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Turquoise from
Cactus Peak, Cactus Springs Mining District, Cactus Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Peak
Classification
Species:Turquoise
Formula:CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Turquoise data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cactus Peak, Cactus Springs Mining District, Cactus Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:192522
Long-form Identifier:1:3:192522:7
GUID (UUID V4):b63e360e-1681-4780-9df5-daa93565a1e8
Nearest other occurrences of Turquoise
1.8km (1.1 miles) Thompson Group, Cactus Springs Mining District, Cactus Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
30.2km (18.7 miles) Smith Black Matrix mine (Owa claim), Klondyke Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
44.0km (27.4 miles) Mizpah Mine (Mizpah shaft), Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
44.2km (27.5 miles) Rifle prospect, Northumberland Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
44.4km (27.6 miles) Tonopah Mining Company, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
44.4km (27.6 miles) Royal Blue Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
49.2km (30.5 miles) Livesy mine (Livesly mine), Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
50.5km (31.4 miles) Lone Mountain Mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
50.6km (31.5 miles) Blue Silver mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
60.3km (37.5 miles) Blue Jay Claim (Lone Mountain deposit), Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
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Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA SYDNEY H. BALL WASHINGTON...statement_________..__ _ Streams __________________.__ . Springs __ _______ Hot or warm springs____________-_______-...______ . _________i________________ History of mining development..--_________ r ________ Economic c...________ Northeastern extension of the Silver Peak Range._________ Topography and geography _________...Ranges north of Pahute Mesa._______________,___ 89 Cactus Range__________________________ 89' Topography
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip
Book
San Bernardino County, Cal. Fie. . Turquois matrix; Royal Blue Turquois mine, m Nye County, near Millers...Nev. Fia. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev. Fia. . Dark-blue turquois; Azure mine,...mine, 13 miles north of west of Millers, Esmeralda County, Nev. -7. Split veinlet of turquois showing a ‘““Y”...contains everything you might want to know about Turquoise, but were always afraid to ask. If there is anything...thorough scholarship but of interest mainly to the Turquoise especialista. The first edition lacked but one
Book
San Bernardino County, Cal. Turquois matrix; Royal Blue Turquoie mine, in Nye County, near Millers, Nev...Nev. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev. Dark-blue turquoisj AzUJ'8 mine, Burm Mountains... 13 miles north of we!Jt of Yillen,, EsmentJda County, Nev. • Flo. 7. Split veinlet of turquois showing...contains everything you might want to know about Turquoise, but were always afraid to ask. If there is anything...thorough scholarship but of interest 1nainly to the Turquoise especialista. The first edition lacked but one
Book (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Harold Noble, Leo...Illustrations 29. Miners at Crystal Peak, Colorado 30. Pegmatite pocket, Crystal Peak, Colorado 31. Spodumene, Pala
Report (issue)
A253-A258 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...and mineral-resource studies Continued Basin and Range region-____________________ Nevada_________________________..._______ Idaho- _ __ _________ ____ ___ __ ____ Nevada __ _ ___________________________ Saline water __...cooperators_-____ ---------_____-____ 209 State, county, and municipal cooperaters__________ 209 Other...________________ 217 Regional offices _---- _-- ---_- _-_217 District offices__-___----___-_-__ ____ 217 Offices in
Report (volume)
the Sand Spnngs Range, Fatrvtew Valley, and Fourmtle Flat, Churchtll County, Nevada US Atomtc Energy...Jr., Szabo, M W Mmeral resources map of Barbour County, Alabama Alabama Geol Survey Map 32, scale about...John H Preltmtnary geologic map of Esmeralda County Nevada US Geol Survey Mtneral lnv Fteld Studtes Map...Jr Geology of the Sterra Blanca area, Hudspeth County, Texas US Geol Survey Prof Paper 479, 131 p, tllus...trask1te, verplanck1te and mulflte from Fresno County, California Am Mmeralogist, v 50, no 9, p 1500-1503
 
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