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Quartz from
Memphis mine, Red River Mining District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Memphis mine, Red River Mining District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:794548
Long-form Identifier:1:3:794548:9
GUID (UUID V4):35ac2890-e960-4b51-aa42-ee9115f35bfb
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.0km (0.0 miles) Memphis mine, Bitter Creek, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Cora Gibson prospect, Bitter Creek, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Neptune prospect (Scavarda prospect), Bitter Creek, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) June Bug prospect, Bitter Creek, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Independence mine, Bitter Creek, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Deldosso prospect, Bitter Creek, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Big Five prospect (Oro Fino prospect; Orofino prospect), Midnight, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Little Gem prospect (?), Midnight, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Midnight mine, Midnight, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
3.9km (2.5 miles) Criterion claim, La Belle, Anchor District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 71 Mineral Resources of Taos County, New Mexico by JOHN H. SCHILLING Description of mineral...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING 8c TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES...Burroughs ...........................Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley .................................................... Albuquerque For sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF NEW MEXICO Wu. P. Cnawlont, Bisbee,Arizona. Petzite was reported from the Red River District, Taos...Taos County, in 1904, and is the first recorded occurrence of a tellurium minerar in New Mexico. Tetradymite...Sierra Dona Ana Dona Ana Hidalgo, Dona Ana,* Sierra* Taos, Dona Ana*, Sierra* Hidalgo*, Sierra* Sierra* Dona...coilected at a gold prospect in southern catron county, 41 miles northwest of Silver city. The tellurium...and pyrite in a gangue composed principally of quartz and fluorite. The tetradymite reported from this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Report (issue)
Eagle Nest Area New Mexico Photo on title page: Lake Fork valley from Frazer mine, Twining Fairview...Fairview Mountain at right NEW MEXICO STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 94 1972 GEOLOGY...EAGLE NEST AREA, NEW MEXICO by KENNETH F. CLARK and CHARLES B. READ iv New Mexico State Bureau of Mines...Baker, Jr., Director A Division of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Stirling A. Colgate...OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayo, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 39 The Metal Resources of New Mexico and Their Economic Features Through 1954 A revision of...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...THE HONORABLE EDWIN L. MECHEM………...Governor of New Mexico MRS. GEORGIA L. LUSK ......................Superintendent...Dealing With the Geology and Mineral Resources of New Mexico ............................................
Book
Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such...The Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County KEEP DATE CARD IN BOOK POCKET Volunteer Forty-...Photo credits: 1: Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; 2, 3, 29, 30: Harpers New Monthly Magazine 20 (April...History Room, San Francisco; 6, 7, 31: Calaveras County Historical Society, San Andreas; 8, 13, 14, 15...Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.; 24: Sumner County Archives, Gallatin, Tenn.; 27: Ann Harris Anderson
Report (issue)
OR PROFE SIONAL PAPER 68 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXI.CO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN, LOUIS C. GRATON AND...PRQ)tESSIONAL PAPER 68 T·H E ORE DEPOSITS O.F NEW MEXICO.. . . ., .,· ;,.: BY WALDEMAR LINpGREN,........ . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ................. . . , ... -.. . Rio Hondo. (Twining) district . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................
Report (issue)
----------------- 15 The Geography of Dona Ana County--------------------------------------------- 18...composition -------------------------------------I I . Quartz monzonite ------------------------------Field relations...composition -------------------------------------I I I . Quartz-bearing monzonite -----------------------Field...intrusive cycle—Continued Minor intrusives—Continued Quartz-feldspar porphyry sills and dikes -------------------...-----------------------135 Pyritization of the quartz-bearing monzonite ----------------136 Genetic relations
Journal (issue)
Galaxy & Nova Wheels This machine is made in the USA by Kingsley North. Features: • Stainless Steel construction...Bob Jones 56 MAXFIELD MINE 38 Exploring Utah’s Big Cottonwood Mining District 26 PALEONTOLOGY IN THE...parcels and single stones from the latest shipment. New Opal Special EWOBM-1 Medium sized rough Welo opal...cutting rare and valuable materials (i.e. agate, quartz, petrified wood, jasper, jade, etc) when waste...BD10 Power Feed Trim Saw Scan for Video MADE IN USA Features include: • All cast aluminum tank, table
Journal (issue)
December 2000 . '. ····:•. ·•~::.·: ::•. ✓. New Mexico News Ramon S. De Mark 421 East Ridge Street,...Some new discoveries in New Mexico minerals were revealed at this year' s (November) New Mexico Mineral...hosted by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and organized by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines...Sandia Park, New Mexico i the acting caretaker of the San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with...Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED •£_. PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: x l — c...near Jackson, Clarke Co., Ala., we have two fine quartz specimens that had been collected for us by Ken...ancient prase mine that had been worked by the Indians many centuries ago. This ancient mine is now known...located in the Eureka Mining District in Yavapai County, Arizona. From this old mine we have a number of...Ave., Memphis 7, Tenn., for an interesting item clipped from the Mon. Dec. 18, 1961 issue of Memphis Press
Report (issue)
studies are brought together in this paper. The district is one of peculiar interest,, having a complicated...prepared with especial reference to the needs of the mining industry, and in such form that its conclusions...practical benefit in developing the industry in this district. Very respectfully, C. W. HATES, Geologist in........... Location and general features of the district............................................................................................... Mining...............................................
Book
State Geologist Letter of Transmittal “Syracuse, New York, June 1, 1923. Dr. W. R. Jinuson. Director and...Frontispiece—Twin Gorge of Kentucky Fluorspar River 3 15 16 point; on. thesLarue (system fluorspar...Kentucky fields-.....-....--..... 4. showing Mine, 2a. Diagram (a) illustrating normal fault, (b)...of Old Jim dike in abandoned open-cut of Old Jim Mine eLOuLl MILES west OL Marion. Ky es ae eee Photomicroeraph...64 65 91 92 93 94 Modern mine plant and company cottages at Franklin mine. Section of vein on 75 foot
Journal (issue)
199~ Weird The Mineral and Wonderful from Quartz Alberta's Collector's Newsletter in Septarian...(though a little skeptical) to learn of a nearby quartz collecting locality. It is a three-hour drive northeast...specialty was quartz, for which I've retained a soft spot, and I was not disappointed in this new locality...produced a wide variety of interesting and unusual quartz crystals. These are found in abundant ironstone...nodules that weather out of Fig. 1 Partial, hollow quartz crystal 11/4 inches (3 cm) across, with multiple
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brownish peridotite with a tew grains of whitish quartz. Peridotite is the rock in which diamonds occur...black magnetite, with minor amounts of colorless quartz, greenish epidote, colorless zircon (fluoresces...orange under the Mineralight) and a smaller amount of red garnet. A letter dated Sept. 1, 1952, from Plummer's...San Diego rockhounds know about it. Odd that our new store should locate less than 1,000 feet from a commercial...This is a fine grained gray sand consisting of quartz (colorless, smoky, brownish) with some black magnetite
Report (issue)
* Radioactive Deposits < in New Mexico GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work done on...DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO COMPILED BY T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Forty-five areas of radioactivity in New Mexico...deposits in northwestern New Mexico seem to be the most promising for the mining of uranium ore. In western...western San Juan County, on the eastern flanks of the Carrizo Mountains uplift, carnotite ore has been taken...Farther south in the Zuni Mountains of Valencia County joint coatings in pre-Cambrian granites show abnormal
Report (issue)
87 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...TECHNOLOGY Mineral and Water Resources of New Mexico I'repared by U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S...with: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission New Mexico...SOCORRO1977 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Cibutus R. HOLMES. Acting President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayu, Superintendent of Public Instrucilun
Journal (issue)
ewslett. Field trip to Bull Run Quarry Loudoun County, Virginia Brander Robinson P.O. Box 76 1 Midd lesburg...Quarry, Loudoun County, Vi rgini a. This quarry has been in operation . 1ce 1957, "trap" mining from a Triassic-age...stilbite, and calcite, and has been a favorite of mine for a number of years. Less commonly, molybdenite...with minor stilbite , Bull Run Quarry, Loudoun County, Virginia collected by Brander Robinson, July 1998...Continued on p. 6 A Page from a Collector's Notebook New Finds in Old Specimens Arthur Smith 9118 Concho Street
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rockhounding. Although we actually live in Rochester, New York, we began the trip at Hornstone Hill, a glacial...moraine located in the town of East Bloomfield, New York which we purchased in the Summer of I960. The...of the fossils in the area. Following route 15 in New York south we drove through Pennsylvania, Maryland...Mitchell, highest point east of the Mississippi River being 6,684 feet above sea level. It should be stated...Arkansas Bridge over the Mississippi River. Our collecting began here. Quartz crystals were found along Route
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
23:14 19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume...globe, they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly...ROCKS & MINERALS the Golden Circle mine at Sorrento and the Cline mine at Hancock, Maine, and from a vaguely...vaguely described locality near Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut. A compilation of telluride mineral...Consolidated mine at Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia; the Barite Hill gold mine in McCormick County, South
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
describing the sands received in the next issue. River sand from Yuma Co., Ariz. "I am sending you a bottle...sand from the Martinez Lake district which is part of the Colorado River and 37 miles north of Yuma (Yuma...Martinez Lake is a resort on the Colorado River. The sand from the river is gray in color and medium grained...grained. It 48 consists chiefly of quartz (chiefly colorless, smoky, but brownish, reddish; and gray chalcedony...black magnetite make up the remainder of the sand. River sand from Sacramento, Calif. Peter Mohlsick, 316—19th
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NEW INFORMATION RESOURCES OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Geologic map of the McKenzie Bridge quadrangle, Lane County, Oregon. [Portland, Or.] : Oregon, Dept. of Geology...(284) qW4o no.87-11 Geologic map of the Chehalis River and Westport quadrangles, Washington. Rev. Dec....the Satara District, Maharashtra. PAM 1976. Map of mines, prospects, and patented mining claims, and...the Jordan Craters Wilderness Study Area, Malheur County, Oregon. [Menlo Park, CA] : U.S. Geological Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R . Kampf, Mineralogy De­ partment, Los Angeles County Mu­ seum of Natural History, 900 Exposi­ tion Boulevard...California 91114-8027. TEMPORARY EXHIBIT The Memphis Pink Palace Museum (of Natural History) and Planetarium...exhibit also features gold and silver specimens and mining memorabilia. The Martin Luther King, J r . , sculpture...State Park; Gem and Lapidary Wholesalers; and the Memphis Archeological and Geological Society. The Pink...marble mansion, is located at 3050 Central Avenue, Memphis, Ten­ nessee, and is open every day except Monday
 
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