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Calcite from
Western Star Mine, Whig Patch diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant 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 Western Star Mine, Whig Patch diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:506807
Long-form Identifier:1:3:506807:4
GUID (UUID V4):4238c304-6223-4acb-9412-bd40e292fa0a
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Edgerton Mine, Whig Patch diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Whig Mine, Whig Patch diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Capitola Mine (Phillips and Rice), Whig Patch diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Graham and Stephens Mine, Whig Patch diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Tippecanoe Mine, Whig Patch diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) West Hill Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) St. Rose Mine (New Rose), Blockhouse Range, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Klar-Piquette Mine, Blockhouse Range, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) West Empire Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Hodge Mine, Platteville area, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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
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_.......................... . Situation of the district. ....... ____ . __ .. __________ ................ _. ___ ....... _..... _... _..... __ .. The district. __ ... ____ .... __ ... ___ ... ___ .. ____ .... _. __ ..... __ . _.. __ ...... . History o.f mining .. ___ .. ______ .... _. ________________ . __..._____ ........ : ... ------ ..... _____ ........ .. Upper Cretaceous shale ............. __ ....... _.. '...____ .... _____ .. CHAPTER IV.-Structnre of the district. ................... _............. _....... __
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest of his has, and
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Geology and Ore Deposits of the Boulder County Tungsten District Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Geology and Ore Deposits of the Boulder County Tungsten District Colorado By T. S. LOVERING and OGDEN TWETO...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...__________________________ Principal rocks of the district.________________________ Pre-Cambrian rocks__...22 22 22 23 24 Pag-e Principal rocks of the district— Continued Early Tertiary igneous rocks— Continued
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91
Report (issue)
Professor Edwin H . Oshier, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, made the photographs included in this...7 Bibliography . . . . . 229 Appendix: 252 Mine Index iii NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS CHEMICAL... ( 1 Cl Face or Form (012, wardite) (2134, calcite) (102, ferberite) (201, augelite) (1011, apatite)...rutilel (013, wulfenite) (0112, calcite) (111 sulfur) (1011, calcite) (120, triphylite) (210, ferberite)...Ferberite Ferrimolybdite Wolframite Scheelite Calcite Magnesite Siderite (Sideroplesite) Rhodochrosite
Report (issue)
uranium-vanadium and copper deposits of the Lisbon Valley area, Utah-Colorado By Gordon W. Weir and Willard...Paradox member....................................7 Upper member...................................... 9 Exposed.............................9 Hermosa Formation, upper member........................9 Distribution and...Hermosa Formation in the northern part of the Moab district................................22 Regional stratigraphic...Age and stratigraphic relations.............39 Upper Triassic series................................
Report (issue)
standards and nomenclature. • CONTENTS Page Page County and site name Kelly Camp Kettle Key East Knob...Pine Lone Star and Washington Longstreet Messenger Meteor Minnehaha Morning Glor Morning Star Mount Tolman...Talisman Threemile placer Tom Thumb Trade Dollar Valley Whitestone placer Wilmont Bar placer ZallaM ....placer Sunset Creek placer Victor FERRY Republic district Addison Alva Stout placer Belcher Ben Hur Black...Tail Blue Horse Boston & New York California Dan Patch El Caliph Flag Hill Golden Cord Golden Harvest Gray
Report (Issue volume)
responsible. Later, it was materially added to by Grant M. Valentine, also a former member of the Divisional...these card catalogues would be as useful to the mining industry as they have proved to be to the Division...the "Inventory." The first printing was i~ 1949, Grant M. Valentine being in charge of the compilation...and expense involved are justified and that the mining industry will find that having this material readily...accumulating steadily since 1853, when the first mine (a coal property) was developed. Actually it antedates
Journal (volume)
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
Report (volume)
mercury, etcetera. The Corporation is prepared to grant licenses to all who wish to use its processes, and...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...Turbines Timber Treating and Preserving Machinery WISCONSIN. U.S.A. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 Meeting...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first
Report (issue)
l-A. Sierra Blanca limestone in Santa Barbara County, CaliW. Walker. 1950. 5 pp., 1 pi. Price 25*. ...Price 25tf. Commercial "black granite" of San Diego County, California, by Richard A. Hoppin and L. A. Norman...of the San Dieguito pyrophyllite area, San Diego County, California, by Richard H. Jahns and John F. Lance...Price 25*. Geology of Bitterwater Creek area, Kern County, California, by Henry H. Heikkila and George M...lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California, by Richard H. Jahns and
Report (issue)
Geology of the Coeur dl\lene District Shoshone County Idaho GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER ...I ' . Geology of the Coeur di\lene District Shoshone County Idaho By S. WARREN HOBBS, ALLAN B. GRIGGS...world's largest lead-, zinc-, and silverproducing mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...Subdivisipn of the Belt Series in the Coeur d'Alene district _____________________________________ _ Correlation...the Belt Series in and around the Coeur d'Alene district ________________________ _ Problems in mapping
Report (issue)
PRIMITIVE AREA AND GILA WILDERNESS, CATRON AND GRANT COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO By James c. Ratte, Gordon P...Wilderness looking northeast from Leopold Vista, Catron County, N.Mex. (1) Nabours Mountain, (2) Wilcox Peak,...Gila Primitive Area and Wilderness, Catron and Grant Counties, New Mexico Please place the enclosed...Gila Primitive Area and Wilderness, Catron and Grant Counties, New Mexico. R£C'EtY£D US(;S W~O DEC...Gila Primitive Area and \~ilderness, Catron and Grant Counties, New Mexico will be available soon at
Report (issue)
_ Cambrian system___________________ ________ Western facies ________________________ __ Noonday dolomite..._____ Age and Correlation_____________________ Upper Cambrian to Devonian rocks _________ __ Goodsprings...sandstone _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ Upper Jurassic(?) system, extrusive rocks_ _____ Post-Cambrian...________ Mineralogy of the contact zone at the Dewey mine by Jewell J. Glass ________________ Description...84 84 Valley Ridge ______·_________________ Table Mountain __ _______ ___________ 85 Sultan Mine area
Report (issue)
metaconglomerate_ _______________________________ Calcite-tremolite gneiss__________________ Quartz-mica-garnet... folds and domes. _______________---------_ Western Star syncline. ______________________ Atlantic Hill...sedimentary rocks, including the Deadwood Formation (Upper Cambrian), Englewood Formation (Devonian and Lower...schist, quartzite, metaconglomerate, schist, and calcite-tremolite gneiss, are newly named formations. The...Gravel secondary roads are common, and lumbering and mining trails cross areas between the secondary roads
Report (issue)
_ _ ___-__-__ Limestone member. _____________ Upper shale member- __1__^______ Age_ __-_-_-----_--_--_----_--Maxfield...________________ Middle member. ________________ Upper member _________________ Age__ ----------------...Tom Moore fault-______--_---__-_-65 Vallejo (South Star or Burgess?) fault.__.__-__________---__--_--66...in and near Peruvian Gulch______ 67 Faults near upper part of American Fork__ 68 West of Silver Fork...69 69 69 69 69 70 70 70 70 70 70 71 History of mining, by V. C. Heikes.__________________ The first prospectors
Report (volume)
Geological Society of CIM as VOLUME 46 by the OF MINING, METALLURGY SPECIAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE NORTHWEST...PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT © 1995 BY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM Suite 1210, 3400 de Maisonneuve...and 1970s were decades of mineral exploration and mine development unprecedented in the northwestern Cordillera...the world. The modern era of copper-molybdenum mining in British Columbia dawned in 1954 when Bethlehem...incorporated to explore and develop claims in the Highland Valley. Aggressive exploration for porphyry deposits continued
Journal (volume)
Third Floor, Ferry Building, San Francisco 11 District Offices State Building, 217 West First Street...offices in San Francisco a scientific journals mining, mineralogy, chemistry, metallurgy, and related...petroleum and mining industries, and newspapers from the mining centers of the State mine models, etc...California minerals and a conference room with a mining engineer in attendance to serve the public and...are also sold at the Los Angeles and Sacramento district exhibits of minerals, rocks, ; ; offices.
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almost any . coast . where in the feed and fuel district . One remedy seems close at hand the vast coal...Santa Fe about 1,800,000,000 tons . At ton for mining it and it is retailed in the rate the coal is being...producers to a helpful dissertation on coal lands mine coal extensively where a market which locators and...widespread popular impres some or 6 Jos Angeles Mining Review ex also , yet under the circumstances ,...corporations worked , or it may be found that the district , the principal obstacle to the engaged in British
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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
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Geologist. MINERAL RESOURCES No. 14. THE TIN-MINING INDUSTRY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF TIiN ORES ...Geologist. MINERAL RESOURCES '^ No. 14. THE TIN-MINING INDUSTRY AND THK DISTRIBUTION OF TIN ORES IN ... have the honor to submit I for publication mining Industry and the Distribution of Tin Mr. J. E... price of the metal. At the activity in tin-mining on account of the high Mr. Game's work, which...Tingha 59 [c) Wilson's Downfall (a) VIII. Tin-mining in (a) New 83 South Wales 92 Emmaville 122
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miners is ansome of the large mines of Utah. The mine-owners of Bingham say that on account of the low...the to take place in The North Star Mining Company, of Grass Valley, has recently declared and paid...seventh dividend was declared a year ago. The North Star is reported clared gregate of $400,000. 7, :...expected to have the machinery in place The Champion Mining Company, Nevada and everything in readiness for...warden. The actual work of constructhe old Merrifield mine, that property being tion of the power house and
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was discovered in the region in Powell County in 1852. Mining began in the 1860's, and since then the...of St. Marys-Helena Valley fault Big Belt Mountains South of St. Marys-Helena Valley fault Great Falls...References cited F. Mineral resource geology of mining districts/areas Lincoln Region by R.G. Tysdal,...G. Tysdal, E.A. du Bray, and J.W. Whipple York district Geologic setting Mineral deposits Sediment-hosted...Exhalative, Au iii Vein, Au-bearing Confederate Gulch district and Southern Big Belt area Geologic setting Mineral
 
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