Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Montmorillonite from
Railroad Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Railroad Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:710523
Long-form Identifier:1:3:710523:4
GUID (UUID V4):caa94128-339d-4ef9-838a-220caa6ed80a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared in...the Nevada Bureau of Mines 1162-B Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada By KEITH...BULLETIN 1162-B Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING..._________________ Geologic setting of the Railroad mining district______________________ Geologic history...System____________________________________________ Nevada Formation._______________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magmatism in Gold Mineralization of the Carlin Trend, Nevada MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD C. NOBLE, Department...Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...Geology, Mail Stop 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Gold...Gold Company, P.O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Beast, low-grade (7.3 Mt @ 0.7 g/t), disseminated...disseminated Au deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, is unique among Carlin-type Au deposits in having
Report (issue)
Area, Nevada .... GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 867-8 Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau...Summary of Resources in the Carlin-Pinon Range Area, Nevada By 1. FRED SMITH, JR. and KEITH B. KETNER With...AREA, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 867·B Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau...Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada. (Geology of the Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada) (Geological Survey Professional...Stratigraphic-Tertiary. 3. Geology-Nevada-Carlin region. 4. Mines and mineral resources-Nevada-Carlin region. I. Ketner
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
347–383 Igneous Geology of the Carlin Trend, Nevada: Development of the Eocene Plutonic Complex and...Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 AND CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY† Nevada Bureau of Mines and...and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 Abstract The Carlin trend contains the largest...several major gold-producing areas of north-central Nevada and contains the greatest concentration of Carlin-type...*Present address: Newmont Mining Corporation, 337 W. Commercial Street, Elko, Nevada 89801. 0361-0128/06/3579/347-37
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analysis: granitic plutons of the eastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah RICHARD Yale University, (Received Department...to N 52 m.y. Thirty granitic plutons in eastern Nevada and western Utah have been dated. Plutons in the...Mountains, Whitehorse Range, Cortez Range, Austin mining district, and at Mount Hamilton and Whistler Mountain...early Cretaceous age. The Ruby Hill stock, Eureka mining dist)rict is latest Cretaceous, the Bingham Canyon...indicate that’ the h’evadan orogeny affect,ed all of Nevada and not just the western half where eugeosynclinal
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)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....within the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Report (issue)
the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Some Fossil Data...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada By THOMAS E. MULLENS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...gold ore deposits at the Carlin and Cortez mines, Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1063) Bibliography:...Stratigraphic Devonian. 3. Petrology Nevada. 4. Paleontology Nevada. 5. Geology Nevada. I. Title. II. Series: United
Report (issue)
Western United States Minnesota Latah County, Idaho Spokane County, Wash. lone, Calif. Mesa Alta, N.M....in Eastern United StatesMissouri Colorado King County, Wash. Cowlitz, Wash. Hobart Butte, Oreg. Alberhill...Generalized geologic section, Macon-Gordon kaolin district, Georgia Electron micrograph of kaolin of Eocene...residual kaolin deposits in the Arkansas bauxite district Diagrammatic section of kaolin deposits in the...Brongniart from a Pennsylvanian coal bed, Leslie County, Ky., showing delicate outer cortical tissue _
Report (volume)
_________________________________________________ History of mining.____________________________________________ Calcium...quadrangle. 2. Summary of stratigraphy, lithology, and mining terminology. 3. Subsurface contour map of the top...and eastern edges of the land-pebble phosphate district. Loose quartz sand of Pleistocene and Recent age...Valley Formation of Pliocene age crop out in the mining pits. Older formations including the Ocala Limestone...mineral to aluminum phosphate minerals and montmorillonite to kaolinite. A soil profile characterized
Report (issue)
Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PA..PER...MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT AND SURROUNDING AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA FRONTISPIECE. Buckingham area. Group of...Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, DAVID W. BlAKE, THOMAS...COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...molybdenum deposit and surrounding area, Lander County, Nevada I by Ted G. Theodore ... [et al.]. With a section
Report (issue)
financially in part by, the numerous Federal, State, County and City agencies listed on pages A133 to A136..._____ District and regional studies._________________ Iron deposits in the Birmingham district, Alab...Utah_______________________ Silver in silicified rocks, Nevada and Washington. ______________________________...metals and industrial minerals ______________ District studies.____________________________ Beryllium...Montana.___________ Potash deposits in the Carlsbad district, New Mexico _________________________ Saline minerals
Report (issue)
Professional Paper 525. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies listed on pages A221-A225...43 Pacific Northwest ______________________ _ 44 Nevada _______________________________ _ 45 California...Investigations related to nuclear energy __________ _ Nevada Test Site studies ____ - _- _________ - __ _ 51...Stratigraphy and structural geology __________ _ 101 Nevada and eastern California __________ _ 101 Western...California ____________________________ _ 103 Eastern Nevada and Utah ______________ _ 104 Eastern Arizona,
 
Mineral and/or Locality  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: April 16, 2024 04:29:10
Go to top of page