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Chalcopyrite from
Savage mine, Montezuma Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Savage mine, Montezuma Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:282085
Long-form Identifier:1:3:282085:9
GUID (UUID V4):63970dfd-34d7-4d89-b5bf-eadfb84c15eb
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
9.5km (5.9 miles) ⓘGold Zone mine, Divide Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) ⓘHasbrouck Mountain, Divide Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) ⓘTonopah-Divide Mine, Divide Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
17.6km (11.0 miles) ⓘDesert Queen Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) ⓘGreat Bend Mine, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
17.8km (11.0 miles) ⓘTonopah-Belmont Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
17.8km (11.1 miles) ⓘNorth Star Montana-Tonopah Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
19.4km (12.0 miles) ⓘSandstorm mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
20.8km (12.9 miles) ⓘZebra Silver Claims, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
20.9km (13.0 miles) ⓘGoldfield Mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
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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
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
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....................................... 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
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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
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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
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CASSITERITE IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By WALDEMAR T. SCHALLER. A small handful of cassiterite...crystals was found in the northern part of San Diego County, Cal. (fig. 22), in the spring of 1915, and the...showing position of cassiterite locality in San Diego County, Cal. The rectangle indicates the gem tourmaline...tin ore in place previously known in San Diego County. These are as follows: F. J. H. Merrill 1 has stated...of Laguna Mountain, in the southern part of the county. Additional reported occurrences are in Pine Valley;
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has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent
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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
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in the Comstock District, Nevada DONALD M. HUDSON† 1540 Van Petten Street, Reno, Nevada 89503 Abstract...deposits of the world-renowned Comstock district of western Nevada constitute one of several superimposed...superimposed Miocene hydrothermal systems. In the district, Mesozoic metasedimentary and igneous rocks are overlain...kaolinite alteration exposed at the periphery of the district may be linked to preore alteration near the paleowater...elsewhere in the district. Pliocene to Holocene reactivation of faults has disrupted the district, redistributing
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INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...research and provide information about exploration. mining. and metallurgical processes that are needed in...Technology Branch J. Brent Hiskey Assistant Director Mining and Mineral Resources Researchlns~tute Orlo E...Affirmative Action Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist...produce copper. The Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242,000 tons of ore
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Deposits-Part I The Goldfield Gold District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Tonopah...Precious-metal District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Republic Gold District, Ferry...Ferry County, Washington By MORTIMER H. STMTZ and ROBERT C. PEARSON The Comstock Lode Precious-metal District...District, Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada By WILLIAM C. BAGBY and ROGER P. ASH LEY U.S. GEOlOGICAl...1857H 1 Gold ores-Nevada 2 Gold ores-Wash1ngton-Ferry County 3 Hydrothermal deposits-Nevada 4 Hydrothermal
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_______I_:__._.IJl'____,_______ 41 42 .: . . .Savage Lake.fault__._._.____-_,_,. ____!_ _-i; ___________________...History .of. mining and.output-___----_-_____ _________________ 66 67 67 Outlook.for mining.__.__.___...Creek__________________________________________ Golden West Mining Co______________________________ Little Annie....placer_________ ___. _ _ 124 Libby Creek Gold Mining Co..____..____._-.._._-..-..- 125 "Dike" on Libby...east of Bull Lake fault; B, View in Fisher Creek mine showing thick, gently. dipping bed vein of quartz_-__--_-_--
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were some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army...Army had closed the area in the 1940s. The "mine" was really a prospect as it consisted of a trench cut through
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
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BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...of the ore deposits 2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility...filling 3 42 CONTENTS. Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued...shoots Milling High Grade district, Modoc County, Cal Location History of mining Accessibilty Previous descriptions
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Pale-blue turquois; Gove Turquois mine, near Cottonwood, San Bernardino County, Cal. Fie. . Turquois matrix;...Turquois mine, m Nye County, near Millers, Nev. Fia. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev...Azure mine, Burro Mountains, N. Mex. Fic. . Cobweb turquois matrix; Southwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral...Myers and Bona Turquois mine, 13 miles north of west of Millers, Esmeralda County, Nev. -7. Split veinlet...student at Yale University; Los Angeles Gem Co. mine, Mineral Park, Ariz. Fia. Fi. Fic. Fic. Fic. ia
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1902. Minneapolis, Minn. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions, vols. 31 and 32, 1902...Canada. Canadian Mining Institute: Journal, vol. 5, 1902! Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Mining Review, vol. 21... 2 and 3, 1902. Cincinnati, Ohio. . ' Colorado Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no". 5; Eeport, 1902. Denver...1, 1902. Chapel Hill, N. 0. ' Engineering and Mining Journal, vols. 73 and 74, 1902. New York,-N. Y...Institution of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vol. 10, 1902. London, England. Institution of Mining Engineers:
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an overall guide been written on gold and gold mining of publications have no single report or to...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...publications were written on various phases of gold mining. The reports of John Trosk, the first State Geologist
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Waters of the Harvard Open Pit, Jamestown Mine, Tuolumne County, California, March, 1998–September, 1999...1. Location map for Jamestown mine 3 Figure 2. Map of Jamestown mine site 4 Figure 3. Map of Harvard...The Jamestown mine is located in the Jamestown mining district in western Tuolumne County, California (Fig...(Fig. 1). This district is one of many located on or near the Melones fault zone, a major regional suture...suture in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The districts along the Melones fault comprise the Mother Lode
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vols. 3, 4, 5, nos. 1, 2. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Transactions...nos. 1-9. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 85-88; Preliminary report... 1-6, vol. 34, nos. 1-9. Ottawa, Out. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 81-104; Transactions...Transactions, vols. 21, 22. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 40, 41. Toronto and Montreal, Canada...Boletin de Miuas, nos. 5, 6. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no.
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Bulletin, vol. 41. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 25-36; Transactions,...series, vols. 27, 28. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, llth Annual Session;... vol. 2, no. 2. Oakland, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 54-56. San Francisco, Cal...Transactions, vol. 8, pt. 3. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 30. Toronto and Montreal, Canada...vol. 12, pp. 95-222. Davenport, Iowa. . Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 4, nos
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nearly two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of importance in these States. The greater part...in the National Museum. The mineral exhibit from Nevada outshines that of any other State represented in...with stephanite, from the Reese River district, Lander County. Among these are several quite valuable...transparent crystals of quartz, from the Chase Mine, Lander County. The ores from this locality are remarkable...The adjoining case is filled with a variety of Nevada minerals selected for their beauty and rarity.
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Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard... near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen...SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines Museum
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Bulletin, vol. 40. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bi-Monthly Bulletin, nos. 19-24; Transactions...series, vols. 25, 26. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, 10th Annual Session... vol. 2, no. 1. Oakland, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Report of Board of Trustees for 1908; Bulletins... Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Journal, vols. 10, 11. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 29...Bulletins, nos. 10-12. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 3, nos
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ideal case, to assist in the planning of selective mining. Introduction T H E ECONOMIC GEOLOGY of polluting...processes operate. Environmental standards for the mining and smelting industries, however, are being improved...Porphyry copper deposits account for 60% of the world's mine production of copper and constitute 80% of ore reserves...Atlas Papua New-Guinea 14. Panguna Lawrence and Savage (1975); Eastoe (1978) Geotectonic setting: Continental...the top, although information from drillholes and mine exposures is more limited. Sulfide zoning usually
 
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