 | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared in...the Nevada Bureau of Mines 1162-B Geology of the Railroad Mining District Elko County, Nevada By KEITH...BULLETIN 1162-B Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING..._________________ Geologic setting of the Railroad mining district______________________ Geologic history...System____________________________________________ Nevada Formation._______________________________________ |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among the finest collecting grounds...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 |  | | 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...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | 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...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...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to |  | | Report (volume) | | RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS............................. Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................ Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location...geology............................................. Mine descriptions......................................44 44 45 46 47* 47 47 47 48 48 48 48 49 50 Rex mine..................:............................. |  | Wrucke, Chester T., Werschky, R.S., Raines, G.L., Blakely, R.J., Hoover, D.B., Miller, M.S. (1984) Mineral resources and mineral resource potential of the Little Sand Spring Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California. Open-File Report Vol. 1984 (84-557) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr84557 | Report (issue) | | the Little Sand Spring Wilderness Study Area Inyo County, California Chester T. Wrucke, R. Scott Werschky................................................. Mining activity.........................................Little Sand Spring Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California........................... In pocket.................... 3. Geologic map of the Sylvia mine area and vicinity.................................CDCA-119), California Desert Conservation Area, Inyo County, California. SUMMARY The Little Sand Spring Wilderness |  | | Report (issue) | | Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania by F. Harold Evans with... Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsyl vania. Copyright © 1980 by...second and third drafts and Glen Taylor, Montgomery County Re corder of Deeds, for his kind help in searching...Sciences of Philadelphia, Montgomery County and Chester County Historical Societies, and the Franklin...“Historical Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Montgomery County, Pennsyl vania, ” by F. Harold Evans |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...for the Riverside Cement Company as the Assistant Mine Superintendent. W e are operating in two areas at...well picked over. The Chino limestone which we are mining near Commercial has few of the interesting minerals...The marl had been dug out of a dredged >_anal. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—John O. Griesbach, 12217 Centerhill |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | ......... 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value................................................. 19 54. Flint fire clay processed at the mine: value 32 18. Other clay mined: average value...ton.... 19 55. Other fire clay processed at the mine: value 32 19. Shale mined: average value per ton.... . 21 59. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: average value per ton......................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...have been found at the Holland mine in Washington Camp Mining District near Nogales, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...minerals are hard to find mainly because of extensive mining and the rambling "rockhounds." Almost all of the |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | is priced at only . . . $.85 per lb. BLACK SPIDER MINE TURQUOISE - All ring size stones, mostly of a medium.........................$.50 per gram Turquoise. Nevada. blue with gray or black matrix ...................................... $.45 per gram Turquoise. Nevada. green with brown splderweb .....................- ALL ORDERS MUST INCLUDE A 12.00 fee ii In the USA - all Foreign Ordera - We welcome export orders...Arkona. Soon after that day, we found our way to Sylvania, Ohio (a fossil hunter's paradise) . For many |  | | Book (edition) | | in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...Also near Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California...Missouri. Fairly large crystals in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | free list, write to: B L A I N E R E E D , 907 County Rd. 207 #17, Durango, Colorado 81301. MICROMOUNTS...fluorite, amethyst, kyanite, pyrite, peacock ore, chrysocolla, opal, emerald, gold and others. Send for 4-page...CONTACT MINERALS, 1002 South Wells Ave., Reno, Nevada 89502; (702)329-8765. VIDEO MINERAL CATALOG—Many...FLUORITES with pedigree. Free List. NEW MEX ICO MINING AND MILLING, INC., Los Cordovas Rd., Box 14, Taos...Quality specimens for the amateur to expert collector. Mine-run specimens $3.00 lb. Fluorite chips $1.00 lb |  | | | | in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and...Also near Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California....Missouri. Fairly large crystals in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from |  | | Journal (issue) | | complex base-metal assemblage from the Sterling mine, New Jersey ......................................mineral localities: The French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania.......................Dickinson Famous mineral localities: The Burra Burra mine, Burra, South Australia ..........................Saddle-shaped rhodochrosite crystals from the Foote mine, North Carolina ..................................in progress, and participate in either gemstone mining in Oregon or dinosaur digging in W yoming. He is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cassedanne A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B. DeWitt Essay: minerals...Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ...................................belonged to his deceased grandfather, who had been a mining engineer. Curators receive such calls fre quently |
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