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Garnet Group from
Garnet Hill, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Species:'Garnet Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:X3Z2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyropeⓘ2 photos of Garnet Group associated with Pyrope at this locality.
Almandineⓘ2 photos of Garnet Group associated with Almandine at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Garnet Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Garnet Hill, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1437510
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1437510:5
GUID (UUID V4):10105aaa-9333-43b8-bc44-b5ba4e6161a7
Nearest other occurrences of Garnet Group
36.1km (22.5 miles) ⓘPainted Desert prospect, Hoover Dam area, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
57.6km (35.8 miles) ⓘIron Gold Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
66.9km (41.5 miles) ⓘGreen Monster Mine, Shenandoah Peak (Shenandoah Mountain), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
76.3km (47.4 miles) ⓘUnnamed Placer Au drywasher site [30] (USGS PP locality 635), Gold Basin Mining District, White Hills, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
84.5km (52.5 miles) ⓘUnnamed Placer Au drywasher site [14] (USGS PP 1361 locality 286), Lost Basin Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
84.6km (52.6 miles) ⓘUnnamed unspecified prospect [20] (USGS PP locality 1036), Lost Basin Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
86.7km (53.9 miles) ⓘKing Tut Placer Mine (Apache Oro Mine), King Tut placers, Lost Basin Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
95.0km (59.0 miles) ⓘBeck Mine [1] (Beck deposits; Kingston Iron deposit; Iron Gossam; Beck Mine; Gossan No. 1; 2 & 5 claims), Kingston Peak, Kingston Range District, Kingston Range, San Bernardino County, California, USA
96.5km (60.0 miles) ⓘM.P. Mica Mine, Garnet Mountain, Lost Basin Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
97.5km (60.6 miles) ⓘWilliams Garnet placer, Mohave County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group represent some of the...deposits. In fact, in some types of economic deposits, garnet constitutes an important gangue mineral, and such...America’s largest hard-rock garnet mines within its borders, a famous New York garnet specimen has been chosen...this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice piece. Moreover, garnet was designated as New York’s official state gemstone...Almandine is one of fifteen minerals in the garnet group, each member of which is defined by its pure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Featured Mineral Group at the 1993 Tucson Show Downloaded by [Virginia Tech Libraries] at 03:28 25 February...February 2015 GARNET PETER J. MODRESKI U.S. Geological Survey Box 25046, MS 905, Federal Center Denver...cdorado 80225 THE GARNETS ARE A COMMON but complex group of minerals. They are perhaps the mineral kingdom’s...as a separate and distinct mineral species. In garnet, we deal not with just a single series between...plagioclase series), but rather with a complex group of solid-solution series between as many as fourteen
Report (issue)
Garnet Great Balls of Fire ISBN 978-0-9790998-4-7 Publisher Lithographie, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut...Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 ‱ East Hampton, CT 06424 ‱ USA Phone 1.860.267 .1512...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Garnet Great Balls of Fire Contributors Lothar Ackermann...2008, I attended the John Sinkankas Symposium on garnet at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in
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...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Morgan County. Pink corundum in smaragdite is found near the Hogg Creek corundum mine in Towns County. On...Gainesville. Typically, diamonds found in Hall County weighed from 2 to 6 carats; a few were of larger...misidentification. GARNET GROUP: The group of minerals known collec­ tively as garnet is exceedingly widespread...counties boast one or more garnet locations. Various members of the garnet group are common and occur as... pinkish red garnet from near Covington in Newton County. Perhaps the best known garnet location is on
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 (issue)
been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...the Mojave Desert area and of Death Valley by a group of U.S. Geological Survey workers, with the collaboration...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely...of California, was soon able to assemble a small group of scientists who, in their ability and dedication
Report (issue)
commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic...the Sierra Nevada, beginning with the nickel telluride, melonite, found in Calaveras County in 1867. New...California making up a large part of the Sierra Nevada and of several other ranges. Sedimentary rocks...characteristic constituents of the metamorphic rocks. Garnet is a conspicuous gneiss may be rich in chlorite...products. The gem-bearing pegmatites of San Diego County have aroused special masses, interest. Many
Book
platinum - have been found mainly in the Sierra Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These mountain...sulfides, oxides, and so on. Within each major group the minerals are presented generally according to...species or group of species are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries...boundaries and county names. When possible, locations of mines and other deposits are given in the following notation:...PLATEAU I7 COAST RANGES 7 GREAT VALLEY :2f SIERRA NEVADA ~ BASIN RANGES Ell MOJAVE DESERT II TRANSVERSE
Journal (issue)
Dunn Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ..................................Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado .......................................41 by J.-M . Fourcault FMrTGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet: Abstracts ....................... 61 Colum ns...mineral fluorescence, visit Franklin and Sterling Hill in New Jersey; if you are, visit there anyway. ...at editors. If a now-removed crystal or crystal group is to be broken, break it under liquid solvent in
Report (issue)
Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 4=m 3 2=m: Commonly well-crystallized dodecahedra...weakly anisotropic. n = 1.887 Cell Data: Space Group: Ia3d: a = 12.056 Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Synthetic...Series: Mineral Group: Forms two series, with grossular, and with schorlomite. Garnet group. Occurrence:...Vladivostock. In the USA, from Stanley Butte, Graham Co., Arizona; on Garnet Hill, Calaveras Co., and...Benito Co., California; at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex Co., New Jersey; from Magnet Cove, Hot Spring
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— gold and platinum — have been found mainly in Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain...sulfides, oxides, and so on. Within each major group the minerals are presented generally according...mineral species or group of species are reported by 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...within a township is illustrated by Figure 1-1. county of occurrence. Map *M. Fleischer’s 1980 Glossary...MODOC PLATEAU COAST RANGES S GREAT VALLEY SI SIERRA NEVADA 21 BASIN RANGES 3Zm MOJAVE DESERT IX TRANSVERSE
Report (issue)
tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...or basaltic rock reaching outward from a central group of extinct craters. These flows extend for many...east of Lindsay, Tulare County near mouth of Carrizo Gorge, San Diego County west side of Williams Valley...Mendocino County; Santa Ynez Mountains; Santiago Canyon near Mount Pinos, ; ; ; Ventura County; Table...Mountain, Madera County; Fish Creek Mountain, Fresno County; northeast of Cloverdale, Sonoma County; near Burnt
Report (issue)
Copper Canyon Porphyry Copper Deposits, Lander County, Nevada GE0 L0 GICAL SU RVEY P R 0 FE S S I 0 N A...Copper Canyon Porphyry Copper Deposits, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and DAVID W. BLAKE With...ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 798-C...the west ore body, Copper Canyon area, Lander County, Nevada -------------------------- in pocket 1. Map...Battle Mountain mining district in north-central Nevada ------------------------------2. Map showing generalized
Book (volume)
amethyst (left, upper group) which measures about 25 mm (1 in.) across. TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121...particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;... Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Harold Noble, Leo...Opal. II 68 IMPORT ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group, Spodumene, Tourmaline, Sodalite, Olivine (Peridot)...Jadeite), Rhodonite, ldocrase (V esuvianite), The Garnet Group. 199 246 III QUARTZ FAMILY GEMSTONES IV RARE...Frontispiece. Drawing of tourmaline and morganite group 1. Crater of Diamonds, Arkansas 2. Star of Arkansas
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ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...22:65-69 [Abstracts of the] FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet (chairman: K. J. Wenrich) 24:61-68 Abstracts of...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline
Book (volume)
amethyst (left, upper group) which measures about 25 mm (I in.) across. TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121...parricolor amethsyt (78. 70 et), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25 .30 et), Ra1nona,... Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...gold. The necklace is 45 cm (18 in.) long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spine! red oligoclase feldspar (5.04 et)
Book (edition)
to the chemical formula, allegiance to a mineral group, symmetry and crystal structure as well as the strongest...chemical formula, structure (crystal system, space group, and unit cell dimensions), and at least some other...site occupancy. The Sb members of the tennantite group (2.G) will serve as a good example: tetrahedrite...registered in this book (e.g. in the amphibole group). For more detailed information see "Dana's System...Hey 4.C Oxides with M: 0 =2:3, 3:5, etc. 0955). Clark (1993). and Blackbum and Dennen 4.D Oxides with
Book (edition)
extensively rewritten by the book's distinguished group of authors in the light of new research and important...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...all varietal names, synonyms, spelling variants, group names, and so forth; only names in contemporary...contemporary use have been included. Most of the mineral group lists presented were taken from the Glossa,y of Mineral...letters pointing out that for some entries our space group, Z, and lattice constants are mutually exclusive
Report (issue)
of Silurian age____________________________ Bell Hill dolomite (Middle Silurian) _____ -·-____ Harrisite...__________________________ _ 74 Older volcanic group _____ --_---_---,..---75 General features ______...________________ :.._·:.._ , 85 Younger volcanic group ___ _: __________ :.::~-·.· · 86 · '86 General ...rhyolitic rocks of the younger yolcan'i~.: ·;;; ·' · group ________________ ._______ --·-..; __ ... _·. 102...sections of Cambrian rocks of western Utah and eastern Nevada in a west-east direction_________ Stratigraphic
Book (edition)
attempt a complete description of a small mineral group to uncover the unsatisfactory state of our present...well render the volume difficult to use by a large group of potential readers not familiar with structural/chemical...with the inherent problems of end-member names vs. group names and related aspects of nomenclature. Rather...spelling variants, descriptive names, mixtures, group names, chemical names, etc., found in the literature...letters pointing out that for some entries our space group , Z, and lattice constants are mutually exclusive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Platinum group elements (PGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...platinum-group-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3. Structure-related platinum-group-element...Sedimentary platinum-group-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . 6.5. Platinum-group-element supply and...inosilicate supply and use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Chemistry and mineralogy of garnet-group minerals . . . . . . . . 45.2. Magmatic garnet deposits . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Platinum group elements (PGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...platinum-group-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3. Structure-related platinum-group-element...Sedimentary platinum-group-element deposits . . . . . . . . . . 6.5. Platinum-group-element supply and...inosilicate supply and use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Chemistry and mineralogy of garnet-group minerals . . . . . . . . 45.2. Magmatic garnet deposits . . . . . .
Book (edition)
House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington MA 01803, USA First published...Chrysoberyl Spinel Topaz Tourmaline The Garnets Feldspar Group Zircon Peridot 69 92 117 150 167 171 175 185 195...book would be more sensibly shared out among a group of authors/gemmologists, each member tackling his...Canada, Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and the USA, making this a truly international collaboration...Edition being extracted from ‘Gems of the Silica Group’ to form a separate chapter. I have also reintroduced
 
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