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Pyrite from
Alvord Mine, Alvord Peak, Alvord District, Alvord Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alvord Mine, Alvord Peak, Alvord District, Alvord Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:767300
Long-form Identifier:1:3:767300:9
GUID (UUID V4):4a08133b-46a4-45e6-8987-4ab1b5515b67
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
25.9km (16.1 miles) Rio Hondo Mine, Goldstone, Goldstone Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Trade Rat occurrence, Williams Well, San Bernardino County, California, USA
31.5km (19.5 miles) Calico District (Daggett District; Calico-Daggett area), Calico Mts (Calico Hills), San Bernardino County, California, USA
42.9km (26.7 miles) Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
43.0km (26.7 miles) B-Site, Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
46.3km (28.8 miles) Ord Mountain Mine (Ord Mountain Mine System; Ord Mine; Ord Mountain deposits; Osborn; Rio Vista claim; Brilliant claim; Josephine claim; Belgium claim; Copper Junction claim), Ord Mountain, Ord Mountains, Ord Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
46.9km (29.2 miles) Pedry Mine (San Antonio Mine; Pedry deposit; Golden Witch Mine; Golden Witch deposit), Mount General (Mt General), Hinkley, Barstow Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
47.9km (29.7 miles) Copper Strand Mine (Independence Mine; Henry and Lee Mine; Haney and Lee), Rodman Mountains high point, Rodman Mountains, Belleville Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
52.8km (32.8 miles) SW cut, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
53.1km (33.0 miles) Ridge Ledge prospect, Otto Mountain, Baker, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
> Geologic Investigations of * Southern California Deserts GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1089 , This...Geological Survey. Geologic investigations of southern California deserts. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print, Off.,...chapters A-C. Includes bibliographies. 1. Geology California Mohave Desert. I. Title. (Series) For sale by...(A) Geology of the Alvord Mountain quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California, by F. M. Byers, Jr...Geology of the Rogers Lake and Kramer quadrangles, California, by T. W. Dibblee, Jr..___..._....__...___._
Report (volume)
Quicksilver Deposits of Steens Mountain and Pueblo Mountains Southeast Oregon GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...ECONOMIC GEOLOGY QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF STEENS MOUNTAIN AND PUEBLO MOUNTAINS, SOUTHEAST OREGON By HOWEL...deposits occur in the south-central part of Harney County and are more than 100 miles from either Burns,...only settlements. The range consisting of Steens Mountain and Pueblo Mountains is a dissected fault block...minor fractures occur near, and parallel to, the mountain front. The quicksilver lodes were formed in and
Journal (issue)
the Hilgard, La Grande SE, Glass Hill, and Craig Mountain 7 Y.z -minute quadrangles (scale 1:24,(00). Price...Photomicrograph of quartz-mica-graphite variety of Condrey Mountain Schist, discussed in article beginning on page...typical of later stages of deformation of Condrey Mountain Schist. Each edge of photo represents about 0...Geology of the Condrey Mountain Schist, northern Klamath Mountains, California and Oregon . . .. Three...Mount Bolivar near the Coos. Curry. and Douglas County boundaries. The area is about 31 km(19mi) long
Book
Gold) & Page 2, (Drywashing Gold) Courtesy of California Division of Mines and Geology OTHER BOOKS BY...BY THE AUTHOR WHERE TO FIND GOLD IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Copyright 1975 by James Klein 3 c Library...Gold-Copper Mine, Stedman District. The Photo of underground workings in the mine, in San Bernardino County...courtesy of California Department of Mine and Geology. 6 Introduction The Southern California desert contains...Rosamond-Mohave Area This district is the closest to Los Angeles. Shown as the Mohave-Rosamond district by the State
Report (volume)
...................................... Steens Mountain prospect.............................. Fisher...... Arizona mine.......................................... Prospects on Pueblo Mountain................parts of the Steens and Pueblo Mountains, Harney County, Oregon.................................. In pocket...Geologic sketch map of the tunnel at the Steens Mountain prospect..................... 250 41. The lodes...Clyde P. Ross ABSTRACT The Steens and Pueblo mountain ranges together form a shallow crescent of northerly
Report (issue)
...... Pike Creek and Alvord Creek Formations................... Hart Mountain Volcanic and Sedimentary....... Hart Mountain-Coyote Hills Area.......................... Pueblo and Steens Mountain Range-Front...the Adel quadrangle is from the Opalite mercury district, which is associated with the McDermitt Caldera...production of mercury and clay from the Opalite mercury district, in the McDermitt Caldera Complex, other minerals...mineral deposits of the Coyote Hills mining district, Lake County, Oregon: Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon State
Report (issue)
three conceptual plays are proposed: Alvord Valley-Steens Mountain, Harney Basin and Vale basin. Geohistory...encompasses eastern Oregon, western Nevada, and eastern California. The conceptual plays presented here are derived...Menlo Park, California, who provided a gravity map and an interpretation of the Steens Mountain and Harney... exposures of Miocene Alvord Creek beds along the eastern side of Steens Mountain by Barker and from the...sample are driven off and are recorded as the Si peak. With increasing temperature, the organic matter
Report (volume)
Sheepshead Mountains, Wildcat Canyon, and Table Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Matheur and Harney Counties...Sheepshead Mountains, Wildcat Canyon, and Table Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Malheur and Harney Counties...1739 MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: ALVORD DESERT REGION, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...Sheepshead Mountains, Wildcat Canyon, and Table Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Malheur and Harney Counties...wilderness. 3. Mines and mineral resources Oregon Table Mountain Wilderness. 4. Sheepshead Mountains Wilderness
Book (edition)
A Field Guide to the Most Important Areas in California. by DAROLD J. HENRY, A.B., M.S. FIRST E D1T...AROLD J. HENRY 1781 Fleming Street P omona, California 2 GEM TRAIL JOURNAL Table of Contents FOREWORD...FOSSIL HUNTER SONOMA COUNTY HUMBOLDT COUNTY CARPENTERIA FOSSILS SAN MATEO COUNTY FOSSILS SANTA BARBARA...VITT MEADOWS HIGH SIERRA GEM STONES MONTEREY COUNTY SAN BENITO JADEITE CINNABAR LOCALITY DARWIN MINERALS...CANYON KERN COUNTY DRY LAICOUNTY ONYX DEPOSIT WILDROSE CANYON . . . . . BROWN MOUNTAIN LOCALITY
Report (volume)
----------Six new members of the James Run Formation, Cecil County, northeastern Maryland, by Michael W. Higgins ...Arizona -----Generalized geologic map of Cecil County, Md., showing members of the James Run Formation...Va.; the Silurian outcrop area on Massanutten Mountain and adjoining ridges; and localities mentioned...Shiloh Marl Member. AMMONIA TANKS MEMBER (of Timber Mountain Tuff) (of Piapi Canyon Group) . early Pliocene...Volcanic suites and related cauldrons of Timber Mountain-Oasis VaJ,ley caldera complex, southern Nevada:
Report (issue)
dark sraY with some rusty spots from oxidation of pyrite, very fine-grained even textured phyllite (Peck...chlorite and carbonaceous material, with accessory pyrite, feldspar, epidote, zircon, and calcite. Some...formation has subsequently been restricted (Bell and Alvord, 1976) by separating the distinctive Fishbrook...and underlying Shawsheen Gneiss from its base. Alvord (1975) also divided the-restricted Nashoba into... has a maximum thickness of 15,010 m (Bell and Alvord, 1976). A broad migmatitic zone, num, is present
Report (issue)
volcanic rocks are shown on the State Bell and Alvord (1976) described "unnamed stratified bedrock map...thick-bedded quartzite assigned to the Westboro Forma- and Alvord (1976) mapped a thin-bedded quartzite primarily...Westboro Quartz- group (Bell and Alvord's Greenleaf Mountain Formation ite of Perry and Emerson (1903, p. 155)...metamorphic suite Nelson (1974) and of Bell and Alvord (1976) (table 3) above the main sequence of metavolcanic...of the unnamed stratified remnants of Bell and Alvord on the basis of their descriptions. The gneiss
Report (issue)
part of the Sierra Nevada is known as the White Mountain Eange; the southern portion of it is termed the...notable producer of silverlead ore in the State of California. Gold ores have also been important, and recently...of the valley with reference to the confining mountain ranges.2 The present report is based on field...the fortieth parallel and adjacent portions Of California, 2d ed.: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 208,1905...Geology and water resources of Owens Valley, California: Water-Supply Paper U. S. Geol. Survey No. 181
Report (volume)
formations __ _ ____ Problems in correlating the San Manuel Formation and Whitetail Conglomerate _____...Metadiabase sills in Negaunee Iron-formation near National Mine, Mich., by George C. Simmons ___________________...Lake sill ______________________________ National Mine sill _____________________________ Ash-flow stratigraphy...stratigraphy and caldera structures in the San Juan volcanic field, southwestern Colorado, by T. A. Steven...Carpenter Ridge (and Bachelor Mountain) Tuff ___________ Rat Creek and Nelson Mountain Tuffs ________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold mining in Alabama in the Cragford district of Clay County, the workings which entered the unoxidized...Palmer, Alaska. ARIZONA—From a locality in Mohave County in N . W . Arizona, we have an interesting specimen...attraction and opened year round, daily and Sunday. CALIFORNIA—"I am sending you some xls which came from the...glauberite xls mailed you last June from Imperial County near Bertam Siding on the Southern Pacific R.R...ROCKS AND MINERAL chalcopyrite, galena, and iron pyrite. This specimen was found in a road cut. I searched
Journal (issue)
sharp upward turn during the year as more and more county and city governments requested assistance from...expans i b1e s ha 1e quarry and plant in Washington County was assumed by GAT X Leasing Corporation. The plant...operation in Christmas Valley in northern Lake County. Table 1. Minerals Clays Gem stones Lime Nickel...I. IRON DYKE CU-AU 5. MEADDf: LAKE CU SILVER PEAK CU-ZN-AG 13. EIGHT DOLLAR MTN. NI 2. BAYHORSE... NI The Iron Dyke copper mine on the Snake River in eastern Baker County was explored by Texasgulf.
Book
r '* - < s i. \ \ ■ MAR 2 3 1983 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 223 0069 4304 \/w jin'll DATE... DESERT FEVER f An Overview of Mining in the California Desert Larry M. Vredenburgh Gary L. Shumway...Russell D. Hartill Living West Press Canoga Park, California Copyright c 1981 by Russell D. Hartill, Gary...of Desert Fever: An Overview of Mining in the California Desert has been limited to 1,000 copies of which...Future Imperial County 7 Riverside County 24 San Bernardino County Kern County 181 Inyo County 222 58 269
Report (issue)
hornblende and biotite. 10- In many specimens accessory pyrite and magnetite are abundant". 1,4 A. E. Nelson...some epidote, 17 sphene, chlorite, sericite, and pyrite; pyroxene altered to hornblende 18 and hornblende...magnetite and minor, amounts of biotite, olivine, pyrite, 12 and zircon. 13 He concludes on the basis...Nelson (1975) and the Burlington and Greenleaf Mountain of 20- 21 Bell (1976). The map unit includes...between the Greenleaf Mountain Formation and the Bloody Bluff Fault »/ (Bell and Alvord, 197SJ, 1976). The
Book (edition)
Netarts Bay, Cape Meares, and Tillamook Bay Saddle Mountain, a remnant of submarine Miocene lava flows Depoe...Columbia River gorge between Bonneville Dam and Wind Mountain Index map of the Columbia River gorge . . . ..... . . . . . . Large landslide south of Humbug Mountain in deformed pre-Tertiary rock Colun1bia River...ancient Lake Chewaucan south of Paisley Steens Mountain from Alvord Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....ens Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steens Mountain scarp with Alvord Ranch and Alvord Desert
Report (volume)
Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Harney County, Oregon, and Humboldt County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Harney County, Oregon, and Humboldt County, Nevada By ROBERT C. ROBACK, DEAN...MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS STEENS MOUNTAIN RINCON REGION, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of the Pueblo Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Harney County, Oregon, and Humboldt County, Nevada. U.S...mineral resources Pueblo Mountain Wilderness (Or. and Nev.) 2. Pueblo Mountain Wilderness (or and Nev.)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining here was...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...(Smith, 1988) and a modification of that in the "California Locality Index" (Kampf et al., 1989). I have...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA (neal.1@nd.edu) 2 Institute of Meteoritics, Dept...Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, NM 87131, USA (cshearer@unm.edu) Volcanic glass beads returned...and Planetary Physics, Univ. California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA. (hhuber@ucla.edu) Refractory...Facility, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA (swdeore@ucdavis.edu)...National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Akaganeite is believed to exist primarily in the
Report (issue)
Resources Area, Humboldt of the Harney County, Pueblo County, Mountains Oregon, Nevada Pueblo study...MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE PUEBLO AREA, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON COUNTY, NEVADA Steven R. Munts By and Spencee... (OR-002-81/NV-020-642), Harney County, OR, and Humboldt County, This open file report will be summarized...gold. The Victor group, especially the Rabbit Hole mine, northeast of the SA, has also produced small quantities...placer gold production from the Pueblo Mountain mining district and vicinity. At least 628 lode and 4
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, USA Stephen B. Castor ) , Christopher D. Henry NeÕada...School of Mines, Mail Stop 178, Reno, NV 89557, USA Received 14 June 1999; accepted 24 September 1999...opal, organic material, and pyrite. Deposits in the Lakeview U district, Oregon are hosted by weakly...and numerous sulfides. Minor U occurrences at Buff Peak, Nevada, the newly recognized, westernmost topaz...and mineralogy, the McDermitt, Lakeview, and Buff Peak deposits are hydrothermal; sparse, published fluid
Report (issue)
DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 193 California Division of Mines and Geology Sacramento, California, 1970...By William B. DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA Clark Geologist, California Division of Mines & Geology...Geology, Sacramento, California UNIVERSITY LIBRARY U.C DAVIS '~'^ JUL 'I 'i GOV INFO or"! BULLETIN 193...on display in the Division of Mines and Geology San Francisco's Ferry Building. Melted down as gold,...to the gold deposits in California. Although on treatise a vast California, there in of the knov/n
 
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