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Chromite from
Boss Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Boss Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:282787
Long-form Identifier:1:3:282787:2
GUID (UUID V4):f3247e8c-0c79-4919-9dfd-3f47d189f952
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
58.9km (36.6 miles) Cima Dome, Ivanpah Valley, Ivanpah Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
SOUTHERN NEVADA. By ADOLPH KNOPF. INTRODUCTION. The discovery of platinum-bearing gold ore at the Boss mine...mine, in southern Nevada, was brought to the attention of the Geological Survey by Mr. F. A. Hale, jr....LOCATION. The Boss mine is situated in the Yellow Pine mining district, Clark County, Nov., near the...part of the State. The main settlement of the district is Good Springs, distant 8 miles from Jean, a...east side of a desert range known as Spring Mountain, but the mine is situated on.the west slope, 12 miles
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)
STATES ...................... A MODEL SOCIE1Y. By Clark Harrison .........................................COPPER IN DRAINAGE WATERS OF THE SCHUYLER COPPER MINE. By 0 . Ivan Lee ............................ WITH...................... COLLECTORS' TALES (Path to spring worn nearly deep enough for pipe line). By Walter... ................................ DE LUCA EMERY MINE HAS BRIGHT FUTURE ........................ CLUB...spent in poking around the immedi~te vicinity of a mine dump or quarry wh1ch apparently was barren from
Report (issue)
_______ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present mining _______ _ General geology...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________... Chuck mine ___________________ _ Placers-------------------------------Goodnews Bay district _____________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary
Report (issue)
^-j /-T f~^ J. Cornell., C. A. Gent 3 W« D. Boss, H. Broeneboer, J. Ha-f-fty, / -, .-j /-j i~y A...study varied between dunite with disseminated chromite grains to massive chromitite. For purposes of...El Dorado, CA El Dorado, CA Aiador, CA Brandon Mine Chaix Hine Courtwright (Daggett Lease) Green Hine...Hine Ajax Hine Bald Eagle Black Belvet Mine Celebration Chaibers Mine Chaibers Hine Chaibers Hine Dune Carl...Prospect Ray Hine Ray Spring Mine Tip Top Mine U of 0 prospect County, State Mine/Prospect CA CA CA
Report (volume)
vols. 15, 16. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: General volume, 1931;... 102; Technical Publications 386-492. See also Mining and Metallurgy. New York. American Journal of Science...Resources, Division of Mines and Mining: Bulletin, nos. 98, 105-107; Mining in California, vols. 27, 28....Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; Transactions,vols. 33,34; Canadian Mining and Metallurgical...Bulletin, nos. 225-248. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 52, 53. Gardenvale, Quebec. Carnegie
Report (issue)
Gold and Platinum..................... 5 Podiform Chromite and Platinum-Group Elements ....................Hydrocarbons may be present in upper Cook Inlet. Mining of placer gold deposits between 1895 and 1906 preceded...Creek district between 1909 and 1950; production continued into the 1980's. The Willow Creek mining district...come from the Wishbone Hill district; between 1916 and 1952 the district produced 3,284,723 short tons...military bases converted to natural gas in 1967; coal mining ceased until the late 1980's and early 1990's,
Report (issue)
Resource Area (including the Virginia City mining district), Madison and Beaverhead Counties, southwest...Muddy mining district Blacktail mining district Cherry Creek mining district Chinatown mining district...Prairie mining district Medicine Lodge mining district Monida mining district Pony mining district Red Bluff...Bluff mining district Revenue mining district Ruby Mountains mining district Sheridan mining district...district Silver Star mining district Virginia City mining district Mapleton mine Browns Gulch area Alameda-Cornucopia-U
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
Book (edition)
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...recent perhaps because of the decline in placer mining for gold in made dis- faces helps to distinguish
Report (volume)
of Science A. I. M. E____ American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk---. Aardrijkskundig...cientlfica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...Devonian development diagram Direcci6n Dissertation district distribution division Doctoral, Document Doctoral...Meteorological, etc. microscopic, etc. Mimeographed Mineral, Mining min. res_ _ _ _ _ mineral resources Mineralog_____...Meeting ' Mtn__________ Mountain Mts....------ Mountains Internat. _____ International, etc. Mus________-_
Book (edition)
who have been engaged in the study of our great mining regions, especially in the West, have laid the...now in the active practice of the profession of mining engi neering. J. F. K. DECEMBER, 1899. NO TEXT...125-129; Marquette district, 129-136; Menominee dis trict, 136-139; Penokee-Gogebic district, 139-143; Vermilion...and Sterling, N. J., 251-257; Zinc in the Rocky Mountains, 258, 259: in New Mexico, 259 250-259 CHAPTER...Mile, Summit Co., 266, 267; Ex ample 306, Monarch District, Chart'eeCo., 268; Example 30c, Eagle River, Eagle
Journal (issue)
Homestake-Sapin Flotation »36 For Acid Leach = »26 Cuts Mine Accidents »22 VIB URNUM PLANT: Wemco-Fagergrens...Catharines, Ontario e OFFICE: Montreal MINING WORLD MINING IT’S A FACT* WORLD & &, 7Z VOL. 23...Mineral Prices Newsmakers in World Mining What's Going on in Mining . Mining World Advertisers 39 14 EDITORIAL...Avenue, 3-9294. New CANADA District Street, Chicago 4-3420. District KINGDOM London W.1, MILFREEPUB...America, $4.00; Other Countries, 1961 MILLER MINING WORLD, August, 1961. by Miller Freeman FREEMAN
Report (issue)
following deposit types are presented; podiform chromite, porphyry copper, porphyry molybdenum, skarn tungsten...for porphyry copper deposits and for podiform chromite deposits and may exist but not be recognized for... Because of the expense involved in drilling, mining concerns commonly drill enough holes to prove or...or disprove the economic viability of the mining the deposit. This process can lead to a tonnage, and...be reported because they may not be economic to mine at the time they are explored. Balancing these
Report (issue)
rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased... or hornblende, and often carries ilmenite or chromite in considerable amount. Sedimentary rocks are...tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...stone hammers, and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...character of the area, which is in the Turquoise Mountains, T. 16 N., R. 10 and 11 E., S. B. "Sir. T. C.
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer George John L. Gary, Mineral Technologist F. Bongard, Ore-Buyers'...C. Statistician and Curator O'Brien, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) Eldridge D. Drew, Geological...OF CONTENTS Page DISTRICT REPORTS OF MINING ENGINEERS 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San 7 Francisco
Report (issue)
will form a part of the volume or volumes on the Mine,r aJ Re.sources of the Britisl1 Empire and For-eign...platinum metals are gene1·ally associated with chromite. The platinum metals, however, are obtained almost...been, obtained from placers. . . Platiniferous chromite has been found in serp,e ntine in the Transvaal...obtained from a g·old-platinum-palladium lode in Nevada, U.S.A., and from a palladium-copper lode in Alaska...platinum-bearing gravels, chiefly in the Urals and the Chooo district of Colombia ; but in recent years Tasmanian osmiridium
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
Report (volume)
Advancement of Science A. I. M. E__.American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk__. Aardrijkskundig...classn_____ classification Co_______. Company, County Coll______ Collections Conini_____ Committee Cominuii____...Direccion Dissert____ Dissertation dist_______ district distrib_____. distribution Div______ division...etc. Mimeo_____. Mimeographed Min_____ Mineral, Mining min. res____ mineral resources ig________ igneous...Mtg_______ Meeting Mtn______ Mountain Mts______ Mountains Mus______ Museo, Museum, etc. n_______. new
Journal (volume)
Geologist C. A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Francisco - District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas. V. Averill, District Mining...San Francisco Mining Engineer -•-'-- and Curator Herbert A. Franke, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian)...San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS REPORTS OF DISTRICT MINING ENGINEERS Page 1 Sacramento Field Division...ARTICLES 238 Discovery of Piedmontite in the Sierra Nevada Suspension of Assessment 237 Work Tracing Buried-River
 
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