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Adularia from
Snowflake Mine, Gold Springs Mining District (Hamlin Valley), Iron County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:K Feldspar var: Adularia
Formula:KAlSi3O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Adularia data
Locality Data:Click here to view Snowflake Mine, Gold Springs Mining District (Hamlin Valley), Iron County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:183476
Long-form Identifier:1:3:183476:5
GUID (UUID V4):9d6fd828-a893-4828-b19f-0a7bb6eedad7
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Report (issue)
LODGE CANYON QUADRANGLES, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA, AND IRON COUNTY, UTAH by Myron G. Best, Jeffrey D. Keith...and form floodplains and terraces along Meadow Valley Wash and minor streams Qal Alluvium of ephemeral...includes alluvium and colluvium in small fans along valley sides. Maximum thickness about 3 m Qsa Floodplain...greater than 5 m Old stream alluvium of Meadow Valley Wash (late Pleistocene and middle Pleistocene)--About...which local base level was not stable and Meadow Valley Wash incised 38 m. Since deposition of the lowest
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along with...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
Book (edition)
axeheads, and arrow- heads; and copper, bronze, or iron was used for many of man’s earliest hammers and...people utilize rocks and minerals today. The metals gold, silver, platinum, and copper are just some of...people worldwide. In addition, numerous museums, Gold leaf in a bottle. 10 INTRODUCTION TO COLLECTING...pencil for field notes. Supplies for collecting gold: ¢ A gold pan, sluice, or metal detector. ¢ Small bottles...loupe Streak plate. for magnifying specimens. w Gold pan. SS \ \\ \ Home made screen for sifting
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest
Catalog/List
inclusion shall be given, i.e.; GOLD in QUARTZ, COPPER in CALCITE, GOLD in CALCITE, COPPER in DATOLITE...CUPRJTE CYMOPHANE CYPRINE FAIRBURNITE FELDSPAR ADULARIA ALBITE AVENTURINE MOONSTONE PERISTERITE SUNSTONE...OLIGOCLASE AVENTURINE MOONSTONE SUNSTONE ORTHOCLASE ADULARIA MOONSTONE SANIDINE PARACELSIAN PERTHITE PLAGIOCLASE...DOUBLE-FLOW OBSIDIAN MAHOGANY OBSIDIAN SHEEN OBSIDIAN SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN OLIGOCLASE AVENTURINE MOONSTONE SUNSTONE...OPAUZED WOOD OPERCULUM ORBICULAR JASPER ORTHOCLASE ADULARIA MOONSTONE SANIDINE PAINITE PARACELSIAN PASTELITE
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...PART IV PART II MINERAL DEPOSITS Carlin-1:,. pe Gold Depo!:>its (Jresor}' c. Nevada Mineral Catalog
Catalog/List
November 1999________ 1 ULEXITE, Boron, California, USA. Matrix free pure mass of tight silky unidirectional...Arizona, USA. Pretty pocket of sparkling tiny blue xtls. GRF. Ml. £4.00 4 MALACHITE, Killie Mine, Elko...Elko Co., Nevada, USA. Very rich with fibrous edges or cross section. GRF. C. £4.00 5 GYPSUM, Simpson Desert...£4.00 9 WAVELLITE, County Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA. Pastel apple green radiate...xtls. GRF. Ml. £5.00 10 SMITHSONITE, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Pale blue botryoidal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
i n g material. Can offer many rare San Benito County minerals i n cluding perovskite, as small black...I S H T O EXCHANGE MINERALS. Send your list for mine. Wallace Knapp, 6 0 South Street, Rhinebeck, N ...California. MINERALS FOR EXCHANGE. Send your list for mine. Geo. Fales, Cashmere, Washington. E X C H A N G...i a gara Falls, N . Y . W I L L TRADE micaceous iron ore, specularire, magnetite ( x l e d ) , saponite...u n t a i n , Utah, labradorite (clear yellow gem quality) f r o m M i l l a r d County, U t a h ; also
Catalog/List
inclusions shall be given, i.e., EPIDOTE in QUARTZ, GOLD in QUARTZ, COPPER in CALCITE, COPPER in DATOLITE...USED ON LABELS ABALONE SHELL ACHROITE ACTINOLITE ADULARIA AGALMATOLITE AGATE AGATIZED BONE AGATIZED CORAL...OLIGOCLASE AVENTURINE MOONSTONE SUNSTONE ORTHOCLASE ADULARIA MOONSTONE SANIDINE SUNSTONE PARACELSIAN PERTHITE...MICROLITE MOHAWKITE MOLDAVITE JADE JADEITE NEPHRITE SNOWFLAKE JADE KASHAN RUBY KORNERUPINE KUNZITE KYANITE...OPAL MATRIX OPERCULUM ORBICULAR JASPER ORTHOCLASE ADULARIA MOONSTONE SANIDINE SUNSTONE OBSIDIAN APACHE TEAR
Report (issue)
Mineral Deposits of the Poncha Springs NE Quadrangle, Chaffee County,Colorado By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE...Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Mining Industrial Development Board UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Alstine and Doak C. Cox _________ _ Colorado-American mine ______________ -_Delay adit and Lloyd shaft ____...--_-----_Manganese Hill and Chimney Hill mines_Last Chance mine _________________ -_-_Other fluorspar deposits ________...----------Copper prospect _______________ -_----------Gold _____________________________________ _ 30 30 30
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Steve J . Jackovich, 1030 Arapahoe St., Rock Springs, W y o . ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS! ROCKS and MINERALS...Sample, $ 5 . 0 0 , postpaid. M o r t o n Minerals & Mining, 2 1 4 2 3 H w y . 6 6 , RFD 1, Barstow, C a l... W Y O M I N G AGATES, 10 sq. ins. $ 4 . 0 0 . County location and name on each slice. Please include...T . Money orders only. Better price on mine run unsorted gold in quantities. Snowshoe Trout Ranch, A...for one half the price auoted in ad. Canon City Gold Shop, P.O. Box 7 0 9 , Canon City. Colordo. RATTLEBOXES
Journal (issue)
Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen from the collection of the County Museum...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...single crystal I 0 mm in length from Force Crag mine, Braithwaite, Cumbria (See Mineral News). Figure...Quartz crystal 40 mm"in length from South Crafty mine, Cornwall. Manchester Museum specimen purchased...crystals to 5 mm on pyromorphite. from Force Crag mine, Braithwaite, Cumbria. Figure 4. Synchysite rosettes
Book
collecting. garnet diggings of Latah County and the Spencer Opal Mine, charge a digging fee. But most...Although this area has undergone extensive dredging for gold, GEM MINERALS OF IDAHO 46 remnants of the sandstone...floating opal produces satisfactory results. In Clark County near Spencer, opal with a beautiful play and of...digging is permitted on a fee basis. Because the mine is high in the mountains near the Continental Divide...found while digging a well near Whelan in Latah County, northwest of Moscow almost on the IdahoWashington
Journal (issue)
% \ ' . / 1/ ■ l i ; BETAFITE Silver Crater Mine, near Bancroft, Ont., Canada Banks & Haefner Collections...INC............... 583 584 HUGE GEOLOGIC MAP OF UTAH ..................................................561 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A CALIFORNIA FIRST! GOLD: Official state mineral SERPENTINE: official state...Edmund G. Brown signed legislation designating native gold as California’s official state mineral and serpentine...legislation, the governor said: "It is fitting that gold, which played such an important role in California’s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EconomicGeology Vol. 82, 1987, pp. 1239-1258 District-ScaleAlteration Associatedwith MassiveSulfideDepositsin...mineralizedareasof the Mount Read Volcanics defines a district-wide zonation which is subconformable with massive...•-• CentralBelt,granite I • HELLYER {•UE RIVER MINE Mt. ß Charter ......• Lake Beatrice Sequence •...spherulitic, miarolitic, and snowflake texturesare present.The snowflake,or micropoikilitic, texture (Anderson...developmentof round areas of micropoikilitic quartz (the "snowflake"), each optically continuous(Fig. 4D). Variantsdiffer
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES................................... . ........... Valley deposits ................................. ·. ...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... began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S
Book
Transparent crystals of hyalophane showing some brown iron oxide staining. 13 NATIVE ELEMENTS Copper opper...conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper , allegedly...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white ...scaly Crystal system: cubic 15 NATIVE ELEMENTS Gold old was the first metal known to humans, and has...in coinage and jewellery for thousands of years. Gold Is graded according to Its purity, from pure 24
Book
Transparent crystals of hyalophane showing some brown iron oxide staining. 13 NATIVE ELEMENTS Copper opper...conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper, allegedly the...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white ...scaly Crystal system: cubic 15 NATIVE ELEMENTS Gold old was the first metal known to humans, and has...in coinage and jewellery for thousands of years. Gold Is graded according to Its purity, from pure 24
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Journal Pre-proofs Fe-oxides in jasperoids from two gold districts in Nevada: characterization, geochemistry...Kaempfer, J.M., Fe-oxides in jasperoids from two gold districts in Nevada: characterization, geochemistry...Elsevier Ltd. Fe-oxides in jasperoids from two gold districts in Nevada: characterization, geochemistry...Golden, CO, USA b Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA c Department... Urbana, IL, USA Keywords Jasperoids; Fe-oxide (U-Th)/He chronology, Carlin-type gold deposit Abstract
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...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...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
Book (volume)
(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diamonds set in gold. The necklace...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning
Journal (issue)
Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...from left: Liddicoatite, 7 cm, from the Sahatany Valley, Madagascar. Collected by Federico Pezzotta; Antonio...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...DeCamp photo. Iolite, 4 cm, from the Entia Valley, Australia. Collected by George Stacy; Jeff Scovil photo
Report (issue)
Page C1 Petrology Fluid-inclusion studies of some gold deposits in Nevada, by J. T. Nash . . . . . . ....X-ray crystallography of wavellite from Jackson County, Wis., and their geologic implications, by Harry...structural development at Elk Hills oil field, Kern County, Calif., by J. C. Maher, R. D. Carter, and R. J...of the Edna Mountain Formation in northern Elko County, Nev., by R. R. Coats and Mackenzie Gordon, Jr...Paleozoic oceanic crust in the Upper Chulitna district, west-central Alaska Range, by A. L. Clark, S
Book
triclinic prismatic crystals white calcite e in the USA, Chile, and Russia. PICTURES shades of blue Photographs...settings created by human activity, such as roadcuts, mine dumps, and quarries. Good examples are also found...causes. uneven fracture EPIDOTE hackly fracture GOLD EARTHY perfect cubic cleavage GALENA conchoidal...density: 4.5 MOHS’ SCALE BARYTE Magnetism A few iron-bearing minerals are magnetic; when placed beside...magnet, attracts iron or steel objects. TALC: 1 GYPSUM: 2 FINGERNAIL: 2.5 CALCITE: 3 iron filings COPPER
 
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