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Galena from
Hancock Mine, Cincinnati vein system, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hancock Mine, Cincinnati vein system, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:175362
Long-form Identifier:1:3:175362:2
GUID (UUID V4):d31b79f1-16d5-4daa-a594-173ea77423d4
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
0.0km (0.0 miles) Black Hawk Mine, Cincinnati vein system, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Cincinnati Mine, Cincinnati vein system, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Section 9 Mine, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Marie Mine, Cincinnati vein system, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Waterloo Mine, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Homestead prospect, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Section 35 prospect, Cincinnati vein system, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Lindy Ann claims, Mahoney Mines area, Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) North Peak (North Sisters Peak), Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Mineral Deposits of Luna County, New Mexico by GEORGE B. GRISWOLD 1961 STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...L. Mechem....................... Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley ............................................ Albuquerque For sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station, Socorro
Report (issue)
MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly Donahue, Michael...Report OF-459 New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology...Technology Socorro, New Mexico 87801 September 2001 Prepared for the New Mexico State Land Office 1 SUMMARY... SUMMARY Luna County, in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1) is not well known for its mineral potential...metals and nonmetals have been produced from the county from 1876 to 2000. Much of this production has
Report (issue)
LEAD AND ZINC. THE TEES HERMANAS MINING DISTRICT, NEW MEXICO. By WALDEMAR LINDGREN. GENERAL FEATURES...Mexican boundary the small group of mountains known as Tres Hermanas rises from the general level of the...the high plateau. The lead and zinc mining district is in the northern part of the group, the three peaks...000 feet; on the east the crags of the Florida Mountains form a picturesque background to the plain, which...of the Tres Hermanas attains an elevation of 7,151 feet. The railroad from Deming to Hermanas station
Report (volume)
618 GEOLOGY AND UNDERGROUND WATER OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO BY N. H. DARTON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Topography ___________________________________1 Mountains and ridges____ _ ___________ Bolsons___ _ ______...and age Petrography, by John L. Rich __ Cambrian system __ ______ Bliss sandstone___ _ __________________...and correlation_____________________ Ordovician system __ Classification______ ________________ El Paso...Fossils and correlation___________________ Devonian system ___ _ _____ ______;________ Percha shale _ _ Carboniferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...the lead, zinc, and barite mines of Missouri’s several world-class mining districts could have been chosen...Connoisseur’s Choice. Included might have been a marvelous galena, sphalerite, or calcite specimen exhibiting gigantic...morphology and color were recovered from a mine in the Joplin area. The best known of these specimens was...by the oxidation of such associated sulfides as galena and chalcopyrite. An excellent review of the oxidized
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Report (issue)
OR PROFE SIONAL PAPER 68 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXI.CO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN, LOUIS C. GRATON AND...PRQ)tESSIONAL PAPER 68 T·H E ORE DEPOSITS O.F NEW MEXICO.. . . ., .,· ;,.: BY WALDEMAR LINpGREN,........ . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...:·.·_, Metal depo~its:_Gonti~ued. . _ . Page. 62 Vein and replacement deposits in limestone, exclusive....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ......
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...Sanford. Upon Mr. Sanford's transfer to the Bureau of Mines the work was put into the hands of Frank L. Hess...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...(Teller Co.), Colo., this past summer some friends of mine found some interesting specimens which turned out...the King Mine near Cripple Creek." CONNECTICUT—A very nice specimen consisting of a 1 inch vein of gray...cavity of crystallized pyrite was present in one such vein, so I had occasion to break the mass of schist and...any better material ever came out of the tungsten mine in Trumbull. Since this is a very interesting discovery
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Report (issue)
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...and Nancy Gilson New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 SOCORRO,...1996 11 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Daniel H. Lopez, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF...OF MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES Charles E. Chapin, Director and State Geologist BOARD OF REGENTS Ex Officio...Officio Gary Johnson, Governor of New Mexico Alan Morgan, Superintendent of Public Instruction Appointed Steve
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of sandstone, shale, bituminous...ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...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, regional
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of sandstone, shale, bituminous...ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...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, regional
Report (issue)
some existing native sulfur mines in the United States and by opening new mines, by greater recovery of byproduct...pyrites sources (principally in Europe, Canada, and Mexico). It is likely that within a few years the productive... Coal mines or districts that have produ,:ed pyrites. A considerable number of pyrite mines and coal...coal mines that produced pyrites prior to and during World War I stopped production shortly after that...for sulfuric acid manufacture. For that reason, mines whose pyrite production ceased prior to Jan. 1,
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decade, however, the need has been growing for a new, comprehensive index. Because the 14-year index suffered... Consequently, it was our decision to prepare a new index which is cumulative back to volume 1, fully...the 14-year index, and which is organized on a new plan. Nevertheless, all readers and users of the...the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort. The current 25-year index is divided into...appears n Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration
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 There
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fractures and are widely distributed through the district in rocks ranging from Neoproterozoic to Late Ordovician...heat driving fluid migration through the fracture system. Fluid inclusion and oxygen isotope data are typical...0361-0128/01/3341/577-29 $6.00 times and was an important mining field in the last quarter of the 19th century and...and the early part of the 20th century. This district, along with the neighboring Linares and La Carolina...Pb-producing countries during that period. The district is characterized by 577 578 PALERO ET AL.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ABSTRACT Galenasfrom the Upper MississippiValley district, the Picher field, and the southwesternUnited...mineralizedarea to another; but within a given district, crystalsof cubic habit are systematicallyenrichedin...symptomaticof other factors involved in the formation of galena. Temperature is probably one of the most important...silver in octahedralor near-octahedral crystalsof galena. Similarly, Oftedal (2) has recentlyemphasizedthe...chemicalcompositionand the crystallographic propertiesof galena. These observatic•ns suggestthat a systematicvariation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....outwash deposits. The Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district in the extreme southeast corner of the state has...to the mid-1970s were documented with the exact mine or in many cases even the correct subdistrict. In...Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. This area has been an active mining district from about the middle of
Report (volume)
all the papers bearing on a particular subject or area; second, titles of papers, many of them abbreviated...Geographical Society: Bulletin, vol. 44. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 61-72;...Transactions, vol. 42. New York. American Journal of Science, 4th ser., vols. 33, 34. New Haven, Conn. American...History: Memoirs, new ser., vol. 1, pts. 1-3; Bulletin, vol. 31; Journal, vol. 12. New York. "* > v -...- ( American Naturalist, vol. 46. New York. , American Philosophical Society: Proceedings, vol. 51,
Report (volume)
all the papers bearing on a particular subject or area; second, titles of papers, many of them abbreviated...Geographical Society: Bulletin, vol. 41. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 25-36;...Transactions, vol. 39. New York. American Journal of Science, 4th series, vols. 27, 28. New Haven, Conn. American...American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, llth Annual Session; 12th Annual Session. American Museum... vol. 26; Journal, vol. 9. ^New York. American Naturalist, vol. 43. New York. . American Peat Society:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...mill. So it has been at places such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, where linarite’s legacy is primarily...occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...(Graham or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire
Book (volume)
erosional debris spreading out from the Rocky Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution of...Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup River with the...jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R...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
 
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