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Sphalerite from
Gooseberry Mine, Ramsey Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gooseberry Mine, Ramsey Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1600079
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1600079:1
GUID (UUID V4):2b52e4bb-dcc0-4aa5-8f83-16571747bbbb
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
20.5km (12.7 miles) Olinghouse Mine, Olinghouse Mining District (White Horse Mining District), Pah Rah Range (Pah Rah Mts), Washoe County, Nevada, USA
20.6km (12.8 miles) Flowery Lode, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
23.6km (14.7 miles) Sierra Nevada Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
23.6km (14.7 miles) Monte Cristo Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) Union Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Mexican Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) C and C Mine, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
24.7km (15.4 miles) Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
24.7km (15.4 miles) Consolidated Virginia Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
24.8km (15.4 miles) Best & Belcher Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
showed that lowsulfidation deposits in northern Nevada could be divided into two subtypes based on their...ve Ri Yellowstone Hot Spot Wyoming 0 Ma 40° Nevada S ie GREAT BASIN rra NNR Utah Ne da va California...tectonic features. Heavy line indicates the northern Nevada rift. The heavy star at the north end of the rift...Walker Lane belt from Stewart (1988). NNR = northern Nevada rift, SM = Steens Mountain. mineral assemblages...in the Atlanta, Fairview, Tuscarora, and Wonder mining districts that are hosted by late Eocene to early
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
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
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the Reno 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada and California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Mineral Resources of the Reno 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada and California By DAVID A. JOHN, JOHN H. STEWART...mineral resources of the Reno 1o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California I by David A. John ... [et al.]...resources-Nevada-Reno Region. 2. Mines and mineral resources-California. 3. Geology-Nevada-Reno Region...cultural features in the Reno 1o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California 3 2. Map showing areas of shallow
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...Water Resources Division (WRD) in Carson City, Nevada, is conducting a major study of the Carson River...Rick Blakely has produced a map of the state of Nevada (scale 1:1,000,000) that integrates magnetic and
Report (issue)
occurrences, but as absence of information. Major mining districts and areas of numerous prospects, occurrences...outlined and a single symbol used to represent the district or area. Many of the barite deposits shown on...disconformities. Simple mineralogy (predominantly sphalerite, galena, barite, fluorite, calcite, dolomite...rock is coal or peat from which occurrences of sphalerite or anomolously high amounts of zinc have been...described from Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York. Sphalerite, galena, and barite have been reported from numerous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for copper, Mica Bay for agate and Ranwick Uranium Mine for an underground tour to see uranium where it...Marie opens the door to the Algoma Mining Division, the hardrock mining area where iron, lead, zinc, copper...volcanic intrusions comprise the greater part of this District with small areas of sediments and volcanic rocks...and energy in mining copper ores. Coppercorp was last worked in 1957. To reach the mine it is necessary...Coppercorp on the same mining road. Here you can easily find native copper. Ranwick Uranium Mine lies 78 miles
Book
background of the area. Part One highlights the mining his¬ tory, with accounts of the original indus¬...This includes reference to such diverse themes as mining law, mineral nomenclature, milling prac¬ tice,...owned the famous Succasunna (or Dickerson) magnetite mine from 1807 to 1852. The Canfield collection was general...from the Franklin marble occurrences in Orange County, New York, was purchased in 1914 by the New York...preservation of the minerals from the district. The Franklin Museum, located on Mine Hill beside the Buckwheat open
Journal (issue)
October 17th Field trip to the old Andover Iron Mine, opposite Aeroflex Field, Limecrest Road, Andover...to the Franklin Mineral Museum with tours of the Mine Replica and the 35 ft. Display of Fluorescent Minerals;...once from the 1000 ft. level in the Sterling Hill mine (Ogdensburg). Further, he says: Stilbite was found...stilbite from the 900 foot level in the Sterling Hill mine. The crystals of heulandite and stilbite which we...flakes of graphite, as it usually does, with sphalerite, both black and honey colored, and fine crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at: No. 19, Beitucheng Western Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, P.R. China. E-mail address:...state sulfides such as pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, and tetrahedrite/tennantite associations...indicator of the IS type; light-colored (Fe-poor) sphalerite is typical of IS deposits, consistent with relatively...corresponding sulfur fugacities from measuring the FeS in sphalerite and Ag contents of electrum (Barton and Toulmin...et al. (1999) classified LS deposits of northern Nevada as type 1 LS (associated with a western andesite
Book
mineral occurs in several of the iron mines in Sussex County, New Jersey; as at the Franklin, Sterling, and...between 1810 and 1817, acquired an interest in the Mine Hill area by purchase and in the Sterling Hill tract... Franklin at the time when Iron and not Zinc mining was the principal industry. The dark swampy area...Washington. The ore was obtained from an open pit on Mine Hill which was later known as the Weights and Measures...was responsible for the development of the zinc mining in­ dustry there. Fowlerite a variety of Rhodonite
Report (issue)
THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY BY CHARLES PALACHE UNITED STATES...______________________---_---_.__ The Franklin mining district. _.---.-----_-----_-_--_ General features.--_---...19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 The Franklin mining district Continued. The ore deposits Continued. Paragenesis...Page PLATE 1. Geologic map of the Franklin mining district, showing principal mineral localities.:______...radiate-fibrous form of willemite; C, Friedelite with sphalerite in a carbonate vein; D, White fibers of willemite
Book
background of the area. Part One highlights the mining his­ tory, with accounts of the original indus­...This includes reference lo such diverse themes as mining law, mineral nomenclature, milling prac­ tice,...owned the famous Succasunna (or Dickerson) magnelite mine from 1807 to 1852. The Canfield collection was general...Crom the Franklin marble occurrences in Orange County, New York, was purchased in 1914 by the New York...preservation of the minerals from the district. The Franklin Museum, located on Mine Hill beside the Buckwheat open
Book
and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...SWITZERLAND j& DAVID WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, U.S. A ¥% C. DOUGLAS WOODHOUSE, Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country...of them; many superb clusters are destroyed in mining; poor handling causes a major portion of all specimens
Book
and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...SWITZERLAND ^ david WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, u. S. A ^ C. DOUGLAS woodhouse, Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country...of them; many superb clusters are destroyed in mining; poor handling causes a major portion of all specimens
Journal (issue)
Sparks' hand feeding "Baby Deer" at the State of Texas Mine, in Moctezuma Canyon Mineral Village (26 Miles West...Specimens-Galena (Cubes)-Marc:asite-Calcopyrite- Sphalerite- Calcite- We have just received seTeral hundred...Calc:opyrite, Galena with Marc:asite Calcopyrite and Sphalerite. Galena with Marc:asite' Cal c:opyrite, Shpalerite...Golden Calc:ite, Golden Cal.cite with Galena and Sphalerite. Dog tooth crystals of Calcite with Galena and...THE CALIFORNIA FEDERATION ANDv1/ews PL.ACER COUNTY, CALI" MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES, INC. M. Leonardi
Journal (issue)
Saturday, October 21st Field trip to the old Andover Mine, opposite Aeroflex Field, Limecrest Road, Andover...Zinc Co. Subject - Sterling Hill Mine- re new discoveries at the Mine. Sunday November 19th Field trip...scheduled field trip to the Bethlehem Steel Company Mine. Late on Wednesday, July 5th, we received a letter...Central Pennsylvania has probably closed the Cornwall Mine for good. Company officials advise th^t heavy flooding...flooding in the lower levels iias severely weakened mine timbers and ether supports, causing unsafe conditions
Book (edition)
(Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE SPODUMENE...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...recent perhaps because of the decline in placer mining for gold in made dis- faces helps to distinguish
Catalog/List
AROUND THE WORLD** BLADED HEMJMORPHITE; Dauntless Mine, Robinson Distric!, White Pine Co., �evada: J:?irec...size and quality. OLIVENITE; Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing Co., Nevada: Originally described from tlte famous...locations have been found in the U.S., mostly in Nevada and Utah. This is the best material found in the...quality. RICHELSDORFITE; Burrus Mine, Pyramid District, Washoe Co., Nevada: Lets talk about rarity! Richelsdorfite...each its hard 10 complain! MOTTRAMITE: TotaJ Wreck Mine, Empire Mts., Pima Co., Arizona: An uncommon form
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....specimens for the members of the club. At the Buckwheat Mine Dumps close to the river I broke up a boulder which...enough specimens for everybody. We also found sphalerite xls. in dolomite cavities and the usual franklinite...zincite specimens. Then we headed over to the Gooseberry Mine Dumps at Franklin. There I found a large, well...brown tourmaline. Then we headed for the Buckwheat Mine. Dumps at Franklin where I finally found a decent
Report (issue)
....................4 Todd (St. Stephen Nickel) mine......................................................................10 Blakeney (Basswood Ridge) mine........................................................................11 The Ledge (Charlotte County Granite) quarry..................................................................21 Oliver Cameron mine...................................................Louisiana) mine.......................................................................24 Letete mine......
Journal (issue)
Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. US. Geological Survey Professional...Historical Notes of the ben and 2mc Mining Industry in Sussex County. New Jersey. Franklin Mineral Museum...3 Oinochrysotile Pseudomorphs from the Sterling Mine. Ogdensburg. New Jersey by Carl A. Francis A Note...and the equipment FOMS visits the Sterling Hill Mining Museum The Society extends its thanks to Richard...Hauck for inviting FOMS to visit the Sterling Hill Mining Museum premise on Plant Street in Ogdensburg, New
Book
be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22
 
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