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Calcite from
Great Western Mine, Three Peaks, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Ore Body
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Western Mine, Three Peaks, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:511286
Long-form Identifier:1:3:511286:9
GUID (UUID V4):cc37801c-31a0-435e-87ce-a5a128d8f0f5
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Smith Mine, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Corry Fissure Veins Occurrence, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) East Pioche Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Pioche Mines, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Vermillion Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) South Orebody, Lindsay Hill Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Armstrong Mine, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
4.9km (3.0 miles) Blackbird Mine, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
8.0km (4.9 miles) Desert Mound Orebody, Granite Mountain, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
17.8km (11.0 miles) Homestake Mine, Iron Mountain, Pinto Iron Mining District (Pinto Mining District; Silver Belt Mining District), Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
References
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Report (issue)
IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH by Kenneth c. Bullock Geneva Works, U. S. Steel Corporation, near Provo. Courtesy...Courtesy of U. S. Steel Corporation . UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL -SURVEY affiliated with THE COLLEGE...AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 88 PRICE $4.50 DECEMBER...Acknowledgments · .1 History of the Iron Industry in Utah · .1 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Beaver...Bat Ridge iron occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . . . .2 Black Rock mine . . . Skylark
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM 87801 ginger@gis.nmt...Beryllium deposits in Utah, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico range from small (Apache Warm Springs, 39,063 metric...Harding pegmatite, Taos County. Current drilling in the Apache Warm Springs deposit in the Sierra Cuchillo...deposit. The Iron Mountain deposit, also in the Sierra Cuchillo south of the Apache Warm Springs deposit,...were discovered in the Victorio Mountains, Luna County in the early 1900s. Gulf Minerals Resources, Inc
Report (issue)
Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BULLETIN 338 THE IRON ORES OF THE IRON SPRINGS DISTRICT SOUTHERN UTAH BY C. K. LEITH AND E.................... CHAPTER VI. DESCRIPTION OF THE IRON ORES ............................. Distribution....................... CHAPTER VII. ORIGIN OF THE IRON ORES. ................................. 73 73 75..... CHAPTER VIII. COMPARISON OF IRON SPRINGS IRON ORES WITH OTHER IRON ORES.............................................................. Bull Valley district..............................................
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the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to...Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade...Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains, and bent the broken edges sharply upward...with extraordinary homogeneity. Throughout the Great Plains, wells drilled deep into this unit provide...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore
Report (issue)
OCCURRENCES IN UTAH by K. C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...Purple pit fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim...43 Floride Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Floride No. 1 Mine . . . . ...Floride No.5 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Floride No. 13 Mine . . . . . . ..... . . 45 Floride No. 18 Mine ............ ·.......... 45 Fluorine Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Alfred C. Emery, President INSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL Edward W. Clyde. . . Joseph E. Bernolfo... . . . Utah State University United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company · . . . Utah Geological...Association · .. . . . Morton Salt Company · . . . . Utah Petroleum Council · . United States Steel Corporation...Young University · . Kennecott Copper Corporation Utah Sand and Gravel Products Corporation (retired) ... . .First Security Corporation . . . . . . .Utah Mining Association · United Park City Mines Company
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...copper, chromite, iron, coal, stone, lime, clay. Hayes, C. W.......... Coal, iron, lime, stone, road... metal, clay. Gold. Haycs, C. W......... Coal, iron, lime, stone, road metal, clay. Emmons, S. F.; Cross...Eldriclgc, G.H. lime, clay. Keith, A............. Iron, ocher, copper, stone, road metal, lime, cement...chromite, iron, manganese, oeher, coal, stone, lime, cloy. 957 938 Campbell, M. K.... .. Coal, iron, marble
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in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12...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
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in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12...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
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Correlation ofthe Great Basin with the other provinces ...................81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. reports are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham... began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF UTAH TO 1966 compiled and edited by Barbara S. Childers assisted by Bernice Y. Smith Utah Geological...and Mineral Industries University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Bulletin 86 Price $4.00 October 1970...all graduate theses concerned with the geology of Utah; senior theses are omitted. Several theoretical...pertinence to a particular mineral deposit or locality in Utah. Others which should have been included may have...hoped that the reader will report omissions to the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey so that they
Report (issue)
INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
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............................................452 Utah .................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Journal (issue)
Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ........................................ S. Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ....................................33 by B. Cairncross The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa .......................right of amateur col­ lecting and recreational mining, and the use of public and private lands for educational...a large specimen of rock impregnated with native iron, undoubtedly one of the earliest known examples
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Survey, who have been engaged in the study of our great mining regions, especially in the West, have laid the...able in the last year. This is especially true of iron ores, of the geology of the Sierras, and of nickel...now in the active practice of the profession of mining engi neering. J. F. K. DECEMBER, 1899. NO TEXT...IKON SERIES (IN PART). — INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON IRON ORES. — LIMONITE. — SIDERITE. General literature...discussion of siderite, 112, 113 83-118 CHAPTER II. — THE IRON SERIES, CONTINUED — HEMATITES, RED AND SPECULAR
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OF UTAH'S MINING INDUSTRY By Utah Mining Association 918 Kearns Building Salt Lake City, Utah MILES P...material was available to give Utah citizens an account of their mining industry. Most of the available...segments of mining activity. We have attempted in the following pages to discuss mining in all phases...picture of the mineral deposits and of the mining activity in Utah as time and effort permit. In the writing...the person interested in, but unacquainted with mining, mineral processing, and mineral economics, could
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ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN STATES (1933) AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME AIME TRANSACTIONS MINE PLANT VOLUME...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION
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A Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife, Western Edition Fossils in America A Range Guide to Mines...Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin...accounting of credit where credit is due. I owe a great debt to the geologists, mineralogists, and rock...the last half century in particular, many of the three million or so gem and mineral collectors of America...included amber (most precious of the ancient gems), calcite, fluorspar, jadeite, pyrite, quartz family minerals
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LOUISE WERNER Where Mormons Found a Mountain of Iron May 3—Joshua Tree National Turtle Races, Joshua...6-9 — Junior Livestock Show, Spanish Fork, Utah. LOST MINE May 8-10 — Lone Pine Stampede, Lone Pine...Richmond, Utah. May 16-17—Spring Rodeo, Winnemucca, Nevada. May 17—Quarter Horse Show, Santa Cruz County Fair...Arizona. May 26-27—Junior Livestock Show, Vernal, Utah. May 30 — Spanish Dance Festival, Encanto Shell...Morongo Valley, California. May 30-31 — Desert Peaks Section, Southern California Chapter Sierra Club
Report (volume)
........... Copper deposits of the White Mesa district, Ariz., by J. M. Hill............ Survey publications...the Dome district, Idaho, by J. B. Umpleby.... The Yellow Pine mining district, Clark County, Nev., by......................... IRON AND MANGANESE: Preliminary report on the red iron ores of east Tennessee.................. Recent discoveries of "Clinton" iron ore in eastern Wisconsin,by F. T. Thwaites................................ Survey publications on iron and manganese ores........................ ALUMINUM
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88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge...district_______________________________ ~osquito Range district, including some outlying parts of the Leadville..._______________ _____ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ _ 87 Spar district _________________________._ __ ____ __ __ ____...known oxidized zinc deposits in Leadville mining district, Colorado. 3. Oxidized zinc deposits of the
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organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...bulletin seemed desirable. The former section of iron ores and nonmetallic minerals was divided and M......... 2,460 ash, lignite, underground water. Iron, graphite, copper, building stone, road material...water. Martin, G. C...... stone, road material, iron. Spencer, A. C.; Salisbury.R.D.; slate, clay, sand...lime, magnesium carbonate, N.H.;Kiimmel, soapstone, iron, gravel, sand, pottery clay, feldspar, brick H.
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............................................387 Utah...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
 
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