 | | 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 | | | 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) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...spherical shapes, Indian minerals, odd crystal habits, Nevada minerals, and those precious (but generally unlovely)...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...Phoenix Mineral & Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley, Nevada for two summers, subleasing |  | | Journal (issue) | | scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...Amethyst scepter, 17 cm, from Petersen Mountain, Nevada; Brianna and Brendan Traw collection. Barite, 7...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...2023 Articles The Bairendaba Deposit, Keshiketen District, Inner Mongolia, China................................363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran...................only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...species hauckite (type locality: the Sterling Hill mine) was named in his honor in 1980, in recognition |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Large barite crystals from the Elandsrand gold mine, South A fr ic a .................................Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya mine $10 (Brazil), Bosch...Pit (PA-MD), Mcguinnessite v Pereta Mine (Italy), Cetine Mine (Italy) v Mineral Fraud, LeadhillsWanlockhead...$10 v .15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Brazil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $10 .16/#4 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will...just the county, is better than erroneous detailed location data. The Sweet Surrender mine near Story |  | | Catalog/List | | Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...including: Australia Colorado Brazil Mexico California Nevada Canada Venezuela Several of the South American...Gold Nugget Bullfrog Mountains Death Valley Nevada, USA This unique and complex Gold nugget is rather...Point Mine Humboldt Co. Nevada, USA This brassy Gold specimen from the Windy Point Mine in Nevada is very...Ledge Mine (Bank Mining Company), Mack House Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra |  | | Journal (issue) | | Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than anywhere...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special |  | | Journal (issue) | | specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado County, California, and a little of its history ........with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...very rare loose crystal. Ossining, Westchester County, New York. wckport, New York. Ex. Coll. : New...DENVER MART EXPO HALL ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA...distance. The earliest recorded use of gunpowder for mining was in Hungary in 1627. 254 The Mineralogical |  | Christie, A. B., Simpson, M. P., Brathwaite, R. L., Mauk, J. L., Simmons, S. F. (2007) Epithermal Au-Ag and Related Deposits of the Hauraki Goldfield, Coromandel Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Economic Geology, 102 (5) 785-816 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.102.5.785 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Martha and 700 m at Karangahake. Electrum and acanthite are the main ore minerals, although pyrite, sphalerite...minerals and vein textures. Mineral Production Mining history Alluvial gold was discovered near Coromandel...deposits, 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 little mining activity occurred until the discovery of Au-bearing...veins in 1861 in what was to become the Kapanga mine (Fig. 2, Table 1). Prospecting elsewhere in the...major period of gold mining ended with the closure of the underground Martha mine at Waihi in 1952, although |  | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root |  | | Journal (issue) | | May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.......................... 302 History 1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315 Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317 Collecting...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany...minrecord@comcast.net The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: it |  | | Book | | and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...SWITZERLAND j& DAVID WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, U.S. A ¥% C. DOUGLAS WOODHOUSE, Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country...of them; many superb clusters are destroyed in mining; poor handling causes a major portion of all specimens | | | Book | | and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...SWITZERLAND ^ david WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, u. S. A ^ C. DOUGLAS woodhouse, Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country...of them; many superb clusters are destroyed in mining; poor handling causes a major portion of all specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dec 10-12: Flatirons Gem & Mineral Show, Boulder County Fairgrounds, Longmont CO. Sponsored by the Flatirons...Show, (returning to its old location), Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Exhibit Building. The club had earlier...25-27, 2022: Fort Collins Rockhounds Show, Larimer County Fairgrounds, Longmont, CO. Dec 2021 CSMS Pick...National Monument: Steven Veatch Western Museum of Mining and History: David St. John Dec 2021 CSMS Pick...Co., VA. The earliest recorded mining was for muscovite in the No. I mine in 1873, but operation in prehistoric |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner...1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon Famous mineral...mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona............................................ ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and nearly...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...FLUORITE crystal group, 8.1 cm, from the Shangbao mine, H unan, China. Collector's Edge Minerals specimen;...daughter of a mining family, she has maintained an intense interest in minerals and mining throughout her...pursuits in this regard was the collecting of old mining stock certificates, a collection which grew to... and give a historical background for each mine or mining venture. These catalogs, still available while |  | | Journal (issue) | | and M.S. in geology from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, also earned minors in history and...University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and currently is a professor of geoscience.................. 3 The Shafter Silver District, Presidio County , Texas ......................................... 7 Minerals: Shafter Silver District, Presidio County, Texas .................................his head really screwed on right. He has his own mine in the Lake Geor ge area of Colorado, near Florissant |  | | Journal (issue) | | .... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...visit the gun and knife show at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona. Here are some items culled |  | | Journal (issue) | | Co / Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155 / info@kristalle.com The ...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...Edge Minerals, Inc. Fine minerals and worldwide mining www.collectorsedge.com e-mail: Richard@collectorsedge...connroxminerals.com e-mail: larryrush@att.net The Crystal Mine Worldwide minerals emphasizing color www.crystal-mine...supporter of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, beginning in the 1960s when she was a volunteer |  | | Journal (issue) | | gressman@minrec.org Articles The Malkhan Pegmatite District Krasny Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian...the Forgotten Pocket, Sosedka pegmatite, Malkhan district. The same specimen as shown from a different angle...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...com | w w w. FineMineral.com Malachite Shilu Mine, Brazil 21.5 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS FINE MINERALS... Mimetite | Endeavor Mine, Australia 10.2 x 5.0 x 2.2cm Rhodonite | Chiurucu Mine, Peru 7.1 x 6.2 x 5 |  | | Journal (issue) | | except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping to get the permit system properly...still very much a 'frontier place'. One supposed mine was started by a character called Otto van Stryk...Stryk who thought he had found a huge iron mine. Alas, he never got any useable ore out of it. Rick went... So now it is recognised as a potential uranium mine! Another anecdote involved a light plane brought...amethyst, fluorapatite and tourmalines. Rossinguranium mine, a uraniferous granite, was also mentioned. Rick |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hishikari, Japan: Izawa et al., 1990; Sleeper, Nevada: Saunders, 1994), with giant deposits containing...Cross, New Zealand: Simpson et al., 2001; Comstock, Nevada: Hudson, 2003). Alteration intensity, mineralogy...Brathwaite and Christie, 1996). By contrast, underground mining of the Martha deposit between 1883 and 1952 recovered...Moz; Christie et al., 2007). Part of this long mining success was due to the introduction in 1894 of...larger veins (Brathwaite and McKay, 1989). Open-pit mining (Fig. 3) began in 1988 and through December 2006 |
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