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Opal from
Linka Mine, Spencer Hot Springs Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Mimetite1 photo of Opal associated with Mimetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Linka Mine, Spencer Hot Springs Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:460185
Long-form Identifier:1:3:460185:2
GUID (UUID V4):994df6de-f274-4a57-9fe8-2ac97f27627a
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
15.6km (9.7 miles) Lowboy mine, Birch Creek Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
26.8km (16.6 miles) Apex Mine (Rundberg Mine; Early Day Mine), Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
41.2km (25.6 miles) Northumberland Mine, Northumberland Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
67.2km (41.8 miles) Walti Hot Springs, Grass Valley, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
67.9km (42.2 miles) Warcloud Mine, Jackson Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
89.4km (55.6 miles) Train prospect, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
90.7km (56.3 miles) Manhattan Consolidated Mine, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
91.1km (56.6 miles) Red Bird Mine, Shoshone Creek Canyon, Wild Horse Mining District, Churchill County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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
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ultraviolet’s many uses in the laboratory, and the operating mine or mill. field, the home Ultraviolet light, in...interesting on the bing to capitalize colors. MINING MEN AND PROSPECTORS may find new points of view...nonmetallic “ores” which are the breadand-butter of the mining industry. The story of ultraviolet rays and the...determination—has kept Tom Warren in close contact with mining men. Aware of their ideas and familiar with... Among those connected with various phases of mining and minerals, whose information was most helpful
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the field, the home laboratory, and the operating mine or mill. Ultraviolet light, in the hands of geologists...interesting effects possible with fluorescent colors. MINING MEN AND PROSPECTORS may find new points of view...nonmetallic “ores” which are the breadand-butter of the mining industry. The story of ultraviolet rays and the...determination—has kept Tom Warren in close contact with mining men. Aware of their ideas and familiar with their...minerals. Among those connected with various phases of mining and minerals, whose information was most helpful
Book (edition)
polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina, Madagaskar, G Page 5: Opal - fire, polished, 50 mm, Mezezo, Ethiopia, G Page...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reactions of reactive Fe (oxyhydr)oxides with biogenic opal (Heath and Dymond, 1977; Hein et al., 1979; Cole...deposition of the sediments (Kocsis et al., 2010; Kowal-linka et al., 2014). It is well known that fossil apatite...et al., 2010; Herwartz et al., 2011; 2013; Kowal-linka et al., 2014). However, it is not yet possible to...coastal waters of the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 75, 825-843. Kamber B.S...Southeastern Japan. Resour. Geol. 64, 47-57. Kowal-Linka M., Jochum K.P., Surmik D. (2014) LA-ICP-MS analysis
Book (volume)
Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...abbreviations are used in this chapter: Mt. mountain Co. county IR infrared D density Dmeas measured density Dcalc...Locality: Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA. Description: Colourless crystal from the association...Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (type locality). Description: Pink massive aggregate...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:
Journal (volume)
machines, ventilating apparatus, emery wheels, mining and milling machinery. Particis being given to...employ a large foroe of skilled workmen. a Mining and Scientific Press. through the rotten boards...and Salt- habitants, nearly all of whom follow mining for an occupation. From Huatajia it is about peter...Juan."J [Written Huatajia, is the most productive mining-camp In my last letter (page 448 of Dec. 14tb)...— [Jan. I, 18J0 of Roseburg, has opened a coal mine, located fourteen miles west of this place, that
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are by Dr. Stephen S. Nagy (MD), Montana Diatoms, USA. Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved.... 289 305 323 345 367 PART 5: PHOTOTROPHS IN HOT ALKALINE AND ACIDIC ENVIRONMENTS AND NON-THERMAL...Thermophilic Cyanobacteria of the Zerka Ma’in Thermal Springs in Jordan [Ionescu, D. et al.] . . . . . . . ....Acidophiles: Freshwater Algae Associated with Acid Mine Drainage [Novis, P.M. and Harding, J.S.] . . . ...Environment: Algae of the Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma, USA [Henley, W.J. et al.] . . . . . . . . . . . 661
Report (issue)
Deposit/ district name Deposit size 1 Geologic class 1 USVA 12 AUSTINVILLE-IVANHOE DISTRICT A DSTR...alphabetically by country/State code and deposit/district name. Field codes are described by the tables...As shown in figure 1, the Austinville-Ivanhoe district, Virginia (USVA 12) has zinc (Zn) reported as... modity. Notable examples include the Sullivan mine, Canada (CABC 329), and San Francisco del Oro, Mexico...known examples in the data base is the Ducktown district, Tennessee (USTN 16-listed under "Iron Sulfide")
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
observed in waters with low pH values, e.g. acid mine drainage, and in association with industrial activities...Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA, hoduro@mit.edu 3 Department of Geology and Earth...University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, zfmansaray@gmail.com, jfarquha@glue.umd.edu 1 Here...San Diego, CA, USA (bhanan@mail.sdsu.edu) 3 GSO, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA LISA KANNER1*,...University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA lkanner@usc.edu, buenning@usc.edu, stott@usc.edu
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Turner (UK) Societ) Books Advisors Mike Brown (USA) Jon Gluyas (UK) Randell Stephenson (Ne Lherlands)...Alhnendinger (Cornell University. USA) S. Beck (University of Arizona. USA)) J. Bradshaw ( Univ. Canterbury...(University of Aberdeen, UK) S. Kay (Co rnell University. USA) C. Lomnitz (UNAM. Mexico) F. L opez Vera (Univ....territory, and are concentrated in the north, where mining is widespread. 3 R .I P \ N 1'.11 LI I~ST &...rep1:esent t he earlie~t accreted rocks beneath a still-hot 1nantle. Max1n1um P-T conditions of 7- 10 kbar, 350-450°C
Report (issue)
ecology in the Middle Onion Creek. Valley , H ays County, Texas. Aust in. Tex. : Texas Archeological Research...Limba of' K a.lanso!l,oi:i Chiefdom. Tonk.olili District, N orthern Pro\'i nce. Sieira Leone/ bv Arthur... W oOltbrid ge, Sul1ol l-:, UK , Rochester.NY , USA : B ovdel l Press: San Marino (R.S.M .): Center for...generations. Cambridge [Englandj ; New Y ork. NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, I 996. HQ 1061 .H366...generations. Cambridge [ England] ; New York. NY. USA : Cambridge U ni versity Press, 1996. H.Q 1061
Journal (volume)
drusenartige Raume finden sich mit Chalcedon und Opal erfiillt, oder mit kleinen Quarzkrystallen tiberzogen...Eigenschaften in der Mitte stehen zwischen Serpentin und Opal. So erseheint der Serpentin an derangegebenen Stelle...Serpentin fanden. Es ist unglaublich, welche Mengen von Opal, Chalcedon,Hornstein u. s. w. in den mannigfaltigsten...zweite Stuck verwachsen mit durchscheinendem weissen Opal, wie wenn zwei verschieden gefarbte Glasproben an...ausziehen, es sind durchaus Eisenfarben, nurderschwarze Opal gab vor dem Lothrohre noch Manganreaetion. Von den
Book (volume)
century B.C., made a special study of Phoenician mining, and gathered his data from the remains of the...quintessence of matter ii tnese dry. or wet cold, hot or vehicle or carrier for four primitive qualities...^nd eart/^ cold ana a^^^^ has hot and dxy ; t^a^er, cold and wet air, hot and wet ^ourelementa The different...four qualities appear to be resolvable : For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce. Strive...action of mercury on gold, and of sulphur on red-hot iron and he supposed that there are three elementals
 
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