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Muscovite from
Gold Hill Mine, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gold Hill Mine, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1568669
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1568669:1
GUID (UUID V4):aeb1ca70-1b68-481d-98dd-f72242cad9d2
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
7.5km (4.7 miles) Fairview Mine, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Round Mountain Mine (Sunnyside Mine), Round Mountain, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Stevenson and Schuppy Mine, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
12.3km (7.6 miles) Senator (Red Bird Toquima), Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Unnamed prospect, Outlaw Mine, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
15.5km (9.7 miles) Outlaw Mine, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Tom Cat prospect, Twin River Mining District, Toiyabe Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
24.2km (15.0 miles) Corcoran Canyon Project, Nye County, Nevada, USA
25.8km (16.1 miles) April Fool Hill, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
26.2km (16.3 miles) April Fool Mine, April Fool Hill, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
History of Precious Metal Deposits, Southern Toquima Range, Nevada By Daniel R. Shawe 1 Open-File Report...history of precious metal deposits, southern Toquima Range, Nevada by Daniel R. Shawe U.S. Geological Survey...part of the southern Toquima Range, Nevada, showing locations of the Round Mountain, Manhattan, Belmont...districts................. Geologic map of the Round Mountain quadrangle showing mines, prospects, and mineralized...southern Toquima Range resulted from several distinct mineralizing events. At Round Mountain, base-metal-
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT NEVADA BY HENRY G. FERGUSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...) rocks___________r_________________________ Gold Hill formation______________1 _____________ Ordovician...Ordovician rocks________________'. __________________ Toquima formation__________________________ Permian (?)...___ Round Rock member___ _______________ Diamond King member______________________ Bald Mountain lake... 98 Arsenical minerals______________________ 99 Gold of the arsenical ores____________'. _________. 105
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RoundMountain and ManhattanGold Districts,Nye County, Nevada D. R. SHAWE, R. F. MARVIN, U.S. GeologicalSurvey...isotopicagedeterminations help clarifythe geologichistoryof the Round Mountainand Manhattangold districts,Nevada.Cretaceousgraniteof...ago,the Manhattancalderaformedabout25 m.y. ago,and gold mineralizationat RoundMountainoccurredat about25...Shawein the Round Mountain and Manhattan 7%-minute quadrangles, southernToquimaRange,Nye County,Nevada(Figs...episodesformed a recently discoveredgold depositat Round Mountain that is one of the largestgold depositsnow
Report (issue)
of the Tonopah 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada Presented at Reno, Nevada September 26, 1986 Compiled by Donald...Report 86-467 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary........ 1 The mineral inventory project of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology in the Tonopah 1° x...Computation of numerical estimates of the undiscovered gold and silver endowment contained in five types of...volcanic rocks in the Paradise Range and northern Pactolus Hills, Nye County, Nevada, by David A. John......
Report (issue)
Assessment of the Tonopah 1° by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada by Greta J. Orris and Frank J. Kleinhampl U.S...molybdenum Epithermal gold-silver veins Hot-spring gold-silver Sediment-hosted disseminated gold-silver Simple...provides basic and interpreted geologic data for long-range national mineral resource policy and aids in Federal...resources. The Tonopah quadrangle contains notable gold-silver deposits and has a history of production...tracts for epithermal gold-silver veins, sediment-hosted gold-silver, hot-spring gold-silver, and simple
Report (issue)
Manhattan and Mount Jefferson Calcleras, Nye County, Nevada U,S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...the Manhattan and Mount Jefferson Calderas, Nye County, Nevada By DANIEL R. SHAWE and DAVID B. SNYDER U...the Manhattan and Mount Jefferson calderas, Nye County, Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey professional paper...16:1471 1. Breccia Nevada Nye County. 2. Volcanic ash, tuff, etc. Nevada Nye County. County. I. Snyder, David...Series. QE471.15.B7S525 1988 552'.2 3. Calderas Nevada Nye 87-600088 Any use of trade names is for descriptive
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)
No. i NEVADA. G. FERGUS0N.1 INTRODUCTION. Mostof theoredeposits c•ftheManhattan district aregoldbearingveinsof...northeasterly trending Toquima Range, about 35 miles north of Tonopah. The Toquima Range is one of the lessprominentof...isolated mountain ranges which are such notable featuresof the Great Basin topography. The range is borderedby...easternfront of the Toyabe Range, which borders Big Smoky Valley on the west. The district was first visited by...FERGUSON. and observations on the placers? The district was revisitedin' x9x9 and the geologyof the p
Report (volume)
Index of Granitic Rock Masses in the State of Nevada By FLORIAN MALDONADO, RICHARD W. SPENGLER, W.F....on 205 areas of exposed granitic rock masses in Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1831 DEPARTMENT...Data Index of granitic rock masses in the state of Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1831) Bibliography:...Docs. no.: I 19.3:1831 1. Granite-Nevada. 2. Intrusions (Geology) -Nevada. I. Maldonado, Florian. II. United...Clark County 9 Geology 9 Plutons 9 Lincoln County 1S Geology 1S Plutons 1S Southern Nye County 17 Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data—Implications... Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA ABSTRACT ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...imagery over a 389 km × 387 km area in northern Nevada (38.5°–42°N, 114°–118.5°W) was analyzed to evaluate...geology of this area has been mapped at a wide range of scales and includes a diversity of rock types...quartz were detected in or near known Carlin-type gold deposits, distal disseminated Au-Ag deposits, high-
Report (issue)
STATE OF NEVADA Open-file Report 79-235 1979 Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Nevada Operations...SURVEY INVENTORY OF GRANITIC MASSES IN THE STATE OF NEVADA Compiled by Richard W. Spengler, Florian Maldonado...-----------------------------------------Clark County-----------------------------------------------...---------------------------------------Lincoln County-----------------------------------------------...------------------------------------Southern Nye County---------------------------------------------
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)
THE GEOLOGY MARCH-APRIL, MINING HENRY DISTRICTS 1929 No. 2 OF NEVADA. G. FERGUSON3 ABSTRACT....representedin Nevada;theearliestoredeposits areassociated withgraniticrocks,which in western Nevada were intruded...depositssilverexceedsgold by weight,while in thoseof Plioceneage gold is commonlyin excess. The Miocenedepositshave on...silver-gold veins of Miocene age are likely to prove of more importancethan the Pliocene gold-bearingveins...geographicand geologicdistributionof the ore depositsof Nevada. The wr{ter's personalacquaintance with the regionis
Journal (issue)
ISSUE #1 Adelaide Mine 2010 Tomasz PRASZKIER & Adam WRIGHT INTRODUCTION The Adelaide Mine, located in Western...specimens have been found in the history of the mine – in 1970’s, 1990’s and then again in 2010! The...Tasmania, the Heazlewood district, and the Dundas district. The Dundas Ag-Zn-Pb mining field is located about...specimens – Adelaide and Red Lead. The Adelaide mine however, produces much bigger quantities of high...HISTORY OF THE ADELAIDE MINE The deposit mined recently at the Adelaide mine was discovered in 1887.
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...well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual
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 (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...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
igneous rocks, eastern Basin and Range Province, western Utah, eastern Nevada, and vicinity, U.S.A. RICHARD...February &&&-More than 100 new K-Ar eastern Basin and Range Province LEE ARMSTRONG and Geophysics, Yale Connecticut...consistently about 10 per cent low. Biotite and muscovite are hornblende appears to be suitable for dating...Wasatch region of Utah, in northern Nevada and probably at Gold Hill, Utah. Intense igneous activity occurred...occurred in and near east-central Nevada during the Oligocene; activity shifted towards the eastern and
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
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
Report (issue)
Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM 87801 ginger@gis.nmt...deposits in Utah, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico range from small (Apache Warm Springs, 39,063 metric tons...tons Be, grade <0.26% Be) to world-class (Spor Mountain, 7,011,000 metric tons, grade 0.266% Be). In New...beryl production from the Harding pegmatite, Taos County. Current drilling in the Apache Warm Springs deposit...known as Spor Mountain Be-U-F or epithermal volcanic-hosted deposit. The Iron Mountain deposit, also
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
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...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....0 H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
 
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