 | | 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...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...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) | | 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...represented by numerous geothermal areas. The range of minerals found in mines, quarries, and prospect...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Stibnite, sphalerite, barite, fluorite, siderite, quartz (Baia Sprie, Romania); cassiterite, arsenopyrite...alunite, quartz (Itos mine, Bolivia); pyrargyrite, stephanite, sphalerite, rhodochrosite, quartz (Morey, Nevada...Nevada, USA). Distribution: In Romania, from Baia Sprie (Felsőbánya) [TL]. In the Czech Republic, at...Farges mine, near Ussel, Corrèze; and at Bournac, Montagne Noire, Finistère, France. In the USA, at the...the Keyser and Morey mines, Morey district, Nye Co., Nevada; in the Thompson mine, Darwin district, Inyo |  | | Report (issue) | | Stibnite, sphalerite, barite, fluorite, siderite, quartz (Baia Sprie, Romania); cassiterite, arsenopyrite...alunite, quartz (Itos mine, Bolivia); pyrargyrite, stephanite, sphalerite, rhodochrosite, quartz (Morey, Nevada...Nevada, USA). Distribution: In Romania, from Baia Sprie (Felsőbánya) [TL]. In the Czech Republic, at...Farges mine, near Ussel, Corrèze; and at Bournac, Montagne Noire, Finistère, France. In the USA, at the...the Keyser and Morey mines, Morey district, Nye Co., Nevada; in the Thompson mine, Darwin district, Inyo |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | 6. Thickness--In meters at the type section; a range is given if known. 1. Texture, structure, distinctive...phyllitic and pyritic quartzite intervals 5. Gray 6. Range 1500-2100 m 9. Overlies Heflin Phyllite (Talladega...Highway 49 (Skyway Road) near town of Abel, Cleburne County. Absaroka Supergroup/Volcanic Supergroup U ABRK03...m 8. Washburn Group, Sunlight Group, Thorofare Creek Group g. Unconformably underlies Junction Butte...volcanic field, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyo. Academy Church Shale Member (Springer Formation) |  | | Report (issue) | | -___________ CD) Petrogntphy of the Pioche district, Lincoln County, Nev., by J. L. Gillson _____________________...metamorphism of the rocks in the Pend Oreille district, Idaho, by J. L. G~llson--------------------------(G)...__________ :.. (I) Borate minerals from the Kramer district, Mohave Desert, Calif., by W. T. Schaller____...Little Beaver Creek in the SE. ~ sec.' 7, T. 102 N., R. 106 W., N. Dak.; B, Devil Creek, in T. 21 N.,...of the porphyritic phase of the quartz monzonite of the Pioche district, Nev.; B, C, Photomicrographs of |  | | Report (volume) | | ----------Six new members of the James Run Formation, Cecil County, northeastern Maryland, by Michael W. Higgins ...Arizona -----Generalized geologic map of Cecil County, Md., showing members of the James Run Formation...(of Piapi Canyon Group) . early Pliocene southern Nevada Byers, F.M., Jr., Carr, W.J., Orkild, P.P., Quinlivan...Mountain-Oasis VaJ,ley caldera complex, southern Nevada: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 919, 70 p. Stratigraphically...volcanic breccia member of Mount Dutton. ATTEAN QUARTZ MONZONITE New age: Early Ordovician Former age: |  | | 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) | | Director Bulletin 936-E MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF CEDAR CREEK VALLEY, FREDERICK AND SHENANDOAH COUNTIES, VIRGINIA...................................... History of mining and production..................... Minerals of...prospect.............................. Mineral Ridge mine................................... History and production...Manganese ore deposit............................ Mining and preparation of the ore................ McCune............. Godlove mine......................................... Bonnet Hill mine................... |  | | Report (volume) | | of areas of sample collection, former manganese mining districts, and the outcrop belt of Shady Dolomite...section AS contents of the Fosters Falls and Galena Creek contents of the Sugar Grove section A6 contents...a voluminous literature from the era of active mining. Hewitt (1916), Hewitt and others (1918), Stose...of areas of sample collection, former manganese mining districts, and the outcrop belt of Shady Dolomite...is similar. A2 Knox Group R, Round Hill Former mining districts Shady Dolomite D, Dargan (Md.) E, Elkton |  | | 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) | | present changes in Stratigraphic nomenclature in Nevada, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...rocks near Manhattan, southern Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, by Daniel R. Shawe Al Revision of stratigraphic...Rocks Near Manhattan, Southern Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada By Daniel R. Shawe Abstract Volcanic rocks...rocks in and near the Manhattan mining district have been miscorrelated with rock units elsewhere in...Members and the quartz latite member of the Esmeralda Formation in the Manhattan mining district are raised |  | | Report (issue) | | 50 years since Miller's report, the economics of mining zinc and lead have changed substantially; some...zinc and lead. Pennsylvania's single operating zinc mine at Friedensville keeps the commonwealth on the list...vices of mining engineer Milton Leet for locating and sampling zinc-lead shows in the Grace Mine; Eastern... Anne' (Kline's quarry), Edward Carper (Soister mine), Betty and John Clauser (Edison quarry), Thomas...Supply Co. quarry), and Joseph Varady (Jug Hollow mine). Additional sulfide samples for the descriptions |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...Central Ave., Hot Springs National Park, Ark. "Quite recently, the Tridymite form of quartz has been found...really are. They are just about the most interesting quartz J have yet seen." CALIFORNIA—The limestone quarries...for the Riverside Cement Company as the Assistant Mine Superintendent. W e are operating in two areas at |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Coosa County there is an outcrop that carries considerable tin and there has been some mining since 1940..."Cassiterite is the only tin mineral found in the district. The crystals are black or a dark mahogany color...crystals are largely found in the pegmatites of the district. "In the general area the following minerals are...magnetite, microcline, muscovite, olivine, pyrite, quartz, sillimanite, topaz, tourmaline, zircon, zoisite...encrusted by colorless drusy quartz; the locality is the Aurora Quicksilver Mine in San Benito Co., Calif |  | | Report (issue) | | Miles City; B, Coal bed 11 feet thick on . Custer Creek near Yellowstone River, between Miles City and Terry...of Caballos Mountains near Apache Canyon, Sierra County, N. Mex.; B, 34 Paleozoic rocks on granite at Capitol...Capitol Dome, Florida Mountains, Luna County, N.Mex .. XVII. A, Sierra Cuchillo west of Palomas Springs...limestone at Palomas 35 Gap, Caballos Mountains, Sierra County, N.Mex ..........................................Socorro County, N. Mex. ; B, East face of San Andres Mountains at Rhodes Canyon, Socorro County, N. Mex |  | | Report (volume) | | _________________________ Al Restoration of the name Cove Creek Limestone for the area of the Greendale syncline...distribution of certain equivalent ash-flow tuffs, eastern Nevada Test Site by G. L. Dixon, K. A. Sargent, and W...Rice ______________ 66 Age of the Mount Princeton Quartz Monzonite in central Colorado, by G. R. Scott,...68 The Emperor Volcanic Complex of east Gogebic Range, Michigan, by Virgil A. Trent _________________...extent of the Mississippian rocks and the Cove Creek Limestone on the Greendale syncline____________ |  | | Book (volume) | | CB2 1RP 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia...China 23 The BIFs and accompanying apatite Pine Creek Geosyncline 23 23 Stratigraphy 24 Tectonic setting...Petrology 240 /92 /95 20 197 199 Sirbun Hill /99 Mining and utilisation A. KUHN Stratigraphy 236 Petrology...United States of America 246 Jhamarkotra, Udaipur District, south-central Rajasthan, India 246 Jhabua, Madhya...Minas/Lagamar, Minas Gerais, Brazil 246 East Fork District, Sevier County, Tennessee, United States of America 246 |  | | Report (edition) | | of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...localities, the Grace mine in Berks County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement...Cement Company quarry in York County, are now This fourth printing is essentially closed to collectors...Adams County 23 Allegheny County 31 . Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Clinton County Cumberland County Dauphin County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | starts with a locally developed conglomerate of quartz pebbles overlying the weathered surface of pre-Cambrian...mined, up to November 1937, from near Gulf, Chatham County, North Carolina, in the Deep River Basin, has a...stage, Conewango series, Upper Devonian) in McKean County, Pennsyl vania. Facieologically this is the hematitic...differences of the larger categories. Both subfamilies range from the Silurian into the Upper Devonian. In the...River age, in Lee County, southwestern Virginia, indicates a broader stratigraphic range for this genus |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | massive sulphides and slate belt-type gold-bearing quartz veins are the most 0169-1368/86/803.50 :"-;1986...skarns, gold in volcanic breccm pipes, gold-bearing quartz veins within granitoid intrusivcs and ~n volcanic...tectonic setting. For example, volcanics which range in composition from basalt to rhyolite with a preponderance...p o s i t s . 148 320 Palmerville Fault (De Keyser, 1963)separates the Hodgkinson Province from the...reactivated several times (White, 1961, 1965; De Keyser, 1963; De Keyser and Lucas, 1968). More recent investigations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rare Earth Mining and Exploration in North America The Mountain Pass deposit, California Anthony N....southeastern United States. Fluids released from the mining of uraninite at Elliot Lake, Ontario, were intermittently...considered to be attractive targets by Mountain Pass mine in California. Mountain Pass was for companies and...by-products of ilmenite, zircon, and cassiterite mining. These monazites are generally relatively high...~1 wt% 1 48 Page Brook Road, Carlisle, MA 01741, USA E-mail: reomariano@aol.com to as high as 27 wt%. |  | | Report (edition) | | chalcopyrite crystals etched calcite, from French Creek mines, (courtesy of John S. White) Back cover:...with cubic and octahedral cleavages, Pequea silver mine; middle left: azurite crystals on calcite, “old”...from the owners of the land, from the quarry or mine operators before entering to collect. (Land ownership...particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...permitted us to use his historical photos of French Creek. John S. White, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institution |
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