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Montmorillonite from
Virgin Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Virgin Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:288018
Long-form Identifier:1:3:288018:1
GUID (UUID V4):fb13634a-06d8-42f7-abc6-d818e0c7b693
Localities for Montmorillonite in this Region
Opal Queen group, Virgin Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
5.3km (3.3 miles) Opal Queen group, Virgin Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
75.3km (46.8 miles) Kings Valley, Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
75.3km (46.8 miles) Montana Mountains deposit, Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
75.7km (47.1 miles) Buff Peak prospect, Bottle Creek Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
94.2km (58.6 miles) Aurora Uranium Prospect, Opalite Mining District (McDermitt Mining District), Malheur County, Oregon, USA
97.9km (60.8 miles) Sleeper mine, Awakening Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
99.6km (61.9 miles) McDermitt Mine, Opalite Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium deposits in northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, USA Stephen B. Castor ) , Christopher...NV 89557, USA Received 14 June 1999; accepted 24 September 1999 Abstract Northwestern Nevada and southeastern...hosted by peralkaline rocks in the McDermitt and Virgin Valley calderas. At McDermitt, major deposits are along...chalcedony, opal, and numerous sulfides. At Virgin Valley, deposits are mostly in tuffaceous sediments...numerous sulfides. Minor U occurrences at Buff Peak, Nevada, the newly recognized, westernmost topaz Žperaluminous
Report (issue)
District and Surprise Resource Area, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California: Resources of Industrial...change or population increases in northwestern Nevada and adjacent California. Development of new mines...assessment of BLM-administered lands in northwest Nevada and northeast California. Industrial rocks and...quantities. The value of industrial minerals produced in Nevada was about $322 million in 1993 (Castor, 1995)....value, the most important commodities produced in Nevada are aggregate, diatomite, lime, cement, gypsum
Report (volume)
Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counties, Oregon...Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counttes, Oregon...Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counties, Oregon...appraisal of the Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Nevada and Oregon, by R C Greene (B) Interpretation of...graVIty data, Charles Sheldon Wilderness Study Area, Nevada and Oregon, by Donald Plouff (C) Geochemical evaluation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the...or greater earthquake has occurred somewhere in Nevada about once every thirty years. Most faults are...(analogous to a tilted deck of cards). However, some Nevada faults are strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas
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...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (volume)
Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area, Washoe County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 707-E AVAILABILITY...Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area, Washoe County, Nevada By JOEL R. BERGQUIST, DONALD PLOUFF, and ROBERT...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: NORTHWESTERN NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area, Washoe County, Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1707-E)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC 29808, USA c Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan...the Miocene Virgin Valley Formation, Nevada, USA (Zielinski, 1982). Opal-2 from Nevada County, California...California, USA (Table 1) consists of a brownish band and a white band (Fig. 1A), and is hereafter divided into...Opal-2w). Agate-1 from the Dryhead area, Montana, USA (Fig. 1B and C), occurs in sedimentary layers of...Agate-2 Virgin Valley, Nevada, USA Nevada County, California, USA Dryhead area, Montana, USA St Egidien
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)
Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada By WILLIAM J. KEITH, ROBERT L. TURNER...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: NORTHWESTERN NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Rock Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin...: I 19.3:1707-C 1. Mines and mineral resources Nevada Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness. 2. Little High
Report (issue)
AQUIFER SYSTEMS IN THE GREAT BASIN REGION OF NEVADA, UTAH, AND ADJACENT STATES 1 SUMMARY REPORT PROFESSIONAL...Virginia-Rm. 1C402, USGS National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. Salt Lake City, Utah-2222 West, 2300 South... Aquifer Systems in the Great Basin Region of Nevada, Utah, and Adjacent States Summary Report By JAMES...PRUDIC REGIONAL AQUIFER-SYSTEM ANALYSIS GREAT BASIN, NEVADA-UTAH U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...R. Aquifer systems in the Great Basin region of Nevada, Utah, and adjacent states : summary report / by
Report (issue)
find lives on. The contention that the Virgin Valley (Nevada, USA) opal deposits were discovered by Chinese...waterwheel-powered agate mills along the Idar stream in the valley below Kirsch­ weiler, and their lives were about...head at the University of Rochester in New York (USA). According to his records, Dr. Alling obtained the...mine. Lower: A nicely split boulderfrom the Hidden Valley mine reveals precious opal with nice play ofcolor...Center Southwest of the Rhine in Germany's Nahe Valley, stands the ancient city of ldar-Oberstein, home
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA 2 Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia...Lawrence, KS 66045, USA 4 University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 5 Brown University...University, Providence, RI 02912, USA Abstract—Beidellites may exist on Mars and represent intermediate alteration...environments than previously identified because montmorillonite is a low-grade alteration mineral whereas beidellite...compositions between those of beidellite and montmorillonite, and emphasis is placed here on the OH combination
Report (issue)
DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA An Interim Project Status...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...89445 6USGS, National Center, MS 927, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston, VA 22092-0001 7Bureau of Land Management...an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and northeast California. This resource assessment...basin groundwater resources (for example, the Humboldt River drainage basin). Primary objectives of this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
te from a newly discovered locality in Yavapai County, Ariz., on the Verde River near Camp Verde, Ariz...separated by the entire width of the Verde River Valley. The Geological setting also is quite different...be of interest. These were collected in Yavapai County, East of Prescott, Arizona. "They were taken from...asbestos, from a deposit near Jamestown, Tuolumne County, to its plant in Baltimore, Md. "Asbestos experts...and she had been fishing on Duke's Creek in White County (Ga.) with her nephew, Jere Chambers. Mrs. Lanier
Report (issue)
District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California by Stephen G. Peters...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, Nevada-California....................................
Report (issue)
evidenced by formation of hematite, goethite, montmorillonite, and heulandite with concomitant reduction..., 1978, Geology and uranium potential, Virgin Valley, Nevada, j_n_ Henry, C. D., and Walton, A. W., principal... 1964, Chemistry and movement of ground water, Nevada Test Site: U.S. Geological Survey TEI-838, 75 p...and Bauer, H. L., 1951, Virgin Valley opal district, Humboldt County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
admixture in pure opals has the composition of montmorillonite. The concentration of heterogeneous impurities...numerous wells drilled by Chevron’s San Joaquin Valley Business Unit in the Antelope shale of the Monterey... Mg = 1.5%, Ca = 1%, Na = 1%, Fe = 1%) or montmorillonite (Al = 9%, Mg = 2.5%, Ca = 2%, Na = 2%, Fe =...for I-S model and 100 meq/100 and 14 wt% for montmorillonite model, respectively, and normalizing to the...rock, using the montmorillonite model of the illite+smectite mineral Montmorillonite model excess element
Report (issue)
Area, Nevada .... GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 867-8 Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau...Summary of Resources in the Carlin-Pinon Range Area, Nevada By 1. FRED SMITH, JR. and KEITH B. KETNER With...AREA, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 867·B Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau...Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada. (Geology of the Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada) (Geological Survey Professional...Stratigraphic-Tertiary. 3. Geology-Nevada-Carlin region. 4. Mines and mineral resources-Nevada-Carlin region. I. Ketner
Report (issue)
metamorphism at the Red Hills ultramafic intrusion—Wairau Valley, New Zealand. J. Petrology 6, 395-419, (1969) Discussion...dates on altered kimberlitic phlogopite from Riley County, Kansas. J. Geol. 77, 102-107. Brune, J. N. (1969)...of pyrope from the Stockdale kimberlite, Riley County, Kansas. Mineral. Mag., 36, 450-452. CHINNER... F. (1960) Crustal structure in the California-Nevada region. J. Geophys. Res. 65, 1039-1051. (1968)...lherzolite xenoliths from Lunar Crater, Nye County, Nevada. pressure effect on melting temperature. The
Report (volume)
Lincoln County, Nev.... Lander County, Nev.. ...... . Virgin Valley opal district........ Lyon County, Nev............... Tonopah area, Esmeralda County, Nev. Clark County, Nev.---------- . Olancha, Calif. _ ._......____..._-----__-. Cameron area . . Monument Valley (includes Copper Canyon, Hunts Mesa, Nokai Mesa...quadrangle, Egnar-Gypsum Valley quadrangle, Gateway area, Long Park, Paradox Valley, Pine Mountain quadrangle...Gray Dawn mine) _ .. -_ Big Indian Wash Lisbon Valley area (includes Mi Vida mine, Big Buck mine. Purple
Journal (issue)
avis quarry about two miles east of Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska, contains many geodes which ace lined...exposed about 4 miles south west of Odell, Gage County, Nebraska. This barite occurs as Bat, rhomboidal...lime- stones near Wymore and Holmesville, in Gage County. Similar crystals of celesite have been collected...about one and a half miles east of Orella, Sioux County, Nebraska. This type of chalcedony is also common...common in the Little Bad Lands in northern Sioux County, north west of Crawford and south of Orella. An
Catalog/List
Feldspar lxl £3 lx2 £5 small 2x2 £9 502 ANTIGORITE County Bridge Quany,Lizard ,Cornwall 172 BEEKITE Tor Bay...Mg C0/3 128 DUNDASITE . Tynagh Mine, Loughrea, County Galway,lreland White micro fibres or crusts with.... ____ _ __ 106 CORONADITE Cowshill, Weardale, County Durham. Pure black cellular mass, some slightly..., Ix! £4 lx2£8 FLUORESCENl 1038 OPAL Virgin Valley, Nevada, USA Semi-opal pale yellow-green translucent..._F_L(!O RESC ENl 744 WILLEMITE Franklin.New Jersey, USA 78 CALCITE M e nd ips Areas in calcitc/franklinite/zincite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CA 94043, USA Exobiology Branch, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA c ESA-ESTEC...Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02916, USA f Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College...College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA g Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering...Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA h Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA b art ic l e i nf o a...Phyllosilicate Phyllosilicate Phyllosilicate Montmorillonite Beidellite Phyllosilicate Phyllosilicate
Report (issue)
Virgini ati nal e nter, Rm . I 402. 1220 I unri e Valley Dr. • SALT LAKE C ITY, Federal Bldg .. Rm . 105...Representative Aquifers in the Great Basin Region of Nevada, Utah, and Adjacent States By JAMES M. THOMAS ...DETTINGER REGIONAL AQUIFER-SYSTEM ANALYSIS-GREAT BASIN, NEVADA-UTAH U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER..... .. ... ... ... .............. C47 Las Vegas Valley.... ......... .. ... .. .. ... ........ .. ...... ...... .... .. ... .... 49 P ahrump Valley..... ..... .... .... ................ ... ........... ..
Report (issue)
the Belmont and Calamine quadrangles, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, by WalterS. West and Harry Klemic ..._______ 307. Underseepage along Levee 30, Dade County, Florida, by Howard Klein and C. B. Sherwood____________________...the Beekmantown dolomite, northern St. Lawrence County, New · York, by Frank W. Trainer and Ralph C. Heath..."ash" tuffs and welded crystal tuffs, Arizona and Nevada, by Ralph J. Roberts and Donald W. Peterson __...in the Copper Mine-Preston Mesa area, Coconino County, Arizona, by N. E. McClymonds_ __________________
 
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