 | | Book | | Commonwealth Mining and Metallurgical Congress, Hong Kong, 1978 Edited and compiled by M. J. Jones and...Foreword 1 Hong Kong 1 Mining of the wolframite deposit of Needle Hill Mine, Hong Kong 13 Lok On...reservoir 14 Mass-transit railway 14 Tuen Mun highway 18 New Town development schemes 24 Shiu Wing...granite quarry Bider Malaya Tin Sdn. Bhd. Papua New Guinea Bougainville Copper, Ltd. The Philippines...Alligator River area, Northern Territory Broken Hill, New South Wales 72 Mt Newman Mining Company Pty, Ltd |  | | Book | | L OF HONG KONG EDITED BY S. G. DAVIS Profe,ror of Geography, University of H01,g Ko11g ' I ' •...\ '' l\19oJ,l!dO Ttll04 I I H6D3 1964 HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS ' ' UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA... I - ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF HONG KONG • , ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF HONG KONG EDITED BY S. G. D AVIS Professor...University of Hong Kong 1964 H ONG KONG I UNIVERSITY Victor , C PRE SS I © Hong Kong University...AMEN HOUSE, LONDON, E.C. 4 AND 417 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, ARE THE EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR ALL COUNTRIES |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION THE NEW IN HONG KONG AND TERRITORIES S. G. DAVIS ABSTRACT Associatedwith...the great batholith of acidic rocks on the East China coasttungstenores occur in three main deposits:pegmatite...replacement. Hong Kong has many typical ore occurrencesthat are found elsewhere in South China. There is...temperaturesthan have so far beenpostulated. In Hong,Kong there is consistent evidenceof tungstenbearing...extremes. GENERAL GEOLOGY THe- area of Hong Kong and the New Territoriesformsone small part of the great |  | | Journal (issue) | | PLATIVET, LONDON Specialists in : WOLFRAM CHROME SCHEELITE MOLYBDENITE TANTALITE . AMBL YGONITE COLUMBITE...Street, London w.l P.O. Box 569, London s.E.l 13A Castle Street, Edinburgh 2 109 St. ·Mary Street, Cardiff...in Hong Kong. By B. P. Ruxton, M.A., F.G.S., formerf:Yof Department of Geographyand Geology,Hong Kong...in Hong Kong. By B. P. Ruxton, M.A., F.G.S., formerly of Department of Geographyand Geology, Hong Kong...,, 414 410 411 413 414 High GradeBeryl in Hong Kong Plate I Plate II Text-fig. Text-fig. Text-fig |  | | Journal (volume) | | BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES 45 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK , N.Y. LONDON HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE...on the Occurrence of a High Grade Beryl Ore in Hong Kong. By B. P. Ruxton, M.A., F.G.S., formerly of Department...Geography and Geology, Hong Kong University 416 Graphite Seams in Hong Kong. By B. P. Ruxton , M.A...formerly of Department of Geography and Geology, Hong Kong University 429 1 CONTENTS PAGE REPORTS FROM.... Sierra Leone Federation of Malaya British Territories in Borneo Cyprus British Guiana British Honduras |  | | Report (volume) | | the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center • FAIRBANKS, Alaska-New Federal Bldg., 101 Twelfth Ave. Contributions to...Tungsten-Geology and Resources of Deposits in Southeastern China By James E. Elliott J. Tungsten-Grades and Tonnages...Tungsten-Geology and Resources of Deposits in Southeastern China, by James E. Elliott (J) Tungsten-Grades and Tonnages...America was a goal of early explorers who came to the New World with a mandate to search for gold and other |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and prospect pits is great, with many minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada...Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite...pyromorphite, quartz, scheelite, vanadinite, wulfenite Corral Canyon District Various mines and prospects:...Hot Springs Iron meteorite Lake (Mopung Hills) District Various mines and prospects: mopungite,* romeite...trona Table Mountain (Bolivia, Cottonwood Canyon) District Lovelock mine: annabergite, atacamite, ciinotyrolite |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................ Types of potential new deposits...........................................totals, as shown in Table 1. The Cornstock Lode district in Storey and Lyon Counties is by far the largest...County; Broken Hills (Ag, Pb, Cu, Au, Zn), Nevada Scheelite (W, Pb, Ag, Au), and Rawhide (Ag, Au, Pb, Cu)...from the Broken Hills district are not currently available, though the district is identified as having...The industrial mineral with production in each district is listed, rather than its total amount of production |  | | Report (issue) | | INTERIOR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was...Reese River district 14 White Pine district 14 Trinity district 16 Candelaria district 16 First bullion...Goldfield 19 Manhattan district 19 More railroads built 21 Copper production 21 New discoveries 22 War...but all figures and plates have been replaced with new ones. Similar to Report 7, this updated version has...locations shown on plate 1. Some of the mining district names used in the first two sections of the report |  | | Report (volume) | | the Alta formation, and a younger unit, the Kate Peak formation. The Davidson granodiorite is intruded...Kate Peak formations. The Alta formation and older rocks, and to a lesser extent the Kate Peak formation...formation overlie and partly interfinger with the Kate Peak formation. The lake deposits were laid down in structural...Range and the adjoining Flowery Range. The highest peak, Mount Davidson, rises precipitously above Virginia...Calkins and Thayer (1945) in the Comstock lode district was an invaluable starting point, and their map |  | | Book | | person wishing to examine a locality personally. New information relating to Washington's mineral diversity...than 2,200 mineral species have been identified and new ones are discovered and described each year. Over...Rigidly crystallized rocks will, when exposed to new chemical and physical environments, lose stability...as semblage and allow it to become replaced by a new one. The replace ment texture is usually massive...wollastonite, magnetite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, scheelite, zoisite, idocrase, sphene, scapolite group, pyrite |  | | Report (issue) | | however, that occur in a particular part of a larger district or locality, are listed only under the area specified...Antelope District (Mineral Range). Beaver Lake District (Beaver Lake Mountains). Bradshaw District (Mineral...(Mineral Range). Fortuna District (Tushar Mountains). Gordon District (Tushar Mountains). Granite and North...Range). Indian Peak District (Needle Range). Lincoln District (Mineral Range). McGarry District (Mineral Range)...Range). Newton District (Tushar Mountains). Pine Grove District (Wah Wah Mountains). Pruess (Newhouse) |  | | Report (issue) | | Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... Davis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References ...Nightingale district Quartz epimorph after Calcite Agardite Grossular, Buena Vista district Quartz (amethyst)...Orpiment inclusions Calcite, Getchell Mine Robinson district inclusions inclusions Realgar and Fluorite Rhodochrosite...Barite Richelsdorfite Scheelite and Gold Silver and Quartz Silver, Reese River district Smithsonite Sonoraite | | | Report (issue) | | te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...A. Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG...Mountain Mine Grossular, Nightingale district Grossular, Buena Vista district Gypsun1 Heterogen ite He½•eltite...Magnesio-axinite Malachite Malachite and Azurite, Robinson district Malachite after Azurite, Mount Potosi Marcasite...rite Richelsdorfite Scheelite and Gold Silver and Quartz Silver, Reese River district S1nithsonite Sonoraite |  | | Report (issue) | | .................................... Fairview district . ..............................................Mountain Wells district............... . ........................................ Unnamed district ................................................ Unnamed district................... . . ............................................................. Eldorado district ........................................................................... :............. 7.5 Castle Rock . ................................ 75 . .prospect |  | | Report (volume) | | compilation of a new geologic map at a scale of I :250,000 (Greene and others, I99I ), compilation of new gravity...Consequently, new geologic mapping was not completed in all areas identified as needing new mapping to produce...map of uniform quality and detail, relatively few new geochemical data were gathered and a systematic stream-sediment...this study (Greene and others, 1991) is based on new mapping of approximately 30 percent of the quadrangle...120°00' 40° 00' 118°00' CARSON SINK ... Fairview Peak = AI 1"'1 If Q c :2 Q. 39° 00' 0 10 20 KILOMETERS |  | | Report (issue) | | decade. In addition, the publication of data on new minerals (which surprisingly are still found in ever-increasing... are reported for the decade 1954-1964. Several new sections have been added. Tributes to serious students...from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...CDMG (7) MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA 8 [Bull. 189 new entries representing old occurrences not previouslymentioned...entries of mineral occurrences, of which 678 are new since 1954. Only 196 remain invalidated. Up to December |  | | Report (volume) | | Douglas-Fir at the Red Mountain Stockwork, Yellow Pine District, Idaho, by J. A. Erdman, B. F. Leonard, and D...of CUSMAP is the development and application of new concepts for the identification of mineral resource...possibly mineralized areas. CUSMAP is providing new information on present and potential mineral supplies...southwest to a high of 11,815 ft at the summit of Castle Peak in the White Cloud Peaks (fig. A2). Local relief...groups based on their beliefs as to the likelihood of new deposits of a given commodity occurring within the |  | | 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...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; |  | | Book | | Jay Ellis Ransom )' HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS New York, Evanston, and London A RANGE GUIDE TO MINES... Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS...camp hangers-on, and businessmen swarmed to the new “diggings.” Almost overnight tent-camps mushroomed...geologic map as an invaluable aid to finding new mineral sources has been described in the author’s...directly toward helping you to locate new minerals and to develop new mines. More than ever before. Uncle |  | | Report (volume) | | 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...Value of product reported in 1911, $708,903. Clay (china). Cherokee County, suitable material not worked...was worked during Civil War; Madison County, near New Market; Marshall County, near Guntersville. Gold...County, Blue and Rock creeks. x Clay County, Idaho district. Cleburne County, Arbacoochee, Chulafinnee, Kemp |  | | Book (volume) | | age⎯trilobites fossils (well preserved). DECATUR COUNTY NEW POINT, N 1 mi., a stone quarry⎯Chalcopyrite (as tiny...area quarries, wide variety on minerals⎯Fluorite, a new species Smytheite (dark acicular crystals included...abandoned nearby mine (make inquiry) ⎯Cerussite. NEW GALENA, area mines and dumps⎯Galena. APPANOOSE COUNTY...of Big Creek and Skunk R.; e and in pits⎯agate. NEW LONDON, regional stream beds, banks, cuts, etc.⎯agate...ash, in this order, now being superseded by great new reserves of oil and natural gas. As a collector, |  | | Book (volume) | | age⎯trilobites fossils (well preserved). DECATUR COUNTY NEW POINT, N 1 mi., a stone quarry⎯Chalcopyrite (as tiny...area quarries, wide variety on minerals⎯Fluorite, a new species Smytheite (dark acicular crystals included...abandoned nearby mine (make inquiry) ⎯Cerussite. NEW GALENA, area mines and dumps⎯Galena. APPANOOSE COUNTY...of Big Creek and Skunk R.; e and in pits⎯agate. NEW LONDON, regional stream beds, banks, cuts, etc.⎯agate...ash, in this order, now being superseded by great new reserves of oil and natural gas. As a collector, |  | | Report (issue) | | History in Brief .......... 4 Vandall T. King • New from Sludyanka .......... ...... . 9 • Mineralogy...only occasionally on public display. Photo: Prague Castle Phototeque/ Studio Paul 2 • Cut Longitudinally...at Saint Guy cathedral at the Hradschin (Prague Castle), in Prague. Though the crown is not generally...Author and historian, Vandall King of Rochester, New York recounts 400 years of tourmaline history The...discovered to be new. The Amsterdam lapidaries noticed the low density of this new gem; while the hardness |  | | Report (issue) | | ...... Carbonate rocks in the Bayhorse mining district.................................................Hobbs.................................... Bayhorse district subterrane.......................................................................... Monumental Peak high.................................................................................... Van Horn Peak block................................................................................... Van Horn Peak cauldron complex............................... |
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