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Pyrite from
Continental Mine, Nugget Mining District (Myrtle Creek Mining District), Douglas County, Oregon, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Continental Mine, Nugget Mining District (Myrtle Creek Mining District), Douglas County, Oregon, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:471151
Long-form Identifier:1:3:471151:3
GUID (UUID V4):10af1ba4-3179-4568-ac6c-d5cedc2b8c74
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Chieftain Occurrence, Nugget Mining District (Myrtle Creek Mining District), Douglas County, Oregon, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) Buena Vista (Umpqua Mine), Tiller-Drew, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Dodson Butte Prospects (Green Gulch Group), Nugget Mining District (Myrtle Creek Mining District), Douglas County, Oregon, USA
18.7km (11.6 miles) Gold Cut Mine (Pennel Mine), Tiller-Drew, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
21.5km (13.4 miles) Poor Boy Occurrence (Monte Carlo Claims; Crispin; Last Chance), Tiller-Drew, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
22.8km (14.1 miles) Levan's Ledge Mine, Riddle Mining District, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) Sweetbriar Occurrence (Gold Ridge Claim?), Riddle Mining District, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
25.7km (15.9 miles) Huckleberry Mine, Riddle Mining District, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
25.9km (16.1 miles) Red Hill Prospect, Tiller-Drew, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
26.5km (16.4 miles) Banfield Mine (Rainbow Lode; South Umpqua Mining Company), Tiller-Drew, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
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Report (issue)
HUMDINGER, AND ROBERT E. GOLD MINES, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON By PHILIP J. ABSTRACT The gold quartz veins described...small or moderate sized deposits in southwestern Oregon which have produced notable amounts of gold. The...as, for example, the argillite at the Humdinger mine. At all the mines the gold occurs principally in...the Humdinger mine, apophyllite. Besides the gold, the more common ore minerals are pyrite and arsenopyrite...mines, and petzite was recognized at the Robertson mine. The ore minerals occur in shoots within the quartz
Report (issue)
34-ounce gold nugget was reportedly found at South Pass, Wyoming, during a past gold rush. The nugget measures...courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California. INTRODUCTION Welcome...the author’s 1981 discovery of an entire gold district west of Casper in the Ra�lesnake Hills area (Hausel...discovery, some major mining companies and private consultants explored the district and located several...(WSGS) during mapping projects in the historic mining districts at South Pass (Hausel, 1991), Seminoe
Report (volume)
Districts in the Klamath Mountains, California and Oregon By PRESTON E. HOTZ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Gulch-Deadwood district _______________ Whiskeytown district ______________________ Shasta-Redding district _____________________..._____________ Dog Creek (Delta) district __________________ Bully Choop (Indian Creek) district _______________..._______________ Harrison Gulch district ______________________ Hayfork district ___________________________ Minersville...Minersville district __________________________ Trinity Center district ________________________ Canyon
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries NOVEMBER 1994 VOLUM...mineralization of the President Mine, Bohemia mining district. Lone County, p. 123 • Late Cenozoic tectonics... In memoriam: Norm Peterson OREGON GEOLOGY Nonnan V. Peterson. District Geologist for 25 years at the...Grants (I$SN Ol6A-3Xl4) Pass field office of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral VOLUME 56, NUMBER...Ronald K. Culbertson, Chair. John W. Stephens Myrtle C=k . Portland Jacqueline G. Haggerty-Foster
Report (issue)
recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • .. 37 Goose Creek area . . . . _ __ . . . _ .. . _ __ . _ . _ . .
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5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...Smithsonian Institution's Numismatic Collection Douglas Mudd photo Left: A wall of gold bricks in the...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Leicht Mark Mauthner, Urse] Mauthner, Don Miller, Douglas Mudd, Harold & Erika van Pelt, T. Peters Ed Raines...Lapis International, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut USA Collection 'Alan Table of Contents What Is Gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY OF OREGON. WARREN DUPRE SMITH AND EARL L. PACKARD University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon INTRODUCTION...purporting to sum up the known geology the whole of Oregon has yet been published. of Even now the time...workers. A few scattered references to the geology of Oregon in the earliest reports of various kinds are mainly...problems of Oregon geology. Dr. Thomas Condon, formerly a missionary, who came to Oregon in 1852, and...pioneer geologist of this state. His popular book on Oregon Geology and his collections, the first to be made
Report (issue)
canyon wall on north side of North Fork Cherry Creek and on Tony Ridge, Bull Camp Peak 1 1/2-minute quadrangle...KILOMETERS !§~HH"'''l~', t I /"".... ............ DOUGLAS , ~"~ ~'-~~ ~ ': ~ .... ~'~SPER~rpg~~PER ....transported by field trip vehicles to Holiday Inn at Douglas, Wyoming (307-358 9790). Thursday, July 20, 1989...2356). Cultural opportunity to visit traces of Oregon Trail stage coach route by which migrating settlers...at the southeast margin of the North American continental core, and visits various Proterozoic greenstone
Report (issue)
production and reserve grades source, fineness, mining methods, other economic commodities and general...is useful for analyzing the roles genetics and mining method have on placer grades and volumes. Deposits...Individual workings are not included if deposit or district data are presented. A deposit was subjectively...and areas in Alaska, including sluice and drift mining. 5. Some volumes were estimated from deposit...is listed as a mining method for many deposits. Most placer mining methods (drift mining, dredging, etc
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industry, is the holdthe-line performance turned in by Oregon producers of lime, stone, and sand and gravel....productive capacity at a large mine and smelter. Employment in the state's mining industry increased 13 percent...Big news in Oregon gold circles was the announcement late in the summer that the Buffalo mine in the Granite...Granite district of eastern Grant County * Mining Engineer, State of Oregon Dept. Geology & Mineral Industries...Railroad. James P. Jackson, Jr. , owner-operator of the mine, will continue to 1964 1965 direct operations. The
Report (issue)
STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES 329 SW. Oak Street Portland, Oregon Bulletin...No. 14-A Oregon Metal Mines Handbook By the Staff Bulletin No. No. 14-A Northeastern Oregon-East Half...Northeastern Oregon-West Half No. 14-C Southwestern Oregon No. 14-D Northwestern Oregon No. 14-E Central...Central and Southeastern Oregon ----�- 1939 STATE GOVERNING BOARD W. H. STRAYER, CHAIRMAN BAKER ...• FOREWORD T HE ONLY handbook or catalog of Oregon mines ever published was issued in 1916-more than
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 43, NUMBER...7 JULY 19B1 Published monthly by the State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Indust ries (Volumes...Geologist, joined the professional staff of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries in...subscription orders, renewals, and changes of address 10 Oregon Geology. 1005 State Office Building, Ponland, OR...information contained herein. Credit given to the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries for
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 47. NUMBER...NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1985 OREGON GEOLOGY (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME 47. NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1985 Published...Published monthly by the Oregon Department of Geology and Minerai Industries (Volumes 1 through 40 were entitled...Supervisor Second class postage paid at Portland. Oregon. Subscription rates: I year. $6; 3 years. $15....subscription orders. renewals. and changes of address to Oregon Geology, 910 State Office Building. Portland. OR
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOG Y Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Volume 62, Number 3, July 2000 ...Geology and Mineralization of the Blue River mining district DOGAMI PUBLICATIONS Publications are available...available from: Nature of the Northwest, 800 NE Oregon St. #5, Portland, OR 97232, info@naturenw.org or...parallel publication, the magazine Cascadia. —ed OREGON GEOLOGY (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME 62, NUMBER 3 ...January, March, May, July, September, November by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. (Volumes
Book (edition)
- Temecula, CA 92589 (909) 699-4749 - 1994 Mining Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS INrRoDUCI'ION ••••••••.............................. . OK 1 - 2 OR 1 33 Oregon Pennsylvania ....... ... ............. .... .......... . 1994 Mining Guide INTRODUCTION IMPORTANT - PLEAsE READ! The 1994 GPM Mining Guide is designed...(normally listed from north to south), directions and mining commen ts; gold-producing areas, general prospecting...under 18 years of age. After purchasing a current Mining Guide, GPAA members may take family members with
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possible still stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author...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)
BULLETIN 193 Geolog/ 95814 thousand dollars, though Nugget. This 201 -ounce (troy) cluster of gold on display...963 iti value at a hbtoricol much more. The nugget ot slightly less thon holf exhibit in its is...an overall guide been written on gold and gold mining of publications have no single report or to...longer district Hulin, respectively. the principal features of each gold-bearing district are described...publications were written on various phases of gold mining. The reports of John Trosk, the first State Geologist
Journal (issue)
No. 8 THE ORE.-BIN 75 August 1961 STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES Head...Head Office: 1069 State Office Bldg., Portland 1, Oregon Telephone: CApitol 6-2161, Ext. 488 Field Offices...Cape Sebastian-Crook Point area of the southwest Oregon coast is unique in being one of the few areas in...Oregon's most promising potential petroleum reservoir OREGON sandstones. A third, unexpected reward from the...Partial financial aid for the present study from the Oregon State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Report (issue)
MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPH_INE COUNTY, OREGON 1979 STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL...INDUSTRIES DONALD A. HULL, STATE GEOLOGIST STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES 1069...Portland, Oregon 97201 BULLETIN 100 GEOLOGY AND. MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON By LEN...Resident Geologist and NORMAN V. PETERSON, District Geologist Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries...030 Funded in part with a grant from Josephine County Board of Commissioners STATE GEOLOGIST GOVERNING
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 53, NUMBER...to central Oregon , Part 1 Oil and gas exploration and development in Oregon, 1990 Mining and exploration...exploration in Oregon during 1990 Current mineral exploration activity ." MAY 1991 OREGON GEOLOGY (ISSN...March, M.ay, Jul). September, and Novemberby the Oregon Department of Geolog) and MIneral Industnes. (Volumes...Associate Editor . . . . . . . . Baker City . Myrtle Creek . . . Portland . Donald A. Hull John D. Beaulieu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
Report (issue)
AMERICA, CORDILLERAN SECTION MEETING AT CORVALLIS, OREGON, MARCH 20-21, 1980 Edited by Miles L. Silbennan...Geological Society of America at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. These papers and abstracts...detailed investigations of single ore deposits, or of mining districts, to large-scale regional syntheses,...stratiform zinc-lead-barium deposits, Red Dog Creek and Drenchwater Creek areas, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska...stratiform zinc-lead-barium deposits, Red Dog Creek and Drenchwater Creek areas, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska
Journal (issue)
The S1hcat€s Part V: Lapis, charoite andsugilite Pyrite, fh.iorite and quartz accorrrpany pyrophyllite...and McKinley counties A tale of a well-traveled nugget 40 48 Topaz and how to draw crystals by Ste\"e...the Sioao culture took the lead in gold working, mining h11ge quantities gold from phenomenally rich placei-s...pit, currently t l1e world's second-largest gold mine. .Pern cw·reolly ranks ·,as Llic \VOrld's fifth...workings that fo llowed gold-quartz veins. Placer mining was qttile advanced This Cal!ma breastplate of
Report (volume)
Anchorage district _ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow Creek district Yentna district...district _____________ _ ____ __________ _____ Copper River region __ _ _ _ Chistochina district Nelchina...Nelchina district __ __ _ Nizina district ___ Prince William Sound district ______________________ Yakataga...Yakataga district _______________________________ Kenai Peninsula region _ ___ _ ______ ________ _ Homer...Homer district ______________________ __________ ___ _ Hope district _ _ _ _ Seward district ____ _ __ _ ___
 
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