 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gold fields of California on a trail from Salt Lake City, Utah. A few of these â49ers, while pausing for...historian. His great-great uncle, James G. Fair; was mine superintendent at the Comstock. 382 ROCKS & MINERALS...find out what the blue sand was and continued to mine until the sand turned into a decomposed mass of...named the Ophir, which became the first bonanza mine on the Comstock. After a short time, another local...believe the results. The sample went $3,000 in silver and $876 in gold, per ton. This information wasnât |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the Comstock District, Nevada DONALD M. HUDSONâ 1540 Van Petten Street, Reno, Nevada 89503 Abstract...deposits of the world-renowned Comstock district of western Nevada constitute one of several superimposed...superimposed Miocene hydrothermal systems. In the district, Mesozoic metasedimentary and igneous rocks are overlain...kaolinite alteration exposed at the periphery of the district may be linked to preore alteration near the paleowater...elsewhere in the district. Pliocene to Holocene reactivation of faults has disrupted the district, redistributing |  | | Journal (issue) | | âContinued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ........................................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................201 by P. Bancroft, /. Car, M. Zorz & G. Kobler Silver minerals of the Trebsko deposit, Pribram orefield...Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because |  | | Book | | Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702, USA N. Bariand 90/91; British Museum (NH) London...exception is the mining museum of Kongsberg, Norway, showing only a single species (silver). We arrived at...widely: 31 by universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16...Vautierstraat 29, B-1010 Brussels 02-6480475 SE of City centre, near the "Pare Leopold" . Daily, from 9...collections from that Belgian colony. The single-storey, rectangular complex of buildings is set in spacious |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIKRE ASARCO, Inc., 510 East Plumb Lane, Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract The Comstocklode, a world-classpreciousmetal...Comstockdistrict 15 mi (24 km) southeastof Reno,Nevada,formed 13.7 Ma in Mioceneeruptiverocksof the Alta...Occidental(Brunswick)lode, Silver City veins, andFloweryveins.The districtcoverspartsof Storey, Lyon,andWashoeCountiesin...:::::::::::::::::::::::: FLAT,.â˘"..' .......... â˘':'â˘O,.â˘' -. . SILVER OITY â˘:::'::?-:-.. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::...ousand feet Davidsonimmediatelywest of Virginia City in the of Alta rockscoveredDavidsonapophyses and |  | | Report (issue) | | Mines in the Smiley Creek Area of the Vienna Mining District, Blaine and Camas Counties, Idaho Victoria...Mines in the Smiley Creek Area of the Vienna Mining District, Blaine and Camas Counties, Idaho Victoria...Mines in the Smiley Creek Area of the Vienna Mining District, Blaine and Camas Counties, Idaho. . . . ....Mines in the Smiley Creek Area of the Vienna Mining District, Blaine and Camas Counties, Idaho. . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Vienna Mine.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Larry & Carmen Piekenbrock 1180 York Avenue Canon City, CO 81212-8612 719-275-7530 (Call for Appt.) Fine...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had...David Shannon Minerals Evan Jones Minerals Copper City Rock Shop John & K aren M ediz 566 A sh Street Globe...South America, has yielded billions o f dollars in silver, is the type locality fo r two tin sulfidesâ berndtite |  | | Journal (issue) | | fluorite crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection;...AUTHORSâ ADDRESSES Jack A. Crowley P.O. Box 5644 Reno, Nevada 89513 Rock H. Currier 13100 Spring Street Baldwin................................. History of Peru Mining in Peru The Mineral Specimen Business C o l l e..................................... Quiruvilca district, Santiago de Chuco province, department of La.................................... Pasto Bueno district, Pallasca province, department of Ancash R a u |  | | Book | | f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %â ... ; 'jxt . 1 â \ 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world's copper production, nearly 30 percent of the silver production, significant amounts of lead, zinc,...Americans were obtaining gold from placer deposits and mining and smelting oxidized copper ores in central Peru...the Quechm (the Inca) had words for gold (cori), silver (colqui), the ruby silvers (cochiso), and argentite...(tucuna), which implies a rudimentary knowledge of mining and mineralogy. The mineral wealth was an integral...Gold was thought of as the "sweat of the sun," silver was the "blood of the moon," and emerald was the |  | | Journal (issue) | | ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ . ¡¡¡¡¡ . ¡¡¡¡ ............. SULTEPEC SILVER MINES OF MEXICO. By Horatio C. Ray ...... WORLD'S...their compounds may be artificialJy replaced by silver or other metals. In form the zeolites include independent...Although photographs do not do these specimens justice the reader will get some idea of their beauty....Intrusive Triassic Diah:ise at Goose Creek, Loudown County, Virginia, PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MusETIM...high, is in the Big Bend Park of southern Brewster County whose southern boundary is the Rio Grande. Some |  | | Journal (issue) | | Grice Famous mineral localities: the Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire .................................... J. Gauthier & V. T. King The Fat Jack mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .................................& L. Wagner, Jr. The Monitor-Mogul mining district, Alpine County, California .........................malachite on chrysocolla, from the M ashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire. Sorbonne collection, Paris: photo...will involve a magnificent, 6.3-cm Virgin Valle; Nevada, opal specimen (see photo on page 70!), officially |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California...............................Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi ........................................Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland .......................................15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: Silver .................................................visiting the Blanchard mine or other mines in the Hansonburg mining district near Bingham, New Mexico |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner...circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ......................... Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................BERYL crystal, 7 cm tall, from the Virgem da Lapa district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sorbonne collec tion,...miners, as give away promotional items for use by mining executives, as part of sculptures depicting miners |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | into two sections, a ten day trip certain grade of silver specimen' and that into northern Ontario, in late...Time" pyrargyrite. The old pyrargyrite but we could not quite make the entire came from Silver Center...extensive road repair There was also some wire silver from the work on Route 11, between Huntsville same...and North Bay. W e stayed at the White of pure silver, 6x2x3. He said, "This Fawn Motel, a couple of...the original ways", with fast travel possible. Bud mine at Cobalt, the Right-of-Way, we Coxon, proprietor |  | | Report (issue) | | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- |  | | Book (edition) | | Windham Report of 1S80 relating to the growing Mining Industry at Ouray is printed in its entirety. Many...Survey, Tom Rosemeyer, Chief Engineer, Camp Bird Mine and Miss Margaret B. Allen, M.A. of Orange, New.............................................. Pyrargyrite.............................................................................................. Silver..................................................Ouray and the Camp Bird Mine; Past, Present. Future The Windham Report of Mining in Ouray in 1880 . . The |  | | Journal (issue) | | Madera County, C alifornia............................. 127 by T. Szenics The El Dragon mine, Potosi...Lehrberger & G. Schnorrer-Kohler Arizona's Silver mining district .........................................trips to the famous Crestmore quarries in Riverside County, California, 123 will once again be permitted...family in Mainz, Germany, in 1853. He entered the mining academy at Frieberg and, after his graduation,...about 2 miles north of Coarse Gold [sic], Madera County (some say 5 miles northeast of this town). From |  | | Book | | milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please spare... SULPHIDE LENSES IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS (Mackinaw Mine) Pentlandite, chalcopyritc, pyrite, raaucherite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | term âcristallierâ used in the book doesnât do it justice either. Perhaps the best term is the German âStrahler...Mineralienschätzeâ Fundorte (Siegerland & Westerwald: Mining HistoryâMineral TreasuresâLocalities) by Rolfe...has been immense. Although there is evidence of mining in the region from the time of the Celts (ca. 500...in 1313 and remained so until 31 March 1931. The mine owes its reputation to the size and quality of the...to the steel industry. But the anniversary of one mine, spectacular though it be, is nothing compared to |  | | Report (issue) | | eoresofo0000kell Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado The Memoir Series of The Geological...America, Inc. Memoir 109 Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado WILLIAM C. KELLY EpwINn N. GODDARD Department...and numerous ore samples were donated by local mining men, particularly Fred Dopp, H. M. Williamson,...supplied by William Byron, a mineral dealer and former mining engineer in Boulder, and by Professor Russell Honea...47 47 Vil Vili TELLURIDE ORES OF BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO }.'1C=}(0)4)| ae aaa ene eens eee es |  | | Book (edition) | | Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite...from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near...Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional...deposits on the Colorado Plateau. Coconino County: near Tuba City (Anthony et aI., 2000). ACANTHITE Ag2S...sulfide found with other copper sulfides. Greenlee County: found in the supergene alteration zone at Morenci |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino.......... 87 by T. Moore T he S ilv e r m in es district, C o u n ty Tipperary, I r e l a n d ...........microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...subject of the 1999 Mineral Symposium. Mexico has a mining specimen collecting history dating back nearly |  | | Report (issue) | | standards and nomenclature. ⢠CONTENTS Page Page County and site name Kelly Camp Kettle Key East Knob...Rogers Bar placer SanPoil Seattle Shamrock Silver Bell Silver Leaf Singer placer South Penn Stray Dog Surprise...placer Sunset Creek placer Victor FERRY Republic district Addison Alva Stout placer Belcher Ben Hur Black...Mountain Daisy Old Bigney placer Ollie Jordan Silver Creek Silver Tip Swauk Creek placers Wall Street Williams...155 156 Highland Holden-Campbell Homestake Hom Silver Independence Ivanhoe John Judge Johnson Creek |  | | Book (edition) | | Barlow-Catlin, or Washington block, in the city of T acoma, P ierce county. I forthwith prepared for business...inspected, and now report upon every mining district, every mine of promise 01¡ prospective worth, every...have found it absolutely impossible to do it the justice I hope to convince you it richly deserves. The...foster the mining in Washington were, if I might use the expression...tlockecl to the banks of the Similkamecu. Olll Okanogan City was the Embarcadero for the new found placer,-, |
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