 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side |  | | 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 (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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Petersen Mountain, Nevada; Brianna and Brendan Traw collection. Barite, 7 cm, from Lookout Point, Oregon....drove them off with hand-cast golden bullets (not a good way to discourage gold seekers!). A subsequent Hudson’s...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...are many and include brochantite, caledonite, malachite, aurichalcite, cerussite, anglesite, leadhillite...occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...(Graham or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire. It |  | | Book (edition) | | Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...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...number of mineral occurrences because they produced "good" specimens, such as: 1) euhedral crystals of common...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included. |  | | 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 .................................... |  | | Catalog/List | | xls Lookout Pass Thallium Prospect, Little Valley, Sheeprock Mts., Vernon, Tooele Co., Utah / USA; The...Arizona / USA; Blue spherical crystal aggregates of 4 mm, rich in addition to green spherical Malachite on rhyolite...location"; NS 28,00; HS 38,00 Baghdadite xls Fuka Mine, Bicchu-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Pref. / Japan;...Silicate. KS 48,00; NS 95,00 Borcarite xls Fuka Mine, Bicchu-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Pref. / Japan;...KS 38,00; NS 65,00 Caysichite-(Y) xls Evans Lou Mine, Lac Saint-Pierre, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM |  | | Report (issue) | | organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...... 28 Piedmont.. ........ Md.-W. Va... 29 Nevada City special. Ycllowstono Nationul Park. 30 Cal........ 932 Hague, A.; Weed, National Park; no mining W. H.; . Iddings, permitted. J.P. Lindgren, W.... No. 38. Economic geology of the Bingharn mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and...Tonopah mining district, Nevada, by J. E. Spurr. No. 43. Copper deposits of Clifton-Morenei district, Arizona |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................243 Nevada .................................................were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good Hunting. I would like...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...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................243 Nevada .................................................were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good Hunting. I would like...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...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The economic minerals are fluorite, lead-zinc, malachite, and some silver and gold. ALASKA—A new mineral...with vesuvianite, magnetite and calcite. "Th's mine goes back to the 1870's and 80's—and worked off...usually was only for short periods of activity that mining was done. ARIZONA—Masses of native copper, some...pounds, have been found in the Copper Queen Copper mine in Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS—A large,...the mine are of interest to collectors for their bright colors—a combination of green malachite and zoned |  | | Report (volume) | | ______ Mine descriptions.._________________________________________ North Fork-Shoup district, Idaho___-__...claim_________________________________________ Blackbird district, Idaho_._______________________________ Calera..._____-_ Forney district, Idaho________________________________________ Singiser mine._______________..._______________________________________ Birch Creek district, Idaho__-_______._______________________-__ Scott mine...prospect-_______----_-_-__________-_________Melrose district, Montana______________________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Petzite was reported from the Red River District, Taos County, in 1904, and is the first recorded occurrence...coilected at a gold prospect in southern catron county, 41 miles northwest of Silver city. The tellurium...found in small amounts at the Aztec mine, ute creek District. A mine report (dated 1916)by E. H. perry...to identify the mineral. A detailed study of the mine later made by Chase and Muir3 showed tetradymite...mines in the organ District. oxidized tetradymite from the South Shaft of the Memphis mine exhibitecl, in |  | | Report (issue) | | Reconnaissance Geology of Western Mineral County Montana By ROBERT E. WALLACE and JOHN W. HOSTERMAN ...geologic structure and mineralogy of western Mineral County, Mont., as determined by a 'series of traverses...similar to those of the rich Coeur d'Alene mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...fault-------_------_---_--____-_-_-______---_The Hope and unnamed faults-__-----________-___________._...______________________________________ Lookout syncline and Lookout anticline ______________________ Swamp |  | | Book (volume) | | borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northeast near Jamestown in Cherokee County is another lead mine." ARIZONA—A letter dated Sept. 17, 1953...his letter, dated Aug. 19, 1953, writes:— "An old mine near here had cavities in it that contained a sandlike...Reservation north of this community (in Apache County) with "high hopes" of finding the legendary diamond...at the Red Ledge chromite mine in the Washington mining district of Nevada Co., Calif. It consists of...clear, but presumably it was around 1949. Red Ledge mine was originally developed as a gold-bearing property |  | | Report (issue) | | discovery in the big open-pit Rosia Poieni copper mine, Muşca, Alba, Romania. Anton Watzl brought about...transparent sea-green vivianite from the Rosia Poieni mine either form jackstraw clusters, many with pale gray...==== Vivianite, 5.5 cm, from the Rosia Poieni mine, Muşca, Alba, Romania. MCh Minerals specimen and...and photo. Vivianite, 5 cm, from the Rosia Poieni mine, Muşca, Alba, Romania. MCh Minerals specimen and...shown below, costs just $30. We should be on the lookout for more autunite and other radioactive items from |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...in California recently I visited the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles to see the famous collection...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrill—the display of some of...summer vacation and did a good deal of collecting during the weekends. "At a mine east of Leadville (Lake...(Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the end of Lake County, I found a specimen of small radiating chrysocolla crystals |
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