| | 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...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...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks | | | 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...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 | | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods | | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods | | | 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 (issue) | MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21 | | | Report (issue) | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- | | | 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 (volume) | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, 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 qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals | | | Book (volume) | Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides | | | Report (issue) | 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 . Iron Lead, zinc and silver Molybdenum Tungsten Production 5 5 5 5 6 Metallic...Previous investigations Mine descriptions Alamance County Copper prospect Foust copper mine Robeson gold prospect...Cabarrus County Allman prospect Buffalo mine Cabarrus? mine Clinemine Crayton mine Furniss mine Eva Furr...Furr mine Isenhour mine ..; : Newellmine Nugget mine Phoenix mine Pioneer Mills mine Propst mine Quaker...City mine Reed mine Rocky River mine Silver shaft Snydermine Troutmanmine Tucker mine Whitney mine Chatham | | | Report (volume) | 50. II. Tertiary History of the G-rand Caiion District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S... Geology of the Comstocls Lode and the Washoe District, with atlas, by George F. Becker. 1882. 4°. xv...of 21 sheets folio. Price $11.00. IV. Conistock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1883. 4°. xiv, 451 pp...Price $1.05. VII. SilTer-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtia. 1884. 4°. xiii, 200 pp...Price $1.20. VIII. Paleontology of the Eureka District, by Charles Doolittle Walcott. 1884. 4°. xiii | | | Journal (issue) | Wilson Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Friends of Mineralogy COVER: COPPER from the Ray mine, Arizona. The specimen is 3 inches wide, and was...article beginning on page 311 for more on the Ray mine. n o te s fr o m t h c j EDITOR ARIZONA This | | | 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 | | | Catalog/List | 262 232) I. CLiNOCLASE. Matuba Hill. Pershing County. Nevada. USA Flattish druse of dark blue clinoclase...pinkish equant cobaltosmithsonite xtls to l0mm on a flat massive quartz rich matrix Pretty D SPC C.£22 3...4. N AT I V E COPPER.Wolserine Mine,Keweenaugh Peninsula-Michigan-USA Pure flattish mass of native copper...N I T E METEORITE,Canyon Diabolo.Coconino County,Arizona,USA Dense brown black slightly weathered submetallic...matrix. Attractive RF SPC. C £5 26 PECTOL/TE,JefTrey Mine,Asbestos,Quebec.Canada. Exquisite milky white acicular | | | Report (issue) | object shown here actual size. Pho'o by Mary Hill. FOREWORD This bulletin number is is an overall...overall guide been written on gold and gold mining of publications have no single report or to the...deposits within the state, mostly in the Sierra Nevada. Some of these reports are classics now. Among...Sierra Nevada, Lindgren's 1911 professional paper on the number of very excellent reports Nevada and...longer district Hulin, respectively. the principal features of each gold-bearing district are described | | | Book | First published in 1975 by Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION:...milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please | | | Book (edition) | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral | | | Book (edition) | Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART | | | Report (volume) | most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...the Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New...Buckhorn claims, Nevada; the Midnite and Daybreak mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White...White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor Mountains 327 328 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF URANIUM...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as | | | Book (edition) | his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position to become mineralogist for Silver King...King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as mineralogist/petrographer for...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and | | | 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...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...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to | | | Report (volume) | Deposits of the . Philipsburg Dis ict .Granite County, Montaria GEOLOGICAL SURVEY _BULLETIN I' 1237... Geology and Ore Deposits of the Philipsburg District Granite County, Montana By WILLIAM C. PRINZ GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1237 A study of the silver-zinc and manganese deposits of the Nation's only battery-grade...battery-grade manganese dioxide district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1967...Philipsburg district. 2-6. Maps of part of the Philipsburg district, showing geology and mine workings at | | | Book (edition) | Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position to become mineralogist for Silver King...King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as mineralogist/petrographer for...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express |
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