 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk |  | | 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 (volume) | | Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work...Commission 1046-1 Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada By ALBERT F. TRITES, Jr., and RALPH...production________________________________________ Mine workings ________________________________________________...pocket] PLATE 7. Geologic map and section of Majuba Hill. 8. Geologic map of surface above Middle adit... Page FIGURE 25. Index map showing location of Majuba Hill___________ 184 in CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE |  | | Report (issue) | | 223(8) c = 6.018(8) X-ray Powder Pattern: Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA. 14.3 (100), 4.52 (60), 10.38 (24), 4...50 57.64 17.41 Total 99.50 100.00 (1) Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, average of ten...orebody in rhyolite porphyries and breccias (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Association: Spangolite, chalcophyllite...chrysocolla (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA); cyanotrichite, brochantite, lavendulan, mansfieldite–scorodite, chalcopyrite...Garonne mine, France); chrysocolla, brochantite, malachite, tyrolite, connellite (Gwaithyrafon mine, Wales) |  | | Report (volume) | | ................. Majuba Hill mine workings............................ The Majuba fault............... Plate 9. Geologic map. and section of Majuba Hill, Nevada.................................. In pocket...pocket 10. Geologic map and sections of the Majuba Hill mine............................... In pocket Figure...location of Majuba Hill, Nevada................................ 40 III TIN DEPOSIT AT MA.JUBA HILL, PERSHING...PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA By Ward C. Smith and V. P. Gianella ABSTRACT The tin and copper deposits at Majuba |  | | Report (issue) | | a = 13.472(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA; identical to mixite. 11.63 (100), 2.920...3.40 46.77 1.37 11.00 Total 98.94 (1) Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, average of five...orebody in rhyolite porphyries and breccias (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Association: Olivenite, clinoclase,... cornwallite, strashimirite, scorodite, pharmacosiderite, arthurite, metazeunerite, chalcanthite, chrysocolla...chalcophyllite, malachite, azurite, brochantite (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA); malachite, montmorillonite (Chessy, |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent...Southampton University. A consultant geochemist in the mining industry, he is also an avid collector of micromounts...Mountain states. In the copper mines of Houghton County, Michigan, where primary arsenides have provided...from Hinsdale County, Colorado, and from the Blackbird and Nickel Plate mines in Lemhi County, Idaho. In |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location; the type material is in the Freiberg Mining Academy collection in Germany (Anthony et al. 2000)...Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining industry, is an avid collector of microminerals...now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine. It is, however...sparingly in ores of the Tucson mine in the Leadville district of Lake County, Colorado (Eckel 1997). In Arizona... Cochise County, where it has been identified widely throughout the Warren mining district but always |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...km2), but with a rich and world- famous history of mining and associated mineralogy. In the city of Brno...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Author’s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone |  | | Report (issue) | | Fe3+ AsO4 • 2H2 O Scorodite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...038 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bhilivara [Bhilwara] district, Rajasthan, India. 4.50 (100), 5.65(80), 3.20...61 (2) 49.79 34.60 15.61 Total 100.00 (1) Kiura mine, Japan. (2) FeAsO4 • 2H2 O. 100.00 As2 O5 Fe2...Germany, from Schwarzenberg, Saxony, and in the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest. At Hornı́ Slavkov...from the El Cobre mine, Aranzazú, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, and in the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango |  | | Report (issue) | | 5.598 X-ray Powder Pattern: Patagonia district, Arizona, USA. 3.498 (10), 7.21 (7), 2.507 (5), 1.803...92 Total [100.0] 100.00 (1) Patagonia district, Arizona, USA; by microchemical methods, Cu by AA, H2...(Patagonia district, Arizona, USA); in the oxidized zone of a copper deposit (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Association:...cornubite (Patagonia district, Arizona, USA); pharmacosiderite, arthurite, scorodite, chenevixite, zeunerite...zeunerite (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from a prospect about 2.7 km southeast of |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 100.35 99.6 100.00 (1) American Eagle mine, Utah, USA; remnant is quartz. (2) Las Animas, Sonora... quartz (Tintic district, Utah, USA); olivenite, scorodite (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA); malachite, bystromite...Gunnislake mine, Calstock, Cornwall; from the Brandy Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. In the USA, in the...Tintic district, Juab Co., and the Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah; at the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope...Antelope district, Pershing Co., Nevada; from Alum Gulch, near Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona. On Benjamı́n |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Report (issue) | | deposits. Association: Olivenite, mansfieldite, scorodite, azurite, malachite. Distribution: Material which...Germany, from the Walpurgis vein, Weisser Hirsch mine, Neustädtel-Schneeberg, Saxony; at Sailauf, northeast...northeast of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; in the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach, from Menzenschwand,...Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannel; at Wheal Edward, St. Just. In France, from the Cap Garonne mine, near...near le Pradet, Var; at the Margnac mine, Compreignac, Haute-Vienne; in the Rabéjac uranium deposit, seven |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CLINOCLASITE FROM MAJUBA HILL, VrNcnNr P. GraNnrr6 NEVADA Llniaersily of Neaad,a,Reno, Nettada. ...copper arsenate, has been known to be present at Majuba Hill for many years,l but good crystals were rare...Professor Charles Palache for further study. Majuba Hill (erroneouslydesignatedMajuba Mountain, on the...the Antelope Mountains, a northern continuation of the Trinity Range in Pershing County, Nevada. It lies...Gianella, V. P., Tin deposit at Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada: Ll. S. Geol,.Suntey,8u1tr.,931-C |  | | Report (issue) | | metazeunerite, chalcophyllite, cyanotrichite, scorodite, pharmacosiderite, brochantite, azurite, malachite...from Kamsdorf and Saalfeld, Thuringia; at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest; in the Richelsdorf...Mountains, Hesse; and elsewhere. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, and Triembach-au-Val, Haut-Rhin...Tynagh mine, near Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland. In the USA, in Nevada, at the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope...Antelope district, Pershing Co., in the Nickel mine, Table Mountain district, Churchill Co., from the San |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: Cornwall, England or Tintic, Utah, USA. 2.98 (10), 4.82 (9), 5.91 (7), 2.47 (7), 2.39 (7)...tyrolite, cornetite, cornwallite, metazeunerite, scorodite, pharmacosiderite, spangolite, chalcophyllite...localities. In England, from Cornwall, at the Carharrack mine, Wheals Gorland, Unity, and others in Gwennap, Linkinhorne...Devon. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France. In the Clara Mine, near Oberwolfach, and many...Forest, Germany. At the Kamariza mine, Laurium, Greece. From the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. Large |  | | Report (issue) | | 7.93–7.98 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Pednandrea mine, Cornwall, England. (ICDD 34-155). 4.61 (100), 8...product of arsenic-bearing sulfides. Association: Scorodite, beudantite, carminite, arseniosiderite, symplesite...From Vaulry, Haute-Vienne, and at the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France. In Germany, from Dernbach...and Horhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate; at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, and elsewhere in the Black Forest;...In the USA, in the Mammoth mine, Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah; from the Northumberland mine, Nye Co |  | | Report (issue) | | 598(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Hingston Down Consols mine, England. 4.28 (vvs), 4.81 (vvs), 6.97 (vvs), 10...Total [100.0] [100.0] (1) Hingston Down Consols mine, England; H2 O by loss on ignition; after deduction...enargite. Association: quartz. Pharmacosiderite, scorodite, conichalcite, chenevixite, chalcophyllite, brochantite...Down Consols mine, Calstock, the Gunheath china clay pit, St. Austell, and the Cligga Head mine, Perranzabuloe...Perranzabuloe. From the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Germany. In the Bendada pegmatite, near |  | | Catalog/List | | co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky...calcite £15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass of fibrous dark to pale...5cm. £55 11. AZURITE (3.5cm x 1.5cm x 1cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Dark inky blue azurite crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Scorodite +H]KRX3UHIHFWXUH *XDQJ[L=KXDQJ$XWRQRPRXV5HJLRQ&KLQD...water and considered harmless. One such arsenate, scorodite, has even been used in an attempt to remediate...available arsenic in the essentially insoluble scorodite thus formed. Consequently, this mineral, which...for this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice mineral. Scorodite is best known in leek-green crusts and masses...3.5–4.0, and its calculated density is 3.276. Scorodite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (2/m 2/m2/m) |
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Copper Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA