 | | Report (issue) | | Metals in Silicified Rocks of the Goldfield Mining District, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL ...Metals in Silicified Rocks of the Goldfield Mining District, Nevada By R. P. ASHLEY and W. GEOLOGY ...GEOCHEI\1ISTRY OF THE GOLDFIELD MINING GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL DISTRICT, PAPER NEVADA 843-B Exploration...Exploration and geochemistry of the Goldfield mining district, Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...of the Goldfield Mining District, Nevada. (Geology and geochemistry of the gold mining district, Nevada) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | KendallGold Mines, Goldfield, Nevada PETER G. VIKRE ASARCO Inc., 510 East Plumb Lane, Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract...replacementof Miocenerhyolites2 mi (3.2 km) north of Goldfield,EsmeraldaCounty,Nevada.The ledges,which are approximately21...andvolcanicstratigraphyat Sandstorm-Kendall are similarto those of the main district,immediatelynortheastof...of the town of Goldfield,where more than 95 percentof pastgoldproductionoccurred.From1903 to 1947 4.2...ledgereplacement quartz,(2) barite+ sulfides, (3) quartz+ pyrite+ barite, (4) quartz+ barite + kaolinitebreccia |  | | Report (issue) | | PAPER 66 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOLDFIELD, NEVADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME ASSISTED IN THE..._____ . ___________________ . _. Situation of the district.-~ ............... _..... ______ .. ________________________...______ ..... __ ........... _·_..... History of mining ....................... ............ . __ .. _... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandstorm rhyolite ....................... _. ____ . ___.......... ............... . Correlation of the Goldfield rocks with those of the surrounding region_ . |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE ALTERED AREA AT GOLDFIELD, NEVADA, INCLUDING ANOMALOUS AND BACKGROUND VALUES...---- Illustrations Page Figure 1. Map of Goldfield, Nev., and vicinity, showing areas df hydrothermal...113 Geochemistry of the altered area at Goldfield, Nevada, including anomalous and background values...sampling program carried out in the Goldfield mining district, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nev. Geochemical...were collected from a 15-square-mile area at Goldfield which is underlain by hydrothermally altered volcanic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 904-924 DirectDatingofMineralization atGoldfield, Nevada,by Potassium-Argon andFission-Track Methods R....K-mica from hydrothermally altered rocksat Goldfield,Nevada,yieldsmineralizationagesof 20 to 21 m.y.,...Summitville district of Colorado. Since 1970 we have obtained .several addi- tional .dateson Goldfield aluniteshav...y. Several premineralizationvolcanicunits at Goldfield cannotbe dated by the K-At methodowing to extensivealteration...furthermore, 904 DATING OF MINER.4LIZATION .4T GOLDFIELD, NEVADA 905 icantlyaffected bythermalannealing at |  | | Report (issue) | | PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE GOLDFIELD MINIITG DISTRICT, E3MERALDA AITD NYE COUJITIES, NEVADA T>y Roger P. Ashley...field area Ore producing areas, Gqldfield mining district Color print and overlays, Area 1 Color print...PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE GOLDFIELD MINING DISTRICT, ESMERALDA AND NYE COUNTIES, NEVADA Site 75 5 Mission ...Geological Survey Introduction General. The Goldfield mining district is in the western part of the Basin and...Altitudes range from about 5500 to 6900 feet. The district is underlain predominantly by volcanic rocks |  | | Report (volume) | | ACCOUNT OF GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG, AND FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME NOTES ON THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT G. H. GARREY..................................... Gold field district............................................................................................... Mining development..................................................................................... Mine maps......;........................................ 20 22 22 22 25 25 28 34 37 38 39 Bullfrog district.............. ............................... |  | | Report (issue) | | Deposits-Part I The Goldfield Gold District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY ...Precious-metal District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Republic Gold District, Ferry...Ferry County, Washington By MORTIMER H. STMTZ and ROBERT C. PEARSON The Comstock Lode Precious-metal District...District, Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada By WILLIAM C. BAGBY and ROGER P. ASH LEY U.S. GEOlOGICAl...1857H 1 Gold ores-Nevada 2 Gold ores-Wash1ngton-Ferry County 3 Hydrothermal deposits-Nevada 4 Hydrothermal |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEOLOGY AND ORE-DEPOSITS DISTRICT, OF THE GOLDFIELD NEVADA2 F. L. RANSOME. PART II. MINES AND...divisions,which may be cohvenientlydesignatedthe "Goldfield" and "Diamondfield" groups. Of these the first...supplied over 95 per cent. of the output of the district and includessuch well-known mines as the Mohawk...Combination, Florence, Jumbo,January, Red Top and Sandstorm. The belt of productivemines of the Goldfieldgroup...subdividedinto a group of mineson the north, including the Sandstorm,Kendall and Conqueror,which are in rhyolite; a | | | 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) | | anhydrous and reduced mineral assemblages (e.g., quartz + fayalite rhyolites). Eruptive forms include mafic...between the magnetitewustite and fayalite-magnetite-quartz oxygen buffers for this magmatic assemblage. The...assemblage and include the Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, Bodie, Paradise Peak, and Rawhide deposits...Famous districts include Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, and Bodie, and significant production...into two groups, high-sulfidation (acid-sulfate, quartz-alunite) and low-sulfidation (adularia-sericite) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ASSOCIATION THE OF GOLDFIELD ALUNITE DISTRICT, WITH GOLD IN NEVADA. • FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME...on Calico Peak near Rico,4 in the NationaI Belle Mine near Silverton, 5 and at CrippleCreek,ø all in Colo•...TresCerritos, Ma[iposa County,California. • Mr. W. Lindgren2 found alunite in the Ryerson mine near Morenci,...oxidized ore, and, like the kaolinite of that district,is probablySecondary with referenceto the original...solfataric metamorphism.of feldspathicrocks to quartz-aluniteaggregateswas one manifestation. It is worth |  | Thomson, B., Fallick, A.E., Boyce, A.J., Rice, C. (1994) The Candelaria silver deposit, Nevada ? preliminary sulphur, oxygen and hydrogen isotope geochemistry. Mineralium Deposita, 29 (4) doi:10.1007/bf00191038 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Springer-Verlag 1994 The Candelaria silver deposit, Nevada - preliminary sulphur, oxygen and hydrogen isotope...Abstract. The pre-Cenozoic geology at Candelaria, Nevada comprises four main lithologic units: the basement...within the Palmetto basement (634S = + 18.9%o). Quartz veins from the ores have mean 6~SO = + 15.9 + 0...a r i a A g ( - P b - Z n - S b - A s - A u ) district is one of N e v a d a ' s foremost historic a...geology Candelaria is located in Mineral County in central western Nevada (Fig. 1), and within the Walker Lane |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JUNE, •9•o AND ORE-DEPOSITS No. 4 OF THE GOLDFIELD DISTRICT, 'NEVADA2 F. L. RANSOME. PART I--G•.oLoG¾...oLoG¾. SITUATION AND TOPOGRAPHY. The Goldfield district, of which the geographicposition is shownin Fig...considerableexpanseof lava-cappedmesasouthwestof the town of Goldfield. Rough massesof silicified rock, which, owing...of Director of U.S. Geological Survey. The Goldfield district has been fully described in Professional...--F.L.R. 302 F. L. RANSOME. tral part of the district, and these outcrops are surroundedby wide concentriczonesof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gas Data from Goldfield and Tonopah Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits, Ancestral Cascades Arc, USA: Evidence for...Gas Data from Goldfield and Tonopah Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits, Ancestral Cascades Arc, USA: Evidence for...Data from Goldfield and Tonopah Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits, 2 Ancestral Cascades Arc, USA: 3 Evidence...Laboratory, P.O. Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA *Corresponding Author: amanning@usgs.gov Phone:...high-grade Goldfield and Tonopah 37 epithermal Au-Ag deposits in southwestern Nevada, USA. Ar and Ne |  | | Journal (issue) | | rodeo, Reno, Nevada. July 2 —Rodeo and horse show, Fillm e, Utah. July 2 —Sevier county fair and rodeo...e r d e By RICHARD VAN VALKENBURGH TRAVEL LOST MINE CONTEST PERSONALITY 5 W h e r e Wild Buffalo R...20 21 O n Turtle Mountain Trails LETTERS BOTANY MINING NEWS DESERT QUIZ HOBBY LAPIDARY COMMENT BOOKS ...Thorn, with some leads regarding some lost gold-quartz veins reputed to be in the region, I had no trouble...Papagos secretly carried the treasure to the Esmeralda mine and buried it deep in the underground workings |  | | Report (issue) | | of fresh quartz latite and vuggy silica........25 Figure 6. Sample of vuggy silica with quartz overgrowths...the Summitville mine................... 29 INTRODUCTION The Summitville mining district has received...environmental problems related to mining activities. Summitville Consolidated Mining Company, Inc. (SCMCI), a...open-pit gold mine at Summitville during the period from 1986 to 1992. Although mining ceased in the...environmental impacts resulting from the abandoned mining operations. Of short term concern is the presence |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | for outcropping beds of Eocene age in Orangeburg County and vicinity, South Carolina, by George E. Siple...Sandstone Member (of Mad-era Limestone). Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite. Crystal Lake Tuff _. Pennsylvanian...Cow Formation (new). (Myers, 1973.) Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite adopted. Intrudes Spud Mountain Volcanics...Peak Granodiorite. Late Cretaceous Northwestern Nevada- Eagle Sandstone (of Montana Group). Late Cretaceous...Washington. Esmeralda Formation _ late Miocene to early Pliocene. Southwestern Nevada- Etchegoin Formation |  | | Report (issue) | | characterized by the assemblage alunite+kaolinite+ quartz±pyrite, results from base-leaching by fluids concentrated...El Salvador, Chile; Rodalquilar, Spain and Goldfield, Nevada. Supergene alunite has S^S virtually identical...steam-heated environments, such as those at the Tolfa district, Italy and Marysvale, Utah, and numerous modern...precious-metal ore deposits such as at Buckskin, Nevada. Initial 8 18OsO4 and 834S values are kinetically...alunite in the assemblage: alunite + kaolinite + quartz ± pyrite (Hemley and Jones, 1964; Meyer and Hemley |  | Swayze, G. A., Clark, R. N., Goetz, A. F. H., Livo, K. E., Breit, G. N., Kruse, F. A., Sutley, S. J., Snee, L. W., Lowers, H. A., Post, J. L., Stoffregen, R. E., Ashley, R. P. (2014) Mapping Advanced Argillic Alteration at Cuprite, Nevada, Using Imaging Spectroscopy. Economic Geology, 109 (5) 1179-1221 doi:10.2113/econgeo.109.5.1179 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mapping Advanced Argillic Alteration at Cuprite, Nevada, Using Imaging Spectroscopy Gregg A. Swayze1, Roger...Monterey, California 93943 4 740 5 AWK 6 Zion St., Nevada City, California 95959 Consulting Engineers, 1225...Miocene advanced argillic alteration at Cuprite, Nevada. Distributions of Fe-bearing minerals, clays, micas... Pods of buddingtonite are remnants of initial quartz-adularia-smectite alteration. Thus, spectral maps...for mapping hydrothermal alteration at Cuprite, Nevada. This desert site is ideally suited for remote |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | volcanicdomerockandconsists of vuggysilica(central), quartz-alunite,quartz-kaolinite, argillic,andpropylitic(distal)zones...geologicmappingin the openpit, indicatethat vuggysilica,quartz-alunite,andquartz-kaolinite alteredrockconstitutemostof...ostof the Au ore.Vuggysilicaaveraged2.4 ppmAu, quartz-alunite averaged1.2 ppmAu, andquartz-kaolinite...concentrations correlatemost consistently with quartz-alunite zones.Thalliumis alsoanomalous at Summitville...Drill holes throughthe volcanicdomeintersecteda quartz monzoniteporphyryapproximately600 m below the surfacethat |  | | Book | | ~Lady in ~ Boomtown Miners and Manners on the Nevada Frontier Mrs. Hugh Brown eres. with an introduction... olLAsDYeINyi ae Bger Churchill County Library 553 S. Maine Street Fallon, Nevada 89406 (702) 423-7581 VINTAGE...Indian War of 1860 by Ferol Egan, 1972 Sierra-Nevada Lakes by George and Bliss Hinkle, 1949 Exploring...The Story of Austin, Nevada by Oscar Lewis, 1955 The WPA Guide to 1930s Nevada Silver Kings . . . Lords...Lords of the Nevada Comstock Lode by Oscar Lewis, 1947 A Kid on the Comstock: Wells, Fargo Detective: |
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