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Limonite from
Quincy Mine, Alta, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quincy Mine, Alta, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:800888
Long-form Identifier:1:3:800888:6
GUID (UUID V4):9539b9ca-16b8-473d-9a92-94fade83f8aa
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Emma Mine, Alta, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Flagstaff Mine, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Davenport Mine, Alta, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Michigan-Utah Mine, Alta, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Prince of Wales Mine, Silver Fork, Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
2.8km (1.8 miles) Cardiff Mine, Mill D South Fork, Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Pittsburgh Mine (Pittsburg Consolidated M. and M. Company; Pioneer Consolidated; Hudson and War Eagle claims), American Fork Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Regulator Johnson Mine (Silver King Claims; Wasatch Gold Mine), Mineral Fork, Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Bog Mine, American Fork Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Miller Mine Group (Miller Mining and Smelting Co.), American Fork Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 2. Utah By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...detailed study of the supergene zinc deposits of Utah UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache...____ _ Salt Lake County_____________________________________________ Alta area-Big Cottonwood distri...district__________________________ Alta area-Little Cottonwood district________________________ Summit Cou
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE PARK CITY DISTRICT, UTAH BY JOHN J\IIASON BOUTWELL WITH CO)l"TRIB"CTIO)JS..._____________ ___ _ History and development of the mining industry ....................... . ...... ·............................ . History of Park City district ................. , ............................:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::·::::::::::: Mine workings ............... _·_............ . ............. . Descriptive geology of the Park City district .............................................
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES.......................................... ·. .... Lake deposits..........................................81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. reports are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham... began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................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)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COTTONWOOD-AMERICAN FORK AREA, UTAH BY F. C. CALKINS AND B. S. BUTLER...Petrographic details_______________ Granodiorite (Alta stock)________________ General character and occurrence-____...details____ _____________ Quartz monzonite (Little Cottonwood stock)-___-_._____--___-_-___________ General...lime__----_____-------_----_____-__ Diorite of Big Cottonwood Creek_________ Lamprophyric dikes__.._---_----_-_-...---54 General features.______________-_---_--54 Alta thrust zone.__--___________-----__55 Columbus o
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds, etc...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (volume)
RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 11003 4026 W Mais Salt ЗНА + INDEXEDY APR 80 $ THE BACCHUS PLANT...Illustrated . OU THESALT LAKE 689388 W G E N I I V N E I R M ... MINING REVIEW Table of Contents...23 VOL . 17 ESTABLISHED, APRIL , 1899 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH , APRIL 15 , 1915 No. 1 SINGLE COPY, 15...RICHMOND MACHINERY COMPANY SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH Il f 2 THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW , APRIL 15, 1915...attention than to OTHERBRANCH the Engineering and Mining Trade.BUSINESS Carrying a dowe full line give in
Book
OF UTAH'S MINING INDUSTRY By Utah Mining Association 918 Kearns Building Salt Lake City, Utah MILES P...material was available to give Utah citizens an account of their mining industry. Most of the available...segments of mining activity. We have attempted in the following pages to discuss mining in all phases...picture of the mineral deposits and of the mining activity in Utah as time and effort permit. In the writing...the person interested in, but unacquainted with mining, mineral processing, and mineral economics, could
Journal (volume)
RE HE SALT LAKE ‫עתנו‬ ESTABLISHED APRIL SE DY. VOL . 18. No. 1 . pood SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH , APRIL...Activities at the Howell Mine BY WILL C. HIGGINS The Howell Mining Company, of Salt Lake City, is making preliminary...South Fork The property of the Howell Mining Com of Big Cottonwood canyon, about twentyfive miles, in a...the great Cardiff mine, its near to the discovery of the property of the Howell Mining Company, of the...that Cottonwood was pay from the very grass -roots. The discovery of the Howell reads al district has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
type plates to fit the cylinders, and leaving but little to accomplish,save the Ilufficiently rapid disposal...nearly two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of importance in these States. The greater part...with stephanite, from the Reese River district, Lander County. Among these are several quite valuable...transparent crystals of quartz, from the Chase Mine, Lander County. The ores from this locality are remarkable...pieces of crystallized sulphur from Hum­ boldt County, some large pieces of selenite from the same locality
Journal (volume)
OF IOWA 3 1858 045 060 781 | TE THE SALT LAKE G N I MIN REVIEW . ESTABLISHED APRIL11099 ...30, 1915 The Salt Lake Mining Review 1601 Walker Bank Building SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH 2 620.05 SI...Recent Progress at the Alta Tunnel .: By Murray Schick . 18 19 Pack Creek , Utah , Has Large, Rich Carnotite... Editorial Make the Prospect Pay. Editorial The Utah Products Show The Prospector and His Burro . By:...1914. The Utah Consolidated Stone Co. The Nevada . : Items : The Cameron Coal Mines , Utah Detail Costs
Book
kaolin-like mineral containing 13.7% water and a little magnesia. It occurs in bluish or greenish veins...AI2O3 • 5 Si02 ' Melhase, J. (1926) Engin. Mining Journ-Press, New York, vol. 121, p. 841. Spencer...It is named from the locality, Askana, Ozurgety district, Georgia, vol- Transcaucasia. Belyankin, D....T. Batchelor, a former manager of the Mt. Lyell Mine, Tasmania. The nnineral resembles pyrophyllite,...for a clay mineral first found as gouge clay in a mine mineral was first called leverrierite by Earson
Book (volume)
............................................452 Utah .................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Book (volume)
............................................387 Utah...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
............................................387 Utah...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Report (volume)
Geologists: Bulletin, vol. 2. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 133-144; Transactions...nos. i-7. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 76-78, 82, S3; Preliminary...Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 69-80. Ottawa, Out. Canadian Mining Journal, vol...34, nos. 1-3. Chapel Hill, N. Cl Engineering and Mining Journal, vols.. 105, 106. New York. Engineers'...Institution of: Mining and Metallurgy.:. Bulletin;, nos. 1(30-171. London.. Institution of Mining Engineers:
Book
this publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted...Shore Plaza, lots of legal questions would arise. Mining law is vague in Massachusetts, state lawyers say...of Environmental Quality Engineering. In fact, mining hasn't been a big issue in Massachusetts since...futile effort to reopen the former Chipman silver mine in Newbury. A brief exploratory foray into the Berkshires...by several Western mining companies led to a survey of the former Davis copper mine in Rowe, but that
Journal (issue)
Vic:4t•Pr••id-nt, Bonald L. Iv•• D. P. Ground, Too•l•, Utah Secretary-Treasurer, Peter Zodac Box 29, Pe•bkilL...VIRGINIA. By W. R. Brown .... RIEBECKITE FROM WEST QUINCY, MASS. By Gu1111a,- Bjareby .... LUZONlTE FOUND................................. .-.............. MINE YIELDING GEM SPHALERITE ABANDONED MANY YEARS .·...and were then inject. ed to the higher levels. Little differen. tiation took place in the bodies now...calcite, topaz, and the siderite altered to OC· the limonite and microdine to kaolinite. titc Glaciation destroyed
Report (volume)
Bulletin, vol. 43. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 49-60; Transactions,...4th ser., vols. 31, 32. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: -Bulletin, vol. 14, nos. 1-12; Papers...Arkansas Geological Survey: Water Powers of Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark. Association of American Geographers:...pp. 73-148. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 60, 61, 62. San Francisco... Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 32. Toronto and Montreal, Canada. Canadian Mining Institute: Quarterly
Book (volume)
Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E
Book (volume)
Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though...Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E
 
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