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Limonite from
Capitol Mine, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Capitol Mine, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1383637
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1383637:1
GUID (UUID V4):82f42e52-3651-4793-8414-5877bf057f80
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘSunny South prospect, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) ⓘBelmont-Phoenix Mine (Oro Plata Mine), Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) ⓘRich Hill Mine, Nob Hill (Combination Mine; Rich Hill; Silver Legion), Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
9.1km (5.6 miles) ⓘGolden Empire Mine, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) ⓘSilver Legion Mine, Nob Hill (Combination Mine; Rich Hill; Silver Legion), Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) ⓘHonest Miner claim, Eldorado Rand group, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
10.6km (6.6 miles) ⓘRand shaft, Eldorado Rand group, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) ⓘOccidental mine, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) ⓘQuaker City claim, Eldorado Rand group, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
18.1km (11.2 miles) ⓘVan Deemen Mine, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
References
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............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 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
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal
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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
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Thomssen Design Wendell E. Wilson Graphic Production Capitol Communications, Crofton, MD Printing Waverly Press...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series
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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
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Ore Deposits of the· Kokomo-Tenmile District, Colorado By M. H. BERGENDAHL and A. H. KOSCHMANN . I...PAPER 652 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board .. 1\ UNITED...ores-----------------------------Mine descriptions----------------------------------Wilfley-Kimberly mine __ --------________________...Consolidated mine, Eldorado and Wilson mines, Felicia Grace mine, and Champion (New York) mine----------...Page PLATE 1. Geologic map of Kokomo-Tenmile district------------------------------------------------------
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William Besse. 1714 S. Clarkson Street Denver, Colorado 80210 markivanjacobson@gmail.com B lue minerals...symbol to promote outstanding aspects of their county or state. Approval is usually not difficult because...of dark blue turquois against the dark brown of limonite or the gray of quartz or porphyry” (Pogue 1915...Corporation explored for copper in the Cerbat Mountains, Mohave County. They acquired mineral rights to two sections...Turquoise) Mountain. Duval Corporation leased turquoise mining rights to the Leonard W. Hardy Company in Miami
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..........191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................in e s Steve Voynick* P.O. Box 1285 Leadville, Colorado 80461 If you’re a mineral collector, you know...typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...Abandoned mines certainly aren’t hard to find. Colorado alone has 15,000—most of them underground metal
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G. M . A llgood, R. W. A llgood & J. Pradenas Colorado Fam ous m ineral localities: Breckenridge, C olorado...Nugget," collected in 1865 at the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California, by Jules Fricot and donated...localities not mentioned in G old-I. . . Australia, Colorado and Appalachia, for example. It seems that we...Harper’s article. John Dysart, Manager of the Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site, sent much additional information...gold. Genne and Robert Allgood (mining geologists for the Sonora Mining Company, right in the Mother Lode
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__ a-—ℱ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits...Highways_____ Production............................... Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Florida Design Wendell E. Wilson Graphic Production Capitol Communications, Crofton, MD Color Separations and...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil .................... 239 by C. G. Doll Across the San Juan Mountains ................................................Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named
Book (edition)
Windham Report of 1S80 relating to the growing Mining Industry at Ouray is printed in its entirety. Many...Geological Survey, Tom Rosemeyer, Chief Engineer, Camp Bird Mine and Miss Margaret B. Allen, M.A. of Orange........................... .................... Limonite................................................... Ouray and the Camp Bird Mine; Past, Present. Future The Windham Report of Mining in Ouray in 1880...1880 . . The Mineralogy at the Camp Bird Mine................... Glossary' Including Notes On Geology’ .
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by R. W. Eveleth S tib n ites o f the Stayton district, H o llister, C a lif o r n ia .................emphasis or clarity, and (d) proper names, e.g., mine levels. 8. Credits. Caption data for specimen photos...to the Four Peaks area in Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains and collected gem-grade amethyst. After serving...from the New Nevada mine in Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico and legrandite from the Ojuela mine in Mapimi,...sig­ nificant mining properties, including, but not limited to, the Sar Francisco mine in Sonora, the
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leatures Cleare High Ffficien cy g Clear Se - ~~ COLORADO fr ‘ = Power Close abra Power Say; R ...and abrasives-pump! g Denver, has served the mining industry in the Rocky Mountain area for over 30... AND APPLICATIONS & DREDGE IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Henlyof...cuttings to escape easily of the world’s largest mining and contracting firms know of Liddicoat ease...the low-centre wings. Salt LakĂ© City 4, Utah MINING WORLD, March, 1952. Volume 14 No }. Published monthly
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Handles Peak Wilderness Study Areas, Hinsdale County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1715-B /fj&:~~:ÂŁ2...Handles Peak Wilderness Study Areas, Hinsdale County, Colorado By RICHARD F. SANFORD, RICHARD I. CRAUCH,...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREASSOUTHWESTERN COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Hinsdale County, Colorado. (Mineral resources of wilderness study areas southwestern Colorado ; ch. B)...mineral resources Colorado Redcloud Peak Wilderness. 2. Mines and mineral resources Colorado Handies Peak
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MINERALS FOR ATOMIC ENERGY Diamond Drilling on the Colorado Plateau. Courtesy Union Carbide and Carbon Corp...ore?" "Do I need a license to mine uranium?" "How do I stake a mining claim?" As a result of these inquiries...which have participated hundreds of geologists, mining engineers, mineralogists, and prospectors, both...Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Canada. Eldorado Mining and Refining, Ltd., Canada. Department of Atomic...help on specific portions of the text, and to John Clark, Donald L. Everhart, Rafford L. Faulkner, and David
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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
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Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A Biography)...Hunting; Hunting for Radioactive Minerals; Clothing and Camp Equipment 5. The Rock Collector's Working Tools...\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho...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
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Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area, Lewis and Clark County, Montana U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1724-E...Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area, Lewis and Clark County, Montana By R.C. TYSDAL, M.W. REYNOLDS, R.R...Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area, Lewis and Clark, County, Montana / by R.G. Tysdal ... [et al.] p. cm...Wilderness Study Area (MT-075-111), Lewis and Clark County, Montana. CONTENTS Abstract El Summary El...Appraisal of identified resources E7 Mining history and exploration E7 Mining development E8 Mines, prospects
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Foster, Chairman. CONTEST October 17-25—Graham County Fair at Safford, Arizona. October 18-24—Southwestern...FICTION By ROBERT N. CARLILE LETTERS NEWS CLOSE-UPS MINING 22 Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 23 Comment...recent months from Tijuana to San Luis near the Colorado River in Sonora. I wanted this information not...Rodriguez during his term as governor of the Northern District of Baja California. Later he became president...the dry water courses. The peaks of the Laguna Mountains on the California side were always in sight. Politically
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papoose aloft for Photographer Andrew Crofut of Reno, Nevada, whose charming family portrait won first prize...August 12-14—Wasatch County Fair and Rodeo, Heber, Utah. August 12-14—Sanpete County Fair, Manti, Utah....Square Dance Festival, Flagstaff. August 18-20—Cache County Fair, Logan, Utah. August 24-31—Hopi Snake Dances...August 27-28—Kane County Fair and Horse Show, Orderville, Utah. August 28-29—Tooele County Fair, Tooele,...for Photographers FIELD TRIP Crystal Roses of Eldorado By HAROLD O. WEIGHT CLOSE-UPS About those who
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"Bells of Old Guevavi," first of a new series of lost mine stories by the author of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures...and ends at Hite, about 100 miles away at the Colorado river. ‱ From deep in the Navajo reservation Toney...championship rodeo, Yuma, Arizona. Feb. 20-23—Riverside County Fair and Date festival, fairgrounds, Indio, California...Club trip to Pushawalla canyon and adjacent areas. Camp will be in Coachella valley near canyon mouth. R...25 A test of your desert knowledge 26 MYSTERY MINING NEWS DESERT QUIZ LAPIDARY HOBBY CONTEST Amateur
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