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Galena from
Little Giant mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Little Giant mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:725307
Long-form Identifier:1:3:725307:2
GUID (UUID V4):429efedd-c52e-46fa-9d79-8a489e638721
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
0.7km (0.4 miles) Irish Rose mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Buckingham mine (Hardy mine; Bentley mine; O'Leary mine), Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Midland and Hardy prospect, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Fairview Property, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Bentley Mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Fuller prospect, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Contention mine, Copper Basin, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Widow mine, Copper Basin, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Sweet Marie mine, Copper Basin, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Copper Basin Mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
References
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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
Report (issue)
the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 459-B...the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada By RALPH J. ROBERTS and D. C. ARNOLD GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL Summary of base- SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...and precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING..._________________ Battle Formation ____ - ______ -- _____ Antler Peak Limestone______________ Edna Mountain Formation_
Report (issue)
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Galena Canyon Quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada by JeffL.Doebrich1 Open-File... Prepared in cooperation with Santa Fe Pacific Mining Inc. under Cooperative Research and Development...MS-176, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 89557-0047 DESCRIPTION OF MAP UNITS Qd...Qof Tb Tc Tgp Mine dump (Holocene) Present around active and abandoned mining operations in the Copper...bodies and small plugs extends from the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon (N 1A sec. 7, T. 31 N., R. 44
Report (issue)
geochemistry in the Copper Canyon area, Lander County, Nevada by Boris B. Kotlyar, Ted G. Theodore, and...GEOCHEMISTRY IN THE COPPER CANYON AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA by Boris B. Kotlyar, Ted G. Theodore, and...as 5 million oz Au prior to the startup of major mining operations. Machine-contoured plots for Au, Ag...north-central Nevada, and in the southern part of the Battle Mountain Mining District (Roberts and Arnold... disturbance of the original ground surface by mining activities at Copper Canyon was restricted to the
Report (issue)
Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PA...MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT AND SURROUNDING AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA FRONTISPIECE. Buckingham area. Group...Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, DAVID W. BlAKE, THOMAS...PORPHYRY 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
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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
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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
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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 (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 Copyright© 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
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the Snow Gulch Quadrangle, Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada by Ted G. Theodore1 with a section on Radiolarians...Pennsylvanian and Permian Antler Peak Limestone, Lander County, Nevada by Rex Alan Hanger2 , Ellen E. Strong3 ...94-436 Prepared in cooperation with Santa Fe Pacific Mining Inc. under Cooperative Research and Development...University Washington, DC 20052 ^Battle Mountain Gold Co. Battle Mountain, NY 89820 CORRELATION OF MAP..."Bluff on large-scale topographic maps of the mining district (Theodore and others, 1992) is present in an
Report (issue)
HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED ROCKS ALONG THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN-EUREKA, NEVADA MINERAL BELT USING LANDSAT IMAGES ...COLOR-RATIO COMPOSITE IMAGE . . . . ..... 32 Battle Mountain. ................ ..... 33 Topographic Effects...areas of s- 5 hydrothermal alteration along the Battle Mount a in -Eureka e mineral belt .............of north-central s j | 9 Nevada including area of the Battle Mountain -Eureka mineral belt .........color-ratio composite image of part of 13 the Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral belt with MSS 4/5 as i* blue
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specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...• Idaho Falls 1 ' r_ r--- 'f"Q --; - Souu,;Mountain : I•__ .... _ Spencer ,(~\ - -, _Custer r j'...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...collecting areas. Collectors lost one important battle in May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth...for about fifty years, this area was popular for little more than a decade, providing the collector with
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
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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
Report (issue)
the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Humboldt and Lander Counties Nevada By RALPH J. ROBERTS, GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL...regional relations of geologic units in a complex mining district \ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...the Antler Peak quadrangle, Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964... in pocket. Bibliography: p. 87-90. 1. Geology-Nevada-Antler Peak quadrangle. I. Title. II. Title: Antler
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Ore Deposits of the. South Silverton Mining Area, San Juan County, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Metal Mining Fund and the Colorado Geological Survey Board ...Silverton Mining Area, San Juan County, Colorado By DAVID J. VARNES SOUTH SILVERTON MINING AREA, SAN...SAN JUAN COUNTY, COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 378-A Prepared in cooperation with the...the Colorado Metal Mining Fund and the Colorado Geological Survey Board UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING
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ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese
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ath IO wns : POEL eieeet be eas, NN 419-3 Nevada; a 03 G ps 127)oO to the Silver state The...DUE TTT JA S = * aint Demgo = en ae NEVADA A Guide to the Silver State mv DA A GUIDE...the Work Projects Administration in the State of Nevada aa AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES LPR US BATENS = BY...PACIFIC Sponsored by Dr. Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, Nevada State Historical Society, Inc. FORDS & MORT :... COPYRIGHT, 1940, BY NEVADA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1940 THE NEVADA STATE HISTORICAL
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Les Farges mine ................................ 261 by A. Brousse...Brousse Pyromorphite from the Couer d’Alene district, Id a h o .......................... 273 by J. A. Crowley... Ferroaxinite from New Melones Lake, Calaveras County, California, a remarkable new locality...........602-299-5274 COVER: GROSSULAR from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec. The crystal measures 1 cm. Specimen...about this locality see the article on the Jeffrey mine in vol. 10 (1979), no. 2, p. 69-80. n o te s fr
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................/................:. Methods of mining and treatment of ores....-....--. ...... ........Silver Lake mine..... . -.-.-..--....-.---..-.-. ....................... 145 145 145 149 Iowa mine ........Royal Tiger mine......................... 159 ......--.....-....-.-....-. Buckeye mine ..............Titusville. mine ... .........--.--..-.---...-..-.................... 161 Lodes of Hazelton Mountain..................-.-...--......-..........-.,.:. Aspen mine ..... ... .....,.-...--....----.-.--..---.-....
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23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS & MINERALS...and from a relatively large number of European mining districts. Strikingly perfect, transparent pyromorphite...pyromorphite after galena and cerussite are reported, as are those of apatite, galena, hemimorphite, hinsdalite...zones of deposits containing relatively abundant galena at depth. It occurred so plentifully in the upper...pyromorphite occurred at the Lubec lead mine, the Gouldsboro mine, and with wulfenite at the upper Colton
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ever since. Besides the La Grange mine, the largest hydraulic mine now in active operation, it contains...mines, particularly in the northern portion of the county. Large bodies of gravel of lower grade yet remain... Murphy, of the Union Hill mine; Mr. Pierre Bouery, of the La Grange mine; Mr. W. D. Ayers, of Poker...Globe mine; but more particularly to Mr. H. L. Lowden, formerly county surveyor of Trinity County, who...prominent, remarkably even crested ridge of South Fork Mountain, having an altitude of nearly 6,000 feet. The
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gravel of streams and in veins. The veins of Gilpin County are especially noteworthy for the amount of gold...leaf gold were taken from the Printer Boy mine, Lake County, in tellurium in many in 1870. In combination...combination with of the mines in Boulder County. SILVER. occurs crystallized in cubes, octahedrons...The Boulder Nest mine in Clear Creek County, and the Caribou mine in Boulder County were especially productive...me- tallic. Has been found sparingly of Boulder County. in the tellurium-bearing mines Minerals of
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Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Report (issue)
zinc, tungsten, and copper. In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San...San Juans one of Colorado's four great mining regions along with Leadville, Cripple Creek, and Central City...during the eighteenth century, were the first to mine in the San Juans. One of the earliest recorded expeditions...kingdom that there were silver mines caused the mountain to be called Sierra de la Plata [Silver Mountains]...aware of the area's mineral potential. Well-known mountain man and guide, Kit Carson "strongly insisted"
 
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