 | | Report (issue) | | Deposits-Part I The Goldfield Gold District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY ...Precious-metal District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Republic Gold District, Ferry...Ferry County, Washington By MORTIMER H. STMTZ and ROBERT C. PEARSON The Comstock Lode Precious-metal District...District, Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada By WILLIAM C. BAGBY and ROGER P. ASH LEY U.S. GEOlOGICAl...1857H 1 Gold ores-Nevada 2 Gold ores-Wash1ngton-Ferry County 3 Hydrothermal deposits-Nevada 4 Hydrothermal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | KendallGold Mines, Goldfield, Nevada PETER G. VIKRE ASARCO Inc., 510 East Plumb Lane, Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract...replacementof Miocenerhyolites2 mi (3.2 km) north of Goldfield,EsmeraldaCounty,Nevada.The ledges,which are approximately21...similarto those of the main district,immediatelynortheastof the town of Goldfield,where more than 95 percentof...whichcontainbeddedbaritedeposits elsewhere in southwestern Nevada,andsulfidesulfurfromTertiaryintrusions.Smallamountsof...essentiallycoevalwith rhyodacite,latite, and andesitcin the main district, subvolcanic intrusionsor diapirsof theserock |  | | 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 |  | 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...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the...or greater earthquake has occurred somewhere in Nevada about once every thirty years. Most faults are...(analogous to a tilted deck of cards). However, some Nevada faults are strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas |  | | 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...October 2014 deposits), 1900-1920 (Tonopah and Goldfield), and 1980 to the present (Carlintype deposits...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first | | | 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 |  | Heald-Wetlaufer, Pamela, Hayba, Daniel O., Foley, Nora K., Goss, J.A. (1983) Comparative anatomy of epithermal precious- and base-metal districts hosted by volcanic rocks: A talk presented at the GAC/MSC/GGU Joint Annual Meeting, May 11-13, 1983, Victoria, British Columbia. Open-File Report Vol. 1983 (83-710) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr83710 | Report (issue) | | only two deposits. Four districts, typified by Goldfield, Nev., are characterized by a highly sulfidized...A31. List of Slidesl Slide 1 Gold ore from Goldfield, Nev. (from Roger Ashley, U.S. Geological Survey)...precious and base metals 9 Ore from the Creede district, Col. 10 Typical alteration zoning for the highly...deposition. 16 6 180-6D diagram for the Creede district, Col. (modified from Bethke and Rye, 1979). 1...ranges from fluid inclusion studies for the Colqui district, Peru (from Kamilli and Ohmoto, 1977). 19 Temperature |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrenceshave been briefly described and illustrated in Mining and Scientific Press, January 26 and June 8, x9o7...and Kemp). Yavapai C•mnty,Arizona (Kemp). Goldfield,Nevada(with aluniteandquartz;Ransome, S.). Calif...Mothe.rLodesystem, California(calcite,S.). Shasta County, California (Kemp). One occurrencein Black Hills...HancockCounty,Maine (calcite and quartz,Kemp). Yale District, British C,elumbia(Kemp). Jalisco, Mexico (Kemp)...writer. W. 24 J. SHARWOOD. Minas Geraes district, Brazil (Henwood). Clogau and St. David's gold |  | | Report (issue) | | University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088, U.S.A. Eiji Izawa, Department of Mining, Faculty of Engineering...Minera S.A., 72 p. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, jLn Guidebook to the geology of four...four Tertiary volcanic centers in central Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 19, p. 49-66...Relation between volcanism and ore deposition at Goldfield, Nevada, in Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial Symposium...International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits; Nevada Bureau of Mines Report 33, v. 2, p. 77-86. Ashley |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gas Data from Goldfield and Tonopah Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits, Ancestral Cascades Arc, USA: Evidence for...Gas Data from Goldfield and Tonopah Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits, Ancestral Cascades Arc, USA: Evidence for...Data from Goldfield and Tonopah Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits, 2 Ancestral Cascades Arc, USA: 3 Evidence...Laboratory, P.O. Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA *Corresponding Author: amanning@usgs.gov Phone:...high-grade Goldfield and Tonopah 37 epithermal Au-Ag deposits in southwestern Nevada, USA. Ar and Ne |  | | 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...scheelite, vanadinite, wulfenite Corral Canyon District Various mines and prospects: anatase, rutile, |  | | Report (issue) | | fine-grained, massive, intimately intergrown with enargite. Twinning: Common on {112}, also polysynthetic...Polymorphism & Series: Mineral Group: Dimorphous with enargite; forms a series with famatinite. Stannite group...formed at low to medium temperatures. Association: Enargite, tetrahedrite–tennantite, colusite, stannoidite...Julcani district, at Cerro de Pasco, and at Huaron, Peru. In the USA, in Nevada, at Goldfield, Esmeralda...Chariot mine, Jamestown district, Nye Co., and in the Burrus vein, Pyramid district, Washoe Co.; from Butte |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology and development of the Hishikari mine: Mining Geology, v. 36 (2), no. 196, p. 117. Adams, S....v. 46, p. 9-24. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, in Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...Tertiary volcanic centers in centraT~Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 19, p. 49-66....Relation between volcanism and ore deposition at Goldfield, Nevada, in Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial Symposium...International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits: Nevada Bureau of Mines Report 33, v. 2, p. 77-86. Ashley |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposition andemplacement of the host rock, size of the district,temperaturesof mineraldeposition,chemicalcomposition...theacid-sulfate type(Goldfield,Nevada)andtheadulariasericitetype (Creede,Colorado;RoundMountain,Nevada).Bothtypeshavegold-richand...ivided into Two Types,with SelectedReferences District Selected references Acid-sulfatetype Ransome(1901)...Julcani,Peru LakeCity II, CO• Summitville, CO Goldfield, NV Adularia-sericitetype LakeCity I, CO• Colqui...are, respectively, Goldfield, Nevada, and Creede, Colorado. Round Mountain, Nevada, also falls in the |  | | Report (issue) | | El Salvador, Chile; Rodalquilar, Spain and Goldfield, Nevada. Supergene alunite has S^S virtually identical...steam-heated environments, such as those at the Tolfa district, Italy and Marysvale, Utah, and numerous modern...precious-metal ore deposits such as at Buckskin, Nevada. Initial 8 18OsO4 and 834S values are kinetically...alunite, and zunyite, and later gold, pyrite and enargite. Acidsulfate alteration assemblages also occur...by reconnaissance data on samples from several mining districts and predictions about the origin of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | assemblage and include the Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, Bodie, Paradise Peak, and Rawhide deposits...Famous districts include Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, and Bodie, and significant production...showed that lowsulfidation deposits in northern Nevada could be divided into two subtypes based on their...ve Ri Yellowstone Hot Spot Wyoming 0 Ma 40° Nevada S ie GREAT BASIN rra NNR Utah Ne da va California...tectonic features. Heavy line indicates the northern Nevada rift. The heavy star at the north end of the rift |  | | Report (issue) | | PAPER 66 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOLDFIELD, NEVADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME ASSISTED IN THE..._____ . ___________________ . _. Situation of the district.-~ ............... _..... ______ .. ________________________...______ ..... __ ........... _·_..... History of mining ....................... ............ . __ .. _.......... ............... . Correlation of the Goldfield rocks with those of the surrounding region_ .... . . . . . . . CHAPTER X.-MiJ?-eralogy of the district ................... .............. r • • • • • |  | | Report (issue) | | Total 99.51 99.88 100.00 27.63 (1) Goldfield, Nevada, USA. (2) Sierra Famatina, Argentina. (3) Cu3...to medium temperatures. Association: Pyrite, enargite, tetrahedrite–tennantite, chalcopyrite, covellite...Province, Argentina [TL]. In the USA, at Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nevada; and in Arizona, from Tombstone |  | | Catalog/List | | Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J lJaed gold...feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to light green...crystals on \/ad. 104 ADAMITE, Quartz Mountain, Nevada. Pale blue to colorless nearly equant crystals...785 ADAMITE (CUPRIAN),MohawkMine, San Bernardino County, California. Nicely spaced transparent jade green...55:1447 (1970). 911 ALBITE,Clear Creek, San Benito County, California. White semi-transparent crystals on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NevadaBureauof Minesand Geolog•t,Universitel of Nevada,Reno,Nevada89557-0088 Abstract A spectrumof preciousandbasemetal...beneaththeir summitregions(Fig. 1). Gold-bearing enargite mineralizationis characteristicallyassociatedwith...springsinters(Fig.2), asat Delamar(Pansze, the Divide district(Bonham and istic of Summitville (Perkins and Nieman...Nieman, 1982), 1975), Hasbrouck, Goldfield(Ashley,1974), andChinkuashih (Huang, Garside,1979), andBuckskin(P...lithophileelementdeposits Chinkuashih, Taiwan, Goldfield, Nevada, and Sum- disseminated (porphyry),vein (greisen) |  | | Report (volume) | | Rocks, Snowstorm Mountains and Vicinity, Northern Nevada By Alan R. Wallace and E.H. McKee................Terrill Mountains Area, Holy Cross District, Churchill County, Nevada By Stephen G. Peters, Richard F....Eocene and middle Miocene volcanism in northern Nevada blanketed larger areas than has been previously...mapping by Peters and others (chapter D) in western Nevada has established a geologic and structural context...epithermal mineralization in the Holy Cross mining district. This work permits an evaluation of the mineral |  | | Report (chapter) | | volcanism: a review R. H. Sillitoe Department of Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College...Copper is less plentiful, but commonly occurs as enargite where advanced argillic alteration is developed...zinc and copper. According to an analysis of the district undertaken by Geyne and co-workers, 9 the volcanic...carbonatization fringing the veins. At Tayoltita, San Dimas district (Fig. 1), volcanic rocks and an intercalated conglomerate...820 g/ton Ag and 16 g/ton Au. 10 The Guanajuato district (Fig. 1) is characterized by at least 700 m of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variousstagesof kaolinization. In the Silverton district of Colorado,Ransome(19) in 1901 referred to kaoliniteas...kaolinite is also associ- ated with pyrite and enargite. In the Tomboyand CampBird Mineskaoliniteis associated...1,300feet, whichwas the maximum depthof mining in the district. Ransome'swell-knownability as an observeris...repeatedlyrecognizedkaoliniteas a hydrothermalmineral. At Goldfield (21) he describedkaolinite associatedwith alunite...leucoxene,kaolinite, halloysite,allophane. Ely, Nevada(27) Dark phase: Biotite, hydrobiotite,chlorite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | argillic alteration Magmatic vapor Structural geology Enargite Gold Solfatara a b s t r a c t High-sulfidation...Chinkuashih, Taiwan, Lepanto, Philippines, and Goldfield, Nevada, formed within 1500 m of the paleosurface in volcanic...sequence of discrete vein events from Fe–tennantite–enargite assemblages to a progressively more diverse range...Goldfield, Nevada – we show that while specific dynamic histories differ from district to district, the geologic...distribution of successive fractures. 2.1.1. Chinkuashih district, Taiwan Taiwan is located astride a collisional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with the orthorhombic mineral enargite; the solid solubility of Sb in enargite is restricted, and the orthorhombic...unknown massive brown mineral associated with enargite and chalcopyrite in a suite of ore specimensfrom...stated, correctly, that it was not isomorphous with enargite. The erroneous assumption that they were isomorphous...a trace oI iron, in proportions identical with enargite. Weisbach proposed the name luzonite for it, also...stating that it was difierent in appearance from enargite and was isomorphous with famatinite. Once again |
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