 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Symposium: Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy Acanthite-argentite, Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite...309 Brochantite, New Hampshire, 416 Brookite, Dodo Mine, Subpolar Urals, Russia, R. B. Cook, 192-95 Buchholz |  | | Catalog/List | | FAXYOUR ORDER OR INQUIRY TO: INTER-USA: 408-926-6015 NON-USA: ( • )-l-408-926-6015 CALL TOPLACE ORDERS:...Canad1anMTnerals", R. J. Traill, P. 4 (1983), 1·:herein Acanthite (after Argentitc) "crystals were coITlllonlyfrosted...combinations of these". The occurrence of Acanthite from the Cobalt District is also mentioned in "HB" I, P. l...very crudely developed xls., plus massive blacl: Acanthite after Argentite, are richly intergrown over the...1/2" thick. $28.50 A 4042AGUILARITE - San Carlos Mine, Municipio de Guandjuato, State of Guanaju |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...Columns Notes from the Editors Obituary: Paul Clifford.................................................only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...volume 53, May–June, 2022 Died, Paul Clifford, 79 Paul Cooper Clifford, Jr., well-known mineral museum curator...June 7, 1942, the son of Ruth Smiley and Paul C. Clifford, Sr. He married Janet Winslow Hartford in 1969 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1952, and was later Director of the Santa Barbara County Museum of Natural History. He was a prolific author...from Clay Canyon, Utah. (Continues on page 2) Acanthite FredPoughandSkipSimmonssharinglibationsatthe...laeliason@msn.com From a historic perspective, acanthite is a minor mineral of little importance and it...proper to label all specimens of silver sulfide as acanthite today; some are properly termed paramorphic or..."wires" overgrown with very small crystals of acanthite. Here, one finds the edges are rounded; the overall |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | name but a few, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite...tennantite crystals from the Champion lode, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and...tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff...the Freeland lode near Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County. Here, tennantite crystals from 3 to 6 mm on edge |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard... near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen...SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines Museum |  | | Book | | and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...mineral dealer, Tananarive, REPUBLIC MALAGASY CLIFFORD >& VINCENZO de Janeiro, DE MICHELE, BRAZIL...SWITZERLAND j& DAVID WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, U.S. A ¥% C. DOUGLAS WOODHOUSE, Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country | | | Book | | and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...British Museum (Natural History), London, ENGLAND ^ Clifford frondel, Curator, Harvard University, Cambridge...SWITZERLAND ^ david WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, u. S. A ^ C. DOUGLAS woodhouse, Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | genesis of bonanza Au-Ag ores of the Sleeper deposit, Nevada J.A. Saunders, P.A. Schoenly Department of Geology...Geology,Auburn University,Auburn, AL 3684%5305, USA Received: 29 November 1993/Accepted: 23 May 1994 Abstract...chalcedony, adularia, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and acanthite. The calculated dissolved gold content of 295...Western Americas such as Comstock and Tonopah, Nevada, Creede, Colorado, Fresnillo and Guanajuato, Mexico...exhibited by high-grade ore from the National Deposit, Nevada. The colloid hypothesis was extended by BoydeU |  | | Report (issue) | | Nye County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1287 Huebnerite Veins near Round Mountain...Mountain, Nye County, Nevada By DANIEL R. SHAWE, EUGENE E. FOORD, and NANCY M. CONKLIN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...1925Huebnerite veins near Round Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional Paper ;...119.16:1287 1. Huebnerite. 2. Mineralogy Nevada Nye County. I. Foord, Eugene E. II. Conklin, Nancy M...38 HUEBNERITE VEINS NEAR ROUND MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By DANIEL R. SHAWE, EUGENE E. FOORD, and |  | | Report (chapter) | | Britain and in Ireland. Line samples of vein arrays at mine localities generally sampled ore-mineralized veins...ay Fig. 2. Map showing locations of outcrop and mine datasets in the British Isles. Le Chatelet (France)...veins (Table 1). Curraghinalt, Sperrin Mountains, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Gold-bearing quartz veins...greenschist facies Dalradian metasediments (Clifford 1986; Clifford et al. 1990) which are predominantly quartz-rich...extension veins cross-cutting the regional structures (Clifford 1986). Gold also occurs in foliation-parallel |  | | Report (issue) | | Petrographie. REFERENCES FOR CHEMICAL FORMULAE Frondel, Clifford, Risk.a, Daphne, and Frondel, Judith Weiss X-ray...Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, and Frondel, Clifford 1944: Danas System of Mineralogy, Seventh edition;...1951: and Sons, vol. 1 (1944), vol. 2 (1951). ACANTHITE Ag2S Loe.: Ref.: Freiber g, Saxony. Ramsdell...Feldspar Group ALGODONITE Cu3 As Loe.: Ref.: Ahmeek Mine, Michigan, U . S . A. A.S . T.M., No. 2 - 1266....(1) Pieds des Monts, Quebec, Canada. (2) Amherst County, Virginia, U.S. A. Ref.: Kauffman, A.J. Jr., and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mexico and its mines. A precious opal from the Iris mine in Queretaro (fig. 1) was part of a suite of outstanding...Harvard class of 1888 and went on to a career in mining. His large systematic collection contained several...Navia. We believe that Navia, a professor at the mining school in Guanajuato, assembled a small systematic...Guanajuato highlighted the collection. Holden’s mining interests in Mexico brought him into contact with...crystals from the “Cave of the Swords” at the Maravilla mine in Naica and later reassembled it in the museum’s |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..........191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...commonality: They can be very dangerous. Each year mine rescue specialists and conventional search and rescue...Statistically, shafts are the most dangerous part of any mine; 90 percent of all accidents and entrapments in |  | | Journal (issue) | | D73–31, and D73–36. The XRD patterns verified acanthite and tetrahedrite from the J. E. Baker Billmeyer...Billmeyer quarry in Conoy Township, Lancaster County, near Bainbridge. The geology of this occurrence was documented...discussion of the mineralogy in the chapter on acanthite in The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, 1966–1975 (Smith...observations at the Billmeyer quarry, Lancaster County. Location of magnetite and occurrence no. 3 courtesy...metallic minerals, one of which appeared to be acanthite based on it being extremely sectile (it could |  | | Report (issue) | | Micromineralogy of Galena Ores, Burgin Mine East Tintic District Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Micromineralogy of Galena Ores, Burgin Mine East Tintic District Utah By ARTHUR S. RADTKE, CHARLES M. TAYLOR...Burgin mine._________________ 2. Chemical and spectrographic analyses of galena ores, Burgin mine. 3-7...MICROMINERALOGY OF GALENA ORES, BURGIN MINE, EAST TINTIC DISTRICT, UTAH By ARTHUR S. KADTKE, CHARLES M...Analyses of argentiferous galena ores from the Burgin mine, Utah, by electron microprobe, emission spectograph |  | | Journal (issue) | | by R. W. Eveleth S tib n ites o f the Stayton district, H o llister, C a lif o r n ia .................emphasis or clarity, and (d) proper names, e.g., mine levels. 8. Credits. Caption data for specimen photos...from the New Nevada mine in Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico and legrandite from the Ojuela mine in Mapimi,...sig nificant mining properties, including, but not limited to, the Sar Francisco mine in Sonora, the...the Veracruz amethyst locality, and the sulfur mine in Baja. He was a long-time wholesale dealer in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . . . . . . . . .... on calcite, from the El Oriente tunnel, Chivor mine, Boyaca, Colombia. William Larson collection; Van...his two brothers on a remote farm in the Mallee district of western Victoria, Australia. His tertiary education...Ghat (about 15 km east of Karad, in the Satara District). The presence of pentagonite in India was not |  | | Journal (issue) | | ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ........................................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | firm co-ordinated a major show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and Art (as it was then...long and happy association with the Los Angeles County Museum, eventually to take forms more mineralogical...Moore’s “jahnsite” was xanthoxenite; a mineral that Clifford Frondel noted at the Palermo, New Hampshire pegmatite...shifted, perhaps multiple times, since the days of mining. To keep building her mineral collection she has...13. Brucite, 15.4 cm, from Wood’s Chrome mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Kay Robertson collection; |  | | Book (edition) | | Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...plates of this useful encyclopedia are invaluable. CLIFFORD vii f RONDEL • ' INTRODUCTION A book,..."Systen1atic Mineralogy of Uranium and Thorium," by Clifford Frondel, USGS Bulletin 1064. "System of Mineralogy...with classifying and choosing the photographs. Clifford Frondel- Dana Prof. of Mineralogy of Harvard University...from core to outside edge. .. ABERNATHYITE ACANTHITE K U02As04 Ag2S Dimorphous with argentite • |  | | Journal (issue) | | Society's formation followed the closing of the Franklin Mine by five years and the publication of Palache's Professional...provide the essence. The Picking Table, 1, #1, had Clifford Frondel's alphabetical list of validated mineral...Table, 30, #1, also features a splendid article by Clifford Frondel. Likewise, this issue has a mineral species...to follow a purposeful path. The closing of the mine at Sterling Hill in early 1987 calls for some adjustment...GAINES, R.V. (1959) Brandtite at the Sterling Hill Mine, New Jersey. Am.Min., 44, 199-200. LIEBAU, F.,HILMER |
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