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Chalcopyrite from
Malachite Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Malachite Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1558166
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1558166:0
GUID (UUID V4):23dea4d5-5eff-4aca-9061-0bf81c554940
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Mason Valley Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) McConnell Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Western Nevada Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Bluestone Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Thanksgiving Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) Douglas Hill Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Ann-Mason deposit (Ludwig; Douglas Hill; Cast; Blue Hills; McConnell; Minnesota; Shamrock), Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.6km (2.8 miles) Montana Yerington Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Casting Copper Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Ludwig Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
COPPER. THE YERINGTON COPPER DISTRICT, NEVADA. By FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The town of...of Yerington is in Lyon County, in that part of western Nevada which lies between Tahoe and Walker lakes...near Wabuska, around the north end of the Walker Range on its way to Walker Lake. A small part only of...copper deposits presently to be described. Near Yerington the valley is from 3 to 4 miles wide, but it expands...name is said to be Singatse,0 but which J. E. Spurr & has called the Smith Valley Range. This ridge has
Report (issue)
THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC OF WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA by Jeff L. Doebrich 1 ,...Open-File Report 96-9 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary...School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 'Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MS...MS 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 'U.S. Geological Survey, Retired, 8920 West 2nd........ YERINGTON SUPERSYSTEM ........................................................ Yerington Batholith
Report (issue)
114 GEOLOGY AND ORE DE_POSITS OF THE YERINGTON DIST_RICT, NEVADA BY • ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT.................................. . . History of mining .......................... . Production .........geology-Continued. 9 Epitome of the. geologic history of the 9 district .....•......................... 9 Part II. The........ . 20 Bluestone :mine ................ ·........ . 2'0 Mason Valley mine .................................. . 21 _ Malachite mine ............ .' .......... ·.. . 22 McConnell mine ........ : ......
Report (issue)
Radioactive Deposits of Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLET l]N ^1 0 0 9 - C A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF URANIUM RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA By T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Thirty-five occurrences...occurrences of radioactive rocks had been reported from Nevada prior to 1952. Twenty-five of these had been investigated...Monster mine, which shipped 5 tons of ore to Marysvale, Utah, during 1951; the Majuba Hill mine; the Stalin's...prospect; and the West Willys claim in the Washington district. No estimate has been made of thorium reserves
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
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...represented by numerous geothermal areas. The range of minerals found in mines, quarries, and prospect...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
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
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
Journal (issue)
Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the...Corporation Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens, but production of...of the elongated, fibrous malachite specimens seems subordinate to other, more common forms seen from
Report (issue)
in Progress for the Reno 1° x 2° CUSMAP Project, Nevada, with additional bibliography by Gary B. Sidder...GEOPHYSICS ADDITIONAL STUDIES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR MINING DISTRICTS Shady Run (Fondaway Canyon) Broken Hills...information to Sidder (1986) on deposit types and mining districts in the Reno quadrangle and additional...quadrangles. He is correlating tuff units in the Singatse Range with tuffs in different parts of his map area...Menlo Park) has mapped in the southern Stillwater Range primarily on the La Plata Canyon, Table Mountain
Catalog/List
S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...crystals on \/ad. 104 ADAMITE, Quartz Mountain, Nevada. Pale blue to colorless nearly equant crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theCopper-Bearing Skarnat theMasonValley Mine, YeringtonDistrict,Nevada MARCO T. EINAUDI Abstract Skarn formation...formation at the Mason Valley mine occurred at a depth of 2,000 m on the outer fringe of a contactmetasomaticaureole...andradite. Later garnets,contemporaneous with chalcopyrite deposition, consist of pure andradite. The iron...in the Yerington district, field relationsand chemicalcompositionof coexistLyon County, Nevada, 2.5 km...garnet, pyroxene, and amphibole. The MasonValley mine (MVM) is ideallysuited is a small copper-bearingskarn
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Ann-MasonPorphyry Copper Deposit, Yerington, Nevada* JOHN H. DILLES, Department of Geosciences...Norton, 1982). Bothprocesses mayhaveoccu-rred at Yerington (Dilles andEinaudi, 1988). The Yeringtondistrict...palcodepthwith topsto the west (Figs.1 Excellentsurface,mine, and drill core exposuresal- and 2; Dilles, 1984...andfig. 2 from the Ann-Masonporphyry deposit,Yerington of Dilles, 1987). Hydrothermal alteration and...all intrusivephasesof the batholithis plaYerington mine porphyry deposit (Einaudi, 1970b; gioclase(oligoclase_+andesinc)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...in arid regions. Common accessory minerals are malachite, azurite, cuprite, linarite, caledonite, cerussite...sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21
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)
....................................... 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 (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (issue)
deposits, the copper occurs predominantly in chalcopyrite; other important copper ore minerals may include...example, Christmas, Arizona, and Battle Mountain, Nevada), more copper is recovered from calc-silicate rocks...and arsenides in an assemblage of magnetite, chalcopyrite, and bornite in the porphyry deposit at Elatsite...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...than areas of less-IP-reactive clay minerals, chalcopyrite, and bornite. Spectral IP has been used to classify
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
Book
A Range Guide to MINES and MINERALS " How and Where A ,-A 1 to Find Valuable Ores and Minerals...quickly informative.”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by Jay Ellis Did...stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...of popular the Ellis Ransom, Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you need to know to go about...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the humboldt mafic complex, nevada, usa Theodore A. DeMatties PII: DOI: Reference: ...mineralization in the humboldt mafic complex, nevada, usa, Ore Geology Reviews (2017), doi: http://dx.doi...MINERALIZATION 4 IN THE 5 HUMBOLDT MAFIC COMPLEX, NEVADA, USA 6 7 Theodore A. DeMatties 8 34898 University...University Ave., Cambridge, Minnesota 55008, USA 9 Email: tdematties@aol.com 10 11 Phone No. 011-763-232-8281...associated Boyer Ranch Formation of west-central Nevada, USA. This episode is responsible for significant
Report (issue)
__ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits...Highways_____ Production............................... Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville
 
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