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Variscite from
Promontory Point, Promontory Mining District, Promontory Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Point
Classification
Species:Variscite
Formula:AlPO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Variscite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Promontory Point, Promontory Mining District, Promontory Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:182440
Long-form Identifier:1:3:182440:7
GUID (UUID V4):59f89d42-2e58-44f5-ac3f-6f78addb638a
Nearest other occurrences of Variscite
85.7km (53.2 miles) Amatrice Hill, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VOL. X DECEMBER. 1919 NO. 11 I~ E THE I MINERAL INDUSTRY OF UTAH I ! ! ~ ~ §§...VARLEY ~ i I ~ ~ ~ ~ == ~ I ~ ~ LETIN No. 12 Utah En.,i,."en. Department of III eta//urgicaJ Research...~ I I! ~ PUBLISHED BY THE ;== JNIVERSITY OF UTAH. STATE SCHOOL OF MINES S !liE I In Co-operation...CENTURY~PRJNTlNG I ) ./ Utah Engineering Experilllent Station The Utah Engineering Experiment Station...Mines, the engineering college of the University of Utah. The station is authorized "to carryon experiments
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associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive... a trip. desert, such Green River country of Utah or the far southern part of California, is no place...the rock formations of the east and west coast mountains, and the diamonds of the ciers that crunched...recent perhaps because of the decline in placer mining for gold in made dis- faces helps to distinguish...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF UTAH TO 1966 compiled and edited by Barbara S. Childers assisted by Bernice Y. Smith Utah Geological...and Mineral Industries University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Bulletin 86 Price $4.00 October 1970...all graduate theses concerned with the geology of Utah; senior theses are omitted. Several theoretical...pertinence to a particular mineral deposit or locality in Utah. Others which should have been included may have...hoped that the reader will report omissions to the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey so that they
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Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney...Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point in America east of the Rocky Mts. Cambrian rocks...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
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flat base and a faceted top terminating in a low point, was invented and used for cutting large diamonds...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great
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with digging vast quantities of coal, leveling mountains of iron ore, and tapping subterranean lakes of...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert...Lake City, Utah, by William J. Bingham of St. Paul, Minnesota, by Guy Wilson of Stevens Point, Wisconsin...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken
Report (issue)
Summit County, Utah Holnam’s Devil’s Slide plant, Morgan County, Utah !7IB5F7-jbgfej! Utah Geological...THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST FORUM 1999 Salt Lake City County Building constructed of Kyune Sandstone Proceedings...Lake City, Utah Miscellaneous Publication 01-2 Utah Geological Survey a division of 2001 Utah Department...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 01-2 Utah Geological Survey a division of 2001 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Michael O. Leavitt, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Kathleen Clarke
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...portion of the minerals, as well as a visible contact point near the base where the cluster ostensibly grew... 72007 Malachite on Azurite Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District Savannakhét Province Laos The secondary Copper...group, Cave-in-Rock Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co. Illinois, USA Out of the prestigious “Ross C. Lillie...on Muscovite Nagar (Nagir), Hunza Valley Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas) Pakistan Of
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 'Vasatch Mountains............................................................ .. ................... Uinta Mountains ....................................................81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. reports are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................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
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position of igneous rocks. Anyone who walks in the mountains will be familiar with the natural processes going...structure of mineral-bearing deposits. On many mountains the pegmatites have been covered with vegetation...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...difficult to follow. In most of the cases each point on the scale is indicated by a distinctive stone...that it serves as an excellent clue. A case in point is amethyst. This gem has a distinctive purplish
Journal (issue)
print taken in San Andreas canyon, San Jacinto mountains, in August, 1940. Photographer Wesley L. Kroenung...Supreme film; developed in DK 20. Superstition Mountains, Arizona By EDMOND READ Second prize winning photo...traditional Don's Club trip into Superstition Mountains, east of Phoenix, in March, 1946, in mock search...16 INDIANS W e F o u n d the G r a v e of the Utah Chief By CHARLES KELLY 17 LETTERS C o m m e n...the Desert 27 HOBBY Gems a n d Minerals 33 MINING Current n e w s briefs 40 CONTEST Rules for
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Meteorite End Cut Iron, IAB-MG Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA Another larger ofering at 4.5 kilograms (9...that the meteorite was heavily shocked at some point. This is a complete slice of the “arctic” material...Meteorite Iron, IAB-MG Meteor Crater, Coconino County Arizona, USA Found: 1891 Without question, the Canyon...attached metal ring. A custom acrylic rectangular box goes over the top securing the specimen from the
Report (issue)
A293-A298 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...Geochemical prospecting for breccia pipes, San Juan Mountains, Colo. . ........................ . Iron .......Kentucky Michigan .. Nebraska Northern Rocky Mountains ..................... . Mineral-resource studies... Geophysical studies ........ Southern Rocky Mountains ..................... . Mineral-resource studies...mineral-resource studies-Continued Southern Rocky Mountains-Continued Stratigraphic studies .............
Journal (issue)
onto the points of durable steel mandrels. DRILL POINT DIAMETER MM Inches ¾ .030 1 .040 1¼ .050 1½ .060...00 34.00 34.00 46.00 SPECIAL MICAOMITE Carvlna Point KIT a« one NCfl of ell alJI polntl enci"IAVEI ...The Leading GEM and MINERAL HOBBY Magazine P.0. Box 687. Mentone. Calif. 92359 Office: 1797 Capri Ave...Monte, Twin Falls, ID 83301 Dan Caudle (RMFMS) P.O. Box 1512, Clifton. AZ 85533 CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF...CA 91 607 Lee Hollinshead, Second Vice-President Box 334. Cottonwood, CA 96002 Mrs. Jeanne Mager, Secretary
Report (volume)
4, 5, 8; Museum Paper, nos. 5, 6; County Report, no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...vols. 3-12. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Technical Publication...1-157; Transactions, vols. 60-76. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Science, 4th...vols. 9-17. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletins 79, 85-101. San Francisco, Calif...vols. 33-42. Ottawa, Ont Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 23-30; Monthly
Report (volume)
ore deposition: Butler, B. S. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F. Pennsylvania... Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...society. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...University Research Studies Geology Series. Provo, Utah. British Columbia Dept. Mines Ann. Rept.; Bull.-British...Ontario. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Oanadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions
Report (issue)
ebraska and Kansas --------------------Rocky Mountains ----------------------------Stratigraphic studies...---------------------------Texas ----------------------------------Utah -----------------------------------Wyoming ----...-------------------------Environmental problems resulting from mining ----------------------------Investigations related...al cooperators _------------------------State, county, and local cooperators -----------Other cooperators...----------------Regional offices ---------------------District offices ----------------------Offices in other
Report (volume)
are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...and have not been searched completely. A.I.M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Abs. Tech. Papers;...Br. Abs. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mining, Geology, and Geophysics Division...Technical Papers; Mining Branch Abstracts. New York. A.I.M.E. Trans. American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical
Report (volume)
the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...limestone: Lamar, Shotts, R. C., 5. J. E., 11. Gold, mining districts: Pallister, Trace elements and potash...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite
Report (volume)
; Garland Peyton, director, division of mines, mining, and geology, department of natural rnsources,...declined (from 64.56 to 60.28). Bituminous-coal mining suffered the largest increase in its fotulity rate...Govnr.mn ('.nt C(lncern eel with d ofcnst~. 'l'ho Mining u.n...strategic 1ni1rnrnlH from Ln.tiu A..merica four mining engineers of the Bureau o_f l\,1itH>H hu.ve bee... . Delaware.-· ............ ---·- ......... . District of Columbia .•. - --- -- ......... Florida. __
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area (202) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2104 Mail: P.O. Box 979050, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000 ISBN 978-1-4113-2076-5...by fax (202) 512-2104, or through the mail (P.O. Box 979050, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000). • All current...S. ECONOMY DOMESTIC MINERAL RAW MATERIALS FROM MINING Imports: $6.4 billion Exports: $7.2 billion Net...gross domestic product (GDP) at several levels—mining, processing, and manufacturing finished products...However, employment increased in all sectors of the mining industry between January and November 2007. The
 
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