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Pharmacolite from
White Caps Mine, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pharmacolite
Formula:Ca(HAsO4) · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Realgarⓘ1 photo of Pharmacolite associated with Realgar at this locality.
Haidingeriteⓘ1 photo of Pharmacolite associated with Haidingerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pharmacolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Caps Mine, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:37368
Long-form Identifier:1:3:37368:7
GUID (UUID V4):c1614f51-21e1-4f16-8939-220b53afa04c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...represented by numerous geothermal areas. The range of minerals found in mines, quarries, and prospect...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JANUARY, THE LIMESTONE ORES OF MANHATTAN, HENRY i92i. No. i NEVADA. G. FERGUS0N.1 INTRODUCTION.... Mostof theoredeposits c‱ftheManhattan district aregoldbearingveinsof a simpletype and presentno unusualfeatures...northeasterly trending Toquima Range, about 35 miles north of Tonopah. The Toquima Range is one of the lessprominentof...notable featuresof the Great Basin topography. The range is borderedby desert'valleys--RalstonValley and...easternfront of the Toyabe Range, which borders Big Smoky Valley on the west. The district was first visited by
Report (issue)
Transparent to translucent. Color: Colorless to white. Luster: Vitreous; pearly on cleavages. Optical...dehydration of pharmacolite (Getchell mine, Nevada, USA). Association: Pharmacolite, pitticite, weilite...(Joachimsthal), Czech Republic. In Germany, from the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach, and near Wittichen...Gabe-Gottes mine, Rauenthal, near Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France. From the Ruben mine, Kohlendorf...Alai Range, Kyrgyzstan. In the White Caps mine, Manhattan district, Nye Co., and the Getchell mine, Potosi
Report (issue)
Pharmacolite Ca(HAsO4 ) ‱ 2H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...Properties: Transparent to translucent. Color: Colorless, white, pale gray; colorless in transmitted light. Luster:...Andreasberg, Harz Mountains; in the Rosenkrantz mine, Schneeberg, Saxony. At Nowa Ruda, Poland. Long...the USA, at the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., and the White Caps mine, Manhattan district...district, Nye Co., and the Gold Bar mine, Antelope district, Eureka Co., Nevada; at Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg
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....0 H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Report (issue)
gray to nearly white; may exhibit deep red internal reflections. Streak: Yellow to white. Luster: Waxy...be deposited from mine and spring waters. Association: Haidingerite, pharmacolite, pharmacosiderite,...(Joachimsthal), at Přı́bram, and near Kaňk, Kutná Hora district, Czech Republic. In England, in Cornwall, at Wheal...the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary; the Botallack mine, St. Just; the Dolcoath mine, Camborne, Cornwall...the USA, in the Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah; at the White Caps mine, Manhattan district, Nye Co.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was first found. Some altered pyrite from Shasta County, California, was sent to the University of California...associationfound in Kremnitz, Hungary and Concepcion Mine, Spain, plus the optical properties which correspondwith...PITTICITE Wnrrau IN NEVADA F. Fosnec, U. S. National' Museumr AND H. G. Cr-rNroN,Manhattan, Neoada. The iron...1923 on the 400 foot level of the White Caps Mine at Manhattan, Nevada, as a secondary formation in the...the old workings. The White Caps ore body represents a replacement and impregnation of limestone of Cambrian
Report (issue)
Optical Properties: Transparent. Color: Colorless to white, may be faintly tinted pink; colorless in transmitted...arsenic-bearing ore deposits. Association: Pharmacolite, haidingerite, picropharmacolite, erythrite...and from the Bauhaus district, Richelsdorf Mountains, Hesse; in the Sophia mine, near Wittichen, from...from the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach, and in the Wolfgang mine, near Alpirsbach, Black Forest;...Czech Republic. At the White Caps mine, Manhattan district, Nye Co., Nevada, USA. Name: Honoring Karl
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...Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant...significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured
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...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
598 NOTES AND NEWS AN OCCURRENCEOF WAPPLERITEIN NEVADA Hatrrcr.n Gounnv, Yerington, Neaad'a. A single...from the dump of the White Caps mine, near Manhattan, Nevada, shows very thin white seamsof a snowwhite...both realgar and orpiment in a gray limestone. The white mineral exhibits no crystalline structure macroscopically...other than the fibrous pharmacolite frequently encountered in the White Caps ore. Microchemical tests...arsenate as first formed may have been entirely pharmacolite, as occasionally a crudely fibrous appearance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
598 NOTES AND NEWS AN OCCURRENCEOF WAPPLERITEIN NEVADA Hatrrcr.n Gounnv, Yerington, Neaad'a. A single...from the dump of the White Caps mine, near Manhattan, Nevada, shows very thin white seamsof a snowwhite...both realgar and orpiment in a gray limestone. The white mineral exhibits no crystalline structure macroscopically...other than the fibrous pharmacolite frequently encountered in the White Caps ore. Microchemical tests...arsenate as first formed may have been entirely pharmacolite, as occasionally a crudely fibrous appearance
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...the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous mineral...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 (issue)
with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar...(1929) is considered to be the classic for the district. Many of these works are currently out of print...and research will serve as an overview of the district and as a framework from which interested persons...Stoiber and Davidson (1959), Ensign et a l (1968), White (1968), Jolly and Smith (1972), Babcock (1974, 1975
Book (volume)
Colorless; G. 2.168; 2.165 (calc), M.P. 804°.^ also white, yellow, red, blue, purple. The blue and purple...enclosed clay or iron oxide. Streak colorless to white; relatively coarsely powdered blue or purple halite...Africa. Enormous deposits are found in the Salt Range in the Punjab, sulfates of potassium, various double...Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. In Nevada along the Virgin River in Clark County, and in distorted...distorted crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43... with all The color of most opaque minerals is white or gray in possible intermediate gradations. Luster...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada
Book (edition)
Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...not n1ost mineral species are found to exhibit a range of colors depending on chemical solid solution or...Although we have tried to include a statement of the range, we have not attempted to be comprehensive or inclusive...design, and Zoom optics with extend~d magnification range and accessories for photographic recording. Present...the naked eye and simple lens. The magnification range of the reflecting microscope and the resolution
Book (edition)
mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs ‱ 45 new crystal drawings of rare species...Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...not most mineral species are found to exhibit a range of colors depending on chemical solid solution,
Book
transparent, tabular microcrystals on matrix of white dolomite, and rarely as doubly terminated crystals...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...northeast of the town of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely
Book (edition)
mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs 45 new crystal drawings of rare species...Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD
Journal (volume)
Geologist C A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Reid J. Frank Sanborn, District Mining Engineer District Engineer Mining Engineer Mineral Technologist...Henry H. Symons, J. C. District Sampson, Assistant Ohas. V. Averill, John Mining Engineer Statistician...Statistician and Curator O'Brien, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco — Sacramento San Francisco...Reports of District Milling' Engineers Redding Field District Sacramento Field District San Francisco
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Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors appreciate the advice and kind assistance...City, Nevada, USA; Peter Embrey, London, England; Jessie Hardman, Long Beach, California, USA; and Barbara...Barbara Nichols, Livermore, California, USA. All of these colleagues made helpful comments and substantive...type localities. We also acknowledge John Sampson White at the Smithsonian and Carl Francis at Harvard for
Book (edition)
University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona. John S. White: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen...structural considerat 6. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY long-range interThe term crystal as used in this volume implies... except where noted. Labels on the axes have a white background, and when axes point toward the observer...ranges. The indices are to be assumed as being for white light, unless a reference is made to a specific...will consist of a statement of the color or color range associated with each vibration direction, i.e. X
Book (volume)
minerals contain series of absorption bands in the range from 1,350 to 1,550 cm1 (Fig. 1.1). A cancrinite-group...largely to empirical approaches. The wavenumber range approximately between 400 and 1,700 cm1 is called... in a pronounced doublet 921 + 954 cm1 in the range of Si–O-stretching vibrations (Fig. 1.5). The splitting...consideration of the whole spectral curve within a certain range of frequencies (Dubovitskiy and Chukanov 2004; Chukanov...band of (Ti,Nb)–O-stretching vibrations (in the range 660–700 cm1). This band is single and its position
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variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil
 
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