 | | 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) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five times the combined production and...than 86,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to |  | | Report (volume) | | about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and...than 80,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...magma, or molten rock material. Usually this results in the crystallization of the rock-forming minerals...precipitation of dissolved material, as in the case of rock salt or gypsum. More commonly they are made by the...the accumulation of actual particles of rock material washed down from the land surface and spread out...the action of powerful earth any earlier-formed rock mass, so that notable changes in forces on character |  | | Journal (issue) | | ···························-······· I.As CmSPAS MINE, SONORA, MEXlCO ........................... ......could go on a vacation to Rock ed - where could we stay for the night? Hill, S. C. Here he was to be the...of quiries have been received regarding the the District of Columbia, to whom a trip - did the Editor have...warmly as they are the most friendliest of people. Rock Hill! We left Peekskill on June 22nd as The following...long distance bus ride) . We even half--way to Rock Hill. As we did had heard a Jot about the comforts |  | | Book | | Run Press Ltd, Exeter. Introduction Cornwall's mining history stretches back 2,000 years; its mineralogy...reference for the occurrence of each species within the County. In a very few cases recourse has had to be made...in bold type are those whose occurrence in the county is beyond doubt. entries not in bold type, have...of 424 species are recorded as occurring in the county of which 36 were first recorded fronm Cornwall...species are listed whose occurrence within the county requires confirmation. One mineral listed. Abhurite |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado |  | | Report (issue) | | 8494 LjJ I en S5 ^s CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. Hanks, State Mineralogist. ...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. to : I have...For the past year, satisfactory progress The Mining Bureau Museum floor. and thoroughly still ...abroad which cannol be The publications of the Mining Bureau should be sold supplied. at actual cost—...there are a large number of pamphlets, circulars, mining companies' reports, proceedings of societies, etc |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cluster of Amethyst Crystals Ellis Jones Amethyst Mine, Due West, S. C. (See page 890 for story of the...DECEMBER, 1965 CONTENTS HISTORY OF ANDOVER - SULPHUR HILL IRON MINES, N. J. - Parc 2 — D. R. Swayze ........Tucson Gem and Mineral Society will be held at Pima County Fairgrounds, 4700 S. 6th Ave., Tucson, Ariz. Gc-n...844, Jackson, Miss. 39205. March 4-6, 1966—Gila County Gem & Min eral Show, Miami, Ariz. Chairman: Ernest...Antonio. Texas. Co-host San Antonio Rock & Lapi dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman: |  | | Journal (volume) | | A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer San Francisco Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Los Angeles...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DISTRICT REPORTS...REPORTS OF MINING ENGINEERS—— 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal with oblique termination found at the Bumpus mine in Albany, Maine by John Rogers. ----r JANUARY...he organized the Mineralogical Society of the District of Columbia, and was its president for four years...annual affair will be staged again at the Pima County' Fairgrounds at 4700 South Sixth Ave., Feb. 18-19-20...was well known through the United States by the rock fraternity. French Morgan Photo On The Front Cover...crystal with oblique termination found at the Bumpus mine in Albany, Maine by John Rogers. The smaller specimen |  | | Journal (volume) | | Bingham, Utah, Mining Black Sand Page. Abbott, James W A Visit to Ely, Nevada Mining at Bingham, Utah...Greenwater District Ditto Ditto Ditto Abyssinia, Minerals In The Requirements of Modern Mining 70S 52...Charles [64 James W. 82 431 114 Nelll 815 District, British W Columbia, The 783 431 795 736 241...Rlckard 511 17 The Boundary District The Mineral Output of. In 1906 Broken Hill, Acid Flotation Processes...Proprietary Mine, He Treatment at G. D. Del prat Brown, Walter 8 A Filing System for Mining Engineers llucke |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................. President, Idaho Mining Association Jack Peterson .......................Carrietown Counties, Idaho Silver-Lead-Zinc District, Blaine and Camas Robert S. Darling Vii 193...Evenson Part C. History of Gold Mining on the Yankee Fork River, Custer County 223 George C. Stephens Part...top: Cougar Point Tufi Bnzneau Canyon, Owyhee County, Idaho. Photograph by Bill Bonnichsen. Mt. McCaleb...Chapter 3, with articles on the Carrietown mining district west of Ketchum and jasperoid occurrences near |  | | Book (edition) | | in connection some information as to mines and mining renovation ; industry. " The student is referred...Investigation of Rocka 434 436 447 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Rock 4. Microscopic Characteristics of 5. Descriptions...often attached by one extremity to the supporting rock and have perfect terminating planes only at the...(/A/= because first observed (by H. Rose) in a rock of the Urals; but it is essentially like ordinary...Pennsylvania. Arborescent delineations over surfaces of rock are usually called dendrites. They have been formed |  | | Journal (issue) | | subject, oriental carvings of birds in clear quartz (rock crystal), is quite appropriate. Carving is one of...TRIPS 48 BERYL AND TOURMALINE AT TH E OLD WILLIAMS MINE Mineral Collecting in Alabama by Lou W. Sloat, R...this material from the two brothers who owned the mine, and knew it for its value and carving quality....the mountain, on which the mine was located, was a wide sand trap. So, the mine owners provided rides on...shown on Page 7 came about. I was sent a rock from Joe's Rock Shop in Utah, a soft white and green travertine |  | | Journal (issue) | | WE PAY SHIPPING ON ORDERS WITHIN U.S. Visit our Rock and Gitt Shop Open 9 AM-5 PM Mon. thru Sat. WRITE...State Street in downtown Carlsbad, Calif. (Outside USA send $2.00 for cat■ los) GEMS & MINERALS - 7 ...drill though, is normally dictated by the method of mining Lhat followc;. York and Proline rigs cost about... !9~~ KENNETH NUfAND. ,rotinetor 801 312·A he• Rock• Rd . Ac-. P• 15610; Tei.. (412) !">474'779 CAMELLIA...Convention Center 11-12 June-Jefferson, Oh~Ashtabula County Fairgrounds 18-19 June-Topsfield, (Boston) Mass |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cover feature. And, for a fascinating look at opal mining , plus more pictures, turn to page 8. AND MINERALS...pe<:iali7e in Cem ()ualitr Crystal opal. \\"e h:.ve been mining and dealing in opal for 8 years. lntegril) and...articles have been made. They are available from rock shops; the author, at S&L Tims Lapidary, 1120 San...Centennial Coliseum, 4590 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada. The author's club, The Reno Gem and Mineral Society...11mile field to see if the day's mining had yielded any opal. Mining methods have changed dramatically |  | | Journal (issue) | | WE PAY SHIPPING ON ORDERS WITHIN U.S. Visit our Rock and Gitt Shop Open 9 AM-5 PM Mon. thru Sat. WRITE...inc. t\.-1odel ST-1O is just one of seven Lortonn rock 58\VS and 383 prar.t ical products vou can choost'...flat on tne lap. These rings can be shaped to the rock and will fit snug so that the rocks will not "jump...State Street in downtown Carlsbad, Calif. (Outside USA send $2.00 for c:ataloe) GEMS & MINERALS - 7 NEW...Aulhor, Jewelry Cra~ Made Easy and Pebble Pets and Rock Rascals Tumbled gems (baroques) are beautiful; |  | | Report (issue) | | Historic Mining Camps and Jurassic Calderas By BRENDA HOUSER With a paper on the GREATERVILLE PLACER...PLACER DISTRICT By LESLIE Cox ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FALL FIELD TRIP, 1992 Arizona Geological Society...O. Box 4 0 9 52 Tucson, AZ 8 571 7 Historic Mining Camps and Jurassic Calderas, Southeastern Arizona...HOUSER With a paper on the GREATERVILLE PLACER DISTRICT By LESLIE Cox ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FALL...Cemetery ................... 12 Mowry Town Site and Mine ........................ 14 Mowry Sme ter l Site |  | | Book (edition) | | geology, the department which considers of the earth's rock formations. especially the associations of species...often seen in crystals as they lie on the supporting rock. On glancing the eye over a surface covered with...For example, on crystals of datolite from Bergen Hill, the plane 2-...are attached either to other crystals or to some rock surface, and in consequence of this are only partially...more or less complete metamorphism or the enclosing rock. The change of composition resulting in pseudomorphous |  | | Book (edition) | | iH ^ fe o -• vO y MINERALOGY AND MINING. Mine Accidents —Ventilation — Ore Dressing, Etc...in fullness of plan, tion." American Journal of Mining. detail, and execu- THIRD APPENDIX TO DITTO...8vo, cloth, INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ROCK-FORMING MINERALS. HUSSAK. SMITH. By 3 50 Eugen...species. By Edward H. Williams, Jr., Professor of Mining Engineering at Lehigh University, Pa 18mo, cloth...DRESSING IN EUROPE, KUNHARDT. By W. B. Kunhardt, Mining Engineer 8vo, cloth, 1 60 ACCIDENTS IN MINES |  | | Report (issue) | | 4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating...42 9.86 4.77 13.60 100.69 2.277 LOCALITY: Berks County: Birdsboro. MESOLITE m Na Al Si3Oio.2H O 2 2 |  | | Book | | Iftyifl 040 „epi-oo. 0e0l-0Q. Kick at the rock, Sam Johnson, break your bones but cloudy, cloudy...Mackenzie Gordon, jr., Robert R. Hessler, Dorothy Hill, Erie G. Kauffman, Robert V. Kesling, Porter M....Walter S. White. Engineering geology and rock mechanics: Mary Hill, Eugene Kojan, and David J. Varnes. Geochemistry:...Francis J. Pettijohn, and J.W. Pierce. Soils: Mary Hill, Charles E. Kellog, and Arnold C. Orvedal. Statistical...are, for the most part, restricted to those of the USA. 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