 | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................... History of mining and production..................... Minerals of....... Nelson No. 2 prospect................................ .Nelson No. 1 prospect......................prospects............................ Moses Orndorff prospect.............................. Mineral Ridge mine................... Mining and preparation of the ore................ McCune prospect......................................... Brill prospect....................................... Godlove mine............. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis... minerals, and mineral resources of the state. Mining has been an important part of Tennessee industry...not seem to filter down to the collector. Major mining districts that are mineralogically simple occur |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...in y u lite from the W illard m in e, P ershing County, N e v a d a ....................................fund-raising technique being used by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. It’s called the “Adopta-mineral”...Education instructor in the Long Beach Unified School District, at Long Beach City College, and in the Long Beach...collection has been given principally to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Gem and Mineral Section |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals are commonly tabular or platy on (0001) and range to 15 cm across. Rosettes formed by aggregation...Counties, Virginia, and the Ducktown-Copperhill district, Tennessee (Ross 1935). Other important or interesting...mines, Chester County, the Gap mine, Lancaster County, and the Ecton mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania;...Georgia sulfide district of Padding, Haralson, and Douglas Counties and the Stone Hill mine area of Randolph...cm across in the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York; in tabular pseudohexagonal crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | illustrate “The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industry” by...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...heard the term “vug hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full...what has been long romanticized as “the richest hill on earth.” Readers whose appetite for Butte minerals...history as well as minerals, the World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old |  | | Report (issue) | | . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline...Amethyst f . , 4 .18 CABARRUS COUNTY 18 Minerals of the Cabarms County Mines 18 CALDWELL COUNT! 18 Pyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ..........................................T. R. Rose & R. E. Holden, Jr. Minerals of the Prospect Intrusion, New South Wales, Australia ..........Microminerals Miscellany from France, the Eifel district, and Mont Saint-Hilaire ........................mines, not to mention th< potential for renewed mining someday if access is not blocked. Especially in...worldwide; the Micromounters Hall of Fame; and a wide range of tools and equipment useful to the micromounter |  | | Journal (issue) | | Promotions Manager Sue Jones 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Bookstore Marilee Chiriia...Chiriia, Manager 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Subscriptions • Individuais.......................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .............................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ........................ |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted |  | | Book (edition) | | fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee |  | | Book (edition) | | Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South | | | Book (edition) | | Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Apache County — 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437, 438 Gila County 439 Graham County Greenlee |  | | Report (issue) | | prepared during the last 20 years by geologists and mining engineers of the U.S. Geological Survey and the... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Blue Range Wilderness, Arizona and ew Mexico. by James C. Ratte...L. Sorensen and Alan R. Buehler . . . . Benton Range Roadless Area, California, by Edwin H . 91 .......Alison B. Till and Edward L. McHugh .......... . Carson-Iceberg Roadless Areas. California, by William...and James Ridenour . . ... ... ..... . .. . Sill Hill, Hauser, and Caliente Roadless Areas, California |  | | Report (volume) | | 46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District 46 Buncombe District 46 Bryson City District 47 Franklin-Sylva...Franklin-Sylva District 47 Cashiers District 47 Feldspar 47 Kaolin 48 Mica 48 Quartz 49 Zircon 49 Other Industrial...the Knoxville 1oX 2° quadrangle, with State and county boundaries 2 2. Physiographic provinces of the...near the Knoxville 1oX 2° quadrangle by State and county 27 4. Recorded production of gold and silver from...materials: 1. Dimension stone of the Tennessee marble district in the Valley and Ridge. 2. Limestone and dolomite |  | | Report (issue) | | to abuse or misuse these collecting sites. The prospect of a continued privilege of collecting minerals...beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these.......................... 10 12 History of Gem Mining ..... .......................... . 12 Important...Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ......... |  | | Book | | locall - rs where amomeor prospectors m a y still prospect f o r gems mai t e a l s a n d a l s o fossils...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its...Hidden. The rose-pink rhodo lite garnet of Macon County was discovered in the late 19th century and named |  | | Report (issue) | | along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:...Belt. is are the copper-gold deposits of the Gold Hill, Cid, and Virgilina u districts. is- Included...deposits. 21 This belt passes through Gaston County. Tin veins in pegmatite and placer deposits derived...Halifax County. Tungsten occurs in North Carolina in two principal localities, in Cabarrus County associated |  | | Report (issue) | | ____________ Nevada and California, by E. N. Cameron and L. A. Warner__ _________________ ___. Nevada ___________...___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____ ____ Pag« 59 61 61 63 63 63 Good...Good Hope barite mine, Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten depositNorth...Barite deposits, Battle Mountain area.. California-Nevada Barite Co. 63 64 64 64 64 65 65 65 65 Barium...Lincoln County__-__-----_-----_-----___ Tern Piute district....... __ ___ ... Mineral County____-_______________ | | | Report (issue) | | to abuse or misuse these collecting sites. The prospect of a continued privilege of collecting minerals...beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...GEM STONES IN NORTH CAROLINA 12 History of Gem Mining 12 Important Gem Stones 12 Diamond 12 Corundum...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell |  | | Book (volume) | | ;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T...Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by Vandall........... 9 Carl A. Francis Selected of Maine Mining and Minerals . ...................................... 17 Vandall T. King Early Hist01y of Maine Mining and Minerals ............................................................ 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H |  | | Book (volume) | | been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to...a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has |
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