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Quartz from
Merrimac Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite9 photos of Quartz associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Sphalerite7 photos of Quartz associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Chlorite Group6 photos of Quartz associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Galena2 photos of Quartz associated with Galena at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Quartz associated with Calcite at this locality.
Smithsonite2 photos of Quartz associated with Smithsonite at this locality.
Adularia1 photo of Quartz associated with Adularia at this locality.
Andradite1 photo of Quartz associated with Andradite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merrimac Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:624802
Long-form Identifier:1:3:624802:4
GUID (UUID V4):666b99c4-4343-4d74-9f3d-ddea7bb4b0dc
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.3km (0.2 miles) Little Buck Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Davy King Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) Rickardite Mine (Jim Fisk mine), Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Copper Bullion and Cobre Grande group, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Big Three Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Excelsior Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
1.4km (0.8 miles) Hilltop Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Silver Coinage Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Crested Butte prospect, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Hawkeye group (Old Priest veins), Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
References
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Report (issue)
------------------- 15 The Geography of Dona Ana County---------------------------------------------...----------- 25 PART I. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS ------------- 26 Introduction ------------... 4 CONTENTS PART I. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS—Continued The Paleozoic Era—Continued Ordovician...composition -------------------------------------I I . Quartz monzonite ------------------------------Field relations...composition -------------------------------------I I I . Quartz-bearing monzonite -----------------------Field
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Report (issue)
LEAD ZUfC JLHD COBPER DEPOSITS Of THE OROUt DISTRICT, NBW MEXICO ( With a Supplement on Occurrence of Bisouth)....................... Quartz moazonito... ........^..................... Quartz-bearlag monsonite. ............................ Quartz monzonlte porphyry......................... fihyolit *...................... Hilltop mine............................................. 21 22 Rlckardlte mine............................................. Little Bnck mine......................................... Moll ins prospect
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Stannite Downloaded by [University of New Mexico] at 01:53 14 October 2014 Freiberg, Saxony,...the Peerless pegmatite at Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota, by Headden (1893) and shortly thereafter...Examples include the Cove mine, Lander County, the Bald Mountain mine, White Pine County, and the famous Majuba...Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada; with freibergite and andorite at the Bear Basin mines, King...King County, and with geocronite and sphalerite at the Young American mine, Stevens County, Washington; the
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 39 The Metal Resources of New Mexico and Their Economic Features Through 1954 A revision of...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...THE HONORABLE EDWIN L. MECHEM………...Governor of New Mexico MRS. GEORGIA L. LUSK ......................Superintendent...Dealing With the Geology and Mineral Resources of New Mexico ............................................
Report (issue)
OR PROFE SIONAL PAPER 68 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXI.CO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN, LOUIS C. GRATON AND...PRQ)tESSIONAL PAPER 68 T·H E ORE DEPOSITS O.F NEW MEXICO.. . . ., .,· ;,.: BY WALDEMAR LINpGREN,........ . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ................. . . , ... -.. . Rio Hondo. (Twining) district . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Report (issue)
263 Including descriptions of 22 new species, I new genus, and 4. new combinations of Mississippian age...Lehigh River, northeastern Pennsylvania, to Pulaski County, southwestern Virginia. For the most part, work...distinct from those of the Pocono and Price. New species or new combinations described and known species...around the Broad Top coal field, chiefly in Bedford County, Pa.; along the Allegheny Front from about Philipsburg...Mountain, W. Va.; around Cheat Mountain in Kandolph County, W. Va.; in the Pocono outlier near Kawley Springs
Report (issue)
87 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...TECHNOLOGY Mineral and Water Resources of New Mexico I'repared by U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S...with: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission New Mexico...SOCORRO1977 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Cibutus R. HOLMES. Acting President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayu, Superintendent of Public Instrucilun
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
Report (volume)
covers) Stock Number 2401-02498 Contents Page A new park is born --- ___ -- _______ -- _______ -- _---...of Standing Rocks-----------------The Needles district ----------------------------------Salt, Davis...Aerial view of The Neck and Shafer Trail ___ _ Merrimac and Monitor Buttes - _____________ _ Cane Creek...Canyon King ___________________________ 70. Potash mine of Texas Gulf, Inc-------------71. Evaporation ponds...out did the park materialize, this time under a new name-Canyonlands. Among the many dignitaries who
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Book
MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
identified by qualitative wet methods. The fron Mask Mine is owned by William Clark, of Gilmore, Idaho, and...values. The rocks of the Sp''ing Mountain Mining District are described by Umpleby2 as deing late Devonian...causedby onb of the numa'ous quartz diorite intrusions. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICALCLUB...pointed out that the copper "The Copper Minerals ol New lersey." minerals were found in the trap, the shales...resemblance, on a small scale, of this and other New Jersey occurrences with those oI the Lake Superior
Report (issue)
Introduction: Stratigraphy: Pocahontas Formation New River Formation Kanawha Formation 2 Lee Formation...generation of thermogenic CBM in the anthracite district of Pennsylvania and in the semianthracite 5 deposits...Methane degasification in advance of underground mining commenced in the early 1970’s in the Black Warrior...Pocahontas basin, initially as an effort to improve mine safety conditions in deeply buried coal beds. At... beds in advance of mining or from gob wells drilled into old works after mining was vented into the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
light is an effect of the law of gravitation. NEW-YORK, MARCH 22, The records of the rocks, Prof...them to differ­ � that gold can be recovered from quartz wlth­ ent chemical agents, which dissolve a portion... Lewis present, is the extracting of gold from quartz does not clearly make this distinction, and in...gilds Our object is to CALlE'ORNIA-The .!lme1ican Mining JrIaga­ zinc published in this city-a truly scientific...they are to be taken out and washed gold from quartz has either yet to be dis­ i to think, experiment
Report (volume)
Nevada __ _ _____________ _ _ ____ 21 21 21 New Mexico _____________________________ Oregon _________...making__________________ Prospecting permits and mining leases____________________ Survey publications...cake per ton in the New York chemical marketMap showing alkali flat in Dona Ana County, N. Mex____ Schematic...vitreous; clear, glassy colorless fragments resemble quartz fragments in appearance. Indices of refraction:...prismatic and pyramidal, resembling crystals of quartz. Cleavage, basal distinct. Hardness, 3 3.5. Specific
Report (issue)
deposits________________________ Quartz-tungsten veins......._____________________ Quartz-gold veins.._________..._________________ ___. Nevada ___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____ ____ Pag« 59...63 Good Hope barite mine, Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten...Ltd., mine...... --_--______.______ Lincoln County__-__-----_-----_-----___ Tern Piute district.........district____ .________..__ Nevada Scheelite mine.. _ ______ Hooper No. 2 mine __ _____ _ _ Yankee Girl mine_______________
Report (issue)
.............................................28 New River Formation....................................Semi-Anthracite Assessment Unit: Virginia Semi-Anthracite District.................................................the Pottsville and Allegheny Groups in Clearfield County and adjacent counties, Pennsylvania..............Cross section A–A’ from Ohio County, W. Va., southeast to Garrett County, Md., showing the Allegheny Group...Cross section B–B’ from Allegheny County, Pa., southeast to Allegany County, Md., showing the Allegheny Group
Report (issue)
Wyoming, Circular 81, 1950; Coal resources of New Mexico, Circular 89, 1950; and Lignite resources of...Coal beds above the Pocahontas beds in Tazew'ell County...... Lower Horsepen bed....... War Creek bed....field.................... Coal mining in Virginia .................... Mining methods .......................... Recoverability in mining................ Selected bibliograpny....................... 35 35 35...organizations, supplemented by mine and drill-hole information provided by mining companies and private individuals
Journal (issue)
AND CHEMISTRY OF GOLD IN THE VlRGlLlNA DISTRICT, HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA Michael A. Linden', James R...Solberg* INTRODUCTION The Virgilina district of Halifax County in south central Virginia is a minor...well-documented gold region of the central Appalachians. The district (Figure I), which extends from Virginia into North...1917 the mines in the Virginia portion of the district produced approximately 750,000 pounds of refined...recovered primarily from the Red Bank mine and the Luce-Howard mine although numerous trenches, pits, and
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...research and provide information about exploration. mining. and metallurgical processes that are needed in...Technology Branch J. Brent Hiskey Assistant Director Mining and Mineral Resources Researchlns~tute Orlo E...Affirmative Action Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist...produce copper. The Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242,000 tons of ore
Journal (issue)
..................................... 227 COAL MINING TO BE BOOST ED IN THE FARO ES ............... .......................... 246 CHIPMAN LEAD-SILVER MINE IN NEWBURY, MASS. By Prof. Charles Pa/ache .......EARTH. By John S. AJbane1e ................ 261 NEW PORT ABLE MICROSCOPE .................................................. 284 "WONDER MINERAL" OPENS NEW CONSTRUCTION HORIZONS •............................of York County, chromite and lead-silver mines of Lancaster County, and the large iron mine at Cornwall
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...pis., 21 figs. Price 50*. Geology of the Jurupa Mountains, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California...Price 25*. Geology of Bitterwater Creek area, Kern County, California, by Henry H. Heikkila and George M
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Niagara, built in New York, was mod­ named kinds of brick, by Messrs. Horner & from this mine must be a...pressure was communicated by a cast­ respecting the Merrimac must be taken with a iron plate, so arranged...at the same time produce a superior manufacture. New Steam The Secretary of the Navy has the follow­...follow­ ing in his Report, respecting the five new steam frigates :"In my last annual report I informed you...water as will make national vessels for' testing new routes, and 30 pounds of ice; each freezer has a
 
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