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Smithsonite from
Red Bird Mine, Antelope Springs Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Bird Mine, Antelope Springs Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:144036
Long-form Identifier:1:3:144036:2
GUID (UUID V4):5c9d2667-dadd-4a0b-932f-379471614d56
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
30.1km (18.7 miles) Nickel mine (Bell Nickel; Cottonwood Canyon Nickel Mine; London and Liverpool Mines), Bolivia, Cottonwood Canyon, Table Mountain Mining District, Churchill County, Nevada, USA
37.2km (23.1 miles) Henrietta mine, Kennedy Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
55.8km (34.7 miles) Black Prince group, I.X.L. Mining District, Churchill County, Nevada, USA
59.7km (37.1 miles) Last Chance Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
66.4km (41.3 miles) Nevada Superior mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
98.0km (60.9 miles) Nevada group, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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,
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
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 539 SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN NORTHWESTERN OUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO BY JOSEPH B. UMPLEBY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT........ Future of mining in northwestern Custer County......................... Mining districts............................................ Bay Horse district....................................................................................... 56 56 Mining conditions. .....................................prospects...................................... Ramshorn mine................................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
included smithsonite in the former “blue” list. However, upon reflection it is clear that smithsonite is much...this diversity of color, a suite of four Tsumeb smithsonite specimens displaying various contrasting colors...this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. IA-D). Smithsonite is a brittle, relatively soft (hardness 4-4.5)...and a purplish shade; it is rarely colorless. Smithsonite exhibits a vitreous luster that tends to be pearly...greenish- or bluish-white in ultraviolet radiation. Smithsonite is hexagonal-scalenohedral (32/m). Well- Downloaded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description of localities. A R K A N S A...A S H A S A R I C H M I N E R A L and mining heri­ tage that started in the early 1800s with explorers...noting the minerals of Magnet Cove, continued with mining in north­ ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove...extensive collecting in Magnet Cove. In the 1900s, mining and minerals continue to play important roles in...the state, with obvious peaks in exploration and mining having occurred during World Wars I and I I .
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Report (volume)
Director ' Bulletin 648 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Clark County.......................................................'.. Gold Butte mining district.................... Lincoln mine........................................ Bennett mine.........................gneiss............................. Gold Butte Mining Co................................. New Era group...prospects...................................... Elko County...............................................
Report (issue)
Metallurgist MARK EHLE, Mining Engineer J. B. TENNEY, Geologist G. R. FANSETT, Mining Engineer R. E. S. HEINEMAN..."The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Southern Yuma County" is the most pretentious bulletin of the kind that...in many parts of the county, it has not been easy to prospect southern Yuma County at all thoroughly, but...__________ . __ .____ _____ ______ __. General mining history_______________________ __________ ._______________..._____ ____ ____________ ______________ Tertiary (?) red beds ____ ____ _________________ __ __________ _
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonate-hosted sulphide deposits in the Salmo district of southern British Columbia have nearsurface...replacement (‘red ore’) and wallrock replacement (‘white ore’), are present in the Salmo district. The direct...School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401, USA wallrock replacement deposits. The direct replacement...replacement nonsulphide zones of the Salmo district overlay the sulphide bodies in which they replaced the...flotation and breakthroughs in smelting technology, mining and processing sulphide ore became more common
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
basis for the industrial development of the zinc mining and smelting industry, which NU started in the...economic importance in supergene deposits are smithsonite, hydrozincite, hemimorphite, MA sauconite (Zn-smectite)...stable isotope analyses of their carbonates (smithsonite-cerussite-calcite). The oxygen isotope variation...dolomite (the “Calamine”) tend to be dominated by smithsonite and hydrozincite, whereas the ores hosted in...substantially: it can be relatively simple (smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite), as in the oxidation
Report (volume)
AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BAYHORSE REGION CUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO BY CLYDE P. ROSS Prepared in cooperation...mines_________ Bayhorse district..______.__________--__--__-__-_--_-_.._ Good Hope mine.___________________________________...near Garden Creek._________-_-_-_____-.-__ Ramshorn mine._____.___-_______-___-.-_-__--_---__ Skylark mine________________...Juliette Creek.________________________ Beardsley mine--___-______--____-____.___-._---__ _ McGregor g...-_-_---__--_ .. Kuna mine.____________________.____._---_-_-__.__ Nameless mine._-_.__-_______-__-__-_-_-----_
Book
ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Catalog/List
d>anu> ^IVefCenS^Minerats Mineral Dealer <£ Mine Agent Barn Cottage, Lower Boscaswell, Pendeen, Nr...Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia. Very largei ,matrixfree,elongated dodecahedral,brownish-red coloured...Zillertal.Tyrol.Austria . Sharp,well formed,dered coloured,translucent dodecahedral xtl with a little...dodecahedral crystals (to about -J" in size) with red-coloured Hematitic inclusions .richly aggregated... 2-Jx2xJ", £14.00. 10. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia, Several large,creamy
Report (issue)
MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly Donahue, Michael...Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, New Mexico 87801 September...New Mexico State Land Office 1 SUMMARY Luna County, in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1) is not well...metals and nonmetals have been produced from the county from 1876 to 2000. Much of this production has...that are found in 16 mining districts in the county. The Cooke’s Peak district ranks 5th in lead production
Report (issue)
'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...CHILDS-ALOWINKLE HUN CINNABAR MINE 02N I14-19-18w 09 33-32-154A CUPRITE MINI 175 16E 28 31-55-314 110-42-30w CU AG...35 35-25-254 114-10-31W AU AG MO V EMPIRE MINE ESPERANZA MINE GROUP 185 12E SO.31-52-204 111-08-08W PB
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...23 23 24 24 25 26 26 26 26 26 27 28 28 29 Page MINING DISTRICTS ....................................................................... 30 Bernalillo County ............................................................................ 30 Tijeras Canyon District .................................................................................... 30 Catron County ..............................................
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 3, 2014 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...pm Dinner will be at the Bridge Columbia River County Buffet in Vancouver. Please join us if you can...perpendicular to the c axis are taken as new at the Kiggins Mine, Clackamas River, OR vectors a1, a2, a3. The set...and the rhombohedral system (S1 S2 S3) shown in red. The angle  shown in blue relates the two systems...various minerals can help. Vanadinite is generally red to orange in color, though it can be nearly colorless
Journal (issue)
‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ........................................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy
Report (issue)
................................... History of Mining .................................. _..... _.......................................... Torn Scott Mine ..... _.............................................................................. Silver Bill Mine ._ ... _.......................................................... 13 13 13 13 14 14 15 Mystery Mine ................ _........... .............. _...._............ ................ 17 12 Defiance Mine ....... _............... __ ...................
Journal (issue)
the blue-to-violet range, the remaining colors (red, orange, yellow, green) would be transmitted or reflected...4000-7000 Angstrom units (Å)). Within that range, red light has the longest wavelength, thus the lowest...progress through the visible spectrum (in the order red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet), the wavelengths...longer wavelengths (that is, lower energy) than red visible light is referred to as infrared (IR) radiation... I was told that an amethyst specimen contained red spots of “iron” and black spots of “manganese,” and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geosciences Article Legacy Lead from Past Mining Activity and Gasoline Additives: Evidence from Lead...in the White River Basin, Southern Ozark Region, USA Adriana Potra 1, *, Laura S. Ruhl 2 and John R. Samuelsen...Arkansas, 340 N Campus Drive, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA Department of Earth Sciences, University of Arkansas...Rock, 2801 S University, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA; lsruhl@ualr.edu Arkansas Archeological Survey, 2475...2475 N Hatch AVE, Fayetteville, AR 72704, USA; jsamuel@uark.edu Department of Anthropology, University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nonsulfide Pb-Zn Deposits of the Quesnel Lake District, British Columbia, Canada*, ** Suzanne Paradis...Carbonate-hosted Pb and Zn mineralization in the Quesnel Lake district (Flipper Creek, Dolomite Flats, Main, Gunn, and...processes. The main nonsulfide minerals are smithsonite [ZnCO3] and hemimorphite [Zn4Si2O7(OH)2⋅(H2O)]...are above 0.71048. Carbon and oxygen ratios of smithsonite show a limited range of values, which are slightly...dolostones are the carbon source for smithsonite. The δ18O smithsonite values are lower than typical values
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPORT 1 i y 1966... Front cover: The exceedingly varied terrain of Kern County is shown by the brown section— from McKittrick...Bakersfield, to the majestic Sierra Nevada and Owens Peak (highest point in the county); on the east (right side)...MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By BENNIE W. TROXEL, mining geologist California Division...MORTON, and Geology mining geologist California Division of Mines and Geology County Report f Ferry Building
 
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