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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yerington Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1558688
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1558688:7
GUID (UUID V4):8980ee1d-0f65-40f9-80ae-a0d19368b4ce
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
0.1km (0.1 miles) ⓘAnaconda's Yerington open pit (Empire-Nevada Mine; Nevada-Empire Mine; Weed Heights), Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.9km (3.0 miles) ⓘMalachite Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) ⓘNevada Denver Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) ⓘLudwig Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
8.6km (5.4 miles) ⓘMason Pass, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
25.2km (15.6 miles) ⓘRed Canyon claims (NBMG sample site No. 4405), Red Canyon Mining District, Pine Nut Mountains, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
27.2km (16.9 miles) ⓘNorthern Lights Mine, Hussman Spring, Black Mountain, Wassuk Range, Mountain View Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
36.7km (22.8 miles) ⓘRuby Hill Mine, Gardnerville Mining District, Pine Nut Mountains, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
37.8km (23.5 miles) ⓘOld Soldier mine (Lost Soldier mine), Churchill Mining District, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
50.5km (31.4 miles) ⓘLeviathan Mine, Leviathan Peak, Monitor - Mogul Mining District, Alpine County, California, 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)
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
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
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 (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)
wu OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY— Joseph V: Tingley a RobertC.Horton _ Francis C. Lincoln 3 . ...Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was made — possible with the assistance...eh aa nearly 48 million acres of public land in Nevada. Most of the minerals, _ _ geothermal energy, and...ahij 4 = Wh A a ‘ a a y 4 Pte Es in Nevada comes from publicland. First edition, first printing...Leshendok, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Eric Moody, Nevada Historical Society Ă© Jon Price, National Research
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...geologic structure that controls this Basin and Range topography is dominated by faults. As can be seen...seen on figure 1, nearly every mountain range is bounded on at least one side by a fault that has been...in some places. Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...black-smoker environments. It is commonly associated with cuprite, brochantite, antlerite, linarite, caledonite,...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite
Report (issue)
regions. Association: Malachite, azurite, tenorite, cuprite, linarite, caledonite, cerussite, atacamite, chrysocolla...Duchessa, Sardinia, Italy. In Germany, at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest. In England, numerous...the USA, in Arizona, large crystals from Bisbee, Cochise Co., and at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger...Mammoth mine, Tintic, Juab Co., Utah; at Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico; from the Cerro Gordo mine, Inyo...Douglas Hill and Mason Pass mines, Yerington district, Lyon Co., Nevada. Many other localities are known
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)
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...Common accessory minerals are malachite, azurite, cuprite, linarite, caledonite, cerussite, atacamite, chrysocolla...sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the exploration of skarn deposits. Windeler and Lyon (1991), Windeler (1993), Cudahy et al. (2001), and...porphyry-epithermal-related alteration in the Yerington district, Nevada, and was investigated using a portable...acquired by the Geoscan MkII sensor by Windeler and Lyon (1991) and Windeler (1993). In these studies, the...performed by Cudahy et al. (2001) throughout the Yerington district. Within the skarns, Cu ore occurs as replacement...and white mica are identified in the VNIR-SWIR range, whereas garnet (Fe-Al solid solution - andradite-grossular)
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
Journal (issue)
MINING CONGRESS JOURNAL JUNE 1963 “An Open Letter on Stockpiling” by Edward A. McDermott, Director... © HUNTINGTON 10,W. VA. « ST. PAUL 1, MINN. MINING CONGRESS JOURNAL VOL. 49 JUNE CONTENTS PUBLISHER...Patrick D. McMurrer in Trona 44 Blasting 48 Mining Open Pit Slope Stability Research by the Bureau...Long 68 Drilling Practices in the Coeur d'Alene District 72 Maintenance 76 Peter Boyko and G. A. Strand...ANNOUNCEMENTS Los Angeles Mining Convention SPECIAL Report, THE AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS Ring Bldg., Washington
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...of the ore deposits 2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility...filling 3 42 CONTENTS. Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued...shoots Milling High Grade district, Modoc County, Cal Location History of mining Accessibilty Previous descriptions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U. S.) that has been opened up...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on...Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by Richard by legitimate collectors...studies of the altered triplite from the local Swanson Mine showed that the little tabular crystals which I
Report (issue)
example, Christmas, Arizona, and Battle Mountain, Nevada), more copper is recovered from calc-silicate rocks...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...assemblage might include malachite + azurite + cuprite + chrysocolla, with minor amounts of other minerals...the date of a study, considering the extent of mining at that date. At Batu Hijau, Indonesia, Arif and...Fluid-Inclusion Thermometry and Geochemistry A wide range of fluid-inclusion homogenization temperatures has
Journal (issue)
MARCH–APRIL 2019 Articles The Candelaria District Mineral County, Nevada .....................................by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
we will approach In the 1760's a mining company did this topic. mine copper. The production was too Copper...deposit. Late in June the dwell on the processes of mining and Cass expedition arrived at the mouth of refining...area. Secondly, the uses sufficient for profitable mining. The expe­ of copper in the development of the...area, studying it for its copper content. In 1844 mining operations began with copper oxides. Al­ though...per year." In 1887 the copper mining in Butte, Montana surpassed the mining of Michi­ gan. So far we have
Report (issue)
of the resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada by George Wong Open-File Report 83-721...Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...of the resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada By George Wong The purpose of this map...within the Basin and Range Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent
 
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