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Pyromorphite from
Root Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyromorphite
Formula:Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyromorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Root Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:289752
Long-form Identifier:1:3:289752:3
GUID (UUID V4):c02e5796-0d32-47f7-8bb3-9824fd46748f
Nearest other occurrences of Pyromorphite
1.6km (1.0 miles) ⓘTiffin Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) ⓘSinger Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) ⓘRose Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) ⓘKirby Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) ⓘHermosa Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
8.3km (5.2 miles) ⓘAlice Mine (Yellow Pine Extension Mine; Green Mountain Mine), Goodsprings, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) ⓘMilford Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) ⓘYellow Pine Mine (Yellow Pine Lead Zinc Mine; Hilo; Radio; Como; Hermes), Goodsprings, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) ⓘTam O'Shanter Mine (Big and Little Devil), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) ⓘCrystal Pass properties, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
130(2) Z=2 X-Ray Diffraction Pattern: Capitana mine, CopiapĂł, Atacama Province, Chile 2.942 (100), 4...10.97 65.51 20.83 3.47 0.78 100.00 (1) Capitana mine, CopiapĂł, Atacama Province, Chile; average electron...Polymorphism & Series: Complete solid solution among pyromorphite, mimetite, hedyphane, and phosphohedyphane likely...Capitana mine, CopiapĂł, Atacama Province, Chile [TL]. At the Root mine, Goodsprings district, Clark Co. and...and the Silver Coin mine, Iron Point district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA. Samples previously identified
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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 © 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
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Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...9(2) Å3, Z = 2, is a new mineral from the Capitana mine, Copiapó, Atacama Province, Chile and has been identified...numerous other deposits world-wide. At the Capitana mine, it occurs as transparent, colorless, tapering hexagonal...secondary mineral in the oxidized zone of the Capitana mine, a Cu-Pb-Ag deposit, where it closely associated...implications with respect to the chlorapatite-pyromorphite solid solution series. An analysis of compositions
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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 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
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Goodspringsdistrict, Nevada ..................................... Upper MississippiValley district ..................................... Southern Appalachian district ..................................... Theoretical...and hemimorphite in the Southern Appalachian district, and the predominanceof smithsoniteover hydrozincite...and hemimorphite in the Upper Mississippi Valley district can be explained by the pH of the ground waters...Goodspringsmining district of Nevada, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc and lead district, and the Southern
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Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 275 Geology...Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada By D. F. HEWETT GEOLOGICAL The geology SURVEY...Lucy Grey Range_______________________ Castle Mountains _______________________ Vontrigger Springs and..._____ Providence Mountains_ __________________ Clark Mountain and Ivanpah Mountain___ Southwest quarter...Crystal Springs formation _____ _ _ _ _ __ _ Beck Spring dolomite _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ Kingston Peak
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