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Copper (commodity) from
Leadville mine, Leadville Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Commodity:Copper (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Copper (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Leadville mine, Leadville Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1390343
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1390343:3
GUID (UUID V4):5618a633-9b6b-4e70-b0de-275b3f5bc81f
Nearest other deposits of Copper (commodity)
28.5km (17.7 miles) Mountain View mine, Deephole Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
28.9km (17.9 miles) Mountain View Gold Project, Deephole Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
29.5km (18.3 miles) Silver Bell Mine (NBMG Sample Site 2409), Deephole Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Mountain View tungsten prospect, Deephole Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
30.1km (18.7 miles) Unnamed Gold prospect (MRDS10246577), Black Rock Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
30.1km (18.7 miles) Copper King #1 Prospect (NBMG Sample Site 2407), Deephole Mining District, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Albany Claims Big Mountain Copper, Black Rock Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
31.0km (19.3 miles) Nemco Nos. 1-6, Black Rock Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
31.6km (19.6 miles) Copper Canyon (Copper Canton), Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
33.2km (20.6 miles) Cassidy Mine (NBMG Sample Sites 2924; 2925), Trego Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
__ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G... 46 lineral Resources of Douglas, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties T heodore D . O verton M ining Engineer...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...of Douglas, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits
Report (issue)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...related to mining districts .................... Geochemical anomalies not aparently related to mining districts.... Figure 7. Histogram showing concentration of copper in 3,872 stream-sediment and soil samples, Winnemucca-Surprise...Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Assessment Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California ....... in pocket Plate...Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Assessment Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California ....... in pocket Plate
Report (issue)
COPPER. THE TURQUOISE COPPER-MINING DISTRICT, ARIZONA. By F. L. RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The following...are the record of a brief visit to the Turquoise district in October, 1911, when a little less than five...examination of the complex geologic relations of the copper deposits near Courtland and Gleeson. The results...neer of the Great Western Copper Co., was available for the part of the district adjacent to Courtland and...assistance. SITUATION OF THE DISTRICT. The Turquo'ise mining district is situated on the east flank
Report (volume)
High Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Washoe County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1707-D...Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Was hoe County, Nevada By BRENT D. TURRIN, JOEL R. BERGQUIST, ROBERT...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: NORTHWESTERN NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Study Area, Washoe County, Nevada. Mineral resources of wilderness study areas northwestern Nevada, U.S. Geological...: I 19.3:1707-D 1. Mines and mineral resources Nevada High Rock Canyon Wilderness. 2. High Rock Canyon
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur........ .................... ..... ^ B lllii Leadville.................................................the “famous locality” series: the Home Sweet Home mine and Mount Antero. A fine mineralogical study of...mines and minerals of two important districts, Leadville and Rico, plus a sort of collector’s guide to...you belong to, and where you come from. American mining schools and professional organizations have long
Book
For six decades these working stiffs followed mining opportunities into the boom towns of the intermountain...munities like Cripple Creek, Goldfield, Bisbee, and Leadville, communities that were western and yet urban....Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada in the period 1860 to 1920. He carefully documents... The Deadly Depths 75 6. Earning a Living by Mining 99 7. Miners and Their Managers 118 ^ 8. The...A. “Present-Day Mining” 169 B. Accidents and Injuries Typical in Hard-Rock Mining in the Intermountain
Book
etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G Greenland...book-format issues (8/#3, Tsumeb; 23/#2, Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland;...I 1991 337--424 273-336 [ 1-128 129-208 [ COPPER] [ 177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400...ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich) 22:65-69 [Abstracts
Book (edition)
unpublished Mining District, in reproduction. map Colo. places Albuquerque, NM of Leadville a map...1876, and a woodcut engraving Bird’s Eye View of Leadville c. 1882 supplied by the DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY...History Department Leadville Research by Robert G. Huddleston Color photographs of Leadville, c. 1975, by Robert...that here and there were found good ‘‘color’, and a mine was actually constructed. We at The Rio Grande Press...lusty mining community into Colorado’s second largest city in less than four years. At Leadville today
Report (issue)
88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge...______ Leadville (California) district_______________________________ ~osquito Range district, including...including some outlying parts of the Leadville district________________________________________ Weston Pass..._______________ _____ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ _ 87 Spar district _________________________._ __ ____ __ __ ____
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1878 (75) in his reportson the Michigancopper district. This alterationwas regardedby Pumpellyas a resultof...built up by envelopesof siliceousrock. At Goldfield,Nevada (76) a soft,light-colored aggregateof quartz,kao-...walls of some of the ore bodies in the Bisbee district werebleached as a resultof variablechangesin...sericitizedgraniteat Rimini, Montana. In the Metaline district of Washington(70) zinc occursmost abundantly neargray...replacement of limestone.In the Northern Empire Mine of Canada(11) the rocksnear the veinsare brown due
Book (edition)
interests. devoted to the mines. Part fourth is As mining is Colorado’s main industry and source of wealth...could make them. The narrative of gold and silver mining possesses enough of romance and adventure to interest...general reader, and the descriptions of mines, and of mining and milling, together with statements of requisite...South Park & Pacific Railway. 77-85 Route to Leadville and the Gunnison.. 77-85 Towns and Cities of Colorado... The Rich Rewards of Placer and Lode Mining. The Eastern Mining Excitement and Investments of 1863-4
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
antamounts of asbestos,barite, fluorite, talc, copper, zinc, lead, silver, gold, iron, nickel, manganese...Wyoming(33) and the Gas Hills District,Wyoming (88). In the AmbrosiaLake District, New Mexico,the primaryore...in a beach and delta environment. Zinc, Lead, Copper,Silver DepositsoI Buchans,Newloundland.--Since...--Since 1928 more than 12 milliontonsof zinc-lead-copper-silver-gold ore has been TABLE 1 DISTRICTS EXEMPLIFYING...INDIGENOUS ROCK OPENINGS ABOVE AN UNCONFORNiITY District or mine Capitol Reef, Utah Elk Ridge, Utah Shirley
Report (volume)
........................ 5 5 Distribution of mining districts...................................................................................... Nevada.......................................................................... PART II. Catalogue of mining districts, by J. M. Hill..................................................... Classification of mining districts...................................................................................... Nevada...............................................
Book
Mines, DESCRIPTION OF THE MINES AND MILLS, AND THE MINING AND MILLING CORPORATIONS OF COLORADO, ARRANGED...WEALTH AND PROSPERITY, UNEQUALED IN THE HISTORY OF MINING COMMUNITIES, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED...Colorado for 1878 was $9,829,817, as follows: Lake County, $2,650,000; Clear Creek, $2,250,000; Gilpin, $2...000. Such being the extent and importance of the mining industry of Colorado, it was evident that some...herein may seem a rep etition, but in order that each mine may stand on its own merits, and to facilitate the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0 DENVER Wulfenite Occurrences in Colorado Leadville 0 1 Tincup 03 . 4 Lake City Downloaded by [McGill...17:52 26 February 2015 TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O.Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 CONNOISSEURS...last twenty-five years either as a result of new mining operations or as new discoveries in abandoned mines...Boulder County, but gave no details. He also mentioned that wulfenite occurred in Park County, but again...occurrence on Gunnell Hill, Central City district, Gilpin County, given by J. S. Randall (1887) in his book
Report (volume)
$1.50. II. Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District, with atlas, by Clarence K Button, Capt. U. S... HI. Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District, with atlas, by George ¥. Becter. 1882. 4°...Comstock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1883. 4°. xiv, 451 pp. 3 pi. Price $1.50. V. The Copper-Bearing...Price $1.05. VII. Silver-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtis. 1884. 4°. xiii, 200 pp...Price $1.20. VILT. Paleontology of the Eureka District, by Charles Doolittle Walcott. 1884. 4°. xiii
Report (issue)
Replacement Deposits Part II Gold in the Tintic Mining District, Utah By HALT. MORRIS Gold Deposits in the...Bird Mining Districts, San Juan Mountains, Colorado By FREDERICKS. FISHER Gold in the Alma Mining District...DANIEL R. SHAWE Precious Metals in the Leadville Mining District, Colorado By TOMMY B. THOMPSON Part I...bibliographies. Contents: pt. 1. Bald Mountain gold mining region, northern Black Hills, South Dakota / by...Tintic Mining District, Utah / by Hal T. Morris. Gold in the Sneffels-Telluride and Camp Bird mining districts
Report (issue)
Mountain region of Wyoming contains few metalliferous mining camps. Moreover, not many of those that have been...Next to the Grand Encampment district, which yielded a fair amount of copper ore from 1898 to 1908, and...and the South Pass district,, which has a record of producing $450,000 in gold from 1868 to 1872, Kirwin...upon which a little work is done each summer, the district is practically abandoned. Ore was first discovered... Kirwin has been the scene of much ill-advised mining practice, with the result that the possible merit
Report (issue)
oxidized zinc and zinc-lead ores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California______________ 3. Types of supergene...not the only recoverable metal. Lead, vanadium, copper, silver, gold and, in places, molybdenum, antimony...and iron are byproducts of the New Jersey and Leadville deposits. Commercial ores commonly contain at... A-2 OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES copper ores are included. Most of the ore was produced...recently production has been increasing in Utah and Nevada. The term "oxidized zinc deposits" is used in this
Book
contains a brief account of some of the principal mining districts of Colorado, not as official reports... such as the silver-bearing lead deposits of Leadville, Aspen and other regions. The Silurian, Devonian...issuing from cracks and fissures, del¬ uging Idaho, Nevada and part of Oregon and Washington Terri¬ tory....exposed the fissure veins, and did the first great mining on a gigantic scale in Colorado. The debris they...“wash,” and is collected by sluice or hydraulic mining. Still the agencies of nature are going on as of
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...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list
Journal (issue)
stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,
Report (issue)
218pp., 1905. Economic geology of the Bingham mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell, with a section on...geology and ore deposits of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, by F. L. Ransome and F. C. Calkins, 203...Georgetown quadrangle (together with the Empire district), Colo., by J. E. Spurr and G. H. Garrey, with..., 1910. Geology and ore deposits of the Butte district, Mont., by W. H. Weed, 262 pp., 1912. Geology...Geology and ore deposits of the Breckenridge district, Colo., by F. L. Ransome, 187 pp., 1911. Geology and
Book
built by the Boston Silver Mining Association August R. Meyer in 1871 Leadville: the Harrison Reduction...85 87 115 144 146 162 162 164 194 233 Map The Mining Region of Colorado xli-xlil Preface THE MOUNTAINS...and matte, and then drew out the gold, silver, copper, lead, and other metals. Here you might see bushes...thousand small enterprises working ores in isolated mining camps to one composed of several large, integrated...in the midst of the crisis that devastated the mining business during the 1860s. They smelted ores drawn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Greek words for both its major element (copper) and its typical morphology (leaflike). This attractive...location; the type material is in the Freiberg Mining Academy collection in Germany (Anthony et al. 2000)...Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining industry, is an avid collector of microminerals...compared to other copper arsenates that occur in the supergene weathering zones of copper-bearing ore deposits...now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine. It is, however
 
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