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Pyrite from
Desert Mine, Granite Mountain Mining District, Dugway Range, Tooele County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Desert Mine, Granite Mountain Mining District, Dugway Range, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:188842
Long-form Identifier:1:3:188842:3
GUID (UUID V4):dbec0970-ae04-42bc-a216-b83ae2fd93cc
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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)
THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Tooele I°x2° Quadrangle, Northwest Utah A CUSMAP Preassessment Study by...Mel H. Podwysocki2 Prepared in cooperation with Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Open-File Report......................... CURRENT STATUS OF MAJOR MINING DISTRICTS......................... 28 28 37 39.......................................... Recent Mining Activity References................................ Silver Island Mountains and Great Salt Lake Desert Magnetic Anomalies............................
Report (issue)
OCCURRENCES IN UTAH by K. C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...Purple pit fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim...43 Floride Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Floride No. 1 Mine . . . . ...Floride No.5 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Floride No. 13 Mine . . . . . . ..... . . 45 Floride No. 18 Mine ............ ·.......... 45 Fluorine Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . .
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azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material; indeed...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 2. Utah By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...detailed study of the supergene zinc deposits of Utah UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache...district____ __ ____________ _________ __ __ ____ ______ Tooele County________________________________________________...__ __ _____ _____________ _____ __ ___ ___ ___ Dugway district________________ ___ ____ ____ _________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1918 ON GOLD HILL AND VICINITY, COUNTY, WESTERN UTAH. No. 4 TOOELE J. F. KEMP AND PAUL BILLINGSLEY...stageroad which passedwestwardthrough Dugway, Fish Spring Camp and Clifton, Utah, and so on across the stateline...interest, and as all came from a portion of the county regardingwhich records were few, a short contributionwas...publishedregarding them? Clifton and Gold Hill are two early mining campsformerly scenesof activity, quiet in later...collectedby E. E. Olcott, E.M., near Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah. Trans. N.Y. Acad. Sciences,II: 127-128,
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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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...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm
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Tertiary Volcanic Rocks and Uranium in the Thomas Range Northern Drum Mountains, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...and Uranium in the Thomas Range and Northern Drum Mountains, Juab County, Utah By DAVID A. LINDSEY GEOLOGICAL...tuff member Landslide breccias Breccia at Spor Mountain and breccia at Wildhorse Spring . Megabreccia...Page Description of rock units Continued Topaz Mountain Rhyolite Continued Stratified tuff Structural...50 51 Uranium in stratified tuff of the Topaz Mountain Rhyolite A model for uranium deposits and some
Book (edition)
TN 2.4-' Bixby j| atalogue of Utah minerals and localities THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...for Collectors MAYNARD BIXBY A CATALOGUE OF UTAH MINERALS AND LOCALITIES With Descriptive List,...Collectors. -byMAYNARD Salt Lake BIXBY. City, Utah. 1904. Copyright, 1902, by MAYNARD (Third ...CHEMISTS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. WRITE FOR PRICES. YOU WANT A GOOD MINE! MANY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN...MAYNARD BIXBY. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MINERAL LOCALITIES. BEAVER COUNTY. (Vy Beaver City, near; hyalite
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ROCKHOUNDING Utah SECOND EDITION A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites WILLIAM A. KAPPELE.... . . . . . . ix Introduction: Welcome to Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 South Utah 1. Central: Agate . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Cinder Mountain: Petrified Wood. . . . . . . . . . ...32 34 37 39 41 43 45 47 50 52 54 56 58 Southeast Utah 14. Sand Creek: Petrified Wood. . . . . .
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES.... . . . . . . . . . . . Correlation with Uinta Range ......................... _......... _............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
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Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE... as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide
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Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE... as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide
Journal (issue)
Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 Maynard Bixby - Part 1 Mining Expert, Mineral Dealer and Sharp Shooter Mark Ivan...in the rhyolite-covered mountain ranges of Utah. He was a Salt Lake City mining expert often contracted...summarizing the known minerals and localities of Utah (Mitchell 1987). His personal mineral collection...Township, along the Susquehanna River, Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Bixby 1914). This farm was just...town of WilkesBarre, a center for anthracite coal mining. The 1870 Census shows both Maynard and Charles
Report (issue)
Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Report (volume)
Fluorspar Deposits of Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1005 Fluorspar Deposits of Utah By W. R. THURSTON...in cooperation with the State of Utah through the University of Utah. This report concerns work done partly... ________ ___________ History of fluorspar mining in Utah __ --__-_________--_____--___ Classification..._____ Deposits in Indian Peak Range and Monarch claims, Beaver County, by W. R. Thurston. __ ____ _______...mine__________________________--_.___-____ Blue Bell mine...-- ____ _____ - __ __ _ ___________ Noonday p
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update Pg 3 Guest Speaker: Bob Carnein Topic- Pyrite: It’s more than just “Fools' Gold” Refreshments..."Famous mineral localities: The Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado" (2005). After retiring Bob and Nell...experience in Salt Lake City. I have written about Utah in numerous other articles since the state played...my early adult life. I attended the University of Utah (1967-1970), spent the 1971-1973 summers as a seasonal...Studies—Paleontology), supervised several MS theses on Utah rocks and fossils, and conducted stratigraphic research
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and both contain tiny, brassy-yellow grains of pyrite. COLORADO — O. A. Reese, 806 E. Boulder St., Colorado...of the many quartz slabs we found. From Tellar County, Colorado." — on label. 30 PLEASE SEND THEM I...an orange stilbite xled on dark smoky quartz. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — "This item is of interest mainly...nodules in limonite and attractive specimens of pyrite and an emerald-green mica were found." -— item...Drive, Hyattsville, Md. GEORGIA — The Chandler iron mine is located about 8 miles west-southwest of Hawkinsville
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org/details/rockhoundingutahO00O0kapp Rockhounding Utah William A. Kappele Consulting Editor W.R.C. Shedenhelm...n Data Kappele, William A., 1931— Rockhounding Utah / by William A. Kappele ; consulting editor, W.R...guide)—T.p. verso. ISBN 978-1-56044-446-6 1. Rocks—Utah—Collection and preservation—Guidebooks. Guidebooks...962-0973 or e-mail premiums@GlobePequot.com. 2. Utah- 96-12047 CIP CONTENTS PORTIOWICUCINCOUS reer...ociees Ros eten Ts essere: ii ROCKHOUNDING SITES IN UTAH ie Ceol aleASale exit mee RE Atihid Ramis 2 20
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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...· .1 History of the Iron Industry in Utah · .1 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Beaver Lake...Black Rock mine . . . Skylark mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Mineral Range deposits
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....................................... 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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UTAH AND ITS MINERAL WEALT-R UT-A H AND ITS MINERAL WEALTH Published by the MINING COMMITTEE...LAKE CITY, UTAH - I 9 3 0- • Here a re "past and present" views of a titanic mining operation-the...Bingham workings of the Utah Copper Company, the largest surfa ,c e copper mine in North Am e rica , Below...Below is shown the mountain as it looked in 1903, when the first steam shovel began to tear away at the...scratched the surface of this huge ore-bearing mountain . Today, o n more than a scOl'e of terraces,
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
Report (issue)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ......
 
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