| Brown, Bruce A., Hunt, Thomas C., Johnson, David M., Reid, Daniel D. (2009) The Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district revisited [electronic resource] : mining history, geology, reclamation, and environmental issues thirty years after the last mine closed. Guidebook Series 38. Illinois State Geological Survey | Report (issue) | SSI no. 38 The Upper Mississippi Valley Lead-Zinc District Revisited: Mining History, Geology, Reclamation...Environmental Issues Thirty Years after the Last Mine Closed Guidebook for the 2009 Meeting of the...2009 Bruce A. Brown Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison, Wisconsin Thomas C. Hunt...Hunt University of Wisconsin-Platteville David M. Johnson Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Daniel...Daniel D. Reid Wisconsin Department of Transportation ILUtiOiS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UBRARY Guidebook | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | THE WISCONSIN LEAD-ZINC PRELIMINARY DISTRICT. PAPER. CHAS. H. BEHRE, JR., F•. R. SCOTT, AND A....period, using methodsnot hitherto applied to the district. The results have shown that the ores are richer...preparedfor an even more restrictedview, for here the district has been largely abandoned. Although up to the...the year x9o5 the value of zinc producedin Wisconsin,Iowa, and northern Illinois totalled$xo,ooo,oooand...metallic lead. • Despitethis declinefor the district as a whole, the Vinegar Hill Zinc Companyin Wisconsinhas | | | Report (issue) | The Geology of the Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District By ALLEN V. HEYL, Jr., ALLEN F. AGNEW...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 309 Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural Histoyy Survey, the Iowa...Cultural development and facilities related to mining Field work and acknowledgments Scope of the report...geologic work in the district Geology Stratigraphy Precambrian rocks Cambrian system Upper Cambrian series...Platteville formation Decorah formation Galena dolomite Upper Ordovician series Maquoketa shale Silurian system | | | Book | WISCONSIN UNDERGROUND . a ee, Se 15 es ;= cs : A TRAILS BOOKS GUIDE WISCONSIN UNDERGROUND...MINES, AND TUNNELS IN AND AROUND THE BADGER STATE DORIS GREEN LIBRARY MONTICELL AEPUoe 512&. LAKE...53570 e TRAILS BOOKS Black Earth, Wisconsin ©2000 Doris Green All rights reserved. No part of this...Cover Designer: Kathie Campbell Cover Photo: Doris Green Printed in the United States of America. 06 05...LIBRARY 512 B. LAKE AVE. MONTICELLO, WI 53570 Mine @ @ Tunnel Miscellaneous site Acknowledgments | | | Report (volume) | Quadrangles, Wisconsin and Illinois o GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ao Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological...Quadrangles, Wisconsin and Illinois *,By *THOMAS E. MULLENS GEOLOGY OF PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...VALLEY ZINC-LEAD DISTRICT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1123-H v, 7 Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin...Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...Noncherty unit__._-__-___---__-__---_---__----__ Upper Ordovician Series----------------------....- ------Maquoketa | | | Report (volume) | Geology of the Montfort and Linden Quadrangles Wisconsin QQ ^ o w QQ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ... Prepared in cooperation with the o/ Wisconsin Geological Natural History Survey i o a O w t 1123-B...Quadrangles Wisconsin By JOHN E. CARLSON GEOLOGY OF PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ZINC-LEAD DISTRICT...DISTRICT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1123-B 4* Prepared in cooperation with the State of Wisconsin...system_________l____-_____._______._________________ Upper Cambrian series-..-------.-----.-------------------Ordovician | | | Journal (issue) | of the Digital Collections. Pikes Peak Library District. Among other accomplishments and activities,...Museum revealed galena from the Mendota mine in Clear Creek County, Colorado, and pyrite from Russell Gulch...Gulch near Central City in Gilpin County, both long-dormant localites. He seldom personally collected...of the Digital Collections, Pikes Peak Library District. (Continued on page 3) April 2022 Page April...circle of amateur mineralogists in the Philadelphia area included George Fiss, Frank Keeley, Alan Holden | | | Book | ROCKHOUNDING Wisconsin A Guide to the State’s Best Sites ROBERT BEARD To the memory of my grandmother...rockhound that I ever knew, and she loved northern Wisconsin and geology. She would have been thrilled to...Beard, Robert D., author. Title: Rockhounding Wisconsin : a guide to the state’s best sites / Robert Beard...and preservation—Wisconsin—Guidebooks. | Minerals—Collection and preservation—Wisconsin—Guidebooks. Classification:...��������������������������������4 Geology of Wisconsin��������������������������������������������� | | | Report (volume) | DEPOSITS Gi.OLOGI C4( SC, • OF THE 119629 UPPER MISSISSIPPI V ALL IgRA RY 13Y 1 I.� I� I A1.1\1-�...1 9 1) CONTENTS. Introduction � Location and area Historical sketch Bibliography Production_� Past...production� Lead Zinc � Present production Recent mining act ivitScope of this report � Topography. Relief...Limonite 51 � Melanterite 51 Gangue minerals� 51 � Calcite 51 � Dolomite 51 � Selenite 52 � Barite 52 � Quartz...General relations 72 � Mines in Iowa 72 � Dubuque district 72 History� � Geographic limits 73 � 73 Geologic | | | Journal (issue) | on pyrite Brushy Creek Mine, Oates, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri Source: The Minerals...Newsletter Galena, Petrovitsa deposit, Borieva Mine, Madan orefield, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast...galena deposits are in the Mississippi Valley, known as Mississippi Valley Type (or MVT) deposits. They...the Tri-State District of Kansas, Illinois, and Missouri; the Viburnum Trend District of Missouri; and...and other mining areas north to Wisconsin. The MVT features lead–zinc +/–copper (primarily as galena– | | | Report (issue) | ............................40 Examples from Wisconsin ..........................................................................................41 Wisconsin.............................................................................................49 Mining, Processing, and Transportation .........................................................50 Badger Mining ........................................................................................53 Wisconsin Industrial Sand ............................. | | | 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...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...rocks and gentle terrain where crystals of barite, calcite, and gypsum are found along with petrified wood...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Figure 1. Twinned calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen...sedimentary rocks from the Middle Ordovician through Upper Pennsylvanian periods, with minor Permian-age deposits...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MADAGASCAR SEBASTIAN RODRIGUES A N S O R E N A MINE & C O - SPAIN E & R CRYSTALS MAPLE HILL ANTERO...PALEONTOLOGICAL LABS C R Y S T A L S P R I N G S MINING & J E W E L R Y J & S FOSSILS POTOMAC MUSEUM...R E S C U R E T O N MINERAL CO J E F F R E Y MINING C O RICHARD HECK MINERALS WTL MINERAL DJ JENDON...EVERGREEN. COLORADO 80439 DAKOTA FOSSILS Williamson County Gem & Mineral Society. Community Center, San Gabriel...February 23, 24—Jackson, Mississippi. 32d Annual Show sponsored by the Mississippi Gem & Mineral Society | | | Report (volume) | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Emmons, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Mississippi.......Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson. Missouri......West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming | | | Report (volume) | ______________ Valley of Birch Creek__________________________________________ Valley of Little Lost...limestone and older rocks_---------------------Upper Paleozoic rocks__________________________________________..._________________________________ Great Western mine _____________________________________ ""'--___ Wilbert...Mountain mine________________________________________ Badger Creek mine____________________________________________...Contorted rocks along the northwestern slope of the valley of South Creek ______ ---------- __________ ------- | | | Report (volume) | Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Area South of Telluride Colorado GEOLOGICAL SU R VEY BULLETIN ...Colorado Metal Mining Fund Board 1112-G Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Area South of Telluride...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund Board UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...______________________________________________ Wisconsin glaciation_______________________________________...16. Geology of the area south of Telluride. 17. Generalized map of faults in the area south of Telluride | | | Report (volume) | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................... Mississippi............................................................................................ Wisconsin.................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Hughes Dr., Spokane, WA sponsored by the Catawba Valley Gem and Mineral Mar. 2, 3—Twin Falls, Idaho. 40th...509/466-7835. Club. County Adventures Convention Center, 20th sponsored by the Magic Valley Gem Club. National.... 2200 N, Twin Falls, ID 83301. Society. Wayne County Fairgrounds, North Salisbury Mar. 15-17—Ogden,...317/855-3683. Union Station, 25th & Wall Ave. Info.—Arland County Fairgrounds, 3531 S. 6th. Info.—Bob Wil Stark...sponsored by the Southwest Gem & Mineral of Lower Bucks County. Northminster Presbyterian sponsored by the Augusta | | | Book | ae i A Visitor Guide Pa BPD 4 ei Ey 4 [ MINING AND MINERAL OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL STATES...cataloged as follows: United States. Bureau of Mines. Mining and mineral operations in the North-Central States:...Esther A. Middlewood @ 43 .61 apres, .105 Wisconsin, by Wesley A. Grosh ...113 INTRODUCTION Minerals...and nonmetallics. Stable and economic domestic mining, mineral, metal, and mineral reclamation industries...enjoy your experiences. This pamphlet, a guide to mining and mineral operations that may be observed or | | | Journal (issue) | 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 | | | Journal (issue) | fairly common mineral that is often found in the upper, weathered portions, of base metal sulfide deposits...at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...the Sevier Orogeny from about 140 Ma to 60 Ma, (upper Jurassic of the Mesozoic Era to the Paleocene of...top of each other figure 4). Figure 1: A general area map that locates Silver Reef in SW Utah. US I-15...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial | | | Book (volume) | conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd...United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: area barite pitsBarite | | | Book (edition) | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to | | | Book (volume) | although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces...colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, |
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