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Apatite from
Silver City Mine, Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver City Mine, Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:998302
Long-form Identifier:1:3:998302:1
GUID (UUID V4):9ed02248-de7c-4655-b7df-31ea6b18a8ee
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
2.8km (1.7 miles) Noralyn/Phosphoria Mines (IMC-Agrico), Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) Hookers Prairie Mine, Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) Rockland Mine (US Agri-Chem), Land Pebble Phosphate Mining District, Polk County, Florida, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Stuart Tract Prospect, Land Pebble Phosphate Mining District, Polk County, Florida, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) IMC Agrico - Pebbledale, Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Homeland Mine, Homeland, Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles) Polk County Prospect, Land Pebble Phosphate Mining District, Polk County, Florida, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Fort Meade Mine Mobil, Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Achan Quarry, Plant City, Polk County, Florida, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Kingsford Mine, Central Florida Phosphate Mining District (Bone Valley), Polk County, Florida, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Mineralogy and Alteration of the Phosphate Deposits of Florida U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1914...National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. • SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South... Mineralogy and Alteration of the Phosphate Deposits of Florida By S.J. VAN KAUWENBERGH, J.B. CATHCART...the mineralogy and chemistry of the phosphate deposits of Florida U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1914...J. Mineralogy and alteration of the phosphate deposits of Florida : a detailed study of the mineralogy
Report (issue)
Minerals Availability Commodity Directory on Phosphate By Dale R. Spangenberg, Edward and Paula M. Takosky...Minerals Availability Commodity Directory on Phosphate By Dale R. Spangenberg, Edward and Paula M. Takosky...Minerals availability commodity directory on phosphate. (Bureau of Mines information circular Supt....abstracts Deposit abstracts Domestic deposits Florida Georgia Idaho Montana North Carolina South Carolina... MINERALS AVAILABILITY COMMODITY DIRECTORY ON PHOSPHATE By Dale R. Spangenberg, Edward F, Carey, and
Report (issue)
Data Set of World Phosphate Mines, Deposits, and Occurrences—Part A. Geologic Data By Carlotta B. Chernoff1....…………………………………………………….. 6 APPENDIX A: World Phosphate Deposits: Geologic Data.................. 38 ... INTRODUCTION An inventory of more than 1,600 world phosphate mines, deposits, and occurrences was compiled...shale depositional environments and to construct phosphate deposit models. The compiled data have been edited...added where possible. The database of compiled phosphate information is being released in two sections;
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...Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia...Indianapolis. Iowa.............. Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas............Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University
Report (volume)
102 District of Columbia ..................................................... 104 Florida.........to refer to Geological 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 that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish...preliminary examination of the geology of western central Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for
Book (volume)
..........................................121 Florida .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
..........................................121 Florida .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Report (issue)
Data Set of World Phosphate Mines, Deposits, and Occurrences—Part B. Location and Mineral Economic Data...………………………………………………………. 8 APPENDIX A: World Phosphate Deposits: Location and Mineral Economic Data ...… 38 TABLES Table 1. Commodity codes used in phosphate deposits table..................... 7 2 INTRODUCTION... INTRODUCTION An inventory of more than 1,600 world phosphate mines, deposits, and occurrences was compiled...shale depositional environments and to construct phosphate deposit models. The compiled data have been edited
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MILLISITE IN PHOSPHORITE HOMELAND, FRON{ FLORIDA* Bnnlt'q'N** exl RoeBnr J. P. OwoNs, Z. S. AlrscHULER'...phosphates' From optical and :r-ray study of the Florida mixture and a comparison with phosphates from other...other localities, it is shown that the Florida materiai contains millisite rather than the structurally...the uraniferous aluminum phosphate zone of the Bone Valiey formation of Florida, it was found that millisite...an alteration of the upper clayey part of the Bone valley formation and as a result is generally a * Publication
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
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Report (issue)
International Strategic Minerals Inventory Summary Report-Phosphate Prepared as a cooperative effort among earthscience... International Strategic Minerals Inventory Summary Report-Phosphate By Ulrich H. Krauss, Henning G. Saam, and Helmut...inventory information about major deposits of phosphate, one of the mineral commodities selected for the...Slater of the British Geological Survey (BGS). Phosphate inventory information was compiled by G.S. Barry...------------------------------------------------------------Phosphate-Background and terminology ------------------
Book
Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas...stones. Even before the onset of the Bronze Age in central Europe, the prehistoric Lake Dwellers were boring...Egyptian burials, in the Valley of the Royal Tombs at Abydos west of the ancient city of Thebes. About 1900...motherof-pearl, and lapis laz11li brought from the city of Ur. Certainly, the Sumerians ,vere the first...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones
Book (edition)
thrilled to the sight of mounted in gold or or silver, some lovely gem, against lying a background...the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person you can obtain... Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that diamond, It is...a scratch just gypsum or about will scratch apatite, as and a a hard as file material. testing...malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates, which large and complex family
Book (edition)
to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...Mexico about four centuries ago— seeking gold and silver, and finding little except salt and turquois. In
Book
Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illlnois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky...Oornrervation ~isioR sf Geology Box 631 Tallahassee, Florida, 32302 flc r 1Ja.:,, O{ ~ 4?vv"-i (3u1"'i_...1 F/4. 3.JJo"J-- faorgia Department of Mines, Mining, and Geology t/ 19 Hunter St. , S. W. Agriculture...Geological Survey \,./' Gttele~ \.1m11x I(. W i ,. T Iowa City, Iowa S .Jc) ¥ o J t s0 • ~--Y ...,.. "'1 State...o J- 1c «. ( University of Utah , , v Salt Lake City, Utah l) ~ L/ ) / ., _ V Vermpnt Geological Survey
Book
doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the............................. . Calcite-Fluorite-Apatite Vein-Dikes ...................................... . .. ..................................... . Florida ..... . ........... . ....... . .. . .. . .. ....Anions Examples Uraninite Pyrochlorc-microlite, apatite, zirkelite, crandalJite Pyrochlore-mi cro]j te...thorite, w·anophane, apatite, xenotime Thorogum1nite, apatite, xenotime Apatite Metatorbcrni_te-n1etazcunerite
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...offer the residence address of each collector by city and state through which contact may be faciliated...from Washington’s Pacific Shores to Key West, Florida, and has collected in all but a very few of our...Asterisk denotes fluorescence. ALABAMA ALEXANDER CITY, Tallapoosa Co., (near) ClIALCOPYRITE ATTALLA,...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collected on some mine dumps around Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A...have been taken from the Cherokee district placers in Butte County, California. Mineral Information Service...specimen consists of dark olive-green crystals of apatite in gabbro and comes from the State's most noted...from the natural science society in Wilmington." FLORIDA: Petrified shark's teeth. loose, brownish and opalized...opalized, have been found at Mulberry, Polk Co., Fla., by Mrs. Rena Allen, formerly of Daytona Beach
Report (volume)
nos. 1, 2. Boston, Mass. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 121-132; Transactions...Mineralogist, vol. 2. Philadelphia, Pa. American Mining Congress: Report of Proceedings, 19th Annual Session...nos. 1-9. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 72-75. San Francisco, Cal...Summary report for 1916. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 57-68;. Transactions...Transactions, vols. 19, 20. Ottawa, Ont. ' Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 38. Toronto and Montreal, Canada
Report (issue)
· as a joint program of the Manhattan Engineer District and its successor, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...Laverty Robert K. Pitman Byron J. Sharp Leon T. Silver (California Institute of Technology) Hobart E....from igneous rocks, by Harrison Brown and Leon T. Silver _______________________________________________...____________________ ___ _ Pitchblende deposits in the Central City district and adjoining areas, Gilpin and Clear Creek...pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard
 
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