 | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist | | | 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...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lithium-Rich Claystone in the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada, USA: Geologic, Mineralogical, and Geochemical Characteristics...D. Henry * Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA; vgerboa@gmail...and work on the deposits is progressing towards mining [7]. Although the McDermitt Li mineralization was...of the original hectorite discovery at the Hector Mine near Barstow, California” [2]. In pioneering work...Project) is in the McDermitt caldera in north-central Nevada and southern Oregon (Figure 1). Lithium-rich sediments |  | | Report (volume) | | most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...Buckhorn claims, Nevada; the Midnite and Daybreak mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White...White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor Mountains 327 328 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF URANIUM...GEOLOGY area, Montana and Wyoming, and the deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ~ ) : • ,- '1-/Challis r--, - qa'wtooth Mountains r i ~ Elmore'~. -C- -J'-,/,_~, ~ l I ...specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality |  | | Report (issue) | | Deposits of the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Deposits of the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada By RALPH J. ROBERTS and D. C. ARNOLD...ARNOLD GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL Summary of base- SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...tory of mining _______ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Future of the district _____ -- |  | | Report (issue) | | LITHIUM DEPOSITS TO THE MCDERMITT CALDERA COMPLEX, NEVADA-OREGON By James J. Rytuba and Richard K. Glanzman...LITHIUM DEPOSITS TO THE MCDERMIT'I' CALDERA COMPLEX, NEVADA-OREGON James J. Rytuba and Richard K. Glanzman...The McDermitt caldera complex, located along the Nevada-Oregon border, is a Miocene collapse structure...along the Nevada-Oregon border (Fig. 1) and occupy the Trout Creek, Double-H, and Montana Mountains. Important...a aaximum thickness of 230 • in the Double-H Mountains. To the north the unit thins to 70 • in the |  | | Report (issue) | | predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...batholith area, Montana ; the Sierra Ancha region, Arizona ; and the Marysvale district, Utah. All the...including Arizona, California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and FRANK W. OsTERWALD Oregon...comments on the history of uranium geology and mining. The other chapters deal principally with pertinent |  | Peters, S.G., Nash, J.T., John, D.A., Spanski, G.T., King, H.D., Connors, K.A., Moring, B.C., Doebrich, J.L., McGuire, D.J., Albino, G.V., Dunn, V.C., Theodore, T.G., Ludington, S.D. (1996) Metallic mineral resources in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1996 (96-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr96712 | Report (issue) | | Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource |  | | Report (issue) | | new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part of the state...backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over...headed by Wayne Thompson (“Bonanza at the Red Cloud mine,” in the SeptemberOctober 1996 issue). The Thompson...notable wulfenite would be found at the Red Cloud mine. But 14 years ago Robert Bell, a mineral collector...collector who lives in Kansas, purchased the mine anyway, and now he has contracted for experienced field man |  | | Book | | 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...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Book (volume) | | the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast corner...where Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at...in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily...Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain (about 30% of the state),...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren |  | | Journal (issue) | | AN INFLUENTIAL IRON ORE MINERAL + ARTISANAL MINING A Complex Industry ROCK & GEM • Vol. 49 No. 05...Magma Dot Wine Country Bill Rozday 26 ARTISANAL MINING It’s Dangerous, Illegal, Undocumented—and Booming... 36 BOTRYOIDAL HEMATITE AND GOETHITE Exploring New Mexico’s U.S. 60 Mine Mark Leatherman 42 PROUSTITE...hexagonal. Combined with the OH radical, it forms goethite, hydrous iron oxide, and when hematite forms a...that result in the huge hematite iron deposits we mine today? Everyone knows that iron and oxygen in a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | concentrate yield. Large reserves amenable to open-cast mining at reasonable stripping ratios are also essential...investigation are Zandrivierspoort, De Loskop and Moonlight (Fig. 1). The former two deposits are ideally...ore deposits at Zandrivierspoort, De Loskop and Moonlight (after Horrocks 1983) greenstone terrains. Both...deposits at Zandrivierspoort and De Loskop. The Moonlight deposit occupies a position within the Central...considerable antiquity. In the area south of Moonlight, the Palala Shear Zone forms the boundary between |  | | Book | | conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper , allegedly...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white...deposits. The main mining areas are In Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...meteorite, with pieces found at Canyon Diablo (Arizona, USA), fell c. 20,000-40,000 years ago, creating a crater |  | | Journal (issue) | | material from the Environmental problems caused by mining and abstraction activities for industrial minerals...Center Inc., 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA, stating the ISSN 0943-0105, the volume, and the...Dept. 333 Meadowlands Parkway Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA North America. Recommended annual subscrip- tion...Secaucus, Tel. (201) Fax (201) All other NJ 07094, USA 348-4033, Telex 0023-125 994, 348-4505 countries...International, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA Production PRODUserv Springer GmbH & Co. Produktions-Gesellschaft |  | | Book (edition) | | Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains by Lanny R. Ream...in the field and assistance with the Sawtooth Mountains chapter and specimen identification. Also for...of the micro-size minerals from the Sawtooth Mountains. My appreciation is extended to Norm Radford for...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection; Jeff Scovil...on canvas, painted to illustrate “The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of...volume 33, January–February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins...Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo Ed McDole: “Montana Mineral King” By Richard A. Bideaux What’s new in minerals: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | went through many of the famous mining towns of the Tri-State district but everything was closed up because...came to a small mining town in New Mexico and I learned that there was a copper mine. Naturally I had...copper minerals and we drove over to the mine. In those days mine operators were not harassed by insurance...grade ore and it was not necessary to get into the mine but if I wanted specimens I could go out to the...collecting does not have its 'unexpectations'? In the moonlight all the ore looked cream colored and even the |  | | Report (issue) | | 1 D E J •LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since...published as Bulletin 91 of the California State Mining Bureau. Many additional species were included,...commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic |  | | Journal (issue) | | quartz matrix, West Colusa Mine, Butter Mining District, Silver Bow County, Montana, courtesy Heritage Auctions;...courtesy of Jim Brace-Thompson; thunderegg from Oregon mine, courtesy Lori Coleman, owner of Spanish Stirrup...Rhodochrosite with Quartz & Sphalerite Sweet Home Mine (Home Sweet Home Mine Sweet Home lode and Pulaski lode [Patents...106 and 107]) Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park Co. Colorado, USA 5.71 x 3.73 x 2.96 inches (14.50...995 00 complete Free shipping in continent USA Made in USA Grit Sizes 60 to 200,000 1.0" hole with |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................221 Montana ............................................................................................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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................221 Montana ............................................................................................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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a |  | | Report (volume) | | rock types 133 Cross section through the Kalavos district Cyprus showing relationship of massive sulfide...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...significant tasks. GRADE-TONNAGE MODELS Estimated pre-mining tonnages and grades from over 3,900 well-explored...represents an individual deposit (or, rarely, a district), cumulated in ascending grade or tonnage. Where |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rockhounds Club, at the McKee 4-H Building, Larimer County Fairgrounds/The Ranch, I-25 exit 259. 4-8 p.m....México. Moore and Megaw (2003) described the Ojuela Mine as Mexico’s greatest mineral locality with 117 species...Collector that “of all the species from the Ojuela mine, perhaps the least eye-appealing is köttigite, which...crystals. The S is selenite gypsum while the G is goethite. Photomicrograph width FOV is ~1.5 cm. Fig. 3...köttigite and waterclear selenite gypsum (S) and goethite (G). Width FOV ~1 cm. March 2017 CSMS Pick & |
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