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Sphalerite from
Mobile Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark 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 Mobile Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1246870
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1246870:2
GUID (UUID V4):d4034460-a973-4614-bc18-366dbf8c50eb
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
4.9km (3.1 miles) Root Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Yellow Pine Mine (Yellow Pine Lead Zinc Mine; Hilo; Radio; Como; Hermes), Goodsprings, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) Argentena Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) Green Monster Mine, Shenandoah Peak (Shenandoah Mountain), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Milford Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
15.5km (9.6 miles) Potosi Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
21.5km (13.4 miles) Kalley Mine (Dewitt's Mine; Umberci Mine; Carbonate King Mine), Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
33.1km (20.6 miles) Green Gold Mine (Green Mine; Bank Roll; Kieper Lead-Silver; Valentine; Glory Hole claim; Eerie claim; Eagle's Nest claim; Yellow Crocus claim; Diamond Back claim; Little Gremlin claim), Clark Mountain, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
33.7km (20.9 miles) Wheelbarrow Mine (Lime Canyon Mine; Keiper Mine; No Name Mine; Fraction; East Side), Clark Mountain, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
38.8km (24.1 miles) Mohawk Mine, Mohawk Hill, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
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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)
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 (issue)
oxidized zinc and zinc-lead ores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California______________ 3. Types of supergene...carbonate rocks and are rare east of the Rocky Mountains. Saprolitic accumulations of smithsonite and hemimorphite...recently production has been increasing in Utah and Nevada. The term "oxidized zinc deposits" is used in this...Alaska.. a Includes 550 tons from Davis, Murray County, Okla. 'Production to 1934 only. PART 1. GENERAL...of the oxidized zinc deposits in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. (See also Heyl and Bozion, 1960
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...Survey in accordance with the provisions of the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-631...discovered or not presently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered, depends...groups of vanadate deposits, those in the Otavi district, Namibia (formerly South-West Africa), and those...Wulfenite was an ore mineral at the St. Anthony mine, Arizona (Creasey, 1950), and in some deposits in
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Goodspringsdistrict, Nevada ..................................... Upper MississippiValley district ..................................... Southern Appalachian district ..................................... Theoretical...and hemimorphite in the Southern Appalachian district, and the predominanceof smithsoniteover hydrozincite...and hemimorphite in the Upper Mississippi Valley district can be explained by the pH of the ground waters...Goodspringsmining district of Nevada, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc and lead district, and the Southern
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...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (issue)
OURAY, COLORADO 6 Howard Neal GOODIES AT GOODSPRINGS 8 Mary Frances Strong TARANTULA! 12 Timothy...three states. Bisbee and the fabled Copper Queen mine were responsible for its primary construction. Volume...Myrick's Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol. 7, and Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California...to form the Sunset Route. This gave impetus to mining and agriculture and in turn intensified the construction..." In the Ute language the word meant "hot water spring." Long before any white man set his eyes upon the
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)
predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...Sierra Ancha region, Arizona ; and the Marysvale district, Utah. All the Western States, including Arizona...Arizona, California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and FRANK W. OsTERWALD Oregon, Utah...comments on the history of uranium geology and mining. The other chapters deal principally with pertinent
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological 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 that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS... deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon (Hotz...likely to be present include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite (Berger, 1986). These minerals...volcanics or volcaniclastic rocks. Continental margin mobile belts appear to be a favorable tectonic environment...veins in the Sierra Nevada and was locally worked with the vein deposits (Clark, 1969); infrequently
Report (issue)
alunite type 5.6 Hot spring gold 5.7 Disseminated Hg 5.8 Silica carbonate Hg 5.9 Hot spring Hg 5.10 Emerald...Norte Cty, CA Santa Helena, Antioquia, Colombia Goto Mine, Luzan, P.I. References Wells, F. G. et al 1946...Peripheral vein/replacement deposits with chalcopyrite+sphalerite+galena+gold. Outermost zone may have veins of...AuAg veins with CuSb sulfides Replacement galena sphalerite Quartz monzonite to granodiorite porphyry Skarn...Mainly rift zones in cratons. continental margin mobile belts. Associated Deposit Types Metal Concentrations
Report (issue)
mineralized areas prior to mining, and conditions that result from mining and mineral processing. Other...as climate, and anthropogenic factors (including mining and mineral processing methods) mostly modify the...exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...from mining, mineral processing, and smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site...readily soluble secondary salts associated with mine waste. The "environmental effects" of mineral deposits
Journal (issue)
SOME WITH OTHER CRYSTALS IN ASSOCIATION SUCH AS SPHALERITE CRYSTALS, GALENA CRYSTALS, ETC., ALL IN PRE-PACKED...ASSOCIATION WITH THE FLUORITE CRYSTALS SUCH AS SPHALERITE CRYSTALS, GALENA CRYSTALS, BARITE CRYSTALS, CALCITE...visit a new working gold mine in South Carolina and so he rushed down before the mine superintendent would...subscriber, Mrs. Maggie Clark of Columbia, S.C., had arranged the visit to the mine and the Editor is deeply...grateful for her kind interest and cooperation. Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Louis Dezserand were the welcoming committee
Report (issue)
to visit a number of widely separated mining districts in Nevada and northeastern California. The work...days of September were spent in the Yellow Pine district, Nevada's new and largest zinc camp. This report...and people of the district did much to expedite the work. The mining men of the district extended many courtesies...ACCESSIBILITY. The Yellow Pine mining district, sometimes called ,the Good Springs district, is in the southwestern...part of Clark County, Nev., near the California line. It covers the southern part of the Spring Mountain
Report (issue)
Photographs showing samples of bauxite ore and sphalerite ore, which are the primary mineralogical sources............................................H14 Sphalerite............................................................................................H22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................H25 Mine Closure...........................................hydrothermally altered rocks of the McDermitt caldera, Nevada...............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 Mine Balmat, St. Lawrence County, New York I n 1991, the Zinc Corporation...Corporation of America’s (ZCA) mining operation to recover sphalerite from the stratabound Fowler orebody...orebody near Balmat in St. Lawrence County, New York, encountered an altered area of unusual mineralogy....lining halite-filled veins, along with anhydrite, sphalerite, and calcite, or frozen in a matrix of halite...examples of the species yet found. Location Access to mining operations in the Fowler orebody was gained by
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...................................
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...Survey in accordance with the provisions of the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-631...discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered................................................. Nevada-western Utah-southeastern Oregon-southeastern California-western...individual districts and deposits............... Nevada ..............................................
Report (volume)
vols. 15, 16. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: General volume, 1931;... 102; Technical Publications 386-492. See also Mining and Metallurgy. New York. American Journal of Science...Resources, Division of Mines and Mining: Bulletin, nos. 98, 105-107; Mining in California, vols. 27, 28....Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; Transactions,vols. 33,34; Canadian Mining and Metallurgical...Bulletin, nos. 225-248. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 52, 53. Gardenvale, Quebec. Carnegie
Report (issue)
.......................................... I11 Mining and Beneficiation Methods................................................................... I15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ I19 Mine Closure...........................................Red Dog mining district in Alaska and the stratigraphy of selected deposits in the district............Abbreviations and Symbols °C degree Celsius AMD acid mine drainage CIGS copper-indium-gallium-diselenide
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Au................................. Hot spring Hg and hot spring Au-Ag........................... Skarn...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.......................
Book (volume)
ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...1 MAR 06 200 MAR 2 ¥ 2001 | NEVADA STATE LIBRARY CARSON CITY, NEVADA Digitized by the Internet Archive...(1933) AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME AIME TRANSACTIONS MINE PLANT VOLUME 112, MILLING METHODS (1933) (1934)...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND
 
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