 | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared in...the Nevada Bureau of Mines 1162-B Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada By KEITH...1162-B Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE..._________________ Geologic setting of the Railroad mining district______________________ Geologic history...System____________________________________________ Nevada Formation._______________________________________ |  | | Report (volume) | | RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS............................. Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................ Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location...geology............................................. Mine descriptions......................................44 44 45 46 47* 47 47 47 48 48 48 48 49 50 Rex mine..................:............................. |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district |  | | Report (volume) | | form of the earlier lists was twofold, a separate group of items showing the substances "mined" and "not...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...Sanford. Upon Mr. Sanford's transfer to the Bureau of Mines the work was put into the hands of Frank L. Hess |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 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) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU...OF MINES Special Publication 31 in association with the UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS... GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno...Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs by Stephen B. Castor...Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology | | | 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...BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Special Publication 31 in association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS ...Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publica tion 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno...Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs by Stephen B. Castor,...si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Report (issue) | | alphabetic list of deposit names and lists the mines and properties aggregated to represent that deposit...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...fissure fillings, i.e., deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon...saddle reefs, i.e., deposits hosted by the Meguma Group, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Ballarat, Victoria, Australia...ore is associated with some veins in the Sierra Nevada and was locally worked with the vein deposits (Clark |  | | Book (volume) | | rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among the finest collecting grounds...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford |  | | Report (issue) | | Paper· 96 THE GEOijOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF ELY, NEVADA BY .. ARTHUR C. SPENCER WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT............................. . Situation of the district ......................................................................... . Geology of eastern Nevada ....................... .'..... ·~ .................................... General geology of the district ................................................. , ......................·................. . Nevada lin1estone ................................... |  | | 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 |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | '"' 0- • :::0 1/1. ' INOU~ U Of BUREAU OF MINES 1990 \ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...INTERIOR • Manuat Lujan, Jr., Secretary BUREAU OF MINES • T S Ary, Director As the Nation's principal conservation...of nonfuel minerals and a chapter on trends in mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial mineral...which are being discontinued. The U.S. Bureau of Mines continually strives to improve the value of its...by the State Mineral Officers of the Bureau of Mines, located throughout the country. Preparation of |  | | Book | | A Range Guide to MINES and MINERALS " How and Where A ,-A 1 to Find Valuable Ores and Minerals...”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by Jay Ellis Did you know that...stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...generally absent. He tells where major existing mines are United States— from gopher size the in the |  | | Book (edition) | | Geological Survey, and Canadian Department of Mines reports. In a few cases, investigations to which...McConnell, Deputy Minister of Mines, Canada; Dr. E. Haanel, Director, Mines Branch, Canada; Professor E...anthracite region 10. Structure section in Tazewell County, east of Richlands, southwest 8. 9. 12. 13. ...coal field Shaft house and tipple, bituminous coal mine, Spring Valley, 111 Northern Interior coal field...structure of western field of Los 104 Angeles district 106 Section of Spindle Top oil field near Beaumont |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................283 Nevada ................................................................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 (volume) | | ...........................................243 Nevada .................................................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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................243 Nevada .................................................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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | mineralized and dotted with once-rich abandoned mines. Dividing the stratigraphically complicated Piedmont...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Gold, such as Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE...MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collected on some mine dumps around Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A...have been taken from the Cherokee district placers in Butte County, California. Mineral Information Service...Service, July, 1950, p. 7 (Issued by Division of Mines, Ferry Bldg., San Francisco, Calif.) COLORADO: An...Santa Fe Chief but now I keep up with a miniature railroad and a small grandson. "I will send you a couple...south of La Junta by my friend, another retired railroad man, Mr. G. Ruegg and locally the rock is know |  | | Book (edition) | | INSTITUTE METALLURGICAL New York 1949 OF MINING ENGINEERS Copynicur, 1949, py THE American ...and the consequent more elaborate mining methods; the need for mining ores of lower grade, resulting...Geological Survey, the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and the Canada Department of Mines and Resources have cooperated...ane 807 52 9a0e a oe eee 844: Sillimanite Group—Andalusite, Kyanite, Sillimanite, Dumortierite,...A. E. J. ENGEL Titanium. By Josep L. Gittson Tripoli, By Ropert W. MercaLr Vermiculite. By Joun B. |  | | Book | | —_— 1.12 — 8 10 — —_ 12 14 _ — Courtesy of F&S Group Geology and World Deposits TAO 6.30 5.60 5.00 4...boundaries of the mineral industry are clear: the mining and milling of feldspar, for example, belong to...does not. But how does one draw the line between mining and manufacturing where brine from a salt well...districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies, and give production...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many |  | | Book (edition) | | • t --•- """"" ' The Lornex copper-molybdenum mine and plant, Highland Valley, British Columbia. (By...Bibliography: p. Includes index. I. Geology, Economic. 2. Mines and mineral resources. I. Bateman, Alan Mara, joint...measurements have been retained in specific cases such as mine levels when measured in feet, values of gold and...inhabited continent. Also, to those exploration and mining geologists, and the personnel of foreign geological...L. Jensen Salt Lake City, Utah CONTENTS "The mining industry is infinitely worse off today than it |  | | Book | | seems to him to be a more logical method than to group a number together according to their chemical, metallurgical...been given, and the reports of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the Dominion [of Canada] Bureau of Statistics...and 1929. 2 Davis, U. S. Bur. Mines, Bull. 38: 165, 1913 (Origin); Mines Branch, No. 614 (General). 3...3 Haanel, Can. Dept. Mines, 4 COAL result of decomposition the hydrogen and oxygen diminish, while...Jour. Geol., XXIII: White and Thiessen, U. S. Bur. Mines, Bull. 38, 1913. 6 Taff, Science, N. S., XXIII: |
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