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Quartzite from
Canyon Silver Mine, Placer Center Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Quartzite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Canyon Silver Mine, Placer Center Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1050201
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1050201:1
GUID (UUID V4):30508d55-49a6-4e63-a5ce-539ab1c4afe3
Nearest other occurrences of Quartzite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Verde May prospect, Lelande Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) West Bell prospect, Lelande Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Betty Lou Mine, Lelande Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) West Star prospect, Lelande Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Northside prospect, Placer Center Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Silver Star Mine, Placer Center Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Thomas Consolidated prospect, Placer Center Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Frisco Mine, Lelande Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Sisters Mine, Placer Center Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Granada Mine, Hunter Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Coeur d'Alene Mining District Basedon Ore Depositsand StructuralData EARL H. BENNETT Idaho Bureauof Mines...Mines and Geology,Morrill Hall, Universityof Idaho, Moscow,Idaho 83843 AND RAMESH VENKATAKRISHNAN Department...geologyand ore deposits. DURING 1979 the amount of silver mined since 1884 Our studypresentsthe resultsof...resultsof two suchreconin the Coeur d'Alene mining district in Idaho exstructions, one basedon the mineral depositsand...Potosi,Bolivia, making the Coeur d'Alene the premier silver-pro- other on a palinspasticreconstructionusing
Book
PISTOLS i !?' A J.-. N ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by ...present authentic infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive...United States Geological Survey in 1912. Plan. “Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada”, as...parts:—one on mining districts and the other on mineral resources. The section on mining districts is...but gives more extended descriptions and includes mining as well as geological information. The map which
Report (volume)
SMITH, DIRECTOR 408 A RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA.......................-- - --Prospect Mountain quartzite................................... 1' 17 Eldorado.......................................... Secret Canyon shale................................................................................. Eureka quartzite.........................................................'...................... Diamond Peak quartzite...................................... Lower coal
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...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;
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
Report (issue)
Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities as well as areas of...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent...formations (Stewart and Carlson, 1978) in which mining sites and metallic occurrences are located. Information...Information on the locations were obtained from the county reports and other literature. Even though the individual
Report (volume)
values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum, mercury, etcetera. The Corporation...so successful. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Mining Machinery Dept. OFFICES For Canadian MILWAUKEE...Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...service from Superior Jaw Crusher Worthington mining equipment the from the standpoint of first cost...most wear, Worthington meets the needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
Report (volume)
values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum, mercury, etcetera. The Corporation...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
Book
Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana...of the Pleistocene '''I ce Ages" period. Those quartzite flakes were evidently fashioned to suit specific...for purely domestic use. Although some of the quartzite xiv Foreword flakes resemble choppers, they...chalcedony, chert, flint, jasp-agate, jasper, quartzite, rock crystal, amethyst, chrysoprase, opal, etc...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones
Report (issue)
Mineralization in the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Shoshone County, Idaho consists principally of galena-sphalerite-...tetrahedrite-veins that have produced significant amounts of silver, lead, and zinc with lesser amounts of copper,...The district has produced in excess of 31,000 metric tons of silver, more than any other mining district...considered to be a distinct type unique to the district. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has not attempted...undiscovered resources of these metals in the district, or in other regions favorable for the discovery
Report (issue)
FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ‘MINING INDUSTRY. of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR ARTHUR CAMPBELL Inspector...ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 19 2476 IDAHO AND PRODUCED COPPER IN...IN GOLD, SILVER, 1946—VALUED AT ARTHUR CAMPBELL Inspector of Mines MYRTLE ELLENSOHN Secretary LEAD...Governor of Idaho. Williams, Sir: In compliance with the provisions of Section 46111, Idaho Code Annotated...Conditions in Idaho Accidents, Description Fatal Accidents Silver Price Made Law Phosphate, Idaho Has Large
Report (issue)
and 1916. Bulletin No. 10. Value €If Ores . . Mine Sampling and the Commercial Bulletin No. 11. Descriptive...Geological Survey and in the journals dealing with mining and geology, but this material is widely scattered...and Mining Journa1. M. & S. P.-Mining and Scientific Press. 2 INTRODUCTION M. & E. W .-Mining and...Min.-Mines and Minerals. S. L. M. R.-Salt Lake Mining Review. In order to give proper credit to the courses...districts, under the general bibliography for the county or state and under the discussion of a particular
Report (issue)
48. 49. 50. 51. 52. Alder Creek Antelope Arrow Canyon Augusta Mountains Bad Lands Black Rock Desert Blue...Lakes Bluebell Bonelli Peak Buffalo Hills Burbank Canyon Calico Mountains Carson Iceberg Cedar Ridge China...Mountain Clan Alpine Mountains Clover Mountains Cougar Canyon Delmar Mountains Desatoya Mountains Disaster Peak...Peak Dry Valley Rim East Fork High Rock Canyon El Dorado Evergreen Fandango Far South Egans Fish and Wildlife...Garrett Buttes Goshute Canyon Goshute Peak Grapevine Mountains High Rock Canyon High Rock Lake Ireteba
Report (volume)
GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN...GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN...deposits 2 22 Early Tertiary ( ?) deposits 2 23 Gold-silver deposits 2 23 Deposits of the early Tertiary (...of the late Tertiary epoch of metallization 23 Silver-lead deposits 2 25 2 Copper deposits 26 Deposits...of the ore deposits 2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility
Book (volume)
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...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Report (issue)
precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...__________ Cambrian System_______________________ Scott Canyon Formation_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ordovician System...Formation____________ Havallah Formation________________ Scott Canyon Formation____________ Harmony Formation________________...___________________ ---- ___ --- ____ Valm y and Scott Canyon blocks__________________ Dewitt block____ ____...-----------Gold-silver deposits ____ - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lead-zinc-silver deposits _____
Map
resource map 24 Mining Districts and Prospect Areas in New Mexico by Virginia T. McLemore edited by...New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, New Mexico 2017 Mining Districts and Prospect...Resources Nelia Dunbar, Director and State Geologist Mining Districts and Prospect Areas in New Mexico by Virginia...Maureen Wilks A division of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Dr. Stephen G. Wells, President...1800s from 246 mining districts and prospect areas (excluding coal, oil and gas). Today, mining is still an
Report (issue)
Edited by Mead LeRoy Jensen Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine, the world's largest open pit, symbolizes the...tern Utah 3. Partially excavated kiva in Moqui Canyon southeastern Utah . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Large...Illustrations Table 1. Age determinations on Farmington Canyon complex and Little Willow series rocks . . . ....125 Tour of the Wasatch Fault Zone in Salt Lake County. . Warm Springs Fault . . East Bench Fault Main... . . 2. Map of Wasatch fault zone in Salt Lake County ; Utah. . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 3. Geologic
Report (issue)
...... ·- ......... . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . ....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ................. . . , ... -.. . Rio Hondo. (Twining) district . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................::.:::.::: ::: :::: :: ':::: :: ::::. Red River district. ..................•......... -~ . . ...........·::-; : : :. ::.·.i?:5.•.:...,. .... Black.Copper mine ........ ............. ~ ... .. . .... ·.......
Report (Issue volume)
Department of Environ1nental Resources. Puerto Rico: Mining Commission of Puerto Rico: Economic De,elopment...Injury experience and worktirne in the solid mineral mining industries by States, by Forrest T. Moyer ____...Reed --------------- - - - ---------------- 233 Idaho, by Francis C. Mitko --------- ------------- --------...The quantities of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and tin are recorded on a mine basis (as the recoverable...average selling price of refined metal, not the mine value. Mercury is measured as recovered metal and
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stevens County..................... ... . . . . . . . . . . ....Northport District. .... . ........ . .. ... . . . .. . . . ............ . Myers Fa.Us District . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fla.t C1·eek District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colville District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chewela.h,District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...research and provide information about exploration. mining. and metallurgical processes that are needed in...Technology Branch J. Brent Hiskey Assistant Director Mining and Mineral Resources Researchlns~tute Orlo E...Affirmative Action Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist...produce copper. The Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242,000 tons of ore
Report (issue)
molybdenum, iron, manganese, barium, mercury, gold, silver, platinum, beryllium, lithium, tungsten, tin, fluorine...that contain building materials, sand and gravel, placer deposits of various minerals, and areas that contain...produced ore (Keith and others, 1983), (2) have mine workings to suggest past production, (3) are described...unpub. data), or (5) have been investigated by mining companies who have documented the presence of mineralized...Area may not be the same as the conventional Mining District name from older literature for the same geographical
 
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