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Smithsonite from
Sultan Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sultan Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1246737
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1246737:8
GUID (UUID V4):02afe3ae-630e-44be-a501-fecf16c11a0c
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
3.8km (2.3 miles) Tiffin Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Monte Cristo Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Milford Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Root Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Tam O'Shanter Mine (Big and Little Devil), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Addison Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Ingomar Mine (Milford No. 2 mine), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) New Year Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) Hoosier Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Houghton Mine (Victory Mine), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Group Element Deposits in the Goodsprings District, Clark County, Nevada PETER VIKRE,1,† QUENTIN J. BROWNE...Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Kodiak Exploration Limited,...California 94305-2115 Abstract The Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada, includes zinc-dominant carbonate...with Late Triassic porphyritic intrusions. The district encompasses ~500 km2 although the distribution...are exposed largely in the central part of the district: feldspar quartz porphyry, plagioclase quartz
Report (issue)
Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 275 Geology...Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada By D. F. HEWETT GEOLOGICAL The geology SURVEY...Lucy Grey Range_______________________ Castle Mountains _______________________ Vontrigger Springs and..._____ Providence Mountains_ __________________ Clark Mountain and Ivanpah Mountain___ Southwest quarter...Crystal Springs formation _____ _ _ _ _ __ _ Beck Spring dolomite _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ Kingston Peak
Report (volume)
of Lead and Zinc Deposits in Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) District, Nevada By CLAUDE C. ALBRITTON, ]R.,...-------------------------Geology of the Goodsprings district, by Claude C. Albritton, Jr_________ In...column__________________ Position of ore bodies within mine areas______________________ Yellow Pine and Prairie...Summary_________________________________________________ Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David...31 31 32 34 39 41 41 41 44 IV CONTENTS Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David
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)
Goodspringsdistrict, Nevada ..................................... Upper MississippiValley district ..................................... Southern Appalachian district ..................................... Theoretical.......................... Solubility curve of smithsonite ................................. Solubility........................ 1095 Relation between smithsonite and hydrozincite in an arid environment ................................................ Smithsonite, hydrozincite and zinc hydroxide in a humid environment
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 (volume)
Geologist C. A. Logan, District Mining Engineer O. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Sacramento San Francisco Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer Los Angeles Los...Los Angeles District Engineer Chas. V. Averell, District Mining Engineer Frank Sanborn, Mineral John...Francisco San Francisco and Curator O'Brien, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco » v- f»|...Reports of District Mining Engineers 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please... SULPHIDE LENSES IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS (Mackinaw Mine) Pentlandite, chalcopyritc, pyrite, raaucherite
Book (volume)
Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
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...Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional knobs and ridges and just above areas...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
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...Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional knobs and ridges and just above areas...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
Report (volume)
Resources of the Providence Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Resources of the Providence Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California By RICHARD...resources of the Providence Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California. U.S. Geological...resources California Providence Mountains Wilderness. 2. Providence Mountains wilderness (Calif.) I. Goldfarb...of a mineral survey of part of the Providence Mountains Wilderness Study Area (CDCA-263), California Desert
Book (edition)
associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...the rock formations of the east and west coast mountains, and the diamonds of the ciers that crunched...recent perhaps because of the decline in placer mining for gold in made dis- faces helps to distinguish
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Fourteen, Number Three Articles Across the San Juan Mountains ..................................................157 by C. Albertini Sellaite from the Brumado mine ..................................................formed as a vehicle for mineral collectors in Nevada (Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln and Nye Counties), Utah...Iron and Washington Counties) and Arizona (Mojave County). This region is one of the last American frontiers
Journal (issue)
S. President William Howard Taft in Riverside County during the heighth of the drama, and was accurately...starring Robert Redford, Katherine Ross, Susan Clark and Robert Blake. Originally published by Horace...off-roader. It lists more than 50 old towns or mining districts, arranged alphabetically and grouped...grouped by geographical location. try us in the spring, fall and winter... Not only for moderate temperatures...co-author, Stanley Paher, is a specialist in Nevada history and mining lore in general. The combination has provided
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Journal (issue)
crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott Rudolph collection............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ................................................................. 28 Mining Methods .........................................geology, mining techniques, mineralogy, and specimen-collecting aspects of the Colombian emerald-mining region...km to the north in the Cordillera Frio Paramo mountains. .. ed. ... a.s r.J .S,~!'1//uel lfta ~
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Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...been discovered on the flanks of the Caucasus Mountains in the land of Colchis (now Soviet Georgia). The
Journal (issue)
........................... A visit to an amber mine in East Prussia. By Miss Gertrude Schmidt ........In due time. Ten mineral collectors hiked to a mine One fell down a shaft then there were nine. Extensive... Was.hlngton and Wind River met at the Fremont County Vocational High School In Lander. The meeting was...lead mines on the Alston Moor and the newly opened mine at Nenthead and Nentbury. I was able to persuade...which runs from there up into the Alston Moor district; the whole journey took about an hour. There the
Report (issue)
The Metai .Mines of Washington 193 SHERIDAN DISTRICT GENERAL FEATURES Ten miles by air line northwest...Cascade) District. Most of the holdings are in T. 38 N., R. 31 E., just across the Ferry County line into...into Okanogan County. The first location was made during 1897 and a year later the Zalia M property made...from th.e Phil Sheridan and Toroda mines, the district was dormant tmtil 1917. The total production has...vigilance is a necessary aid to intelligent mining. In the Zalla J\I :Mine tl1ere is a quartz vein varying in
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonate-hosted sulphide deposits in the Salmo district of southern British Columbia have nearsurface...replacement (‘white ore’), are present in the Salmo district. The direct replacement deposits formed by the...School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401, USA wallrock replacement deposits. The direct replacement...replacement nonsulphide zones of the Salmo district overlay the sulphide bodies in which they replaced the...flotation and breakthroughs in smelting technology, mining and processing sulphide ore became more common
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...the “famous locality” series: the Home Sweet Home mine and Mount Antero. A fine mineralogical study of...a historical review centering on the San Juan Mountains, a narrative regarding recent collecting at the...you belong to, and where you come from. American mining schools and professional organizations have long... centering on some of the nostalgic aspects of mining in Arizona and beautifully illustrated with paintings
Book
enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground...oFtne ato aa Gem Ghd nQkTeane Uva a nes ly ia" mine Ui nrobs inesob cere ts ou ioe tok us 'aaieomolitt...exception of the rhodochrosites of the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, which were loaned for photography...Organ Mountains Jarilla Mountains Santa Rita Area and the Central Mining District, Grant County Burro...Mountains Apache No, 2 District Lake Valley Caballo Mountains Chloride District Hansonburg District Socorro
 
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