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Sphalerite from
Red Bird Mine, Antelope Springs Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Bird Mine, Antelope Springs Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:266526
Long-form Identifier:1:3:266526:9
GUID (UUID V4):e510e855-ad27-411b-a1b8-9799f8fd5530
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
4.0km (2.5 miles) Pershing Mine (Pershing Quicksilver Mine), Antelope Springs Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Unnamed prospect, Cow Canyon, Antelope Springs Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
10.2km (6.4 miles) Jamesonite Prospect, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
12.2km (7.6 miles) Octopus Mine, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
12.6km (7.8 miles) Looney mine, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
12.8km (7.9 miles) Nenzel Hill, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Buck and Charley mine, Independence Hill, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
13.0km (8.1 miles) Rochester mines, Nenzel Hill, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Nenzel Crown Point Mines, Nenzel Hill, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) Coeur Rochester Mine, Rochester Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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,
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Val,. S X X I T II I 1)ECEBIIIElZ 1944 No. 5 GEOLOGY AND MINING SERIES No...No. 41 er Deposits In Nevada BY EDGARH. BAILEY and DAVID A. PHOENIX Geologists, U. S. Geological Survey...Survey PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY NEVADA STATE BUREAU OF MINES IN COOPERATION WiTH UNITED STATES OEOLOOlCAL...SURVEY PRICE ONE DOLLAR j sin PUBLICATION OF THE NEVADA STATEBUREAUOF MINES A N D THE MACKAY &HWL OF MINES...THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO, NEVADA Entered in the Post Office at Reno, Nevada, as second-class matter
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)
c = 24.420(4) X-ray Powder Pattern: Red Bird mine, Nevada, USA. 3.39 (100), 4.04 (80), 3.92 (80), 3...21.09 Total 99.0 [99.22] 100.00 (1) Red Bird mine, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponding...stibnite, sphalerite, galena, pyrite, quartz, calcite. Distribution: In the USA, in Nevada, from the...the Red Bird mercury mine, about 37 road km east of Lovelock, Antelope district, Pershing Co. [TL], and...and in the Silver Coin mine, near Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt Co.; at the Cleary prospect, Fairbanks
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21
Report (issue)
Because of the expense involved in drilling, mining concerns commonly drill enough holes to prove or...or disprove the economic viability of the mining the deposit. This process can lead to a tonnage, and...be reported because they may not be economic to mine at the time they are explored. Balancing these...often more complete because mining concerns attempt to develop long-range mine plans now. It is also more...present the combination of several deposits from a district. Reports of multiple grades from different parts
Report (volume)
Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared in...the Nevada Bureau of Mines 1162-B Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada By KEITH...BULLETIN 1162-B Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING..._____________ Geologic setting of the Railroad mining district______________________ Geologic history...System____________________________________________ Nevada Formation._______________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrite, sphalerite, stibnite, and boulangerite in small pieces in oxidized ore bodies at the Red Bird mercury...mercury mine, Pershing County, Nevada. INrnonucuoN In 1943 while investigating quicksilver deposits in...in Nevada, one of the authors (E.H.B.) collected a sample at the Red Bird mine in Pershing County, Nevada...identification possible. OccunnBNcn(E. H. B.) The Red Bird mine, where the robinsonite was found, is one of...productive of several quicksilver mines in Pershing County, Nevada. It is in sec.33,T.27 N., R.34 E., on the
Report (issue)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties. Table 2 lists...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Report (volume)
Jackson Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County/ Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1726-B Chapter...Jackson Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada By MARTIN L. SORENSEN, DONALD PLOUFF, and ROBERT...OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS HUMBOLDT AND PERSHING COUNTIES, NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL...Jackson Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt County, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1726-B Bibliography...and mineral resources Nevada South Jackson Mountains Wilderness. 2. Geology Nevada South Jackson Mountains
Report (volume)
Director ' Bulletin 648 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Clark County.......................................................'.. Gold Butte mining district.................... Lincoln mine........................................ Bennett mine.........................gneiss............................. Gold Butte Mining Co................................. New Era group...prospects...................................... Elko County...............................................
Journal (issue)
$6.00 Geology of the Pioche Mining District Lincoln ·County, Nevada Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com...the Comstock Lode at what became Virginia City, Nevada Territory, Pioche became the next "Queen of the...lookingsouthas it is today.Author'sphoto,2018. Underground Mine Signals & Signs - Part I Tony Nikischer Excalibur...Werner's restoration ofa mine hoist indicator from the Poorman Mine in Pioche, Nevada. The hoist indicator...one aspect ofunderground communications in the mining industry, enabling the hoist operator above to
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
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)
AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BAYHORSE REGION CUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO BY CLYDE P. ROSS Prepared in cooperation...mines_________ Bayhorse district..______.__________--__--__-__-_--_-_.._ Good Hope mine.___________________________________...near Garden Creek._________-_-_-_____-.-__ Ramshorn mine._____.___-_______-___-.-_-__--_---__ Skylark mine________________...Juliette Creek.________________________ Beardsley mine--___-______--____-____.___-._---__ _ McGregor g...-_-_---__--_ .. Kuna mine.____________________.____._---_-_-__.__ Nameless mine._-_.__-_______-__-__-_-_-----_
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 539 SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN NORTHWESTERN OUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO BY JOSEPH B. UMPLEBY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT........ Future of mining in northwestern Custer County......................... Mining districts............................................ Bay Horse district....................................................................................... 56 56 Mining conditions. .....................................prospects...................................... Ramshorn mine................................................
Journal (issue)
‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ........................................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
containing principally argentiferous galena, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite occur both in Paleozoic sedimentary...arenaceous rocks are represented by the Clayton Mine Quartzite and the Kinnikinic Quartzite (Table 1;...Dolomite, quartzite Dolomite, siltstone, argillite Red Bird Clayton, Rob Roy Pacific, Riverview Ramshorn...amphibolite MiddleProterozoic EarlyProterozoic Mine-mineralized area Milligen Formation also occurs...0 $6.00 Carrietown, Minnimoore, Bullion Black Bird Late Cretaceous (100–70 Ma) igneous activity resulted
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Tuscarora Au-Ag District: Eocene Volcanic-Hosted Epithermal Deposits in the Carlin Gold Region, Nevada STEPHEN...B. CASTOR,† Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID...Reno, Nevada 89511 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno...Reno, Nevada 89557 JEAN S. CLINE, Geoscience Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010...Mexico Bureau of Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 RICHARD
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Oregon-Idaho-(western) Montana, (4) Colorado-NewMexico, (5) Nevada-southern California,and (6) Sonora-Sinaloa.To datethe...Rate (t.p.d.)x BritishColumbia 1967 46,000,000 Mine Alice (B. C. Molybdenum) 8,000 Company British...A. 4o World War I stimulusbroughtthe Climax mine into production and in 1919 fissure-veindepositswere...States and Canadian steel industries more 733 + Red Bird , A•x S•mple ß Ouesta Irregular + Big Ben...Elaborate Deposits Breccia pipe ß Boss Mtn. + ß Mine + Importan1Prospect Gem + Lucky Ship Multiple
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...perity; but we are still riding the fine line between red ink and black in the financial ledger. Just because...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology
Book
ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
 
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