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Langite from
Ward Mine, Ward Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Langite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Langite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ward Mine, Ward Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:286592
Long-form Identifier:1:3:286592:8
GUID (UUID V4):30c03df9-8151-46ee-a9dc-75f59e7eee18
Localities for Langite in this Region
Caroline tunnel, Ward Mine, Ward Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Langite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Caroline tunnel, Ward Mine, Ward Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...reaction with dilute hydrochloric acid to form a white coating or precipitate of PbCl; azurite simply effervesces...occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...(Graham or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire. It
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,
Report (issue)
Transparent. Color: Violet. Streak: Pale violet to white. Luster: Silky. Optical Class: Biaxial (–). Pleochroism:...611(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Silver King mine, Nevada, USA. 7.00 (100), 7.19 (99), 2.995 (73), 2.884...Total 102.83 [100.00] 100.00 (1) Silver King mine, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O determined by...00 (SO4 )0.97 (OH)4.25 • 1.57H2 O. (2) Mizuhiki mine, Japan; by electron microprobe, H2 O by difference;...dumps and common in slags. Association: Galena, langite, serpierite, cerussite, anglesite, litharge, minium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Simon Fraser University] at 08:54 20 November 2014 Nevada Mineral Names ROBERT I. GAIT Department of Earth...Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 T he Nevada issue of Rocks & Minerals (NovemberDecember) covered...the people for whom Nevada minerals have been named, is based on a list of Nevada type species generated...Malcolm Back. Also consulted was Jean DeMouthe’s 1984 Nevada type list (several of these species are now discredited)...colorful and enigmatic figure in the mining history of Nevada. The Nevada type minerals honoring people are
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...Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant...significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured
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...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BASIC LEAD-COPPER SULFATE, A NEW MINERAL FROM NEVADA ,SrnNnv A. Wrr,r,reus,PhelpsDodge Corporation,...ABSTRACT Elyite, Pbacu(sor(ol1)s, was found at ward, Nevada where it occurs in voids in massive sulfides...oxidation to supergenegalena, serpierite, and langite. The color is violet with a pale streak; f/ : 2...found in 1964 during mining operations by Silver King Mines, Inc. at Ward, Nevada. The mineral was only...workings have since been obliterated by open-pit mining. The sulfide ores occurring in the tunnel were
Catalog/List
, - + - _ 7 7 7 - FEBRUARY 3, 2009 . N WARD The _SUPERIOR G ‘LLERI ; a 6~ . 7 A DGSE...California Featuring: The Dr. Dan Collection The Kevin Ward Mineral Collection Wilshire Bivd. THE TOWER AUCTION...February 3, 2009, 10:00 AM PST Lots 1-258 The Kevin Ward Mineral Collection Session Two Tuesday, February...4. : ‘ By » : OF The Kevin Ward Mineral Collection John Kevin Ward was born on October 8, 1966 and...western states. Colorado and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history.
Book
Rust Front cover picture of Lautenthalite with Langite. First Published in 2022 By Steve A. Rust 130...Linlithgow on the east bank of the Glengonner water below Mine Hill. The remains of the Meadowfoot Lead Smelter...creating additional dwelling specifically to house mine workers. The hand coloured map shows the Wanlockhead...as Wanlockhead being an important old major lead mining area it is a stop off point along the Southern...the smelters in both estate villages (Fig 4). Mining around Leadhills/Wanlockhead has a history dating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGIST, VOL. 49' JIILY-AUGUST' 1964 OF LANGITE A NEW OCCURRENCE SroNnv A. Wrr-r-relrs, Silaer...(OH)o' HrO (?), has beenfound in a complexsuite of Langite, Cua(SOa) supergenelead and copper minerals occurring...Caroline tunnel of the Ward mine, about 18 miles south of Ely, Nevada. Langite occurs as minute crystals...(Cu,Zn,Ca)s(S04)r(OH)6 .-3HlO (?), langite and linarite. Langite and serpieritemay be replacedby devillite...silver and paratellurite. The closerelation between langite and chalcopyrite is similar to that describedby
Catalog/List
GOLDEN BARYTE (9cm l 8cm l 7an) Meil:Je Mine, EU:o Co1U1ty, Nn-ada, USA Highly lusirou, brighl golden )'Cllow...CHENEVIXITE (4cm l 3cm l Jan) Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nnwia, U.S.A Apple green cubic Cl")'l,tals or...cryslal group of prehnil<: prettily perched on a white feldspar matrix wilh a preuy smoty quartz crystal... RHODONITE A QUARTZ (12cm 18cm x 4an) Clw,n,cM Mine, Dos� Mayo Province, Huanon Departement, Peru AA...rare indeed and this recall fiDd a1 lbe Cbl11111cu mine produced some very fine material. This ,pecimen
Book
History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM...00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R.B. Finkelman... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
523 1.494 ZJ 10 8 30 IJ l From Westvaco trona mine, Su,'eetwater Co., Wyo. (Mrose el o1,,1961). of...MINERALOGIST, VOL. 49' JIILY-AUGUST' 1964 OF LANGITE A NEW OCCURRENCE SroNnv A. Wrr-r-relrs, Silaer...(OH)o' HrO (?), has beenfound in a complexsuite of Langite, Cua(SOa) supergenelead and copper minerals occurring...Caroline tunnel of the Ward mine, about 18 miles south of Ely, Nevada. Langite occurs as minute crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sloth Megatherium cuvieri. It was purchased from Ward & Howell (predecessor of Ward’s Natural Science...personally supervised by Edwin E. Howell (1847–1911). Ward & Howell also supplied a variety of other display...Elbaite in quartz, 6 × 9 cm, Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Holmes collection. Specimen received...nineteenth-century mineral collecting in North America. Mining was very much in its infancy in Canada, and Holmes’...139 Figure 8. Copper, 14.8 × 13 cm, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona. Douglas collection, Peter Tarassoff
Journal (issue)
logy. Contribution; co ncerning the topographical mine 7alogy of the British Isles are particularly welcome...with calcite, galena and pyrite. Glengowla East mine, Oughterard, Co . Galway, Eire. Sir Arthur Russell...vivianite PG. Embrey 77 Native silver from Hilderston mine , West Lothian. Scotland T.K. Meikle 83 Mineralogy...occurrence of arsenate minerals at Gwaith-yr-Afon mine, Dyfed , Wales S.A . Rust and J.s. Mason 109 NOTES...114 Barytocalcite and witherite from Rorrington mine, Chirbury, Salop, England R.E. Starkey, N. Hubbard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with...the Eagle mine’s (Gil304 ROCKS & MINERALS man district) production. This does not mean that copper has...chimneys are limited to the Red Mountain district in Ouray County. Figure 2. Colorado mineral belt (COMB)
Book
Grandview Mine, in a photo taken by Arion (John R. Putnam) around 1900. The Last Chance Mine dump can...Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, photo no. 8596. © Copyright 1997...of scores of people in libraries, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History; Peter historical societies...Ohlman, and County Public Library; Nancy Caudill, Librarian at the staff of the Yavapai County Recorder... Long Beach; Norma Cochran, Librarian, Mohave County Richard Quartaroli, and Paul Martin. Historical
Book
MIN6RRLS of New Vork State David E. Jensen up WARD PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc...enteri versity of Roches Harold L. Ailing's the mining distri* Adirondack Mou somed into a lifet New York...as tools, weapons and ornamentation long before white settlers set foot in the area. It is reported that...searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research
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farm above Keuka Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn...Harold L. Alling's geology students on a trip to the mining districts and the high peaks of the Adirondack...Lake area. of New York State David E. Jensen WARD UP PRESS Ward's Natural Science Establishment,...as tools, weapons and ornamentation long before white settlers set foot in the area. It is reported that...searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of
Book
France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...Spain and More 192 2000 - 2009 Africa and the USA 256 2010 - 2020 More lime with Minerals and Shows...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...Tungsten Mine, at Plympton, Devon, followed by an attempt to rework the famous Tsumeb Mine in Namibia...inform me that a new mineral species from the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia was to be named after me. This came as
Journal (issue)
Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White European Correspondent Michael P. Cooper Editing...on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ......................................of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...presented here. As o f October, 1991, access to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several
Journal (issue)
....................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .................................. 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...........................& E. E. Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico .....................
Journal (issue)
with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar...(1929) is considered to be the classic for the district. Many of these works are currently out of print...and research will serve as an overview of the district and as a framework from which interested persons...Stoiber and Davidson (1959), Ensign et a l (1968), White (1968), Jolly and Smith (1972), Babcock (1974, 1975
 
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