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Quartz from
Miners Delight Mine, Miners Delight, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, 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 Miners Delight Mine, Miners Delight, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:507277
Long-form Identifier:1:3:507277:4
GUID (UUID V4):6a03df48-a6ed-4ec6-bfae-d38157cb65ec
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
3.7km (2.3 miles) Midas Mine, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Atlantic City Mine, Atlantic City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
4.9km (3.0 miles) Diana mine, Miners Delight, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Snowbird Mine, Atlantic City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Ground Hog Mine, Atlantic City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Mary Ellen mine, Atlantic City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
7.3km (4.6 miles) Duncan Mine, South Pass City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Empire State Mine (B and H Mine), South Pass City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
10.6km (6.6 miles) Carrie Shields Mine, South Pass City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
10.7km (6.7 miles) Carissa Mine (Carissa Lode), South Pass City, South Pass-Atlantic City Mining District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Geology of the South Pass Area, Fremont County, Wyoming By RICHARD W. BAYLEY, PAUL DEAN PROCTOR,· and...stratigraphy) structure) and metamorphism of the South Pass area) and the iron and gold deposits UNITED...----------------Roundtop Mountain Greenstone ---------------Miners Delight Formation -------------------Metagraywackes...Gold -------- --·-- ---------------------------Quartz veins ---------------------------..:. Mineralogy...ld veins -----------------------Future of gold mining ------------------Iron -----------------------
Report (issue)
Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1757-D...Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming By WARREN C. DAY, RANDALL H. HILL, and...Bureau of Mines W. DAN HAUSEL Geological Survey of Wyoming U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1757 MINERAL RESOURCES...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS-SOUTHERN WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL,...Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming. (Mineral resources of wilderness study areas Southern Wyoming ; ch. D)
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 626 THE ATLANTIC GOLI) DISTRICT AND THE NORTH LARAMIE MOUNTAINS PAPERS............................. The Atlantic gold district, Fremont County, Wyo...................................................... Geology of the Atlantic district......................................... Rocks......................... Schists of the central Atlantic belt............................. Structure of...Magnetite schists in the northern part of the district.............. 16 Distribution and general character
Report (issue)
Mineralization, Southern Wyoming Province Hartville Uplift to Copper Mountain Area, Wyoming July t 9-25, t 989...Ridge, Bull Camp Peak 1 1/2-minute quadrangle, Wyoming. Leaders: George L. Snyder U.S. Geological Survey...Hausel Deputy Directory Theological Survey of Wyoming Box 3008, University Station Laramie, WY 82071...The University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Paul J. Graff Research Associates of Wyoming 2220 East 17th...PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS AND MINERALIZATION, SOUTHERN WYOMING PROVINCE by George L. Snyder 1, W. Dan Hausel2
Report (issue)
STATE OF WYOMING GEOLOGIST'S OFFICE Bulletin Number 7 Series B ATLANTIC CITY GOLD MINING DISTRICT Frelllont...Frelllont County BY L. W. TRUMBULL. STATE GEOLOGIST CHEYENNE, WYO. THE S. A. BRISTOL co., PRINTERS '9...The Lander Oil Fields, Fremont County. 1912. The Douglas Oil Field, Converse County. 1912. Muddy Creek Oil...Oil Field, Carbon County. 1912. Prospective Oil Fields at Upton, Lusk, Rattlesnake and LaBarge. 1913...1913. Minerals and Mining Laws of Wyoming. 1913. The Atlantic City Gold Mining District. 1914. Salt Creek
Report (issue)
WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Ronald C. Surdam, State Geologist GUIDE TO PROSPECTING AND ROCK HUNTING...HUNTING IN WYOMING by W. Dan Hausel Information Pamphlet 11 LARAMIE, WYOMING 2004 WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL...Freudenthal, Governor Randi S. Martinsen, University of Wyoming Don J. Likwartz, Oil and Gas Supervisor Ronald...Assistant This and other publications available from: Wyoming State Geological Survey P.O. Box 1347 Laramie,...use this publication should contact the Editor, Wyoming State Geological Survey at (307) 766-2286. TTY
Report (issue)
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING Gary B. Glass, Executive Director and State Geologist ADVISORY BOARD...Governor Terry P. Roark,President, University of Wyoming Donald B. Basko, Oil and Gas Supervisor Appointed...Cheyenne, Wyoming. This and other publications available from: The Geological Survey of Wyoming P.O. Box...University Station LaIanlle, Wyoming 82071 (307) 766·2286 Front Cover - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the...recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button
Report (issue)
OF WYOMING GEOLOGIST'S OFFICE BULLETIN NUMBER 20 Atlantic City, South Pass Gold Mining, District THE...THE CARISSA MINE ALBERT B.BARTLETT STA'l'E GEOLOGIST OF WYOMING WITH NOTES ON GEOLOGY BY PROFESSOR]...IOWA) IOWA CITY) IA. JULY IS, 1926 INTRODUCTION Interest in mining is reV1iving in Wyoming, and many...geology and present development of the South Pass-Atlantic City District. Previous publications of the State...Geologlist's office are "A Brief Review of the South Pass Gold District," by H. C. Beeler, published in 1904,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WYOMING GOLD! Figure I: Historic Duncan mine It has been estimated that as much as 325,000 ounces of...the South Pass greenstone belt, indicating the tremendous mineral wealth by this one gold district. W...Geological Survey of Wyoming University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming 82071 A L T H O U G H WYOMING M A Y NOT B...fracture-fill quartz veins. The historic South Pass­ im. Dan Hausel is the Deputy Director of the Wyoming Geological...Laramie, Wyoming. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1983 237 Figure 2 (left): View of the famous Carissa gold mine as it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:52 01 June 2016 Wyoming Mineral Locality Index Figure 1. Index map of Wyoming counties, with exposures...exposures of Precambrian and volcanic rocks. 1 he Wyoming mineral locality index is designed to provide mineral...interesting mineral occurrences in the state of Wyoming. Five publications were used extensively in compiling...view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...1 inch equals 4 miles) of the entire state of Wyoming in book form. The Wwming Atlas and Gazetteer can
Report (chapter)
the mid-crust, Archaean Louis Lake Batholith, Wyoming E. S. VAUGHN* & J. R. RIDLEY Department of Geosciences...State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523, USA *Corresponding author (e-mail: elizabethvaughn3@gmail...copper stockwork vein systems of the South Pass Greenstone Belt, Wyoming Province, and may thus have contributed...‘orogenic’ gold ores. The South Pass Greenstone Belt (SPGB) of the Wyoming Province has historically...Gold was discovered in the Atlantic City and South Pass City areas, Wyoming, USA in 1863 within Cenozoic
Report (issue)
GOLD PLACERS ON WIND AND BIGHORN RIVERS, WYOMING. By FRANK C. SOHEADER. INTRODUCTION. This paper contains...the gold placers on Wind and Bighorn rivers, in Fremont and Hot Springs counties, Wyo., made in connection-with...E. E. Jones of the Wind River Indian Agency, to mining men, prospectors, and ranchers in the region, and...Wind River, in central Wyoming, mainly in the northwestern part of Fremont County. (See PI. I.) It is bounded...the southwest by the Wind River Mountains. The Wyoming & Northwestern Railway (a branch of the Chicago
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LANDER 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE CENTRAL WYOMING Compiled by J. D. Love, Ann Coe Christiansen,...MOONSTONE FORMATION (UPPER MIOCENE) Includes the South Pass Formation MIOCENE ROCKS UNDIVIDED MIOCENE(?)...Fine-grained quartz monzonite Feldspathic peridotite dike Granite Porphyritic quartz monzonite Quartz diorite...diorite Biotite quartz monzonite METAMORPHIC ROCKS (ARCHEAN) Listed alphabetically by symbol, not in relative...1965, Geologic map of the South Pass City quadrangle, Fremont County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic
Journal (issue)
A Study of the South Pass and Atlantic City Mining District of Fremont County, Wyoming. by L. V. Abbott...Mississippi. by Frederic F. Mellen ...... The Radium Mining Area of Southwestern Colorado. by Ronald L. Ives...the largest ever held in Texas, was part of the city".,; One Hundredth Birthday Celebration. Over 75...hypostylus, and was excavated from a quarry in Weld County, Colorado. Trigonias lived about thirty million...its life is rated at 500 hours. An inner tubo of quartz, ¾ of an inch in diameter, encloses the arc stream
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LayeredPegmatites, Southern Wind RiverMountains, Fremont County, Wyoming PAUL DEAN PROCTORAND HASAN A. EL-ErR Abstract...596 occurin the AndersonRidge and South Pass 7«' FremontCounty,Wyoming (Fig. 1). 597 quadrangles, 595 ............. SouthPassis 5 mileseastand the Atlantic City 597 taconltedeposit12 milesnortheast of the...pegmatitebodydescriptions are knownfor the River Mountains, Wyoming,spatiallyassociated with Wind River Mountains,...(1953) and Parker National G.S.A. Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri. (1962) report on migmatitesand agmatitesin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of early Precambrian graywackes from Wyoming KENT C. CONDIE Depsrtment of Earth Sciences, W~hington...metamorphosed early Precambrian graywsckes in Wyoming bV8 been analyzed for Si, Al, Ti, Fe, Mg, K, Ccc...textures and structures, are composed chiefly of quartz and biotite with lesser amounts of plagiocbse....indicates thet the source area was predominantly quartz diorite to granodiorite in composition. Relatively...and releasing CaQ+ions. The composition of the Wyoming Precambrian graywackes is not unlike that of most
Report (issue)
Developed and Undeveloped Mineral Resources of Wyoming A statistical compilation and industrial evaluation...producers of Wyoming. By C. S. DIETZ Deputy State Geologist First Edition---I,oOO Copies WYOMING GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CHEYENNE, WYOMING 1929 Price $1.00 Post Paid v Contents Page IX Preface PART I Chapter...Magnesium Sulphate ·11 The Chemical Deposits of Wyoming Can Be Profitably Exploited 45 Chapter 1 Chapter...and Present Production 127 Production Rank 129 Wyoming Has 200 Recognized Oil Structures__ 130 Room for
Report (issue)
Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA Department of Geology, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth...Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA Department of Geology, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth...northern Utah and Nevada Black Hills, South Dakota Southern Wyoming and northern Colorado Mafic intrusives...rocks at 300-350 °C (Bishop, 1973). L North-South Seal* I I 500 Km L J Figure 1. Known occurrences...vary from transitional tholeiitic-alkaline in the south to alkaline in the north and may have formed in
Field Trip Notes
Q E S5 W63 1994 EART ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER LODE 1994 Gregg Wilkerson...California … • * * ** ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY º OF THE MOTHER LODE April 9, 1994 Gregg...Field Trip Program Mother Lode '94 Bakersfield District Office Bureau of Land Managmement 3801 Pegasus.... . . 14 TV QFºo 5-M/43 ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER |*4 EART LODE Gregg Wilkerson...adapted from the 1991 guide are noted by (91). All mine production values are from the 1941 or 1991 guides
Report (issue)
the Crystalline Rocks of the Wind River Range, Wyoming by J. S. Stuckless and G. VanTrump, Jr, Open-File... INTRODUCTION The Wind River Range, western Wyoming (fig. 1), is a north-trending uplift of Precambrian...largely of equigranular quartz diorite and granodiorite with minor amounts of quartz monzonite (K. K. Cheang...There are several producing uranium districts in Wyoming (Butler, 1972), but no known igneous or metamorphic...rareearth elements. However, granitic rocks within Wyoming have been shown to be likely source-rocks for
Report (volume)
of the Popo Agie Primitive Area, Fremont and Sublette Counties, Wyoming By ROBERT C. PEARSON and THOR H...... Quartz diorite of the Louis Lake batholith ................................... Albite-quartz rock..... Porphyritic quartz monzonite of the Popo Agie batholith........... Biotite quartz monzonite of the...Popo Agie batholith... ......... .... Fine-grained quartz monzonite--.....-..--.....-.--...--. .............................. Quartz veins . . ............................... . . . Mining claims and mineral leasing
Journal (volume)
*HKI£K UOLXuVKH fKK ANNUM. 2, 1897. Mining Legislation. 'City. \\\'-- Bloffle Copies. Tea Cents...Champion Mining Company's properties near The Committee on Legislation of the California Nevada City are typical...typical of the best class of large, Miners' Association, which has in hand the proposed well equipped...the forwarded to the members of the Legislature. Wyoming ground (shown on the left), the old 30stamp These...The reopening of the old G win mine in Calaveras proposed by the Mining and Scientii-io Pkess and A 10-stamp
Report (volume)
the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...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...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards
Journal (volume)
preparing the last-named ores for the furnace, miners are met with the complex side of the smelting process;...Iron Works of this city. tons of ordinary smelting ore. A reduction wages of miners is ansome of the...The mine-owners of Bingham say that on account of the low price of silver not only must the miners' wages...nounced in the to take place in The North Star Mining Company, of Grass Valley, has recently declared... was furnished by the Risdon Iron WorkB of this city. The great compressor was built by the The Union
Report (issue)
by Mead LeRoy Jensen Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine, the world's largest open pit, symbolizes the importance...MINERAL INDUSTRIES University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 82 • PRICE $4.00 • MAY 1969...southeastern Utah . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Large Sevier-Fremont pithouse and three-unit coursed adobe storage structure...Utah Fremont site. 6. Coursed adobe dwelling and two-unit storage structure at the Sevier-Fremont site...site of Nephi centra I Utah . • • . . . . . 7. Fremont anthropomorphic figurines made from unfired clay
 
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