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Chalcanthite from
Leviathan Mine, Leviathan Peak, Monitor - Mogul Mining District, Alpine County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcanthite
Formula:CuSO4 · 5H2O
Comments:Occurs in considerable amounts.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Leviathan Mine, Leviathan Peak, Monitor - Mogul Mining District, Alpine County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:3329
Long-form Identifier:1:3:3329:9
GUID (UUID V4):a698f5c3-db8c-4a1f-b2a9-a8e5d05452f6
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcanthite
43.2km (26.8 miles) Ludwig Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
46.2km (28.7 miles) Bluestone Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
60.3km (37.4 miles) Serita Mine, New York Hill, Masonic Mining District, Bodie Hills, Mono County, California, USA
61.0km (37.9 miles) Pittsburg-Liberty Mine (Pittsburg claim; Pittsburg No. 2 claim; Liberty claim; Liberty No. 2 claim), New York Hill, Masonic Mining District, Bodie Hills, Mono County, California, USA
69.7km (43.3 miles) Northern Lights Mine, Hussman Spring, Black Mountain, Wassuk Range, Mountain View Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
72.1km (44.8 miles) Union mine (Commonwealth mine), Galena Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
76.0km (47.2 miles) Steamboat Hot Springs, Steamboat Springs Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
1 COUNTY REPORT HYSICAL >ci 8 PHYSICAL •CI. .Lib. IES TN 24 C3 1ERAL RESOURCES OF A34 1 IPINE...IPINE COUNTY, CA! IA -*ci?2®^?^a£~Vfes^A^Gw^i I ver Mou nta i nV-*- Digitized by the Internet...Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/det...OF ALPINE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA by WILLIAM B.CLARK With sections on the Zaca gold-silver mine and...and the Leviathan COUNTY REPORT sulfur mine by James R. Evans 8 1977 CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LOCALITIES OF ALPINE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By MERRITT HERRING 337 Colusa Avenue, Berkeley, California Introduction...and since they are not fit Bolander of Oakland, California, that for commercial acknowledgement, they there...productive is the stop and examine some of the material mine dump because of the source of the lying by the side...Minerals of Alpine County Markleeville Area from I X L Mine at Silver Mountain. Mining at this time...death of what might have been a great mining district. Alpine County is situated directly south of Lake
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE PYRITE FROM ALPINE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA A. Pensr, Univers'ity oJ Cal'ifornio, Berkeley...visiting the Leviathan mine with a party from the California State Division of Mines. This mine is located...located on the eastern, right, bank of Leviathan Creek at an eleva"tionof about 7.200 feet. sevenmiles east...Markleeville, the county seat of Alpine County (Fig. 1). The mine is owned by the Leviathan Sulphur Co., and...Shipments of sulphur have been reportedl from Alpine County only during 1933 and 1934, but the amount produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mine Waters: Acidic to Circumneutral Drainage water from the Zarshuran arsenic–gold mine in northern...3$2.50 DOI: 10.2113/gselements.7.6.393 A cid mine waters, often containing toxic concentrations of...produced from the mining of coal and metallic deposits. Values of pH for acid mine waters can range from...circumneutral (pH ≈ 7) mine waters can have high concentrations of As, Sb, Mo, U, and F. When mine waters are discharged...reaction catalyzed by microbes. Current and future mining should plan for the prevention and remediation
Report (chapter)
Resources Division, 6000 J Street Sacramento, California 95819 “It is plain that almost all kinds of atramentum...closed-basin lakes, in rock outcrops, and in mines and mine wastes has been noted since early antiquity. The...of metal-sulfate salts, in connection with the mining of metals, was a phenomenon well known to the early...melanteria) and atramentum sutorium caeruleum or chalcanthite were well known to form from the corrosion of...vitriol” for melanterite and “blue vitr iol” for chalcanthite were in common use and continued to be used
Report (issue)
AND MINING WASTES NOTES FROM A WORKSHOP PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL LAND RECLAMATION AND MINE DRAINAGE... Predicting Water Contamination from Metal Mines and Mining Wastes O^ggg^C. Kathleen S. Smith, Ph.D. Geoffrey...80225 Workshop 2 International Land Reclamation and Mine Drainage Conference and the Third International... Predicting Water Contamination from Metal Mines and Mining Wastes FOREWORD This report contains copies of...presented at the International Land Reclamation and Mine Drainage Conference and the Third International
Journal (issue)
QUICKSILVER AND ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF THE STAY· TON DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA ..........................................Leon B. Bailey 406 TIN DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA 409 CALIFORNJA FIELD TRIP. By Uoyd M. D...visited Yosemite National Park in Mariposa county, California, enjoying its unrivaled grandeur and beauty...western Banks which front the Great Valley of California. This drop gives the streams plenty of cutting...other, are the Three Brothers, the highest, Eagle Peak, rising 3800 feet above the valley. Farther up on
Journal (issue)
Grice Famous mineral localities: the Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire .................................... J. Gauthier & V. T. King The Fat Jack mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .................................& L. Wagner, Jr. The Monitor-Mogul mining district, Alpine County, California ........................malachite on chrysocolla, from the M ashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire. Sorbonne collection, Paris: photo...fo r Historic Preservation o f the Sterling Hill Mine, provides the following news on the ongoing efforts
Journal (issue)
of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Journal (issue)
1 Droplet of Native Mercury on Calomel Red Bird Mine, Churchill Co. Nevada Another counterintuitive...that ultimately became the Pichaco Mine, San Benito Co., California two organic minerals. Geologic processes...provide stability. Agoura Hills, Los Angeles Co., California As powerful a method as x-ray diffraction may...like a glass than a crystalline material. Red Bird Mine, Churchill Co., Nevada From time to time people...occupation of mining, from ore dumps, Battle Mountain, Lander Co. Nevada slag weathering, mine fires, or
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Book
353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...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
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT. Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1939 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 70803 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 DIVISION OF MINES...Logan, District Mining Engineer O. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer...Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Ohas. V. Averill, District Mining
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Report (chapter)
Geological Survey 6000 J Street Sacramento, California 95819 Robert O. Rye U.S. Geological Survey 963...of the transition metal salts (melanterite, chalcanthite, etc.) can be purified by reacting with a 5...for alunite, jarosite, gypsum, mirabilite, and chalcanthite. Hydrogen isotope fractionation factors generally...basis of data from a jarosite that precipitated from mine water in the laboratory. Stoffregen et al. (1994)...of 1000 1nα chalcanthite − H 2 O (≈ Δ chalcanthite − H 2 O ) = -22.7 ‰ between chalcanthite and a saturated
Book (volume)
..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...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
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...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
Report (volume)
America (MSA) November 11-12, 2000 in Tahoe City, California, prior to the Annual Meeting of MSA, the Geological...agriculture to reduce alkalinity in soils. At many mining sites, the extraction and processing of coal or...and sediment. Concentrated waters associated with mine wastes may precipitate a variety of metal-sulfate...role of soluble sulfate minerals formed from acid mine drainage (and its natural equivalent, acid rock...of mineral deposits and of waste materials from mining and mineral processing. This volume compiles and
Journal (issue)
month Publ1col1on Office P.O. Box 808, MENTONE, CALIFORNIA . Telephone PYromid 4-1144 (Office: 1797 Coor1... ' � SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT MENTONE, CALIFORNIA, AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES SUBSCRIPTION...by Gcmoc Corporation. P.O. Box 808, Mentone. California Copyright 1964 by Gemoc Corporation THE R...Connecticut -.-----Garnet, Lulubell Mine, Son Diego County, California. low in silica. Biotite is one of...Smoky quartz with cleovelondite cluster, Himoloyo Mine, Mesa Grande, Col i forn,o APRIL l 96� ll \I
Report (issue)
Characterization of acid mine drainage at the Holden mine, Chelan County, Washington By I.E. Kilburn*..........................^ Site Description and Mining History .........................................untreated water samples collected at the Holden mine, July 1995........................................acidified water samples collected at the Holden mine, July 1995 .......................................and hydroxide precipitates collected at the Holden mine, July 1995 ....................................
Report (issue)
Results and Conceptual Model of Mine Drainage at the Holden Mine, Chelan County, Washington By I.E. Kilburn*...ABSTRACT...1 INTRODUCTION...! Site Description and Mining History...3 Geologic Setting...4 Summary of USGS...DISCUSSION AND CONCEPTUAL MODEL...6 Major Controls of Mine Drainage at the Holden Site...6 Geologic Controls...untreated water samples collected at the Holden mine, September 1996...26 Table 2. ICP-AES analysis of...acidified water samples collected at the Holden mine, Sept. 1996...27 Table 3. ICP-MS analysis of filtered
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
 
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