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| Banning, California. July 4-6—Reno rodeo, Reno, Nevada. July 4-6—Gallup Rodeo, Gallup, New Mexico. July... Sanctioned races with 200 entries. Hawthorne, Nevada. July 8-12—Ute Stampede and rodeo, Nephi, Utah...Photography prohibited. July 27-August 6—Carbon County Centennial program, Price, Utah. July 31-August...Comment from Desert Magazine r e a d e r s . . . MINING i Current News Briefs NEWS LAPIDARY ; Here a...the map—and one of them is located in San Diego county, California, where Americans seeking health come |
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| chairman. 5 Woman's club flower show at Needles, California. Annual White Sands Playday for 4,000 children...at Ben Lomond hotel, Ogden. 12 First community flower show at Chandler, Arizona. 12-13 Rainbow and Crystal...education convention, Reno, Nevada. Miss Elsa Saineth, University of Nevada, chairman. 19 Desert Sun Festival...WILDFLOWERS Where to find desert flowers in April 28 MINING Briefs from the desert region 30 LETTERS C o m...exposure 1/100 second, film SS Panchromatic. These little girls were herding sheep 75 miles north of Flagstaff |
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| moved it will require more larger quantities are mine by loading every third ascending help. This upper...these Huson patent tramways are in use in various mining districts, for transport- ing ore, supplies,...also, some of them carrying the men to and from the mine or mill. In mountainous districts they are invaluable...there be in saying portation of ores from ver mine to mill or point but gold in refineries, of shipment... mints, may times, HUSON TRAMWAY AT PAY-ROOK MINE. SILVER PLUMB, COLORADO. and storm as mid-day of |
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| cultural Tombstone Club. Time proved that Rawhide, Nevada, had existed more on promotion, flamboyancy and...Twin Buttes...67; Vulture City...69; Weaver...74; White Hills. ..77 NEW MEXICO Alma..:81; Cerrillos...84;...Watrous...133; White Oaks... 136 TEXAS Lajitas...141; Shafter...143; Terlingua... 152 NEVADA Aurora...159;...National...212; Nelson...215; Paradise Valley. ..216; Pine Grove...220; Pioche...221; Rawhide...224; Rhyolite... example Colorado’s of this is Kokomo, early mining Colorado. days with a newer metal Here is |
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| International Footprinters association meet. Las Vegas, Nevada. A. S. Henderson, president. 2-22 Arizona Pictorialists...California. Also May 11-12, 18-19, 25-26, 30. 5-6 Nevada Knights of Columbus meet at Golden Hotel, Reno...Arizona. 10 Spring round-up at Roswell, New Mexico. County folk festival. 10-12 Calico Days, Yermo, California...visitors. 16-19 Helldorado and rodeo. Las Vegas. Nevada. Rodeo association of America, SI 200 prize money...e p y h e a d By MARY BEAL TREASURE Lost Pick Mine By JOHN D. MITCHELL PUZZLE GEMS Desert Quiz, a |
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| am now in a tent with a light in it and can do a little writing in the evenings, although I am working...soon. NEWS Here a n d There on the Desert 29 MINING Briefs from the d e s e r t 32 WEATHER J a...Richard Van Valkenburgh. He believes he is the only white to have seen the part of the chant which he will... lak* Mead By CHARLES F. THOMAS, JR. Boulder City, Nevada A gem, deep set mid serrate high crowned hills...a flaming, rich brocade. Hollywood, California Little brown beast on the desert trail, Plodding along |
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| Gold mines and mining—Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)—History. 4. Gold mines and mining—Amargosa River...Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires...mineral wealth, has been the work of many hands, mining and refining it. The final metal owes much to the...the desert West. It’s just a little deeper, a little hotter, and a little drier. What sets it apart more...valley was several thousand feet above sea level. Nevada papers championed Gabb, chiding Whitney for wanting |
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| centuries ago, Some heavenly God of Nature Kept his flower beds here below. New lacy leaves have gracefully...garden again. Thermal, California O lovely little flower wild. Exquisite in your beauty! I'd love to...call that brings them here? Some vibrant note must lead them true and clear! Aglow and radiant with friendly...different varieties come into bloom. Los Angeles County Library, Lancaster, California. April 2-5—Desert...FICTION CLOSE-UPS LETTERS NEWS TRUE OR FALSE CONTEST MINING LAPIDARY HOBBY COMMENT BOOKS 21 Pictures of the |
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| Quicksilver Deposits of the Horse Heaven Mining District Oregon GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 969-E ... QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE HORSE HEAVEN MINING DISTRICT, OREGON By A. C. WATERS, RANDALL E. BROWN,...discovered in the Horse Heaven district, north-central Oregon, in 1933. The district has since produced' 15,000...which has come from the Horse Heaven mine, although the Axe Handle mine produced about 150 flasks. Four prospects...of biotite rhyolite. The ores of the Axe Handle mine are in altered rocks at tho margin of a plug of |
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| month she describes Fairy Mist, the ethereal little flower which forms this colorful mantle—and several...relatives. Close-up of Fairy Mist, showing the flower clusters at the end of wiry stems. By MARY BEAL...from lavender to lilac or pink or occasionally white. Its 5 lobes spread out one-half inch or more atop...palmate lobes one-half to 1 inch long. The corolla is white, an inch or more across, furled in the bud, the...var. decorus is almost identical except for the white or occasionally lavender flowers. It has the same |
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| assist us only confuse us the more. All our roads lead out into mysteries, Science, so far from exhausting...veinstone consisting of purple fluorspar. silvery white mica, and quartz. In the gangue the cassiterite...Virginia "extends along the east edge of Rockbridge County, in the line of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from...James River Gap to about the north line of thE county." Throughout this area cassiterite has been found...collections contain a block of ore from the Cash mine in this vicinity which shows a solid mass of cassiterite |
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| recording the history of the fauna of the Lake District, how much more so ought we, who live after him...of Natural History in Cumberland and the Lake District, for from that time the bulk of our knowledge...mammals, reptiles, and fishes of the district dates. It was just a little over one hundred years previously...their pursuit than his father, but for all that, little of his actual work, or of the information he collected...arrival of Macpherson in Carlisle, the fauna of the district appears to have been neglected. True, Carlisle |
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| these card catalogues would be as useful to the mining industry as they have proved to be to the Division...and expense involved are justified and that the mining industry will find that having this material readily...accumulating steadily since 1853, when the first mine (a coal property) was developed. Actually it antedates...During the 90 years or more that prospecting and mining have been active, a vast amount of information...extensively to the fund of published data. Also, mining journals and periodicals, many of which are no |
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| f2.5, 1/25 second. By GENE O. PARKS Las Vegas, Nevada Second prize winning picture in the December contest...dance at Taos pueblo, New Mexico. 15-18 Riverside county Fair and Coachella valley Date Festival. Indio...los Vaqueros, Tucson. (Indian Day, Feb. 22; Pima County Fair and Industrial exhibition, Feb. 22-25; Rodeo...17 INDIAN CRAFTS Hopi Gods in Masquerade By MRS. WHITE MOUNTAIN SMITH . . . 19 PUZZLE True or False—a test...Yumas By TOM WORTHINGTON 26 BOTANY Everybody's Little Friend By MARY BEAL 28 PLACE NAMES Origin of names |
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| Strange Lifestyle of the Wild Bee THE LAND OF WHITE SHADOWS by Bruce B. Pierce 39 AFTER MOUNT 42 ST...Emily J. Horswill A Lively Ghost ^ 7 HOME ON THE NEVADA M I DESERT by Don Miller Where Men Once Hung Their... after we had contacted them, that they were a little off target in thinking that magazines, new or used...could read: "Girl-watching at our beaches could lead to permanent anchorage." BLM, PRO AND CON I read...crater are visible from this high vantage point, as little vegetation exists to limit the extended view. Symmetrical |
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| Engineering News-Record Power V Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering...Alaskite-quartz intrusive lenses. Silver Nevada Peak, Nevada 3. 6. Drinkwater mine, Silver Peak. Vertical cross-section...11. Great Gulch mine. Silver Peak, Nevada 12. Great Gulch mine, Silver Peak, Nevada Surface plan 13.... Mandy mine, Manitoba. Vertical cross-section 14-A. Mandy mine, Manitoba. 14-B. Mandy mine, Manitoba...cross-section Contact of ore and wall rock 15. Mandy mine. 9. 10. 17. Mandy Mandy 18. Pelican vein, Georgetown |
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| Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White European Correspondent Michael P. Cooper Editing...Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ..........................................185 by B. M. England Copper roses from the Rose mine, near San Lorenzo, New Mexico ....................Microminerals Miscellany from France, the Eifel district, and Mont Saint-Hilaire ........................of crystals on white calcite matrix from the Coscuez mine, Muzo, Colombia. This mine is located 12 km |
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| be put to, on the wearing of gold as well as on mining and refining. The result is an intriguing account...life cost the lives of countless slaves. Gold held little wonder for the millions of miners who toiled to...moralists. With the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, a new word entered the English language...of even the hottest furnace. Nearly as heavy as lead, it has a melting point lower than copper. With...natural state. It was mined in the Great Boulder Mine, at Kalgoorlie, and was analysed as 999 parts common |
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| be put to, on the wearing of gold as well as on mining and refining. The result is an intriguing account...life cost the lives of countless slaves. Gold held little wonder for the millions of miners who toiled to...moralists. With the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, a new word entered the English language...of even the hottest furnace. Nearly as heavy as lead, it has a melting point lower than copper. With...natural state. It was mined in the Great Boulder Mine, at Kalgoorlie, and was analysed as 999 parts fine |
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| given their names by the Red men long before the white men knew anything about the place.” If this is the... De (literally, peninsula, and gave Vere little the Introduction inhabitants their name of...English nobleman who lived near Maidstone in Kent County, England. Tuebor is a Latin word, and has “reference...provided in the flag shall be white 1911 charged law. with FLOWER By an act of the State Legislature...worldwide is one trees. flower. landscape, apple reputation,” of the most flower ‘‘beautiful that |
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| Thunder Bay District 1821-1892 This volume is a pioneering excursion into the documentary history...development of numerous communities created through mining activity and railway building, showing how precariously...University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. She has lived in the District of Thunder Bay for more than twenty years, and... THUNDER BAY DISTRICT 1821-1892 This page intentionally left blank THUNDER BAY DISTRICT 1821-1892 A...fur trade, the glittering lure of The Montreal Mining Company and the frontier-probing Canadian Pacific |
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| THAT NEVER ENDED. ~~ ¢ A History of Australian Mining GEOFFREY BLAINEY Kimberley (cetera! OSE ...THAT RUSH NEVER ENDED A History of Australian Mining GEOFFREY MELBOURNE BLAINEY UNIVERSITY PRESS...with minor corrections, but the boom in Australian mining now calls for a larger revision. To this edition...ten thousand words have been added on the new mining fields. A few corrections have also been made...noted that the book covered the main branches of mining except coal; the simplest definition of the book |
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| AD] A X M IN I N G JOUB N A L I THE CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL 1922 Index To Published Weekly by the...Gardenvale, Quebec. Co., I til. THE CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL III Author Index W Agar. M. "Argus"...116 Wolf. Alb O »(.< T IV 1 1 CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL E Index Accident" In 44 301 481 869... — 1 742 617 12 445 486 603 618 — Alberta. Mining in Verse Alibi Am- rican American American American...800 572 426 — Bentonite— Ed Blue Sky Laws and Mining Ed Blue Sky Laws by H. E. T. Haultain Blue Quartz |
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| government and private sectors, discussions with mine operators, and the firsthand knowledge of the authors...professional col leagues and by current and former mine operators. The "central Alaska region" as considered...$ 0.74 Pound Gold (Au) $104.70 Troy ounce Lead (Pb) $ Pound Mercury (Hg) $110.00 Platinum...CATEGORY A MINE is defined as a mineral deposit with recorded production, however smal1: M mine with known...known or probable activity since I960; m mine with no known activity since I960. A PROSPECT is defined |
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| Pictured are a large nugget from the famous Fox Mine in Nevada and a strand of Chinese turquoise. You ·11...G. .......................... 8 The Chrl1tm■1 Flower by Joe and Nora Weingarten ......................orange may contain an occasional streak of gray or white. It takes a good polish and may be cut for cabochons...$2.20 lb. RED AND WHITE STRIPED JASPER - Strong alternating bands of red and white makes this an Interesting...polish and comes In combinations of red, pink, tan, white and cream colors. We have had many favorable responses |
