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Calcite from
Murray mine, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murray mine, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1250550
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1250550:8
GUID (UUID V4):2f36ce97-cdc6-4d0d-8a86-61078f34e990
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Generator Hill Deposit, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Enfield Mine (Jerritt Canyon gold mine; Bell mine; Marlboro Canyon; Allchem; Generator Hill pits), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Jerritt Canyon Gold Mine (Enfield Bell Mine; Generator; Alchem; Marlboro Deposits), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Arana claims, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Saval/Steer Canyon gold deposit (Josie Saval; Williams; Lost; Lost and Found prospect), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) SSX Mine (South Saval Extension), Pattani Springs gold deposit, Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Burns Basin Antimony Mine (Andrae Mine; Byrne Mine; Lonesome Kid Mine; Williams Mine; Parker Mine; Chaffie Mine; Griffith Mine), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Black Beauty claims (B. B. claims), Independence Mountains Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
13.9km (8.6 miles) LAJ claims (Sleeper prospect), Merrimac Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
20.0km (12.4 miles) Argenta mine, Tuscarora Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Location map for the MeiMe mine and the Murray mine. Prepared by William B. Besse. Downloaded...golden barite from the Meikle mine and the stibnite from the Murray mine are among the best of their species...encounter crystallized mineral specimens while mining for ore usually treat the non-ore asset mineral... while mining underground for gold, have encountered voids with crystallized barite, calcite (Meikle...(Meikle mine), and stibnite (Murray mine). Although not considered an asset in the same way as gold, the specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlin-Type Gold Deposits in the Jerritt Canyon Mining District, Nevada STEPHEN G. PETERS,† U.S. Geological Survey...University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557-0138 Abstract The Jerritt Canyon mining district in the northern...northern Independence Range, northern Nevada, contains multiple, nearly horizontal, thrust masses of platform...through rocks of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. The Roberts Mountains allochthon was emplaced during...Silurian to Devonian Hanson Creek and Roberts Mountains Formations that lie within structural slices of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data—Implications... Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA ABSTRACT ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...imagery over a 389 km × 387 km area in northern Nevada (38.5°–42°N, 114°–118.5°W) was analyzed to evaluate...fluids cool, and generally smaller amounts of calcite or dolomite by other mechanisms. To identify and...Dolomite exhibited a stronger carbonate response than calcite, as predicted based on their thermal spectral characteristics
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
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
Journal (issue)
Terlingua-type fluorescent calcite. fluorescent orange calcite cleavages and well formed calcite crystals were found...mail : Wydar8®aol.com Ortoher 2000 eD_enver Mine rnl News Continued from page 1 net size. Francois...rate req uests to Mine ra l News, P .O . Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene , ID 83816 -2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448...supply of Japan law twin quartz from Pampa Bl anca Mine. Peru. These are singles and matri x specimens up...there were large clusters of amethyst from the Anahi Mine, Bolivia. These are not the ametrine crystal s but
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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil...Scovil photo. March/April: Gold, Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark...MayNune: Silver with calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel...July/August: Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen...photo. SeptemberlOctober: Calcite with hematite inclusions, Lei Ping mine, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have...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)
words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author was Don...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...located near Sulphur Canyon in the San Andres Mountains. The problem was that it was within the boundaries...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Newfoundland] at 12:22 30 January 2015 MURRAY MINE, ELK0 COUNTY, NEVADA A ntimony is an interesting metal...produced as a byproduct from many localities where mining of base metals has occurred. As a primary commodity...specimen from this source, the Murray gold mine in Elk0 County, Nevada, has been nominated as this issue’s...galena, lead sulfantimonides, marcasite, pyrite, calcite, ankerite, barite, opaline or calcedonic quartz...1951); Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Fritz Island, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922);
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...widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason of some
Report (issue)
Results of Oil-Shale Investigations in Northeastern Nevada By StevenW. Moore 1, Helen B . Madrid, and G. Thomas...REPORT 83-586 1983 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Department of Energy and the U.S. Bureau of Land...deposits in northeastern Nevada. ... Results of literature search .................... Elko Formation. ........................... Early oil-shale mining activities near Elko ......... Other lacustrine and related................ 4 4 4 4 8 9 9 10 10 10 10 11 11 Elko area ................................ Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
~ ) : • ,- '1-/Challis r--, - qa'wtooth Mountains r i ~ Elmore'~. -C- -J'-,/,_~, ~ l I ...specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality
Report (issue)
marcasite, arsenopyrite, cervantite, stibiconite, calcite, ankerite, barite, chalcedonic quartz. Distribution:...the USA, at the White Caps mine, Manhattan district, Nye Co., and the Murray mine, Independence Mountains...Mountains district, Elko Co., Nevada. From the San José and other mines, Oruro, Bolivia. In Germany, at...at Wolfsberg, Harz Mountains, and near Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia. At Kremnica (Kremnitz) and Banská...(Nagybánya) district, Romania. In France, at Massaic, Cantal; and at La Lucette, Mayenne. At the Kusa mine, near
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Early Miocene (?) formation Volcanics of the Mountains Cortez Early Tertiary{?) Undrfferentiated...GEOLOGIC MAP AND CROSS SECTIONS, VICINITY OF CARLIN, NEVADA Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld....1960 CENOZOIC GEOLOGY IN THE VICINITY OF CARLIN, NEVADA JEROME REGNIER ABSTRACT The Cenozoic section in...in the vicinity of Carlin, northeastern Nevada, comprises the following units, separated by erosional...Structural framework 1192 Volcanic rocks of the Cortez Mountains. . . 1192 Rand Ranch formation 1193 Safford Canyon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...faults have raised and occasionally tilted the mountains and lowered the basins. Over the years, these...fig. 1) that are derived from erosion of the mountains and that are tens of thousands of feet thick in...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the
Journal (issue)
Fig. 1 Lizardite and calcite, 11/2 inches across, Knippa Quarry, Uvalde County, Texas, photo by the author...nor post-mining. It came from two localities Posey Mine (San Juan Co., Utah, USA) and Planet Mine (La Paz...Paz Co., Arizona, USA). That from Posey Mine is composed of 5-10 mm veins, composed of fibers perpendicular...have many years of experience in mining and selling gems in Oxford County; Vandall King (the expert on Maine...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 J. N. CHRISTENSEN, Lawrence Berkeley...Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, Nevada 89803. 0361-0128/01/3326/235-14 $6.00 deposits...techniques. 114° 42° JC Carlin-type deposits in Nevada GT CT Elko C Reno AB BM 39° Great Basin Las...deposits in Nevada. Deposits and major prospects are shown by circles. Deposit or district locations mentioned...BM = Barneys Canyon (deposits in the Oquirrh Mountains including the Barneys Canyon, Bingham, Melco,
Journal (issue)
micro crystals of manganbabingtonite, quartz, calcite, datolite, and inesite (identity confirmed). We...spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books...Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Report (volume)
Georgia have been the major sources of barite since mining began there in 1872, 1902, and 1914 respectively...Deposits in Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico have been developed extensively...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL RESOURCES production, mining and treatment of ore, as well as some descriptions...states. State references describe deposits and mining and milling techniques practiced within a particular...amounts of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and calcite. Deposits not described in the literature as to
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 --
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
 
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