 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Environmental geochemistry of abandoned mercury mines in West-Central Nevada, USA John E. Gray*, James G. Crock...80225, USA Abstract The Humboldt River is a closed basin and is the longest river in Nevada. Numerous...mines into surrounding ecosystems, including the Humboldt River, is of environmental concern. Samples of...the mines. Sediment samples collected from the Humboldt River basin contain 40.28 mg Hg/kg. Leachate samples...were found in water samples collected from the Humboldt River system, and these were below the 0.012 mg/l |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (hexagonal HgS), the most important source for mercury, is normally brilliant red and has been used throughout...composition and found that it decreased with decreasing mercury Editorial handling: R. J. Goldfarb J. K. McCormack...Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA e-mail: mccormac@mines.unr.edu Tel...known from its occurrences at Steamboat Springs, Nevada, and the Opalite deposit, Oregon. Electron microprobe..., NV), Clementine (Elko Co., NV), Buckskin Peak (Humboldt Co., NV), Goldbanks (Pershing Co., NV), B and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 19:59 08 January 2015 Near Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada U ntil what seems like only a few years ago...discovery of unusually fine cinnabar in northern Nevada in the late 1970s signaled the beginning of the...well-crystallized specimens. One of the best of these “new era” Nevada specimens has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...in many countries as the major ore mineral of mercury. It is found as a primary mineral in shallow hydrothemal...a supergene mineral in the uppermost parts of mercury-bearing systems. A comprehensive bibliography by |  | | Report (issue) | | Geochemical Data for Environmental Studies of Mercury Mines in Nevada by John E. Gray, Monique G. Adams, James...TABLES Table 1. Description and production of mercury mines studied....................................Geochemical data for sediment and rock samples in the Humboldt River study............. Table 5. Geochemical...Geochemical data for calcine samples collected in the Humboldt River study............... Table 6. Geochemical data...data for water samples collected in the Humboldt River study................. 10 11 12 22 31 40 FIGURES |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Z = 16 X-ray Powder Pattern: Terlingua, Texas, USA. 3.273 (100), 1.890 (57), 2.536 (47), 4.009 (36)...92 0.67 Total 99.01 100.00 (1) Terlingua, Texas, USA; average of three analyses. (2) Arzak deposit, Russia;...product of other mercury minerals in mercury deposits. Association: Calomel, mercury, terlinguaite, montroydite...(Terlingua, Texas, USA); cinnabar, mercury, calomel (San Mateo Co., California, USA); lavrentievite, calomel...calomel, mercury, kadyrelite (Kadyrel deposit, Russia). Distribution: In the USA, at Terlingua, Brewster |  | | Report (issue) | | Total 99.60 100.19 100.00 (1–2) Terlingua, Texas, USA; each value is an average of several analyses. (3)...Occurrence: A rare secondary mineral in hydrothermal mercury deposits. Association: Cinnabar, metacinnabar... kleinite, montroydite, calomel, mercury. Distribution: In the USA, from Terlingua, Brewster Co., Texas;...McDermitt mercury mine, Opalite district, and from the Cahill mine, Poverty Peak district, Humboldt Co., Nevada;...Nevada; at the Kings mine, Parkfield district, Kings Co., and the Nepper and Clear Creek mines, New Idria |  | | Report (issue) | | igneous, and metamorphic host rocks. Association: Mercury, realgar, pyrite, marcasite, stibnite, “opal”,...calcite. Distribution: The most common ore of mercury world-wide, so only a few localities for exceptionally...well-crystallized material can be mentioned. In the USA, in California, notably at New Almaden, Santa Clara...Terlingua, Brewster Co.; in Nevada, at the Cahill mine, Poverty Peak district, Humboldt Co., and near Lovelock...exceptional twinned crystals from the Tsar Tien mine, Hunan Province, China. As fine crystals at Mount |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | porphyry copper, porphyry molybdenum, skarn tungsten, mercury, nickel in small intrusions, vein gold, mafic volcanogenic... 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 2 iridium 192.2 platinum 195.1 gold 197.0 mercury 200.5 thallium 204.4 lead 207.2 bismuth 209...Sample is from the Buckskin National Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. Photograph by Peter Vikre, U.S. Geological...............................................Q26 Mine Waste Characteristics.............................bedrock with high selenium concentrations. Selenium mining, processing, use in industrial and agricultural...1989). The total U.S. supply was always higher than mine production during this period, with a high of 831 |  | | Book | | Chapter 5 Saturday Night in Calico: Life in a Mining Camp 79 Chapter 6 Remembering Calico: Historical...Mirages 107 Appendix By-laws ofthe Calico Mining District 121 Select Bibliography 125 Index 135... Waterloo Mine Ore Bin 25 Waterloo Mine Ore Train 25 Waterloo Mill Toward Calico Peak 26 Waterloo...Perspective of Borate 46 x List of Illustrations Mining Crew walking to work at Borate 46 Francis Marion...Marion "Borax" Smith 47 Calico from the Silver King Mine ca. 1890 96 Group of Miners Standing in front |  | | Book | | Dumfriesshire and at Kildonan in Sutherland. Extensive mining took place during the reigns of James the IV and...into coinage or repairs to the royal regalia. Mining for gold in the Leadhills ceased in the 1620s during... vil Prof. David Gaimster 4. HISTORY OF GOLD MINING IN SCOTLAND The Mines of Crawford Moor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... Cranberry glass Further digging in Kildonan Mercury used in Kildonan The value of gold Medicinal gold...the banks of the Kildonan and elsewhere in the district seeking their fortune. Although the gold rush | | | Book | | Dumfriesshire and at Kildonan in Sutherland. Extensive mining took place during the reigns of James the IV and...converted into coinage or repairs to the royal regalia. Mining for gold in the Leadhills ceased in the 1620s during...gold rush of 1869 Further digging in Kildonan Mercury used in Kildonan The Dunker affair . GOLD IN ANCIENT...INTRODUCTION . THE NATURE OF GOLD 4. HISTORY OF GOLD MINING IN SCOTLAND 19 Middle Bronze Age gold jewellery...the banks of the Kildonan and elsewhere in the district seeking their fortune. Although the gold rush |  | | Journal (issue) | | dance, Zia Pueblo, New Mexico. August 15-17—Quay County Sheriffs Posse Rodeo, Tucumcari, New Mexico. August...Chapter, Sierra Club, hike up the Thumb, Sierra peak in Southern California. August 30 — Second Annual...FICTION Hard Rock Shorty of Death V a l l e y LOST MINE Lost Gold of the V a m p i r e Bats By JOHN D....LETTERS Comment from Desert's r e a d e r s 28 MINING Current news of desert mines 30 NEWS From here...Amargosa and Panamint Ranges in desert California and Nevada, Shoshonean Indians watched a strange caravan invade |  | Udry, Arya, Wilbur, Zoë E., Rahib, Rachel R., McCubbin, Francis M., Vander Kaaden, Kathleen E., McCoy, Timothy J., Ziegler, Karen, Gross, Juliane, DeFelice, Christopher, Combs, Logan, Turrin, Brent D. (2019) Reclassification of four aubrites as enstatite chondrite impact melts: Potential geochemical analogs for Mercury. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54 (4) 785-810 doi:10.1111/maps.13252 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | impact melts: Potential geochemical analogs for Mercury Arya UDRY 1*, Zo€e E. WILBUR1,2, Rachel R. RAHIB1...of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA 2 Jacobs-JETS Technology, NASA...77058, USA 3 NASA Johnson Space Center, Mailcode XI2, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 4 Department...Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia 20560, USA 5 Department of Earth and Planetary...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA 6 Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Rutgers |  | | Report (volume) | | of low land along the Pacific coast of Ventura County, Calif., wedged between U.S. Highway 101 and the...of Eastern Europe open up to world view. Uranium mining in the former East G e rm any has left about 500...caused by a single abandoned gold mine in Colorado (Summitville Mine) is estimated to cost $100 to $200...between 100,000 and 500,000 abandoned or inactive mine sites in the United States alone. Low-quality deep...1------'-------., t-------'-, t-------' Las Vegas Valley Nevada Raft River Sacramento Valley Santa Clara Valley |  | | Catalog/List | | Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ... |  | | Report (issue) | | Ontario..............................45 Bancroft district................................................................................61 Beaverlodge district.............................................61...Saskatchewan.............53 22. Geology of the Rossing mine area...............................55 iii Illustrations...cross section of Verna and Fay orebodies, Eldorado mine...................................................temperature and & 0 in hydrothermal fluids, Fay mine................................................ |  | | Report (issue) | | T. Shacklette, Josephine G. Boerngen, James P. Cahill, and Ramona L. Rahill GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Washington...T. Shacklette, Josephine G Boerngen, James P. Cahill, and Ramona L. Rahill ABSTRACT believe that soils...cadmium concentrations were determined by J. M. Cahill and R. L. Rahill. Although most samples studied...apparent in the Appalachian Highland region, in Nevada, and on east-west routes across the central part...cadmium. This extraction procedure, developed by Cahill, consists of HN0 3 dissolution and adjustment to |  | | Journal (issue) | | Neri, Albuquerque. June 1—Lincoln County Homecoming Day, Caliente, Nevada. June 1—Sheriffs Posse Rodeo, Prescott...June 14-15 — Carson Valley Days, Gardnerville, Nevada. June 15 — Canyon Country River Marathon Power...Mexico. June 28-29 — Silver State Stampede, Elko, Nevada. JUNE, 1958 V o l u m e 21 IUNE, 1958 Number...BRELAND DAY CONTEST From here and there on the desert MINING Picture-of-the-Month contest announcement . . HOBBY...day at school. DESERT MAGAZINE Seven Troughs, Nevada, in 1908. Photo by Ewing Smoot. The Seven Troughs |  | Wilson, W. Aaron, Fritts, Andrea K., Fritts, Mark W., Unrine, Jason M., Tweedy, Brent N., Casper, Andrew F. (2018) Freshwater mussel shells (Unionidae) describe anthropogenic changes to trace element cycling within a North American river. Science of The Total Environment, 616. 1066-1076 doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.212 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 60605, USA Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois River Biological Station, Havana, IL 62644, USA Department...Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA d Department of Biological Sciences, University of...730 Van Vleet Oval, Room 314, Norman, OK 73019, USA b c H I G H L I G H T S G R A P H I C A L A B...University, 1312 Park St, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA. 2 Present address: USGS Upper Midwest Environmental...Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Rd, La Crosse, WI 54603, USA. 3 US Fish and Wildlife Service, La Crosse Fish and |  | Peplowski, Patrick N., Lawrence, David J., Evans, Larry G., Klima, Rachel L., Blewett, David T., Goldsten, John O., Murchie, Scott L., McCoy, Timothy J., Nittler, Larry R., Solomon, Sean C., Starr, Richard D., Weider, Shoshana Z. (2015) Constraints on the abundance of carbon in near-surface materials on Mercury: Results from the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer. Planetary and Space Science, 108. 98-107 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.01.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | abundance of carbon in near-surface materials on Mercury: Results from the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer...Laurel, MD 20723, USA Computer Science Corporation, Lanham-Seabrook, MD 20706, USA c National Museum... Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA d Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution...20015, USA e Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA f Department...Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA b art ic l e i nf o a b s t r a c t Article history: |  | Maturilli, Alessandro, Helbert, Jörn, St. John, James M., Head, James W., Vaughan, William M., D'Amore, Mario, Gottschalk, Matthias, Ferrari, Sabrina (2014) Komatiites as Mercury surface analogues: Spectral measurements at PEL. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 398. 58-65 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.035 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Letters www.elsevier.com/locate/epsl Komatiites as Mercury surface analogues: Spectral measurements at PEL...OH 43055, USA c Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA d Department...online 15 May 2014 Editor: L. Stixrude Keywords: Mercury spectroscopy surface analogues a b s t r a c t... which has been recently measured by the NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging...especially at the high surface temperatures of Mercury. We therefore have collected three terrestrial |
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