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Calcite from
Queens, Buena Vista Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA


Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Queens, Buena Vista Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:693745
Long-form Identifier:1:3:693745:4
GUID (UUID V4):6d3bcbd2-2968-449f-bdeb-b589af7a6686
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
4.0km (2.5 miles) Fluorspar prospect (Fluorite prospect), Buena Vista Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) Fluorspar King mine, Buena Vista Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit (MRDS10045315), Buena Vista Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
19.4km (12.1 miles) Maxfield Mine, Black Horse Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
22.5km (14.0 miles) Constellation Claims, Black Horse Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
24.2km (15.1 miles) Jeta Claims, Black Horse Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
27.4km (17.0 miles) Golden Mile Group, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
30.8km (19.2 miles) 4-D Prospect, Marietta Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
32.4km (20.1 miles) New Potosi Mine (Potosi Mine; Peterson Mine), Candelaria Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
32.6km (20.3 miles) Black Rock Mine (Black Rock Tungsten deposit), Black Rock Canyon, Banner Ridge, Chidago Mining District, Benton Range, Mono County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
fissure fillings, i.e., deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon...in these deposits include carbonates (ankerite, calcite, dolomite, and siderite), albite, biotite, and...ore is associated with some veins in the Sierra Nevada and was locally worked with the vein deposits (Clark...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent feature...just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills (Knopf, 1929). Newhouse (1936) reports
Report (issue)
biotites from the Cartridge Pass pluton of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California, by F. C. W. Dodge and J...nodules from the Wills Point Formation, Hopkins County, Tex., by Charles Milton and A. P. Bennison____...abdophane from a rare-earth occurrence, Valley County, Idaho, by J. W. Adams________________________________...disposal well at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Adams County, Colo., by C. T. Wrucke and D. M. Sheridan____...uranium deposits in the southern San Juan basin mineral belt, New Mexico-An hypothesis, by H. C. Grang
Journal (issue)
298 GEOLOGY OF THE UNDER.RIVER SECTION OF THE QUEENS MIDTOWN TUNNEL. By T homas W . Fluhr ........................................ 31 l N EW HA VEN MINERAL CLUB ................................. ........................................ 312 MORE ABOUT MINERAL IDENTIFICATION TABS. By A . L . Flagg .................... 314 CLUBS AFFILIATED WITH ROCKS AND MINERAL ASSOCI ATION ....................................RON RANGES By KIRIL SPIROFF Michigan College of Mining and Technology. by to n1at .SO he 9 ed ity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Virginia, member of the junior club of the Gem and Mineral Society of the Virginia Peninsula, won the national...national Fred H. Bitner Thumbnail Trophy for mineral specimens, also having won first prize and "Best in...Nyack, N . Y. (Rockland County tional Barclay Trophy for his Fossil exhibit, Mineral & Gem Soc.) which also...(BosDr. George F. Size, of Murphy, N . C , of ton Mineral Club). the Tri-State Rockhounders, won third prize...Membership Ctfs: Roy E. Clark, Fed. Secy. (Gem & Mineral Society of Va. Peninsula). tember 5, 6 and 7th
Journal (issue)
Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Collecting gold mining memorabilia......................................J. Mossman The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of crystallized gold...the fact that good mineral photography requires a lot of practice taking mineral photos. Shooting scenery...must mark the following on each slide: a. Mineral name b. Mineral location c. Your name and mailing address...print bottom you should write the name of the mineral, its location, and your name. P R IZE S First prize:
Book (volume)
.......................................... xi Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................................283 Nevada ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map
Report (issue)
aggregate of garnet, epidote, diopside, quartz, calcite, scheelite, and other minerals. Most deposits of...of the limestones and other rocks. The tungsten mineral of such deposits is invariably scheelite. Distribution...are in the Great Basin region in California and Nevada and northwestern Utah, but Oregon, Arizona, and...districts are on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada near Bishop, Calif.; in the Eugene Mountains near...several ranges near Lovelocks, Nev. History of mining. The first contactmetamorphic tungsten 100 ZOO
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
V W W W ^-^ ^ V-WVWWW> * WWW WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds are desired. Please...Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...been shipped to a small furnace in Gadsden. The mineral occurs in Lower Cambrian limestone, referred to...areas, perhaps associated with faulting — Georgia Mineral Society News Letter, March-April 1950, p. 63. Arizona—J
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present and man generally...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...provides a comprehensive, alphabetical listing of 400 mineral species and an outline of the essential chemical...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
144 ROCKS AND MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them...neither of the two soldiers, nor even Patricia, are mineral collectors. The Forans suffered a heavy blow recently...2% U 3 O g . I have been reading about the new mineral finds in each state in the copies of ROCKS AND...Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A note from him reads: "I have done some...epidote which occurs in limonite as well as in calcite. Some of the epidote crystals range up to 21/2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
01:16 05 June 2016 Figure 48 (top). Pyrite and calcite on stilbite from Water Tunnel No. 3, 700-foot level...level, Station 167, under Woodside, Queens. Collected by Dr. Charles Merguerian, 10 × 6.5 cm, John Betts...faces. It is now at the AMNH in a display of large mineral crystals, labeled simply as being from New York...stilbite crystals that was collected at College Point, Queens, in rock that was dumped there from the excavation...Antigorite, Mg3Si2O5(OH)4: A common serpentine mineral, antigorite is found as translucent, blue-green
Book (volume)
............................................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................................243 Nevada ............................................................477 Appendix F - Classification of Mineral Deposits ........................................year I vacation in the field, collecting gem and mineral samples somewhere in the United States or Canada...enough information to be useful to most gem and mineral collectors. Generally, Minerals are capitalized
Book (volume)
............................................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................................243 Nevada ............................................................479 Appendix F - Classification of Mineral Deposits ........................................year I vacation in the field, collecting gem and mineral samples somewhere in the United States or Canada...enough information to be useful to most gem and mineral collectors. Generally, Minerals are capitalized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...and other counties carry deposits from which "mineral extracts" or "acid iron earth" have been gathered...Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...item: "You might mention in the section on World Mineral Occurrences that an "anonymous contributor" says...Calif.) once glistened at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. I have a couple of these specimens—excellent groups
Report (volume)
the Geological Survey's annual report entitled " Mineral Resources of the United States" (the volumes for...of a century. During that period, however, the mineral resources of the United States have been enormously...showing the composition and character of each mineral and the location of. its principal deposits. Many...These are only examples of notable changes in the mineral production of the United States and of correlated...changes in the appraised value of some of the mineral deposits. In this list, as in the earlier lists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W&Ud A/ecu¿ OH, Mineral Õccuwiencel Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...them in "World News of Mineral Occurrences" in R. & M. "The specimens are calcite after glauber.te from...from a newly discovered locality in Yavapai County, Ariz., on the Verde River near Camp Verde, Ariz. This...sagged somewhat before the introduction of the calcite. You will note this curvature on some of the specimens...cleavable calcite have been received from C. V. Mills, 34 E. Sunnyslope Lane, Phoenix, Ariz. The calcite fluoresces
Journal (issue)
xi. .. . ...................... . 5.00 Golden Calcite, Joplin. Superb unblemished deep yellow xi. from...w . Siderite. 3x3x1 ..... . 6 .00 lUndheimlte, Nevada. Solid yellow and brown mass. 3x2 ½x2 ....... ........................ 6 A RECENT FORMATION OF CALCITE IN AN ABANDONED MINE. By A lbert L. K idu·e/1 ...untiring efforts, practically all the various state mineral societies have grown up and are no\v on their own...must deserve a lot of satisfaction a; the various mineral so,:ieties send in their reports of field trips
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
illustrated lecture on "The Natural History of Calvert County" ; biologist, Rudy Scheltema for his sketch of...Point Four Program to "investigate and evaluate mineral deposits of economic value" in the ancient land...given the new Israeli state for developing the mineral deposits. Dr. Freedman and his family will remain...Science Buffalo 11, New York 394 Queens Mineral Society The Queens Mineral Society had two very interesting...of the District of Columbia The regular meeting of the Minerological Society of the District of Columbia
Journal (issue)
to revive a general interest in m inerals and mineral collecting; t o instruct beginners as to how a...endeavor to secure the practical conservation of mineral loca lities and unusual rock formations. Ever since................... 10 MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN THE NEVADA DIST .• NEAR ELY. NEV... . . 11 By D11ncan Stervart... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . QUEENS MINERAL SOCIETY .. . .. .. .... ..... . .... .... _...in the southwestern part of Las Animas County, is the coal mining center of southern Colorado. It has a
Journal (issue)
..... . 1.25 VESUVIANITE I IDOCRASE I, Ludwig, Nevada. 1 ½ " loose xi. .. ..... . 1.25 FLUORITE. Weardale...DONITE Mexico. Minutely xld. & enclosed in xld . Calcite. 2x 1 112 . 3 .00 GOLD v. ELECTRUM , Vorospatak...SULPHUR . Sicily. In fine xis. w. micro . xld . Calcite. 5x3x2 ..... . 1 2 .00 ARAGONITE. Aragon . Spain............................. ARIZONA STATE FAIR MINERAL SHOW. By Ida Sn1ith ............................................................ WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES ... .. .............. ......... ..
Journal (issue)
systems; to revive a general interest in minerals and mineral collecting ; to instruct beginners as to how a...to keep an accurate and permanent record of all mineral localit ies and minerals found there and to print...endeavor to secure the pract ical conservation of mineral localities and unusual rock formations. Ever si...Mineralogical clubs which subscribe for Rocks and Mineral, also become affiliated members of the Rocks and...QUICKSILVER AND ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF THE STAY· TON DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA .................................
Report (issue)
Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral identification based on X-ray diffraction. Ann...discovered the mineral weloganite (Na2Sr3Zr(CO3)6·3H2O) and was the first to collect the mineral sabinaite...19th century. The mosaics belong to the National Mineral Collection (NMC). Photographs are by Jeanne White..........................11 The Ledge (Charlotte County Granite) quarry............................................................................367 MINERAL, ROCK, AND FOSSIL DISPLAYS....................
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................the Geological Survey's annual report entitled "Mineral Eesources of the United States" for 1882 and 1887...more until 1914. During that period, however, the mineral resources of the United States were enormously...resources of the country. Many changes in the mineral industry other than increase in production have
Report (issue)
worth tome seven or eight The Fricof crystols mineral ond museum piece Is l^y Ronald Reagan, Governor...an overall guide been written on gold and gold mining of publications have no single report or to...deposits within the state, mostly in the Sierra Nevada. Some of these reports are classics now. Among...Sierra Nevada, Lindgren's 1911 professional paper on the number of very excellent reports Nevada and...longer district Hulin, respectively. the principal features of each gold-bearing district are described
Journal (issue)
l THE GEOLOGY OF LOWER MILFORD TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA. ( Part l ). By Charles W . Brown ...........DINNER MEETING OF THE MI NERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. By Philip R. Cos111insky .. 21 6.... '""""""" ., COMING EVENTS Annual Mineral Show State Mineral Society of Texas April 17-18, 1948 Driskill...Walton Bldg., Austin 11 , T exas) 11th Annual Gem & Mineral Exhibit M',ay 1-2, 1948 Masonic Temple, 471 W ...(brought to our attention) is the Annual Mineral Show of the State Mineral Society of Texas. It will be held
 
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