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Actinolite from
Armstrong Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Ore Body
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Armstrong Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:184505
Long-form Identifier:1:3:184505:1
GUID (UUID V4):13ba84f2-43c8-4277-be81-6dae6dc2dd95
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘSouth Orebody, Lindsay Hill Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘLindsay Hill Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
2.2km (1.3 miles) ⓘEast Pioche Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) ⓘVermillion Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) ⓘDesert Mound Orebody, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) ⓘHomestake Mine, Iron Mountain, Pinto Iron Mining District (Pinto Mining District; Silver Belt Mining District), Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) ⓘBlowout Pit (Columbia Steel Mine), Blowout Hollow, Iron Mountain, Pinto Iron Mining District (Pinto Mining District; Silver Belt Mining District), Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
68.0km (42.3 miles) ⓘCreole Mine, Lincoln Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
86.7km (53.9 miles) ⓘOK Mine (Milford Pit), Beaver Lake Mining District, Beaver Lake Mountains, Beaver County, Utah, USA
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IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH by Kenneth c. Bullock Geneva Works, U. S. Steel Corporation, near Provo. Courtesy...Courtesy of U. S. Steel Corporation . UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL -SURVEY affiliated with THE COLLEGE...AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 88 PRICE $4.50 DECEMBER...Acknowledgments ¡ .1 History of the Iron Industry in Utah ¡ .1 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Beaver...Bat Ridge iron occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . .2 Black Rock mine . . . Skylark
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............................................... Iron skarns and volcanic-hosted magnetite..............27 32 Illustrations Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada...Table 1. Table 2. Table 3. Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.............. Occurrences of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada...for 4 years. This report is a review of the known mining districts within the Reno quadrangle, as well as
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Western Montana 1952-1955 By PAULL. WEIS, FRANK C. ARMSTRONG, and SAMUEL ROSENBLUM CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY...Montana, 1952-1955, by Paul L. Weis, Frank C. Armstrong, and Samuel Rosenblum. Washington, U. S. Govt...occurrences in Lemhi County______________________ Camas district, Blaine County__________________________ Rustler...__ __ ________ __ ____ __ __ ___ Coeur d'Alene district, Shoshone County_________________ Crescent mi...mine_____________________________________ Galena mine ____________________ -----_____________ 11 11 11
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Fluorite Specimens Discovered! From the Huanggangliang mine No. 6, Inner Mongolia, China Martin Jensen mineralpro@hotmail...quantities. Although the specimen-producing zone at the mine is reportedly now mined out, this is a significant...Huanggangliang mine No. 6. Huanggangliang literally interpreted means Huanggang mountain: the name of the...different species have been reponed from this tin-iron mining complex. and the ilvaites uncovered about ten...generally anributed to the No. I Mine as far back as 2010. The mines in this district are developed in skams and
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as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous... Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the geologically notable granite dome uplift...pegmatites are off shoots of the otherwise barren granite. From then have come some of the world’s most spectacular...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along with lesser amounts
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recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and...• • • • • • • • • • • •• 34 Bald Mountain . . . . . . • . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
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collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be­ cause of its large oil and gas exploration...Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district...minerals. Mining here was contin­ uous from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bastrop Baylor Bell Bexar Blanco
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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GUIDEBOOI( OF NORTHERN UTAH Edited by Mead LeRoy Jensen Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine, the world's largest...of Utah's fore~ost industry - copper production. UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY affiliated with...AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 82 • PRICE $4.00 • MAY... Norman C. Williams . • 17 PREHISTORIC MAN IN UTAH by fohn P. Marwitt 21 A SUMMARY, References ...View of the deposits of Danger Cave near Wendover Utah . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Cluster of Basketmaker
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Southern Wyoming Province Hartville Uplift to Copper Mountain Area, Wyoming July t 9-25, t 989 Field Trip Guidebook...(Hausel) 34 39 Copper Mountain area geologic summary (Hausel and Graff) Copper Mountain area stop descriptions...trippers visit spinifex-textured komatiites, banded iron-formations, and various uranium and ~old prospects...River Range, including iron-formation formerly quarried at the Atlantic City mine. Return to Holiday Lodge...(Hausel and Graff): Trip participants visit Copper Mountain supracrustal belt of Owl Creek Mountains, and
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in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...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
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in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...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
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AND ADJACENT QUADRANGLES, ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, AND BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH BY David M. Miller and Andrew...north-trending Pilot Range is located along the Nevada-Utah border about 80 km (50 mi) south of Idaho (Fig 1)...metamorphism and ductile deformation (Armstrong and Hansen, 1966; Armstrong, 1972). A number of features of...history (Misch and Hazzard, 1962; Armstrong and Hansen, 1966; Armstrong, 1968; Lee and others, 1970; Howard...the tectonic history of northern Utah through study of several mountain ranges between the Pilot Range
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__ Metadiabase sills in Negaunee Iron-formation near National Mine, Mich., by George C. Simmons ___________________...Lake sill ______________________________ National Mine sill _____________________________ Ash-flow stratigraphy...Carpenter Ridge (and Bachelor Mountain) Tuff ___________ Rat Creek and Nelson Mountain Tuffs ________________...Pony Trail Group in the Cortez Mountains, Eureka County, Nev., by J. Fred Smith, Jr ________________________...Precambrian X metadiabase sills in Negaunee Iron-formation near National Mine, Mich _ 7. Columnar sections of metadiabase
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of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...localities, the Grace mine in Berks County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement...Cement Company quarry in York County, are now This fourth printing is essentially closed to collectors...Adams County 23 Allegheny County 31 . Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Clinton County Cumberland County Dauphin County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County
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detailed investigations of single ore deposits, or of mining districts, to large-scale regional syntheses,...Brooks Range, Alaska, 1 MacKevett, E. J., Jr., Armstrong, A. K., Potter, R. W., II, and Silberman, M. L...responsible for gold deposition, Alleghany district, Sierra County, California, 26 McMillan, W. J., and Johan...Upper Cretaceous turbidite sequence, Hope-Sunrise district, southern Alaska, 5 Radtke, A. S., Wittkopp, R...of gold-bearing quartz veins of the Alleghany district, California (abs.), 25 Robyn, T. L., Henage, L
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Classes of Rocks; Minerals Found in Igneous Rocks; Granite Pegmatite Gems and Minerals; Hydrothermal Mineral...Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin...and steatite (massive talc), as well as basalt, granite, limestone (and/ or sandstone), marble, and the...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the
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Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County...County Monroe County Northampton County Sullivan County York County 18 20 21 23 . 25 28 37 38 39 ...the rockhound, of the land, or from quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect. This will...digging into masses of rock in search of valuable iron-rich minerals which they may contain. Every step
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
 
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