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Silver (commodity) from
Hoosac mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Commodity:Silver (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Silver (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hoosac mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1544097
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1544097:4
GUID (UUID V4):85bc79fe-e9c6-45b2-a223-656267f9a5d5
Nearest other deposits of Silver (commodity)
0.8km (0.5 miles) Windfall mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) South Eureka Property, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) New Windfall shaft, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Geddes claims, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Bertrand claims, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Burning Moscow mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Hamburg mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
3.5km (2.1 miles) Fourth of July tunnel, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Oswego Mine, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Diamond mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
The Eureka Mining District Nevada By THOMAS B. NOLAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 406 Prepared...Cambrian system ______________________________ _ Prospect Mountain quartzite ________________ _ Pioche shale..._ Pogonip group _____________________________ _ Eureka quartzite ___________________________ _ Hanson...system _______________________________ _ Carbon Ridge formation ____________________ _ Cretaceous system...structure _________________________________ _ Prospect Ridge block ___________________________ _ Diamond
Report (issue)
Powell, United States geological survey Nevada with district Eureka of the Geology | | | title: director...the Geology Arnold Hague | Washington Eureka | district [Vignette] | | Powell, director with...of 4. | | | | government printing | W. Nevada | xvii, (U. S. geological nuney). Monograph...geological survey I Geology of the Eureka Arnold Hague [Vignette] district | | | ? S Washington 4. ... J. | 8 W. Powell, director with an atlus Nevada | | | | by | | government printing [UNITED
Report (issue)
5 , -. - .. -. r~. vtt.· SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS OF EUREKA, NEVADA: BY JOSEPH S. CURTIS. ~ tlt~ ~mB...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. W. POWELL DIRECTOR SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS OF EUREKA NEVADA By JOSEPH STORY CURTIS WASHINGTON...the honor to transmit herewith a memoir on the Eureka Mines by Mr. J. S. Curtis. I visited the more important...••••••••• Chapter I.--General Deaarlptlon of Eureka Distriot •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...••••••••••••••••.•••••••.••••••••••• V.-Ores of Prospect Mouutain and Buby Hill ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Report (issue)
The Stratigraphic Section in the Vicinity of Eureka, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 276 The... The Stratigraphic Section in the Vicinity of Eureka, Nevada By T. B. NOLAN, C. W. MERRIAM, and J. S. WILLIAMS...the pre- Tertiary stratigraphy of east-central Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...significance. _-__._. Cambrian system.________________ Prospect Mountain quartzite.. Pioche shale_______--_-_-_...Ninemile formation. _____ Antelope Valley limestone. Eureka quartzite_______ Hanson Creek formation. _ Western
Report (volume)
northwestern Nevada Johnson, M. G., 1977, Geology and mineral deposits of Pershing County, Nevada: Nevada Bur...1978, Geologic map of the Silver Cliff and Rosita volcanic centers, Custer County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey...Geology of central Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bur. Mines and Mineral...Peak Formation, Carbonate Hill Limestone, Still Ridge Formation, and Johnny Bull Sandstone. Bisher Dolomite...northwestern Nevada (name adopted) Johnson, M. G., 1977, Geology and mineral deposits of Pershing County, Nevada:
Report (issue)
............................................17 Mining and processing ..............................................................................20 Nevada ............................................................................................87 District of Columbia ....................................Geologic sketch map of the northern and central Sierra Nevada foothills metamorphic belt, California, showing...Geologic sketch map of the southern part of the Sierra Nevada foothills metamorphic belt and plutonic belt, California
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...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (issue)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ......
Report (volume)
viii-ix. The physical geology of the Grand Canon district, by Clarence E. Button, pp. 47-166, pis. x-xxxvi...Abstract of report on geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp...of'the geology of the Comstock lode and the Wash oe district, by George F. Becker, pp. 291-330, pis. xlvi-xlvii...Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada, by Israel C. Russell, pp. 189-235, pls..xviii-xxiii... Abstract of report on'geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Arnold Hague, pp. 237-290, pis. xxiv-xxv
Report (issue)
438 pp. 51 Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District, with atlas, by Clarence pi. xiv '%4 pp. 42...00. Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District, with atlas, by George F. Becker. 4'^ XV 422 pp...21 sheets folio. Price $11.00. 1882 IV. Cometock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1883. 4':. xiv, 451...54 1. .54 pi. Price $1.05. VII. Silver-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtis. .. 1884...^' xiii, 298 VIII. Paleontology of the Enr.dca District, by Charles Doolittle Walcott. 1884. 4°. 24 1
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
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°. xv...of 21 sheets folio. Price $11.00. IY. Comstock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1883. 4°. xiv, 451 pp... 541. 54 pi. Price $1.05. VII. Silver-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtis. 1884....pi. Price $1.20. VILT. Paleontology of the Eureka District, by Charles Doolittle Walcott. 1884. 4°. xiii
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Book
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 (issue)
currently-operating mines in the orogen. district are described as well as the Turgeon prospect, the most recent discovery...a relationship well-documented in the Bathurst district. The road-log through New England invites the...massive sulphide deposits of the Elizabeth mine, Orange County, Vermont ... . .............. 4l J.F. SLACK...massive sulphide deposits of the Davis mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts ........... . .... . . ...gensis of the manganese ores of the Betts mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts . .. ......... . ......
Report (volume)
----.---...------..----.--.-.---. 12 Sulphide of silver, copper, and zinc. -...--...-.--..-.-..-.........ARSENIDES. BISMUTHINITB. From the Rosario Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. W. I-I. Melville. Described...Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district of Algoma, Ontario. Specific...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25
Journal (volume)
lie not ahead of any thing yet found on this ridge. This mine has also been explored and equipped in a very...City, Sierra county, to be thankful for a good deal. The telegraph for the Bald Mountain mine maintains...eters A — To drift mining, a method by which hydrau- ready achieved mining operations are sometimes...supplemented, the remarks in an article on hydraulic mining last week may be largely applied; this branch olfcthe...coast on that date (Wednesday), in copper, lead, silver and gold, the latter being San Francisco, at the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
persons, that the sum paid ThOs. W. E:ing on his · Hoosac Tunnel on the19th of October, which resulted in...published, making loss of thirteen lives. ..._. The Hoosac Tunnel D1saster. The central shaft is located...portals of the tunnel, in a valley on the summit of Hoosac of justice, hospitals, manufactories, etc. This...family saccharine supply at out example. No other district of equal extent can boast the their convenience...our State has resumed its supremacy. As a gold mining country we States. Are in advance ot any other
Journal (volume)
of Alfred Brile, superintendent of the Kentucky Mining and Smelting Company, we have the following report...and the Hartsfeld Portable Smelting Furnace and Mining Co., Newport, Ky. The latter-named company will...will forward catalogue, etc., on application. NEw SILVER VAULT.-The House evidently has no thought of the...sufficient to store $60,000,000. THE Young America quartz mine of Sierra City has become a solid dividend payer...Process. We note in the North San Juan Times, of Nevada county, that a hydraulic gravel elevator is soon to
Catalog/List
9 4 NATURAL SCIENCE ESTABLISHMENT, INC. 3000 RIDGE ROAD EAST• ROCHESTE R 9, NEW YORK .. DEPENDABLE...Request ANHYDRITE (calcium sulfate) Xlinr, choice; Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ARGENTITE (silver sulfide). Prices on Request ARSENIC, native Pure...flawed, .25 per ounce Caesium-bearing, white masses; Mine . a . . . . . . . . . . . 1 13 BERZELIANITE (cuprous...(hydrous antimonatc of lead} rr/{ow-brown masses; Nevada, 1 x 2 •, .5 0. . . . . . . .. . . 123 BIOTITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
family saccharine supply at out example. No other district of equal extent can boast the their convenience...our State has resumed its supremacy. As a gold mining country we States. Are in advance ot any other...wheels. In a trial before the Empe­ month. "In silver, Nevada is not the equal of Mexico, but it is su­ ror...perior to· any State of Mexico, and the Virginia district pro­ tance was made in fifty-eight seconds, and...the inventor af­ duces annually more silver than any other district does now, firms that nearly this speed
Journal (volume)
Mines, A general view of the Pay-rock tramway Silver Plume, Colorado, built on this system, The syetom...moved it will require more larger quantities are mine by loading every third ascending help. This upper...these Huson patent tramways are in use in various mining districts, for transport- ing ore, supplies,...also, some of them carrying the men to and from the mine or mill. In mountainous districts they are invaluable..." Surely as follows: by motive there carry silver will it by us was ble cited when will be
Report (issue)
Orange County copper district, the stops and descriptions in and surrounding the Elizabeth mine are duplicated...Ratte assisted in selecting the stop at the Taggart mine. Appreciation is also extended to Frank Spear and...(U) West Jamaica (U) Vail mine (Fe-t- Mn) Brandon mine (Fe) Lion Hill mine (Zn + Pb) Crown Point mines...(Fe + Ti) Hammondville mines (Fe) Skiff Mountain mine (Fe) Paradox Lake mines (Fe) Fort Ann mines (Fe)...Towns Ely mine (Cu±Zn) Orange and Gove mines (Cu) Elizabeth mine (Cu + Zn±Ag) Waterman mine (Cu±Zn) Holts
 
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