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Microcline from
Vanderbilt mine, Silver Peak Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vanderbilt mine, Silver Peak Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1248880
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1248880:3
GUID (UUID V4):865b6280-64f8-4b73-b63a-f83076f91704
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
5.2km (3.2 miles) Homestake mine, Silver Peak Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
7.0km (4.3 miles) Solberry Mine, Silver Peak Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
W ALC01'T, DIRECTOR OR.E .DEPOSITS OF THE SILVER PEAK QUAl)RANGLE, NEv1IL~ BY •I JOSIAH EDWARD...The Dividend group of prospects in the Windypah district. .. _.... _._................ 117 117 Genetic.... . . . . . . . . 118 Genetic relations of the silver mines of Mineral Ridge __ ..... . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Comparison of Silver Peak deposits with other ores......... . . . . . ...XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. Geologic map of the Silver Peak quadrangle __ . ___ .. __ • _________ . ___
Report (volume)
BLACK MOUNTAINS, AND.GRAND WASH CLIFFS MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZOiNA BY F. C. SCHRADER WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...__ .___ 44 Mining districts._____________ ______.____ ___ 45 Production of Mohave County._____________...Introduction _______________________________ 49 Chloride district-______________________________ 51 I vocation ______________...Tennessee mine _____________________._ 54' Schuylkill mine____________________________ 57 Elkhart mine _______:..._______: __________________ 57 Distaff mine ______________________________. 60 Mollie Gibson mine________________________
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...Spring dolomite _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ Kingston Peak formation ____________ Age and correlation _____________________...________ Mineralogy of the contact zone at the Dewey mine by Jewell J. Glass ________________ Description..._______ ___________ 85 Sultan Mine area ______ __ _____ ______ 85 86 D evil Peak area ____ ____ _____ _______
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
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 (issue)
Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
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)
Ore Deposits of the Upper Blue River Area Summit County Colorado • By QUENTIN D. SINGEWALD . GEOLOGICAL...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...----------Arctic mine ______________________________________________ _ Senator mine ________________..._________ _ Vanderbilt mine __________________________________________ _ El Dorado mine ______________________...__________________ _ Monte Cristo mine __________ ------ ________ ----- __________ _ Bemrose mine __________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...removed. The operations then changed to open-pit mining, expanding into new areas and reclaiming the limestone...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing
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
Journal (issue)
85740 602-297-6709 Articles The Iron Cap mine, Graham County, A rizona..................................Ouray County, Colorado ............... 89 by B. & J. Muntyan Anatase on quartz from Ouray County, Colorado... Finds made in Arizona (the Iron Cap mine) and in Ouray County, Colorado, are described in three articles...huge i show organized by Herb Duke at the Pima County Fairgrounds. Following the advertising section...meteorites, rare bo collector-quality gemtones, mining memorabilia, and who knows i else. Practical information
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
Book
ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
Book (volume)
...........................................283 Nevada ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Report (issue)
INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL SUMMARIES for NEVADA U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study...the U.S. Government iMenlo Park, CA 94025 1990 Nevada Briefing Book U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau...BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS IN NEVADA 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14....Rock Desert Blue Eagle Blue Lakes Bluebell Bonelli Peak Buffalo Hills Burbank Canyon Calico Mountains Carson...Canyon Delmar Mountains Desatoya Mountains Disaster Peak Dry Valley Rim East Fork High Rock Canyon El Dorado
Book (volume)
...........................................243 Nevada .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
...........................................243 Nevada .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Arbacoochee, a tiny town in southern Cleburne County of N / E Alabama, was famous over 100 years ago...specimens of native silver (silver-white in color) have been found in the Silver Mountain district, Alpine Co...octahedra in quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in...miles west of Shoshone, near Bliss, in Gooding County, Idaho. This is on Highway 30. Hope you can identify...Haute, Vigo Co., Ind. IOWA—Pinkish masses of microcline, some with tiny lustrous black flakes of biotite
Report (volume)
The Wallapai Mining District Cerbat Mountains Mohave County Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 978-E...978-E The Wallapai Mining District Cerbat Mountains Mohave County Arizona By MCCLELLAND G. DINGS CONTRIBUTIONS...igneous rocks_________--___._______________-___ Ithaca Peak granite__________________________________-_ Gab..._____ Champion mine.__--_--___________-____-_____ ___----______-___ Emerald Isle mine.______________...Descriptions of mines and prospects Continued Golconda mine-_______________________________________________
Journal (issue)
8 RED CLOUD MINE WULFENITE Rockhounds enjoy the products of this amazing Arizona mine. By Bob Jones...QUARTZ 40 ROCK & GEM KIDS 46 THE BRISTOL COPPER MINE 50 COOL SUMMER ROCKHOUNDING 54 NATIVE AMERICAN... Find jagged quartz crystals at the Wall Street mine. By Robert Beard Regular Columns Field Notes ....Parting Shot...................... 82 Part II: Peak production came at a steep price. By Bob Jones Find...Wulfenite from the Red Cloud (photo credit)mine (La Paz County), Arizona, is world famous. (3.9 cm high)
Report (issue)
East Mojave National Scenic Area, San Bernardino County, California by U.S. Geological Survey 1991 Open-File...Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in Arizona and Nevada................104 Volcanogenic massive sulfide...occurrences associated with ultramafic rocks in Nevada and Arizona.................................................................................109 Silver-copper brecciateddolostone ......................Polymetallic vein, polymetallic fault, and gold-silver, quartz-pyrite vein ........ 1 3 0 Known occurrences
Book
Pale-blue turquois; Gove Turquois mine, near Cottonwood, San Bernardino County, Cal. Fie. . Turquois matrix;...Turquois mine, m Nye County, near Millers, Nev. Fia. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev...Azure mine, Burro Mountains, N. Mex. Fic. . Cobweb turquois matrix; Southwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral...Myers and Bona Turquois mine, 13 miles north of west of Millers, Esmeralda County, Nev. -7. Split veinlet...student at Yale University; Los Angeles Gem Co. mine, Mineral Park, Ariz. Fia. Fi. Fic. Fic. Fic. ia
Book
boundaries of the mineral industry are clear: the mining and milling of feldspar, for example, belong to...does not. But how does one draw the line between mining and manufacturing where brine from a salt well...districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies, and give production...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...government may even decide to go directly into mining, as Saskatchewan has done with potassium minerals
Report (issue)
MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits of Western Grant County, New Mexico by Elliot...Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Tyrone district . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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