 | | 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) | | 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 | | | 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) | | ................................... History of mining and production..................... Minerals of....... Nelson No. 2 prospect................................ .Nelson No. 1 prospect......................prospects............................ Moses Orndorff prospect.............................. Mineral Ridge mine................... Mining and preparation of the ore................ McCune prospect......................................... Brill prospect....................................... Godlove mine............. |  | | Report (issue) | | THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC MAGMATIC ARC OF WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA by Jeff L. Doebrich 1 ,...Open-File Report 96-9 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary...School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 'Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MS...MS 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 'U.S. Geological Survey, Retired, 8920 West 2nd....................... THE LUCKY BOY AND PAMLICO MINING DISTRICTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY by Daniel R. Shawe |  | | Report (volume) | | __________----_______-______-_--_------.__-__ History of mining and production__.._______.______.___.__-___-_____...claims....___________________________ Steelville prospect,._______________________________________ Spor..._____________________________________ Garfield County..______________________________________ Fullmer...claim__-___._____________-_.____-__-_---___-_Taylor prospect.----_-__--_______________.__-___--__-____Modena...locality.:_________________________________________ Unnamed prospect________ ______.________._.___.._._.____ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis... minerals, and mineral resources of the state. Mining has been an important part of Tennessee industry...not seem to filter down to the collector. Major mining districts that are mineralogically simple occur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ellenville (Ulster County), Wurtsboro (Sullivan County), and Guymard (Orange County) with minor workings...(Orange County) and Spring Glen (Ulster County). The area also contains some small unnamed prospect pits...intersected ore veins near Shaft 2A in Warwarsing (Ulster County) (Bird 1944), and some specimens were recovered...Shawangunk Mountains, a mountain ridge running from near Kingston, Ulster County, New York, to the Delaware...discovered copper and other minerals in a crystal mountain,” possibly in adjacent Pahaquarry, New Jersey |  | Wrucke, C.T., Marsh, S.P., Raines, G.L., Werschky, R.S., Blakely, R.J., Hoover, D.B., McHugh, E.L., Rumsey, Clayton M., Gaps, R.S., Causey, J.D. (1984) Mineral resources and mineral resource potential of the Saline Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas, Inyo County, California. Open-File Report Vol. 1984 (84-560) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr84560 | Report (issue) | | Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh...Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California by Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh...Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas, Inyo County, California................................ In...117A), California Desert Conservation Area, Inyo County, California. SUMMARY The Saline Valley Wilderness...Wilderness Study Areas. The Bureau of Mines searched mining records and examined mines, prospects, mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | pocket in 1955 at least 25 others were found as mining progressed. The contents of these, which ranged...less abundant calcite, coated with a thick layer of wad. At the east side of the opening, the passage narrowed...of the back were covered by gypsum, calcite and wad as in the cavern above it, but contained veins and...cemented and covered with gypsum, calcite, limonite, wad and small aggregates of wulfenite. “The back of the...our tourmaline. Dale [Sweatt] went down off the mountain today and rented the two largest safe deposit |  | | Report (issue) | | . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline...Amethyst f . , 4 .18 CABARRUS COUNTY 18 Minerals of the Cabarms County Mines 18 CALDWELL COUNT! 18 Pyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | ....................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .............................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...........................Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico .....................................Hanson Ilmenite expitaxial on bixbyite from Sierra County, New Mexico .................................. |  | | Book (edition) | | fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee | | | Book (edition) | | Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Apache County — 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437, 438 Gila County 439 Graham County Greenlee |  | | Book (edition) | | Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | | Report (volume) | | Mineral Resources of the Mill Creek, Mountain Lake, and Peters Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Craig and...and Giles Counties, Virginia, and Monroe County, West Virginia By FRANK G. LESURE, u.s. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...1927Mineral resources of the Mill Creek, Mountain Lake and Peters Mountain wilderness study areas, Craig and...and Giles Counties, Virginia, and Monroe County, West Virginia. (Studies related to wilderness) (Geological...national forest lands in the Mill Creek, Mountain Lake, and Peters Mountain study areas, Virginia and West Virginia |  | | Report (volume) | | Composition _______ _________________ Kaolins in the mountain region_______________ Occurrence ___-____________________...Continued. North Carolina Continued. Kaolins in the mountain region Continued. Kaolin mines Continued. Page...of the Clay Products Co_ 36 Sprucepine, Mitchell County __ 36 Sprucepine mine- ____-_ 36 Sparks mine 39...Herren property________________ Birdtown, Swain County _____________ Cole & Black property____________...Yancey County___________ Thoinas prospect _______________ Smith prospect ________________ Mitchell Coun |  | | Report (issue) | | Gavilanes Tungsten District El Antimonio District Magdalena District Cananea District Preliminary Deposit-Type...or to a group of closely-spaced deposits. Two district records have been included (MX00018 and MX02161)...or names of individual orebodies. DISTRICT/AREA Informal district name used in the literature. Names...economic interest. MINOR: Coproducts or byproducts of mining. POTEN: Commodities that have not been exploited...geologic inferences only ("inferred ore"). The mining industry terms "proven", "probable", and "possible" |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ..........................................T. R. Rose & R. E. Holden, Jr. Minerals of the Prospect Intrusion, New South Wales, Australia ..........Microminerals Miscellany from France, the Eifel district, and Mont Saint-Hilaire ........................located 12 km north, on the other side of the mountain, from the famous Muzo mine (see the article on...mines, not to mention th< potential for renewed mining someday if access is not blocked. Especially in |  | | Report (issue) | | ____________ Nevada and California, by E. N. Cameron and L. A. Warner__ _________________ ___. Nevada ___________...___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____ ____ Pag« 59 61 61 63 63 63 Good... Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten depositNorth workings...___-_-__ Barite deposits, Battle Mountain area.. California-Nevada Barite Co. 63 64 64 64 64 65 65 65...Lincoln County__-__-----_-----_-----___ Tern Piute district....... __ ___ ... Mineral County____-_______________ |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ................. 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ............................. ..........531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .. .. ....Wilson & E. Jones Fluorite from the Oatman District, Mohave County, Arizona ............. .... ..... 569 M...M. Hay & D. Morris The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ............. .......................... |  | | Book (volume) | | ;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T...Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by Vandall........... 9 Carl A. Francis Selected of Maine Mining and Minerals . ...................................... 17 Vandall T. King Early Hist01y of Maine Mining and Minerals .............................................. 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H. Perry . .... |  | | Report (issue) | | placer deposits in crystalline rocks near Kings Mountain. Cobalt minerals with ores of 16 iron or gold...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:...Appalachian 21 Mountains, a highly dissected mountain plateau bounded on the east by 22 the Blue Ridge...Metavolcanic rocks occur also in the Grandfather Mountain Window area, which lies 16 partly in the Piedmont |  | | Book (volume) | | been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to...a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has |
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