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Magnetite from
Mason Valley Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mason Valley Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:573287
Long-form Identifier:1:3:573287:6
GUID (UUID V4):8d66fd1b-0086-45b1-a085-6b15f6772d2e
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
1.7km (1.1 miles) ⓘMcConnell Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) ⓘWestern Nevada Mine, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.3km (2.6 miles) ⓘAnaconda's Yerington open pit (Empire-Nevada Mine; Nevada-Empire Mine; Weed Heights), Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) ⓘYerington Mine, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) ⓘAnn-Mason deposit (Ludwig; Douglas Hill; Cast; Blue Hills; McConnell; Minnesota; Shamrock), Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) ⓘHill 5644, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ⓘCasting Copper Mine, Ludwig, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) ⓘBear-Lagomarsino Airport deposit, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
12.8km (8.0 miles) ⓘEastern iron prospect (Easter prospect), Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) ⓘBuckskin Mine, Buckskin Mining District (Smith Valley Mining District), Buckskin Range, Douglas County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC OF WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA by Jeff L. Doebrich 1 ,...Open-File Report 96-9 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary...School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 'Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MS...MS 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 'U.S. Geological Survey, Retired, 8920 West 2nd............................... Volcanic-Hosted Magnetite Deposits ....................................
Report (issue)
COPPER. THE YERINGTON COPPER DISTRICT, NEVADA. By FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The town of...of Yerington is in Lyon County, in that part of western Nevada which lies between Tahoe and Walker lakes...Southern Pacific. The town lies in the middle of Mason Valley, through which Walker River flows northward...near Wabuska, around the north end of the Walker Range on its way to Walker Lake. A small part only of...however, most of it being used for irrigating Mason Valley, which is under extensive cultivation and yields
Report (issue)
114 GEOLOGY AND ORE DE_POSITS OF THE YERINGTON DIST_RICT, NEVADA BY • ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT.................................. . . History of mining .......................... . Production .........geology-Continued. 9 Epitome of the. geologic history of the 9 district .....•......................... 9 Part II. The........ . 20 Bluestone :mine ................ ·........ . 2'0 Mason Valley mine ............................. . 21 _ Malachite mine ............ .' .......... ·.. . 22 McConnell mine ........ : ...........
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the Reno 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada and California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Mineral Resources of the Reno 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada and California By DAVID A. JOHN, JOHN H. STEWART...mineral resources of the Reno 1o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California I by David A. John ... [et al.]...resources-Nevada-Reno Region. 2. Mines and mineral resources-California. 3. Geology-Nevada-Reno Region...Iron skarn (magnesium magnetite skarn) deposits 34 Iron endoskarn (calcic magnetite skarn) deposits 35 Sediment-hosted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theMasonValley Mine, YeringtonDistrict,Nevada MARCO T. EINAUDI Abstract Skarn formation at the Mason Valley mine...es, pyroxene-sulfides, tremolite-magnetite-calcite, talc-magnetite-calcite,and dolomite-calcite. The...mole percent ferrotremolite) associated with magnetite-calcitein outermostvein envelopesin marble; and...in the Yerington district, field relationsand chemicalcompositionof coexistLyon County, Nevada, 2.5 km...km west of Mason. It ing garnet, pyroxene, and amphibole. The MasonValley mine (MVM) is ideallysuited
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolomitemarble.Additionalphasesincludemonticellite,spinel,magnetite,ludwigitc,and szaibelyite.Farther from the batholith...trend towardincreasing #Fe/#Mg. At the DouglasHill mine, apatite,quartz, and sulfidesreplacedandradite....magnesiumrich skarnare inferred to have been in the range 650ø to below 400øC. Temperaturesof formationof...pergeneore was of fairly high grade. The Casting Copper mine produced0.45 million tonsof oxideand sulfideore...sulfideore, muchof it averaging6 percent;the DouglasHill mine, 69,000 tonsof 5 percentoxideore; and diorite batholith
Report (issue)
IN THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC OF WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA by David A. John1 , Richard...California ^Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Introduction This paper is a chapter...the Triassic and Jurassic magmatic arc of western Nevada and eastern California. A summary of the report...focus of this study is an irregular area in western Nevada and eastern California centered at the latitude...northern Wassuk Range, (2) latest Early Jurassic in the Pine Grove Hills-Wassuk Range-Gillis Range, (3) Middle
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MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R............... Iron skarns and volcanic-hosted magnetite.................... Polyraetallic skarns........Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................
Report (issue)
Radioactive Deposits of Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLET l]N ^1 0 0 9 - C A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF URANIUM RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA By T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Thirty-five occurrences...occurrences of radioactive rocks had been reported from Nevada prior to 1952. Twenty-five of these had been investigated...Monster mine, which shipped 5 tons of ore to Marysvale, Utah, during 1951; the Majuba Hill mine; the Stalin's...prospect; and the West Willys claim in the Washington district. No estimate has been made of thorium reserves
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Ann-MasonPorphyry Copper Deposit, Yerington, Nevada* JOHN H. DILLES, Department of Geosciences...3- by 5-km block containingthe mid-Jurassic Ann-Mason porphyrycopperdeposit• 90øW andexposed the hydrothermal...Norton, 1982). Bothprocesses mayhaveoccu-rred at Yerington (Dilles andEinaudi, 1988). The Yeringtondistrict...palcodepthwith topsto the west (Figs.1 Excellentsurface,mine, and drill core exposuresal- and 2; Dilles, 1984...andfig. 2 from the Ann-Masonporphyry deposit,Yerington of Dilles, 1987). Hydrothermal alteration and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...represented by numerous geothermal areas. The range of minerals found in mines, quarries, and prospect...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk
Report (issue)
wu OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY— Joseph V: Tingley a RobertC.Horton _ Francis C. Lincoln 3 . ...Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was made — possible with the assistance...eh aa nearly 48 million acres of public land in Nevada. Most of the minerals, _ _ geothermal energy, and...ahij 4 = Wh A a ‘ a a y 4 Pte Es in Nevada comes from publicland. First edition, first printing...Leshendok, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Eric Moody, Nevada Historical Society é Jon Price, National Research
Report (issue)
Resources Maps of the Reno 1 o by 2 o Quadrangle, Nevada and California AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS...Virginia--National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...Resources Maps of the Reno 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada and California By DAVID A. JOHN, JOHN H. STEWART...resources maps of the Reno 1 o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California I by David A. John em.- (U.S. Geological...: I 19.4/2:1 078 1. Mines and mineral resources-Nevada-Reno Region. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesCalifornia
Report (issue)
STATE OF NEVADA Open-file Report 79-235 1979 Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Nevada Operations...SURVEY INVENTORY OF GRANITIC MASSES IN THE STATE OF NEVADA Compiled by Richard W. Spengler, Florian Maldonado...-----------------------------------------Clark County-----------------------------------------------...---------------------------------------Lincoln County-----------------------------------------------...----------------------------------Southern Nye County-----------------------------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
85281 in $KARNdepositsoccur throughouta broad range of variationof garnet and pyroxeneis alsodiscussed...•.• • •5 AND D. M. BURT /•..--KA MAISHI yERiNGTON...i I!11 • •NAKATATSU •YOSHIOKA PINE CREEK•...endoskarnoid is described from the Yerington district skarn in granodioriteat Yerington,and to a lesser extentin...Japan Victoria mine, Nevada DouglasHill and CastingCopper mines(Yerington district),Nevada Caporebasin,Cananea...Tin-tungsten Alaska district, Sonora, Mexico Ruth deposit, Robinsonmining (Ely) district, Nevada Mines GaspS
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA CopyrightŠ 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (issue)
MINING CONGRESS JOURNAL JUNE 1963 “An Open Letter on Stockpiling” by Edward A. McDermott, Director... © HUNTINGTON 10,W. VA. « ST. PAUL 1, MINN. MINING CONGRESS JOURNAL VOL. 49 JUNE CONTENTS PUBLISHER...Patrick D. McMurrer in Trona 44 Blasting 48 Mining Open Pit Slope Stability Research by the Bureau...Long 68 Drilling Practices in the Coeur d'Alene District 72 Maintenance 76 Peter Boyko and G. A. Strand...ANNOUNCEMENTS Los Angeles Mining Convention SPECIAL Report, THE AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS Ring Bldg., Washington
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...of the ore deposits 2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility...filling 3 42 CONTENTS. Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued...shoots Milling High Grade district, Modoc County, Cal Location History of mining Accessibilty Previous descriptions
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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of a lateritic profile showing changes in in a range of fresh rock and weathering minerals, including...including a zone of metasomatic alteration that a range of fresh rock and weathering minerals, including a zone...for operator adjustments of the data’s dynamic range during acquisition); (ii) blackbody calibration...powerful one for explorers as it delivers a wide range of mineral group information, including: (i) propylitic...Hillstyle style base metal deposits and“Mine theirSequence Mine Sequence (a) Map of the distributionofofBroken
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operation the No. 1 or New York mine, and the No. 2 or White Spar mine, both of the Westinghouse Electric...estimates that in some portions of the New York mine mica composes 10 per cent of the whole pega Twentieth...mica in this mine) amounts to 6 or 7 per cent. The interior of the pegmatite at this mine carries very...irregular in shape and are very difficult to follow in mining. Some pegmatite bodies lie conformable with the...or bulge-or elbow out abruptly. Pegmatites may range in thickness from less than an inch to many yards
Report (issue)
__ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits................................ Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville (Eagle).. Genoa
 
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