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Calcite from
Laxey Mine, South Mountain Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Ilvaite5 photos of Calcite associated with Ilvaite at this locality.
Hedenbergite1 photo of Calcite associated with Hedenbergite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Laxey Mine, South Mountain Mining District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:453946
Long-form Identifier:1:3:453946:9
GUID (UUID V4):69ad49f8-25af-4968-8dc7-032aa11b3892
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Mines in Southern Idaho: Volume II: Flint Creek-South Mountain Area, Owyhee County, Idaho Earl H. Bennett...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...Mines in Southern Idaho: Volume II: Flint Creek-South Mountain Area, Owyhee County, Idaho Earl H. Bennett...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...2000 for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Idaho Operations Office, under Assistance Agreement No
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
r------' .--. !i i , i ' i Boundary '---~ IDAHO Bonner_j l--;~u:d{ene\, I , L~ Coeur'cI'Alene...its pyromorphite, Idaho also boasts many other mineral species. ( :\.. -~:/ Idaho <....: (_ ", I...Power i..r v. ) 't,.,. 1. r': ~ Caribou Idaho 83816-2043 , • c-vz..J. '. 2",_J'-1 '\ o, ...INDEX BRIEFLY DESCRIBES the mineral localities in Idaho; all known localities that may have produced well-crystallized...localities for minerals that were first discovered in Idaho. Unfortunately for the field collector, most of
Book (edition)
Idaho Minerals The complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho Lanny R. Ream 1!11, ) a...PISTOLS Idaho Minerals Idaho Minerals The Complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho with Special...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Rerun Publishing P .O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Ale ne, Idaho 83814 Copyright © 1989 by L.R. Ream Publishing...R Ream Publishing P.O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814 (208) 667-0453 To those collectors who are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Commissioner from Idaho, who spent nearly two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of importance...with stephanite, from the Reese River district, Lander County. Among these are several quite valuable...The excellent l'eprel!eDtatioD from t he Rocky Mountain and which hal! inserted rubber jawli to receive...transparent crystals of quartz, from the Chase Mine, Lander County. The ores from this locality are remarkable...pieces of crystallized sulphur from Hum­ boldt County, some large pieces of selenite from the same locality
Report (issue)
3 (Index of Colours) ; 4 (I. of Man) ; 5 (Lake District) • : 7 (N. Wales) ; 8 (Central England) ; 9 (Eastern...—42 NW, NE, 56, 60 SW, SE. RUTLANDSHIRE,— this county is wholly included SW. within Sheet 64*. DERBYSHIREt...Table showing Output of Manx Mines, 495. 493-498 Mining Details 499-549 - List of Mines and Trials described...Description of the Workings Beckwith's Mine, 504. Cross's Mine, 508. Dixon's Mine, Foxdale {Old Foxdale) and associated...Hodgson's, Faragher's, or Louisa Mine, 513. East or Central Foxdale Mine, 514. Ellerslie, Bishops Barony
3 (Index of Colours) ; 4 (I. of Man) ; 5 (Lake District) • : 7 (N. Wales) ; 8 (Central England) ; 9 (Eastern...—42 NW, NE, 56, 60 SW, SE. RUTLANDSHIRE,— this county is wholly included SW. within Sheet 64*. DERBYSHIREt...Table showing Output of Manx Mines, 495. 493-498 Mining Details 499-549 - List of Mines and Trials described...Description of the Workings Beckwith's Mine, 504. Cross's Mine, 508. Dixon's Mine, Foxdale {Old Foxdale) and associated...Hodgson's, Faragher's, or Louisa Mine, 513. East or Central Foxdale Mine, 514. Ellerslie, Bishops Barony
Catalog/List
...................... . . . . . . 77 78 Mining and Mining Engineering ............. 78 Paleontology...COVER PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped...... . Fl. Utah Toelle Co., Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite...fluo­ rescence under ultraviolet light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite
Report (edition)
CALEDONIAN GRANITES AND OTHER INTRUSIONS 20 MINES AND MINING 23 PEEL GROUP 30 CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE TERTIARY...team remapping the Skiddaw Slates in the Lake District looking along strike at the equivalent rocks in... 25 24. Great Laxey Wheel 25 25. Shafts, levels and stopes in Great Laxey Mine 27 2. Ill The...Peel, with gently rolling plains to both north and south of the mountains. Both west and east coasts are...water-wheel in Europe was built to drain the mines at Laxey. n,e Isle is famous for its four-horned Loagl1tan
Catalog/List
Geology ..... . Petroleum Geology ..... . Mining and Mining Engineering . Prospecting and Fluorescence...VANADINITE specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES .........fluo­ rescence under ultra violet light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful...calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinitegehlenite...Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky- blue micro xls and coatings on
Book
Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x...made dramatically apparent to us as spectacular mountain ranges, erupting volcanoes, earthquakes and even...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...nodules — named for their angular cavities — with calcite (see photo opposite). Crystal linings that survive
Report (volume)
COPPER ORES OF TlIE MIDLANDS, WALES, THE LAKE DISTRICT AND THE ISLE OF M~i\N. BY HENRr· DEWEY AND T...from Mr. Lamplugh's memoir : that of the Parys Mountain mines from the memoir on Anglesey by Dr. Greenly...this information. Our thanks are due to numerous mine managers for assistance while visiting their mines...WORKED IN THE LOPES AND VEINS (contd.) : THE LAKE DISTRICT, pp. 60-78; pp. 78-82; ADDENDA, pp. 82-83 ...lvlerioneth and Carnarvonshire ,, IV.-Section of Clogau :Mine, l.vlerioneth " V. -Sketch Map of the Coniston
Catalog/List
of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ...
Report (issue)
MINES IN SOUTHERN IDAHO: VOLUME I: SILVER CITYWAR EAGLE MOUNTAIN AREA, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO JOHN KAUFFMAN...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...MINES IN SOUTHERN IDAHO: VOLUME I: SILVER CITYWAR EAGLE MOUNTAIN AREA, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO JOHN KAUFFMAN...February 2010 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...2000 for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Idaho Operations Office, under Assistance Agreement No
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA e-mail: SheltonKL@missouri.edu J. M. Gregg Boone...Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074, USA S. F. Crowley Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences...8501 West Higgins Rd. Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60631, USA investigates the origin of the unusual sphalerite...Mackay and Schnellmann 1963). Historical accounts of mining on the IOM concentrate on base metal sulphide deposits...metasedimentary basement and are exposed only in the south of the Island near Castletown (Lamplugh 1903; Dickson
Report (issue)
World European Economic Community United Kingdom South-West England 16 17 17 18 19 19 28 32 33 39 43 44...Bibliography 97 ll,LUSTRATIONS Fig 1 Former silver mining areas and silver occurrences in the United Kingdom...22 Fig 2 Location map of selected mines in the South-West of England 27 Fig 3 Process flow sheet at...Fig 8 United Kingdom production of silver, by county: 1861-1870 85 Table l World primary silver resources...resources 16 Table 2 Selected EEC mining operations with silver-bearing base metal concentrate production
Journal (issue)
index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with rare faces, inclusions and habits, Herkimer County is not too far off. Zinc and iron mines; limestone...limestone and talc quarries; St. Lawrence County with its sphenes; pyroxenes; apatites; black, brown and colorless...millerite and uvarovite in calcite from the Sherbrooke, Quebec nickel mine. Also stibnite, kermesite,...elsewhere, "South Ham, Quebec". Here are excact directions and locality names: NICKEL MINE: — The test...out. This consists of large white cleavages of calcite, with occasional small single millerite xls, lots
Report (issue)
Report for the Abandoned and Inactive Mines in Idaho on U.S. Forest Service Lands (Region 4), Boise National...Boise River Areas, Boise, Ada, and Elmore Counties, Idaho (Selected Properties) Field Inspection by: Dave...January 2007 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...Report for the Abandoned and Inactive Mines in Idaho on U.S. Forest Service Lands (Region 4), Boise National...Boise River Areas, Boise, Ada, and Elmore Counties, Idaho (Selected Properties) Field Inspection by: Dave
Journal (issue)
HYDROCARBON FROM LAXEY, ISLE OF MAN URANIFEROUS HYDROCARBONS AFRICAN GOLDFIELDS FROII THE SOUTH (a) Blyvooruitzicht...URANIFEROUS HYDROCARBON OF HOONTA, 4 6 6 7 9 SOUTH AUSTRALIA 10 THUCHOLITE FROM PARRY SOUND, ONTARIO...hitherto known as 'anthracite', from the Laxey lead-zinc mine in the Isle of Man, the uranium~ring 'Carbon...thucholite as constant constituents of these.and other South African gold ores provides new evidence of the hydrothermal...Nordenskiold <4 >in 1901 from the Eriks mine and from the Lilla Kallmora mine, the former material giving 12%
Catalog/List
lustrous £1.08. Itxl~". /. -2- BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, ~mborne, ~orn\~ll. Very rich, irridescently tarnished...sPHALEEITE crystals. 3x2t". £17.28. 12. CALCITE. Stank Mine, Ulverston, N.1ancs. Specimen A - A superb...inclusions of Hematite. Itxlt". £3.24. CALCITE. Blackdene Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham. Large, milky white... 6x4". £2.16. 14. CARMINITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, reddish crystaline...assoclatlon. 3x2~x12' £6.48. 16. CASSITERITE. East Pool Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Dark brown, lustrous crystals
Book
ingO000will ABOVE: A modern lead mine, Grove Rake Mine, COVER: The Stonedge cupola and its millpond...industrial chimney in the world. LEAD AND Rookhope, County Durham, in 1978. near Chesterfield, Derbyshire...front cover and pages 2, 4, 8; from Hunt, British Mining, page 24 (bottom). The drawings on pages 10, 14...the lead rights over a large part of the Peak District: LEAD AND Lead is a heavy, dull grey metal...culmination of almost two thousand years of lead- mining. Because of its widespread occurrence and the ease
org/details/leadleadminingO000will lead mine Grove Rake Mine, ABOVE: A modern COVER The Stonedge...Stonedge cupola and its millpond, , , Rookhope, County Durham near Chesterfi eld, Derbysh re. , in 19...Geology and prospecting ............. History of lead mining and smelting Miners, smelters and owners 3 ff...front cover and pages 2, 4, 8; from Hunt, British Mining, page 24 (bottom). The drawings on pages 10, 14...the lead rights over a large part of the Peak District. LEAD AND Lead is a heavy, dull grey metal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been folded into a shallow syncline immediately south of Heysham, and into a gentle anticline to the east...and the secondary matrix consists of kaolinite. Calcite sporadically replaces the matrix and sand grains...biotite and chlorite 0-5; kaolinite 2; U t e 3 to 6; calcite 0 to 7; ferric oxide and hydroxide 0-5. Pores and...hydrocarbon occur sparingly in this bed and contain some calcite cement. The host rock is largely unbedded or only...nodules Heysham. Lancashire Vein-hydrocarbon Laxey Mine, I.O.M. (Davidson and Bowie I9SI) reflection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal mineralization. In the richest samples, from Laxey, Halkyn, Great Ormes Head and Southwick (Fig. 4)...and (3) a region of Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the south (Fig. 1). The data in Fig. 1 show different patterns...Uraninite inclusions exhibit vague radiation haloes, Laxey, Isle of Man (field width 300 microns), d Bitumen...the Carboniferous limestone of Great Britain at Laxey, Isle of Man (Davidson and Bowie 1951), Great Ormes...is no coal blend (i.e. bitumen) or bituminous calcite, there will be no native silver". Another example
 
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