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Sphalerite from
Milford Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milford Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:276429
Long-form Identifier:1:3:276429:0
GUID (UUID V4):8e95b59c-2591-4f28-83dc-6c9b6a68bf75
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
8.6km (5.3 miles) Kalley Mine (Dewitt's Mine; Umberci Mine; Carbonate King Mine), Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Root Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Argentena Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Mobile Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
15.7km (9.8 miles) Yellow Pine Mine (Yellow Pine Lead Zinc Mine; Hilo; Radio; Como; Hermes), Goodsprings, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
22.8km (14.2 miles) Green Gold Mine (Green Mine; Bank Roll; Kieper Lead-Silver; Valentine; Glory Hole claim; Eerie claim; Eagle's Nest claim; Yellow Crocus claim; Diamond Back claim; Little Gremlin claim), Clark Mountain, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
23.5km (14.6 miles) Wheelbarrow Mine (Lime Canyon Mine; Keiper Mine; No Name Mine; Fraction; East Side), Clark Mountain, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
24.5km (15.3 miles) Green Monster Mine, Shenandoah Peak (Shenandoah Mountain), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Mohawk Mine, Mohawk Hill, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Potosi Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Group Element Deposits in the Goodsprings District, Clark County, Nevada PETER VIKRE,1,† QUENTIN J. BROWNE...Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Kodiak Exploration Limited,...California 94305-2115 Abstract The Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada, includes zinc-dominant carbonate...with Late Triassic porphyritic intrusions. The district encompasses ~500 km2 although the distribution...the craton. They consist of calcite, dolomite, sphalerite, and galena with variably positive S isotope
Journal (issue)
spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books...Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...the Geological Survey of Nevada is preparing a very comprehensive book on Nevada minerals, which has a preliminary
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...'Ike Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain...Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite
Report (issue)
to visit a number of widely separated mining districts in Nevada and northeastern California. The work...days of September were spent in the Yellow Pine district, Nevada's new and largest zinc camp. This report...and people of the district did much to expedite the work. The mining men of the district extended many courtesies...ACCESSIBILITY. The Yellow Pine mining district, sometimes called ,the Good Springs district, is in the southwestern...part of Clark County, Nev., near the California line. It covers the southern part of the Spring Mountain
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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Goodspringsdistrict, Nevada ..................................... Upper MississippiValley district ..................................... Southern Appalachian district ..................................... Theoretical...and hemimorphite in the Southern Appalachian district, and the predominanceof smithsoniteover hydrozincite...and hemimorphite in the Upper Mississippi Valley district can be explained by the pH of the ground waters...Goodspringsmining district of Nevada, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc and lead district, and the Southern
Report (issue)
Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 275 Geology...Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada By D. F. HEWETT GEOLOGICAL The geology SURVEY...Lucy Grey Range_______________________ Castle Mountains _______________________ Vontrigger Springs and..._____ Providence Mountains_ __________________ Clark Mountain and Ivanpah Mountain___ Southwest quarter...Crystal Springs formation _____ _ _ _ _ __ _ Beck Spring dolomite _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ Kingston Peak
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
Journal (issue)
for sale do not ha,·e ilvaite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite masses on their bases. They also do not have...had the good fortune isiting the old and famous mining town of Freiberg, Saxony, thanks largely to the...were made around I 168, the Erzgebirge [Ore-Mountains) mining started in this area and led to the foundation...Northern Germany. Over the course ofFreiberg's long mining history with . ,._ -.... several highs - especially...Bergakademie [School of Mining] Saxony was established in 1765. Long before that, a "mining office" for Saxony
Report (volume)
of Lead and Zinc Deposits in Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) District, Nevada By CLAUDE C. ALBRITTON, ]R.,...-------------------------Geology of the Goodsprings district, by Claude C. Albritton, Jr_________ In...column__________________ Position of ore bodies within mine areas______________________ Yellow Pine and Prairie...Summary_________________________________________________ Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David...31 31 32 34 39 41 41 41 44 IV CONTENTS Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David
Report (issue)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ......
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 (issue)
___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache..._______________________________ American Fork district (Alta area)___________________________ Alpine...district_ _ ____ ___ ______ __________ __ _______ _____ Spring Creek district_______________________________________...______ Redmond district __________________________________ _:________ Millard County _______________...Map showing oxidized ziuc deposits of the Tintic district, Juab and Utah Counties. 3. Map showing oxidized
Book (edition)
(Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE SPODUMENE...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...the rock formations of the east and west coast mountains, and the diamonds of the ciers that crunched
Report (issue)
Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 What is a mining district? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 How many mining districts are there in Utah and are they still...mineral resources are mined in Utah’s most productive mining districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...most common types of ore deposits found in Utah’s mining districts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Basin structure Structure in the San Francisco district Geology Sedimentary rocks Geologic periods represented...relations Morehouse (?) quartzite (Silurian?) of Star district Distribution General character Conditions of deposition...Quartz monzonite of the Rocky district Quartz monzonite of the Star district Comparison of analyses Dike...82 San Francisco district 82 Beaver Lake district 86 Rocky district 87 Star district 88 Comparison of...i t e 92 Argentite 92 Galena 92 Chalcocite 93 Sphalerite 93 Covellite 93 G reenock it e 93 Wurtzite 95
Report (issue)
and Pleistocene age.................. Mineral Mountains batholith.......................................Central Wah Wah Mountains...................................... Southern San Francisco Mountains and adjacent........ Mineral Mountains area......................................... Tushar Mountains area............Volcanics.. Miocene mineral deposits in the Mineral Mountains.............. Mineralized areas associated with...that crop out along the west side of the Mineral Mountains. Sedimentation during the latest Precambrian,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...large scale, there has been enough prospecting and mining activity to uncover many important mineral localities...collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the turn of the twentieth...pegmatite prospecting and mining were revived during World War II, with some mining continuing into the early...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
Report (volume)
Thurston.. ________ ___________ History of fluorspar mining in Utah __ --__-_________--_____--___ Classification...in Indian Peak Range and Monarch claims, Beaver County, by W. R. Thurston. __ ____ _______ _____ _. _______...mine__________________________--_.___-____ Blue Bell mine...-- ____ _____ - __ __ _ ___________ Noonday p...____-__--___________ Deposits in Star district, Beaver County, by D. C. Cox_ _______________ Description..._____---__.______ Deposits in Thomas Range district, Juab County, by M. H. Staatz, V. R. Wilmarth, andH.
Report (issue)
Purple pit fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim...43 Floride Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Floride No. 1 Mine . . . . ...Floride No.5 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Floride No. 13 Mine . . . . . . ..... . . 45 Floride No. 18 Mine ............ ·.......... 45 Fluorine Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . ....Fluorine Queen No. 1 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Fluorine Queen No. 2 Mine . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
page 2) A New Discovery on Treasure Hill Pioche, Nevada Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com have been collecting...cement. The entire mining complex is known as the Yongchun County Lead Pit and Limestone Mine, although each...each individual mine opening surely has some sort ofsitespecific designation. The fluorite is a minor accessory...accessory mineral encountered locally during the mining of the limestone, and a contract collector working...two-lane highways curving up and down through the mountains and canyons linking the rather remote small villages
Report (volume)
Ferguson.. Mineral resources of the Inyo and White mountains, California, by Adolph Knopf............................... Copper deposits of the White Mesa district, Ariz., by J. M. Hill............ Survey publications...the Dome district, Idaho, by J. B. Umpleby.... The Yellow Pine mining district, Clark County, Nev., by...sulphate in the Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, Cal., by U.S. Gale............................................. 428 Borate deposits in Ventura County, Cal., by H. S. Gale.................. 434 Potash
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades...exploration activity occurs on an irregular basis. Beaver County MINERAL COLLECTING IN THE STATE of Utah has undergone...article does not give permis- Lincoln district: The Creole mine, located at the south end of the Mineral...Mineral Range between Beaver and Milford, has BOX ELDER x Lun'n TOOELE x Gold Hill Topaz Mtn. x NAB
 
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