 | | 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...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...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 |  | | 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...especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay in...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 (edition) | | FERRY, Govern(lr, and the members of the State Mining Bureau of Washington: GENTLEMEN_.: I have the...approved by him, with the cooperation of the state mining bureau, I , as state geologist, completed the neces11ary...GEOL OGIS T OF TL4SHINGTON. tenance of a state mining bureau are at once at an end, and may in no way...laboring · under a stigma attached to both the mining bureau and this office by reuon of events of a...(18) J4. ST.&TE county, in Western Waehington, and also along some of |  | | Report (issue) | | the U.S., as well as significant gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc resources. Mines have operated...have produced gold, silver, arsenic, tungsten, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, and platinum-group elements...Stillwater mine (platinum, palladium, gold, rhodium, copper, and nickel), the Mineral Hill mine (gold and silver)...of the Stillwater mine and the discovery of gold-copper-silver deposits with geologic reserves of more...more than 2 million oz of gold in the New World district (see map on p. ii). Exploration for gold, platinum-group |  | | Book | | Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North...time when Neolithic man was picking up gold and copper nuggets to be hammered into ornaments ( 20,000-14...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...many outdoors-minded people began to tramp the hills in search of raw materials that could be turned |  | | Report (volume) | | Kingston Range Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1709-D...Kingston Range Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California By JAMES P. CALZIA, JAMES G. FRISKEN...Kingston Range Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California. (Mineral resources of wilderness study...California Desert Conservation Area, San Bernardino County, California. CONTENTS Summary Dl Abstract 1...Acknowledgments 4 Appraisal of identified resources 4 Mining history and current activity 4 Mineral deposits |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................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...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................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...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 745 THE KOTSINA-KUSKULANA DISTRICT ALASKA BY FRED H. MOFFIT AND J. B. MERTIE,...jr___________ SL History of mining development _ _ ____ 82 Character of the copper deposits, by J. B. Mertie...Pyrite-chalcopyrite ore '33 Contact deposits ___ ^ 94 Genesis of copper ores 95 Mines and prospects, by F. H. Moffit 98...rivers Continued. - Copper Greek. Cave claim __________________________ Peacock claim __________ _____ _...Mountain Sheep claim _ . Forget-me-not claim _ _ Blue Bird claim___ _. ____ _ ___ Montana Boy claim __ ___ _ |  | | Report (volume) | | area 3. Map showing sample localities, mining districts, and claim areas in the North Absaroka wilderness...Montana • 4. Emigrant, Mill Creek, and Sixmile mining district map showing mines, prospects, and sample sites...central part of the Boulder (Independence) mining district, North Absaroka wilderness study area, Park...surveys; the U.S. Bureau of Mines searched courthouse claim records, evaluated claims and mineralized areas...potential undiscovered resources of gold, silver, copper, molybdenum, nickel, lead, zinc, platinumgroup |  | | Report (volume) | | Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., by D. F. MacDpnald...............account of the ore deposits of the Loon Creek district, Idaho, byJ. B.Umpleby................................................. Notes on the Antelope district, Nev., by F. C. Schrader................... Notes...Notes on the northern La Sal Mountains, Grand County, Utah, by J. M. Hill. Survey publications on gold.............................. COPPER: The Turquoise copper-mining district, Ariz., by F. L. Ransome... |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 947-G COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE KOTSINA-KUSKULANA DISTRICT ALASKA BY RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE... Price 15 cents CONTENTS Page Introduction, Copper deposits of the Chitina Valley, by Fred H. Moffit__...geology.__________.i__________________________ Copper Creek.____________________________________________________...__--_------------_---.-----_-_--_.---_-...-.._.._ 124 Copper prospects._____________________________________________...prospect___________________________________________ Peacock prospect-_________________________________________ |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Report (volume) | | From Railroad Creek near Lake Chelan, Okanogan County, Wash.; B, From a prospect near Lake Tahoe, Ca...Creek Mountains, 4 miles south of Gold Hill, Tooele County, Utah; B, Sericitized quartz porphyry breccia with...George Fast's mine, near La Trinidad, Sahuaripa district, Sonora, MexicoVII. Ends of radial plates of molybdenite...apply to molybdenum mining. The mining of molybdenum, in common with nearly all mining except perhaps that...known, in order that those who are interested in mining molybdenum may better appraise the competition |  | | Report (issue) | | Paper· 96 THE GEOijOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF ELY, NEVADA BY .. ARTHUR C. SPENCER WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT............................. . Situation of the district ......................................................................... . Geology of eastern Nevada ....................... .'..... ·~ .................................... General geology of the district ................................................. , ......................·................. . Nevada lin1estone ................................... |  | | Book (edition) | | to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay |  | | Book (edition) | | common are malleable (e.g gold). ductile (e.g. copper). sectile (e.g. chalcocite). elastic Optical co11sta11ts...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | underground waters _________ ___ Composition of waters in copper and precious-metal mines of sulphide ores_ _____________________...___^________ Iron___ __________________.._____ Copper _____________________ Zinc-____________ ________...Copper____________________________________ Principal copper minerals_____________________ Pake. 83 83 86 86...of enrichment Continued. Copper Continued. Page. Solubilities of some copper compounds_'._____________..._____________ 155 Nature and relations of the copper minerals___________ 155 Solution of copper___________.__'_____________ |  | | Report (issue) | | DIREcToR PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE KETCHIKAN MINING DISTRICT, ALASKA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE...DIRECTOR PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE KETCHIKAN MINING DISTRICT, ALASKA WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE...Existing glaciers Former glaciation The Ketchikan mining district General description History Geology Introduction...Amphibolite 3 44 CONTENTS. 'The Ketchikan mining district—Continued.4 Geology—Continued. Page. Bed-rock...claims Mary T. claim 4 57 4 57 4 57 4 57 Last Chance claim Glory claim Keystone claim 4 57 58 4 58 |  | | Report (issue) | | the field season of 1907. 6 Brooks, A. H., Placer mining in Alaska: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 259, 1905...1905, pp. 19-24. Mofflt, F. H., Gold mining in Seward Peninsula: Bull. No. 284, 1906, pp. 132141; The...discovered, between Snake and Nome rivers.- But, as the mining of placers goes on with much rapidity, the explored...had some effect in reducing the output of the district. One of these minor causes was the labor trouble...have a retarding effect on the development of the district. The three most pronounced of these misconceptions |  | | Report (volume) | | .......................................... THE MINING INDUSTRY IN 1905, by Alfred H. Brooks.......................................... Auriferous lode mining................................................................................................ Copper...................................................... Route from Cordova Bay to Eagle by way of Copper River................. Valdez Inlet-Marshall Pass-Eagle...coal......................................... LODE MINING IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, by F. E. and C. W. Wright |  | | Report (volume) | | Iron and Copper Deposits of Kasaan Peninsula Prince of Wales Island Southeastern Alaska GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...SURVEY BULLETIN 1090 Iron and Copper Deposits of Kasaan Peninsula Prince of Wales Island Southeastern...follows: Warner, Lawrence Allen, 1914Iron and copper deposits of Kasaan Peninsula, Prince of Wales Island...ninsula. 2. Iron mines and mining-Alaska-Kasaan Peninsula. 3. Copper mines and mining-AlaskaKasaan Peninsula...Andrew group _____ -- ---- ----- - ----- ---- ---Peacock claim_____________________________________ Rico |  | | Report (volume) | | SMITH, DIRECTOR BTJXILETESr 347 THE AND WRANGELL MINING DISTRICTS, ALASKA BY FRED EUGENE WRIGHT AND ...History of mining developments- ____________!__________ 9 11 11 12 13 14 16 Ketchikan mining district______...district______ 16 AVraugell mining district __ _________________________ IS Production _ __ 19 Geographic...__________ 41 Geology of the Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts__________ 43 . . Geologic maps __ _ __...83 Character of ores_________________________ 84 Copper ores ________________________________ 84 Gold |  | | Report (volume) | | area______________________________ Border of the Slate Creek mining district_________________ Tungsten Creek area____________...area______________________________________ Locality 1 (Caledonian claim) ____._______________________ Locality 2 (Horseshoe...______________________ Locality 5 (Last Chance claim)__________________________ Locality 6 (Boundary...lode) _________ -.-_______ Locality 8 (Thunder? claim)____________________________ Locality 9_ __ __ __...group)______________________________ Locality 14 (Lead Horse claim)__________________________ Locality 15 (Eightmile |
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