| | Report (issue) | RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district | | | 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) | 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 (issue) | Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Certificate (only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange | | | Journal (issue) | Madera County, C alifornia............................. 127 by T. Szenics The El Dragon mine, Potosi...Lehrberger & G. Schnorrer-Kohler Arizona's Silver mining district .............................................“skivers” or spine labels made of very thin, black, red or dark green leather (legal books, for example,...trips to the famous Crestmore quarries in Riverside County, California, 123 will once again be permitted...family in Mainz, Germany, in 1853. He entered the mining academy at Frieberg and, after his graduation, | | | Journal (issue) | Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner...1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon Famous mineral...mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona............................................Schoten ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens | | | Report (issue) | wax-yellow, yellow-orange, bright orange, red-orange, bright red; gray, grayish white, rarely white, colorless;...commonly introduced externally. Association: Cerussite, anglesite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, vanadinite...Slovenia. In the USA, from Arizona, at the Red Cloud and nearby mines, Silver district, La Paz Co., in...in the Old Yuma mine, near Tucson, Pima Co., at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., large crystals...from the Glove mine, near Amado, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz Co., at the Hilltop mine, Chiricahua Mountains | | | Journal (issue) | WULFENITE, PbMoO4, 7cm, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA; Evan Jones Collection...the Arizona Geological Survey and at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum. Dr. Rasmussen received the...in 2010 for her work as Curator of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix. Our April 13th program...Minute 2629 Pinal Club & Museum 30 Arizona Mining, Mineral and Natural Resources Education Museum...Blue Cube Mine MSA Membership Corner 60 Jeff & Nicole Craig Minerals from Blanchard Mine, NM MSA | | | Journal (issue) | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek, | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as...iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey; | | | Journal (issue) | Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical...deemed more appropriate (and more likely to gain mining industry support) to propose designating copper | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...familiar as a red mineral varying in hue from cochineal-red through ruby- to purplish-red to almost black...black. Its streak varies from brownish to red, and its luster is adamantine to submetallic. It exhibits...native copper; prospects at Ladenton, Rockland County, New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the...Mountain copper mines, Lehigh County, and at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; at Ducktown, Tennessee; | | | Journal (issue) | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...within a skarn complex on privately owned patented mining claims which cover the mountain’s top, upper sides... Dioptase, Cerussite and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | scientifically interesting minerals owe much to the mining industry that extracted these resources for commercial...by the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, Bisbee, Cochise County, ca. 1910, showing the square-set...Figure 2 (above). Morenci mine, Greenlee County, a typical open-pit copper mine. Courtesy of Phelps Dodge...31 Aurichalcite 79 mine 10 Azurite Bisbee 1 Morenci mine 5 Barite Magma mine 24 Calcite Bisbee ...Anthony mine (Tiger) 4 Cerussite Bisbee, Cole Shaft mine 1 Flux mine 16 Grand Reef mine 3 Mammoth–St | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...brochantite, caledonite, malachite, aurichalcite, cerussite, anglesite, leadhillite, hemimorphite, and chrysocolla...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 | ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 | | | Journal (issue) | ......... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ..................................Alexander The Morenci and Metcalf mines, . Gila County, Arizona ........................................& W. E. Wilson Mineral collecting at the Magma mine, . . Superior, Arizona ..........................Presmyk & M. Hay Treasures of the Magma mine, Pinal County, Arizona ............................... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | specimens, not only to the mine, but also often to the particular place in the mine and even to the period...is often yellow through orange, and more rarely red. It has also been recorded as green, blue, colorless...is transparent to opaque yellow, gray, brown, and red and has the same crystal habits as wulfenite. There...structure; even a tiny percentage produces a remarkably red color in wulfenite. No end member of either a tetragonal...orange, sometimes green; vanadinite [Pb,(VO,),CI] , red and orange to brown; and pyromorphite [Pb,(PO,),Cl] | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite | | | Journal (issue) | ....................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .................................. 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...........................Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico .................................. | | | Report (issue) | Metallurgist MARK EHLE, Mining Engineer J. B. TENNEY, Geologist G. R. FANSETT, Mining Engineer R. E. S. HEINEMAN..."The Geology and Mineral Deposits of Southern Yuma County" is the most pretentious bulletin of the kind that...in many parts of the county, it has not been easy to prospect southern Yuma County at all thoroughly, but...__________ . __ .____ _____ ______ __. General mining history_______________________ __________ ._______________..._____ ____ ____________ ______________ Tertiary (?) red beds ____ ____ _________________ __ __________ _ | | | Journal (issue) | Wilson Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Friends of Mineralogy COVER: COPPER from the Ray mine, Arizona. The specimen is 3 inches wide, and was...article beginning on page 311 for more on the Ray mine. n o te s fr o m t h c j EDITOR ARIZONA This | | | Journal (issue) | Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe |
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