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Andesite from
Merry Widow Mine, Port McNeill, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Andesite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andesite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merry Widow Mine, Port McNeill, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1613483
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1613483:0
GUID (UUID V4):f440c7bc-f8e8-4b9e-8332-101a53e7e916
Nearest other occurrences of Andesite
64.3km (40.0 miles) Red Dog copper-molybdenum deposit, Holberg, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
67.3km (41.8 miles) ORP As-Hg Occurrence, San Josef River Area, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
References
correspondance with Giles Peatfied Identification: Visual Identification
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island LIDAARY Digitized by the Internet...Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island Rick Hudson OrCA BOOK PUBLISHERS...mineral sites of British Columbia Includes index. Contents: Vol. I, Vancouver Island ISBN 1-55143-057-6...and mineral resources — British Columbia. 2. Prospecting — British Columbia. I. Title TN27.B7H82 1996...Printed and bound in Canada Orca Book Publishers PO Box 5626, Station B Victoria, BC Canada V8R 6S4 GE) 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGNETITE BRITISH G. E. ON VANCOUVER COLUMBIA ISLAND, • P. EASTWOOD ABSTRACT Magnetite on Vancouver Island...resultsof a fieldstudyof severalmagnetite depositson Vancouver Islandandconsiders possible originsof the magnetite...pastdozenyearsmagnetite mininghasblossomed alongthe coastof British Columbia. The individualdeposits are relativelysmall...narrowingthe search. Magnetite depositson the British Columbia coast have been examined at varioustimesduring...Resources. 124 REPLACEMENT MAGNETITE I' ON VANCOUVER ISLAND ' 125 [ FIG. 1. VancouverIsland. Areas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extensive survey has been made of the geological and mining literature published through 1949 hi compiling...the standard American and English geological and mining publications have also been reviewed upon the early...Uranium Mineralization from the HillSlope. side Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona. U. S. Geological Survey...Plateau. Mineral Technology Series No. 27, Bulletin, Mining and Contracting Review, SALT No. 117,1921,26pp...Nevada, RENO, Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Geology and Mining Series, No. 43), 1945, pp. 9-188. Includes some
Report (issue)
New Mexico seem to be the most promising for the mining of uranium ore. In western San Juan County, on...in a breccia zone near the edge of a Tertiary andesite flow; the latter consists of carnotite associated...uranium ore. The few tons of ore available on the Merry Widow claim in the White Signal district and the presence...information available on uranium deposits and uranium mining activity in New Mexico before 1952.1 The report...in 1952. HISTORY OF URANIUM INVESTIGATIONS AND MINING The earliest mention in geologic literature of
Report (volume)
complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...In recent years, a significant proportion of the mining industry's interest has been centered on discovery...found in Paleozoic and Cenozoic orogenic-belt and island-arc settings and are associated with felsic to... INTRODUCTION Gold exploration efforts of the mining industry in the last few years have centered on...Company; Edward I. Bloomstein of Santa Fe Pacific Mining, Inc.; Gail M. Jones of Western Geologic Resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Leach, 1920) at the Merry elsewhere(Gillerman, 1964). Late Cretaceousor Widow mine in the White Signal...found at the Black Hawk mine in the Bullard Peak district (Leach, 1920). Mining of torbernite for its radium...district. Early mining, between 1890 and 1900, was for silver. Alhambra When the 19 mine was rehabilitated...SCHISTS-GNEISSES DISTRICT I ETC. FAULT INFERRED BOUNDARY MINING FAULT OF DISTRICT 108ø 2d 0 I 2 L I • ...Signal disPre-Late Cretaceous rhyolite,basalt,and andesite trict. Tertiary volcanicrocks overly the Precam-
Report (issue)
of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits... by Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....County,. showing area included in this report and mining districts and areas separately described . . .
Report (issue)
propylitized andesite flows of the Little Burro Mountains are correlative with the andesite flows (fission...stock, and the dike in the vicinity of the Ohio mine is sericitized suggesting some pre-mineral quartz...the rhyolite plugs of Three Sisters, the Shrine mine, and the rhyolite sill(?) of Saddle Mountain. Some...Mountain, Tullock Peak, and at the plug near the Shrine mine. The Tyrone stock is present within parts of the...of thick andesite flows and the eruption of thin ash-flow tuff units. The propylitized andesite flows (TKa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fine-grainedmetasomaticallyaltered aluminousor Canada,the UnitedStates,Mexico,Japan,and Korea siliceousrocks...Pass (Mactung), Yukon-N.W.T., Canada CanadaTungsten (Cantung), N.W.T., Canada Sasanodeposit Yoshiokamine...Yoshiokamine, SW Japan Victoria mine, Nevada DouglasHill and CastingCopper mines(Yerington district),Nevada Caporebasin...Quebec, Canada Additional examples (numbers refer to localities on Fig. 1) 1. Empire mine, B.C., Canada...Canada (Sangster, 1969;Haug, 1976) 2. Larap, Camarines Norte, Philippines (Frost,1965) •. Daiquiri,
Report (volume)
Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Published for the Geological Society...Society of CIM as VOLUME 46 by the OF MINING, METALLURGY SPECIAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE NORTHWEST COMMUNITY...PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT © 1995 BY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM Suite 1210, 3400 de Maisonneuve...Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3Z 3B8 ISBN 0-919086-56-X PRINTED BY HARPELL’S...PRESS COOPERATIVE Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada Preface CIM Special Volume 46 is organized into
Report (volume)
deposit, Belgian Congo Deposits at Great Bear Lake, Canada ... Explanation of annotated bibliography. Annotated...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...Belgian Congo, and from the Eldorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada. The Shinkolobwe deposit since its initial...adjacent areas in Saxony; the Beaverlodge district, Canada; the Cornwall district, England; the Guarda and
in the field ~“ Various geological locations iin Canada© Physical properties of minerals and rocks, and...surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development...publishing activities. Ss Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada vw ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL
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other adjacent islands, and Hawaii, Guam, and other island possessions, but not the trust territories of the...Washington, D. C. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York...-Arkansas Resources and Development Commission, Division of Geology Bulletin; Information Circular. Little...Breviora. Cambridge, Mass. British Columbia Dept. Mines Ann. Rept.; BulL-British Columbia Department of Mines...Mines Annual Report; Bulletin. Victoria, British Columbia. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. BulL-Buffalo Society of
Report (volume)
install or use our processes in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Cuba (without direct written sanction...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
Book
Fitzhenry & Whiteside acknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts. and the Ontario Arts Council...acknowledge the financial suppo1t of the Government of Canada through the Book Pubbshing lndus!Jy Development...publishing activities. Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada PA ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL...CONSEIL DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Grice, Joel Beginner's...Key How to Tdentify a Rock Geological Regions of Canada 6 6 6 7 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 Metallic Minerals
Report (volume)
17 Climate and vegetation. 18 _._ History of mining and present conditions___________________ 20 ...latite porphyry__.___________________72 Older andesite _______________ _______ 72 Tuffs and agglomerates_____________...agglomerates_____________ _____ 73 Younger andesite ______________ _____ 75 Basalt ___________________________:___..._______________ . Placers __ _ Mineralogy ____________ Mining districts, camps, and properties. Helvetia district_..._______________ _____ Ore deposits _ . Copper World mine ____ _____ _____ Location and topography _ _ History
Report (issue)
---------------------------------------------History of mining activity -------------------------------------...quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona, showing principal mining areas a..,.d 3 year of discovery------------...th~ next two decades saw most of the principal mining areas established (fig. 2). By the early 1890's... Graham in the Pinaleno Mountains. HISTORY OF MINING ACTIVITY The first known mineral development in...Santa Rita in 1906, and in 1911large-scale openpit mining was started. The porphyry copper deposit at Tyrone
Report (issue)
Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources of Mining and (Socorro) or the libraries at New Mexico Institute...5,000-150,000 1,450,000 North Saskatchewan, Canada Marjaniemi and Basler,l972; Rich and others, 1975;...Dahlkamp and Adams, 1 9 8 1 450,000 Blind River, Canada Houston and Karlstrom, 1979 600,000 Rossing...and others, Armstrong, 1974 and:;1975 Bancroft, Canada Adams and others,1980 Plutonic-Metamorphic O...the libraries at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (.Socorro) and Universityof New
Report (issue)
AND MINERAL RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO CAMPUS STATION...Geology . . . 99 Maps 109 . Mineralogy lIl Mining Technology rt2 Oil and il5 Gas Technology ...Western University; Socorro, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; State College, New Mexico College...in the libraries of the New Mexico fnstitute of Mining and Technology, files of the State Bureau of Mines..., publications editor, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, for the editing of the manuscript;
Report (volume)
evaluation: Church, C. C., 2. Alaska, Blashke Island ultrabasic Geiger and scintillation counters, complex:...species: Link, T. A., A., 9. 13. British Columbia ores, zoning: Geology in Canada: Hume, G. S., Gunning, H....the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson...G. P., 3. 1951: Moody, C. L., 2. Zoning in British Columbia ores: Gunning, H. C. , 5. Scientific side:...United Alaska, evaluation of soil and States and Canada: Levorsen, permafrost conditions: Frost, A. I.
Book (edition)
to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay
Book
are of considerable aid to the exploration and mining geologist in areas of known mineralization, but...advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, and to mining and exploration geologists. lowe no small debt................... . Porphyry Copper Deposits in Island Arcs .. . The Panguna Porphyry Copper Deposit,...the BathurstNewcastle District, New Brunswick, Canada Discussion of Tectonic Environments ....... Discussion...Deposits ................ . 4.5.2 The Homestake Gold Mine, South Dakota .. 4.5.3 Pre-Metamorphic Stratiform
Report (issue)
ASHLEY SCHMITT "As !look back on four decades in mining geology I am impressed by the magnitude of the...geologists who developed the art and science of mining geology into a leading factor in the unprecedented... in southern Arizona, Virginia and the Central Mining District of New Mexico from 1927 to 1931 and subsequently..."In conclusion, it is perhaps significant that mining geologists whose living depends on their success...methods of mapping. The successful application of mining geology in the past has been largely the result
Journal (volume)
Mil' i I ';> ?mii Wmmh 11181 \ lMINING / DEPAfiTtriEiT Of Library Numbrr; M / Return...SD^al loan. / permJssie INDEX TO) VOLUME Mining and I imiin n ni 1920 it^!/f/vt n nun t...161 Science and industry. Allen, A. moving from mine-hoists Signaling Allen, C. A 232 cages 645 Allis-Chalmers...Consolidated Gold Fields of South 881 Africa 747 American Mining Congress Editorial. 752. 790, 826 Ditto 215 Co...book review Assaying methods at the Globe & Phoenix mine 4 51 H. R. Edmands. 108 Association of Accountants
Report (issue)
___________________________________ _ History of mining in the region __________________ _ Production-...Suggestions for exploration ______________________ _ ·Mining districts and mines ______________________ _ Rimini...shear zone ___ _ Lee Mountain mine ____________ .____ _ Valley Forge mine _________________ _ Little Lilly...Free Speech mine __________________ _ Eureka mine ______________________ _ Mammoth mine ___________________... Bassett mine ________________ _ Lexington mine ____________________ _ Daniel Stanton mine _______________
 
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