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Sphalerite from
Root Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Root Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:478840
Long-form Identifier:1:3:478840:9
GUID (UUID V4):7705b464-ea8b-4f0f-9e99-c5c9b8ba98f8
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
4.9km (3.1 miles) ⓘMobile Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) ⓘArgentena Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) ⓘMilford Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) ⓘYellow Pine Mine (Yellow Pine Lead Zinc Mine; Hilo; Radio; Como; Hermes), Goodsprings, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
15.5km (9.6 miles) ⓘGreen Monster Mine, Shenandoah Peak (Shenandoah Mountain), Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
16.7km (10.4 miles) ⓘKalley Mine (Dewitt's Mine; Umberci Mine; Carbonate King Mine), Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) ⓘPotosi Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
28.3km (17.6 miles) ⓘGreen Gold Mine (Green Mine; Bank Roll; Kieper Lead-Silver; Valentine; Glory Hole claim; Eerie claim; Eagle's Nest claim; Yellow Crocus claim; Diamond Back claim; Little Gremlin claim), Clark Mountain, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) ⓘWheelbarrow Mine (Lime Canyon Mine; Keiper Mine; No Name Mine; Fraction; East Side), Clark Mountain, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
33.9km (21.1 miles) ⓘMohawk Mine, Mohawk Hill, Clark Mountain District (Clark District), Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range), San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
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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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of Lead and Zinc Deposits in Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) District, Nevada By CLAUDE C. ALBRITTON, ]R.,...-------------------------Geology of the Goodsprings district, by Claude C. Albritton, Jr_________ In...column__________________ Position of ore bodies within mine areas______________________ Yellow Pine and Prairie...Summary_________________________________________________ Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David...31 31 32 34 39 41 41 41 44 IV CONTENTS Potosi mine, by Arthur Richards, Arnold L. Brokaw, and David
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Wyoming(33) and the Gas Hills District,Wyoming (88). In the AmbrosiaLake District, New Mexico,the primaryore...INDIGENOUS ROCK OPENINGS ABOVE AN UNCONFORNiITY District or mine Capitol Reef, Utah Elk Ridge, Utah Shirley...centralNewfoundland. The principalore mineralsare sphalerite,galena,chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite,and native...SoutheasternMissouri Lead District.--The lead depositsof the SoutheasternMissouri Lead District are disseminatedreplacementsin...ABOVE AN UNCONFORMITY District or mine Ore Pb Southeastern Missouri Sullivan Mine, B.C. Pb, Zn Boundary
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Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 275 Geology...Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada By D. F. HEWETT GEOLOGICAL The geology SURVEY...Lucy Grey Range_______________________ Castle Mountains _______________________ Vontrigger Springs and..._____ Providence Mountains_ __________________ Clark Mountain and Ivanpah Mountain___ Southwest quarter...Crystal Springs formation _____ _ _ _ _ __ _ Beck Spring dolomite _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ Kingston Peak
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
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Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isùre, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo
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Geologist C. A. Logan, District Mining Engineer O. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Sacramento San Francisco Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer Los Angeles Los...Los Angeles District Engineer Chas. V. Averell, District Mining Engineer Frank Sanborn, Mineral John...Francisco San Francisco and Curator O'Brien, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco » v- f»|...Reports of District Mining Engineers 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco
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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 --
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OURAY, COLORADO 6 Howard Neal GOODIES AT GOODSPRINGS 8 Mary Frances Strong TARANTULA! 12 Timothy...three states. Bisbee and the fabled Copper Queen mine were responsible for its primary construction. Volume...Myrick's Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol. 7, and Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California...to form the Sunset Route. This gave impetus to mining and agriculture and in turn intensified the construction..." In the Ute language the word meant "hot water spring." Long before any white man set his eyes upon the
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Mineralogical Record, Inc., © 2020 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus...collection; Jordan Root photo. Back cover: Top row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque...Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann photo....cleavelandite, 4.3 cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd
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by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ....................WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling Autonomous Prefecture...with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection and photo...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription
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Goodspringsdistrict, Nevada ..................................... Upper MississippiValley district ..................................... Southern Appalachian district ..................................... Theoretical...and hemimorphite in the Southern Appalachian district, and the predominanceof smithsoniteover hydrozincite...and hemimorphite in the Upper Mississippi Valley district can be explained by the pH of the ground waters...Goodspringsmining district of Nevada, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc and lead district, and the Southern
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Bulletin 906-D GEOLOGY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT DISTRICT CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA BY EUGENE CALLAGHAN Contributions...___.-_-___-_______-_________. Outlook for the district...----____-__._-_-_-_-_______-_________. Mines...Fe__--_____-----___________-____-______-_._________ Southern Nevada (Spokane)________________________________ Searchlight...main part of the district._________ Mines and prospects in the eastern part of the district.__-_-.______...map of the main part of the Searchlight District, Clark County, Nev____._-_-_-_-._.___.-_-.__________
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Gold Deposits in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch District, Montana By DANIEL R. SHAWE and KENNETH L. WI...Gold deposits in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch District, Montana / by Daniel R. Shawe and Kenneth L. Wier... of Docs. no.: I 19.3:1857-G 1. Gold mines and mining—United States. 2. Placer deposits—United States...Chance district, MontanaG G9 Virginia City—Alder Gulch district, MontanaG G9 Boise Basin district, IdahoG...Gold deposits in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch district, Montana G14 AbstractG G14 IntroductionG G15 Geology
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by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ....................WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling Autonomous Prefecture...with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection and photo...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription
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Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been... 1986)..................................29 Hot-spring and epithermal deposits.......................................................29 High level hot-spring gold-silver deposits (model 25a of Cox and Singer
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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
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P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University...California, and published in the fourth and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning in 1914 with a volume...have been found mainly in the Sierra Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions...are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...'ID:[~ ‱ ,., 1 - - EXPLANATION I KLAMATH MOUNTAINS n CASCADE RANGE - - O e -o ,-- I I ~
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P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining the at College of California, parent to the...mineralogist of California, and pub- and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning volume prepared...platinum — have been found mainly in Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions...species are reported by 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible, locations of mines...within a township is illustrated by Figure 1-1. county of occurrence. Map *M. Fleischer’s 1980 Glossary
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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...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary
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COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful
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1 D E J ‱LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since...published as Bulletin 91 of the California State Mining Bureau. Many additional species were included,...commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic
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rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...stone hammers, and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...character of the area, which is in the Turquoise Mountains, T. 16 N., R. 10 and 11 E., S. B. "Sir. T. C....circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Slining Bureau reported at about the
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generalizationson criteria that can be applied from one district to another seem to be limited because the varia-...occurrenceis large. The obviousmethod of attack where a district has producedore is first to study the known ore...SOUTHWESTERN STATES. Hanover, New Mexico. The sphalerite ore bodiesat Hanover,New Mexico,occurin an environmentof...mainly and.radite, epidote,salite,2 magnetite,sphalerite,ilvaite and pyrrhotite. The ore is low in copper...equivalentmetoreor oxidized capping.3 are common. The Pewabic mine "ore lens" ore body of low grade ore with abundantpyrrhotite
 
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