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Osmiridium from
Boss Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Iridium var: Osmiridium
Formula:(Ir,Os,Ru)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Osmiridium data
Locality Data:Click here to view Boss Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:288437
Long-form Identifier:1:3:288437:0
GUID (UUID V4):b970935a-d83f-40cf-9759-25a163af993b
References
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Report (issue)
_______ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present mining _______ _ General geology...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________... Chuck mine ___________________ _ Placers-------------------------------Goodnews Bay district _____________
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 CopyrightŠ 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 (issue)
will form a part of the volume or volumes on the Mine,r aJ Re.sources of the Britisl1 Empire and For-eign...ind11strial application, althougl1 the natural alloy osmiridium is of considerable value for its iridium-content...from placer deposits, in which, excepting the osmiridium fields of Tasmania and Papua, platinum is found...obtained from a g¡old-platinum-palladium lode in Nevada, U.S.A., and from a palladium-copper lode in Alaska...Urals and the Chooo district of Colombia ; but in recent years Tasmanian osmiridium has become an important
Report (edition)
OF THE PLATINUM METALS MonE OF OccuRREN0E • • MINING AND CONCENTRATION l\t!ETAT,I,URGY • • • • •...as in the alluvial gold workings of the Choco district, it was usually thrown away as worthless, although...metal, and towards the middle of the 19th century mining was carried on in the town of Quibd6, Colombia...been found in recent years in the Rustenbu1·g district of 8011th Africa. Next in economic importance...approximately as follows~ platinum, 60 to 90; osmiridium, 11p to 27; iridium, up to 7; 1·hodiu1n, up to
Journal (issue)
production has been tied closely to its gold placer mining activitiesi therefore, little production has been...vibrating hopper, as employed by the Goodnews Bay Mining Company, Alaska, or it may be sent directly to...platinum placers such as are found in the Ural Mountains of Russia, Alaska, and Colombia. Platinum may...immiscible liquid injection. Deposits at the Frood mine at Sudbury, Ontario, may have formed in this manner...hydrothermal deposits. The ores of the Sudbury district, Ontario, exemplify such deposits. Native platinum
Journal (volume)
XVI April 15, 1914 March 30, 1915 The Salt Lake Mining Review 1601 Walker Bank Building SALT LAKE CITY...30 , 1914. The Utah Consolidated Stone Co. The Nevada . : Items : The Cameron Coal Mines , Utah Detail...Goldfield Con . Civil Service Examinations The Sells Mining Company Engineers and Millmen United States Smelting...trict. By George H. Ryan 13 20 California Oil and Mining News. By G. Chester Brown . TOT 10. 191 .. ;19...at Anaconda California Oil & Mining News , By G. Chester Brown . Mining the Basic Industry Butte - Superior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calice circular, moderately deep. Columellarian boss rotund, slightly raised above the inner margin of...turbinate form, and the small ness of the central boss, and in the number and arrangement of the interseptal...and septa eroded away, exposing the columeliarian boss. 3a. A transverse section, natural size. Itvdophyllitm...is also made to the mineral wealth of the district. Osmiridium has been collected in small quantities near...into the river when washing for gold. The Bengera district has many points of resemblance to that at Mudgee
Journal (issue)
Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Collecting gold mining memorabilia......................................337 by D. J. Mossman The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of crystallized...experiences her interest in mining and minerals began to grow. In 1929 she moved to the mining town of Bisbee and...she and Brooks became part owners of the Old Yuma mine nearby. After a few years her strong love of minerals...well known for his mining ventures in Mex­ ico (particularly the San Francisco mine in Sonora). Many extraor­
Report (issue)
Sutton) Ti-maghemite Transvaalite (of McGhie and Clark) Transvaal jade Ureyite Vaalite Villiersite Wesselite...E.F. Stumpfl A.A. Hodgson E.F. Stumpf! and A.M. Clark K. Fredriksson and E.P. Henderson L.H. Fuchs A.D...California, U.S.A. (Switzer and Bailey, 1953); Mihara mine, Okayama Prefecture and at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture...kimberlite pipe, Farm Dorst Fontein K 77, Kimberley district, Northern Cape Province (Parry and Wright, 1925)...mineralised pocket in the Wessels mine, Farm Wessels 227, Hotazel district, Northern Cape Province (Von Bezing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occur in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon and in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon...orientation. TECTONICS OF THE NORTHERN WALLOWA MOUNTAINS, OREGON BY JO H N ELIOT ALLEN The thick Permian...Triassic marbles and slates of the northern Wallowa Mountains are intruded by the Wallowa granodiorite batholith...breached near its center by the Sawtooth granodioritic boss. At the southern end of the syncline, where it abuts...CHAS. V. AVERILL The Mother Lode of the Sierra Nevada, the source of most of California’s gold, was formed
Report (issue)
Fortieth Annual Report of the MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO For the Year 1938 ARTHUR CAMPBELL INSPECTOR... seu NNER ; FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINING OF INDUSTRY IDAHO For the Year 1938 mee FoseNe...Secretary || HONORABLE Chairman, BARZILLA W. CLARK Governor, State of Idaho Board of Control, Bureau...Excellency, THE HONORABLE Governor BARZILLA W. CLARK, of Idaho. pik: In compliance Code annual Annotated...Relations Program for the Mining Industry ..............----..-----------What Mining Means to the United States
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for recovery as by-products in the course of coal mining. DOI: 10.1134/S1075701507010011 INTRODUCTION High...100 years ago. Descriptions of gold and silver mining from coal in Wyoming and South Dakota (Jenney,...Ptbearing bitumen has been described from the Boss deposit in Nevada (Jedwab et al., 1998). The next information...1 ppm, respectively) in coal from the Blackburn Mine in Canada were established by spectral analysis...sample from coal seam III2 in the Luzanovsky open-cut mine in Primorye, in the Far East of Russia, I obtained
Journal (volume)
A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Francisco - - Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer Frank Sanborn, .... .... - - - Statistician and Curator...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) - San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS REPORTS OF DISTRICT MINING ENGINEERS...Redding Field District 1 Sacramento Field District 1 San Francisco Field 24 District Los Angeles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................................. The Norylsk District of Siberia ......................... The Nickel...Veins ............................ The Waterberg District in Central Transvaal ............. Relative Distribution...platinum bearing hortonolite dunire of the Lydenburg district, Trans. Geol. Soc. So. Africa, x925; P. A. Wagner...deposits in the Western part of the Lydenburg district, So. African Jour. of Industries, Feb., x925;...is well known, besidesnativeplatinum,a little osmiridium,etc., is found. In the dunitcitself at someplacesin
Book (edition)
book FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION IN many books on mining much of the text is devoted to discussions of theory...without training or experience in any branch of mining will also find this book both instructive and interesting...crust, and to those who are actually engaged with mining and manufacturing in which minerals or mineral...book. And a cheerio to the Mines Department and Mining .Museum, the officers of which have always proved...COBALT AND NICKEL, MAGNESIUM, MERCURY, PLATINUM, OSMIRIDIUM, URANIUM, TITANIUM, 96 TELLURIUM XVII. :>.
Journal (issue)
this explain why Hydroseals Tee IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Most...machines like the “Caterpillar” Diesel products mining throughout the world. Tractors. Bulldozers, Motor...repiling bauxite and loading trucks for Reynolds Mining Corporation, near Hurricane Creek, Arkansas. CATERPILLAR...JJ SYD)! te up in a wooden pail. Missouri lead mine about 1890. —_—— ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse...fashioned blasting methods and other inefficient mining techniques have become so drill pattern and loading
Report (volume)
fElektrochemische Zeitschrift. Engineering and Mining Journal. fEngineering Magazine. fEngineering News...Engineering. fMe'tallurgie. *Mineral Industry. Mining and Scientific Press. *Monatsberichte der Koniglich-preussischen...I'acide nitro-muriatique pour la dissolution de la mine de platine, 232. 14. Dissolution du platine, 244...409. Pt. W. THOMSON. Pt. (Regarding a platinum mine.) N6velle di letteratura, scienze, arti, e commercio...me'taux, et d'une espSce nouvelle de me'tal.dans cette mine. (In platinum are found Ti, Or, Cu, Fe, and a new
Report (issue)
000unse FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ‘MINING INDUSTRY. of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR ARTHUR CAMPBELL...Secretary. | FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 19 2476 IDAHO...Processing Mills, 34 Located in Coeur d’Alene District Lucky Friday Makes Rich Silver Strike South Side...Custer Mine Still Lingers Giant Explosion at Arco 2 Leesburgh—A Ghost Town : Clark Fork District, Lead...Largest in World (Morning Mine) Gem Collectors, Work At Own Mine Idaho Mining Association Hopes and Fears
Journal (volume)
VENTING 74 Accidents, Chinese Laws Concerning Mine.. Accidents During Second Ten Days of Month Accidents...in Ohio, 1911 Accidents, To Decrease Anthracite Mine Account, Profit, and Loss Accumulations of Gas,...535 400 636 83 409 Page Antiseptic Treatment of Mine Timbers Antitrust Laws and the Coal Industry Apparatus...Appointment of H. M. Inspectors Appointment of Ohio Mine Inspectors Appropriations for Bureau of Mines, Recom-...Lubrication Air Humidifier, An Effective Air, Humidifying Mine 535, Air- Lift Agitation of Slime Pulp Alabama,
Journal (volume)
Geologist C. A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Francisco - District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas. V. Averill, District Mining...San Francisco Mining Engineer -•-'-- and Curator Herbert A. Franke, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian)...San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS REPORTS OF DISTRICT MINING ENGINEERS Page 1 Sacramento Field Division...ARTICLES 238 Discovery of Piedmontite in the Sierra Nevada Suspension of Assessment 237 Work Tracing Buried-River
Journal (volume)
Mil' i I ';> ?mii Wmmh 11181 \ lMINING / DEPAfiTtriEiT Of Library Numbrr; M / Return...SD^al loan. / permJssie INDEX TO) VOLUME Mining and I imiin n ni 1920 it^!/f/vt n nun t...161 Science and industry. Allen, A. moving from mine-hoists Signaling Allen, C. A 232 cages 645 Allis-Chalmers...Consolidated Gold Fields of South 881 Africa 747 American Mining Congress Editorial. 752. 790, 826 Ditto 215 Co...book review Assaying methods at the Globe & Phoenix mine 4 51 H. R. Edmands. 108 Association of Accountants
Journal (volume)
LIST OCT 1 1922; \v INDEX TO VOLUME : . Mining and January •^ Pa ire . 117 227 . . . . ...review Akins flotation niactiine Alaska in 1921. mining Aldrich Pump Co 410 395 350 281 55 in W . ...Zinc. Lead & Smelting Co . . . . . . Copper Mining Co 199, 144 227 405 90 307 331 16S 60 240 ...advertisements P. b. McDonald. Black, H. E Errors latent in mine-sampling. Blomfield, A. L The engineer. Boiling-over...Brick-making Brinsmade. R. B. Bruhl. P. T Russian placer mining. H. C. Robson .... . . .Militarism and millionairisni
Journal (volume)
Third Floor, Ferry Building, San Francisco 11 District Offices State Building, 217 West First Street...offices in San Francisco a scientific journals mining, mineralogy, chemistry, metallurgy, and related...petroleum and mining industries, and newspapers from the mining centers of the State mine models, etc...California minerals and a conference room with a mining engineer in attendance to serve the public and...are also sold at the Los Angeles and Sacramento district exhibits of minerals, rocks, ; ; offices.
Journal (volume)
Cause and Prevention of Mine.. Accidents, Cause for Accidents. Fire Boss and Mine Accidents in French Coal...in Pa., Coal-Mine Accident, Preventable Shaft-Sinking Accidents, Some Features of Mine Disasters Acetylene...of Acetylene Lamps, Gases from 189,254, Acetylene Mine Lamp, New Acids on Concrete, Action of Action of...Afterdamp Ahmeek Mining Co., Concrete Shaft Lining Ainsworth & Sons, Wm., Arnold Acetylene Mine Lamp 1 293...Anthracite in Rocky Mountains Anthracite Mine-Cave Commission Report, 468, Anthracite Mine, Cerrillos Anthracite
 
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