 | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district |  | | 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) | | limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ...... |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Book (volume) | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson, J....Roman, C/z£vei/i deposits of jf v l t h e Ems district in West Germany have yielded over 50 mineral species...The ore-carrying system which comprises the Ems district is known as the Ems-Braubach belt. It consists...Hesse, West Germany. Veins at the Schone Aussicht mine near Dernbach could be considered a part of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the Reagan mining district, Nevada. FLUORIDES...earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing up to four hundred...mineral at St. Peter's Dome near Pike's Peak, El Paso County, Colorado. CRYOLITE, a fluoride of sodium and aluminum...August 2017 Smith Mine, Newport, New Hampshire. Calcite occurs elsewhere at the Harding Mine, New Mexico....Section Hill in the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont County, Colorado. DOLOMITE, calcium, magnesium carbonate |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction |  | | 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...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 |  | | Book | | Colo. Fairplay, Colo. R. J. Raymond, United States Mining and Mineral Commissioner: Prof. J. F. L. Schirmer...the pitchblende. not been for several^years the mine is not worked at present and has distribution in...Peaks; crystallized at Bergen's ; Ranch, Jefferson County; on Boulder Peak. Agate,— See Quartz. — At Quartzville...Almandite. See Garnet. Boulder County. City Gold — Allophanite. —Franklin Mine, in Gilson Gulch Fowler Branch...; and Wells's district. Hill. It occurs in various mines of the Sunshine district ; minute crystals |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (issue) | | Turley & M. Koval Mineralogy of the Killie mine, Elko County, N ev a d a ........................413 by...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...have been col lected at the Duff quarry in Logan County, Ohio, for more than ten years. The crystals are...approximately 2 kilometers north of Huntsville, Logan County, in west-central Ohio. The quarry produces crushed...completing the first transcontinental railroad, the mining camps of the West, remote natural wonders —virtually |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...barite mines of Missouri’s several world-class mining districts could have been chosen for this issue’s...these metals, such as smithsonite, hemimorphite, cerussite, and anglesite. However, late in the nineteenth...crystal morphology and color were recovered from a mine in the Joplin area. The best known of these specimens...the Harborside open pit of Callahan Mining Company, Hancock County, Maine. Small, well-formed hemimorphite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the CusterKeystone area, to the Homestake gold mine in Lead, to golden barite-bearing concretions east...Homestake mine has since grown to be the largest gold mine in the western hemisphere. The Homestake mine has...Mountain groups of mines. Keystone, in the central Black Hills, is another gold district where there are numerous...the Holy Terror mine, which was named in allusion to the discoverer's wife. This mine has produced many...Clinton and Old Ironsides mines in the Trojan mining district of the northern hills. Vein and Replacement |  | | Report (issue) | | ................................... History of Mining .................................. _..... _.......................................... Torn Scott Mine ..... _.............................................................................. Silver Bill Mine ._ ... _.......................................................... 13 13 13 13 14 14 15 Mystery Mine ................ _........... .............. _...._............ ................ 17 12 Defiance Mine ....... _............... __ ................... |  | | Report (volume) | | Zinc Deposits in Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) District, Nevada By CLAUDE C. ALBRITTON, ]R., ARTHUR RICHARDS...-------------------Geology of the Goodsprings district, by Claude C. Albritton, Jr_________ Introduc...column__________________ Position of ore bodies within mine areas______________________ Yellow Pine and Prairie...Summary_________________________________________________ Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David...31 31 32 34 39 41 41 41 44 IV CONTENTS Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side |  | | Report (volume) | | The Wallapai Mining District Cerbat Mountains Mohave County Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 978-E...978-E The Wallapai Mining District Cerbat Mountains Mohave County Arizona By MCCLELLAND G. DINGS CONTRIBUTIONS..._____ Champion mine.__--_--___________-____-_____ ___----______-___ Emerald Isle mine.______________...Descriptions of mines and prospects Continued Golconda mine-_______________________________________________...---___-_-___-Keystone mine________________________________________________ Payroll mine.____________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Professor Edwin H . Oshier, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, made the photographs included in this...7 Bibliography . . . . . 229 Appendix: 252 Mine Index iii NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS CHEMICAL...CARBONATES Aragonite Malachite Strontianite Bismutite Cerussite Azurite Dolomite Hydromagnesite Ankerite SULFATES...prospects in the lower Ludlow lignites. Harding County: 1. Abemathyite has been identified as a component...meta-uranocircite in uraniferous lignite at the Hilltop mine in sec. 12, Tl6N, R8E, in the Slim Buttes area. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................Pohs was well known to every serious collector of mining antiques and memorabilia in the U.S. In the late...the first book on the subject: Early Underground Mine Lamps', it became the “bible” of lamp collecting...of learning and research on all types of antique mine lamps. He was truly a pioneer in his field. 0 The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SEVENTY CONTROL NINE AND MINE, GEORGE MINERALIZATION GILA COUNTY, A. AT THE ARIZONA, KIERSCH...................... ABSTRACT. The Seventy Nine mine is in the Dripping Spring Mountains near Hayden...38 38 38 39 STRUCTURAL CONTROL AT SEVENTY NINE MINE. 25 of lead carbonate ore from bed replacement...subtracted, with most galena being altered to cerussite. The ore depositsfall within the mesothermaltemperaturerange...SeventyNine mine is sevenand one-halfmiles.by road north of the town of Hayden in the Banner mining district |
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