| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...(Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver Downloaded...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | [Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...species, and the two most familiar ruby silvers, proustite and pyrargyrite, have been covered previously...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Colorado occurrences include mines of Clear Creek County, particularly in the Georgetown area, where it | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 08:10 15 April 2015 T he discovery of the Comstock lode in the early 1850s was a long time in coming...headed for the gold fields of California on a trail from Salt Lake City, Utah. A few of these ’49ers,...compared to the expectations of what was ahead in California, so the prospectors moved on, but not before...including Sandy Bowers, Joe Platos, and Henry Comstock, staked claims. By the time Pat McLaughlin and...astonishment when out of nowhere appeared Henry Comstock, who, upon examination of the pale dust, began | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mineralization in the Comstock District, Nevada DONALD M. HUDSON† 1540 Van Petten Street, Reno, Nevada 89503 Abstract...metal deposits of the world-renowned Comstock district of western Nevada constitute one of several superimposed...superimposed Miocene hydrothermal systems. In the district, Mesozoic metasedimentary and igneous rocks are...kaolinite alteration exposed at the periphery of the district may be linked to preore alteration near the paleowater...and in the lower parts of orebodies in the Comstock lode, but it was deposited in the upper parts of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis Benjamin specimen,...1878); the Baker quarry near Billmeyer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where it occurs as an alteration...Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891); and mines of...of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the...Raven and Black Jack mines of the Ward district, Boulder County, were coated with acicular crystals of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil...Scovil photo. March/April: Gold, Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark Mauthner...calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen, Jeff...Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff...SeptemberlOctober: Calcite with hematite inclusions, Lei Ping mine, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Werner Lieber specimen | | | Report (issue) | MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...R. Sidder U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California Open-File Report 86-407 This report is preliminary...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada....................... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mexico B x years ago this column featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family...recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...It is more widespread and far more common than proustite, occurring as an important if not dominant ore...might suggest. It is commonly associated with proustite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite...However, the development of numerous gold and silver mining districts in the westem states during the latter | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more...more than 750 million ounces to occurred in a mine about a mile its credit. Fine wire- and crystallized-silver | | | 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) | no other group of minerals has more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great...recovered as a byproduct of low-grade copper and lead mining. This fact, coupled with the historically low price...copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia in Asia Minor and is dated...ornamentation and jewelry. Excavations at Ur, an ancient city on the Euphrates River, have recovered some extraordinary...probably reflects the fact that the earliest silver mining amounted to gathering the metal in its native state | | | Book | (2/22.9". CALIFORNIA MINERALs AN NO TAT E D CATALOG U E or THE PRINCIPAL MINERAL SPECIES hitherto...oGY, GEology, AND MINING, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE OF the COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA. … --- ..". or ºr...AUTHORS AND UPON PUBLICATIONS THE MINERALOGY OF CALIFORNIA. ANTISELL, THoMAs. U. S. Pacific Railroad Reports;...Mineralogy of the silver region of the Territory of Nevada, or “Washoe.” 1861. (Addressed to the Governor...Inedited. Memoir on the Geology of the Coast of California. United States Coast Survey Report for 1855. | | | Report (issue) | THE LOS BURROS DISTRICT, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By JAMES M. HILL. INTRODUCTION. The following...prospects of the Los Burros district, in the southwestern part of Monterey County, Calif., are based on observations...properties and the caretaker at the Buclimo mine. The district lies on the west side of the rugged Coast...Coast Range, near the south line of Monterey County, in Tps. 23 and 24 S., R. 25 E. Mount Diablo meridian...Monterey and San Luis Obispo. It is reached from King City, a station on the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific | | | Report (volume) | precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation....................................... Review of mining districts...................................................................... Burro Mountain district, N. Mex...................................... | | | 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 (issue) | Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt ore...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg- | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | at 07:53 01 January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain...which a collection is judged. A good example is proustite. Another might be bournonite, a sulfosalt well...clearly the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information...Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified locality in Chester County, Pennsylvania;...the Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with tetrahedrite; | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Occurrences DESPITE T H E WORLDWIDE SLOWDOWN IN mining, some mineral discoveries continue to be made....activity promises that the consequent new round in mining should produce a large variety of new specimens...The main shaft in the picture is of a rubyred proustite which is coated with orange to amber plates of...at the base of the proustite are siderite. The specimen is from the Christopher mine in Colbalt. Northwest...quartz specimens from the Yellowknife district in the District of McKenzie. A later examination using | | | Report (issue) | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- | | | Report (volume) | depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Morenci, Arizona. _________________ ___ 217 Ely, Nevada, by A. C. Spencer_________________ 219 Santa Rita...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico... Utah, by B. S. Butler_________ 229 Yerington, Nevada _______________1________ 231 Jerome, Arizona, by | | | Report (issue) | nomenclature. 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.............deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon (Hotz, 1971);...ore is associated with some veins in the Sierra Nevada and was locally worked with the vein deposits (Clark...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent | | | Book (edition) | in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...splendid masses are found in the Mother Lode country of California, as in El Dorado, Cala¬ veras, Kern and...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and...Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego] at 12:38 29 June 2016 ED RAINES...across, Up to Date mine, Bald Mountain, Caribou area, Grand Island district, Boulder County. Specimen owner...owner anonymous. Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego] at 12:38 29 June 2016 Figure 2:...231 ------\ I Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego] at 12:38 29 June 2016 \ VIi" Outcrop...quite varied, with native silver, pyrargyrite, proustite, acanthite, stromeyerite, and other species forming | | | Report (volume) | Deposits Of the Lawson-DumontFall River District Clear Creek County Colorado By C. C. HAWLEY and FRANK BAKER...deposits of the district which forms the northwestern part of the important Central City-Idaho Springs...section of the Lawson-Dumont-Fall River district, Clear County, Colo. 2. ~ap showing major faults (veins)...(veins) of the Lawson-DumontFall River district projected to a horizontal plane having an elevation of 8...PLATE 3. Map of the Lawson-Dumont-Fall River district, showing location of mines and distribution of |
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