 | | Journal (issue) | | spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books...Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had...Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites. He had just a few specimens of azurite and...and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite fame. Casey told...the Geological Survey of Nevada is preparing a very comprehensive book on Nevada minerals, which has a preliminary |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...'Ike Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain...Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the...Corporation Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens, but production of...of the elongated, fibrous malachite specimens seems subordinate to other, more common forms seen from | | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Radioactive Deposits of Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLET l]N ^1 0 0 9 - C A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF URANIUM RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA By T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Thirty-five occurrences...occurrences of radioactive rocks had been reported from Nevada prior to 1952. Twenty-five of these had been investigated...Monster mine, which shipped 5 tons of ore to Marysvale, Utah, during 1951; the Majuba Hill mine; the Stalin's...prospect; and the West Willys claim in the Washington district. No estimate has been made of thorium reserves |  | | Journal (issue) | | Study Group MICRO PROBE VOLUME X, Number 1 SPRING, 2005 SPRING MEETING ...............HILLSBORO, OREGON...Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada. He was inordinately proud...great grandchildren. His interest in mineral and mining was something that he liked to share with schools...address, payable for each calendar year at the Spring meeting or by mail to the Secretary-Treasurer:... Recent rare mineral finds in Southern California and Nevada Desert Mines Robert M. Housley 210 S. Catalina |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite is likely the best... for a mineral than to be often confused with azurite. Such is the case with the much-rarer linarite...linarite, a striking blue mineral that occurs, like azurite, in the oxidized parts of base-metal ore deposits...all too late, that what was thought to be modest azurite—hardly worth the bother to collect—was actually...over have discovered linarite, often posing as azurite, at many historic sites thought to be no longer |  | | Report (volume) | | Mt. Stirling Wilderness Study Area, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1730-B...Mt. Stirling Wilderness Study Area, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada By RAUL J. MADRID, ROBERT TURNER, DAVID...MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: SOUTHERN NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Mt. Stirling Wilderness Study Area, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1730-B...Mines and mineral resources Nevada Mount Stirling Wilderness. 2. Geology Nevada Mount Stirling Wilderness |  | Price, Jonathan G., Henry, Christopher D., Castor, Stephen B., Garside, Larry, Faulds, James E. (1999) Geology of Nevada With excellent rock exposures in the desert, generally good access to collecting localities on public lands, and fine tourist attractions in the towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (6) 357-363 doi:10.1080/00357529909605171 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...faults have raised and occasionally tilted the mountains and lowered the basins. Over the years, these...fig. 1) that are derived from erosion of the mountains and that are tens of thousands of feet thick in...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ....................WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling Autonomous Prefecture...with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection and photo...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription | | | Journal (issue) | | by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ....................WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling Autonomous Prefecture...with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection and photo...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Associated secondary minerals include chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, hemimorphite...Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922). An unusual...from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In the arid mining districts of western...from the Santa Rita district, Grant County, and the Orogrande district, Otero County, New Mexico. Dioptase...heterogenite and malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent |  | | 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...Jerome I i,J--..s.. ,c., --1. I Blaine '-\ [ Clark,-J t: _Buue-J Ketchum Camas '-; :-.... J. •...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY" -T —• - Vol. XXXVII No. 1 — i ■&- February, 1990 QUARTERLY THE MINERALOGY...MINERALOGY OF THE MOH/WK MINE _ SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA r O' " •: u. o~r William S. Wise ■rrz... SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Barbara Cram Riordan, Chairman, Third District Larry Walker...First District Second District Marsha Turoci John Mikels Fourth District Fifth District COUNTY OF SAN...SAN BERNARDINO Harry M. Mays, County Administrative Officer Albert R. Reid, Administrator, General Services |  | | 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...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....minerals of collector interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mottramite from the Whale Mine, Goodsprings District, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...Whale Mine, a rather obscure and defunct locality in the Goodsprings Mining District of Clark County, Nevada...Nevada. The Whale Mine consisted of underground workings about 400 feet in length and with an approximate...Specimens labeled as “cuprodescloizite” from the Whale Mine date back at least as far back as the late 1940s...descloizite (Castor, 2004). Figure 1: A typical Whale Mine specimen labeled as mottramite. It occurs as densely |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...km2), but with a rich and world- famous history of mining and associated mineralogy. In the city of Brno...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Author’s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone |  | | Journal (issue) | | by The Mineralogical Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical |  | | Journal (issue) | | had the good fortune isiting the old and famous mining town of Freiberg, Saxony, thanks largely to the...were made around I 168, the Erzgebirge [Ore-Mountains) mining started in this area and led to the foundation...Northern Germany. Over the course ofFreiberg's long mining history with . ,._ -.... several highs - especially...Bergakademie [School of Mining] Saxony was established in 1765. Long before that, a "mining office" for Saxony...the School of Mining. The scientific and economic impact of the Freiberg Mining district is based on rich |  | | Book (edition) | | minerals and gems. It is obvious, though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite...corundum (aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...banded agate. Cross section of unpolished green malachite, a copper carbonate marked with curved bands |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | un executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, al. Malachite is also well known as loosely coherent aggregates...excellent review article on the morphology of malachite, which includes a comprehensive discussion of...in-depth treatment of this aspect of malachite mineralogy. Malachite is basic copper carbonate with the...copper in the mineral’s structure is uncertain. Malachite pseudomorphs after a variety of minerals have...known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite |  | | Journal (issue) | | OURAY, COLORADO 6 Howard Neal GOODIES AT GOODSPRINGS 8 Mary Frances Strong TARANTULA! 12 Timothy...three states. Bisbee and the fabled Copper Queen mine were responsible for its primary construction. Volume...Myrick's Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol. 7, and Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California...to form the Sunset Route. This gave impetus to mining and agriculture and in turn intensified the construction..." In the Ute language the word meant "hot water spring." Long before any white man set his eyes upon the |
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