 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | geochemistry of abandoned mercury mines in West-Central Nevada, USA John E. Gray*, James G. Crock, David L. Fey US...80225, USA Abstract The Humboldt River is a closed basin and is the longest river in Nevada. Numerous...rights reserved. 1. Introduction Mercury mines in Nevada are part of a Hg belt that consists of numerous...in a broad region throughout western and central Nevada (Table 1, Fig. 1). These Hg deposits are found...marcasite (FeS2), sphalerite ((Zn, Fe)S), and stibnite (Sb2S3) are rare (Bailey and Phoenix, 1944). Gangue |  | | 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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite, |  | | Report (issue) | | of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral |  | | 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) | | telluride attributed to the Boly Fields mine, Lumpkin County, Georgia, was available for $800 from a...Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. The tiny Boly Fields mine closed about 1845, and, although the locality is...“the Chukotka digger cooperative alone managed to mine more than 3000 nuggets in the gold-producing season...handled by St. Troy Mines and later also by Grizzly Mining, Collector’s Edge, and Earth Resources. Some of...nuggets were sold in conjunction with the commercial mining operation. The first auction he attended was in | | | 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) | | Data for Environmental Studies of Mercury Mines in Nevada by John E. Gray, Monique G. Adams, James G. Crock...samples collected from the Humboldt River and Rye Patch Reservoir.......................................of samples collected from the Eldorado mine in the Imlay District............... Figure 3. Location of...samples collected from the Dutch Rat mine in the Dutch Rat District....... Figure 4. Location of samples...samples collected from the Cahill mine in the Poverty Peaks District ........ Figure 5. Location of samples |  | | Book | | f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered |  | 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...Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource...of mineral deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and |  | Roberts, Ralph J., Radtke, Arthur S., Coats, R. R., Silberman, Miles L., McKee, Edwin H. (1971) Gold-bearing deposits in north-central Nevada and southwestern Idaho; with a section on periods of plutonism in north-central Nevada. Economic Geology, 66 (1) 14-33 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.66.1.14 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | section on Periods of Plutonism in North-Central Nevada MILES L. SILBERMAN AND EDWIN H. MCKEE Abstract...ve yielded significant production in only one district, Battle Mountain (Copper Canyonand CopperBasin)...assemblages which includepyrite, quartz, gold, realgar,stibnite,cinnabar,sphalerite,and galena. Gold-quartzveins...low-temperature veins by pyrite and galena and by stibnite-quartz. Veins in volcanicrocks or in base- ment...naumannite,and lesser amountsof base-metalsulfides;and stibnite-quartzveins containingargentiteand silver sulfosalts |  | Orris, G.J., Bennett, P.C., Theodore, T.G. (1987) A bibliography for the Winnemucca 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district and selected major topics. Open-File Report Vol. 1987 (87-89) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr8789 | Report (issue) | | 2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties. Table 2 lists...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES |  | Doebrich, Jeff L., Albino, G.V., Barker, C.E., Duffield, W.A., Dunn, V.C., Hanna, W.F., McFarlan, J.P., McGuire, D.J., Miller, M.S., Peters, S.G., Plouff, Donald, Raines, G.L., Sawatasky, D.L., Spanski, G.T. (1994) Resource assessment of the Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1994 (94-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr94712 | Report (issue) | | MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...Rock National Conservation Area), and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such |  | | Journal (issue) | | teresting articles "Digging for Opals in Virgin Valley, Nevada" (October 1934) and "Minerals of the Thomas Range...Uses. By Peter Zodac.................. 35 Herkimer County Quartz Crystals. By D. H. Newland..................... ·-······· 44 The Real Beauty of Herkimer County Quartz Crystals. By W. J. Hollister..............Rhode Island. By Arthur L. Flagg 51 Stibnite in Quartz from Nevada. By Frank Garaventa..................found in Japan. ROCKS and MINERALS 36 HERKIMER COUNTY QUARTZ CRYSTALS By D. H. NEWLAND, State Geologist |  | | Report (issue) | | ____________ Nevada and California, by E. N. Cameron and L. A. Warner__ _________________ ___. Nevada ___________...___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____ ____ Pag« 59 61 61 63 63 63 Good...Good Hope barite mine, Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten depositNorth...California-Nevada Barite Co. 63 64 64 64 64 65 65 65 65 Barium Products Corp., Ltd., mine...... --_--______...Lincoln County__-__-----_-----_-----___ Tern Piute district....... __ ___ ... Mineral County____-_______________ |  | | Report (issue) | | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- |  | | Report (issue) | | __ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources.. Douglas County— Location and Topography.. Geology and Ore Deposits...Highways_____ Production............................... Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Report (volume) | | transcontinental route. It is one of the most productive mining regions of the world. That it is not all a desert...lies the Sierra Nevada, which on this route marks approximately the boundary between Nevada and California...agricultural State and has been called "a State without a mine," but it does contribute to the country's mineral...economic value under present conditions. Attempts to mine it have not proved successful. Elkhorn is the first... 11.) Valley is the center of an agricultural district in the rich bottom lands of Platte Valley. Large |  | | Journal (issue) | | THE EUREKA TUNNEL , ST . PETER'S Dome , El Paso COUNTY , COLORADO , 163 BOLÉITE AND CUMENGÉITE , 166 NOTABLE...THE EUREKA TUNNEL , ST . PETER'S DOME , EL PASO COUNTY , COLORADO . By LAZARD Cahn . occurrence . A TRIP...MAYNARD Bixby . PART II . The mines of Tintic District , Utah , are famous for their rare copper minerals...crystals , make handsome specimens from the Dalton Mine , Bingham , Utah . Good crystals of argentite ,...considerable native gold , come from the Enterprise mine , Rico , Col. Native wire gold and wire silver together |  | | Report (volume) | | of Science A. I. M. E__. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk Aardrijkskundig...cientiflca Circular' Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...Devonian development diagram Direccidn Dissertation district distribution Division Doctoral, Document Doctoral...Meteorological, etc. microscopic, etc. Mimeographed Mineral, Mining mineral resources Mineralogic, etc. Miscellaneous...Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Contributions nos. 132-133, 135; Mining and Metallurgy |  | | Book | | Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel |  | | Report (issue) | | controls of mineralization in the Taylor mining district near Ely, Nevada, by Harald Drewes----~-----~-----...prospecting in the Humboldt Range and adjacent areas, Nevada, by Robert E. Wallace and Donald B. Tatlock---...faults in the Teepee Creek quadrangle, Gallatin County, Montana, by Irving J. Witkind __ _ 4. Hydrogeologic...the E~;tst Range fault, Humboldt and Pershing Counties, Nevada, by Philip Cohen---------------------...Mesozoic and Paleozoic rocks in the northern Sierra Nevada, California, by L. D. Clark, R. W. Imlay, V. E |
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