 | | Report (issue) | | SECTION ON URANIUM ISOTOPE STUDIES FISH LAKE VALLEY, NEVADA By J. R. Dooley, Jr. Open-File Report 80-1234...Clayton Valley, NevadaPlaya deposits of southwestern Nevada Fish Lake Valley Fish Lake Valley uranium isotopic...Dooley, Jr. Columbus Salt Marsh Big Smoky Valley Alkali. Valley Mud Lake Stonewal 1 Fl at Concluding remarks...Lithium clays in the Lake Mead and McDermitt areas, Nevada Unusual and speculative lithium deposits Risk reduction...Index map of a part of Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada, showing location of drill sites Index map showing |  | | Report (issue) | | CONTENTS Page Introduction Adobe Flat . Alkali Flat Baking Powder Flat Big Smokey Valley Black Rock Desert.... Steamboat Springs Steptoe Va 11 ey Stonewa 11 Flat Stewart Valley Teels Marsh Tickaboo Valley Truckee...16 16 16 ;; LITHIUM IN SEDIMENTS AND ROCKS IN NEVADA By Robert G. Bohannon and Allen L. Meier U.S. Geological...describes just those solid samples collected in Nevada. Further reports by other members of the Lithium...Lithium Program will describe wate r samp les from Nevada and samp les from other states. The purpose of |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | 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...Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant...significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured |  | | Book (volume) | | United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises 4,460’ east to west, from 840’ to 5...farthest west reaches rise to the high, arid sagebrush plains of eastern Wyoming, disclosing spectacular bedrock...plants and vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather...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 | | | 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...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | SEDIMENTS DRILLED IN CLAYTON VALLEY, ESMERALDA COUNTY, NEVADA By Michael P. Pantea and Siqrid Asher-Bolinder...lithium loqs of core drilled in Clayton Valley, Nevada. Drilling was done to collect base data from a...Peak Range to the west, and Big Smokey Valley, Alkali Flat, Paymaster Ridge and the Weepah Hills to the...consisting of Alkali Flat (Valley), Rig Smokey Valley, Fish Lake Valley, Mudlake, and Stonewall Flat. These...the sediments and brines. Of these valleys, Alkali Flat has the highest lithium values in sediments (Pantea |  | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...x 1.8 om, 159.10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and...they become white-hot, the way a space shuttle does during re-entry. During this white-hot phase they |  | | Report (volume) | | L_______________ Idaho __________________________________ Nevada __ _ _____________ _ _ ____ 21 21 21 New Mexico...making__________________ Prospecting permits and mining leases____________________ Survey publications...New York chemical marketMap showing alkali flat in Dona Ana County, N. Mex____ Schematic outline of the...sulphate is termed white alkali in contras^ to sodium carbonate, which is termed black alkali on account of...Specific gravity, 1.48. Colorless transparent to white opaque. Luster, vitreous. Indices of refraction: |  | | Report (issue) | | Colorless to white, pale gray, pale blue, pale green; colorless in transmitted light. Streak: White. Luster:...glauberite, calcite, nitratine, gaylussite, hanksite, halite, gypsum. Distribution: An ore of boron in some...collected from a number of salt lakes in the Ladakh district, Kashmir to north of Lhasa, Tibet, China, along...Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province. In the USA, in California, commercial deposits at Borax Lake...Mineral Co., Nevada; and at Alkali Flat, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico. Name: From the Arabic for white. References: |  | | Book (volume) | | United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill...Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains, and bent the broken edges sharply upward into...extraordinary homogeneity. Throughout the Great Plains, wells drilled deep into this unit provide an inexhaustible...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides |  | | Report (volume) | | ............... 124 124 125 125 126 126 Salt plains.................................................. Cirnarron River plains....................................... Harmon County plains....................127 127 Alfalfa County plain........................................ 128 Blaine County plain........... 128 Beckham County plain.........................:.......... Jackson County plains. .............................................................. Alkali Lake.......................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral and Water Resources of New...of Mines SOCORRO1977 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Cibutus R. HOLMES. Acting President.... Director, &M.—Pub. Other ROBERT W. EVEI.ETH, Mining Engineer K. BABF.TTE FARIS. X-ray Lab Manager ROUSSEAU...RENAULT, Senior Geologist JAMES NI. ROBERTSON. Mining Geologist GuE . rritEN H. ROYBAL, Coal Geologist...interested citizens, to professional personnel in mining and water development, and to government., civic |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Nevada..................................................Gerlach, in the northern Granite Range, Washoe County, Nev.: A, Upper claims; B, Lower claims..........prospects in Greenwich Canyon, near Grass Valley, Piute County, Utah................ 2. Map showing location of...lower groups of niter claims near Gerlach, Washoe County, Nev.................................. 3 Page...5, potash 46.5 = 100. Occurs naturally as thin white granular crusts or masses or in minute needle-form |  | | Report (issue) | | Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Proceedings of the 31st Forum on...87801 SOCORRO, 1996 11 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Daniel H. Lopez, President NEW MEXICO...ESSER, Lab Technician ROBERT W. EvELeth, Senior Mining Engineer NANCY S. GILSON, Assistant Editor KATHRYN...University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals and rocks in the tri-state...Carlsbad district of southeastern New Mexico and Frasch sulfur production in adjacent Culberson County, west |  | | Report (issue) | | INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY................................................. White Sands ......................................................... In pocket 2. A. Northern face of White Mesa ........................................ Following...surface of massive gypsum in Todilto formation, White Mesa ............................................................... 18 5. A. Gypsum sand dunes, White Sands National Monument ....................... |  | | Report (issue) | | present year, 1915, will approximate $20,000,000. Mining is thus seen to be, by far, the largest single...aggregated an excess of $19,000,000, making the mining industry supreme in the State. Historically, New...comprehended. Although New Mexico is the cradle of the mining industry in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Slope...West was due to the discovery of gold in Santa Fe County at the base of the Ortiz Mountains, in the year...effectually revolutionized every phase in the art of mining and in the science of metallurgy. The evolution |  | | Book (edition) | | to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay |  | | Report (volume) | | ------Burkeite__.______--____-_.._-___-._-__.____..._..______ Halite ------------------------------------------------Hanksite...crystal habit. ________________________________ Halite.._.---....-_...._--.__.._...__---_---.---..-.--...6_--._---_----------------------------8. Large halite crystals in a vug___-________--____.__-_ 9. Hanksite...crops out at the surface as a bed of nearly pure halite that covers an area of about 12 square miles; beneath...of interbedded salines and muds that lie nearly flat and cover an area of about 40 square miles. This |  | | Book | | Adelaide University conventional and solution mining has not, to my knowledge, for allowing the use...Thematic Mapper storage receptacles via solution mining (Chapter 12). Chapter Mosaics site (https://zulu...evaporite salts. 22 Gypsum beds.□ 23 Halite beds (chevrons and crusts).26 Halite cumulates, rafts and coated grains...Lenticular mudcracks.42 Haloturbated and chaotic halite.43 Shallow mineralogic re-equilibration.43 Porosity...loss. 44 Deeper burial - mosaic halite?.45 Limpid dolomite in mosaic halite.46 Burial of sulphate evaporites |  | Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Ect. John Wiley and Sons, New York. | Book (volume) | | Type 1. Oxyhalides and hydroxyhalides A Halite Type 4. Halides 4 Cerargyrite and bromyrite...L., Proc. Royal Soc. London, 89A, 468 (1914). HALITE [NaCl]. Common or Rock Salt. Muriate of Soda,...(290, 1847). Sal gemma, 9.1.1.1 marina Span. Halite Dana (112, 1868). Martinsite Karsten (J. pr. Chem...Chili, 5th App., 1876); Raimondi (64, 1878). |3-halite Paniche {Per. Min., 4, 25, 1933). Saltspar Murzaev...Colorless; G. 2.168; 2.165 (calc), M.P. 804°.^ also white, yellow, red, blue, purple. The blue and purple |  | | Report (issue) | | said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |
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