| | Report (issue) | -----------------38 8. Known occurrences of hydrozincite in oxidized zinc deposits_ 41 9. Known occurrences...oxidized zinc and zinc-lead ores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California______________ 3. Types of supergene...oxides of zinc, and most are of supergene origin. Smithsonite and hemimorphite are the main oxidized zinc minerals...minerals in supergene deposits; hydrozincite, willemite, aurichalcite, descloizite, chalcophanite, and...are rare east of the Rocky Mountains. Saprolitic accumulations of smithsonite and hemimorphite in solution | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite. A good discussion...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as | | | Journal (issue) | Study Group MICRO PROBE VOLUME X, Number 1 SPRING, 2005 SPRING MEETING ...............HILLSBORO, OREGON...Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada. He was inordinately proud...great grandchildren. His interest in mineral and mining was something that he liked to share with schools...address, payable for each calendar year at the Spring meeting or by mail to the Secretary-Treasurer:... Recent rare mineral finds in Southern California and Nevada Desert Mines Robert M. Housley 210 S. Catalina | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Goodspringsdistrict, Nevada ..................................... Upper MississippiValley district ..................................... Southern Appalachian district ..................................... Theoretical...Solubility curve of smithsonite ................................. Solubility curve of hydrozincite .......................... 1095 Relation between smithsonite and hydrozincite in an arid environment ................................................. Smithsonite, hydrozincite and zinc hydroxide in a humid environment | | | 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) | 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 (issue) | Hydrozincite Zn5 (CO3 )2 (OH)6 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...= 95◦ 500 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Goodsprings, Nevada, USA. 6.77 (10), 2.480 (7), 2.72 (6), 3.14...74.12 9.85 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Goodsprings, Nevada, USA; CO2 by difference. (2) Zn5 (CO3 )2 (OH)6...sphalerite or smithsonite, and as incrustations in mine workings and caves. Association: Smithsonite, hemimorphite...Malfidano, near Buggerru, and in the Gutturu Pala mine, north of Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy. In commercial | | | 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 (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) | Cover Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy...Title page Smithsonite, 9.2 cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico...Minette) Both photos are by Jeff Scovil. No. 13: Smithsonite Think Zinc! ISBN 978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher...Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier Nancy Stevens...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie | | | Journal (issue) | OURAY, COLORADO 6 Howard Neal GOODIES AT GOODSPRINGS 8 Mary Frances Strong TARANTULA! 12 Timothy...three states. Bisbee and the fabled Copper Queen mine were responsible for its primary construction. Volume...Myrick's Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol. 7, and Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California...to form the Sunset Route. This gave impetus to mining and agriculture and in turn intensified the construction..." In the Ute language the word meant "hot water spring." Long before any white man set his eyes upon the | | Price, Jonathan G., Henry, Christopher D., Castor, Stephen B., Garside, Larry, Faulds, James E. (1999) Geology of Nevada With excellent rock exposures in the desert, generally good access to collecting localities on public lands, and fine tourist attractions in the towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (6) 357-363 doi:10.1080/00357529909605171 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...faults have raised and occasionally tilted the mountains and lowered the basins. Over the years, these...fig. 1) that are derived from erosion of the mountains and that are tens of thousands of feet thick in...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the | | | 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 | | | 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) | on the east by high ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. It is geologically diverse. Traveling east from...Plateau. Continuing east beyond the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau escarpment, the collector...(top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | goethite, hematite, hemimorphite, smithsonite, and/or hydrozincite and cerrusite. Common minerals of...of the ‘white zinc ore’ are smithsonite or hydrozincite and only minor amounts of Fe-oxyhydroxides. Metal...zone. Thus, most of the zinc precipitates as smithsonite, which is stable and occurs exclusively in a...conditions, hydrozincite becomes stable and starts to replace smithsonite. Most of the stage-I smithsonite becomes...becomes corroded and is altered to stage-II hydrozincite. The ‘post-oxidation stage’ is also associated | | | Report (issue) | 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge...district_______________________________ ~osquito Range district, including some outlying parts of the Leadville...district_______________________________________ Spring Creek district_______________________________________..._______________ _____ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ _ 87 Spar district _________________________._ __ ____ __ __ ____ | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | xled—crystallized fl—fluorescence LW—long wave HYDROZINCITE-^a basic zinc carbonate that results from the...the alteration of sphalerite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, or possibly other zinc ores. Many texts report...there are two localities, Mapimi, Mexico and Goodsprings, Nevada that have yielded fine amounts of crystals...formed usually on massive HYDROZINCITE or limonite. Identification of HYDROZINCITE is greatly facilitated...however, is really difficult to confuse with HYDROZINCITE if other obvious physical characteristics plus | | | Report (issue) | c = 3.3863(4) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ojuela mine, Mexico. 3.500 (100), 2.793 (94), 1.855 (80), 2...Chemistry: PbO2 CuO (1) 99.6 0.1 Total 99.7 (1) Ojuela mine, Mexico; by electron microprobe. Polymorphism &...Association: Cerussite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, leadhillite, hydrozincite, rosasite, aurichalcite...Scotland. In the Tchah Milleh mine, near Anarak, and the Dareh Zandjir mine, near Anjireh, Iran. From Tsumeb...In the USA, large masses from the Coeur d’Alene district, Shoshone Co., and in the Democrat mine, Gilmore | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the fluorescent minerals. At no other mine or min ing district will so many different fluorescent mineral...235 extensive region in the northern part of the mine. In the northern part, there existed also an extended...supply of common and rare minerals to collectors. Mine superintendents devel oped a fine eye for the rare...Minerals of Franklin Franklin is found in Sussex County in the northwestern part of New Jersey. Sterling...mined since the last century. In the course of mining these ores a steady stream of minerals has been | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pattern deviating in some details from that of hydrozincite, gave a form ula dose to Zn/COJ3(OH)8- Hfi...aurichalcite, azurite, hemimorphite, malachite, smithsonite, and «Zinkvitriol*. The activity of numerous...bianchite, brochantite, cuprite, gunningite, hydrozincite, ktenasite, langite, linarite, rosasite, and...helvite deposit, from which hemimorphite and smithsonite have been recorded, is not included). Six additional...mineral from the oxidised zone at Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria (Livingstone & Champness 1993) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MINERALS THE· GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT OF NEVADA By W. SCOTT LEWIS The region about Goodsprings, Nevada, has been...least known, collecting districts in America. The mountains are literally dotted with mines, some producing...somewhat rough and dusty road to the town of Goodsprings. Here days can be spent to good advantage visiting...rather than to rush around trying to cover a large district in a haphazard way. I choose the Yellow Pine arid...When my campanion and I arrived at the Yellow Pine Mine, we found that it had been closed down for some | | Hitzman, M. W., Reynolds, N. A., Sangster, D. F., Allen, C. R., Carman, C. E. (2003) Classification, Genesis, and Exploration Guides for Nonsulfide Zinc Deposits. Economic Geology, 98 (4) 685-714 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.4.685 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | zinc metal was produced almost entirely from smithsonite-bearing “oxide” (nonsulfide) ores utilizing Wälz...centuries in metallurgical beneficiation of smithsonite ores containing 10 to 20 percent Zn and complex...sulfide-bearing deposits and are formed principally of smithsonite and/or hemimorphite. Three subtypes are recognized:...minerals present are generally smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and sauconite (Fig. 3 and Table...conditions typical in a weathering environment, smithsonite is the least soluble of these minerals (Takahashi |
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