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Granite from
Excelsior Mine, White Elephant Wash, Gold Basin Mining District, White Hills, Mohave County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Excelsior Mine, White Elephant Wash, Gold Basin Mining District, White Hills, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1360752
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1360752:0
GUID (UUID V4):9e7ca8f3-dc48-4265-8813-b989b28dc3fd
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
1.3km (0.8 miles) El Dorado Mine (Eldorado Mine), Gold Basin Mining District, White Hills, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Never-Get-Left Mine (Never-Get-Left prospect), Gold Basin Mining District, White Hills, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Unnamed Pb prospects [6] (USGS PP 1361 locality 891), Gold Basin Mining District, White Hills, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
14.6km (9.1 miles) Garnet Mountain Mine (G.T. Duncan Mine), Garnet Mountain, Lost Basin Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) Music Mountain Mine group (Lucknow Mine), Music Mountain Mining District, Grand Wash Cliffs, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Joker Mine, Gold Butte Mining District, Clark County, Nevada, USA
33.4km (20.8 miles) Liberty Mine (Silver Hill Mine), Black Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
33.9km (21.1 miles) Eureka mine, Gold Butte Mining District, Clark County, Nevada, USA
34.0km (21.1 miles) Jumbo prospect, Gold Butte Mining District, Clark County, Nevada, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Union mine, Gold Butte Mining District, Clark County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (volume)
CERBAT RANGE, BLACK MOUNTAINS, AND.GRAND WASH CLIFFS MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZOiNA BY F. C. SCHRADER WASHINGTON... Colorado Plateau_______________________ Great Basin province__________...______________ 17 17 Drainage...__ Mountains ____________________________ Grand Wash Cliffs_________________________ Cerbat Range.__..._______ Cerbat Mountains______________________ White Hills__________________________ Hualpai Mountai...________ Pyramid Canyon_______________________ Mohave Valley__________________________ Geology _.________________
Book
AGRICULTURE; AND PROFESSOR OF MINERAL– oGY, GEology, AND MINING, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE OF the COLLEGE OF...Report for 1855. — Observations on the extent of the gold region of California and Oregon, with notices of...and of some remarkable specimens of crystalline gold. American Journal Science, vol. 20, page 72; 1855...of the Mechanics' Fair Exhibition, California. Mining and Scientific Press, Octo ber, 1864; vol. 10,...en Californie. 8vo. pamphlet. Geneva, 1855. MINING MAGAZINE. and 2. 12 vols. 8vo. New York. Second
Book (edition)
Murdock of Raleigh, N. C, Gilbert C Morgan of Smyrna, Wash., J. Harry Howard and James W. Durst of Greenville...beautifully hasn't thrilled to the sight of mounted in gold or or silver, some lovely gem, against lying...every blood red glow, every touch of green, blue, gold or royal purple. Gem stones have been the treasures...certain rock formations, some is a saying that gold is where you nature has not scattered her treasures...Brazil their pegmatite gems. same material as granite, but so fine constituent minerals are not visible
Report (issue)
-----------------------------------------Clark County-----------------------------------------------...---------------------------------------Lincoln County-----------------------------------------------...----------------------------------Southern Nye County-----------------------------------------------...----------------------------------Northern Nye County-----------------------------------------------...-------------------------------------Esmeralda County-----------------------------------------------
Report (issue)
Preliminary report of molybdenum occurrences in Arizona by Jan C. Wilt 1/, Stanley B. Keith 2/, Jocelyn...to the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology a division of The University of Arizona This...'1030571 04 M030562 04 M030563 04 '1030584 04 CouNTY DEPosir 'ostHP +litire LAtiroOE ♦ Looroae 28N... wA A 7 PROSPECT 15N 02E 27 MU AMOLE DISTRICT BANNER DISTRICT BLUE HELL GROUP 19N 215W 101 35-03-A wA...CUA AG BORIANA MINE 18N 115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE
Report (issue)
Geology and Gold Mineralization of the Gold Basin-Lost Basin Mining Districts, Mohave County, Arizona U.S. ... GEOLOGY AND GOLD MINERALIZATION OF THE GOLD BASIN-LOST BASIN MINING DISTRICTS, MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA Placer... Placer gold nugget about 1 cm wide showing gold molded partly against rounded fragment of clear vein quartz...Lost Basin mining district. Geology and Gold Mineralization of the Gold Basin-Lost Basin Mining Districts...Districts, Mohave County, Arizona By TED G. THEODORE, WILL N. BLAIR, and J. THOMAS NASH With a section
Report (volume)
Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.3:1831 1. Granite-Nevada. 2. Intrusions (Geology) -Nevada. I. Maldonado...Clark County 9 Geology 9 Plutons 9 Lincoln County 1S Geology 1S Plutons 1S Southern Nye County 17 Geology...Northern Nye County 20 Geology 20 Plutons 22 Esmeralda County 25 Geology 25 Plutons 27 Mineral County 31 Geology...31 Lyon County 35 Geology 35 Plutons 35 Churchill County 38 Geology 38 Plutons 40 Lander County 42 Geology...Eureka County 46 Geology 46 Plutons 48 White Pine County 50 Geology 50 Plutons 50 Elko County 55 Geology
Report (volume)
......-.......--..-.......-............------. White Pine shale .................................................................................. 61 White Pine Range.....----.-.-......'...-...........----...----......----.--.-..-.--..--..-. Rhyolite and granite.......................................... Basaltic...-.........-..--.-..--....--..--..--..--.--.--.Granite .......-........------.--.--....-.----..-.-...--...------.......-.-..-.---.--..--...-.-.---.--...... Excelsior Range ----..-.-.-._-..----'-..--.--...----..-
Journal (issue)
RECREATION ART REPTILES for April MAR. 26-27—Annual district music festival at Santa Fe, New Mexico. APRIL...Northern Arizona by proclamation of Gov. Stanford. Includes counties of Apache, Coconino, Mohave, Navajo...points in Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Van Degrift, leaders. APRIL 12-13—Annual reunion of Arizona pioneers...Occasionally, as if to show its versatility, a white blossom appears. During the spring of 1937 I found...McCullough Brothers, Phoenix Superstition Mountain, Arizona Treasure, literal and figurative, has enriched
Report (issue)
OF AMERICA ARIZONA 1986 THE NATIONAL GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ARIZONA 1986 FRONTISPIECE...reflects the Spanish and native American heritages of Arizona. The name honors the Jesuit missionary Saint Francis...of America. Arizona 1986. (U.S. Geological Survey professional paper ; 1200-AZ) 1. Arizona Gazetteers...Alphabetical list of Geological Survey maps of Arizona.......................................................................................... xiii Arizona ..............................................
Report (issue)
----------------- 15 The Geography of Dona Ana County--------------------------------------------- 18...-------------------- 28 Rocks enclosed by the granite ------------------------------------- 28 Gneiss...----------------------------------------- 30 The granite batholith -------------------------------------------------------...------------------- 30 Coarse-grained granite --------------------------------------- 30 Field relations...--------------------------------- 31 Medium-grained granite -------------------------------------- 32 Field
Report (issue)
ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING by Eldred D. Wilson, J. B. Cunningham, and G. M. Butler Bulletin...Bulletin 137 Revised 1967 Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Geological Survey Branch A...Division of the University of Arizona Tucson ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING by Eldred D. Wilson, J...J. B. Cunningham, and G. M. Butler State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Geological...Geological Survey Branch 845 N. Park Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719 Bulletin 137 Revised 1967 Reprinted 1983
Book (edition)
Of Arizona Pres; _£_2T7riMA -DTA/Vrt »t**-t,„ R 917.91 University Of A.izona Press ARIZONA PLACE...PLACE NAMES ARIZONA PLACE NAMES WILL C. BARNES' ARIZONA PLACE NAMES Revised and enlarged by ...Illustrated by ANNE MERRIMAN PECK THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON 1960 L. C. Catalog Card Number...The Board of Regents of and State College of Arizona. book may be reproduced in any form without permission...the new book would be a revision of the original Arizona Place Names produced in 1935 by one of the state's
Report (volume)
........................................ 10 Arizona......................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................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)
MARINA INC., Bullfrog Basin, Lake Powell, Utah, Phone Moab, Utah Routu, Bullfrog Basin 2233; or Salt Lake...Ward. Segregated into categories of red, blue, white and yellow for easier identification, there are...flowers found in the Mojave, Colorado and Western Arizona deserts, all of which also have common and scientific...An intimate chronicle of Arizona's oncebooming mining towns, stage stations, army posts, marauding Indians...Jaeger. Revised 4th edition is standard guide to Mohave and Colorado deserts with new chapters on desert
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...in area of folio. stone, mica, corundum, iron, gold. shale, sandstone. Grant, U. S.; Bur- Zinc, lead...Pisgah........ ...... N.C.-S.C..... 148 Joplin district...... Mo.-Kans .... 476 149 Penobscot Bay ........... Mica, corundum, soapstone, talc,kaolin,gold,graphite, copper, building stone, lime, clay. Smith...clay, underground water. Smith, G. 0.; Bastin, Granite, limestone, building E.S.; Brown, C. W. stone,
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...lime, sand and gravel, peat, underground water. granite, clay, sand, peat, gravel. Schrader, F. C.... Oil...oil resources of the Santa Maria oil district, Santa Barbara County, Cal., by Ralph Arnold and Robert Anderson...Jordan,.jr. 338. The iron ores of the Iron Springs district, southern Utah, by C. K. Leith and E. C. Harder...Phalen. 350. Geology of the Rangely oil district, Rio Blanco County, Colo., with a section on the water supply
Report (issue)
CALIFORNIA KERN COUNTY MOJAVE DISTRICT THE GOLDEN QUEEN AND OTHER MINES OF THE MOJAVE DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA...CALIFORNIA Kern County Mo.lave District THE GOLDEN QUEEN AND OTHER MINES OF THE MOJAVE DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA................ . General description of Mojave district ............................................................................. . Development of mining on Tropico Hill..................................the district.............................................................................. Granite {quartz
Report (volume)
GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN...GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN...deposits 2 22 Early Tertiary ( ?) deposits 2 23 Gold-silver deposits 2 23 Deposits of the early Tertiary...of the ore deposits 2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility...filling 3 42 CONTENTS. Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued
Report (volume)
DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA RITA AND PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS ARIZONA BY FRANK C. SCHRADER WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JAMES...17 Climate and vegetation. 18 _._ History of mining and present conditions___________________ 20 ...62 Younger quartz monzonite____________ ___ 64 Granite porphyry_________________________ 64 Aplite and..._______________ . Placers __ _ Mineralogy ____________ Mining districts, camps, and properties. Helvetia district_..._______________ _____ Ore deposits _ . Copper World mine ____ _____ _____ Location and topography _ _ History
Report (volume)
monzonite._________.____..____-_--__-----_---Granite and granite pegmatite and aplite.________________ Quartz..._____ Bissell Hills area._____________________________________________ Rosamond Hills area._________....__...._.___.__..____.__.._.___...__..._._. 223 Gold-silver deposits..___________________________________________...___________-_____-___-____--^____________235 Rosamond Hills area.______________________________________ 235...range in composition from hornblende diorite to granite. Quartz monzonite is by far the most extensive;
Report (issue)
(Middle Triassic) ______-___________--_-__-_--Excelsior formation (Middle Triassic)__ Luning formation...__-_---_-----_ Flaw in Soda Spring Valley ______________ Basin Range faulting________----_---____ Areal geology...Garfield Hills . ___________..___..._...______ Rocks exposed. ____________^____________ Excelsior formation... Rocks exposed__-_______________.-__________ Excelsior formation. _ ___________________ Luning formation...Continued Mcsozoic rocks______________________ Excelsior formation(?)________ Luning formation____________
Journal (issue)
CRYSTAL RIDGE NAIROBI, U.S.A. CONTENTION CITY, ARIZONA TERRITORY OWENYO . . . DESERT LANDS FOR RECREATION...Nevada near Mammoth Lakes in California's Inyo County. The John Muir Hiking Trail winds past this and...h e summer months Desert Magazine heads for the hills and the cooler climes. These issues are designed...issue was devoted to southern Utah and northern Arizona. In June we featured two trips to Oregon and northern...New Navajo Trail through Utah, New Mexico and Arizona and provides a first-hand account of Indian trading
Report (issue)
.............................................. Mining, milling, and processing ........................perlite are described and brief mention is made of mining, milling, processing, economic factors, and reserve...occurrence of perlite as well as some features of mining, processing, and utilization are briefly stated...heavy impurities dropped to the bottom, and the white, frothy product was recovered. Soon many small plants...laboratory that a glass of the composition of granite or rhyolite can retain as much as 10 percent water
Report (issue)
History of the Iron Industry in Utah · .1 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Beaver Lake Mountains... .2 . . . . . . . . . . .2 Black Rock mine . . . Skylark mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . · .. 4 Creole mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · .. 4 Cave mine . . . . . . . . . ... 4 Iron mine . . . . . . ......... . . 10 Star Range deposits . . . . . .10 Copper King mine .10 Rocky...Rocky Range deposits . . . .10 Old Hickory mine . . . . · . 11 Montreal magnetite-copper property . . .
 
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