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Sphalerite from
Buckskin Mine, Buckskin Mining District (Smith Valley Mining District), Buckskin Range, Douglas County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Buckskin Mine, Buckskin Mining District (Smith Valley Mining District), Buckskin Range, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1242355
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1242355:0
GUID (UUID V4):e80df697-b9c5-4eb7-be36-0566f477fea6
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
13.7km (8.5 miles) Yerington Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
21.0km (13.0 miles) Como mine (Como Consolidated mine; Como-Eureka mine), Como Mining District, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
38.4km (23.9 miles) Dayton Mine, Silver City Mining District, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
39.1km (24.3 miles) Oest mine, Silver City Mining District, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
39.9km (24.8 miles) Lucerne mine-pit, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
40.6km (25.2 miles) Woodville mine, Gold Hill, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
41.0km (25.5 miles) Justice Mine, Silver City Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
41.7km (25.9 miles) Monte Cristo Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
41.8km (26.0 miles) Flowery Lode, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
42.1km (26.2 miles) Caledonia Mine, South End group, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC OF WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA by Jeff L. Doebrich 1 ,...Open-File Report 96-9 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary...School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 'Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MS...MS 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 'U.S. Geological Survey, Retired, 8920 West 2nd....................... THE LUCKY BOY AND PAMLICO MINING DISTRICTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY by Daniel R. Shawe
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21
Report (issue)
__ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...G SERIES No. 46 lineral Resources of Douglas, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties T heodore D . O verton M ining...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Resources of Douglas, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PreciousMetal Vein Systemsin the National District, Humboldt County, Nevada PETER G. VIKRE ASARCOInc., Great...Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract The National district, 20 miles (33 km) southeastof McDermitt, Nevada, produced...ate veins near the townsiteof National and on Buckskin Mountainoccurwithin a 3,000-ft-thick (910 m) sequenceof...of the Owyheevolcanicplateau. Wall rock in the district is progressivelyhydrolyzed and sulfidized to assemblages...preciousmetal veins near the deserted THE National district is in the northern part of the town of National
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CO 80401, USA; tmonecke@mines.edu FLUID INC., 1401 Wewatta St. #PH3, Denver, CO 80202, USA; fluidinc@comcast...samples from the Buckskin National low-sulfidation epithermal precious metal deposit in Nevada showed that...low-sulfidation epithermal deposits exhibit a wide range of textural characteristics [14–17]. Previous works...epithermal quartz veins from the Sleeper deposit in Nevada forms dendrites intergrown with fine-grained colloform...veins from the Buckskin National low-sulfidation epithermal gold–silver deposit in Nevada. Both silica
Report (volume)
QUICKSILVER DEPOSIT AT BUCKSKIN PEAK NATIONAL MINING DISTRICT HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA A PRELIMINARY REPORT...Cinnabar-bearing siliceous sinter deposits........ Buckskin Peak deposit....:........................ Mineralogy...Mineralogy.................................... Mine workings................................. East workings... Page Plate 21. Geologic map and sections of Buckskin Peak..................................... 22....Figure 20. Index map of Nevada showing location of National mining district and other cinnabar-bearing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geography, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA; E-Mail: saundja@auburn.edu; Tel.: +1-334-844-4884...sulfidation (LS) epithermal deposits in the western USA often show evidence of the former presence of nanoparticle-sized...the banded bonanza veins typical of many western USA epithermal deposits. Chalcopyrite is the most abundant...of these Tertiary banded bonanza ores in western USA (Figure 1) reveal some universal features in these...the bonanza low-sulfidation Sleeper deposit in Nevada supported the concept that gold (and silica) colloids
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization...of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines.edu D. Misantoni Colorado Calumet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization...of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines.edu D. Misantoni Colorado Calumet
Report (issue)
Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...Replacement Deposits Part II Gold in the Tintic Mining District, Utah By HALT. MORRIS Gold Deposits in the...Bird Mining Districts, San Juan Mountains, Colorado By FREDERICKS. FISHER Gold in the Alma Mining District...R. SHAWE Precious Metals in the Leadville Mining District, Colorado By TOMMY B. THOMPSON Part I is Chapter...bibliographies. Contents: pt. 1. Bald Mountain gold mining region, northern Black Hills, South Dakota / by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Location map for the Sweet Home mine, Park County, Colorado (modified from Holmes and Kennedy...1983). Microminerals of the SWEET HOME MINE Alma, Park County, Colorado M A R K and K A R E N V E N D...Box 1884 Ouray, Colorado 81427 T he Sweet Home mine has long been world famous for its superb, deep...beyond the fabulous rhodochrosites, the Sweet Home mine offers a very interesting suite of minerals for...micromineral collector. Location The Sweet Home mine is located in the upper part of Buck­ skin Gulch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sinter-Vein Correlations at Buckskin Mountain, National District, Humboldt County, Nevada PETER G. VIKRE† U.S...Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 Abstract At Buckskin Mountain (elev 2,650 m...m, 8,743 ft), Humboldt County, Nevada, a hydrothermal system, imposed on a middle Miocene volcanic sequence...resistance among altered and unaltered rocks, Buckskin Mountain represents inverse topography with sinter...reduced aqueous selenide species in the temperature range of 250º to <100ºC, enabled (but was not the cause
Report (issue)
Y A N D O R E DEPOSITS OF THE ALMA DISTRICT PARK COUNTY, COLORADO BY HORACE B. PATTON ARTHUR J...org/10.58783/cgs.b03.jfwd8640 DENVEB, C0L0EAD0 THE SMITH-BROOKS PBINTING CO., STATE PBTNTEBS 1912 Plate...Lincoln as seen from the Hoosier Pass road. The valley on the mountain is Lincoln Amphitheater, with a...Extent of the District 15 Description of the Maps 17 Degree of Accuracy 19 Description of Mining Claim M a...Pennsylvania Mountain Pennsylvania Tunnel Butte Mine and the Maumee Tunnel O n London Mountain Northwest
Book
Colo. Fairplay, Colo. R. J. Raymond, United States Mining and Mineral Commissioner: Prof. J. F. L. Schirmer... Prof. B. Silliman, New Haven, Conn.; J. Aldcn Smith, State Geologist, Boulder City, Col. An arrangement...the pitchblende. not been for several^years the mine is not worked at present and has distribution in...Peaks; crystallized at Bergen's ; Ranch, Jefferson County; on Boulder Peak. Agate,— See Quartz. — At Quartzville...Almandite. See Garnet. Boulder County. City Gold — Allophanite. —Franklin Mine, in Gilson Gulch Fowler Branch
Report (issue)
THE ALMA DISTRICT PARK COUNTY, COLORADO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Douglas McKay, Secretary...RADIOACTIVE MINERALS IN PARTS OF THE ALMA DISTRICT, PARK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. T. Pierson and Q. D. Singewald...RADIOACTIVE MINERALS IN PARTS OF THE ALMA DISTRICT, PARK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. T. Pierson and Q. D. Singewald...1. Generalized geologic map of the Alma district, Park County, Colo.................. Inside back cover... 2 2. Geologic sketch map of part of Orphan Boy mine............................................. .
Report (issue)
and Planet Peak Wilderness Study Areas,, La Paz County, Arizona U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 704-B...Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...and Planet Peak Wilderness Study Areas, La Paz County, Arizona By ROBERT G. EPPINGER, JOCELYN A. PETERSON...and Planet Peak wilderness study areas, La Paz County, Arizona / by Robert G. Eppinger ... [et al.]....Peak (AZ-050-013) Wilderness Study Areas, La Paz County, Arizona. CONTENTS Summary Bl Abstract Bl Character
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the Reno 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada and California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Mineral Resources of the Reno 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada and California By DAVID A. JOHN, JOHN H. STEWART...mineral resources of the Reno 1o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California I by David A. John ... [et al.]...resources-Nevada-Reno Region. 2. Mines and mineral resources-California. 3. Geology-Nevada-Reno Region...cultural features in the Reno 1o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California 3 2. Map showing areas of shallow
Report (issue)
in Progress for the Reno 1° x 2° CUSMAP Project, Nevada, with additional bibliography by Gary B. Sidder...GEOPHYSICS ADDITIONAL STUDIES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR MINING DISTRICTS Shady Run (Fondaway Canyon) Broken Hills...information to Sidder (1986) on deposit types and mining districts in the Reno quadrangle and additional...quadrangles. He is correlating tuff units in the Singatse Range with tuffs in different parts of his map area. This...Menlo Park) has mapped in the southern Stillwater Range primarily on the La Plata Canyon, Table Mountain
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
particularly IS epithermal orebodies in any particular district, irrespective of whether or not paleosurface features...low-Fe sphalerite Ag-Au-Zn-Pb-Mn ± Cu Low (1–5 vol.%) Pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, high-Fe sphalerite Au ±...alteration peripheral to the La Coipa HS-IS gold-silver district, Chile. f Hydrothermal breccia, generated by shallow-seated... Hycroft [Crowfoot-Lewis], and Florida Canyon, Nevada; Wood 1991; Ebert and Rye 1997; Fifarek et al....1993; Hedenquist et al. 2000). The silicified zones range from a few to several tens of meters in thickness
Journal (issue)
Leonard Beach, whose undying faith in the Sweet Home Mine made it all happen. M in e FRONTISPIECE: “The...24 cm, found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhodo, Inc. specimen; photo...17 cm, found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhode. Inc. specimen; photo...specimen collecting in our time: the Sweet Home mine operation. Many thousands of specimens have reached...rhodochrosite and other species from the Sweet Home mine. The experience of owning those specimens can now
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)
'r v.·,,.,. . ... Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...------------------------ 1 History of placer mining in Nevada_____________________________________... Holy Cross district..-----------------------------------------------2. Jessup district.. ____________...------------------------_-------_ 3. Sand Springs district----------------------------------------------...Eldorado Canyon district..-----------------------------------------5. Gold Butte district--------------
Report (volume)
Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1701-F...Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona By HARALD DREWES, ED DEWITT, RANDALL H...AREASWESTERN ARIZONA AND PART OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY frllMl«ill...Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona. (Mineral resources of wilderness study...areas western Arizona and part of San Bernardino County, California ; ch. F) (Studies related to wildernessBureau
Report (volume)
mineral potential of a part of the central Sierra Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...-___-_-____----__ Granitic rocks of the Sierra Nevada batholith___-____-_Volcanic rocks-------------...-__---Juniper mine.__________-_____________-____-_----_-___----Prospect on Silver Mine Creek...........prospects within the primitive area.________-------_--Mining claims.-__-_______--___..___..____.____---_-------v...claim. _______ Montezuma mine.__________ Bigelow group-_____________ Buckskin group.____-_-__.-. Eleven
 
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