 | | Journal (issue) | | Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...(phroth@sunrise.ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting...minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from Majuba Hill. FOV 3.8 mm...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907...1907 by A.J. McCauley of Imlay, Nevada. No work of importance was undertaken until 1914, when the property |  | | 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...well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk |  | Ferretti, Paolo, Campostrini, Italo, Demartin, Francesco, Rocchetti, Ivano (2017) Nota preliminare sui minerali della Miniera del Taubenleck (Gola del Bletterbach, Aldino, BZ) [Preliminary note about the minerals of the Taubenleck Mine (Bletterbach Gorge, BZ, Italy)]. Geo.Alp, 14. Bolzano/Bozen. 25-33 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Preliminary note about the minerals of the Taubenleck Mine (Bletterbach Gorge, BZ, Italy) • Paolo Ferretti1...secondario di uranio finora identificato è la zeunerite/meta-zeunerite. Il ritrovamento di maggiore importanza...describes the minerals found at the Taubenleck Mine, a mining site dated between XV and XVI century and located...of the Bletterbach Gorge (Aldino, BZ). The old mining site is located at the coal levels rich in Cu and...uranium mineral so far identified is zeunerite/ meta-zeunerite. The most important finding is represented |  | | Journal (issue) | | Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg- |  | | Report (issue) | | Zeunerite Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·12H2O Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group: 4/m 2/m 2/m. Crystals, to 4... although most meta-zeunerite is a dehydration product of pre-existing zeunerite. In Germany, from the...the Walpurgis vein, Weisser Hirsch mine, Neustädtel-Schneeberg, Saxony; at Sailauf, northeast of Aschaffenburg...Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; in the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach, from Menzenschwand, and elsewhere...Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannel; at Wheal Edward, St. Just. In France, from the Cap Garonne mine, near |  | | Report (issue) | | 5.598 X-ray Powder Pattern: Patagonia district, Arizona, USA. 3.498 (10), 7.21 (7), 2.507 (5), 1.803...92 Total [100.0] 100.00 (1) Patagonia district, Arizona, USA; by microchemical methods, Cu by AA, H2...(Patagonia district, Arizona, USA); in the oxidized zone of a copper deposit (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Association:...(Patagonia district, Arizona, USA); pharmacosiderite, arthurite, scorodite, chenevixite, zeunerite (Majuba...(Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from a prospect about 2.7 km southeast of the Flux mine |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...km2), but with a rich and world- famous history of mining and associated mineralogy. In the city of Brno...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Author’s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone |  | | Report (issue) | | 10 c = 17.42 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Anton mine, Germany. 8.86 (10), 3.73 (10), 5.57 (8), 3.30 (8)...at the Weisser Hirsch mine, Neustädtel-Schneeberg, Saxony; in the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach...Edward and the Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var...the USA, in the Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah; from the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope...Antelope district, Pershing Co., Nevada; large crystals at the Grandview mine, Grand Canyon, Coconino |  | | Report (issue) | | deposits. Association: Metatorbernite, autunite, zeunerite, uraninite. Distribution: Many localities, but...Portugal. Large crystals especially at the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, and as rich specimens from Shinkolobwe...Valley, Northern Territories, Australia. In the USA, at Chalk Mountain, near Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co...large crystals from the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district, Pershing Co., Nevada. Name: To honor Torbern...autunite and meta-autunite groups: torbernite, zeunerite, metatorbernite and metazeunerite. Can. Mineral |  | | 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) | | Radioactive Deposits of Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLET l]N ^1 0 0 9 - C A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF URANIUM RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA By T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Thirty-five occurrences...occurrences of radioactive rocks had been reported from Nevada prior to 1952. Twenty-five of these had been investigated...Monster mine, which shipped 5 tons of ore to Marysvale, Utah, during 1951; the Majuba Hill mine; the Stalin's...prospect; and the West Willys claim in the Washington district. No estimate has been made of thorium reserves | | | 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 (issue) | | Allingbam Court .Haverstock Hill London l\1W3 2AH 12A Allingham Court Haverstock Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS...localities when I lived in South Africa was an old tin mine by the name of Stavoren in what used to be called...similarities also springs to mind, and that is Majuba Hill, in Nevada. So as I went through the specimens in...recovered from the Mutue Fides mine, but at the adjacent Stavoren mine, it seems that tin recovery was...are of interest to collectors. Gorland is an old mine with a chequered history because, like Stavoren |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 2: Meta-torbernite, Chalk Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina. RICHARD D. GREEN 1745 13th Street...and, probably the most famous locality, Katanga district (Shaba Province), Zaire. Most of the uraninite-bearing...processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure 6 (right):...(right): Uraninite, Deep Creek, Bayson City, Swain County, North Carolina. Photo by Lou Perloff. 248 ROCKS...weathering of the crystal surface. The Daybreak mine in Washington has produced the finest United States |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent |  | Mills, Stuart J., Kampf, Anthony R., McDonald, Andrew M., Bindi, Luca, Christy, Andrew G., Kolitsch, Uwe, Favreau, Georges (2013) The crystal structure of parnauite: a copper arsenate?sulphate with translational disorder of structural rods. European Journal of Mineralogy, 25 (4) 693-704 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2329 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA 3 Department of Earth...for parnauite from the type locality, Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA (MH; type specimen), and also from Cap...Cap Garonne, Var, France (CG), and the Clara Mine, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, are presented. The average...disorder, chemical analysis, Raman spectroscopy, Majuba Hill, Cap Garonne. (SO4)0.94 (PO4)0.43 (CO3)0.19...(SO4) (OH)107H2O, from the Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, USA (Sec 8, T32N R32E). Parnauite |  | Peters, S.G., Nash, J.T., John, D.A., Spanski, G.T., King, H.D., Connors, K.A., Moring, B.C., Doebrich, J.L., McGuire, D.J., Albino, G.V., Dunn, V.C., Theodore, T.G., Ludington, S.D. (1996) Metallic mineral resources in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1996 (96-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr96712 | Report (issue) | | Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been...Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource...of mineral deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and |  | | Report (volume) | | most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...Buckhorn claims, Nevada; the Midnite and Daybreak mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White...White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor Mountains 327 328 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF URANIUM...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as |  | | Report (issue) | | the auspices, first of the Manhattan Engineer District, and later, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...Juab County, Utah ......................... 15 Geologic map and section of the Burlington mine, Jamestown...Geologic maps of the Fluorine Queen property, Juab County, Utah............................ .17 Chart showing...upper cut, East Slope no. 2 uranium prospect, Piute County, Utah...... 23 Map showing location of secondary........... 27 Section of cliff face, Oyler mine, Wayne County, Utah................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | different from common rock at the old Warwick Iron Mine area above Elverson on Route 23, in Pennsylvania...other interesting minerals from the old Perkiomen Mine near Audubon, Pa., are varied in habit. Microscopists...crystals on rock from the famous Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada. " This arsenic-pentoxide, cupric...Friedensville, Pa., zinc mine area, we decided to concentrate on the Correll mine dumps, near the large...the Wheatley Mine. About a half mile east or a little more north east of the Wheatley Mine, is an unused |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...Mineralogical Club field trip to Penitentiary quarry, Snake Hill, New Jersey, on September 4, 1893 (photo courtesy...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology |  | | Journal (issue) | | Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ................................ U p d a t e o n t h e M in e r a l o g y OF THE MAJUBA HlLL M lN E, P e r s h in g C o u n t y Martin...of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several companies have held the Majuba Hill property |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (VII): ZEUNERITE* Junrrn Worss FnoNrnr Assrnlcr X-ray study by the Weissenberg method on zeunerite from...Schneeberg material is 3.64. Study of synthetic zeunerite indicated the existence of two and possibly three...as lower hydrates, meta I and meta II. Natural zeunerite corresponds in water content and o-ray structure...structure to meta-autunite I and to synthetic zeunerite with 8H:O. Variation in water content afiects both...fluorescent properties of the material, Zeunerite, from the Weisser Hirsch mine near Schneeberg,Saxony, was named |  | | Catalog/List | | limonitic gossan. 2x2". £3. 2. ANDREWSITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Light brownish yellow spherical...in association. 2x1". £2. 3. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Fine small sharp semi-transparent...7. BEUDANTITE. ^. — 11 8. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. 1" group of large sharp tarnished...cubic crystals. £3- 9. BORNITE. South Caradon Mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall. A rich solid mass of tarnished...specimen. 2i-xli". £2.50. 13. CASSITERITE. Poldice Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Sharp black in size on. massive |
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Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA