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Muscovite from
Silver Queen mine, Cooper Hill District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver Queen mine, Cooper Hill District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1008122
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1008122:6
GUID (UUID V4):32f7d4bc-5126-4c41-a635-cfea0112a851
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Quartz pebble conglomerate, Cooper Hill District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Albion Mine, Cooper Hill District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
32.8km (20.4 miles) New Rambler mine (Rambler Mine; Holmes Mine; Electrolytic Mine; Great Rambler Mine), New Rambler Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
33.9km (21.0 miles) Albany Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
34.1km (21.2 miles) Cuprite Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
37.1km (23.0 miles) Black Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
37.5km (23.3 miles) Unnamed Au mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) Keystone Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
37.9km (23.6 miles) Florence Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
42.4km (26.3 miles) Lake Creek Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks...Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming.........Mr. C. E. Jamison, Cheyenne. Those members...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................. Wyoming..................................................Samuel, Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, with full descriptions of mineral resources, etc...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
in Indian Peak Range and Monarch claims, Beaver County, by W. R. Thurston. __ ____ _______ _____ _. _______...mine__________________________--_.___-____ Blue Bell mine...-- ____ _____ - __ __ _ ___________ Noonday p...____-__--___________ Deposits in Star district, Beaver County, by D. C. Cox_ _______________ Description..._____---__.______ Deposits in Thomas Range district, Juab County, by M. H. Staatz, V. R. Wilmarth, andH.... _ _______________________________________ Bell Hill property __-___--____-__----__-._______-__________
Book (volume)
Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm
Book (edition)
Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...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:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...Apache County — 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437, 438 Gila County 439 Graham County Greenlee
Report (issue)
areas C7 Dewey mine area C9 North Pass canyon area CIO Willow Springs area CIO Cougar Hill area Cll Prosperity...Nest mine Cll Oro del Rey workings Cll Evelyn mine C13 Adits in Goshute Canyon C13 Silver Queen property...Miscellaneous C13 Economic evaluation C13 Queen of Sheba mine C14 Red Mountain area C15 Gold Bond area...C28 Mercury C28 Resource potential C29 Gold and silver C31 Models and mineral resource potential C31 Vein...deposits, not classified as to deposit type Queen of Sheba mine C33 Resource potential C34 Gold Bond C34
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1994). the number of mines worked tor bery 1. muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene...including gold. However. except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction...of Pierre Formation: barite (gray roses). Butte County Belle Fourche, 6 mi. W., secs. 23, 24, 25. and
Report (issue)
7 Bibliography . . . . . 229 Appendix: 252 Mine Index iii NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS CHEMICAL...doubtful or discredited species) NATIVE ELEMENTS Gold Silver Copper Iron Bismuth Selenium Tetradymite Argentite...Zinnwaldite Phlogopite Glauconite Kaolinite Talc Muscovite (Sericite) (Fuchsite) Montmorillonite lliite...prospects in the lower Ludlow lignites. Harding County: 1. Abemathyite has been identified as a component...meta-uranocircite in uraniferous lignite at the Hilltop mine in sec. 12, Tl6N, R8E, in the Slim Buttes area.
Catalog/List
mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall...ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________...grey masses with possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, ALSTONITE 13 Hexham.Northumberland micros.____
Report (issue)
Purple pit fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim...43 Floride Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Floride No. 1 Mine . . . . ...Floride No.5 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Floride No. 13 Mine . . . . . . ..... . . 45 Floride No. 18 Mine ............ ·.......... 45 Fluorine Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . ....Fluorine Queen No. 1 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Fluorine Queen No. 2 Mine . . . . .
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...burro’s hoof kicking up a nugget of pure gold or silver; an angry mule skinner reaching for a rock to...of them were adventurers searching for gold or silver. Wherever ore bodies were found, many of which...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand
Catalog/List
Amphibole 2cm £8 3cm £ 15 Near Chelan. E.Washington USA !x i £3 ½" £3 Ix½ £5 Rich fi ne grained black crystalline...Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan 3mm... Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon...Northumberland Rai lway cutting near Creston . Wyoming ,U.S. A Newhaven Sussex, England l x l £3 l x2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the CusterKeystone area, to the Homestake gold mine in Lead, to golden barite-bearing concretions east...Homestake mine has since grown to be the largest gold mine in the western hemisphere. The Homestake mine has...Keystone, in the central Black Hills, is another gold district where there are numerous small mines and prospects...the Holy Terror mine, which was named in allusion to the discoverer's wife. This mine has produced many...Trojan mining district of the northern hills. Vein and Replacement Deposits Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposits Galena
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N. Y. Chromite, chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...and Mineral Resources of the Lemhi Pass Thorium District, Idaho and Montana By MORTIMER H. STAATZ With...chemistry of the thorium veins in the Lemhi Pass district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...and mineral resources of the Lemhi Pass thorium district, Idaho and Montana. (Geology and resources of...acknowledgments ............................. 5 Rocks of the district .............................................
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 71 Mineral Resources of Taos County, New Mexico by JOHN H. SCHILLING Description of mineral................................................. Silver King prospect ............................................. 35 Spanish Main prospect ["Govenor's Mine"(?)] ....................................... 36............. 36 Questa Molybdenum [Moly, R and S] mine ............................................ 38.............................. 44 BJB [Wilde, Goat Hill Gulch] prospects ..............................
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...-- ·- · ~~1 ~0/~ 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central...- - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish line grained mass...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless... £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston. Wyoming ,U.S.A Blue...£3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA
Report (issue)
west of Highway 38 Freebern mica mine Mobey (Burnham) mine Enterprise mine Sand Road (Card) quarry Dwyer...Road Kingston (Bedford) mica mine Richardson feldspar mine Glendower iron mine Road-cut at km 10.9, Westport...Hickey-Murphy lead mine Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road McLaren phosphate mine Long Lake blue calcite...Lake zinc mine Gabbro quarry Road-cut on Highway 38 at km 57.6 Eagle Lake (Blessington) mine Sharbot Lake...(Frontenac Draper Lake) lead mine Lacey mica mine Stoness mine Matthews mine Feldspar quarry on Kingston-Westport-Perth
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals
Report (issue)
Volume II: Flint Creek-South Mountain Area, Owyhee County, Idaho Earl H. Bennett, John Kauffman, and Victoria...Volume II: Flint Creek-South Mountain Area, Owyhee County, Idaho Earl H. Bennett, John Kauffman, and Victoria...MINES.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.4.1 Acid Mine Drainage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . 7 1.5.3.1 Soil, Rock, Stream Sediment, and Mine Waste Sampling Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.0 MINE DESCRIPTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained
Report (issue)
of Highway Freebern mica mine 8 y Mobey (Burnham) mine 9 Enterprise mine 10 38 38 Sand Road (Card)...(Bedford) mica mine 12 13 14 14 1D 1 16 16 17 Richardson feldspar mine Glendower iron mine Road-cut at...Hickey-Murphy lead mine Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road McLaren phosphate mine Long Lake blue calcite...calcite occurrence Long Lake zinc mine Gabbro quarry Road-cut on Highway 38 at km 57.6 17 brucite occurrence...occurrence 18 Eagle Lake (Blessington) mine 18 Sharbot Lake road-cuts on Highway 19 ie, 38, kr 72
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Catalog/List
~black cry~t~i;,o;-~;atrix. M~~nl Malo~O:. i:~n{ba District. IX I ins £5 2 AEGIRINE £10 Pyroxene Malawi lxl...IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland....maenification there are small crystals · - · .County. A:fiZC>i:i--=a=--- 60 AMAZONITE Attractive green
 
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