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Malachite from
Harmony Mine, McDevitt Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cuprite1 photo of Malachite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Chalcocite1 photo of Malachite associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Harmony Mine, McDevitt Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1481518
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1481518:0
GUID (UUID V4):ad4c669a-60f8-451d-beaf-e897580c0b8a
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
2.4km (1.5 miles) Porterfield prospect, Milkey Creek, McDevitt Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
7.0km (4.4 miles) Pope-Shenon Mine, Sal Mountain, Salmon, Eureka Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
11.5km (7.1 miles) Jiggs Prospect (Copper King Prospect; June Bug Claims), McDevitt Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
12.6km (7.9 miles) McDevitt Creek Prospect, McDevitt Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) Moon Claim, Johnson Gulch, Gibbonsville Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Sandy Creek Placer, Pratt Creek Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) Copper Prospect (MRDS - 10070510), Deer Creek area, Unorganized Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
15.6km (9.7 miles) Twin Peaks Mine (Kapp; Spair Time Mine; Rattlesnake), Deer Creek area, Unorganized Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Copper Prospect (MRDS - 10070527), Deer Creek area, Unorganized Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
15.9km (9.9 miles) Tormey Mine (Tornay; Tormay; Greenhorn), Eureka Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Bulletin 774 THE COPPER DEPOSITS NEAR SALMON, IDAHO BY CLYDE P. ROSS WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...____ Operating conditions and future of copper mining.________________ Mines and prospects _________...______ Tormey mine _________________________________________________ Pope-Shenon mine ______________...__________ Harmony mine __________________ _________________ ______ Prospects on McDevitt Creek ____...of parts of the Eureka and McDevitt mining districts, Lemhi County, Idaho.__________________ II. A, Perreau
Report (issue)
Resource Appraisal of the Salmon National Forest, Idaho by Rick Johnson , Terry Close2, and Ed McHugh3...Service, Salmon-Challis National Forest, Salmon, Idaho U.S. Bureau of Mines, Western Field Operations Center...published information, field investigations, and mining company data. 2 ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS REPORT...resources Mining districts Gibbonsville Mining District Indian Creek Mining District Mineral Hill Mining District...Mackinaw Mining District Blackbird Mining District Wilson Creek Mining District Yellowjacket Mining District
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...Modesto, Calif. Both specimens come from an old Gold mine at Placerville, El Dorado Co., Calif. The following...occurrence of malachite in the Triassic traps and sandstones. The writer has not verified the malachite report...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route 1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps of this material can be picked...picked up on land lots, 199 and 200, 10th Land District, six miles northeast of Greenville (Meriwether
Report (issue)
east-central Idaho during a study of mineralization in the northern Lemhi Range, Lemhi County, Idaho By Jon...of the northern Lemhi Range .............. 2. Sample locations in the northern Lemhi Range ......................... 3. Gold in rocks of the northern Lemhi Range ......................... 2 4 6 TABLES Table...east-central Idaho, mostly from the northern end of the Lemhi Range southeast of Salmon, Idaho. The samples...geochemical examination of rocks in eastcentral Idaho (fig. 1), with emphasis on rocks assigned to the
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Report (volume)
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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...for the Riverside Cement Company as the Assistant Mine Superintendent. W e are operating in two areas at...well picked over. The Chino limestone which we are mining near Commercial has few of the interesting minerals...The marl had been dug out of a dredged >_anal. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—John O. Griesbach, 12217 Centerhill
Book (edition)
minerals and gems. It is obvious, though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite...corundum (aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite...visible to the eye. In the great lava flows of Idaho, Oregon and Washington occur the many types of...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Idaho...................................................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
Book (volume)
...........................................139 Idaho...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
...........................................139 Idaho...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Report (issue)
National Forest RARE II and Wilderness areas in Idaho Compiled by Barbara B. Nevins and Mariel R. Oakman...Wilderness (NF-074).............................. Idaho Primitive Area/Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness...(NF-072)....................................... Idaho Primitive Area/Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness...(4-502)............................................ Lemhi Range (4-503).....................................Wilderness (NF-074).............................. Idaho Panhandle National Forest......................
Report (issue)
precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE..._ _ _ _ Cambrian System_______________________ Harmony Formation________________ Overlap assemblage__...Formation________________ Scott Canyon Formation____________ Harmony Formation________________ 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 8...tory of mining _______ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Future of the district _____ --...---Copper Canyon mine (9) - - - --------Iron Canyon mine (17)·-------------N evada mine (22) ____ ----
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Galena Canyon Quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada by JeffL.Doebrich1 Open-File Report 94-664... Prepared in cooperation with Santa Fe Pacific Mining Inc. under Cooperative Research and Development...Qof Tb Tc Tgp Mine dump (Holocene) Present around active and abandoned mining operations in the Copper...quadrangle where it is in depositional contact with Harmony Formation and Antler Peak Limestone. Rock is light...from similar appearing dikes at the Buffalo Valley mine, 10 km west of the quadrangle, yielded ages of 36
Report (volume)
:;eology of the Southern Part )f the Lemhi Range, Idaho 'y CLYDE P. ROSS :oNTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY..._________________________________ Great Western mine _____________________________________ ""'--___ Wilbert...structure sections of the southern part of the Lemhi Range, IdahO----------------------------- Inpocket 8....southeast of the Copper Mountain mine and just east of the crest of the Lemhi Range-----------------------------------------...mountains _______________ Facing 217 14. Index map of Idaho, showing the area of the present report, the Borah
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often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...intrudes a sloping bed of limestone. As the Yogo mine has been worked at various times in the past hundred...some of the best specimens from Emerald Creek in Idaho have been found by indi¬ viduals standing in the...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...in the bed of the stream. e. If it is possible to mine the bed of the stream itself this may prove to be
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Report (issue)
THE GRAND GULCH MINING REGION, MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA. By JAMES M. HILL. INTRODUCTION. Early iff November...few days were taken from a reconnaissance of some mining camps in eastern Nevada for a hasty trip to the... R. Callaway, superintendent of the Grand Gulch mine, supplied many details that have been incorporated...ore. GEOGRAPHY. The Bently mining district is in that part of Hohave County, Ariz., which lies north of...far as could be learned the boundaries of the district are indefinite. In the examination on.which this
Report (volume)
depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235...235 Encampment district, Wyoming_____________;___ 236 Ducktown, Tennessee______________________ Gossan
Journal (issue)
Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...collected native copper crystals and botryoidal malachite in the Big Horn Mountains and azurite from near
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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
Report (volume)
Mineral Deposits of the Challis 1°x2° Quadrangle, Idaho U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1658 A-S Symposium...1°x2° Quadrangle, Idaho Edited by D. H. MclNTYRE Papers presented at the Northwest Mining Association Convention...Mineral Deposits of the Challis I°x2° Quadrangle, Idaho (1983 : Spokane, Wash.) (U.S. Geological Survey...bulletin ; 1658A-S) "Papers presented at the Northwest Mining Association Convention, Spokane, Washington, Dec...3:1658A-S 1. Geology Idaho Challis Region Congresses. 2. Mines and mineral resources Idaho Challis Region Congresses
Report (volume)
SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BuiiIiETIN 574 MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND................................................. Mining districts...................................................................................... Mining development. ...................... .. - - ' -..................................... 18 Placer mining....... ~................................................................ 20 Present status of mining .....:........................................
Report (issue)
Florida, stream placers of Idaho, veins and pipes in the Bokan Mountain district of Alaska, carbonatite dikes...apatite-bearing iron deposits in the Mineville district of New York in the United States. 1980 CIRCULAR...Florida Beach Placers ............................. . Idaho Stream Placers ............................. . General........ . Veins and Pipes in the Bokan Mountain District, Alaska ........................................................................ . Powderhorn District, Colorado ................. . Mountain Pass, California
Report (volume)
and Uranium Deposits of the Caribou Area, Boulder County Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report...and Uranium Deposits of the Caribou Area, Boulder County Colorado By F. B. MOORE, W. S. CAVENDER, and' E...____ . Rock units_____ - - _________________ . Idaho Springs formation --______________ Boulder Creek...Uranium-bearing lead-silver veins___________________ Mine descriptions_____________________________________________...mines______________ ____________________ _ Caribou mine,_____--_--_____________________________ No Name
 
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