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Galena from
Belle Isle mine, Tuscarora Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Belle Isle mine, Tuscarora Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:196706
Long-form Identifier:1:3:196706:7
GUID (UUID V4):dc16702e-df0c-4df9-b7e4-a5391168c701
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
0.4km (0.3 miles) β“˜Navajo mine, Tuscarora Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
27.0km (16.8 miles) β“˜LAJ claims (Sleeper prospect), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
27.6km (17.2 miles) β“˜Lime Mountain Mine (Eldorado Mine; Liberty Mine), Lime Mountain Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
29.2km (18.2 miles) β“˜Rip Van Winkle Mine (Rip claims), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
30.2km (18.8 miles) β“˜Hunter prospect (Silver Tip; Merrimac), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) β“˜Lone Wolf Mine (Fern #4 Mine; Hunter Mine; Malachite Mine; Merrimac Mine; Silver Tip Mine; Lone Mountain Mine; Reincarnation Mine), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
35.7km (22.2 miles) β“˜Hollister deposit (Ivanhoe/USX; Butte; Velvet; Clementine), Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) β“˜Meikle Mine, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
38.0km (23.6 miles) β“˜Bull Run, Edgemont Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
38.0km (23.6 miles) β“˜Bull Run Mine (Bruno claims), Edgemont Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology Vol. 98, 2003, pp. 339–366 The Tuscarora Au-Ag District: Eocene Volcanic-Hosted Epithermal Deposits...Region, Nevada STEPHEN B. CASTOR,† Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno...Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID R. BODEN, 1445 High Chaparral Drive, Reno, Nevada 89511 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY...HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 JEAN S. CLINE...Geoscience Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 ALBERT H. HOFSTRA, U.S. Geological
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 (volume)
RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS............................. Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................ Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location...geology............................................. Mine descriptions......................................44 44 45 46 47* 47 47 47 48 48 48 48 49 50 Rex mine..................:.............................
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decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history
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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 Β© 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.β€” Ist
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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 CopyrightΒ© 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
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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
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological 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 that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have for years been the site of extensive salt-mining), and its possibilities for oil production. The...Avery Island, Weeks Island, C6te Blanche, and Belle Isle (Fig. i). Great masses of salt have been found...found beneath each of the islands, but only one, Belle Isle, has yielded even a trace of oil, and even here...YAVGILW ana," 52 by Captain A. F. Lucas on "Belle Isle,"' 4 and by G. S. Rogers on the "Intrusive Origin...Company, Sidney Bradford, of the Avery Rock Sail Mining Company, and H. C. Fultz, of the Myles Salt Company
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also present in a blue clay above the caprock at Belle Isle dome, Louisiana (Vaughn, 1926). At Rayburn's...(Harton and Mason, 1926). Both domes are in Hardin County, Texas. White to bluish gray barite oolites and...Winnfield dome. It is found at Belle Isle dome where it occurs with galena in a soft gray, iron-stained... Chalcopyrite was also found at Belle Isle while sinking a salt mine shaft at a depth of 63 to 68 feet...masses 1 to 7 inches in diameter with sphalerite, galena, barite, and pyrite (Vaughan, 1926). CHAMBERSITE
Journal (volume)
moved it will require more larger quantities are mine by loading every third ascending help. This upper...these Huson patent tramways are in use in various mining districts, for transport- ing ore, supplies,...also, some of them carrying the men to and from the mine or mill. In mountainous districts they are invaluable...there be in saying portation of ores from ver mine to mill or point but gold in refineries, of shipment... mints, may times, HUSON TRAMWAY AT PAY-ROOK MINE. SILVER PLUMB, COLORADO. and storm as mid-day of
Journal (volume)
SATURDAY. JANUARY PubUsbers. TJie Dramlammon Mine. acquirement of several adjoining properties of...eDgraving protect the mine. panic. It have been made to spread reports of a to the mine and its man- efforts...coal famine " in California the Oregon coal-mining helping is Near regions. Marshfield heretofore...peoted change in grade of ore. di- only the Newport mine, but rector in answer to inquiries re- now they...Coos Jubilee and other rich shoots might be cut in county, in which Marsh&eld is situated, has a the eOOfoot
Report (volume)
containing carbon dioxide.. Solubility of sphalerite and galena in solutions imitating the deep waters..................................... 94 Well,-spring, and mine waters of Missouri........................... 98...98 Well and mine waters of Oklahoma.............................. 99 Well, spring, and mine waters of Colorado.......... 100 Well, spring, and mine waters of Michigan, Montana, Nevada, and California.......................... Dolomite and jasperoid in the Aspen district, Colo............:..... Spring deposits at Sulphur
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ahead of any thing yet found on this ridge. This mine has also been explored and equipped in a very superior...City, Sierra county, to be thankful for a good deal. The telegraph for the Bald Mountain mine maintains...eters A β€” To drift mining, a method by which hydrau- ready achieved mining operations are sometimes...supplemented, the remarks in an article on hydraulic mining last week may be largely applied; this branch olfcthe...drift method, only worked part most mining extant. While drift mining is, to some claims there are for the
Journal (volume)
raya it never receives the of the ann. β€” β€” Mining and Scientific Press. Mineral and Other Resources...the Press by Jambs H. CaosBMAN.J Providence Mining District, SUaated on Providence MoDDtain, haa been subdivided...respectively as the Trojan, the Gold Bait and the Arrow Mining Districts. Providence Mountain haa been previously...South is develsylvania. The General Custer is a gold mine developed oping in an industrial way very rapidly...The Gold Belt Mining District, the collection of information regarding the foron is district, Providence
Journal (volume)
of Alfred Brile, superintendent of the Kentucky Mining and Smelting Company, we have the following report...and the Hartsfeld Portable Smelting Furnace and Mining Co., Newport, Ky. The latter-named company will...sufficient to store $60,000,000. THE Young America quartz mine of Sierra City has become a solid dividend payer...Process. We note in the North San Juan Times, of Nevada county, that a hydraulic gravel elevator is soon to...well-known North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company, at North Bloomfield, Nevada county, this State. We have interviewed
Journal (volume)
have Mining and Scientific Press. The Miners' Association of Nevada Co. At the recent Mining Convention...Convention in Nevada City, J. S. MoBride of North San Jnan was elected obairman. In accepting the poBltion...crops Is Illimitable^ while the area for profitable mining Is very limited the world over. This and other...this, the Government should protect and foster the mining industry. It ia and with any State organization...the mines proaperlty that would quickly place the mining coantles on their former important level in every
Report (volume)
nos. 1, 2. Boston, Mass. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 121-132; Transactions...Mineralogist, vol. 2. Philadelphia, Pa. American Mining Congress: Report of Proceedings, 19th Annual Session...nos. 1-9. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 72-75. San Francisco, Cal...Summary report for 1916. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 57-68;. Transactions...Transactions, vols. 19, 20. Ottawa, Ont. ' Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 38. Toronto and Montreal, Canada
Journal (volume)
machines, ventilating apparatus, emery wheels, mining and milling machinery. Particis being given to...employ a large foroe of skilled workmen. a Mining and Scientific Press. through the rotten boards...and Salt- habitants, nearly all of whom follow mining for an occupation. From Huatajia it is about peter...Juan."J [Written Huatajia, is the most productive mining-camp In my last letter (page 448 of Dec. 14tb)...β€” [Jan. I, 18J0 of Roseburg, has opened a coal mine, located fourteen miles west of this place, that
Report (issue)
" ; ^,- β€’ ^... -'--' . CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. FIFTH Hanks, State Mineralogist...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. I have the honor... REPORT. The Act creating the California State Mining- Bureau, approvides for an annual report by the...statistical information in reference to mines and mining as shall be deemed important." In obedience to...Mineralogist, has been prepared. The prosperity of the Mining Bureau, and the growth and progress of the State
Report (volume)
Meetings. Washington, D. C. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Contributions, nos...Section of Bulletin, 1935, 1936. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Botany, vols...Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 37, 38; Canadian Mining and Metallurgical...Research, vols. 12-14. Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 56, 57. Gardenvale, Quebec. Carnegie...vols. 51, 52. Chapel Hill, N. C. Engineering and Mining Journal, vols. 136, 137. New York. Engineering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
St. Lawrence river and gulf to the strait of Belle Isle. To the southward of this wild country, inhabited...rough outline, and so far as regards the northern district, which is here attempted ; the filling up of the...Europe. From the Mingan Islands to the Strait of Belle Isle, the coast of Labrador consists exclusively of...miles along the northern side of the Strait of Belle Isle, from Bras d'or to the eastward, and forms table-lands...Chatian Bay, and also at Table Point, opposite Belle Isle, we met with columnar basalt Jf capping granitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals. Specimensof these minerals collected from the mine dump were transferred to the writer by Mr. Paul...preparation of this paper. Other specimens from the mine dump were collected later by the writer. Facilities...Chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, and pyrite are mentioned from the Belle Isle salt dome, Louisiana, by...present, These minerals are found at a place on the mine dump indicating that they are from the basal portion...table. r Teas, L. P., Hockley salt shaft, Harris County, Texas: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol,. Bull., vol.15, p
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f.p. for for:v -" ...THE EN. N o GI "RNAL MINE NI'N NG G. J ou VOLUN/1E JANUARY TO LXIII. ...YORPQ. : - . - ". β€’ : THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. VOLUME LXIII. JANUARY TO JULY, 1897...Aluminum, Prices of.................. 565 Accident Mine, Colo.......... 97 63, 159 Aluminum Reduction, Gooch's...118 Alabama Industrial and Scientific Amador Queen Mine, Cal..... ...... 263 Acetylene Gas, Conner's Pat... Doddridge's Pat...... 487 "Alabama, Johns Coal Mine. 74 Amalgamating Process, FischerAcetylene Gas,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exploration and production as well as active salt mining and brine production, all of which have contributed...outcrops, specimens must be recovered from salt mining and drilling operations or as insolubles from brine...specimens; most of these have undergone Frasch sulfur mining, have brine operations, or have shaft salt mines...geologist. He last wrote for Rocks & Minerals on β€œMining Engineering Periodicals: An Important Information...Figure 4. A 1953 postcard showing underground salt mine at the now-flooded Jefferson Island salt dome, Iberia
 
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