 | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | February 2015 Cover Photographs January/February: Quartz, several localities; John Lucking, Jeff Scovil...September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen...Acanthite, Nevada, 514 Actinolite, Quebec, 498 Adamite, Nevada, 514 Agardite–(Y), Nevada, 515 Agate (fire)...Anglesite, Colorado, 413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook,...456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50 Arseniosiderite, Nevada, 515 Arsenopyrite |  | | Report (issue) | | Bullock Nature displays her most common mineral, quartz, in this beautiful crystal cluster. CONTENTS.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish... Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal |  | | Book (edition) | | and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized |  | | 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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite, |  | | | | Mineral Resources of San Joaquin County, DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO LIBRARY UNIVERSITY... DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF P. JENKINS. Chief Vol. 51 JANUARY...OLAF Headquarters Third Floor, Ferry Building, San Francisco Branch 11 Offices State Building, 217...Mines maintains at its headquarters offices in San Francisco a technical library containing several...thousand books and scientific journals on geology, mining-, mineralogy, chemistry, metal- and related subjects; |  | | Journal (volume) | | Mineral Resources of San Joaquin County, DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO LIBRARY UNIVERSITY... DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF P. JENKINS. Chief Vol. 51 JANUARY...OLAF Headquarters Third Floor, Ferry Building, San Francisco Branch 11 Offices State Building, 217...Mines maintains at its headquarters offices in San Francisco a technical library containing several...thousand books and scientific journals on geology, mining-, mineralogy, chemistry, metal- and related subjects; |  | | Report (issue) | | .:' '\; ii- _;·-·: ----~- Manusc·r1pt copied Nevada,~ State: . Bureati of w.il~s With - -' · permission...~a Nevada b~tho~itl!o. 2 ~he ht~c~ts . . . /A . .· . . , . are exposed chieny-\in the ··mountain ranges...ranges and hills • . · . · . .. .·. .; >, ~ . ··.·~. ,. , ... ... .. . .. ~ The ··mo~tairl"ranges...-:.· :. The faulting · shovm iii ·the ·various mining .. dJ.s.t~:tcts, : . a~s ,~,Fa;;-vi1w .~. ·.. :...-lower members of the "Red Beds" of the Rocky Mountain region.'~1 Its ~O·' f,·~:~'b~~~fitimated ;~t |  | | Report (volume) | | Altered Rocks And Ore Deposits of The San Rafael Swell Emery County, Utah By C. C. HAWLEY, R. C. ROBECK..._________________ __ Monitor Butte and Temple Mountain Members____ ____ Moss Back Member_____.______________...___________________________________________ Temple Mountain area________________________________--__Reds Canyon...Butte Member in the Delta mine area_ Altered Monitor Butte or Temple Mountain Members in other areas__..._____ Contrasting metal content of the Temple Mountain deposits__ Classification of deposits---------___ |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineralogist OIAF GEOLOGIC BFL^NCH Ferry Building, San Francisco San Francisco P. JENKINS Chief Geologist ...°\ x *T U L A R E I s_ i»KCBSFltLO •Z R f SAN, BERNARDINO \ SSANTA BARBARA j^^'»-f"''*\L0SAN6tLCS...1 D E J •LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since |  | | Report (issue) | | limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ...... |  | Price, Jonathan G., Henry, Christopher D., Castor, Stephen B., Garside, Larry, Faulds, James E. (1999) Geology of Nevada With excellent rock exposures in the desert, generally good access to collecting localities on public lands, and fine tourist attractions in the towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (6) 357-363 doi:10.1080/00357529909605171 | 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...of the state is characterized by a patchwork of mountain ranges, which are commonly about 10 miles wide...faults. As can be seen on figure 1, nearly every mountain range is bounded on at least one side by a fault...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the |  | | Report (volume) | | and Uranium Deposits of the Temple Mountain District Emery County, Utah By C. C. HAWLEY, D. G. WYANT..._______________________________________ History of mining operations and production._____________________...Formation_________--.__________-____-----__Temple Mountain and Monitor Butte Members.--..-Moss Back Member...structures__-__-_-___-_-_-__.--_-____-_-___------Temple Mountain collapse structure_____________________ Rocks..._-______-Montroseite and paramontroseite._______________________ Hematite and limonite.________________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Provenance and Transport of Lower Paleozoic Midcontinent Quartz Sandstones.................22 Geological Processes...............................................49 Mining, Processing, and Transportation ......................................................50 Badger Mining ......................................................................................52 Short Mountain Silica .........................................column showing the lithostratigraphic units in Sauk County, Wisconsin ........10 Stratigraphic column for |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PUS. JUNE 1958 TJRANO-ORGANIC ORE AT TEMPLE MOUNTAIN, UTAH By DANA R. KELLEY AND PAUL F. KERR ABSTRACT...essential constituents of the uranium ore at Temple Mountain, Utah. These occur in the vicinity of highly altered...zinc, and vanadium appear more abundant in the mining area away from the collapse. Small particles of...montroseite, the primary vanadium oxide, in the mining area. The distribution of supergene oxidation minerals...uranium mineralization. The features at Temple Mountain are significant in the delineation of centers |  | | Book | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS • Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- LX x I Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors |  | | Report (issue) | | and 1916. Bulletin No. 10. Value €If Ores . . Mine Sampling and the Commercial Bulletin No. 11. Descriptive...Geological Survey and in the journals dealing with mining and geology, but this material is widely scattered...and Mining Journa1. M. & S. P.-Mining and Scientific Press. 2 INTRODUCTION M. & E. W .-Mining and...Min.-Mines and Minerals. S. L. M. R.-Salt Lake Mining Review. In order to give proper credit to the courses...districts, under the general bibliography for the county or state and under the discussion of a particular |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Report (issue) | | __ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits...Highways_____ Production............................... Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville |  | | Book | | doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...just a mere habit. "Skimming the Milky Way" Bill Nye • chapter one RADIOACTIVE MINERALS COMPOSITION...3,200 A. Short wavelengths are produced by cold quartz tubes utilizing mercw-y vapor ionization at low...clearly has resulted from the developn,ent of hematite along cleavage planes and fractures. Hutton (...jn a field of low magnification. Much dark smoky quartz owes its coloration to alpha-particle bo1nbardment | | | Book | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in México...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in México, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- x / Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors |  | | Report (issue) | | indicate annotation of thesis title by addition of county. Capitalization of terms in revised abstracts was...particular to Mis s Edith Rich, and to the Natrona County Library, for procuring theses. Many university...WARD OWEN, 1951, Cambrian diabase flow in [Utah County], central Utah: Brigham Young Univ. M. S. thesis...cified zone contains jasper and massive or columnar quartz and exhibits pipe-like structures perpendicular...Compass, v. 29, no. I, p. ~·-IO, geo1. map. On the San Rafael Swell basal Chinle siltstones and mudstones show |
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San Rafael Mine, Quartz Mountain camp, Lodi Mining District, Lodi Hills, Nye County, Nevada, USA