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Sericite from
Eagle Hill Mine, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eagle Hill Mine, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:515279
Long-form Identifier:1:3:515279:7
GUID (UUID V4):07ecda06-1b39-4cef-bfc7-d0ad8ae53c70
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Mitchell Canyon Mine, Sunshine Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Mercur Canyon Prospect, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Sunshine Canyon Prospect No. 5, Sunshine Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Violet Ray Mine (Eagle Hill Mine), Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Old Sacramento Mine (Sacramento Mine; Jessie Lakin claim), Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Sunshine Canyon Mine No. 2, Sunshine Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Mercur Mines, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Ingersoll Mine, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Sunshine Canyon Mine No. 4, Sunshine Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Manning Canyon Mine No. 3, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
References
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Report (issue)
THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Tooele I°x2° Quadrangle, Northwest Utah A CUSMAP Preassessment Study by...Mel H. Podwysocki2 Prepared in cooperation with Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Open-File Report......................... CURRENT STATUS OF MAJOR MINING DISTRICTS......................... 28 28 37 39................. Mercur...................................................... Gold Hill (Clifton)............................................ Recent Mining Activity References........................... 39
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HYDROTHERMAL COMMUNICATIONS ALTERATION OF THE MERCUR GOLD DEPOSIT, UTAH PAULW. JEWELL*ANDW. T. PARRY Departmentof...Departmentof Geologyand Geophysics, Universityof Utah,SaltLake City, Utah 84112 This communicationgivesa detaileddiscussion...detaileddiscussion of the hydrothermal alteration of the Mercur deposits. The term "Carlin-type" deposithasbeen...geochemistryat brought into production in the western United Mercur as well as allowingcomparisonwith alterof other...somerespectsto present-daygeothermalsystems. The Mercur mining district in west-centralUtah containsa numberof
Report (issue)
of Base- and Precious-Metal Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah by Edwin W. looker1 Open-File.... ......... 5 Geologic Setting of North-Central Utah .......................... 7 Oquirrh Mountains Nappes...Structural and Stratigraphic Characteristics of Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains ..............(West Mountain) mining district ................ .14 Mercur (Camp Floyd) Mining District ................Ophir Mining District.................................. .27 Stockton (Rush Valley) Mining District ...
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES...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...S. F. Emmons; the Park City district, by J. M. FIELD .WORK AND AUTHORSHIP. summer of 1908 by making
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the Barneys Canyon deposit in Utah. Complete resetting of sericite by hydrothermal fluids of the temperature...Therefore, dates from sericite are generally of questionable value unless that sericite can be shown to have...to date, sericite dates rarely, if ever, record the age of Au mineralization. However, sericite ages do...(Mehrabi et al., 1999; Asadi et al., 1999), Africa (Hill, 1997), and Peru (Alvarez-A. and Noble, 1988). Most...some of these deposits, such as at Getchell and Mercur, have been 235 236 AREHART ET AL. 120° 42°
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MercurGoldDistrict,Utah PAULA N. WILSON AND W. T. PARRY Department of Geology andGeophysics, University of Utah,SaltLakeCity...PAPtRY 112010' ( KNOB QUARTZMONZONITE 40'20' MERCUR EAGLEHILL RHYOLITE WD-59 (177-+7Mo) NERCUR...5-km-thick sequence of late Paleozoic sediMercur district that is still not well understood. The data do...Subsequent hydrothermal effects bytheTertiaryEagle 1968). Hill Rhyolite hadnosignificant rolein eitherthegoldminer-...thrustfault(Kroko,1992;Presnell Mountains of north-central Utah and is 90 km southwest of et al., 1993;Presnell
Book
Bagby US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA William Bagby received a Ph.D. in Earth Science from...rocks in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. His mining industry experience includes porphyry copper exploration...Berger US Geological Survey, Spokane, Washington, USA Byron Berger has been involved in exploration for...Manchester in 1973 (Ph.D.) and was then employed as a mine and exploration geologist by Falcon Mines Ltd in...Zimbabwe). In 1977 he moved to the Institute of Mining Research at the University of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Report (issue)
111362 Stratigraphy of the East Tintic Mountains Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 361 Stratigraphy... Stratigraphy of the East Tintic Mountains Utah By H. T. MORRIS and T. S. LOVERING fPith a section on QUATERNARY...ILLUSTRATIONS [Plates are in pocket] Index map of northern Utah and adjacent States showing location of the East...of some Paleozoic sections in central and western Utah and east-central Nevada. Correlation of some Paleozoic...Paleozoic sections in central and northern Utah. Page FIGURE 1. View of Fitchville Ridge and Eureka Peak
Book (edition)
who have been engaged in the study of our great mining regions, especially in the West, have laid the...now in the active practice of the profession of mining engi neering. J. F. K. DECEMBER, 1899. NO TEXT...125-129; Marquette district, 129-136; Menominee dis trict, 136-139; Penokee-Gogebic district, 139-143; Vermilion... Cornwall, Pa., 175-180; Example 14a, Iron Co., Utah, 180; Example 15, magnetite sands, 180. 181 ; origin...Range, 220; Copper Basin, 220; Crismon-Mammoth, Utah, 221, 222; Wyo., Idaho, Wash., 222; Example 21,
Report (issue)
deposit':?.. Elkhorn-Tizer Basin zone Elkhorn district -»_»_.,H"1 -? r7Q f i-L^ifciL P. d o-i-n DdO-Lll...Ridge prospect Breccia pipe deposits Skyline Mine Blackjack Mine Chicago and Last Hope Mines Group I - Precious-...geology Important occurrences Mining districts (lodes) Beaver Creek district C O O /-\ t£ +L fU -t-L Y-*...History and production Economic geology Elkhorn district 88c 88f 88f History and production Economic...History and production Economic geology Tizer-Wilson district 0 4-T -n n OC L fL J-tiy, - -_______________________
Book (edition)
Bisbee or Warren district, 290 ; Jerome district, 292 Clifton district, 293 Globe district, 294 Appalachian...Appalachian region, 294 Utah, 296 CaliOther occurrences, 298 Uses of copper, 298 Producfornia, 297 tion of copper...306 ; South- Zinc ores alone, ; 308; Sussex County, N.J., 308 Lead and zinc Upper Mississippi Valley...belt, 333; Nevada County, 334 Central belt of gold -silver ores, 335 Mercur, Utah, 336 Other occurrences...Leadville District, Colo., 364 ; ; Aspen, Colo., Other occurrences, 369 Park City, Utah, 370 Tintic
Report (issue)
D~striCt (3>. . . Hill~J Broken ·j. ·I I J/ . ·; ·!\ i ) . District __ -E~:~h~ "'B~k~~ ·PJ...·PJ.lls district 'lies 'between the Fairview and Paradise l~nges.:• ~·:::~~~,·~~:_ ftt is .. c. ...map)o It is mostly in Churchill north of the Nye County line and on the southeast corner ' . . ----...~~~;::::~·; :.;-=-~·- ~--· -~ site of the Silver Trailer mine near:cy- a ~:, ~: below the site of the Broken...~- -. . ", .·.· . . .-- =~ the Broken Hills mine, . and . he. named the place Broken Hills (fig
Report (issue)
AND IN ALL EARLIER LITERATURE ON THE RUBY BASIN DISTRICT. COLOR KEY FOR ALL MAPS IN THIS REPORT Rock....... 45 Mining Districts ....................... 49 4.1 Bald Mountain Mining District ............Bald Mountain District ....... 49 4.13. Geology of the Bald Mountain Mining District ... 51 ......Further Prospecting ........ 96 Carbonate Mining District ................ 97 4.21 Introduction 97...the Carbonate Mining District ..... 97 4.23 Geology of the Carbonate Mining District ..... 97
Journal (issue)
would like included in the agenda! SERICITE THE MICA MINERALS Sericite is a name for muscovite with extremely...extremely small grains. Sericite is typically found in lowgrade metamorphic rocks like slate and phyllite...alteration" referring to this kind of metamorphism. Sericite is also an industrial mineral, commonly used in...carries the t most prod ductive and b est-known mining districts in Ca alifornia’s gold d country. Although... no orth and northwest to northern E1 Dorado D County. The most productive portion p of the Mother Lode
Report (volume)
1931. Tenn., August 1929. Tex., September 1930. Utah, December 1932. Vt., September 1935. Va., April... 5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Metallurgical, Metallurgy, or tions. Metals. dist., district. Mg., Mining. div., division. mi., mile or miles. dol...dolomite. Mid., Midwest, Midland. E., east. Min., Mining, Mineral, Mineralogist, or Econ., Economic. Mines...arid central northern North Carolina (Virgilina district). F. B. Laney, 1917 (Va. Geol. Surv. Bull. 14
Journal (volume)
Bingham, Utah, Mining Black Sand Page. Abbott, James W A Visit to Ely, Nevada Mining at Bingham...Bingham, Utah The Greenwater District Ditto Ditto Ditto Abyssinia, Minerals In The Requirements of Modern...Modern Mining 70S 52 Stream Flow 671 In 574 Them 284 Those Bob-Tailed Words Letters of a Seir-Made...Charles [64 James W. 82 431 114 Nelll 815 District, British W Columbia, The 783 431 795 736 241...Rlckard 511 17 The Boundary District The Mineral Output of. In 1906 Broken Hill, Acid Flotation Processes
Report (volume)
Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian...Abbyville, Mecklenburg County. Abercrombie Formationl Middle Cambrian: Western Utah. Original reference:...Peak, on ridge south of Dry Canyon, in Gold Hill district. Aberdeen Sandstone (in PottS
Report (issue)
Geology of the Little Commonwealth area Florence County, Wisconsin by Robert W. Johnson, Jr..> /*?«2 V... Page Metamorphism ...»..».**. ....»........ District setting ..*.,............... Limitations to...of the Little Commonwealth exploration, Florence County, Wisconsin . < Figure 1* Map shoving location... Geology of the Little Commonwealth area Florence County, Wisconsin Robert W. Johnson, Jr. ABSTRACT The...Commonwealth exploration in northeastern Florence County, Wisconsin, is underlain by highly ferruginous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thin-section shows an aggregate of sodic plagioclase, sericite and chlorite. The flaky minerals lie in a strain-slip...fracture cleavage with alignment of chlorite and sericite. At Coosdangan it lies in a step fold apparently...in being composed almost entirely of feldspar, sericite, chlorite and opaque minerals. The fracture cleavage...ferro-magnesian minerals and a high percentage of sericite; compared with the later intrusions they are thick...to consist of plagioclase feldspar, quartz and sericite, with minor chlorite and opaque minerals. The
Report (issue)
I T II I 1)ECEBIIIElZ 1944 No. 5 GEOLOGY AND MINING SERIES No. 41 er Deposits In Nevada BY EDGARH...districts, but also more than twenty maps of the mine workings of the more important mines. Besides a...the Bureau's request, a history of quicksilver mining in Nevada with production figures, and a description...bulletin is being issued without the individual mine descriptions a n d m a p s. . JAY A CARPENTER...mines, and prospects.................. Churchill County . ............................................
Book (edition)
generally older rocks in County Down from the younger strata and volcanic rocks of County Antrim to the north...there are sections on the history of lead and salt mining. The prospects for finding buried coal and hydrocarbons...:21 120) map: Engineering geology or rhe Belfast district 47 SW, 54 NE One inch to one mile ( 1 :63 360)...physical features of the district 2 Outline of the geology of the district 3 2 3 Coalpit Bay. Section...PREFACE TO T H E S E C O N D E D I T I O N The district covered by the Carrickfergus (29) Sheet of the
Journal (volume)
THE CAxXADIAN MINING REVIEW. i Westinghouse Motors For nine Thoroughly reliable, highly...MANUFACTURERS OF HAMMERED AND ROLLED STEEL FOR MINING PURPOSES Tee Rails, Edge Rails, Fish Plates, Bevelled... THE CANADIAN MIMING REVIEW. IV RUBBER GOODS "OR MINING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION PURPOSES Rubber Belting...Loc. Mgr. Ontario London Intercolonial Coal Mining Co. Limited Ellis, J. B. Lubbock Geo. D. Whatman...obtained at the Bank s Branches. THE CANADIAN MINING REVIEW. WALKER BROTHERS (WiGAN) Limited WIGAN
Book
in the northwestern Narragansett Basin (at Hoppin Hill near Attleboro) rests non-conformably on granite...the rock types are not identical and the Hoppin Hill locality is completely surrounded by Pennsylvanian...dating. 514 + 17 m. y. for the granite at Hoppin Hill, 591 ± 28 m. y, for the Westwood Granite (mapped...isolated by faults, plutons, or in the case of Hoppin Hill, by surrounding Pennsylvanian cover. The fossils...preserved) in phyllite from the old Worcester coal mine (Grew and others, 1970). The better preserved fossils
Journal (volume)
Gallium chloride, : — : — — Cambrian of Bristol County, Eastern Massawood of Arizona, F. H. Knowlton:...Southwestern Region of the United States by R. T. Hill 282 in the trated in ; — XXXI. A General Method...Hastings C. S. 291 —The distribution of Phosphorus Mine, Iron Mountain, Michigan With Ludington in the...bounding heart, till I got to the top of a little hill, where I used to set myself so as to look toward...locality. Herderite and topaz are found on Harndon Hill, Stoneham, about 4 miles southwest of the beryllonite
 
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