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Torbernite from
Blue Jay Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Torbernite
Formula:Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Torbernite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Jay Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:176219
Long-form Identifier:1:3:176219:8
GUID (UUID V4):2c95c26e-9718-4098-8562-88869effb6e9
Nearest other occurrences of Torbernite
0.7km (0.4 miles) Eugenie Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) California Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Inez Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Acme Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Tullock Shaft, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) New Years Gift Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Merry Widow Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
2.3km (1.5 miles) Floyd Collins Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Apache Trail Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) San Salvador Hill pit, Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
* Radioactive Deposits < in New Mexico GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work done on...DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO COMPILED BY T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Forty-five areas of radioactivity in New Mexico...deposits in northwestern New Mexico seem to be the most promising for the mining of uranium ore. In western...western San Juan County, on the eastern flanks of the Carrizo Mountains uplift, carnotite ore has been taken...Farther south in the Zuni Mountains of Valencia County joint coatings in pre-Cambrian granites show abnormal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Uranium Mineralization in the Burro Mountains, New Mexico ELLIOT GILLERMAN Abstract Uranium minerals...separateareas: the White Signal district and the Bullard Peak district. In the White Signal district secondary...alteration of the diabase dikes. In the Bullard Peak district uranium occurs with nickel and cobalt arsenides...Old records from now inaccessiblemines of the district indicate that the percentage of nickel, cobalt...elsewhere(Gillerman, 1964). Late Cretaceousor Widow mine in the White Signal district (Fig. 1). 7W R 16 W R 15 W R 14 W
Report (issue)
prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico By D. C. Hedlund 1 Open-File Report...exclusive of the quartz-pyrite veins of the White Signal district............................... Quartz-molybdenite.......... Quartz-pyrite veins, including White Signal district............... Silver-lead-manganese oxide...prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico.......................... in pocket FIGURE...Big and Little Burro Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. Geologic and aeromagnetic mapping, geochemical
Report (issue)
Butte, Mont. D-Public Inquiries Office, Room 468, New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. GJ ·Geological Survey...map, Stinking Spring Creek-13 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-397, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. -~=--...map, Stinking Spring Creek-14 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-394, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. Becraft...Comet area, Jefferson City quadrangle, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEI-282, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, W, B. Cathcart...quadrangle, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, Utah: TEM-414, Oct. 27, 1952. D, GJ, SL. _ _ _
Report (volume)
most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico. Since...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as...Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo, and from the Eldorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada. The Shinkolobwe deposit
Report (volume)
mines_______________________________________ Boulder CountY----------------------------------~-----------Jamestown...Generalfeatures--------------------------------------Blue Jay mine, by R. U. King__________________________ Fair...mine________________________________________ Nations Treasure mine, by R. U. King___________________ Victory group...Description of principal mines-Continued Boulder County-Continued Other areas __________________________...___________ Shirley mine _____________ ----- __ ------------__________ Sisk mine, by F. B. Moore____
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 215 URANIUM IN THE METAL-MINING DISTRICTS OF COLORADO By R. U. King, B. F. Leonard...Survey, Washington 25, D. C. URANIUM IN THE METAL-MINING DISTRICTS OF COLORADO By R. U. King, B. F. Leonard...deposits to mineral zoning in the Central City district, Colorado ............................. 5 TABLE...vein deposits are the most important in the metal-mining districts. Pitchblende is the most common urajiium...several geologic guides are useful in prospecting for new deposits. They include (1) stratigraphic position
Report (issue)
(1952). MINERAL DATA The minerals include several new species and many that were rare and incompletely...crystal habit, such as the platy habit of the torbernite group and bladed or fibrous habit of uranophane...optical properties. Certain minerals, notably the torbernite group and tke carnotite group, dehydrate easily...fluorescence observed at 3650 A. ANALYSIS For the new and some of the doubtful species, chemical analyses...impregnation, replacement, or coating on fractures and mine walls. The commonly associated minerals are listed
Report (volume)
Butte, Mont. D Geological Survey office, Room 468 New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. DA Atomic Energy Commission...of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954...Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ....N., The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nevada: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office of...Ridge, and West End claims near Clancy, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEM-31, Oct. 19, 1951. D, SL, T. (332,
Report (issue)
predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...very large nonvein deposits in New Mexico; in Big Indian Wash and White Canyon, Utah; and in the Gas Hills...Sierra Ancha region, Arizona ; and the Marysvale district, Utah. All the Western States, including Arizona...California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and FRANK W. OsTERWALD Oregon, Utah, Washington
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...weighed 90 tons. Also huge crystals of sparkling blue Beryl from the Black Hills pegmatites have measured...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in... 630 Sansome Street, San Francisco, Calif.; 468 New Customhouse, Denver, Colo.; 602 Thomas Building,...Geological Survey Public Inquiries Office, Room 468, New Customhouse, Denver, Colo. CDA U.S. Atomic Energy
Report (issue)
Mineralogy has been published. A tremendous amount of new data on the elements, sulfides, sulfosalts and oxides...Bulletin 149 to conform to that appearing in the new System, in spite of the fact that Volume I covers...the described species. This has been done, and all new mineralogical data on the elements, sulfides, sulfosalts...revision of Dana's Manual of Mineralogy. In addition, new data on many species, also obtained from the Manual...extent to which it can be kept up to date. Many new occurrences of an important or unusual nature come
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Mason, Vitali.....1064 ano)... Aurostibite, AuSbz; a new mineral in the pyrite group (Graham, .292,461 Kaiman)...of 910 fluorite. Allen, V. T. and Fa.hey, J. J., New occurrencesof minerals at Iron Mountain, Missouri...with Berry, L. G. and Fahey, J. J., Robinsonite' a new lead antimony sulphide285,438 Baker, G., Opaqueoxidesin...the basement complex, Torricelli Mountainst 567 New Guinea. .. 1065 Bannister,F.A..... Barker Index of...Bostonite and tinguaite in north- from the Goldfields District, Saskatchewan B r o w n .H . . . . . Buchwald
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Sidney A. Williams Richard A. Bideaux Raymond W Grant PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Wendell E. Wilson Published...photographs has been generously funded by a special grant from the Phelps Dodge Corporation. • CONTENTS...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St
Book
of 0.27% U3D8 by mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the... . . . . . . ' . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mexico ........ . . .. ...... ... ...... . ..... . ..... . . . . .. . .... . . . . . . .... ....... . . New Zealand . ............ . . . . . .... .. ... . ....with many other cations and anions to form numerous new hosts. Thus thorium forn1s only six minerals of its
Book (edition)
Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Sidney A. Williams Richard A. Bideaux Raymond W. Grant PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Wendell E. Wilson Published...photographs has been generously funded by a special grant from the Phelps Dodge Corporation. (ngs * Prien’...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.
Report (issue)
Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh...Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California by Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh...Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas, Inyo County, California................................ In...117A), California Desert Conservation Area, Inyo County, California. SUMMARY The Saline Valley Wilderness...the study area, is in the vicinity of the Crater mine in the Last Chance Range, and it has potential for
Report (volume)
occurrences in Lemhi County______________________ Camas district, Blaine County__________________________ Rustler...__ __ ________ __ ____ __ __ ___ Coeur d'Alene district, Shoshone County_________________ Crescent mi...mine_____________________________________ Galena mine ____________________ -----_____________ 11 11 11...11 11 12 13 13 13 14 14 15 15 Bon~er CountY---------------------------------------Pegmatite occurren...County________________________________________ Latah County------ ____________________________ .. ______ O
Book (volume)
............................................288 New Hampshire .....................................................................................307 New Jersey .....................................................................................315 New Mexico ...........................................................................................329 New York..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ..........................................
Report (volume)
Page FIGURE 9. Monazite. A, B. Typical habit. C. New York. D. Tavetsch, Switzerland ---------------- ___...----------------------- _____ -------------- ___ _ 11. Torbernite. A. Forms: c{001}, m{llO}, e{Oll}, o{013}. B...crystal structure are grouped together, such as the torbernite group of minerals within the phosphates in general...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...development of the rich uranium ores of the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great
Book (edition)
FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS HARVEY W. JONG JAN C. RASMUSSEN...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones... Data Names: Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others]... MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION Introduction Many new mineral species have been documented in Arizona since...Mineralogy of Arizona was published in 1995. This new edition adds to the extensive work of the previous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...(left). Levyne, 6 mm across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side
 
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