URANIUM...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stannite-group minerals, tennantite, argentite, bismuth, and roquesite. Secondary minerals include native...contents between 0.01 and 0.40 wt% In. At the Goka mine, the mineral contains 0.34 to 0.48 wt% In (Murao...resemble those for sulfate-free beudantite. Bismuth arsenate The bismuth arsenate is rare in the Mangabeira quartz–topaz...(Anthony et al. 2000), although at Mangabeira, the bismuth ­arsenate is optically different. Pharmacosiderite...the association of those minerals at the Ikuno mine, Japan. In their opinion, the observed compositional
Report (issue)
oxidized zinc and zinc-lead ores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California______________ 3. Types of supergene...willemite, and zincite at Franklin Furnace and Sterling Hill, N.J., have been by far the most important source...in places, molybdenum, antimony, tungsten, and bismuth have been recovered. Manganese and iron are byproducts...geologically unique deposits of Franklin and Sterling Hill, N.J., have been a major source, although recently...recently production has been increasing in Utah and Nevada. The term "oxidized zinc deposits" is used in this
 
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