 | | 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...occurrence. The San Rafael mine, at the old camp of Quartz Mountain in the Lodi district, is situated in |  | | 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, |  | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | 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... Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | ___________ ____ __ ________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache...____________________ __ __ _______________ _ Mercur or Camp Floyd district_ ____ ____ _____ __ __ __ _______..._______________________________ American Fork district (Alta area)___________________________ Alpine...______ Redmond district __________________________________ _:________ Millard County _______________...__ _________ _____ _________ _____ __ _____ _ __ San Francisco district_ _ _______ _______ _____ __ __ |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Report (volume) | | Utah 5 Lance Creek, Wyoming 5 Lone Tree deposit, San Rafael Swell, Utah 5 Maybell, Colorado 5 Palangana salt...5 Poison Basin, Wyoming 5 South Texas 6 Temple Mountain, Utah 6 Deposits in the Todilto Limestone Member...petroliferous materials 8 Copper Mountain, Wyoming 8 Crooks Gap, Wyoming 8 Gas Hills, Wyoming 8 Lisbon Valley...associations with petroliferous materials 10 Anderson mine, Date Creek Basin, Arizona 10 Cameron, Arizona 10...Basin, Wyoming 11 Monument Valley, Arizona 11 Orphan mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona 12 Tallahassee Creek, Colorado |  | | 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 |  | | 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...ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals...AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE: KipawQ River, Villodieu Township...ALABANDITE:Tombstone. Arizona, USA. massive ALBERTITE(HYDROC,\RBONl: Prince Albert County. Nova Scotia, massive |  | | Book | | collector's book of fluorescent minerais DATE San Diego Public Library NOV 08 1984 @® THE BAKER & TAYLOR...provide an account of his experiences in the Sterling mine. Don Newsome, first president of the Fluorescent... i > - he re uw yar | eae wok is tas At San wi eeudee ith + ; : Gara ses Ss ctt-tcrap 122)4... Some Early Day Collecting / 32 In the Sterling Mine / 40 Building a Collection / 52 Preparation and...Ogdensburg, New Jersey / 78 The Balmat-Edwards District, New York / 84 The Colorado Plateau / 87 Evaporite |  | | 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 | | | Book | | provide an account of his experiences in the Sterling mine. Don Newsome, first president of the Fluorescent...31 Some Early Day Collecting / 32 In the Sterling Mine / 40 Building a Collection / 52 Preparation and...Ogdensburg, New Jersey / 78 The Balmat-Edwards District, New York / 84 The Colorado Plateau / 87 Evaporite...and is familiar to any collector who, breaking quartz, feldspar, or certain other rocks in the dark,...willemite, colemanite, hanksite, glauberite, hydrozincite, hyalite, fluorite, gypsum, topaz, pectolite |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | are chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline variety of quartz. Photo by Richard Gross. Design by Shawn Stigsell...gml@gmail.com | shop.gilmansatthecave.com ROUGH GEMS MINE-DIRECT FACETING ROUGHS & MINERAL Sapphire, Emerald...Moss Drive, P.O. Box 740252 Houston Texas, TX 77074 USA Tel : +1 832 641 5014 ; +234 803 715 8372 Fax : +1...Meeting, Seminar, Workshop or Summer Camp at our facilities. Poland Mining Camps has obtained exclusive access...News BY J I M B R AC E -TH O M P S O N ILLEGAL MINING CONTINUES Unabated in the Amazon While concerns | | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | and 1916. Bulletin No. 10. Value €If Ores . . Mine Sampling and the Commercial Bulletin No. 11. Descriptive...Geological Survey and in the journals dealing with mining and geology, but this material is widely scattered...and Mining Journa1. M. & S. P.-Mining and Scientific Press. 2 INTRODUCTION M. & E. W .-Mining and...Min.-Mines and Minerals. S. L. M. R.-Salt Lake Mining Review. In order to give proper credit to the courses...districts, under the general bibliography for the county or state and under the discussion of a particular |  | | Journal (issue) | | Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to Mexico-II1................................................................ 24 Mapimí District Geology ........................................ from the 1981 find in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural...headframes and processing facilities of the Ojuela mine ca. 1900. The famous suspension bridge designed...Mexican localities that came to mind was the Ojuela mine, source of countless thousands of wonderful mineral |  | | 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 ........ San Bernardo Area Alistos District...SECTION 2 — Highway 45 Sabinal District ............... Los Lamentos District.... Placer de Guadalupe Puerto...Aire District Chihuahua .......................... Santa Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine..... |  | | Catalog/List | | mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn |
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San Rafael Mine, Quartz Mountain camp, Lodi Mining District, Lodi Hills, Nye County, Nevada, USA