 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers are certainly...informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that is rare as fine specimens. Although...available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping with the Canadian...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...essentially a silver antimony sulfide in which copper occurs in substitution for silver in amounts up |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exceptionally sharp 4.2-cm acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis...including the well-known Silver Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County...of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the...abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite, although...although it was apparently sparse in some famous silver districts, such as Leadville, whereas others that |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 72-32 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR THE ALASKA HIGHWAY;...HIGHWAY; DAWSON CREEK, BRITISH COLUMBIA TO YUKON/ALASKA BORDER Ann P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES...by mail from Information Canada, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and...and Information Canada bookshops in HALIFAX - 1687 Barrington Street MONTREAL - 640 St. Catherine Street...Price subject to change without notice Informa tion Canada Ottawa 1973 - iii CONTENTS Page Abstract/Resume |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report SO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES 1992...1992 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 50 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR The Alaska...Columbia to Yukon/Alaska border Ann P. Sabina 1992 © Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1992 Available...Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents and other bookstores or by mail from Canada Communication...Ottawa, Canada KI A OS9 and from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Canada KIA |  | Lynch, J.V.G, Longstaffe, F.J, Nesbitt, B.E (1990) Stable isotopic and fluid inclusion indications of large-scale hydrothermal paleoflow, boiling, and fluid mixing in the Keno Hill Ag-Pb-Zn district, Yukon Territory, Canada. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54 (4) 1045-1059 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(90)90438-q | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and fluid mixing in the Keno Hill Ag-Pb-Zn district, Yukon Territory, Canada J. V. G. LYNCH,’ F. J. LONGSTAFFE...Geological Survey of Canada, 100 West Pender Street. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6R I R8 *Department...Ontario, Canada N6A 587 ‘Department of Geology, The University of Alberta. Edmonton. Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3...2E3 Abstract-The Keno Hill vein system of the central Yukon is restricted predominantly to the highly...highly fractured, graphitic Keno Hill Quartzite unit of Mississippian age. Hydrothermal mineral zoning is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Lead-Zinc-Silver-Cadmium Depositsof the Keno Hill-Galena Hill Area, Yukon,Canada R. W. BOYLE,R....the sedimentaryrocks of the Keno Hill-Galena Hill area, Yukon, Canada is relatively enrichedin Ss4 comparedwith...comparedwith sulfidesin the lead-zinc- silver-cadmium lodes. Thesedatasupportthe thesisthat duringdiffusionof...the Keno Hill-Galena the depositsand countryrocksof the Keno HillGalenaHill area of the Yukon. The studyis...studyis a Hill area (Fig. 1) are mainly sedimentaryin origin part of an extensive geochemical investigation |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family (Cook 1996). The species was chosen because...and historical importance as an ore mineral of silver, well-crystallized specimens of pyrargyrite have...recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...several Mexican occurrences. Ideally, pyrargyrite is silver antimony sulfide (Ag3SbS,). Most analyses show...amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 07:53 01 January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain...clearly the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information...temperatures and is often associated with pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, stibnite, boulangerite...such disparate localities as the Black Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified...Pennsylvania; the Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with |  | | Report (issue) | | PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........ ..... 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. .................... 484 W. E. Wilson The Arizona Silver Belt; Silver King to McMillenville ............................ .... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ...................................... 531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................E. Wilson & E. Jones Fluorite from the Oatman District, Mohave County, Arizona ............. .... .. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TERRY From antiqbi@, the quest for silver and, more recently, for silver minerals has M e n expbrers, conquerors...beautiful herringbone plates from Batopilas. Silver and silver-bearing minerals are part of the nobility...more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great wars. Silver is said to have...turn lead to silver (both of these myths are partially true!). To the mineral collector, silver minerals...unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more than one hundred different silver-bearing minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in... Placitas district (Sandia Mountains), NE of Albuquerque: schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains)...Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon subdistrict...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual...Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite...scheelite, vanadinite, wulfenite Corral Canyon District Various mines and prospects: anatase, rutile,...(top). Clinotyrolite spray, 3.4 mm across, Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite...Hot Springs Iron meteorite Lake (Mopung Hills) District Various mines and prospects: mopungite,* romeite |  | | Book (edition) | | MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Hydrothermal Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 -...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Because most of its mine development occurred in the late 1800s, this district, with its approximately...(also known as Bullard Peak) district is the largest district of the silver-nickel-cobaltbismuth-uranium-arsenic...some of the world's finest specimens of native silver and bismuth, silverbearing minerals, and cobalt...include Cobalt and Silver Islet, Ontario: Port Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada; Batopilas, Mexico;...Norway; Bou Azzer, Morocco; and the Consols mine at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. These deposits |  | | Report (issue) | | copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Frontispiece: Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest...percent of the state. Nevada’s public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, scenic | | | Book (edition) | | MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Hydrothermal Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART | | | Report (issue) | | Oliven i te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...David A. Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG...ustrations COLOR PLATES (follow,ng puge 242 I Acanthite -\gardite Aln1andine-Spessarttne Annabergi te |  | | Report (issue) | | Ontario, Canada and R. M. THOMPSON The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada NEW YORK...sulfides, sulfosalts, and opaque oxide minerals, and silver and mercury halides, calcite, dolomite, siderite...and the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC); Mines Branch, Ottawa, Canada; E. D. Taylor, Ottawa; Frank...identification of minerals by means of x-rays, Royal Soc. Canada, Trans., 35, [4], 105-113 —— (1947): Indexed...pattern given by gold from the Klondike River, Yukon Cell edge by Owen & Yates (Phil. Mag., 15, 472 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades...article does not give permis- Lincoln district: The Creole mine, located at the south end of the Mineral...Milford, has BOX ELDER x Lun'n TOOELE x Gold Hill Topaz Mtn. x NAB X Philip Richardson is a structural...east side of the range. Pine Grove district: This old mining district is the site of a deeply buried porphyry |  | | Book (edition) | | his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...position to become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and | | | Book (edition) | | Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...position to become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be cause of its large oil and gas exploration...past. A rare-earth pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded...1938. The Terlingua mining district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining here was contin uous...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...wrote for Rocks & Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Plata meaning “gold and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim...Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...Figure 1. Postcard view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS |  | | Report (issue) | | ... Mining districts........................................................ Hillsboro district...................................................... Mining history................................................. Kingston district.................................................. Mining history..................... Black Colt mine.......................................... Comstock mine............................. Lady Franklin mine....................................... Superior mine...................... |
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