 | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of the Upper Blue River Area Summit County Colorado • By QUENTIN D. SINGEWALD . GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED...----------Arctic mine ______________________________________________ _ Senator mine ________________...____ _ Vanderbilt mine __________________________________________ _ El Dorado mine ______________________...__________________ _ Monte Cristo mine __________ ------ ________ ----- __________ _ Bemrose mine __________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Quadrangle, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund PAPER 289 Geology and Ore Deposits of...of the Garfield Quadrangle, Colorado By McCLELLAND G. DINGS and CHARLES S. ROBINSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mitting Fund. A..._ Fremont dolomite _________________________ _ Chaffee formation __________________________ _ Leadville |  | | Report (issue) | | Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTJON...area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________ _ Adams County_- __..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | --------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --...-----------------------------Pima County -------------------------------Pinal County -------------------------------Santa...-------Santa Cruz County --------------------------'ravapai County -----------------------------'ruma |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | byproduct of smelting lead from galena. In a process known as cupellation, galena is heated and reduced to lead...southern shores of the Black Sea. The fact that most galena carries at least some percentage of silver as an...Laurium galena deposits 40 kilometers southeast of Athens. The silver content of Laurium galena is relatively...be a quite common material such as salt, mica, chalk, oyster shells, sulfur, or cinnabar. In fact, attempts...miners were working in eight hundred mines in the district. Joachim’s-Thaller (thaller is the root word for |  | | Book | | Bancroft Bancroft, H. PI., “History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 15-10-1888”, San FFrancisco, (1890)...L., “Notes on Some Mining Districts in Humboldt County, Nevada”, USGS B 414 (1909). S • Science. SLMR...CHURCHILL COUNTY ALPINE (Clan Alpine) Gold, Silver, (Molybdenum) Location. The Alpine District is at Alpine...is 79 m. W. History. The district was organized as the Clan Alpine District in 1864, and a mill built...BERNICE Antimony, Silver Location. The Bernice District is at Bernice on the W. slope of the Clan Alpine |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold,...Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district Quartz epimorph |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | IV THE WHICI-I GEOLOGIST APRIL, I9O9 BIG BONANZA COPPER MINE, ISLAND, ALASKA2 FRANCIS C•URC• No. 3...3 LATOUCHE LINCOLN. INTRODUCTORY. The Big Bonanzacoppermine, situatedon Latouche.Island. Alaska,ha...developments at this mine are mentionedby Moffit. 4 The writer examinedthe Big Bonanzapropertyin the...position of the Big Bonanza mine; the cross (X) shows the location of the Ellamar mine; the other copper...er. An openforestof smallfirs THE BIG BONANZA COPPER MINE. 2o3 clothesthe islandwith the exceptionof | | | Report (issue) | | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Black Hawk district in New Mexico (MarcWApril 1993). GE ON OM i I - Getchell mine, Potosi district...Gilbert district GO - Goldfield district GP - Gold Point district GS - Goodsprings district HA - Hamilton...Hamilton district (now White Pine, WP) Iron Hat district - Jarbidge district KL - Klondyke district KM -...- Killie mine, Spruce Mountain district IH JA - (SM) Lewis district Maggie Creek district Majubo Hill...Hill mine, Antelope district MH MN Manhattan district MO - Moonlight mine, Disaster district (DS) MR - |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Davidson. Small quantities of gold were found in the creek bed in a shallow gulch on the southern slope of...historian. His great-great uncle, James G. Fair; was mine superintendent at the Comstock. 382 ROCKS & MINERALS...find out what the blue sand was and continued to mine until the sand turned into a decomposed mass of...and named the Ophir, which became the first bonanza mine on the Comstock. After a short time, another...With fortunes in sight and no reasonable way to mine without being crushed (or scalded) to death, the |  | | Report (issue) | | by the USGS in connection therewith. 1Denver, Colorado Data base for metallic mineral districts and...South Dakota and Wyoming. This data base contains mine information used by the authors for a series of...others, 1986, 1987a-h; DeWitt and Wilson, in press). Mine information is contained in the two ASCII data files...ten data fields and is numerically sorted by the mine identification numbers shown on maps in DeWitt and...and Wilson (in press). .Field No. Type Name District Quadrangle Sec Twp Rng Synonyms Company The fields |  | | Book | | of mining will find most mine managers willing to help, even though the mine may not be open to casual...State Offices of Information, Chambers of Commerce, mine managers, and Bureau personnel have freely contributed...old shafts Always use available guide services. Mine openings (tunnels, adits, open pits) should never...during active operations, they are swept out of the mine by the controlled ventilating current. Remember...oldest mines usually are private property. Most mine owners do not object to the collection of a few |  | | Book | | so plentiful as to be available to every working mine, mill, and development. In a word, western mining...Other contributors are Verne C. McCutchan, State Mine Inspector of Arizona; J. C. “Buck” O’Donnell, of...Assaying and the Art of Salting 33 Custom Assaying Mine Assaying Salting The Growth of the Mining Districts...108 Mining Claims Washing The New Almaden Mercury Mine Sluices Disposition of Gold Dust III 113 118 121...Arizona VI: VI: VIII: Colorado Mining Days The Pikes Peak Gold Rush Mine Operations Present and Past |  | | Report (issue) | | activity of the copper market is reflected in the district by increased interest in prospecting for copper...are described in detail.. The copper ores of the district extending from Kotsina River to Nizina are chiefly...(Chitistone) overlying the lava flows. The Kennecott-Bonanza and Jumbo mines are the best known of such deposits...basin of the Kotsina, however, includes Elliott Creek, one of its lower tributaries, which by position... Claims are held on Copper Creek, Kluvesna River (including Mineral Creek), Kotsina River, and Granite |  | | Report (issue) | | BETWEEN SECTIONS 6 AND 7 OF THE ABOVE TOWNSHIP. CREEK. THE MISLABELED GULCH SHOULD BE THE NORTH FORK...AND IN ALL EARLIER LITERATURE ON THE RUBY BASIN DISTRICT. COLOR KEY FOR ALL MAPS IN THIS REPORT Rock................. 49 4.1 Bald Mountain Mining District .............. 49 4.11 Introduction ........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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | describedthe Vermont copperdeposits,particularlythe Ely Mine. W. H. Emroohs 2 and W. H. Weed s have contributed...examination has also been made of the ore from the "Big Bonanza" Mine, La Touche Island, Alaska. Theobjectof thisstudyhasbeento...Quarterly, Vol. 4, 219; "The Pyrrhotite of the Ely Mine," En#. and Min. ]our., April •o, •886, 263. 2 ,... 54K•:¾ 7o FI•. 54. FI•. 54- X 45. (a) Polk County Mine ore, Ducktown, Tenfl. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite...veinlets. FI6. 55KEY TO FI6. 55FI6. $$. X 45. Mary Mine ore, Ducktown,Tenn. Pyrrhotite cut and corroded |  | | Report (issue) | | Custer on French Creek The Holy Terror and Keystone Mines, Keystone The Uncle Sam Mine, Hoist and Mill...The Cleopatra Mine and Cyanide Plant The Etta Mine near Keystone The Hidden Fortune Mine near Lead The...The McMackin Mine near Custer Spodumene Crystals, Etta mine, near Keystone Marble Quarry near Custer.....Burke's Quarry near Odell, looking northwest Elm Creek Quarry in Jurassic Sandstone. b. G3r psum Layers...Cambrian Shales and Sandstones, Deadwood Stewart Mine on Lower Quartzite, near Terry Deadwood The Golden |  | | Report (issue) | | Part A, the name, U.S. Bureau of Mines mining district, reference (if any) that has the occurrence plotted... ILIAMNA QUADRANGLE (Augustine I.) Pumice Redoubt district Iliamna (22.9, 6.4) 59°20'N, 153°27'W Volcanic...not encouraging. (Chenik Mtn.) Iron Redoubt district MF-364, loc. 22 Iliamna (15.6, 4.4) 59°15'N,...low grade. Copper King Copper, Iron Redoubt district MF-364, loc. 7 Iliamna (20.8, 12.15) 59°41'N...references to Keyes. (Diamond Point) Gold(?) Redoubt district MF-364, loc. 8 Iliamna (21.05, 11.7) 59°39'N |  | | Book | | Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A Biography)...\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel...prodvced by atmospheric oxidation, can be found. Old mine dumps often reveal a varied assortment of brightly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Survey, Federal Center, MS 964, Denver, Colorado 80225-0046 JOSEPH V. TINGLEY, Nevada Bureau of...Center, MS 954, Reston, Virginia 20192 Abstract Bonanza-grade orebodies in epithermal-style mineral deposits...vein district world class. In the world-class silver- and gold-producing Comstock mining district, Nevada...connectivity and low lateral hydraulic connectivity. Bonanza orebodies were formed in the compartmentalized...Comstock lode, Virginia City, Nevada is such a district. For the period 1859 through 1996, the Comstock |  | | Report (issue) | | totals, as shown in Table 1. The Cornstock Lode district in Storey and Lyon Counties is by far the largest...Other districts with notable production include: Chalk Mountain (Pb, Ag), Fairview (Ag, Au, Pb, Cu), Sand...Basin (Fe) in Churchill County; Buckskin (Fe, Cu, Au, Ag) in Douglas County; Como (Ag, Au, Cu) and Yerington...Yerington (Cu, Ag, Au) In Lyon County; Broken Hills (Ag, Pb, Cu, Au, Zn), Nevada Scheelite (W, Pb, Ag...Au, Pb, Cu) in Mineral County; Quartz Mountain (Ag, Pb, Au, W) in Nye County; Ragged Top (W) and Nightingale |  | | Book | | lu.mi;er BY DAN DE QUILLE, author of " The Big Bonanza," The Wealth and Wonders of Washoe. The Arid...Hill Water Works 58 59 59 61 63 ... 63 The Big Water Pipes The Sutro Tunnel The Reduction Works...Genoa Reno Ill Other Towns Washoe ix in Washoe County City 113 113 Ophir 114 Franktown 114 LAKE...Virginia and Truckee Distances The Carson and Colorado Wabuska 141 142 143 144 145 146 146 1 47...148 148 CandeJaria 148 Benton 149 Bishop Creek Independence 149 , . Keeler Owen s Lake Mono |  | | Book | | so plentiful as to be available to every working mine, mill, and development. In a word, western mining...Other contributors are Verne C. McCutchan, State Mine Inspector of Arizona; J. C. "Buck" O'Donnell, of...Assaying and the Art of Salting Custom Assaying Mine Assaying Salting The Growth of the Mining Districts...;lining Clai1ns Washing The New Almaden Mercury Mine Sluices Disposition of Gold Dust The Growth of Placering...Early D ays in Arizona VI: Colorado Mining D ays The Pikes Peak Gold Rush Mine Operations Present and Past |
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