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Rhyolite from
Midway Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Rhyolite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhyolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Midway Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1588257
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1588257:8
GUID (UUID V4):26ef48d9-c28a-45ae-b04f-86951fdf8e54
Nearest other occurrences of Rhyolite
0.1km (0.0 miles) Tonopah Midway Mining Company, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Tonopah Mining Company, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Tonopah Extension Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Montana - Tonopah Mining Company, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) McNamara Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Jim Butler Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) West End Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Mizpah Extension Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Halifax Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
SMITH, DIRECTOR RESULTS OF SPIRIT LEVELING IN NEVADA 1897 TO 1909, INCLUSIVE R. B. MARSHALL, CHIEF................... Lida 1° quadrangle (Esmeralda County)................................ Primary leveling...Mountain 3(X quadrangles (Esmeralda, Lincoln, and Nye counties)..........................................quadrangles (Lincoln County)............ Tonopah 1° quadrangle (Esmeralda and Nye counties).............(Esmeralda County)........ Carson Sink and Hawthorne 1° quadrangles (Esmeralda, Churchill, and Nye counties)
Report (issue)
ARROW, CLIFFORD, AND ELLENDALE DISTRICTS, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA. By HENRY G. FERGUSON. INTRODUCTION. In...work in central Nevada an opportunity arose for brief visits to the three small mining camps here described...of Nevada. Golden Arrow and Clifford are situated at the western base of the Kawich Range in Nye County...by automobile from Tonopah. The Clifford district is on the main road between Tonopah and Ely, about 35...miles east of Tonopah, and Golden Arrow is 12 miles southwest of Clifford. Neither district has yet produced
Report (issue)
SOME CINNABAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN NEVADA. By ADOLPH KNOPF. DEPOSITS EAST OF MINA. LOCATION AND HISTORY..."of the Pilot Mountains, in an air line 8 miles south of east of Mina, Esmeralda County, Nev. The average...supply of water. The topographic features of the district and its approaches are shown on the scale of 1:250...of the Tonopah quadrangle. The discovery that drew attention to the cinnabar of Pilot Mountains was made...many more were afterward staked by claimants from Tonopah. Unfortunately the amount of exploratory and development
Report (issue)
Smith, Director Bulletin 795 F THE GILBERT DISTRICT, NEVADA BY HENRY G. FERGUSON Contributions to economic...Post-Bsmeralda lavas _____________________ Intrusive rhyolite _ Intrusive andesite_______________________ Later..._ __________ Pre-Tertiary ore deposits 1_ Carrie mine _ _ _______ ______________ Tertiary deposits- ___...____ __________ ___________ 141 Gilbert Gold Mining Co________________________ Tom Crown_____________________________...of the Gilbert district, Nev____ _ 10. Geologic map and section of the Gilbert district, Nev ii 126 127
Report (volume)
............................................. Rhyolite and dacite eruptions --..-_----._.__----__..----...the early rhyolite intrusion.............. Mineralization subsequent to the later rhyolite intrusion... ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATE I. Geologic map of Tonopah mining district........................ FIG. 1. Plan of............ 2. Map showing outcropping veins at Tonopah........................ 3. Detailed vertical section...Valley View veins........ 4. Ideal cross section of Tonopah rocks .............................. Page. 7 18
Book
Gold mines and mining—Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)—History. 4. Gold mines and mining—Amargosa River...the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans...delusions they pursued—the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating...Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires...mineral wealth, has been the work of many hands, mining and refining it. The final metal owes much to the
Journal (volume)
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. “.00 a Year; 101: a copy MINING REVIFAV 116 North Broadway, Los Angelou. Cal. Telephones...THE CONGRESS JUNCTION MINING DISTRICT, ARIZONA. By Chas A. Dinsmore, in Mining & Engineering World. The... 3 miles from the junc tion, where the private mining railway runs down to the Santa Fe. This property...property is half a mile from the old Congress mine, one of the greatest gold pro ducers Arizona ever boasted...seen to be of the same permanence as the Congress mine. It is necessary to refer to the Congress, because
Report (volume)
Resources of the Antelope Wilderness Study Area, Nye County, Nevada -*,... U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1731-E...Resources of the Antelope Wilderness Study Area, Nye County, Nevada By RICHARD F. HARDYMAN, FORREST G. POOLE...MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREASCENTRAL NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...resources of the Antelope Wilderness Study Area, Nye County, Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1731)...(Mineral resources of wilderness study areas Central Nevada ; ch. E) Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs, no.: I
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theTonopah,Comstock Lode, andGoldfieldMiningDistricts,Nevada* Hos• P. TAYLOR,J'R. Abstract Oxygen isotopeanalyseswere...and hydrothermal veins at Tonopah,Goldfield,and the ComstockLode. At Tonopah,the $Ots valuesare as follows:...follows: Mizpah trachyte (--5.9 to +3.3); West End rhyolite (--4.7 to +1.5); Sandgrass andesite(--6.0); main-stagevein..."normal" igneousrocks. The postmineralization Oddie rhyolite and Fraction volcanicbreccia,however,have much...areas at the time of mineralization. ßTuscarora NEVADA 'COMSTOCK %A• ODE rata ß Round Mtn. This
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 (volume)
"eggshell" beds, West End area, Clark County, Nev.; B, Anniversary mine, West End area_____________________...showing plan of underground workings of Anniversary mine.-.----------------------------- ---106 6. A, Part...near Bissell, Kern County, Calif.; B, Magnesite mine, Afton area, San Bernardino County, Calif _______________________...of brucite-magnesite area in Paradise Range, Nye County, Nev_-----___________________________ 122 142...Annual production of nonferrous metals in Vulture district, Arizona, 1907-32__----_____--_ ._.____ 2. Annual
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 (issue)
pueblos: San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Cochiti, Santa Ana, Zia and others. Colorful Eagle dance at San Ildefonso...Travelcade, to Tucson and San Xavier, Arizona. LETTERS GHOST TOWN LOST MINE NEWS MINING Jan. 15—Phoenix Don's...hike to summit of an unnamed peak in the San Bernardino mountains. Howard Hill, leader. January—Exhibit...knowledge Jan. 23—Annual Feast day and fiesta, San Ildefonso pueblo, New Mexico. Buffalo dance given...On the barren ground is spread. From the hills of San Jacinto Comes the wind, with a stinging blast; And
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amphibians and Reptiles in Nevada Author(s): Jean M. Linsdale Source: Proceedings of the American Academy...faunal of vertebrates groups a desert such as Nevada, region report than the other in method of...characteristically the other situations, in in Nevada, of years early under its existence. all...Administration Progress one for each form. to Nevada adopted here, When a kind at least at been...Klauber Dr. Joseph Grin of their field work in Nevada. nell has contributed to this report by advice
Report (volume)
SMITH, Director Bulletin 654 SPIRIT LEVELING IN NEVADA 1897 TO 1916, INCLUSIVE R. B. MARSHALL, CHIEF...there is no rock. PLATE I SPIRIT LEVELING IN NEVADA, 1897 TO 1916, INCLUSIVE. B. B. MAKSIIALL, Chief...publication. All results of spirit leveling in Nevada previously published by the United States Geological...masonry or rock is not avail5 6 SPIKIT LEVELING IN NEVADA. able, consists of a hollow wrought-iron post...of the following quadrangles wholly or partly in Nevada have been published by the United States Geological
Report (issue)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOLOGY OF THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA BY JOSIAH EDw-ARD SPURR .. . =. ...·_____________ . __________ . ______________ .. Tonopah rhyolite:dacite .... _. _.................... _.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oddi~ rhyolite .. __ ... ___ ____ .... __ .. _.................. . . . . . . . . . . . Relative age of Oddie rhyolite . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . ..... . ........... : . _.......... . .... Latest rhyolite or dacite ......................... _.. . . .
Report (issue)
.............................................. Mining, milling, and processing ........................perlite are described and brief mention is made of mining, milling, processing, economic factors, and reserve...occurrence of perlite as well as some features of mining, processing, and utilization are briefly stated...chemical composition corresponding to that of rhyolite when computed on a water-free basis, although...that a glass of the composition of granite or rhyolite can retain as much as 10 percent water, depending
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---------------------------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY AND ORE-DEPOSITION AT TONOPAH, NEVADA. J. E. S•,um•. SYNOPSIS. At Tonopahthe oldestrock...secondtrachyalaskiticintrusioncamein--the W'estEnd rhyolite sheet--which penetratedalong a fissureusuallylying...At a subsequent epochcamean eruptionof andesite(Midway andesite) as a surface flow; at a still later epochthere...mineworkings is a great intrusive masscalled the Tonopah rhyolite. The principal veins were formed after the...the Sandgrassandesire-Montanabreccia-W'estEnd rhyolite intrusions. They are quartz veins carrying silver
Report (volume)
Geology of the Magruder Mountain Area Nevada-California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1251-H Geology... Geology of the Magruder Mountain Area Nevada-California By EDWIN H. McKEE CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY...of Fish Lake Valley._____-_-_---__-___Sylvania Mountains.__________________________________________ Magruder...Mountain_----_-_-_-__---__----------_------________ Palmetto Mountains.____________-_-_____---_-_-_-____-_--__--Death...GENERAL GEOLOGY GEOLOGY OF THE MAGRUDER MOUNTAIN AREA NEVADA-CALIFORNIA By EDWIN H. McKEE ABSTRACT The oldest
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT NEVADA BY HENRY G. FERGUSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...prospect____________________,.____ 136 Buckeye prospect Wall mine _______________________________ Maris mine_ __ _...Four mine___________ __________________ Mayflower mine _____________________________ Riley Fraction mi...mine______________-___________ Jumping Jack mine.-__________________________ Golden Crater mine_______...No. 9 mine_________ __________________ Stray Dog mine __________________ _________ Little Grey mine__
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)
--------------------------- Rowley or Reliance mine, by J. A. ~acKallor_____________ PimaCountY----...claims_______________________________________ Pinal County _________________________ ------- ______ -----__...-----__ Santa Cruz CountY---------------------------------------Santo Ni:iio mine, by D. H. Kupfer__...____ Yavapai CountY----------------------------------------------Copper Basin district _______ ------...--------------__ Commercial mine ______ ------------------------------__ Copper Hill mine __________ --------
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...... 28 Piedmont.. ........ Md.-W. Va... 29 Nevada City special. Ycllowstono Nationul Park. 30 Cal........ 932 Hague, A.; Weed, National Park; no mining W. H.; . Iddings, permitted. J.P. Lindgren, W.... No. 38. Economic geology of the Bingharn mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and...F. Emmons. No. 42. Geology of the Tonopah mining district, Nevada, by J. E. Spurr. No. 43. Copper deposits
 
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