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Opal from
Fort Bayard, Central Mining District (Bayard District), Grant County, New Mexico, USA



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Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fort Bayard, Central Mining District (Bayard District), Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:991112
Long-form Identifier:1:3:991112:3
GUID (UUID V4):bf8dc8f2-568d-4ea2-a98f-ecd3dc10b7c1
References
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Book (edition)
and Washington occur the many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs
Report (volume)
and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some opal is precious, but most varieties are semiprecious...streams, and eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds...four regions: the Pacific Coast, Great Lakes, central Kentuckyeastern Tennessee, and the Atlantic Coast-Piedmont...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Book
A GUIDE NEW TO TREASURE MEXICO IN A GUIDE TO TREASURE IN NEW MEXICO By Thomas Penfield Cover...TREASURE IN NEVADA ¢ A GUIDE TO TREASURE IN NEW e A GUIDE TO TREASURE IN MISOURI e A GUIDE ...TREASURE IN KENTUCKY Treasure Reference — MEXICO A GUIDE FREE LOST — ¢ A GUIDE ¢ AND AND...ig , *re Le wotom Ae a INTRODUCTION Ne Mexico is a land of dead cities, of ghosts of the Conquistadores...hunt in the United States. In the folk tales of New Mexico, stories of buried treasure weave their plots
Report (issue)
87 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...TECHNOLOGY Mineral and Water Resources of New Mexico I'repared by U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S...with: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission New Mexico...SOCORRO1977 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Cibutus R. HOLMES. Acting President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayu, Superintendent of Public Instrucilun
Journal (volume)
Francisco, California 2007 UN NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW I NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW Editors ...1963 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO B. ADAMS CONTENTS NUMBER 1, JANUARY, 1963...Indians Land and : Oil Lawrence The "King of New Mexico" Expedition Sheep Husbandry in C. Kelly ...Reviews 56 78 NUMBER 2, APRIL, Silvestre 29 New Mexico, (concluded) Fray 1 1963 and the Obstinate...Reviews Historical Society of editor 323 343 New Mexico 356 Historical l^eview Palace of the Governors
Book
Photographs by Mike Caggiano ASSOCIATION PRESS • New York FINDING AND PREPARING PRECIOUS AND SEMIPRECIOUS...James A. Peterson Association Press, 291 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10007 All rights reserved. No part of...nature of the rock itself, the emergence of new chemicals and new formations. An example of the radical change...A good example of a dike is the Yogo Gulch in central Montana. This dike extends for several miles. It...deposits are often replacements of original minerals by new minerals. A further process is the simple one of
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Report (issue)
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES POTASH COMPANY...COMPANY, REFINERY BULLETIN 12 FRONTISPIECE NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL...NO. 12 The Non-Metallic Mineral Resources of New Mexico and Their Economic Features (EXCLUSIVE OF FUELS)...-------------------------------------- -- 15 New Mexico applications -------------------------------...OF NEW MEXICO ----------------------------------------------- 19 Natural divisions of New Mexico ---
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Book (volume)
species. And for those interested in discovering new deposits, the geology and mineralogy of sources is...Iwo Volumes Volume | JOHN SINKANKAS [aN] VAN New NOSTRAND York Cincinnati REINHOLD Toronto COMPANY...Educational Publishing, Inc. 450 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001 Van Nostrand Reinhold Limited 1410...eg Ow a Ne Sarah PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION The quantity of new information accumulated since publication...such new information in a second volume. [hus the present book becomes V olume I. while the new information
Journal (issue)
Texas. New Year tribal dances, various pueblos, New Mexico. 6 Installation of Indian governors, New Mexico...Mexico. Central district meeting oi Garden clubs, Phoenix, Arizona. 7 Regular meeting Mineralogical society...Recital by Ethel Lee Proctor, New Mexico Highlands university, Las Vegas, New Mexico. 15 Regular meeting Mineralogicai...a t a u q u a society, New Mexico Highlands university, Las Vegas, New Mexico. 29 Igor Gorin, baritone...Arizona. 30 President's birthday ball, Las Vegas, New Mexico. Throughout January a n d until April 1, 1943
Journal (issue)
Saratoga, N. Y. Featured in This Issue Osmiridium Mining in Tasmania. By P. Ormsby Lennon Beryllium in...By David Modell A NON-TECHNICAL MAGAZINE - -ON- MINING · PROSPECTING • GEOLOGY - MINERALOGY • . THE... ROCI\S and MINERALS A NON-TECH NICAL MAGAZINE ---ON-MINING-PROSPECTING-GEOLOGY-MINERALOGY Published Quarterly...19. 1926 Contents for March, 1931 Osmiridium Mining in 'l'asmania. Bu P. Orm11bu Lennon . . . . . ...Special on good mineral spe.cimens from new Ohio locality! Celestite (new form) spear sha1,e, tabulnr loose
Book (volume)
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...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Book (edition)
of Volume I of this work in 1959, the amount of new information that has accumulated is so large and...deposits been profitably reopened, but extensive new primary sources ha\"e been discovered all over the...and quality have been found, as well as entirely new species. Recent mineralogical analyses have yielded...interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E
Journal (issue)
mmigration Ol ice. Opal Mines, Wbite Cllifs, New South Wales. Oourte8JI Special Opal Nuinber Granite and...National Honors A NON-T E CHNICAL MAGAZINE - -ON- MINING - PROSPECTING - GEOLOGY - MINERALOGY THE BULLETIN...an d MINERALS A NON-TECHNICAL MAGAZINE --'ON-MINING-PROSPECTING-GEOLOGY- MINERALOGY Published Quarterly...1Iuseum. B y 1rilli<1m F. Foshag The Geology of Opal. By, Oilb rrt Hart.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Quest of the Opal. B!I If. T. Strnng.. . ....................... . . ('(}Jor Play in Opal. B.11, Il. E
Book
Rock Collecting HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London 1817 Portions...Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada...Reading the Geologic Map; Geologic Maps as Guides to New Fields; Other Maps Useful to Gem and Mineral Hunters...Petrified Wood 131 Characteristics of Agates; Opal, Queen of the Gems; Petrified Wood; Commonly Occurring...Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota
Journal (issue)
SUCCULENTS FOR THE AMATEUR, DEATH VALLEY, A GUIDE. New I MARRIED A RANGER, Mrs. W . M. Smith. Amusing experiences...Cartoon map. bound 75c DESERT CACTI, A. T. Helm. New 138 pages ... $1.00 edition of a unique booklet,...Centro, California DESERT JAN. 1 New Year dances at various New Mexico pueblos. 1 El Paso, Texas celebrates...Indian Buffalo dance at San Ildefonso pueblo, New Mexico. 27-28 Sierra club will take the rough 10-mile...CONTRIBUTORS NEWS LANDMARK CONTEST HOBBY PLACE NAMES MINING BOOKS WEATHER COMMENT LETTERS JANUARY. 1940 Number
Journal (issue)
base coat. Every slat is treated by "STA-WAX" the new lustre preserving process. LIFETIME steel slat Venetian...Library association convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Miss Dorothy Amman, Dallas, Texas, chairman...California. 15 California dove season closes. Imperial county only: Oct. 1-Nov. 15. Sunrise to sunset. 16-NOV...Yuma, Arizona. 31 Convention of second district. New Mexico Federation of Women's clubs, Albuquerque...H a d it in the Bag By CHRISTOPHER C. WRIGHT 17 MINING Briefs from the desert region 18 HOBBY Cacti—Edited
Book (edition)
MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGI 549 K91g Kraus, Edward Henry, 1875- Wii a Monroe County Community...BOOK COMPANY, NEW YORK AND LONDON 1947 Inc. BRARY MMUNITY COLLEGE LI MONROE COUNTY CO Michigan GEMS...manufactured gems have been expanded. There is a new, concise, and fully illustrated chapter on crystal...descriptions of the minerals have been revised, and five new ones added. The optical constants of the transparent...Meyer, L. H. Stern, and Miss Gwynne Richards, New York City; Mr. August Rassweiler, Chicago; Mr. B
Journal (issue)
by R. W. Eveleth S tib n ites o f the Stayton district, H o llister, C a lif o r n ia ......................................................447 by R. Grant Pyrite crystals from Soria and La R ioja P rovin...field and are strongly motivated to find something new or different, rare or interesting, bigger or better...into exhibits offers the opportunity to attract new visitors, and to encourage previous visitors to return...mineralogist/collector particularly appreciates knowing what is new or being produced currently at given localities.
Report (volume)
limestone........................................... Fort Worth limestone .............................................. Reconnaissance from Cline, Uvalde County, to Eagle Pass........... Reconnaissance from Eagle...and Uvalde quadrangles (eastern Kinney County .and Uvalde County)........................................Trans-Pecos Texas coal fields and condition of mining .................................................miles below Engelmann's ranch, southern Uvalde County; B, Basal Eocene bluff on the Frio River......
Book
MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines
 
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