 | | 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 |  | | Book | | ' ae “ay oe ar DISCARDED Gems« Minerals Richmond Publ ic Library -Gems« Minerals Earth Treasures...Station Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1H1 Design and Layout: Joseph...Miguel Hortiguela, LPPO Illustrations: Crowle Art Group Printed in China The publisher gratefully acknowledges...139) Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai...Serbia ¢ tixex7 cm LEFT: Fluorite, Taihang Shan Mountains, Hebei, China * (Sexes selem 10 | MINERALS: |  | | | | surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...groups: Minerals that have oxygen tightly bonded in a group around a central non-metallic ion. Oxides or carbonate...Silicates: Minerals have oxygen tightly Olivine, garnet, epidote, vesuvianite, rhodonite, beryl, tourmaline...feldspar, nepheline, zeolite, sodalite, bonded in a group around a central silicon atom. kyanite, topaz, titanite...the colour drastically, for example, tourmaline, garnet, topaz, quartz. Streak: Colour of Powder Streak |  | | Report (volume) | | anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Miners' Association Cal St :M Bur California State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M...Adams (F D), 18 Federal Government, relation to the mining industry: Hayes, 06 Fossil insects: Cockerell,...to geology: Davis ( W M), 12a Geologic bases of mining law: De Kalb, 10 Geologic basis for artesian prediction:...relations: Branner, 90a; relations to successful mining: Winslow, 9lc Geological work in the Southwest: |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin, vol. 47. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 97-108; Transactions...nos. 1-6. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 68-70. San Francisco, Cal...Summary report for 1914. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 33-44; Transactions...Transactions, vol. 17. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 36. Toronto and Montreal, Canada. Canadian...Bulletin, nos. 23-25. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 7, no. |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...rocks contain large crystals, often of the feldspar group and are known as porphyries. The individual crystals...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...are the home of a number of interesting minerals. Garnet, staurolite and andalusite are typical minerals...minerals change. A number of silicate minerals such as garnet and epidote and some sulphides giving metallic |  | | Report (issue) | | said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...the Mojave Desert area and of Death Valley by a group of U.S. Geological Survey workers, with the collaboration |  | | Book (edition) | | Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART |  | | Book (edition) | | his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and | | | Book (edition) | | Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express | | | Book (edition) | | Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART |  | | 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...(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 |  | | Book (edition) | | (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Care! ARIZONA WULFENITE Down Deep in the Rowley Mine GEM GARNETS Popular for Centuries THE BALTIMORE...from the Herja mine (Baia Mare, Maramures), Romania. (Gerhard Brandstetter photo) Garnet: Gem of the Ages.......................... 44 A colorful silicate group by Bob Jones 10 Deadly Minerals .................in the Rowley................... 22 This Arizona mine is a specimen treasure trove Winter rockhounding...Notes New owners took possession of the Mary Ellen mine property on July 1, 2014 and no collecting is being |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...some species have been relegated to group names (e.g., monazite group); others have had element designations...the zeolite minerals, where chabazite is now a group name with five species who differ only in the major...International Mineralogical Association (IMA), changed to a group name, or renamed by changes in nomenclature as mineral...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names |  | | Book | | 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...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...stone hammers, and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...character of the area, which is in the Turquoise Mountains, T. 16 N., R. 10 and 11 E., S. B. "Sir. T. C....circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Slining Bureau reported at about the |  | | 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 .....:........................................ |  | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cleavelandite, 4.3 cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root |  | | Book (edition) | | interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Harold Noble, Leo |  | | Book | | P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University...California, and published in the fourth and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning in 1914 with a volume...have been found mainly in the Sierra Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | 4, 5, 8; Museum Paper, nos. 5, 6; County Report, no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...vols. 3-12. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Technical Publication...1-157; Transactions, vols. 60-76. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Science, 4th...vols. 9-17. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletins 79, 85-101. San Francisco, Calif...vols. 33-42. Ottawa, Ont Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 23-30; Monthly |  | | Book (volume) | | 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...with digging vast quantities of coal, leveling mountains of iron ore, and tapping subterranean lakes of...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert...Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and by A. L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they | | | Book | | P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining the at College of California, parent to the...mineralogist of California, and pub- and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning volume prepared...platinum — have been found mainly in Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions...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 |
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