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Quartz from
Heavy Spar mine, Swales Mountain Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Heavy Spar mine, Swales Mountain Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:196660
Long-form Identifier:1:3:196660:2
GUID (UUID V4):29d7570b-237b-475f-a658-bf49b7b1ba41
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.0km (1.3 miles) Fish Creek mine (Big Three mine; Roan claims; Chaliebois; Big Four), Swales Mountain Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) Longshot mine (Cottonwood Creek), Swales Mountain Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
15.4km (9.6 miles) Coyote Mine (Patsy Ann claims), Beaver Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
16.3km (10.1 miles) Morning Glory prospect, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
17.6km (10.9 miles) Genesis-Blue Star Mines Area, Genesis pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
17.8km (11.0 miles) Carlin Gold mine, Elko, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
17.8km (11.1 miles) Leeville mine (West Leeville orebody; Four Corners orebody; Turf orebody), Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
17.9km (11.1 miles) Mike deposit, Maggie Creek Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
17.9km (11.1 miles) Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
17.9km (11.2 miles) Tusc pit (Tusc ore body), Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...by Prof. John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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 ' Bulletin 648 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT................................................. Quartz monzonite........................................Clark County.......................................................'.. Gold Butte mining district.................... Lincoln mine........................................ Bennett mine.........................gneiss............................. Gold Butte Mining Co................................. New Era group
Book (edition)
OF METALLURGY,” DE M. INST. L’ECOLE ‘f THE MINING SECOND REWRITTEN \ ros. F.R.S. C.2E. DES...GREATLY ENLARGED BY HENRY Ad AUTHOR PROFSSOR OF MINING OF AT THE WITH LOUIS, SoM.,, sl; O.peh C.Ge...the second, examples are given from the principal mining regions of the old and the new world. In this portion...Royal School of Mines, and formerly student at the Mining School of Clausthal. For a period extending over...because by the 1x in mining, fresh obliteration of those I hold that past mining records must be treated
Report (issue)
Barytet':;, heavy spar or barium sulphate, which is the most common barium mineral, is normally a heavy, white...req11ire fine-grinding, but this is seldom done at the mine . .British mines working barytes practise mineral...tables. In California and Nevada, little of the mineral needs treatment at the mine, the bulk being taken...area of Canada, the treatment of the mineral ,vhen mining operations are m progress is similar to that used...and the Hartenrod deposit in the south Siegen district of Westphalia, but at these places fine-grinding
Book
gravel of streams and in veins. The veins of Gilpin County are especially noteworthy for the amount of gold...leaf gold were taken from the Printer Boy mine, Lake County, in tellurium in many in 1870. In combination...combination with of the mines in Boulder County. SILVER. occurs crystallized in cubes, octahedrons...The Boulder Nest mine in Clear Creek County, and the Caribou mine in Boulder County were especially productive...me- tallic. Has been found sparingly of Boulder County. in the tellurium-bearing mines Minerals of
Book
/FORAW/A, Ay IV// / /AM P. B/A A E. Sfa fe Mining Az//-eaſt. AEAVA’ Y G. HAMAS, State Mineralogist...which is not yet ascertained, in a gangue of heavy spar, containing, also, nodular masses of chalcopyrite...river, about three miles above Big Bar, Plumas County. The mass is about five eighths of an inch in diameter...claim of Mr. A. J. Ford, at Light's Canyon, Plumas County, in a vein affording massive specimens three inches...most interesting gold-bearing rocks of the Sierra Nevada. Merced is situated upon the alluvial plains of
Book (edition)
Sense—Use of the Key—How to Tell Pyrites from Gold, and Quartz from Diamond—All the Useful Minerals Grouped According...Glance—Copper Nickel—Copper Pyrites—Diamond—Em¬ ery— Fluor Spar— Franklinite—Galena — Garnet — Gold— Graphite—Gray...Iron Ore—Magnetic Pyrites—Malachite—Manga¬ nese Spar—Marble—Mica—Micaceous Iron Ore—Nitre— Oxyd of Manganese...California,. CHAPTER IX. Discovery of Silver in Nevada, and United States Gold and Silver Statistics....STATES Commissioner of Mining Statistics; EDITOR OF THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL; AUTHOR OF
Report (volume)
geology of the deposits, with consideration of mining methods and exploration, and estimates ofreserves...geology of the deposits, with consideration of mining methods and exploration, and estimates of reserves..._-_-_-________ Mountain Pass district, California..-____-.-_.._______ Central district, Missouri..___..._________________________ Hansonburg district, New Mexico___________________ Kings Creek district, South Carolina.._______________..._______________ Del Rio district, Tennessee....____...-_.____.__.___ Middle Tennessee district __--__-__-_--_-_-_____
Book (edition)
by DUEEIE & PECK, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut BENHAM * SON, PHCtTEBS... modes of application The value of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines in...localities of Minerals, Brief notice of Foreign Mining Regions, . . . Mineralogical Implements, Index...70 impleshape,] 54. horizontal entrance to a mine. A A ; A : Amygdaloidal, 339. Anhydrous. [Lat...69. a, not, and Blue-jo' in. Name for fluor spar, used in Derbyshire, where it often hudor, water
Book (edition)
DURRIE & PECK, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION...only by name. in uses of minerals and their mining, their countries, modes modes of application...American localities of Minerals, notice of Foreign Mining Regions, Mineralogical Implements, Weights, Measures...aster, star.] HavThe ing the appearance of a stai mine. An oxyd having an acrid within. Alkali. Containing...[Lat. a, not, and Blue-jo'.n. Name for fluor spar, used in Derbyshire, where it often hudor, water
Book (edition)
yr>cr 1857, by PLCK D the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut (QE372. 18^7 EARTH SCIENCES...especially dwelt upon. in the arts of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines in...LOCALITIES OF MINERALS, . BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, . . . MlNERALOGICAL IMPLEMENTS, WEIGHTS...aditus, an entrance.] horizontal entrance to a mine. The material under chem* blowpipe examination...simple blowhorizontal passage in Gallery. A A mining. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize, 67. Intumesce
Book (edition)
Key — How to for Tell Pyrites from Gold, and Quartz from Diamond — All the and Color, to Hardness ...Nickel — Copper Pyrites — Diamond — EmFluor ery Spar — Franklinite Galena — Garnet — Gold Graphite —...Iron Ore — Magnetic Pyrites — Malachite — Manganese Spar — Marble — Mica — Micaceous Iron Ore — Nitre Oxyd...Discovery of Gold in Gold and . . 127 IX. Nevada, and United States Silver Statistics . . . 134...STATES Commissioner of Mining Statistics; EDITOR ENGINEERING AND OF THE MINING AUTHOR JOURNAL; OF
Book (edition)
particular any more of a and Ore the farm from mine more the it has by the present advisable Deposits...Key — How to a Tell Pyrites from Gold, and Quartz from Diamond — All the to Hardness and Color, ...Copper — Copper Pyrites — Diamond — Em- Nickel Spar — Franklinite Graphite— Gray Copper — Baryta ...— Magnetic Pyrites — Malachite — MangaMica nese Spar — Marble — Micaceous Iron Ore — Nitre Oxyd of Manganese...CHAPTER Discovery Gold of and Silver Silver in Nevada, IX. and United Statistics . . APPENDIX: Ore
Book
contains a brief account of some of the principal mining districts of Colorado, not as official reports...granite islands, destined in time to grow into mountain ranges and to become the backbones of the continent...geological revolutions such as the eleva¬ tion of mountain ranges, or great continental masses. In America...marked by their prevailing red color and consist of heavy bedded red conglomerate sand¬ stones such as may...they are observed on the flanks of Silverheels mountain, and in the neighborhood of Fairplay and the salt
Book (edition)
by DURRIE & PECK in the Clerk's Office of the District Stereotyped by J. H. New BENHAM, Haven, Ct...application in the arts have value of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines...LOCALITIES OF MINERALS, BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, CHAP. IX. 211 233 243 247 250 257 259...aditus, an entrance.] horizontal entrance to a mine. An oxyd Alkali. and taste, soda. Alkaline...[Lat. not, and Blue-John. Narrfe for fluor spar, used in Derbyshire, where it oftea hudvr, water
Book (edition)
especially dwelt upon. The value of ores in . mining, their modes of reducti~n, the yieid of .mines...LOCALITIES OF MINERALS, . BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, • • . MINERALOGICAL IMPL~ENTS, • • • •...66. AcICULAR, [Lat. The horizontal entrance to a mine. Alkali An oxyd having an acrid taste, and caustic;...imple• ments, 68, 69. Blue-john. Name for· fluor spar, used in Derbyshire, where it often . has a bluish-purple...ingredients present. Lode. [Sax. lredan, to lead.] In mining, a vein of mineral substance ; usually a vein of
Book
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
Book
boundaries of the mineral industry are clear: the mining and milling of feldspar, for example, belong to...does not. But how does one draw the line between mining and manufacturing where brine from a salt well...districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies, and give production...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...specifications are even more rigid. Such requirements place heavy responsibilities on the suppliers of raw materials
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Book (edition)
application in the arts have value of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines...localities or Minerals, — Brief notice of Foreign Mining Regions. Chap. X. — Mineealogical Implements, ...an entrance.] The horizontal entrance to a mine. An oxyd Alkali, and taste, having an acrid...Anhydrous. [Lat. a, not, and Blue-john. Name for fluor spar, used in Derbyshire, where it often hudar, water...simple blowGallery. horizontal passage in A A mining. pipe. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize
 
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