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Proustite from
Maggie mine, Yankee Blade Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Proustite
Formula:Ag3AsS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Proustite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maggie mine, Yankee Blade Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1551915
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1551915:9
GUID (UUID V4):2e9c686f-e560-4777-b282-2fc6a17970a2
Nearest other occurrences of Proustite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘConfidence mine, New York Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘToulumne mine (Tuolumne mine), Yankee Blade Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘMorris and Cable tunnel (Morris and Caple tunnel), New York Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘMaricopa prospect, New York Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘPatriot mine, Yankee Blade Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘCambrian and New York mine, New York Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘChase mine, New York Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘYankee Blade mine, Yankee Blade Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) ⓘTrue Blue tunnel, New York Canyon, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘSouthall and O'Kane mine, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent
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
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,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
section on Periods of Plutonism in North-Central Nevada MILES L. SILBERMAN AND EDWIN H. MCKEE Abstract...ve yielded significant production in only one district, Battle Mountain (Copper Canyonand CopperBasin)...occurat Eur4ka (silver-gold-leadzinc) and Copper Canyon (copper-goldand zinc-lead-silver). Peripheral gold-silver...gold-silver depositsoccur at Eureka and Copper Canyon. Disseminatedgold depositssuchas Carlin, Cortez...last 40 years.at Getcheil,Gold M‱.TAn deposits in Nevada were subdividedby Acres, Carlin, and Cortez do
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Report (volume)
RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.......................................... Secret Canyon shale...................................................................... Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................ Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location...geology............................................. Mine descriptions...................................
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)
view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite
Report (volume)
................/................:. Methods of mining and treatment of ores....-....--. ...... ........Silver Lake mine..... . -.-.-..--....-.---..-.-. ....................... 145 145 145 149 Iowa mine ........Royal Tiger mine......................... 159 ......--.....-....-.-....-. Buckeye mine ...............-- ......................... 160 Titusville. mine ... .........--.--..-.---...-..-............................-.-...--......-..........-.,.:. Aspen mine ..... ... .....,.-...--....----.-.--..---.-....
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
Book
............................. . . Argentite, proustite, polybasite, and stephanite ............... ..... . Cowdrey, Bancroft, Silver Swan, and Little Maggie blankets -... Union-Carbonate blankets . _ . .... . . . . . . . . . . . _ . _ . Future of the district . _ . . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . ...._ . . . _ . . _ . . . _ . . . . . . . Enterprise mine . . . . . _ . . . _ . . . . _ . _ . _ . . . . ....the northwesterly lodes . . . . . . . . Rico-Aspen mine . . . . . . . _ . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . _ .
Journal (issue)
Clarno, Oregon Fossil Locality - On the .John Day river in Central Oregon, near the community of Clarno...epoch, this area may have been at the mouth of a river system. Lush tropical vegetation grew on its lower...and breaking. A sort of hard-rock, heart-breaking mining operation. No explosives may be used. My collection...the other Nations, but it would appear that the USA alone will soon fill the sky with numer­ ous types...the Eleven Mile Canyon Road. Recent road construc­ tion, and the waste dumps from the mine workings have
Journal (issue)
AN INFLUENTIAL IRON ORE MINERAL + ARTISANAL MINING A Complex Industry ROCK & GEM ‱ Vol. 49 No. 05...Magma Dot Wine Country Bill Rozday 26 ARTISANAL MINING It’s Dangerous, Illegal, Undocumented—and Booming...GOETHITE Exploring New Mexico’s U.S. 60 Mine Mark Leatherman 42 PROUSTITE 36 58 THE MINERALS OF KILAUEA ...and sell rocks, gems, 6 ROCKNGEM.COM EDITORIAL MAGGIE JUDKINS Editorial Director BOB JONES Senior Consulting...that result in the huge hematite iron deposits we mine today? Everyone knows that iron and oxygen in a
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...the “famous locality” series: the Home Sweet Home mine and Mount Antero. A fine mineralogical study of...you belong to, and where you come from. American mining schools and professional organizations have long... centering on some of the nostalgic aspects of mining in Arizona and beautifully illustrated with paintings...“Missing and presumed lost” by the wellknown lost-mine author Kearney Egerton; “El Dorado’s children” by
Journal (issue)
to Reno by Georgia Getty 48 NEVADA'S FABLED REESE RIVER SILVER LEDGES More collecting In the silver state...State Street in downtown Carlsbad, Calif. (Outside USA send $2.00 for cat■ los) GEMS & MINERALS - 7 ...bands. In this case the bands will face the saw blade. For "flowers" or swirls, saw parallel to the bands...drill though, is normally dictated by the method of mining Lhat followc;. York and Proline rigs cost about...Convention Center 11-12 June-Jefferson, Oh~Ashtabula County Fairgrounds 18-19 June-Topsfield, (Boston) Mass
Book (volume)
and vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...Valentine in Cherry Co., extending along the Niobrara River eastward into Brown Co. The Sandhills Museum in...area around the confluence of the Loup River with the Platte River in Platte Co. is well known for its agates...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townï‚Ÿagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville
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
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)
east-west, northwest, and northeast within the district. Hawkins (1982) postulated that the east-west­...faults during the basin-and-range event. The Snow Canyon fault, one of the major east-west-trending faults...faults, occurs just north of the Jerritt Canyon window (fig. 57). Similar but smaller scale east-west-trending...east-west-trending faults in the Enfield Bell mine are are the Marlboro Canyon, Bell, and Ridge faults (fig. 58)...upper- and lower-plate rocks in the Jerritt Canyon district is thought to be a high-angle fault. Exposure
Other Paper
1129690-R8SDMS RECLAMATION FEASIBILITY REPORT ANIMAS RIVER ABOVE EUREKA E^«^.|3lt- f 4 ^ JIM HERRON, BRUCE... 1129690-R8SDMS RECLAMATION FEASIBILITY REPORT ANIMAS RIVER ABOVE EUREKA JIM HERRON, BRUCE STOVER AND PAUL...MINERALS AND GEOLOGY OCTOBER, 1999 Upper Animas River Reclamation Feasibility Report TABLE OF CONTENTS...Baseline Data Collection Water Quality Sampling Mine Waste Sampling Watershed Chemistry Upper Animas...Subsurface Hydrologic Controls Mine Site Characterization Animas River Headwaters and Burrows Creek Location
Book (volume)
...........................................283 Nevada ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Book (volume)
...........................................243 Nevada .................................................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
 
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