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Proustite from
Alpine mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Proustite
Formula:Ag3AsS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Proustite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alpine mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:284005
Long-form Identifier:1:3:284005:5
GUID (UUID V4):edaa5e50-8c81-4c7f-b96a-c372fd924812
Nearest other occurrences of Proustite
29.2km (18.2 miles) ⓘJim Butler Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
30.5km (19.0 miles) ⓘMizpah Mine (Mizpah shaft), Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
47.1km (29.2 miles) ⓘFlorence Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
95.3km (59.2 miles) ⓘClifford Mine, Clifford Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
References
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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)
....................................... 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
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
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)
occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more...more than 750 million ounces to occurred in a mine about a mile its credit. Fine wire- and crystallized-silver
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...fissure fillings, i.e., deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon...ore is associated with some veins in the Sierra Nevada and was locally worked with the vein deposits (Clark...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills (Knopf, 1929). Newhouse
Report (issue)
said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mexico B x years ago this column featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family...recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...It is more widespread and far more common than proustite, occurring as an important if not dominant ore...might suggest. It is commonly associated with proustite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite...However, the development of numerous gold and silver mining districts in the westem states during the latter
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...species, and the two most familiar ruby silvers, proustite and pyrargyrite, have been covered previously...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Colorado occurrences include mines of Clear Creek County, particularly in the Georgetown area, where it
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MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau McN. HAMILTON STATE MINERALOGIST F. F...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this...localities new and quently the The second list ^Mining' State Mineralogist. This known localities...literature of a general nature on the geology and mining industry of the State. bibliography of A. may...The excellent Vodges, Bulletin 30 of the State Mining Bureau, be referred to for such literature. The
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particular service in co- operating with the State ^Mining Bureau in making possible this addition to our...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then quently...the thirty years which elapsed since the State Mining Bureau. appearance of the second list, our knowledge...literature of a general nature on Die geology and mining industry of the State. The various kinds of minerals...Woodcock, formerly of the State Mining Bureau. Walter W. Bradley of the State Mining Bureau, M. Vonsen of Petaluma
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Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Wemer Lieber... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...type localities, and an alphabetical cross-index by mine name. T INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1976 a group
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there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part...backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over...headed by Wayne Thompson (“Bonanza at the Red Cloud mine,” in the SeptemberOctober 1996 issue). The Thompson...notable wulfenite would be found at the Red Cloud mine. But 14 years ago Robert Bell, a mineral collector...collector who lives in Kansas, purchased the mine anyway, and now he has contracted for experienced field man
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 (issue)
1 D E J ‱LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since...published as Bulletin 91 of the California State Mining Bureau. Many additional species were included,...commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20:52 13 January 2015 Mineralogy of the Eldorado Mine YA N K E E B O Y B A S I N , O U R AY C O U N T...the name, as almost every major mining camp had a vein, claim, or mine with that name. This article details...history, geology, and mineralogy of the Eldorado mine in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado...not bring wealth to its many owners. The Eldorado mine is located about 8.6 miles southwest of Ouray, Colorado...Yankee Boy Basin in the Sneffels mining district. The portal to the mine is at an elevation of 11,600 feet
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
OF MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES ALLANITE Inyo County: 1, Coarse grained allanite occurs in a pegmatite...quadrangle, McAllister (4) p. 52. Los Angeles County: Additional reference, Patchick (2) p. 237. This...diagrams. 1, AMPHIBOLES ACTINOLITE San Bernardino County: 3, Additional Wrightwood, reported by Berkholz...locality in alluvium, near 21. HORNBLENDE Inyo County: 1, In large prismatic crystals up to 2.5 inches...Panamint Range, McAllister (4) p. 52. San Bernardino County: 2, Pargasite variety of hornblende occurs in coarsely
Journal (issue)
AN INFLUENTIAL IRON ORE MINERAL + ARTISANAL MINING A Complex Industry ROCK & GEM ‱ Vol. 49 No. 05...Magma Dot Wine Country Bill Rozday 26 ARTISANAL MINING It’s Dangerous, Illegal, Undocumented—and Booming...GOETHITE Exploring New Mexico’s U.S. 60 Mine Mark Leatherman 42 PROUSTITE 36 58 THE MINERALS OF KILAUEA ...that result in the huge hematite iron deposits we mine today? Everyone knows that iron and oxygen in a...and pyramidal hematite crystals from the Wessels mine, Hotazel. They are lustrous and sharp in well-formed
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...by Prof. John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen...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
Journal (issue)
Grice Famous mineral localities: the Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire .................................... J. Gauthier & V. T. King The Fat Jack mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .................................& L. Wagner, Jr. The Monitor-Mogul mining district, Alpine County, California .........................malachite on chrysocolla, from the M ashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire. Sorbonne collection, Paris: photo...will involve a magnificent, 6.3-cm Virgin Valle; Nevada, opal specimen (see photo on page 70!), officially
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rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...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...circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Slining Bureau reported at about the...desert region between Death Valley and Goff's Mining District, nearer the former, and that good samples were
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...museum in the world. Here you’ll find an enormous mining exhibit consisting largely of recreated underground...walking through mine after mine, up inclines, past stopes and shafts, around miners and mining equipment;...correspond to each mining area depicted as you move along. Three cases of superb antique mine lamps highlight...(Palace) Nymphenburg, Olympic Village, the artist’s district of Schwabing, the antique shops along the Maximilianstrasse
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July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, John...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen...313 Alforsite, 367 Allanite-(Ce), Colorado, 301 Alpine-Cleft Mineralization at Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel...310-13 Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine, W. B. Thompson, 44-51 Anatase, Colorado...Walker Vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Boyle County, Kentucky, 254-58 Andorite, 27 Andradite, Arkansas
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MARCH–APRIL 2019 Articles The Candelaria District Mineral County, Nevada .....................................by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found
 
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