| | Report (issue) | NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)2F2·2H2O Fluorowardite Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group: 422. As tetragonal bipyramidal crystals,... X-ray Powder Pattern: Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. 4.766 (100), 3.099 (75)...3.98 13.45 100.00 (1) Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA; average of 8 electron microprobe... goethite, gorceixite (F-rich), iangreyite, iodargyrite, jarosite, kidwellite, kintoreite/plumbogummite...phosphate stope, Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Name: The fluorine | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | m'vadla Gold, Silver, and Copper Deposits and Their 11Iclllrrerals DAVID VON BARGEN N112 W18695 Mequon...been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861) and...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic... Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver Downloaded by...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first | | | 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...sources dealing specifically with that subject. Three iron meteorite occurrences are included because they...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk | | Kampf, A. R., Adams, P. M., Housley, R. M., Rossman, G. R. (2014) Fluorowardite, NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)2F2·2H2O, the fluorine analog of wardite from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Nevada. American Mineralogist, 99 (4) 804-810 doi:10.2138/am.2014.4663 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | fluorine analog of wardite from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Nevada Anthony R. Kampf1,*, Paul M. Adams2...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...mineral from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County, Nevada, U.S.A., where it...spectroscopy; electron microprobe analysis; Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Nevada Introduction Wardite, NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O...well-known Clay Canyon deposit near Fairfield in Utah County, which is also the type locality for englishite | | | Journal (issue) | identify many minerals in my collection. 4 A Point to Ponder Noel Kennon (Reprinted from the Australian...and finding new material, such as: Current day mining operations – Blast it! Litigation-minded people...material recently discovered at the Blue Lizard Mine in southeastern Utah has produced a whole set of...the Silver Coin Mine. IMA No. 2015-077 Fluorwavellite Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron...Iron Point district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA (40°55’44”N, 117° 19’26”W), and Wood mine, 5 miles NE of | | | 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 (issue) | ............. 51 Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P................ 57 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW P. Carr, M. Perkins, B. Chenhall, f. Pemberton...of interesting mineral discoveries in the western USA. FRANCIS COLLECTION WEB SITES The Mineralogical...collections and research projects. A good starting point for visitors looking for mineral sites on the Web...unearthed the rare calcium hydroxide portlandite, a silver iodide mineral and several more rare phosphates | | | Book (edition) | Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...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 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART | | | Book (edition) | his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position to become mineralogist for Silver King...King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as mineralogist/petrographer for...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)...of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position to become mineralogist for Silver King...King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as mineralogist/petrographer for...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express | | | Book (edition) | Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART | | | Journal (issue) | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...the “famous locality” series: the Home Sweet Home mine and Mount Antero. A fine mineralogical study of...you belong to, and where you come from. American mining schools and professional organizations have long... centering on some of the nostalgic aspects of mining in Arizona and beautifully illustrated with paintings...“Missing and presumed lost” by the wellknown lost-mine author Kearney Egerton; “El Dorado’s children” by | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | S. : at t h e truce of 1884 possession of this district was temporarily assigned to Chili. On measurement...mention of a wish to see other specimens from the same mine for the purpose of determining the associations...of chloride of silver (chlorargyrite), and crystalline iodide of silver (iodargyrite): massive silicate...picked from the minute fragments removed by a needle-point from the crust were found to be similarly acted...when moistened with water give no stain to a silver coin. 10. Solutions in nitric acid were subjected | | | Report (issue) | need for a compilation of Spanish geological and mining terminology that goes beyond the few Spanish-English...terms, which have grown out of five centuries of mining tradition in Latin America, and frequently draw...Values Medidas de Tenor The traditional measure of silver grade in the Viceroyalty of Peru was marcos par...50 castellanos or dinerales 2 marcos Coinage -Silver Moneda - Plata grano tomin dinero adarme ochava...onza marco or dineral The Spanish peso was a silver coin of about 25 grams in weight. 1/12 tomin 12 granos | | | Book (edition) | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral | | | Book (edition) | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado | | | Book | volume, each entry may be thought of as a starting point for study of the topics covered. Since the various...compounds (an example of the latter occurs when a coin becomes encrusted with azurite). Each mineral...in terms of a, b, c. Coordinates of any lattice point, expressed in terms of a, b, c as units. Indices...crystallographic axes of coordinates. Coordinates of any point (equivalent position) in the unit (u-) t v, ...This Lengths of c a, b, 3. I) I cal lattice point. k {h I Indices of a } form of planes, or | | | Book | 41)(Si3.86Al0.10 Fe0.04O10)(OH)2 from Mikhailovskii mine, Zheleznogorsk, Russia (Chukanov 2014a). IR spectra...respectively (Chukanov 2014a). Usually, all (or almost all) iron in saponite is trivalent because of rapid oxidation...range 3610–3683 cm−1) decreases with an increase of iron content at constant IVAl content. Bands in the range...In Fe3+-bearing Mg-poor schorl from the Limoeiro mine, Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the band of OH groups...area), olmiite CaMn(HSiO4)(OH) from N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese fields, South Africa (c), and | | | Book | I was during professional I hope that the mining students, to prospectors, travellers. Apart...Apart from those already engaged in seeking or mining for various minerab, there are large numbers of English-speaking... , taking samples, the general operations of mining and dressing, on the treatment of^old Special...proceedings before tiie engineer money was The mining raised. usually able to introduce the property...were no more than 2 to 3 grains An may {^i. or silver and gold when in there 6d.) to the cubic yard | | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | example, gray antimony is now called stibnite, spathic iron is now known as siderite, and blue vitriol is now...carbonate Species typical of mollusc shells, the iron compounds found in bacteria, and oxalate crystals...rhombohedral symmetry exists. 2) Crystal Classes, Point Group Symmetry, and Symmetry Notations (KH, Ch....thirty-two combinations known as crystal classes or point groups, those combinations constrained by the requirerepetition...requirerepetition to symmetries of order 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6. Point groups Descriptions of Mineral Species xxiii | | | Book (edition) | For the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the Mining Engineer, the Geologist, the Prospector, the Collector...occur of all sizes, from the merest microscopic point to a yard or more in diameter. It is important to...geometrical where every point on the one side of the plane of symmetry has a corresponding point at equal distances...Rhodonite Heulandite metrical with reference to a point, This last is true of the triclinic its center...angular position, are exceptional. Orthorhombic Point System (2) When a variety of faces occur on the | | | Book (edition) | Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms Compiled and edited by the Staff of the U.S. Bureau of...Graham, Director FOREWORD The need for a revised mining dictionary is obvious when one considers the technological...that have occurred since the Bureau's previous mining dictionaries were published. The Bureau had pioneered...the Mining and Minerals Industry," and continuing to the 1968 publication "A Dictionary of Mining, Minerals...Minerals, and Related Terms." To develop a modern mining dictionary, the U.S. Bureau of Mines initiated | | | Book | Mineralogical and Petrographical Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Docent K. Padera of Charles...SEMI-METALS ANO NON-METALS 1. 2. 3. 4. C. Platinum Group Iron Group Zinc Group Gold Group Mercury Group Bismuth...Group 2. Enargite Group 3. Boumonite Group (b) Silver Sulphosalts 1. Pyrargyrite Group 2. Argyrodite...records of all available data on mineralogy, geology, mining, and metallurgy at that time. He was the first...of scientists-Linnaeus, Severghin, Fournet, von Humboldt, Lyell, Elie de Beaumont, Charles Darwin, Murchison | | | Book (volume) | bave received. The present volume includes copper, silver, gold, and the alkaline earths. The radium and...Phosphates (287). CHAPTER XXII SILVER § 1. The History of Gold and Silver (295); § 2. The Occurrence and...and Distribution of Silver (298); § 3. The Extraction of Silver from its Ores (301); § 4. The Desilverization...Desilverization of Lead (310); § 5. The Purification of Silver ; and the Separation of the Metal from its Compounds...The Physical Properties of Silver (321); § 7. The Chemical Properties of Silver (342); § 8. The Atomic Weight |
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