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Variscite from
Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Variscite
Formula:AlPO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluelliteⓘ16 photos of Variscite associated with Fluellite at this locality.
Nevadaiteⓘ15 photos of Variscite associated with Nevadaite at this locality.
Hewettiteⓘ11 photos of Variscite associated with Hewettite at this locality.
Wavelliteⓘ8 photos of Variscite associated with Wavellite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ7 photos of Variscite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Meurigite-Kⓘ6 photos of Variscite associated with Meurigite-K at this locality.
Tinticiteⓘ6 photos of Variscite associated with Tinticite at this locality.
Opalⓘ4 photos of Variscite associated with Opal at this locality.
Strengiteⓘ3 photos of Variscite associated with Strengite at this locality.
Tyuyamuniteⓘ2 photos of Variscite associated with Tyuyamunite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Variscite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:154286
Long-form Identifier:1:3:154286:8
GUID (UUID V4):7d0ca479-0d83-485b-955e-d3e99068e4e0
Nearest other occurrences of Variscite
16.5km (10.2 miles) ⓘCarlin Gold mine, Elko, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) ⓘWoodruff Canyon, Carlin Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) ⓘGenesis pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
25.9km (16.1 miles) ⓘRain Mine, Carlin Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
35.5km (22.1 miles) ⓘCat 25 Claim, Bullion Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
62.5km (38.8 miles) ⓘColor Back mine (Turquoise Boy mine), Bullion Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
65.4km (40.6 miles) ⓘGrey Eagle mine, Bullion Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
84.4km (52.5 miles) ⓘLone Tree Mine, Buffalo Mountain Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
93.4km (58.0 miles) ⓘTwin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
95.0km (59.0 miles) ⓘSilver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt 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...Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite
Report (issue)
Kazakhstan); in a hydrothermal gold deposit (Gold Quarry mine, Nevada, USA). Association: Bokite (Kara-Tau...tyuyamunite, cacoxenite, variscite, fluellite (Gold Quarry mine, Nevada, USA). Distribution: From the...Kazakhstan. In the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Maggie Creek district, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA. Name: For... and E.E. Foord (1995) The Gold Quarry mine, Carlin-Trend, Eureka, Nevada. Mineral. Record, 26, 449–469
Journal (issue)
in Nevada Martin Jensen Earth Science Consultants Associated 1242 Glendale Avenue Sparks, Nevada 89413...may come as somewhat or a surprise to learn that Nevada could actually be considered a prominent worldwide...aluminum phosphate minerals, including wavellite, variscite, metavariscite, Ouellite, planerite, vashegyite...have been exposed by recent or currently active mining operations. The following disContinued on page...open-pit Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana
Report (issue)
26(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Santa Rita mine, New Mexico, USA. 3.216 (100), 4.84 (90), 3.116 (80), 4.32...17.74 Total 99.37 100.00 (1) Santa Rita mine, New Mexico, USA; by electron microprobe, average of five...of a copper sulfide deposit (Santa Rita mine, New Mexico, USA); by alteration of triphylite in granite...sediment-hosted Carlin-type hydrothermal gold deposit (Gold Quarry mine, Nevada, USA). Association: Dufrénite...beraunite, leucophosphite, hematite (Santa Rita mine, New Mexico, USA); nontronite, rockbridgeite, apatite, vivianite
Report (issue)
111◩ 160 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fairfield, Utah, USA. 8.94 (10), 17.66 (9), 2.84 (8), 5.57 (6), 2.96 (6)...4 [100.6] 100.00 (1) Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O by the Penfield...)20.77 (OH)7.11 ‱ 26.14H2 O. (2) Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O from stoichiometry...26H2 O. Occurrence: In variscite nodules (Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA); in a complex granite...granite pegmatite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA). Association: Variscite, montgomeryite, wardite, millisite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHOSPHATE MINERAL SPECIES FROM THE GOLD QUARRY MINE, CARLIN, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA: DESCRIPTION AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE...mineral species from the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Eureka County, Nevada, U.S.A. Nevadaite forms...purple-black fluellite, colorless wavellite, strengite– variscite, acicular maroon-to-red hewettite, and rare anatase...nevadaite, new mineral species, phosphate, Gold Quarry mine, Nevada, crystal structure, [M␟5] chains, geometrical...Ă©pigĂ©nĂ©tique dĂ©couverte Ă  la mine Gold Quarry, prĂšs de Carlin, comtĂ© d’Eureka, Nevada, aux Etats-Unis. Elle
Report (issue)
158(5) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Stenna Gwynn mine, Cornwall, England. (ICDD 19-38). 6.48 (100), 3...phosphosiderite, strengite, aldermanite, cacoxenite, variscite, turquoise, fluorite, quartz. Distribution: In...In England, in Cornwall, from the Stenna Gwynn mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannel, and at the Goonvean china...the Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany, Italy. In the USA, from the Carolina pyrophyllite mine, Staley, Randolph...the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Maggie Creek district, Eureka Co., and at the Silver Coin mine, near
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crystals to 4 cm, with calcite, from the arsenic mine near Shimen in Hunan Province, China. Mike Bergmann...Nature’s Treasures Top-Gem Minerals Ellins Rocks Nevada Mineral & Book Company U.S. Jem, Inc. Fenn’s...’s more unusual wulfenite occurrences, the Finch mine, inhere crystal groups are commonly found covered...covered by a thin layer o f drusy quartz. This mine and the various other adjacent properties and workings...mines. Som e are rich in silver, others have good gold values, many contain copper, and several have produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo...the National Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1...traditionally includes such species as crandallite, variscite, turquoise, and the apatite group. Wavellite is...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Report (issue)
961(1) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Gold Quarry mine, Carlin, Nevada, USA. 6.077 (100), 5.618 (90), 9.535...54 23.48 9.22 3.88 102.09 (1) Gold Quarry mine, Carlin, Nevada, USA; electron microprobe analysis, H2O...weathering-derived mineral above a low grade, disseminated gold deposit in hydrothermally altered sedimentary rocks...Association: Intermediate members of the strengite-variscite series, fluellite, hewettite, and more rarely...Distribution: From the open-pit Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Eureka County, Nevada, USA. Type Material: Systematic
Report (issue)
Variscite AlPO4 ‱ 2H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic.... 22.81 Total 100.37 100.00 (1) Lucin, Utah, USA. (2) AlPO4 2H2 O. ‱ Polymorphism & Series: Mineral...metavariscite, forms a series with strengite. Variscite group. Occurrence: Typically deposited from phosphate-bearing...kolbeckite, goyazite (Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA). Distribution: Many localities. In Germany...china clay pits, St. Austell, and at the Treore mine, St. Teath, Cornwall, England. An ore at the Sarysai
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the aluminum analogue. It is a member of the variscite group. Most analyses show only the essential elements...scorodite, and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus and vanadium...pegmatites including those near Georgetown, Sagadahoc County (King and Foord 1994); other occurrences include...quarries at Paris, and the Emmons quarry at Greenwood, Oxford County. Scorodite occurred in small, pale...at the cobalt mine at Great Hill north of Cobalt, Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield
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-
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...in y u lite from the W illard m in e, P ershing County, N e v a d a ....................................refinement and consistency. Our paste-up artist, Maggie Grabowski, maintains our huge storage files of...Record, volume 31, July-August, 20C Sweet Home Mine Special Issue. Since living in Connecticut I have...fund-raising technique being used by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. It’s called the “Adopta-mineral”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carnotite, minyulite, fluellite, crandallite, variscite, and woodhouseite. Optical properties: n = 1.542–1...differs from that from the type locality, Gold Quarry (Nev., USA), by its lower Al content. The IR-spectrum...recently described from the Gold Quarry Mine (Eureka County, Nevada, USA) (Cooper et al., 2004). Among...carnotite, minyulite, fluellite, crandallite, variscite, and woodhouseite. There are many unidentified...Kara-Chagyr area and from the type locality (Gold Quarry Mine) are GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS Vol. 51 No
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Characteristics of Sediment-and Volcanic-Hosted Disseminated Gold Deposits Search for an Occurrence Model U.S. GEOLOGICAL...terrain. Three conspicuous basin-and-range fault sets trend east-west, northwest, and northeast within the district...scale east-west-trending faults in the Enfield Bell mine are are the Marlboro Canyon, Bell, and Ridge faults...(Devonian and Silurian) Contact SOhcïżœ Hanson Creek Formation (Silurian and Ordovician) Fault dashed...Enfield Bell mine, Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada. ïżœ Geology of the Enfield Bell Mine and the
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of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near the Sioux Indian community of the same name...and breaks in the hills along the Minnechaduza Creek and the Niobrara, as well as all tributary canyons...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarryï‚Ÿ chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A SECONDARY PHOSPHATE FROM THE GOLD QUARRY MINE, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, U.S.A. MARK A. COOPER AND FRANK...phosphate, crystal structure, Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada. SOMMAIRE Nous avons rĂ©solu la...phosphate, structure cristalline, mine Gold Quarry, comtĂ© d’Eureka, Nevada. § E-mail address: frank_hawthorne@umanitoba...unknown minerals at the Gold Quarry mine, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, U.S.A., and subsequent...associated with fluellite, wavellite, strengite–variscite, hewettite, and rare anatase, kazakhstanite, tinticite
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ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1ïżœ):9-11 Definition... Nickel, E. 1(2):27 Minerals from. tïżœ Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B....Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell,...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...Great Australia Mine. Day, B. and . Beyer, B. 1(1):23-28 Part 2 - The Mount Cobalt Mine. Day, B. and Beyer
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Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...with quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural...July/August: Gold, Wapiti group of claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado...Azurite on malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and... calcite, and chalcopyrite, Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeff
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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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
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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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
 
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