| | 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...'Ike Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain...Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite | | | Journal (issue) | spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books...Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had...Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites. He had just a few specimens of azurite and...and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite fame. Casey told...the Geological Survey of Nevada is preparing a very comprehensive book on Nevada minerals, which has a preliminary | | | 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 | | | Journal (issue) | Study Group MICRO PROBE VOLUME X, Number 1 SPRING, 2005 SPRING MEETING ...............HILLSBORO, OREGON...Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada. He was inordinately proud...great grandchildren. His interest in mineral and mining was something that he liked to share with schools...address, payable for each calendar year at the Spring meeting or by mail to the Secretary-Treasurer:... Recent rare mineral finds in Southern California and Nevada Desert Mines Robert M. Housley 210 S. Catalina | | | Journal (issue) | by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ....................WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling Autonomous Prefecture...with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection and photo...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription | | | 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 | | | Journal (issue) | by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ....................WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling Autonomous Prefecture...with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection and photo...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription | | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite....including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite is likely the best... for a mineral than to be often confused with azurite. Such is the case with the much-rarer linarite...linarite, a striking blue mineral that occurs, like azurite, in the oxidized parts of base-metal ore deposits...all too late, that what was thought to be modest azurite—hardly worth the bother to collect—was actually...over have discovered linarite, often posing as azurite, at many historic sites thought to be no longer | | | Report (issue) | oxidized zinc and zinc-lead ores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California______________ 3. Types of supergene...most are of supergene origin. Smithsonite and hemimorphite are the main oxidized zinc minerals in supergene...east of the Rocky Mountains. Saprolitic accumulations of smithsonite and hemimorphite in solution pockets...recently production has been increasing in Utah and Nevada. The term "oxidized zinc deposits" is used in this...Alaska.. a Includes 550 tons from Davis, Murray County, Okla. 'Production to 1934 only. PART 1. GENERAL | | | Journal (issue) | SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY" -T —• - Vol. XXXVII No. 1 — i ■&- February, 1990 QUARTERLY THE MINERALOGY...MINERALOGY OF THE MOH/WK MINE _ SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA r O' " •: u. o~r William S. Wise ■rrz... SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Barbara Cram Riordan, Chairman, Third District Larry Walker...First District Second District Marsha Turoci John Mikels Fourth District Fifth District COUNTY OF SAN...SAN BERNARDINO Harry M. Mays, County Administrative Officer Albert R. Reid, Administrator, General Services | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, hemimorphite, and planchtite. Consequently...Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922). An unusual...from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In the arid mining districts of western...from the Santa Rita district, Grant County, and the Orogrande district, Otero County, New Mexico. Dioptase...malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase associated with | | | Journal (issue) | Molybdof ornacite, Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer...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 (article/letter/editorial) | ~ ) : • ,- '1-/Challis r--, - qa'wtooth Mountains r i ~ Elmore'~. -C- -J'-,/,_~, ~ l I ...specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...Jerome I i,J--..s.. ,c., --1. I Blaine '-\ [ Clark,-J t: _Buue-J Ketchum Camas '-; :-.... J. •...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few | | | Journal (issue) | had the good fortune isiting the old and famous mining town of Freiberg, Saxony, thanks largely to the...were made around I 168, the Erzgebirge [Ore-Mountains) mining started in this area and led to the foundation...Northern Germany. Over the course ofFreiberg's long mining history with . ,._ -.... several highs - especially...Bergakademie [School of Mining] Saxony was established in 1765. Long before that, a "mining office" for Saxony...the School of Mining. The scientific and economic impact of the Freiberg Mining district is based on rich | | | Journal (issue) | Mottramite from the Whale Mine, Goodsprings District, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...Whale Mine, a rather obscure and defunct locality in the Goodsprings Mining District of Clark County, Nevada...Nevada. The Whale Mine consisted of underground workings about 400 feet in length and with an approximate...hydrozincite, while the lower tunnel yielded hemimorphite. The eastern part of the Whale group of claims...Specimens labeled as “cuprodescloizite” from the Whale Mine date back at least as far back as the late 1940s | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary | | | Report (issue) | Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy Cal and Kerith...cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection...978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie...1867. ·thsonian Smithsonite First Oxide Zone, Tsu Mine, Tsumeb, Nami 10cm tall Brent Lockhart coll Joe | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | associated minerals collected from the Defiance Mine. No new minerals for California were found, but...products. The geologyand ore deposits of the Darwin district have been described by Knopfr and Kelley,2 but...(1940). 1 Knopf, Adolph., The Darwin silverlead mining district, California: U. S. Geol. Surv., Bull. 58O,...ore deposits of the Darwin silverlead mining district, Inyo County, California: Colif. Bur. Mdnes,Bull...and usually coated completely with transparent hemimorphite. Sometimes the needles are entirely uncovered | | | Catalog/List | S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•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 | | | Journal (issue) | by The Mineralogical Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical | | | Journal (issue) | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s 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. Author’s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone | | | Report (issue) | OF MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES ALLANITE Inyo County: 1, Coarse grained allanite occurs in a pegmatite...Jackass Spring, on Hunter Mt., Ubehebe quadrangle, McAllister (4) p. 52. Los Angeles County: Additional...diagrams. 1, AMPHIBOLES ACTINOLITE San Bernardino County: 3, Additional Wrightwood, reported by Berkholz...locality in alluvium, near 21. HORNBLENDE Inyo County: 1, In large prismatic crystals up to 2.5 inches...near Little Dodd Spring, Panamint Range, McAllister (4) p. 52. San Bernardino County: 2, Pargasite variety | | | Journal (issue) | Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...prospectors into wbat later were named the Weaver Mountains northeast of Yuma. They camped for the night at |
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