 | Wahl, R.R., Sawyer, D.A., Minor, S.A., Carr, M.D., Cole, J.C., Swadley, W.C., Laczniak, R.J., Warren, R.G., Green, K.S., Engle, C.M. (1997) Digital geologic map database of the Nevada Test Site area, Nevada. Open-File Report Vol. 1997 (97-140) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr97140 | Report (issue) | | Digital Geologic Map Database of the Nevada Test Site Area, Nevada By Ronald R. Wahl1 , David A. Sawyer1...connection thereby. 1 Denver, Colorado 2Las Vegas, Nevada 3Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico 4Menlo... INTRODUCTION Work on geologic compilation of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) map and Pahute Mesa 30' x 60' quadrangle...geologic synthesis of the southern Great Basin in Nevada. One of the central objectives of the program was...that cover the region of interest (Pahute Mesa, Beatty, Pahranagat Range, and Indian Springs quadrangles) |  | | Book (edition) | | and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...the mother rock. In general, the United States mountain them. is divided geologically into the areas...the east and west, and the plains between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through |  | | Report (volume) | | Nuclear Waste Disposal Site at Yucca Mountain, Southern Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1790...Nuclear Waste Disposal Site at Yucca Mountain, Southern Nevada By MICHAEL D. CARR and JAMES C. YC>UNT...seismic-refraction and gravity studies west of Yucca Mountain, Nevada and California 23 By Hans D. Ackermann, Walter...Volcano-tectonic setting of Yucca Mountain and Crater Flat, southwestern Nevada 35 By Wilfred J. Carr 5. Detachment...California and Nevada 51 By Warren B. Hamilton 6. Stress field at Yucca Mountain, Nevada 87 7. An evaluation |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | streambeds, principally derived from rocks of the Sierra Nevada. Specific localities in California where diamonds...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | Report (volume) | | Pre-Cenozoic Rocks in the Vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NevadaA Potential Nuclear-Waste Disposal...Pre-Cenozoic Rocks in the Vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NevadaA Potential Nuclear-Waste Disposal...pre-Cenozoic rocks in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada--a potential nuclear-waste disposal...Supt. of Doc. No.: I 19.3:1647 1. Geology--Nevada--Yucca Mountain Region. 2. Geology, Structural. 3. Radioactive...Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--Nevada-Yucca Mountain Region. I. United States. Dept. of Energy |  | | Report (volume) | | DIRECTOR GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA SYDNEY H. BALL WASHINGTON...______ . _________i________________ History of mining development..--_________ r ________ Economic c...Region about Goldh'eld_______________________ Lone Mountain foothills_ __________________:._______ Topography...Flat_____________._____________________ Stonewall Mountain.________________________ Topography and geography...Page. Region about Goldfield Continued. Stonewall Mountain Continued. General geology Continued. Sedimentary |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..................... 206 SPECIAL DISPLAY OF STAUROLITE CRYSTALS IN MUSEUM .................... 206 FLUORITE...The area is about 10 miles south west .of Topaz Mountain and 20 miles SSE of Fish Springs, and 35 miles...hospitality; to the personnel of the McIntyre Ranch, Juab County, for hospitality and assistance in the field ;...several localities in New Jersey, all in Monmouth County and all in reensand. Its most noted occurrence...199 Allentown ( in the southwestern part of the County) where it is found in leekgreen coatings and masses |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals are found, especially in the Wikieup District. Excellent specimens of Spessartite, among others...Lieser, of East Hampton, has some of the finest staurolite crystals that I've ever seen from anywhere. They're...George Craig and Congressman Earl Wilson, 9th district, and William G. Bray, 7th distria. In dusters...with veins of sapphire-blue corundum from Newry Mountain, Maine. I thought it was triphylite until Professor...Cherokee sandstone in western Missouri (at Nevada in Vernon County) and is from what you might call a fossil |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology and Climatology of Yucca Mountain and Vicinity, Southern Nevada and California Copyright© 2007...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA.. Copyright is not claimed on any material prepared... Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA www.geosociety.org Printed in USA GSA Books Science Editor: Marion...geology and climatology of Yucca mountain and vicinity, Southern Nevada and California I edited by John...Geology--Nevada-- Yucca Mountain Region. 2. Geology--California. 3. Radioactive waste sites--Nevada--Yucca |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Calhoun Co. Bauxite ROCKFORD, Coosa Co. Beryl ROUND MOUNTAIN, Cherokee Co. Hematite SPRINGVILLE, St. Clair...QUEEN MINE, Cochise Co. Azurite CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, Greenlee Co Chalcedony DEER CREEK, Gila Co., |  | | Book | | desires. Sometimes the talus slopes at the base of a mountain contain rich indications of a dike or sill above...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...some shapes, such as that of the cross-shaped staurolite, that are so distinctive that once viewed they...have beautiful FIGURE 2. TWINNED CRYSTAL OF STAUROLITE 16 FINDING AND PREPARING PRECIOUS AND SEMIPRECIOUS...in stream beds on the west slopes of the Sierra Nevada in California and a few scattered stones have been |  | | Journal (issue) | | that remains of what was once a flourishing little mining town which still appears on many Arizona maps as...called the Silverbell road. Silverbell was a copper mining camp. The hills around it were honeycombed with...shack to liv%,*in and a chance to live — a gold mining town — a golden opportunity perhaps. Your editor...of wood there is nothing to indicate a thriving mining town once was located there. KENT YARNELL The...privately owned since early in the century. This mining operation might seem a little less objectionable |  | | 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 (issue) | | Professional Paper 525. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies listed on pages A221-A225...Interstate investigations ________________ _ 34 Rocky Mountain area ______________________ _ 35 Montana ____...43 Pacific Northwest ______________________ _ 44 Nevada _______________________________ _ 45 California...Investigations related to nuclear energy __________ _ Nevada Test Site studies ____ - _- _________ - __ _ 51...Stratigraphy and structural geology __________ _ 101 Nevada and eastern California __________ _ 101 Western |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Report (volume) | | Cambrian formations in the Desert Range, Clark County, Nevada, by John H. Stewart and Harley Barnes_____________...Meduxnekeag Group and Spragueville Formation of Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides__-________...in the vicinity of the Aldrich Mountains, Grant County, Oreg______-____________ ________ 4. Summary of...Precambrian), central Arizona, by P. M. Blacet. Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides. Washington...Limestone. (Cinctnnatlan). County, Maine, by Louis Pavlides. tlon. Essex County, Massachusetts, by R. O |  | | Report (issue) | | • • • • • • Grade and Reserves •• • • • • • • • Mining and Beneficiation • • • • • • • Calcination .....individuals, firms and organisations, as well as to the mining and geological departments, both in Commonwealth...silica, 55-57 per cent. alumina and 16-18 per cent. fluorine. It is orthorhombic and occurs frequently as prisms...most of the fluorine and water are driven off between 850° and 900°C., but the fluorine carries off with...because of the general difficulty of handling the fluorine and fuming fluorides, topaz has not found great |  | | Report (volume) | | Railroad Valley-Grant Range region, eastcentral Nevada, from interpretation of potential-field anomalies...character of hydrothermal fluids in the Catheart Mountain Cu-Mo deposit, Maine By Robert A. Ayuso and Nora...geology and mineral deposits of the Berenguela district, northwestern Bolivia By Alan R. Wallace, Richard...fluid inclusions in vein quartz from Battle Mountain, Nevada By Edwin H. McKee, James E. Conrad, Brent...White River National Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado By Margo |  | | Report (issue) | | _________________________ Historical sketch of mining near the Sumdum prospect..__.____._._____ Page...between 2,000 and 2,500 feet; glaciers, snow, and bare precipitous slopes are the dominant surficial features...geologists, R. H. Seraphim. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MINING NEAR THE SUMDUM PROSPECT The Sumdum copper-zinc...Following the heyday of gold mining in the early 1900's, there was little mining activity in the area. The...have been most extensively studied in the Juneau district (fig. 1), where they have been interpreted as |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...included contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, stretches of stream beds, and easily identifiable...live. The Appalachians, the Smokies, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies and Black Hills, the Cascades and...these mountains enclose. In the East, an ancient mountain system of folded and metamorphosed sediments and...Carolina. In the West, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, and the Coast ranges dominate a vast geological |  | | Report (issue) | | ____________________ East Tintic silver-lead district, Utah_ _____ Central mining district, New Mexico._-___ Lead, zinc...minerals-_____________ District and regional studies-________________ Beryllium at Spor Mountain, Utah___-__ Beryllium...Wheeler area, White Pine County, Nevada-__________ Beryllium in the Lake George district, Colorado-.-. _ __...________________________ Pegmatites of the Spruce Pine district, North Carolina.______________________ Vermiculite...in South CarolinaFluorspar in the Browns Canyon district, Salida, Colorado._____________________ Phosphate |
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