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Quartz from
Hidden Treasure Mine, Jacob City, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Scheelite3 photos of Quartz associated with Scheelite at this locality.
Aurichalcite1 photo of Quartz associated with Aurichalcite at this locality.
Serpierite1 photo of Quartz associated with Serpierite at this locality.
Orthoserpierite1 photo of Quartz associated with Orthoserpierite at this locality.
Gypsum1 photo of Quartz associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Tremolite1 photo of Quartz associated with Tremolite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hidden Treasure Mine, Jacob City, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:505239
Long-form Identifier:1:3:505239:4
GUID (UUID V4):50104374-0472-4344-8712-eb5ba962c2a8
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.3km (0.2 miles) Kearsarge Mine, Jacob City, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Queen of the Hills Mine (Mahogany; Flavilla), Jacob city, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Cliff Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Ophir Coalition Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Ophir Hill Consolidated Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Lakes of Killarney Mine (Nyanza claim), Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Chandler Fork Prospect, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Ophir Canyon Prospect, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Zella Mine, Lion Hill, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Douglas Mine, Lion Hill, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most common mineral, quartz, in this beautiful.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
We are pleased to have Joe Marty from Salt Lake City with us for the day. He will be talking and showing...Wisniewski of Wendell, Idaho, Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada...great grandchildren. His interest in mineral and mining was something that he liked to share with schools...But he always had a special love for crystals of quartz in all its many forms. And he loved and cherished...occurrences. California Mines Aga Mine. Baker, San Bernardino County In January of 2004 the rare CulPb
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 2. Utah By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...detailed study of the supergene zinc deposits of Utah UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache...lead-zinc mine________________________________ Park City or Uintah district________________________________...district____ __ ____________ _________ __ __ ____ ______ Tooele County________________________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JANUARY-FEBRUARY,1967 SILVER-BEARING BLACK MINING D. F. HEWETT CALCITE DISTRICTS AND A. IN .... Tybo district, Nye County,Nevada ................................... Pioche, Lincoln County, Nevada................................... Ophir district, Tooele County,Utah ..................................... San Franciscodistrict,Beaver County,Utah ........................... Tombstonedistrict, CochiseCounty............................. Lake Valley, Sierra County,New Mexico ............................. Review
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère...Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. March/April: Quartz, variety amethyst, Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico...May/June: Quartz (Herkimer “diamond”), Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York...cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material;...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals from the hidden t re a s u re and other mines in the ophir district T O O E L E C O U N T...and soon afterward the Ophir mining district was organized. The Hidden Treasure, Chicago, and Sacramento...were the most famous mines in the early days of Utah mining (Gilluly 1932), producing many millions of dollars...the district until 1972, when the Ophir Hill Consolidated mine closed. The Hidden Treasure mine lies...twenty years, the mines in the Ophir district, especially the Hidden Treasure, have been among the more prolific
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A. 2 Department...Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, U.S.A. 4 Department of Statistics... U.S.A. 6 5199 E. Silver Oak Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, U.S.A. 1 Abstract Ophirite, Ca2Mg4[Zn2Mn...from the Ophir Hill Consolidated mine, Ophir district, Oquirrh Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, U.S.A....discovery at the Ophir Hill Consolidated mine, Ophir District, Oquirrh Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, U.S.A.
Report (issue)
OF THE STOCKTON 7 1/2-MINUTE. QUADRANGLE, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH By Edwin W. Tooker1 and RJ. Roberts2 Open-File.............. . . .13 Quartz monzonite. .............................. .14 Quartz-monzonite porphyry.....Canyon area of the Ophir mining district............ 15 Stockton mining district.......................1/2-min.quadrangle, Tooele County, Utah Figure 1. Location of the Stockton quadrangle, Utah. ................Recorded production of metals from the Ophir mining district, Utah, 1901-1970 .........................
Report (issue)
of Base- and Precious-Metal Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah by Edwin W. looker1 Open-File.... ......... 5 Geologic Setting of North-Central Utah .......................... 7 Oquirrh Mountains Nappes...Structural and Stratigraphic Characteristics of Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains ..............(West Mountain) mining district ................ .14 Mercur (Camp Floyd) Mining District ................. 20 Ophir Mining District.................................. .27 Stockton (Rush Valley) Mining District
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...Copperside mine, Goodsprings, Nevada ............................................ New Mayberry mine, Utah ................................ Hidden Treasure mine, Ophir Hill area, Utah ...................................... Lark vein, Bingham district, Utah ........................................................ Boxwork...32 A case study of porosity at the Shingle Canyon mine, New Mexico 33 Sulfide estimates by ordinary porosity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Leadhills in the heart of Scotland’s lead mining district; desiring to acquire complete suites of minerals...other exotic oxidized zone in an as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the...species. Working on material from the Scottish lead district, Brooke (1820, pp. 117–120) determined the next...name leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There...for minerals in Namibia. He works globally in the mining industry and is an avid collector of minerals,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE OPHIR No. 7 MINING DISTRICT. SEYMOUR G. OLMSTEAD. INTRODUCTION. The Ophir Mining District is...discoveryand developmentof future minesin the older mining regionsmust depend,to a great extent, on the i...the geologist'sideas to practicalmining. The Ophir District lies 6n the westernside of the Oquirrh Range...southwesterlyfrom Salt Lake City by rail, and it is one of the early campsof the State of Utah. The Oquirrh Range...Bingham,Stockton,Ophir, Mercur and Tintic mining districts,is undoubtedlythe greatest mining region in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anglesite, galena, and sphalerite have been reported. Quartz,goethite, pyrolusite, and tarbuttite pseudomorphs...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;...Timberville district in Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, and the Austinville district, Wythe County, Virginia;...Creek district), Marion County, Arkansas (Richards 1993). and the Hill lead mine, Hardin County, Illinois
Book
OF UTAH'S MINING INDUSTRY By Utah Mining Association 918 Kearns Building Salt Lake City, Utah MILES P...material was available to give Utah citizens an account of their mining industry. Most of the available...segments of mining activity. We have attempted in the following pages to discuss mining in all phases...picture of the mineral deposits and of the mining activity in Utah as time and effort permit. In the writing...the person interested in, but unacquainted with mining, mineral processing, and mineral economics, could
Report (issue)
AT OPHIR, UTAH. By G. F. LOUGHLIN. *. ^ ^ K r f >- ^. V INTRODUCTION. Although the Ophir mining...mining district, Utah, has long been an important source of lead carbonate and of lead and zinc sulphide...and Hidden Treasure, that were shipping zinc carbonate ore. The output of this ore from each mine was...fraction of the total quantity of zinc from the district during 1913 and later years. - Some idea of the...the metal content of the ore from the Hidden Treasure mine may be obtained from the following data on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals...crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES....... . ...... _. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ophir formation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. reports are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham... began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S
Report (issue)
outflow Fish Canyon Tuff (lower cliffs), near Lake City, Colo. Geochronology and Geology of Late Oligocene............................ Evolution of the Lake City Caldera...........................................Activity and Mineralization Related to the Lake City Caldera............................. Geology and...Rhyolite Intrusions North and South of the Lake City Caldera and Associated Mineralization........................... Generalized geologic map of Lake City caldera........................................
Book
striking oil in the backyard, or finding a gold mine of one's own. The fact is-it can be done! There...overlooked or misplaced. There are actual piles of treasure, kegs of money, caches of loot that are still...find them. And even if you're not yet ready to go treasure-hunting -yourself, you'll get a big kick out of...satire, poetry, adventure and exploration, and treasure-hunting. Leland Lovelace was born in New York...lost mines and buried treasures of the Southwest. Treasure seekers from nearly every state and from many
Book
BURIED TREASURE A Guide to Sites & Legends of the Southwest LOST MINES AND BURIED TREASURE Stephen...adventure in his soul has not dreamed of fmding treasure. To some, the undertaking goes no farther than...be the hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure. If it could be so easily found, there would be...Buried treasure and lost mines have been found, but it is the dream that fascinates. Treasure still awaits...I wish you, "Good Luck." A WORD OF CAUTION The mine fields of the old camps can be as dangerous as those
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGISTS 1980 MultistageVein Ores of the Lake City District, Western San Juan Mountains,Colorado John,•...Abstract Polymetallic vein ores of the Lake City district, in the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado...northeast,and east sides of the 22.5-m.v.-old Lake City caldera. The veins,typically0.5 to 1.5 m wide and...fractures and faults outside the ring fault of the Lake City caldera and within the moat area of the older (28...minerals. Wall-rock alterationcharacteristicallyis quartz-sericite-pyrite,grading laterally outward into
Report (issue)
SOME MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN MADISON COUNTY, MONTANA. By J. T. PARDEB. INTRODUCTION. The deposits described...general region, which are related to metalliferous quartz v.ejns. In August, 1917, the deposits on Wigwam...ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1918, PART I. In the Renova district a bed of iron ore that as~a rule is steeply inclined...quartzite and overlying Cambrian rocks in the Renova district, which lies outside of the Three Forks quadrangle...(No. 24), 1896. MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN MADISON COUNTY, MONT. 133 These formations or their equivalents
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 4=78 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO BY JOHN DUER IRVING AND HOWLAND BANCROFT........................................ Official mining districts............................................................................. Lake City district............................................................................................. Quartz latite......................................................................................... Quartz monzonite porphyry............................
 
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