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Coffinite from
Sherwood Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Coffinite
Formula:U(SiO4) · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Coffinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sherwood Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:150791
Long-form Identifier:1:3:150791:1
GUID (UUID V4):aae9d1df-e623-4f6e-88d3-7664b7be4b9a
Nearest other occurrences of Coffinite
5.3km (3.3 miles) Lowley Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Midnite Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1959 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. - Price 50 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS...listing reports_________________ Explanation of area and subject index_.______ Acknowledgments .. __...Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal
Report (issue)
UUrUUHIC Geology of the Midnite uranium mine, Stevens County, WashingtonA preliminary report By J. Thomas...Geological Survey and Norman J. Lehrman Dawn Mining Co., Ford, Washington Open-file report 75-402 1975 This...nts Geologic setting Geology of the Midnite mine area Stratigraphy and structure Petrology of host rocks...Generalized geologic map of part of southern Stevens County showing relations of Precambrian and intrusive...intrusive rocks 3. Geologic map of the Midnite mine area 4. Cross section through an ore zone in the Boyd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEPTEMBEI{_OCTOBER, 1956 Nos. 9 and 10 WITH HYDROXYL COFFINITE, A URANOUS SIICATE SUBSTITUTION: A NEW XIINERAL*...uraninite in vein depositsin the copper King mine, Larimer county, colorado. It is also associatedwith asphaltic...minerals in the unoxidized ore. In hand specimen coffinite is black; many of the samples have an adamantine...resembling that of a high-rank coal. On the Plateau, coffinite occurs as replacements of organic material, as...In transmitted light the smailer particles of coffinite-bearing materia'l are paie brown to very dark
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1962 PROPERTIES AND PARAGENESIS OF COFFINITE FROM FROM THE WOODROW MINE, NEW MEXICO1 Roennr H. MonNcu, U...Aesrnec:r Well-crystallized coffinite found as a vug filling in the Woodrow mine, New Mexico is botryoidal...birefringence is less than 0.01 and variable. coffinite is associated with pyrite, barite, small amounts...related in time as well as in space' fNrnopucrroN Coffinite (probably U(SiOrl-"(OH)n") is nearly ubiquitous...(Hilpert and Moench, 1960,p. a 5)' In the Laguna district, in fact, it probably accountsfor most of the
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1963 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 20402 1, Introduction to the Geology...455-A UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1963 ._ - CONTENTS Page Page Abstract...predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in
Report (volume)
in a major productive area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1964 UNITED STATES...mines_______________________________________ Boulder CountY----------------------------------~-----------Jamestown...Generalfeatures--------------------------------------Blue Jay mine, by R. U. King__________________________ Fair Day...mine________________________________________ Nations Treasure mine, by R. U. King___________________ Victory group...Description of principal mines-Continued Boulder County-Continued Other areas __________________________
Report (issue)
Mariano LakeLake Valley Cores and the Genesis of Coffinite in the Grants Uranium Region, New Mexico U.S...Superintendent of Documents Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 (Check or money order must be payable...authorized agents of the Superintendent of Documents: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Main Interior Bldg., 2600 corridor, 18th...California-Customhouse, Rm. 504,555 Battery St. SPOKANE, Washington-U.S. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside...Mariano LakeLake Valley Cores and the Genesis of Coffinite in the Grants Uranium Region, New Mexico By PAULA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/oregeorev Petrography and genetic history of coffinite and uraninite from the Liueryiqi granite-hosted...2004 Available online 1 February 2005 Abstract Coffinite and uraninite banded aggregates from the Liueryiqi...consist of concentric bands of uraninite and coffinite that range in thickness from 1 to 10 Am. Electron...Electron microprobe analyses indicate that coffinite and uraninite contain Ca and Al impurities. Altered...mineralizing fluids resulted in the formation of the coffinite–uraninite intergrowth-banded aggregates. The precipitating
Report (volume)
Commission NITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1959 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...____ __ __ __________ __ ___ 125 125 History of mining and production ____ ------------------------------Geologic...vanadium, copper, and radium during various periods of mining in the past 50 years. Most of the deposits in Triassic...chief unoxidized uranium minerals, uraninite and coffinite, and the oxidized uranium minerals, carnotite...object of this work was to aid prospectors and mining men in finding and exploiting new deposits of uranium-bearing
Report (issue)
Morrison Formation, Grants uranium region, New Mexico, USA ...................................................scope of the Handbook is to report on at least one district in each country having sandstone-type uranium...Cretaceous ages, USA; (2) the Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation, Colorado Plateau, USA; (3) Tertiary...Wyoming basins, USA; (4) Miocene basal deposits, British Columbia, Canada; and (5) Potwar district, Pakistan...Finch and James F. Davis Editors, Denver, Colorado, USA May, 1984 PARTI GENERAL GEOLOGY SANDSTONE-TYPE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
axt A. M. SunnwooD, U, S. Geologi,cal, Suraey, Washington 25, D. C. ABSTRACT Doloresite, HaVoOo or 3VzOr...No. 2 mine at the head of Lumsden Canyon about 3! air miles southwest of Gateway, Mesa County, Colo....At the La Sal No. 2 mine, doloresite occurs intimately associated with coffinite, U(SiOa)1-"(OH)r (Stiefi...(Stiefi, Stern, and Sherwood, 1956), and carbonaceousmatter. In this mine these minerals have formed several...immediately adjacent to this heavily mineralized area contains small amounts of tyuyamunite. Additional
Report (issue)
Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1959 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. - Price 32.00 (paper cover) FOREWORD...vanadium clay minerals together with uraninite, coffinite, and montroseite present in rocks containing organic...of the uranium deposit at the Happy Jack mine, San Juan County, Utah, by Albert F. Trites, Jr., Randall...localization and oxidation of ore at the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colorado, by Carl H. Roach and Mary E.
Report (issue)
Lake-Blind River area, Canada (average grade 0.12 percent U30s), and at the Witwatersrand basin area in the Republic...principally as a byproduct or coproduct of gold mining; and in medium-grained sandstones in the Colorado...western Idaho and eastern Washington, (2) Canadian Shield-Bancroft district and nearby areas, (3) eastern...areas (Keevil, 1943) (e.g., Blind River-Elliot Lake area and other areas in Canada; Greenland, Australia...Lake, Canada; Lake Frome, South Australia; Arlit area, Niger; and Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.), or gulf-type
Report (volume)
vanadium and uranium deposit of the Bitter Creek mine south of Uravan, Colo., is in the upper part of...are exposed in many other mines in the Uravan district. The zones represent progressive oxidation of...INTRODUCTION The Bitter Creek vanadium and uranium mine (fig. 28) is in the eastern part of the carnotite-producing...Counties, Colo., and adjacent parts of Utah. The mine is about 6 miles south of Uravan, Colo., in the...the SW.%SW% sec. 1, T. 46 N., K. 17 W., Montrose County (Fischer, 1944). It is reached by an unpaved road
Book
individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M. (granites...Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid
Report (volume)
Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1958 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...1907Systematic mineralogy of uranium and thorium. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958. viii, 400 p...... _.. _.... __ . __ .... _____ .. _. _... . Coffinite .... __ .. __ ..... _... _. __ .... __ ._. ___...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...development of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great
Report (volume)
\ Geology of the Copper King Uranium Mine Larimer County Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This...1032-D Geology of the Copper King Uranium Mine Larimer County Colorado By P. K. SIMS, GEORGE PHAIR, and...Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1958 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. G. - Price 75 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS...History and production____________ ._______________ Mine workings___ ______________.__ _ _ Rock units___
Report (issue)
conditions, concentrations large enough to warrant mining are restricted mostly to the western U.S. Principal...Tertiary basins, Wyoming and Colorado Northeast Washington Colorado Front Range, Northern and Southern Rockies...basins Precambrian Shield 14. Precarabrian Shield area - Numbered in approximate order of economic importance...uranium province (See Table 1) Region Province Area 1 Colorado Plateau II 2 Tertiary basins, Wyoming...Range 1 ,270 0.3 0.05 7.5 II 4 Northeast Washington 3 ,000 2 0.28 1.6 II 6 Black Hills region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uraninite as well as that of coffinite. Introduction ALTHOUGH coffinite is a common ore mineral in...of the microscopicobservations. Background on Coffinite Coilfinitehas beenidentifiedin many uranium ...sof the appearance and textural relations of coffinite in sandstone-host uranium ores of the United States...analysesof the pure mineral. Textural 296 oœ Coffinite in Sandstone-Host Ores oœWyoming Microscopicexaminationof...uraniniteand coffinite in all but one sample. The only sample studied which contained no coffinite was the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Compositional and crystallographic data on REE-bearing coffinite from the Grants utani'm regio& nolthwestern New...region, northwestern New Mexico, indicates that coffinite forms an isomorphous serieswith xenotime, which...stable-isotopedata suggestthat the coarse-grained,pore-filling coffinite anahyzedin this study was formed at elevated temperatures...transparency of the coffinite crystals, indicating that they are not highly metamict. The coffinite owes its brownish...sf the nearby Nose Rock uranium deposit, which Coffinite [u(SiO4)r-"(O]I)J was frnt describedby Stieff
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November 2009 Precipitation and alteration of coffinite (USiO4nH2O) in the presence of apatite ARTUR... Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA CSIRO, Division of Exploration and Mining, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington...cedex, France Abstract: A mineral assemblage of coffinite, USiO4nH2O, n ¼ 0–2, carbonate-fluorapatite (CFAp)...(Ca, Sr)-(meta)autunite (MAut) from the Woodrow Mine, Grants uranium region, New Mexico, has been investigated...precipitation of coffinite and its subsequent alteration under oxidizing conditions. Finegrained coffinite (10 mm)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Uraninite, Coffinite and Ningyoite from Vein-Type Uranium Deposits of the Bohemian...jiri_sejkora@nm.cz (J.S.); skacha-p@muzeum-pribram.cz (P.Š.) Mining Museum Příbram, 261 01 Příbram, Czech Republic...Uraninite-coffinite vein-type mineralisation with significant predominance of uraninite over coffinite occurs...features and the chemical composition of uraninite, coffinite and ningyoite were studied using an electron microprobe...detection limits of the electron microprobe. Coffinite usually forms by gradual coffinitization of uraninite
Journal (issue)
Boreholes in the Carboniferous rocks of the.A:s:hover district, Derbyshire, by W. H. C. Ramsbottom, M.A., Ph...-Structure and mineralization at Roskrow United Mine, Ponsanooth, Cornwall, by J. Taylor, B.Sc., A.M...Gallagher, B.Sc., Ph.D. 4. Radian psilomelane from Nkana Mine, Zambia, by M. J. Gallagher, B.Sc., Ph.D. 5. Beryl...Photo micrographs of uranium ore, Roskrow United Mine 37 IV Photographs and autoradiographs illustrating...Sketch map showing radiometry of the Castleton district Radiometry of the east face of Windy Knoll Quarry
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...and a Southern Section, covering a somewhat larger area around Harney Peak. The northern section is characterized...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds, etc. petrified
 
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