 | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Celestite crystals, chalcedony rosettes, agates, jasper, fossil plants and vertebrate remains. The breaks...for its agates, chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and...the W of townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka...Quarry chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara...hillside surfacesagatized and opalized wood, agate, jasper;  in draws and washes and gravel beds of Spring |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................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...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to 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 of wide distribution...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...("flint, jasper, semi-opal") in the Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...has long been a significant part of the state's mining industry. Since 1880, mineraI production has been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8 |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...live. The Appalachians, the Smokies, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies and Black Hills, the Cascades and...locating and identifying gems is needed if you are to prospect successfully. The basic information is neither...paper. A fingernail will scratch gypsum, and a copper coin is just about as hard as calcite. A pocketknife...the eye. Minerals of this sort, such as agate and jasper, are described as cryptocrystalline. For example |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing...Geophysical studies Hydrology Economic geology Mining directory Environmental studies Engineering studies................................................. Copper ........................................................................................... 170 County Index ........................................ |  | | Book (volume) | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | g{x Spring Creek Area Last Chance Mining District Plumas County, California Gail E. Dunning 773 Durshire...mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities of copper and molybdenum until closing...long history of being a significant producer of copper, with a production history extending from the late...the former major producing areas was the Plumas copper belt that includes the Engles, Reward, Superior...producers (Clark and Smith, 1972). A second, smaller copper-producing area lies just to the east of this belt |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...that closes the bag. Tuck or the green stains of copper minerals that led to a sweater and a windbreaker...could think of. With increasing technical skill, mining and shaping of minerals be- came increasingly |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL STUCKEY, Information.... . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY .................ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper Mica...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline |  | Czamanske, Gerald K., Bennett, Pauline C., Zientek, Michael L., Weiblen, Paul W., Havach, George A., Foose, Michael P. (1986) Comprehensive bibliographies on mineralized and unmineralized layer mafic intrusions in the United States. Open-File Report Vol. 1986 (86-589) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr86589a | Report (issue) | | Anderson, G. E., 1955, The ore minerals of the copper-nickel deposits in the Duluth gabbro: Institute...Minnesota, Proceedings, p. 1. Anderson, G. E., 1956, Copper-nickel in the Duluth gabbro near Ely, Minnesota...meeting, Guidebook for field trip 1, p. 91-95. 1956, Copper-nickel mineralization at the base of the Duluth...Chromium and platinum discovery in HE Minnesota: Mining Review, v. 74, no. 27, p. 8. 1985, Chromium and...Photogeology of Cook County, Minnesota: University of Minnesota, M.S. thesis, 64 p. Skillings* Mining Minneapolis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Inspiration copper mine. The Live Oak copper mine of the same company (Inspiration Copper Co.) has furnished...of Norman, there is an old copper prospect in which occurs native copper as small masses in gray novaculite...the Josephine Mine near Volcanoville, Eldorado County, California. What your correspondent writes is...workings and resume mining. I must say, that in over twenty-five years of mining this was perhaps the... he mentions a few minerals found in Middlesex County, Conn. "Sillimanite evidently exsists, at least |  | | Book (volume) | | Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert...Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and by A. L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities...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...(Sillimanite), Zoisite and Clinozoisite, Serpentine, Copper Rhyolite, Red Corundum in Amphibolite, Pyrite, |  | | Book (edition) | | .............................................. Nevada .... ~ ........................................................................... Deposits and mining ......... ~ ................................................................................... Nevada ................................................................................ Oscar Wehrend prospect ......................................... "'illiam..... J :L"rer copper ore ................................................ ,, ar1ous copper ore gems .. |  | Bramel, Hadley R., Heyl, George R., Cox, Manning W., Ransome, Alfred L., Eric, John H., Wyant, Donald G. (1948) Copper in California. Bulletin 144. California State Mining Bureau | Report (issue) | | BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO Chief DECEMBER 144 COPPER IN (In CALIFORNIA Three Parts, Including Outline...Outline Geologic Map Showing Locations of Copper Properties) Prepared under the direction of Olaf p. Jenkins...States Department of the Interior Department of Mining, Stanford University liCD LIBRARY 1948 : ...have the honor to transmit herewith Bulletin 144, Copper in California, prepared under the direction of...the Foothill Copper Belt nomies and Treatment of Ores ; 3, Statewide Tabulation of Copper Properties to | | | Book | | ':!!""_...✓26 , EAGLE HARBOR ·=-'--~c--- TO COPPER HARBOR !ROCK SHOPSl r::::-::, LAKE BAILEY N...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...may betray a gold deposit or the green stains of copper minerals that led to rich mines rn Arrzona and...could think of. With increasing technical skil l, mining and shaping of minerals became increasingly important...of the world 's copper was produced 1n the last century Here are hundreds of prospect piles or massive |  | | Book (volume) | | particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE UBEHEBE PEAK QUADRANGLE INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA SPECIAL REPORT 42 UNIVERSITY OF...MINES 1-A. Sierra Blanca limestone in Santa Barbara County, California, by George W. Walker. 1950. 5 pp.,...25$. 3. Commercial "black granite" of San Diego County, California, by Richard A. Hoppin and L. A. Norman...of the San Dieguito pyrophyllite area, San Diego County, California, by Richard H. Jahns and John F. Lance...25$. 6. Geology of Bitterwater Creek area, Kern County, California, by Henry H. Heikkila and George M |  | | Report (volume) | | Co. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesColorado Grand County. I. United States Bureau of Mines. II. Title. III...----------------------------- * * Lake Albion mining district --- -- --- »« » -«- «« jvieadow v>reeK * "«...Mineralized areas Continued Page Caribou mining district -----«--"--..-----»«----. T net* .LJCIA.C T....... ..... ...... ..... ..... Guinn Mountain district -. Conclusions --------------------- - - 64...Colorado. 2. Map showing sample localities and mining claims in the Indian Peaks study area, Colorado |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PALEOPROTEROZOIC PRECURSOR TO THE LARAMIDE PORPHYRY COPPER PROVINCE Richard H. Sillitoe,1,†Robert A. Creaser...3MinQuest, 4BHP Inc., 4235 Christy Way, Reno, Nevada 89519 Billiton, Avenida Américo Vespucio 100,...samples from the Squaw Peak porphyry copper-molybdenum prospect in central Arizona returned essentially...the prospect is not a component of the Laramide (Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary) porphyry copper province...volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) copper deposits in the nearby Jerome district, which are part of the Yavapai |
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