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Melanterite from
Combination Mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Melanterite
Formula:Fe2+(H2O)6SO4 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Melanterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Combination Mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:285312
Long-form Identifier:1:3:285312:3
GUID (UUID V4):031a07b3-d91a-4956-84d9-9e7edfb1cc30
Nearest other occurrences of Melanterite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘReilly mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘJanuary mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘMohawk Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) ⓘRed Top Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘFlorence Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
35.6km (22.1 miles) ⓘUrania Mine, Urania Peak, Cactus Springs Mining District, Cactus Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
56.7km (35.2 miles) ⓘMcBoyle prospect, Tule Canyon Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
92.3km (57.3 miles) ⓘWhite Caps Mine, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, 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
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Virginia 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 973 Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA c Dartmouth...Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Weathering of metal-sulfide...eastern United States. The salts, which are present on mine wastes, tailings piles, and outcrops, include minerals...primarily the highly soluble members of the melanterite, rozenite, epsomite, halotrichite, and copiapite...copiapite groups. The minerals were identified by a combination of powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron
Report (volume)
GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY ISSN I529·6466 a c Melanterite stalactite (blue-green) Voltaite b Copiapite...and other associated societies in nearby Reno, Nevada. The conveners of the course (and editors of this...agriculture to reduce alkalinity in soils. At many mining sites, the extraction and processing of coal or...and sediment. Concentrated waters associated with mine wastes may precipitate a variety of metal-sulfate...role of soluble sulfate minerals formed from acid mine drainage (and its natural equivalent, acid rock
Report (issue)
PAPER 66 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOLDFIELD, NEVADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME ASSISTED IN THE..._____ . ___________________ . _. Situation of the district.-~ ............... _..... ______ .. ________________________...______ ..... __ ........... _·_..... History of mining ....................... ............ . __ .. _.......... ............... . Correlation of the Goldfield rocks with those of the surrounding region_ .... . . . . . . . CHAPTER X.-MiJ?-eralogy of the district ................... .............. r ‱ ‱ ‱ ‱ ‱
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
855. https:// Keywords: thallium; pyrite; acid mine drainage; secondary sulfate minerals; environmental...reported in China and Italy [3]. It is suggested that mining and processing of Tl-bearing sulfide ores has become...deposits, distributed in Carlin gold deposits in Nevada, the USA, and Lanmuchang Hg-Tl-Au deposit in Guizhou...China, McArthur River in Australia, and Bathurst Mining Camp in Canada) [25–28] where pyrite is the most...minerals, particularly pyrite, will generate acid mine drainage (AMD) and mobilize large amounts of sequestered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SULFATE MINERALS AT THE FORMER SHERRITT–GORDON Zn–Cu MINE, SHERRIDON, MANITOBA, CANADA MICHAEL C. MONCUR§...copper, silver, and gold between 1930 and 1951. Since mine closure, two high-sulfide tailings impoundments...observed within groundwater-seepage areas. Using a combination of powder X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive...at seepage zones were identified, including melanterite, rozenite, halotrichite, chalcanthite, alpersite...alpersite, jarosite, mine tailings, modeling, efïŹ‚orescent minerals, copiapite, melanterite, jurbanite, metals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unexciting, yet, on looking closely at some of the mine workings and open trenches you find beautiful silky...of halotrichite with inclusions of blue-green melanterite. How come? How did these unusual minerals come...pyrophyllite schist ? The answer lies in the combination of the original minerals and the process of oxidation...sulfate collected in openings as the mineral melanterite (FeSO 4 .7H 2 0). While this was going on, the...rain & snow water — forms — MELANTERITE and 472 SULFURIC ACID MELANTERITE + PYROPHYLLITE SCHIST + SULFURIC
Journal (issue)
.... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...visit the gun and knife show at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona. Here are some items culled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphide ore on the upper levels of the United Verde Mine. It is his opinion that the voltaite has been formed...by the ascending sulphur vapors. The ore of the mine has been burning for a number of years; it was first...with the majority showing simple cubes, but the combination of cube and octahedron was found on several crystals...crystals, and one crystal is a combination of the octahedron and dodecahedron. Under the microscope,...aite in Kremnitz, Ilungary, associated with melanterite. Blassomade the next discovery; in 1883,he found
Report (issue)
SULPHUR AND PYRITE. SULPHUR DEPOSITS IN PARK COUNTY, WYOMING. By D. F. HEWETT. Location and surroundings...velvety efflorescence of alkali alum, crusts of melanterite (and possibly a ferric sulphate), and thin films...economic significance. SULPHUR DEPOSITS IN PARK COUNTY, WYO. 479 The features shown in this trench are...ferrous and ferric sulphates are formed by the combination of the iron oxides of the igneous rock with sulphuric...C., Gold and pyrite deposits of the Dahlonega district, Georgia: Bull. 213, 1903, pp. 57-63. 25c. Pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shasta Costa Creek, and two from Riverton, Coos County. Those from Eckley and Shasta Costa are very high...maximum case at least, is almost wholly in organic combination. T h e occurrence of platinum in the placers...Survey, Cecil County. 322 pp., maps, plates. Maryland Geological Survey, Garrett County. 340 pp., maps...the second and third of a series of reports on county resources in the state of Maryland. They contain...appear in the Garrett County report, and of a few clays in that on Cecil County, and in both are mechanical
Journal (issue)
tr ip s to th e G etche ll m ine in n o rth e rn Nevada, E. F o rre st C u re to n III, w ell know n pro...Desautels Mineralogy and Paragenesis of the 79 Mine Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposit..........................Md. 20 71 5 WULFENITE on mottramite from the 79 mine near Hayden, Arizona. The large crystal measures...trip and new material from the St. Joseph Lead District. Yours sincerely, Gary R. Hansen GREEN APOPHYLLITE...purchased a fine collection of Stibnite from a new mine near Felsobanya. Clean, bright miniatures at $25
Report (volume)
ACCOUNT OF GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG, AND FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME NOTES ON THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT G. H. GARREY..................................... Gold field district............................................................................................... Mining development..................................................................................... Mine maps......;........................................ 20 22 22 22 25 25 28 34 37 38 39 Bullfrog district.............. ...............................
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
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Peter Richards & D. G. Howard The Pezinok antimony mine, Male Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia.................& Minerals Bad B oys o f Cripple Creek Blue Sky Mining Boulder Beads Bright Art & Gems Carl & Naom i Bird...from Monte Somma, hauyne from Mendig in the Eifel District, and nosean from the Alban Hills shown in Figures...dodecahedral crystal on biotite from M endig, Eifel district, Germany. Collection of Berndt Ternes; photo by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
waste rock associated with acid drainage at the Penn Mine, California, by ground-based visible to short-wave...94720-4767, USA b U.S. Geological Survey, Placer Hall 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6129, USA c U.S....80225, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Prior to remediation at the abandoned Cu–Zn Penn Mine in the...Foothills massive sulfide belt of the Sierra Nevada, CA, acid mine drainage (AMD) was created, in part, by...reflectance spectra of characterized rock samples from the mine helped in gauging the spectral response to particle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rafael Mine Downloaded by [Laurentian University] at 10:24 05 October 2014 Nye County, Nevada MARTIN...MARTIN JENSEN 470 W. Riverview Circle Reno, Nevada 89509 mineralpro@hotmail.com TONY NIKISCHER Excalibur...HERRMANN Lithosphere Minerals 2331 Ruddy Way Sparks, Nevada 89441 lithosphereminerals@yahoo.com   96*2:...from his collection he San Rafael mine, in north central Nevada, is a relatively little known, yet prolific...occurrence. The San Rafael mine, at the old camp of Quartz Mountain in the Lodi district, is situated in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Efflorescent Sulfate Salts from Iron Mountain Mine Superfund Site, California Pablo Sobron1 and Charles...Charles N. Alpers2 Abstract The Iron Mountain Mine Superfund Site near Redding, California, is a massive...deposits deep within the mountain, producing acid mine drainage consisting of sulfuric acid and heavy metals...Particularly, the drainage water from the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain is among the most acidic waters...extremely acidic waters via drainage from sulfide mining, have been characterized by means of Raman spectroscopy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROCKS A N D MINERALS TWO LOCALITIES OF ALPINE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By MERRITT HERRING 337 Colusa Avenue...productive is the stop and examine some of the material mine dump because of the source of the lying by the side...Minerals of Alpine County Markleeville Area from I X L Mine at Silver Mountain. Mining at this time was...death of what might have been a great mining district. Alpine County is situated directly south of Lake...Tahoe in Northern California on the California-Nevada State line. In its 800 square miles there are only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crusts from Two Abandoned Tailings in the Taxco Mining District, Guerrero (Mexico) Teresa Pi-Puig 1,2, *, JesĂșs...abandoned tailings (Xochula and Remedios) of the mining district of Taxco, Guerrero, was studied by short-wave...weathering of sulfides (mainly pyrite) accumulated in mining waste. Using quantitative X-ray diffraction (Rietveld...dissolution, and precipitation processes in combination with dehydration and primary sulfides neutralization...during the wet season. Keywords: hydrated sulfates; mining waste; X-ray diffraction; Rietveld method; SWIR
Book
Colo. Fairplay, Colo. R. J. Raymond, United States Mining and Mineral Commissioner: Prof. J. F. L. Schirmer...the pitchblende. not been for several^years the mine is not worked at present and has distribution in...Peaks; crystallized at Bergen's ; Ranch, Jefferson County; on Boulder Peak. Agate,— See Quartz. — At Quartzville...Almandite. See Garnet. Boulder County. City Gold — Allophanite. —Franklin Mine, in Gilson Gulch Fowler Branch...; and Wells's district. Hill. It occurs in various mines of the Sunshine district ; minute crystals
 
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