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Calcite from
Kearns Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kearns Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:505961
Long-form Identifier:1:3:505961:4
GUID (UUID V4):18a984f9-3420-4f05-9e12-3dcbc9dca3a6
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Quinlan diggings (Lea and Swifts Bone diggings), Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Farrey mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Martin Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) McCann Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Century Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Frontier Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Calvert Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Milner Mine (Oregon Mine), Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Hird No. 1 Mine, Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) McCabe Mine (Northwestern Mine; Southeast McCabe), Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc...number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that state’s leading...sphalerite after galena, tetrahedrite, barite, and calcite have been found; hemimorphite and smithsonite pseudomorphs...that include skarns, limestone replacements, Mississippi Valleytype, volcanogenic massive sulfides, hydrothermal...commercial zinc mines of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and Figure 1. A fine example
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
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Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na­ tional Museum of Canada...figure 2 (leftI: Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical...page): Galena, St. Joseph Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison...MINERAL AT THE 1989 TUCSON SHOW GALENA from Mississippi Valley-Type Deposits RAYMOND L A S M A M S Department..., an ore mineral of lead, is composed of Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits. So prolific are these
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs January/February: Galena, Tri-State district, Kansas. Smithsonian Institution specimen; Chip...photo. March/April: Quartz, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. John C. Medici specimen and photo. May/June:...May/June: Turgite, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Ronald E. Bentley specimen and photo. July/August:...July/August: Quartz, H. deLinde No. 4 mine, High Peak, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Private collection; Ronald...Bentley photo. September/October: Barite, Otero County, Colorado. Dan and Dianne Kile specimen; John Muntyan
Journal (issue)
(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Johnson, as told to Bill Tumler  Footnote: A Few Wisconsin specimens Bibliography  Index Flawless Beauty...Tucson Show, held in a quonset hut at the old Pima County Fair and Rodeo Grounds. I’ve known all of the great
Journal (issue)
Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD:...from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite from...from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway; Powellite...Republic; Duftite in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite...San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia.
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...crystal, 10.5 cm, with quartz, from the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan, China. Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo...pegmatite, recently discovered during underground mining operations at a loparite deposit in the Lovozero...well before the moisture and dust of an operating mine had had time to exert their destructive influences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi River and on the east by high ridges of the Appalachian...geologically diverse. Traveling east from the Mississippi River the collector encounters relatively undeformed...undeformed Cenozoic sediments of the Mississippi Embayment and Gulf Coastal Plain in the western part of...Paleozoic sediments and rare igneous rocks of the Valley and Ridge, which change crossing the Great Smoky...com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff
Journal (issue)
Japan/ Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155 / info@kristalle.com The ...Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............651 by C. J. Stefano & J....from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio. Daniel Trinchillo (Fine Minerals International)...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription... Company, another shipping firm serving major American mining and chemical companies. The company ceased operations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dravo quarry, Shelby ‘County, Alabama. Dan Behnke photo. MayIJune: Stibnite with calcite and barite, Kadamdzhai...Medal (gold) and gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum...beryl, Violet claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Private collection, Jeffrey Scovil photo...Virginia, 165 Barium-pharmacosiderite, Utah, 41 1 Benton, R., Fossil Butte National Monument, Kemmerer,...Aggregates from Guernsey Limestone Quarry, Washington County, Ohio, 251-59 Bornite, Colorado, 329; New Mexico
Show/Event (guide)
regional mineralogy, Minerals of the English Lake District: Caldbeck Fells, coauthored with Chris Stanley...spectrometer for mineral analysis by J. L. Yakob & L. E. Kearns. 1:30 M i n e r a l s from New York State in the...Rossmanite and associated minerals from Newcomb, Essex County, NY by M. Lupulescu & J. Rakovan T h e minerals...Road Wollastonite Deposit, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York by M. R. Walter, S. C. Chamberlain, R...Road Wollastonite Deposit, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New Y o r k by S. C. Chamberlain, M. R. Walter
Journal (issue)
in Huancavelica, Peru. The famous Minas Gerais district of Brazil has been the source of lovely gemmy...has provided siderite crystals, too. The Aggeneys Mine in Cape Province, South Africa, has produced unusual...hand-sized hollow siderite pseudomorphs after calcite crystals. China, being large and rich in minerals...there. In the United States, the Eagle Mine in Gilman County, CO, is probably the source of the best...and limonite. Other, similar minerals include calcite and dolomite. But with its iron content, siderite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Erica and Harold Van Pelt photo. March/April: Calcite, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Terry E. Huizing...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...EricaVan Pelt photo. July/August: Amethyst and calcite, Artigas, Uruguay. Rock Currier specimen, Jeff...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cover Photographs Kearns, 115 JanuaryIFebruary: Pyromorphite, Les Barlow, A., 98 Farges mine, Correze Province...John Barlow specimen, Harold and Erica Van Pelt 0 Benton, L., see Eighteenth Rochester Mineralogical Symposium...July/August: Silver, Mollie Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl...Smithsonite, Kelly Russell, 396-99 mine, Magdalena district, Socorro County, New Mexico; Ron Gibbs specimen...Bismuth, South Dakota, 383 tite, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah; Bolt, E., see Spotlight on Juniors Martin
Show/Event (guide)
enquiry into site-specific deposition of minerals on calcite. R. Morgan. 2:00 R o m a n i a : Its mineral richness...during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...from the Allah Cooper/Valcooper mine, Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 B l u e wavellite
Journal (volume)
THESALT LAKE 689388 W G E N I I V N E I R M ... MINING REVIEW Table of Contents , Page 24 Index To Advertisers...SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH Il f 2 THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW , APRIL 15, 1915. Products of the Experience...attention than to OTHERBRANCH the Engineering and Mining Trade.BUSINESS Carrying a dowe full line give in...engineering practice . Write forour new Catalog L. MINE & SMELTER SUPPLY CO., Agents REVERE RUBBER CO....KANSAS CITY. MO . Glant Belting THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW , APRIL 15, 1915. 3 Built for underground
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1 2 University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Newark, DE, USA Received August 18, 2002; revised version...Minerals associated with wollastonite include calcite, grossular-andradite, diopsidic pyroxene, alkali...conditions show that wollastonite formed from calcite and quartz at the peak of the Grenville Orogeny...three miles north of Sterling Hill, but the Franklin mine closed in 1954, and the relationship of the wollasonite-bearing...wollastonite at Sterling Hill. The Sterling Hill mine closed in 1986 and is now flooded; only the adit
Journal (issue)
com Calcite comes in diverse crystal shapes. One interesting variety is the barrel-shaped calcite. In...In Keokuk, Iowa area geodes the barrel calcite does not seem to be a dominate crystal shape. One seems...(last interglacial soil) is stronglydevelopedin the upper few feet of Fort RussellMembertill, sand and silts...Happen Here! A Visit to the Shin-Otani Manganese Mine, Japan Alfredo Petrov alfredopetrov@earthlink.net...small of a hole in the ground merits being called.a mine. None of these mines is in operation anymore, but
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COMPLEX, WAUSAU SYENITE COMPLEX, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and W. B...B. Simmons2. 11140 12th St. N., Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494; 2Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, PO Box 500...from the old Summit prospect, a failed attempt to mine U from a Th-rich pegmatite (DCPS). However, much...Kola Peninsula, Russia, and Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi (Mindat, accessed 12/2015). In the Stettin...1907. The geology of north-central Wisconsin. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Journal (issue)
that at least some yellow zincite from the Sterling Mine fluoresces yellow-green under shortwave ultraviolet...zincite adds color to the black franklinite, white calcite, and beige-to-brown willemite. Dark red massive...Julia Nord (GMU) Austin Matthews ..... by Lance Kearns (JMU) We will also consider the following nominations...Fleischer ........ by Lance Kearns (JMU) Grant Colup ............. by Lance Kearns (JMU) Sources 2016 Club...The mineral zincite. N.a. 2012. The Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Ogdensburg, NJ. Wikipedia. 2016. Zincite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, 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
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...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
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...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
study:white(early)calcite-sphalerite-galena-fiuorite-white to lavender(main stage)calcite-barite-clear to...samplesfor this studywere collectedfrom the Gordonsville mine. Most of the sampleswere obtainedfrom stopeswhich...this studyshouldbe applicable menced at the Elmwood mine in 1975 and at the to the nearbyElmwood depositwhich...many Missis- Geologic Setting Structure sippi Valley-typezincdeaddepositsand contains The Gordonsvilledepositis...locatedin the northmanyphases(spha]erite,fluorite,calcite,andbar- eastern corner of the Central basin section
 
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