| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mineralogy San Rafael Mine Downloaded by [Laurentian University] at 10:24 05 October 2014 Nye County, Nevada...Nevada MARTIN JENSEN 470 W. Riverview Circle Reno, Nevada 89509 mineralpro@hotmail.com TONY NIKISCHER Excalibur...HERRMANN Lithosphere Minerals 2331 Ruddy Way Sparks, Nevada 89441 lithosphereminerals@yahoo.com 96*2:...specimens from his collection he San Rafael mine, in north central Nevada, is a relatively little known...crystallized examples of several minerals, including adamite, arsenopyrite, carminite, mimetite, mixite, plumbogummite | | | 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) | 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, | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | February 2015 Cover Photographs January/February: Quartz, several localities; John Lucking, Jeff Scovil...September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen...Acanthite, Nevada, 514 Actinolite, Quebec, 498 Adamite, Nevada, 514 Agardite–(Y), Nevada, 515 Agate (fire)...Anglesite, Colorado, 413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook,...456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50 Arseniosiderite, Nevada, 515 Arsenopyrite | | | Report (issue) | Bullock Nature displays her most common mineral, quartz, in this beautiful crystal cluster. CONTENTS.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent...Southampton University. A consultant geochemist in the mining industry, he is also an avid collector of micromounts...solid-solution series with another common arsenate, adamite. The general formula of the series is Me2(AsO4)(OH)...predominantly copper in olivenite and zinc in adamite. Impurities in natural olivenite include ferrous | | Price, Jonathan G., Henry, Christopher D., Castor, Stephen B., Garside, Larry, Faulds, James E. (1999) Geology of Nevada With excellent rock exposures in the desert, generally good access to collecting localities on public lands, and fine tourist attractions in the towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (6) 357-363 doi:10.1080/00357529909605171 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...of the state is characterized by a patchwork of mountain ranges, which are commonly about 10 miles wide...faults. As can be seen on figure 1, nearly every mountain range is bounded on at least one side by a fault...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades...exploration activity occurs on an irregular basis. Beaver County MINERAL COLLECTING IN THE STATE of Utah has undergone...article does not give permis- Lincoln district: The Creole mine, located at the south end of the Mineral...IRON X i xAntimony Big Zndia X % GARFIELD SAN JUAN x Orderville WASHINGTON Figure 1. Selected | | | Journal (issue) | KHURSHEED DINSHAW NEVADA PATENT MINE 34 United States’ only active azurite mine. STUART “TATE” WILSON...VOYNICK ROCK SHOPS OF DISTINCTION 60 Part II: Mining supplies and rock shop Field Notes .............Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer...about his find of a quartz scepter on his eponymous agate field. While finding a quartz scepter is extremely...rare at all. Citrine represents perhaps 5% of the quartz crystals on the Ritchie Ranch. While the percentage | | | Book | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in México...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in México, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- x / Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors | | | Book | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS • Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- LX x I Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors | | | Catalog/List | 85252 SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC COMPANY 2 Fl/R. ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc Mexico Durango, Mapimi...on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on...Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...silicate CLEAVELANDITE Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite...aggregates in quartz . ALTAITE Lead telluride • Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic | | | Catalog/List | tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety AMIANTHUS:Steintal...ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano...massive, green 2 variety ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold...CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals AEGERINE: Kola Peninsula, USSR. crystal sections AS /\BOVE AEGERINE: St...AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE: KipawQ River, Villodieu Township | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus and vanadium...pegmatites including those near Georgetown, Sagadahoc County (King and Foord 1994); other occurrences include...Oxford County. Scorodite occurred in small, pale green masses in oxidized ore at the cobalt mine at Great...Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield County; and the arsenic mine between Seymour...Haven County, Connecticut (Schairer 1931; Januzzi 1976). It has also been found in the Wheeler mine, Merrimack | | | Journal (issue) | Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to Mexico-II1................................................................ 24 Mapimí District Geology ........................................Discovery of Adamite at Ojuela................................ 43 Sidebar: Purple Adamite Tales ........Front Cover Purple adamite crystal cluster, 5.4 cm across, from the 1981 find in the San Judas chimney, Level...Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection; Wendell Wilson photo. Frontispiece | | | Catalog/List | ROCKAND MINERALCOLLECTIONS COPYRIGHT 1966 2 Fl/R ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc Mexico Durango, Mapimi...limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in | | | Journal (issue) | the U.S.A. 05 0 74470 02033 2 UNM’s HARDING MINE Exploring Plentiful Pegmatite 2 ROCKNGEM.COM ...With WorldWide Popularity 20 NEW MEXICO’S HARDING MINE The Must-See Pegmatite of the West Steve Voynick...2020 TOURMALINE with ALBITE and QUARTZ Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, CA Watercolor by Frederick C...2020 7 Covington Has Moved! ROYAL PEACOCK OPAL MINE Dig your own Virgin Valley Fire Opals ALL YOU FIND...(weather permitting) Rock Shop Hours: 7:30 am-4:30 pm Mining hours: 8:00 am-4:00 pm 520 E. Franklin Rd. Meridian | | | Report (issue) | Mineralogist OIAF GEOLOGIC BFL^NCH Ferry Building, San Francisco San Francisco P. JENKINS Chief Geologist ...°\ x *T U L A R E I s_ i»KCBSFltLO •Z R f SAN, BERNARDINO \ SSANTA BARBARA j^^'»-f"''*\L0SAN6tLCS...1 D E J •LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since | | | Journal (issue) | NO. 4 • APRIL 2021 10 ARIZONA’S PERIDOT MESA GEM MINE A Green Gem Born in Volcanic Lava By Bob Jones ...rockngem.com 4 ROCKNGEM.COM ION Mining Cooperative Idaho, Oregon, Nevada Carrasite Jasper Cripple Creek...Northwest Steve Schultz Mine Owners * Specializes in and mines Lava Cap Thunderegg, Mine Shaft Thunderegg,...silverstreams.com T&J Rocks Plus Tom & Jessa Pearson Mine Owners *Specializes in Pink Lady Plume Agate and...Arkenstone Gallery of Fine Minerals, Royal Peacock Opal Mine, Kingsley North, Joseph Stachura, Best In Gems, | | | Book | Spanish-English, English-Spanish glossary of gem, mineral and mining terms. BY PAUL WILLARD JOHNSON Price $2.00 r...El Antimonio District Cananea District ...... Arizpe District ........... Nacozari District ...... Moctezuma...Moctezuma District ... Hermosillo District ... Alamos District ........ 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Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such | | | Book (volume) | land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne...rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...the Black Hills pegmatites have measured from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals |
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San Rafael Mine, Quartz Mountain camp, Lodi Mining District, Lodi Hills, Nye County, Nevada, USA