 | | 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...well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk |  | | Report (volume) | | ................. Majuba Hill mine workings............................ The Majuba fault............... Plate 9. Geologic map. and section of Majuba Hill, Nevada.................................. In pocket...pocket 10. Geologic map and sections of the Majuba Hill mine............................... In pocket Figure...location of Majuba Hill, Nevada................................ 40 III TIN DEPOSIT AT MA.JUBA HILL, PERSHING...PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA By Ward C. Smith and V. P. Gianella ABSTRACT The tin and copper deposits at Majuba |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utahās Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...km2), but with a rich and world- famous history of mining and associated mineralogy. In the city of Brno...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Authorās specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone |  | | 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 Ā© 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.ā Ist |  | | Catalog/List | | S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ā key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (rā -,u. .SVā¢t- tor cr11ā¢tā¢J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...crystals on \/ad. 104 ADAMITE, Quartz Mountain, Nevada. Pale blue to colorless nearly equant crystals | | | 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 CopyrightĀ© 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 (issue) | | Collectorās Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...(phroth@sunrise.ch) Introduction Since the 1950ās, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting...minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from Majuba Hill. FOV 3.8 mm...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907...1907 by A.J. McCauley of Imlay, Nevada. No work of importance was undertaken until 1914, when the property |  | Peters, S.G., Nash, J.T., John, D.A., Spanski, G.T., King, H.D., Connors, K.A., Moring, B.C., Doebrich, J.L., McGuire, D.J., Albino, G.V., Dunn, V.C., Theodore, T.G., Ludington, S.D. (1996) Metallic mineral resources in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1996 (96-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr96712 | Report (issue) | | Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been...Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource...of mineral deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ................................ U p d a t e o n t h e M in e r a l o g y OF THE MAJUBA HlLL M lN E, P e r s h in g C o u n t y Martin...of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several companies have held the Majuba Hill property |  | | Catalog/List | | co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. Ā£60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky...calcite Ā£15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass of fibrous dark to pale...5cm. Ā£55 11. AZURITE (3.5cm x 1.5cm x 1cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Dark inky blue azurite crystal |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur Mineral...lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit had been worked as...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...of the Big Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing Co., Nevada. The Big Mike copper...and cuprite, Cu2O. Mining of the ore body took about three years. Open pit mining was followed by a leaching |  | | 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...Mineralogical Club field trip to Penitentiary quarry, Snake Hill, New Jersey, on September 4, 1893 (photo courtesy...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology |  | Mills, Stuart J., Kampf, Anthony R., McDonald, Andrew M., Bindi, Luca, Christy, Andrew G., Kolitsch, Uwe, Favreau, Georges (2013) The crystal structure of parnauite: a copper arsenate?sulphate with translational disorder of structural rods. European Journal of Mineralogy, 25 (4) 693-704 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2329 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA 3 Department of Earth...for parnauite from the type locality, Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA (MH; type specimen), and also from Cap...Cap Garonne, Var, France (CG), and the Clara Mine, Baden-WuĢrttemberg, Germany, are presented. The average...disorder, chemical analysis, Raman spectroscopy, Majuba Hill, Cap Garonne. (SO4)0.94 (PO4)0.43 (CO3)0.19...(SO4) (OH)107H2O, from the Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, USA (Sec 8, T32N R32E). Parnauite |  | | Catalog/List | | South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite....:: cc c:.o Rich orange-red masses with darker ALBITE lx2 50p Kragero Norway 2x2 Feldspar Hornblende...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. IxĀ½ Ā£4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond..._ _ magnification there arc small cr stals _ __ County. _ AI1zona 60 AMAZO:-;ITE 2x3i nchĀ£5 Madagascar...IxIĀ£4 TiO --- - 37 ANC\'LITE Cc Ix1/, Ā£2.50 Ix IĀ£4 County. Rich pinkish fine grai ned mass in calc i te Dark |  | Price, Jonathan G., Henry, Christopher D., Castor, Stephen B., Garside, Larry, Faulds, James E. (1999) Geology of Nevada With excellent rock exposures in the desert, generally good access to collecting localities on public lands, and fine tourist attractions in the towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (6) 357-363 doi:10.1080/00357529909605171 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the...or greater earthquake has occurred somewhere in Nevada about once every thirty years. Most faults are...(analogous to a tilted deck of cards). However, some Nevada faults are strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas |  | Doebrich, Jeff L., Albino, G.V., Barker, C.E., Duffield, W.A., Dunn, V.C., Hanna, W.F., McFarlan, J.P., McGuire, D.J., Miller, M.S., Peters, S.G., Plouff, Donald, Raines, G.L., Sawatasky, D.L., Spanski, G.T. (1994) Resource assessment of the Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1994 (94-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr94712 | Report (issue) | | MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...Rock National Conservation Area), and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | situated on the southern slopes of the FarbiÅ”te Hill (675 m a.s.l.), c. 4 km NE of Poniky village (Fig...649 640 0 62 0 63 648 adit dump outcrop 0 hill 100 m forest road Fig. 2 Schematic topographic...topographic map of the FarbiÅ”te occurrence showing the mining objects and outcrop location. 274 2.2. Copper...FarbiÅ”tÄ occurence Early exploration and small-scale mining at the locality took place in the 19th century...and standards were used: KĪ±: andradite (Ca, Fe), albite (Na), barite (S), sanidine (Al, Si, K), fluorapatite |  | | Report (issue) | | CALIFORNIA COLORADO GEORGIA IDAHO MAINE MISSOURI MONTANA NEVADA NEW MEXICO NORTH CAROLINA OKLAHOMA OREGON SOUTH...of the Pine Grove-B la*n Mountain area. Beaver County, Utah: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...wah wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah (abstract): American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum...Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 982-D...mineral deposits to Tertiary volcanic centers in Nevada: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 700-C |  | Morrison, Shaunna M., Domanik, Kenneth J., Yang, Hexiong, Downs, Robert T. (2016) Petersite-(Ce), Cu2+6Ce(PO4)3(OH)6Ā·3H2O, a new mixite group mineral from Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (6) 1505-1511 doi:10.3749/canmin.1500050 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A NEW MIXITE GROUP MINERAL FROM YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA, USA SHAUNNA M. MORRISONĀ§, KENNETH J. DOMANIK... 1040 E 4th Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077, USA ABSTRACT A new mineral, petersite-(Ce), ideally...been found in the Cherry Creek District of Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. It is a secondary alteration...with malachite, chlorite, a biotite phase, quartz, albite, orthoclase, hematite, chalcopyrite, and an uncharacterized...specimen from the Cherry Creek District of Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. The specimen was donated to the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 2: Meta-torbernite, Chalk Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina. RICHARD D. GREEN 1745 13th Street...and, probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...rare-earth minerals, and niobates-tantalates. The albite conĀ tent is usually unimportant. 2. The second...topaz, triphylitelithiophilite, beryl, and much albite. Minerals of all three pegmatite types can be altered...processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure 6 (right): |  | | Book | | f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %ā ... ; 'jxt . 1 ā \ 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...inforĀ 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 minĀ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | comprised of Li-rich siderophyllite granite, topazāalbite granite, quartz ā Li-mica greisens and a vein of...lithinifĆØre Ć sidĆ©rophyllite, granite Ć topazeāalbite, des greisens Ć quartz ā mica lithinifĆØre, et une...deposits (Botelho & Moura 1998). Evolved topazāalbite granite of the Mangabeira Massif and its hydrothermal...plutons of topazāalbite granite have been recognized (Fig. 1b). In the southern topazāalbite granite pluton...associated with the northern outcrop of the topazāalbite granite pluton, in an area named the Main Greisenized |  | Kolitsch, U., Atencio, D., Chukanov, N. V., Zubkova, N. V., Menezes Filho, L. A. D., Coutinho, J. M. V., Birch, W. D., SchlĆ¼ter, J., Pohl, D., Kampf, A. R., Steele, I. M., Favreau, G., Nasdala, L., Mƶckel, S., Giester, G., Pushcharovsky, D. Yu. (2010) Bendadaite, a new iron arsenate mineral of the arthurite group. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (3) 469-486 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.3.469 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA 11 Senior Research Associate...Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago IL 60637, USA 12 421 av. Jean Monnet, F-13090 Aix-en-Provence,...Lavra do Almerindo (Almerindo mine), LinoĢpolis, Divino das Laranjeiras county, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Further...are the Veta Negra mine, CopiapoĢ province, Chile; Oumlil-East, Bou Azzer district, Morocco; and Pira...Pira Inferida yard, Fenugu Sibiri mine, Gonnosfanadiga, Medio Campidano Province, Sardinia, Italy. Type bendadaite |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...three-fold rather -32- Triclinic system Axinite Albite Hexagonal bipyramid than a six-fold symmetry |
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Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA