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Limonite from
Murray mine, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murray mine, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1250552
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1250552:6
GUID (UUID V4):a8e0a9f1-659f-4bb4-b616-6299669065cb
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Generator Hill Deposit, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Jerritt Canyon Gold Mine (Enfield Bell Mine; Generator; Alchem; Marlboro Deposits), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Enfield Mine (Jerritt Canyon gold mine; Bell mine; Marlboro Canyon; Allchem; Generator Hill pits), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Birds Eye prospect (Los; Bilboa; Killburn; Snow Creek; Belaustegui Ranch), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Hidden Hills Mine, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Ed claims, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
12.5km (7.8 miles) Big Knob Mine, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
18.4km (11.4 miles) Double O claims, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
18.7km (11.6 miles) LB claims, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
20.1km (12.5 miles) Grand Prize mine, Tuscarora Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Location map for the MeiMe mine and the Murray mine. Prepared by William B. Besse. Downloaded...golden barite from the Meikle mine and the stibnite from the Murray mine are among the best of their species...encounter crystallized mineral specimens while mining for ore usually treat the non-ore asset mineral...and AngloGold Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture, while mining underground for gold, have encountered voids with...crystallized barite, calcite (Meikle mine), and stibnite (Murray mine). Although not considered an asset
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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 (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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,
Report (issue)
Results of Oil-Shale Investigations in Northeastern Nevada By StevenW. Moore 1, Helen B . Madrid, and G. Thomas...REPORT 83-586 1983 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Department of Energy and the U.S. Bureau of Land...deposits in northeastern Nevada. ... Results of literature search .................... Elko Formation. ........................... Early oil-shale mining activities near Elko ......... Other lacustrine and related................ 4 4 4 4 8 9 9 10 10 10 10 11 11 Elko area ................................ Introduction
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Early Miocene (?) formation Volcanics of the Mountains Cortez Early Tertiary{?) Undrfferentiated...GEOLOGIC MAP AND CROSS SECTIONS, VICINITY OF CARLIN, NEVADA Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld....1960 CENOZOIC GEOLOGY IN THE VICINITY OF CARLIN, NEVADA JEROME REGNIER ABSTRACT The Cenozoic section in...in the vicinity of Carlin, northeastern Nevada, comprises the following units, separated by erosional...Structural framework 1192 Volcanic rocks of the Cortez Mountains. . . 1192 Rand Ranch formation 1193 Safford Canyon
Report (volume)
Georgia have been the major sources of barite since mining began there in 1872, 1902, and 1914 respectively...Deposits in Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico have been developed extensively...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL RESOURCES production, mining and treatment of ore, as well as some descriptions...states. State references describe deposits and mining and milling techniques practiced within a particular...occurrences may be in the vicinity. In the Cartersville district, Georgia, the deposits are listed as residual
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...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...the Geological Survey of Nevada is preparing a very comprehensive book on Nevada minerals, which has a preliminary
Journal (issue)
words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author was Don...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...located near Sulphur Canyon in the San Andres Mountains. The problem was that it was within the boundaries...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Report (issue)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ......
Report (issue)
The Roberts Mountains Formation, a regional stratigraphic study with emphasis on rugose coral distribution...SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 973 The Roberts Mountains Forn1ation, a regional stratigraphic study with...Data Merriam, Charles Warren, 1905The Roberts Mountains Formation. (Geological Survey Professional Paper... Stratigraphic-Devonian. 3. Rugosa. 4. Geology-Nevada. 5. GeologyCalifornia. I. McKee, Edwin H., joint...Scarcity of reefs or bioherms in the Roberts Mountains Formation _________________________________________________
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Book (volume)
erosional debris spreading out from the Rocky Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution of...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford
Report (issue)
in Utah · .1 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Beaver Lake Mountains deposits . . . . . .2 Bat... .2 . . . . . . . . . . .2 Black Rock mine . . . Skylark mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . · .. 4 Creole mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · .. 4 Cave mine . . . . . . . . . ... 4 Iron mine . . . . . . ......... . . 10 Star Range deposits . . . . . .10 Copper King mine .10 Rocky...Rocky Range deposits . . . .10 Old Hickory mine . . . . · . 11 Montreal magnetite-copper property . . .
Journal (issue)
5-7—Rodeo and County Fair, Socorro, New Mexico. Sept. 5-7—'49 Show and parade, Fallon, Nevada. Sept. 5-7...5-7 — Nevada Rodeo, Winnemucca, Nevada. Sept. 5-7 — Desert Peaks Section, Southern California Chapter, Sierra...climb of Mt. Jefferson, Nev. Sept. 5-7—Old Time Mining Celebration and Hermit's Convention, Randsburg... Lancaster. California. Sept. 12-14 — Valencia County Fair. Belen, New Mexico. Sept. 11-13 — Navajo Tribal...Sept. 16 — Mexican Independence Day, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sept. 16-19 — Curry County Fair, Clovis. New
Report (issue)
__________________________________________ Adirondack district, New York___ ________________l_l__-_____ New Jersey..._-_ Birmingham district, Alabama-_____-__-___________-------__ Russellville district, Alabama-_--___...Alabama-_--_____-_-_-________---___-_Northwestern Georgia district..._____________________________ Lake Superior region...-_--__Iron Springs district, Utah_-___--__-___________------_____ Eagle Mountains deposits, Californ...California__________--_--___-__Hartville district, Wyoming________________________________-_ Alaska._______._____
Book (edition)
Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains by Lanny R. Ream...in the field and assistance with the Sawtooth Mountains chapter and specimen identification. Also for...of the micro-size minerals from the Sawtooth Mountains. My appreciation is extended to Norm Radford for...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens
Report (volume)
elongated rhombic crystal faces, from Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.-................... II. A, Wedge-shaped...from Hoosier mine, Nederland, Colo.; B, Cuboid ferberite crystals from Georgia A. mine, Nederland. Colo...Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.............................. IV. A, Hiibnerite from Birdie mine, Butte...Wolframite with cinnabar from Jack claim, Clark Mountains, near Nipton, Cal.; B, Black hiibnerite from White...Rollinsville, Colo.; B, Hubnerite crystals from Regan mining district, 35 miles north of Osceola, Nev...........
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Journal (issue)
which is hosted by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and organized by the New Mexico...San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities
 
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