 | | Report (issue) | | Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 2. Utah By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...detailed study of the supergene zinc deposits of Utah UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...________ ____ Silver Islet district ___________________ ~_____________________ Cache County_______________...__________________________________ Swan Creek district________________________________________ Hyrum..._______ Utah County_________________________________________________ American Fork district (Alta ar |  | | Journal (issue) | | A New Occurrence of Allophane From the Laochang Mine, Gejiu City, Yunnan, China Tony Nikischer Excalibur...exceptional allophane specimens from the Laochang Mine (see figure I) came as a complete surprise. Our...neither species had previously been reported from this mine, best known for its pale blue hemimorphite. Figure...colorful specimenof allophane from the laochang Mine, near Gejiu City in YunnanProvince.This sample providedthe...Discovery of Gem-Grade Chrysocolla From Ontonagon County, Michigan Tom Rosemeyer datolite@charter.net This |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wilson Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Friends of Mineralogy COVER: COPPER from the Ray mine, Arizona. The specimen is 3 inches wide, and was...article beginning on page 311 for more on the Ray mine. n o te s fr o m t h c j EDITOR ARIZONA This |  | | Book (edition) | | minerals and gems. It is obvious, though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite...corundum (aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...banded agate. Cross section of unpolished green malachite, a copper carbonate marked with curved bands |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 255) of the "Big Beryl" Mine Imperial County in southern Calif. (old Hogg Mine), gem hunters from COLORADO—F...Denver 20, Colo., sent in the visited Georgia and the mine. All have following item: been well pleased with...some rutile plus fish from of an abandoned lead mine above the the 22 acre pond, wild duck and beaver...1st—Georgia had a record low the Mt. Zirkel area, Routt County, Colo- of 10 4-° degrees in this area and about...snow blanket, they than that of green microcline (Amazon- found plenty of rose quartz and some stone) . |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 Maynard Bixby - Part 1 Mining Expert, Mineral Dealer and Sharp Shooter Mark Ivan...rhyolite-covered mountain ranges of Utah. He was a Salt Lake City mining expert often contracted to evaluate...summarizing the known minerals and localities of Utah (Mitchell 1987). His personal mineral collection...Township, along the Susquehanna River, Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Bixby 1914). This farm was just...town of WilkesBarre, a center for anthracite coal mining. The 1870 Census shows both Maynard and Charles |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Book (volume) | | ............................................452 Utah .................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts .................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek, Pikes Peak and Gilman |  | | Journal (issue) | | CAÑONS OF UTAH AND COLORADO . PART IV . WAGON WHEEL GAP , THE GARDEN OF THE GODS , 97 98 101 UTAH NOTES .... Strictly Chemical Pure Acids and Chemicals , AMAZON STONE CRYSTALS . A large shipment just received...1894. ) VOL . I. SEPTEMBER , 1894 . No. 7 CAÑONS OF UTAH AND COLORADO . PART IV . WAGON WHEEL GAP . As THE...- day . Here is Colorado's new est and richest mining camp , bustling with all the activity of an older...smoke giving ocular evidence of the presence of a mine of more than ordinary interest and value . To the |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Report (issue) | | MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral Deposits of Western Grant County, New Mexico by Elliot...Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist... . . 7 Climate and vegetation 8 HISTORY OF MINING 9 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Tyrone district . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico By D. C. Hedlund 1 Open-File Report...of the quartz-pyrite veins of the White Signal district............................... Quartz-molybdenite.... Quartz-pyrite veins, including White Signal district............... Silver-lead-manganese oxide veins...prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico.......................... in pocket...flows (e.g. ash-flow tuffs of the White Signal district). Inadequate age determinations of these older |  | | Book (volume) | | ............................................387 Utah...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ............................................387 Utah...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point in America...artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the geologically notable granite...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...Section, covering a somewhat larger area around Harney Peak. The northern section is characterized by vein deposits...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm |  | | Journal (issue) | | to Mt. McKinley, now called Denali, the tallest peak in North America. It stands 20,310 ft above sea...shrouded in the clouds. Author’s photo. The Champion Mining Company & No. 4 Shaft Robert L. Fox Jr. foxbooks@att...Michigan you will find the site of the Champion Mining Company. The Company was formed in 1899 as a partnership...of the Champion Mine. The mine was managed by Copper Range Company. The Champion Mine had six shafts at...still in operation in 1930. During the 1930s the mine was working the 48th level, 4,800 feet from the |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | (Roger Titeux collection, France) 4 inches. Above: Malachite, Urals, USSR (Sorbonne collection) 6 inches. Right:...Brazil (4.2 inches) B Tourmaline, Queen Mine, San Diego County, California (8 inches) C Garnet, hessonite...necessary in order to display their colors, as in malachite, or their structures, as in agate, to the best...Renaissance that the art of working stones reached its peak. Thereafter, despite a renewal of interest in the...numerous colored forms of copper ore such as malachite, turquoise and chrysocolla. Conversely, certain |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | garnet by topaz at the Thomas Range locality in Utah (Palache, 1941). And, on top of all of these accomplishments...Courtesy of the Digital Collections. Pikes Peak Library District. Among other accomplishments and activities...Museum revealed galena from the Mendota mine in Clear Creek County, Colorado, and pyrite from Russell Gulch...Gulch near Central City in Gilpin County, both long-dormant localites. He seldom personally collected...Courtesy of the Digital Collections, Pikes Peak Library District. (Continued on page 3) April 2022 Page |  | | Book | | well-formed crystals. This specimen is from the Petaca district of New Mexico. Granite 6 The darker, heavier... This specimen is taken from Lyon Mountain Iron Mine. Lyon Mountain, New York. Felsite Felsite is aphanitic...however. are transparent. This specimen is from Union County, Oregon. Obsidian This specimen illustrates the... cleavage and color. The example, from Coryell County, Texas. contains the fossils of Cretaceous snails...and relatively clean. It is from C rested Butte Mine. Colorado. METAMORPHIC ROCKS 1eta morphic rocks |  | | Report (volume) | | JARBIDGE, CONTACT, AND ELK MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICTS ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA BY F. C. SCHRADER WASHINGTON... 58 __.____ 64 4 CONTENTS. The Jarbidge district Continued. Page. Description of properties._________...the west system of veins______________ 66 Pavlak mine. ________1_______ 67 Location _ _ ___________ 67...____ 86 86 Vulcan group ________ Mahogany mine Amazon-Rainbow group __ __________ Properties of the...White Quartz vein 94 CONTENTS. 5 The Jarbidge district Continued. Description of properties Continued |
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