 | | 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) | | Paleozoic and Mesozoic Rocks Exposed in Central Elko County, Nevada By Keith B. Ketner Open-file report No...Mountains Formation------------------ 47 Devonian--Nevada Formation------------------------ -------------...Range, the Adobe Range, the Elko Hills, the Peko Hills, Double Mountain area, and adjacent small exposures...accurate and are still useful. The Merrimac mining district at Lone Mountain was discussed briefly by W. H...mapping done by S. F. Emmons. Lovejoy's work at Lone Mountain (1959) was the first careful detailed study |  | | Report (issue) | | resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada by George Wong Open-File Report 83-721 This...Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities as well as areas of...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent |  | | 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) | | 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 (volume) | | RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.................................-- - --Prospect Mountain quartzite................................... ............................................. Lone Mountain limestone......................................................................... Mountain ranges and mining districts...................................................... Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AND THE NANNIE'S PEAK INTRUSIVE, LONE MOUNTAIN, ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA BY DONALD W. LOVEJOV ABSTRACT The...facies, composed of carbonate rocks, in eastern Nevada and western Utah, and a western facies, composed...cherts, and volcanic rocks, in central and western Nevada. Major thrust faults have moved the rocks of the...fault is exposed on the flanks of Lone Mountain in Elko County, Nevada. The rocks of the eastern facies...by Silurian siltstone. The thrust fault at Lone Mountain is domed up by intrusive rocks of probable Miocene | | | 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...______________________________________________ Lone Mountain Dolomite_________________________________ Devonian |  | | Report (issue) | | Preliminary report on the Rip Van Winkle mine, Elko County, Nevada T. S^ Lovering^and W. M. Stoll '~~- "...Van Winkle mine and mill are in the Merrimac (Lone Mountain) district, Elko County, Nevada. Both are...miles northwest of Elko, Nev. in an air line, but about 38 miles by road. The mine workings above the...relation to one another are shown on the composite mine map. JFhe elevation of the portal of the tunnel...work. T. S. Levering and W. M. Stoll studied the mine in January, 1943 in connection with explorations |  | Orris, G.J., Bennett, P.C., Theodore, T.G. (1987) A bibliography for the Winnemucca 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district and selected major topics. Open-File Report Vol. 1987 (87-89) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr8789 | Report (issue) | | 2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....within the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ash-flow tuffs and paleovalleys in northeastern Nevada: Implications for Eocene paleogeography and extension...D. Henry* Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA ABSTRACT...ABSTRACT Northeastern Nevada is generally interpreted as an area of large-magnitude Eocene extension possibly...~4 km. The Eocene paleovalleys in northeastern Nevada most likely drained eastward to remnants of the...approximately north-south paleodivide through northeastern Nevada separated these east-draining paleovalleys from |  | | Report (issue) | | wu OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY— Joseph V: Tingley a RobertC.Horton _ Francis C. Lincoln 3 . ...Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was made — possible with the assistance...eh aa nearly 48 million acres of public land in Nevada. Most of the minerals, _ _ geothermal energy, and...ahij 4 = Wh A a ‘ a a y 4 Pte Es in Nevada comes from publicland. First edition, first printing...Leshendok, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Eric Moody, Nevada Historical Society é Jon Price, National Research |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Magmatism in Gold Mineralization of the Carlin Trend, Nevada MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD C. NOBLE, Department...Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...Geology, Mail Stop 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Gold...Gold Company, P.O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Beast, low-grade (7.3 Mt @ 0.7 g/t), disseminated...disseminated Au deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, is unique among Carlin-type Au deposits in having |  | | Report (volume) | | Index of Granitic Rock Masses in the State of Nevada By FLORIAN MALDONADO, RICHARD W. SPENGLER, W.F....on 205 areas of exposed granitic rock masses in Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1831 DEPARTMENT...Data Index of granitic rock masses in the state of Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1831) Bibliography:...Docs. no.: I 19.3:1831 1. Granite-Nevada. 2. Intrusions (Geology) -Nevada. I. Maldonado, Florian. II. United...Clark County 9 Geology 9 Plutons 9 Lincoln County 1S Geology 1S Plutons 1S Southern Nye County 17 Geology |  | | Report (issue) | | ISLAND NW QUADRANGLES, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH, AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By David M. Miller, Andrew P. Lush...weathered, biotite-alkali feldspar-plagioclase-quartz unwelded ash-flow(?) tuff. Weathers white. Minor...volcanic breccia. Tuff has phenocrysts of plagioclase, quartz, and hornblende in chalky, siliceous to clayey...clayey matrix. Rare flow-banding and rounded quartz grains occur in flows. Breccia is gray hornblende dacite...Mtp Dg QUARTZ PORPHYRY (Oligocene or Miocene)--North-striking, steeply dipping dikes of quartz porphyry |  | | Report (issue) | | STATE OF NEVADA Open-file Report 79-235 1979 Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Nevada Operations...SURVEY INVENTORY OF GRANITIC MASSES IN THE STATE OF NEVADA Compiled by Richard W. Spengler, Florian Maldonado...-----------------------------------------Clark County-----------------------------------------------...---------------------------------------Lincoln County-----------------------------------------------...----------------------------------Southern Nye County----------------------------------------------- |  | | Report (issue) | | the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Some Fossil Data...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada By THOMAS E. MULLENS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...gold ore deposits at the Carlin and Cortez mines, Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1063) Bibliography:...Stratigraphic Devonian. 3. Petrology Nevada. 4. Paleontology Nevada. 5. Geology Nevada. I. Title. II. Series: United |  | | Report (issue) | | Pegmatites in the Ruby Mountains and Other Areas in Nevada and Northwestern Arizona By JERRY C. OLSON and...acknowledgments.--------.---------------------Pegmatite mining in the region...________-__-__--__.______-_-_-General..._______________________ Dawley Canyon area, Elko County-______--_--_------_-_-_-_-_---_-_ Location and...-----_--_---_------_ Errington-Thiel (Big) mica mine.--------------------------Other localities.____________________...____________________._--_-_-_____-_-__-_.__ Other areas in Elko County__-__________-_-_-_---_-______.__-_-_-_ Corral |  | | Report (issue) | | ___________________ -_-----Lode and placer gold deposits, Mohave County _______________________ _ California ________________________...Mother Lode, Amador County __________ _ Tertiary gravels, Nevada City area, Sierra Nevada ________________...Geology of Hahns Peak and vicinity _______ Lookout Mountain area, eastern San Juan Mountains ________ _ _... _ Aurora district_ ___________________ _ arlin mine __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Copper..._---Central North Carolina _-------------Moore County __ ---------- -- ------South Carolina ____ -- __ |  | | Report (issue) | | of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...MINERALIZATION ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised...216-mile-long stretch ofInterstate 80 from Reno to Battle Mountain traverses several major mineral belts which contain...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain |  | Peters, S. G., Armstrong, A. K., Harris, A. G., Oscarson, R. L., Noble, P. J. (2003) Biostratigraphy and Structure of Paleozoic Host Rocks and Their Relationshipto Carlin-Type Gold Deposits in the Jerritt Canyon Mining District, Nevada. Economic Geology, 98 (2) 317-337 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.2.317 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Carlin-Type Gold Deposits in the Jerritt Canyon Mining District, Nevada STEPHEN G. PETERS,† U.S. Geological Survey...University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557-0138 Abstract The Jerritt Canyon mining district in the northern...northern Independence Range, northern Nevada, contains multiple, nearly horizontal, thrust masses of platform...Carlin-type gold orebodies in the Jerritt Canyon mining district were controlled by structural and host-rock...JERRITT CANYON mining district in the northern Independence Range, Elko County, Nevada, contains clusters |  | | Report (issue) | | Range Area, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Paleozoic Rocks in the Carlin-Pinon Range Area, Nevada By J. FRED SMITH, JR., and KEITH B. KETNER GEOLOGY...AREA, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 867-A Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau...Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada. (Geology of the Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada) (Geological Survey Professional...2. Geology-Nevada-Carlin region. I. Ketner, Keith Brindley, 1921joint author. II. Nevada. Bureau of Mines |  | | Report (issue) | | Stratigraphic-Devonian. 3. Rugosa. 4. Geology-Nevada. 5. GeologyCalifornia. I. McKee, Edwin H., joint...----------Roberts Mountains Formation at Bare Mountain ____________ Roberts Mountains Formation of the...____ The Silurian-Devonian boundary in central Nevada __________ i\n appraisal of stratigraphic and age...formations in the intermediate limestone belt in Nevada and California -------------------------------...Silurian and Lower Devonian formations in central Nevada __________ 40 THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS FORMATION |  | | Book (edition) | | and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized |
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