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Quartz from
Capitol Mine, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark 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 Capitol Mine, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:275797
Long-form Identifier:1:3:275797:1
GUID (UUID V4):f7f83408-525c-4acd-b8e6-d52a30dc1ac6
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.0km (0.0 miles) ⓘCapital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘMontana claim, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘSunny South prospect, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘQueen Bee prospect, Capital camp, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) ⓘNevada Eagle mine, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Gold Basin Mining District, White Hills, Clark County, Nevada, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘQueen mine, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
4.9km (3.1 miles) ⓘEldorado Crown Mining Co. Mine, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) ⓘJubilee Mine, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ⓘTechatticup Mine, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ⓘEldorado Rover Mining Co. group, Eldorado Mining District (Colorado Mining District), Eldorado Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
References
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several counties. In addition, the TriState zinchead mining area, active for more than one hundred years, extends...as the Picher district, which is in the Oklahoma portion of the TriState. This district has probably produced...excellent. An example is the Arkansas Ouachita quartz crystal belt that extends into southeastern Oklahoma...October 2014 Mineral Index by Counties Alfalfa County Carmen, 2 mi. NE of Carmen, 1 .1 mi. W of Highway...Permian-age Crisfield Sandstone: malachite. Adair County Bunch, near Bunch, secs.l.5, 16, T.14N, R.24E:
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 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
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ath IO wns : POEL eieeet be eas, NN 419-3 Nevada; a 03 G ps 127)oO to the Silver state The...DUE TTT JA S = * aint Demgo = en ae NEVADA A Guide to the Silver State mv DA A GUIDE...the Work Projects Administration in the State of Nevada aa AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES LPR US BATENS = BY...PACIFIC Sponsored by Dr. Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, Nevada State Historical Society, Inc. FORDS & MORT :... COPYRIGHT, 1940, BY NEVADA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1940 THE NEVADA STATE HISTORICAL
Report (issue)
Bullock Nature displays her most common mineral, quartz, in this beautiful crystal cluster. CONTENTS.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
- Temecula, CA 92589 (909) 699-4749 - 1994 Mining Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS INrRoDUCI'ION ••••••••........................................ CAl 119 Colorado .............................. ....................................................... MT 1 11 Nevada ...................................................... . 1994 Mining Guide INTRODUCTION IMPORTANT - PLEAsE READ! The 1994 GPM Mining Guide is designed...(normally listed from north to south), directions and mining commen ts; gold-producing areas, general prospecting
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TOWNS & MINING CAMP SITES . ol % \ AND WHERE THEY FOUND IT A GUIDE TO GHOST TOWNS & MINING CAMP...that reading about and visiting Ghost Towns and mining camp sites are becoming increasingly popular. Fact...the history of both the famous and little-known mining booms. This book is particularly valuable because...most important and interesting Ghost Towns and mining camps, giving specific directions to help you reach...including maps, historic and modern photographs of mining towns, sketches, and pictures of those who became
Report (issue)
__ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits...Highways_____ Production............................... Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville
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...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal
Book (edition)
gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE
Journal (issue)
vacation season, Phoenix, Arizona. Oct. 1—Santa Cruz County Fair and Rodeo, Sonoita, Arizona. Oct. 1-7—Annual... Oct. 1-8—Aspen week, "Aspencade" tours into mountains around Taos, New Mexico. Oct. 4—Feast Day of St...5-6-7 — Nevada State Medical association annual conference, Las Vegas. Oct. 5-8—Graham County Fair, Safford...Cochise County Fair, Douglas, Arizona. Oct. 7-8—Mass field trip sponsored by the Clark County Gem Collectors...Collectors, Las Vegas, Nevada. Camp ground at Boulder Beach on shore of Lake Mead. Oct. 16-19—Southwestern
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Thomssen Design Wendell E. Wilson Graphic Production Capitol Communications, Crofton, MD Printing Waverly Press...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series
Book
COLORADO MININC DIRECTORY. . 1 THE te COLORADO Directory of Mines, DESCRIPTION OF THE MINES AND...AND MILLS, AND THE MINING AND MILLING CORPORATIONS OF COLORADO, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY COUNTUS. j^ISTORY... WHOSE NERVE, ENERGY AND INDUSTRY HAVE PLACED COLORADO IN THE FRONT RANK OF BULLION PRODUCING STATES...WEALTH AND PROSPERITY, UNEQUALED IN THE HISTORY OF MINING COMMUNITIES, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED...FARM FOB EVERYBODY Railway. COLORADO. Healthy, Attractive. Colorado is the great Sanitarium and Pl
Book (edition)
sOO0Ofoss Colorado LITHO BY WALSWORTH PUB. CO., INC., MARCELINE, MO. Colorado GOLD AND FARMS...Denver, of all other McMahon, unpublished Mining District, in reproduction. map Colo. places Albuquerque...Albuquerque, NM of Leadville a map of Territorial Colorado c. 1876, and a woodcut engraving Bird’s Eye View...scock G. York, Includes indexes. 1. Colorado. 2. Colorado. is Waele. Mines and mineral resources--...DressOne. MEXIC ies 35 Publisher’s Preface Colorado! The very name (which means “‘colored red’’) conjures
Report (issue)
IDAHO So THIRTY - THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Mining Industry of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 1931 STEWART INSPECTOR...submitted, STEWART CAMPBELL, Inspector of Mines. MINING 6 ARTICLES SPECIAL INDUSTRY APPEARING OF...32d, Bunker Hill & Sullivan M. & C. Co.: Valley County..---.....--.ee WA eee = 25th, ee ee ce ae BE UTS...AUD66 ee Oe ae ee es Dlectricity in Coeur d’Alene District: --...--...--..----...----------------- 30th,...Anaconda Copper Mining Ce.: Phosphate IME in ts. eee Stoping Anaconda Copper Mining Co.: Inclined Top
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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
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
Journal (issue)
G. M . A llgood, R. W. A llgood & J. Pradenas Colorado Fam ous m ineral localities: Breckenridge, C olorado...Nugget," collected in 1865 at the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California, by Jules Fricot and donated...all been unravelled. On Arizona collection. or quartz or even silver. On the subject of the other hand...exotic. virtually all the value of a wulfenite or a quartz crystal. In fact, The only problem posed by gold’s...localities not mentioned in G old-I. . . Australia, Colorado and Appalachia, for example. It seems that we
Journal (issue)
leatures Cleare High Ffficien cy g Clear Se - ~~ COLORADO fr ‘ = Power Close abra Power Say; R ...and abrasives-pump! g Denver, has served the mining industry in the Rocky Mountain area for over 30... AND APPLICATIONS & DREDGE IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Henlyof...cuttings to escape easily of the world’s largest mining and contracting firms know of Liddicoat ease...the low-centre wings. Salt Laké City 4, Utah MINING WORLD, March, 1952. Volume 14 No }. Published monthly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
William Besse. 1714 S. Clarkson Street Denver, Colorado 80210 markivanjacobson@gmail.com B lue minerals...symbol to promote outstanding aspects of their county or state. Approval is usually not difficult because...ALABAMA: Star Blue Quartz Alabama State Senator Don Hale proposed that star blue quartz be named the state...29 March 1990 through Act No. 90-203. Star blue quartz is found only in a 32 × 80-kilometer rectangular...least 1966. Fist-sized nuggets of anhedral blue quartz with an opalescent or waxy luster have been found
Journal (issue)
..........191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................in e s Steve Voynick* P.O. Box 1285 Leadville, Colorado 80461 If you’re a mineral collector, you know...typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...glittering crystals or an overlooked vein of goldbearing quartz that would not only provide spectacular specimens
Show/Event (guide)
Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela Graphics Services Capitol Communications Crofton. Maryland Color Separations...crystal group, 13 cm, from the Eagle’s Nest mine. Placer County, California. Found in 1988. Collection of...of its balmy climate, clean desert air, scenic mountains, rich history and many attractions. Perhaps you’ve...Tanque Verde area where they spend part of the year. Clark Gable, science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, astronaut...titles including “Mexican Food Capitol of the World,’’ “Astronomy Capitol of the World,” and Official
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4000 Salt Lake 3VHA ‫مم‬ • THE JOHNNIE MINING & MILLING COMPANY. - Illustrated . E rn lectre...lectre cel 2 Weste THE CROWN POINT GLOBE MINING COMPANY . - Illustrated .. ‫ سر‬/ SerT 19 CE W E VI ...GOES ON FOREVER The Mine & Smelter Supply Co. SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH 2. THE MINING REVIEW , SALT LAKE... IN the latter part of 1908 the Pioche Golden Mining Co., of Pioche, Nev ., bought of one g ofPrince...gThis week we sold to the Gold and Silver Prince Mining Company , bwhedosythe samepeople) of Pioche, Nev
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papoose aloft for Photographer Andrew Crofut of Reno, Nevada, whose charming family portrait won first prize...August 12-14—Wasatch County Fair and Rodeo, Heber, Utah. August 12-14—Sanpete County Fair, Manti, Utah....Square Dance Festival, Flagstaff. August 18-20—Cache County Fair, Logan, Utah. August 24-31—Hopi Snake Dances...August 27-28—Kane County Fair and Horse Show, Orderville, Utah. August 28-29—Tooele County Fair, Tooele,...for Photographers FIELD TRIP Crystal Roses of Eldorado By HAROLD O. WEIGHT CLOSE-UPS About those who
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nandAlteration in the WesternSanJuanMountains,Colorado PETERW. LIPMAN, FREDERICKS. FISHER, HARALDH. ][VIEHNERT...Abstract Ore depositsin the western San Juan Mountains formed intermittently in middle to late Tertiary...volumetricallyminor intrusionsof quartz-bearing silicic porphyry. This associationis commonin many mining districtsin the...alterationandmineralization in the SanJuanMoun- minor quartz porphyry intrusionswere empIaced tains: one in...intrusivecentersnearOuray, Rico, and La Plata Mountains(Fig. 1), and Geologic Setting anotherin the middleto
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Germany. Richard C. Erd Collection o f the Freiberg Mining Academy. Donald R. Peacor Photo by Jurgen Karpinski... Richard W . Thomssen Gold from the St. Josefs mine, Verespatak, Romania (left) Associate Photographers:...(top); and silver Eric Offermann from the Anton mine, Wieden, West Germany. Harold & Erica Van Pelt...Reproduction in any form, including Ekaterinberg, Ural Mountains, translation into other languages, USSR; a group...Wilson from Mursinka; and two Typesetting by Capitol Communications, Crofton, Maryland pale aquamarine
 
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