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Quartz from
Merry Widow Mine, Galena, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merry Widow Mine, Galena, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:504634
Long-form Identifier:1:3:504634:8
GUID (UUID V4):2735a5d7-72b4-480d-a0c5-7d287ca363f1
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.0km (0.0 miles) Ten Strike Mine, Galena, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
0.0km (0.0 miles) Gill-Fisher Mine (Pilot Knob Mine), Galena, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
0.0km (0.0 miles) Royal Princess Mine (California Diggings; Sand Prairie Diggings), Galena, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) Waters Mine, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Blewett Mine (Buck Hill Mine; Blewitt's Buck Hill Mine), Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Buck Lead Mine (Buck Lead Range), Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Little Corporal Mine, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead Region; Illinois Sector, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Appleton Mine (Dinsdale Mine), Galena, Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Oldenburg Mine (Oldenberg), Galena Mining District, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey.   96*2: 405...at 19:53 09 October 2014 T he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary
Report (issue)
the most promising for the mining of uranium ore. In western San Juan County, on the eastern flanks of...Farther south in the Zuni Mountains of Valencia County joint coatings in pre-Cambrian granites show abnormal...deposits, and a uraniumand thorium-bearing pegmatite district. In central New Mexico only two deposits, one...Lorenzo district in Socorro County and the other in the Scholle district in Torrance County, had been...districts in Grant County and the Terry prospect in Sierra County. In the White Signal district autunite and
Report (issue)
URANIUM OCCURRENCES ON MERRY WIDOW CLAIM WHITE SIGNAL DISTRICT GRANT COUNTY, N.MEX. By Harry C. Granger...URANIUM OCCURRENCES ON THE MERRY WIDOW CLAIM WHITE SIGNAL DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY NEW MEXICO By Harry C. Granger... UKANIUM OCCURRENCES ON THE MERRY WIDOW CLAIM WHITE SIGNAL DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO CONTENTS Page............................ Pegmatite and barren quartz veins ............................ Diabase and............. Latite(?).......................... Quartz monzonite porphyry ......... Diorite(?).......
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the White Signal district and the Bullard Peak district. In the White Signal district secondary uranium...alteration of the diabase dikes. In the Bullard Peak district uranium occurs with nickel and cobalt arsenides...Old records from now inaccessiblemines of the district indicate that the percentage of nickel, cobalt...the Merry elsewhere(Gillerman, 1964). Late Cretaceousor Widow mine in the White Signal district (Fig...found at the Black Hawk mine in the Bullard Peak district (Leach, 1920). Mining of torbernite for its radium
Report (issue)
MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits of Western Grant County, New Mexico by Elliot...Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... DEVLIN, Office Manager DAVIDE. TABET, Geologist Jo DRAKE, Administrative Ass't. & Sec'y. JosEPH E. TAGGART... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico By D. C. Hedlund 1 Open-File Report...of the quartz-pyrite veins of the White Signal district............................... Quartz-molybdenite............... Quartz-specularite veins........................................... Quartz-pyrite veins...veins, including White Signal district............... Silver-lead-manganese oxide veins.....................prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico.......................... in pocket
Report (volume)
most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as...Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo, and from the Eldorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada. The Shinkolobwe deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite...Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve: quartz (chalcedony)...(chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold, hematite,
Journal (issue)
.................... A NEW ENGLANDER DISCOVERS GALENA. By Afiss Vera 98 Root S111ith ................FOUND IN TH E NEJHART AND HUGHESVILLE M IN ING DISTRICT S, MONTANA. By Kiril Spiroff ...................Contest. (Editor). Since my discovery of Galena, Illinois, I have had recurrent urges to return-to explore...and as it was in its colorful and glamorous past. Galena has proven of interest to geologists, mineralogists...that, at the present moment, my enthusiasm for Galena far exceeds my knowledge of it. It is the fun I
Journal (issue)
page 2) Fig. 1: Metatorbemite specimen from Grant County, NM in the collection of the New Mexico Bureau...old stone house foundation in Baltic, Houghton County, Michigan. The chunk was buried about 8 inches...Miniere du haul Katanga's Shinkolobwe .. radium .. mine. Other sources of radium soon developed on the Colorado...-The discovery of uranium ore in the White Signal District, Grant Co.. M, was made by A.A. Leach, a geo logist...Phelps Dodge Corporation at their Tyrone, NM copper mine, in 1918. Two uranium minerals were recognized.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoproterozoic to Mesozoic. These include the Iron Crown, Merry Widow, Paxton, Forsyth, Bristol, and Marmoration deposits...Mica, Romania Daye, China Chengchao, China Merry Widow, Canada Paxton, Canada Forsyth, Canada Abbreviations:...dissolution and re-precipitation, Ep = epidote, Gn = galena, Grt = garnet, Hem = hematite, Her = hercynite...= phlogopite, Po = pyhrotite, Py = pyrite, Qz = quartz, RC = recrystallization, Sph = sphanerite, Tnt...GR-94-107-2 (Iron Crown deposit), GR-94-115 (Merry Widow deposit), and GR-94-44 (Paxton deposit) exhibits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for endoskarnoid is described from the Yerington district skarn in granodioriteat Yerington,and to a lesser...SW Japan Victoria mine, Nevada DouglasHill and CastingCopper mines(Yerington district),Nevada Caporebasin...Tin-tungsten Alaska district, Sonora, Mexico Ruth deposit, Robinsonmining (Ely) district, Nevada Mines GaspS...(numbers refer to localities on Fig. 1) 1. Empire mine, B.C., Canada (Sangster, 1969;Haug, 1976) 2. Larap...Daiquiri, Cuba (Lindgren and Ross, 1916) 4. Strawberry mine, California (Nokleberg, 1981) 5. Sangdong, Korea(John
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ca,2MgsSisO2,2(OH) a Jo Mt Py Sch Sp Tr rangein composition from gabbroto quartz monzonite, Sangster(1969)...Whole-RockCompositionsof VolcanicRocksnear Iron SkarnDeposits Mine Lake Lake Iron Hill Iron Hill Iron Hill Iron...(Ad25-a7Gr6a_75Scho_o.6) and either a pyroxene (Hd•7_ssDia9_s•Jo•_6) or chloritefringe.Skarnformed in granodiorite...(Ad•a_9,r0_44Scho_o.s) to iron-rich pyroxene (Hds•_,Jo•_•)_ ilvaite to idocrase(with 1-2% CI) and iron-poor...(usuallyzero). Someof theiron-richpyroxene(Hd•aDi•Jo•) hasmore manganese-rich (Hds7Di2Jo•) exsolution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...the famous Palermo and Ruggles mines in Grafton County, New Hampshire; dendritic uraninite intergrowths...Bedford, WestChester County, and from a locality at Richville Station, St. Lawrence County, New York. Uraninite...from Avondale, Chester County; from Upland and near Vera Cruz, Lehigh County; and from a site near Fairmount
Report (issue)
Geology of the Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District By ALLEN V. HEYL, Jr., ALLEN F. AGNEW, ERWIN J...Histoyy Survey, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the Illinois State Geological Survey UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Cultural development and facilities related to mining Field work and acknowledgments Scope of the report...report Previous geologic work in the district Geology Stratigraphy Precambrian rocks Cambrian system Upper...sandstone Platteville formation Decorah formation Galena dolomite Upper Ordovician series Maquoketa shale
Report (issue)
map, Stinking Spring Creek-13 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-397, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. -~=--...map, Stinking Spring Creek-14 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah: TEM-394, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, D, GJ. Becraft...Comet area, Jefferson City quadrangle, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEI-282, Oct. 8, 1952. SL, W, B. Cathcart...quadrangle, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, Utah: TEM-414, Oct. 27, 1952. D, GJ, SL. _ _ _..._Photogeologic map, Agathla Peak-2 quadrangle, Navajo County, Ariz.: Jan. 9, 1953. D, GJ, T. -=-..,..,,....
Report (issue)
LODE DEPOSITS OF EUEEKA AND VICINITY KANTISMA DISTRICT, ALASKA BY FRANCIS G. WELLS Investigations in...schist__-__..__..______..-_._____-____.._-_._______. Quartz-muscovite schist____-___...__.-__-_._..______-__-_...______________________________________________ Quartz porphyry._________________________________________...___________-______-__.__-...._-_..____..__ History of mining.____________________________________________ Character...______---___--___----_---_---------Gold quartz veins._____--___----__--_--_-______----_-_ Galena-sphalerite veins.____
Report (issue)
Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details...org/details/leadzincdeposits21coxg STATE OF ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FRANK W. DeWOLF, Director BULLETIN...Northwestern Illinois BY G. H. State COX Geological Survey University of Illinois Urbana 1914...1914 Springfield, III. Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers 19 14 STATE GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...H. Kay, Assistant State U. S. Illinois the University of Illinois Geologist Grant, Consulting Geologist
Report (volume)
of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954...Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ....N., The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nevada: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office of...Ridge, and West End claims near Clancy, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEM-31, Oct. 19, 1951. D, SL, T. (332,...and structure of the Miners Mountain area, Wayne County, Utah: Aug. 17, 1953. SL. McKelvey, V. E., Preliminary
Report (volume)
complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...In recent years, a significant proportion of the mining industry's interest has been centered on discovery...pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, galena, bismuth minerals, and magnetite or hematite are...(diopside-hedenbergite), wollastonite, chlorite, epidote, quartz, actinolite-tremolite, and (or) calcite. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION Gold exploration efforts of the mining industry in the last few years have centered on discovery
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microdine was seenin diorite adjacentto the Merry Widow and Nimpkish deposits. Someankeriteoccursin limestoneabout200...gabbro-diorite of the CoastCopperstockwest of the Merry Widow deposit. Thin-sections show magnetitereplacingpyroxene...placesexceedsit in volume. In the northeastpart of the Merry Widow pit magnetite,pyrrhotite, andgarnetoccurredas... Lund observed(19): "There are instances in the mine wheremag- netiteoccursas smallfragmentssurrounded...otherpartsit encloses fragmentsof skarn." In the Merry Widow pit it would seemthat someof the magnetiteis
Report (issue)
the Boulder batholith __________________ _ Butte quartz monzonite _____________________ _ Rock type cl...batholithic volcanic rocks ___________________ _ Quartz latite _____________________________ -Distribution...Chalcedony vein zones _________________________ _ Quartz latite dikes _____________________________ _ Non...___________________________________ _ History of mining in the region __________________ _ Production-...ns _________________________________________ _ Quartz veins ______________________________ _ Structure
Journal (issue)
....................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .................................. 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...........................Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico ..................................
Book (edition)
to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay
Report (issue)
1987 INTRODUCTION A significant proportion of mining industry's interest in the last few years has been...Bi-bearing skarns (Stormant) are known in the Moina Mining District, Tasmania, Australia, which is largely known...Gold Company; and Edward I. Bloomstein of Santa Fe Mining. GEOLOGIC DESCRIPTION Deposit type: Other Names:...chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, galena, bismuth minerals (especially bismuthinite and...minerals. In some deposits, Ag occurs in Bi-bearing galena. In addition, many other minerals have been reported
 
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