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⇱ Granite from Lone Mountain Mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


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Granite from
Lone Mountain Mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA

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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lone Mountain Mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1541458
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1541458:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
4.4km (2.7 miles) Dipper Claims North, Dipper Patented Claims, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Dipper Patented Claims, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Gossan mine, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
6.5km (4.1 miles) Clara B. No. 1 Claim, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
6.7km (4.1 miles) Clara B. No. 2 Claim, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Unnamed Copper Prospect No. 1 (MRDS10095754), Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Enterprise Prospect, Lone Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Alaska Patent, Weepah Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Swanson Claims, Weepah Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Electric,Levy and Fissure Patent Claim, Weepah Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Report (edition)
NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY REPORT 47 Second Edition MINING DISTRICTS OF NEVADA Joseph V. Tingley...UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO CONTENTS Historical background Development of mining districts in Nevada Previous...Acknowledgments District descriptions References Appendix A List of Nevada mining district names Appendix...Appendix B Nevada mining districts listed by county Appendix C Nevada mining districts listed by commodity...Figure 2. Mining laws of the Reese River mining district Figure 3. DeGroot’s map of Nevada Territory
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Report (issue)
ON IN THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT AND VICINITY, NYE AND ESMERALDA COUNTIES, NEVADA!/ 2/ 3/ 3/ M. L....standards I/ Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology 2/ United States Geological...Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 3/ Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV Radiometric Ages of...on in the Tonopah Mining District and Vicinity, Nye and Esmeralda Counties, Nevada M. L. Silberman, H...mineralization in the Tonopah mining district and vicinity carried out by members of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and
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Report (issue)
Resources Maps of the Tonopah 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada By DAVID A. JOHN, J. THOMAS NASH, DONALD PLOUFF...resources maps of the Tonopah 1o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada I by David A. john ... [et al.]. p. em. - (U.S...4/2: 1070 1. Mines and mineral resources-Nevada. 2. Geology-Nevada. 3. Conterminous United States Mineral...Resources Maps of the Tonopah 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada By David· A. John, J. Thomas Nash, Donald Plouff...The Tonopah 1° by 2° quadrangle in south-central Nevada was studied by an interdisciplinary research team
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Report (issue)
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication MI-2008 The Nevada Mineral Industry 2008 Metals...Oil and Gas Geothermal Exploration Development Mining Processing This report, the thirtieth of an annual...and geothermal activities and accomplishments in Nevada in 2008: production statistics, exploration and...directories of mines and mills are included. 2009 Nevada System of Higher Education 2009 Board of Regents...Gallagher Daniel Klaich, Chancellor University of Nevada, Reno Milton D. Glick, President College of Science
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Report (issue)
resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada by George Wong Open-File Report 83-721 This...Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities as well as areas of...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent
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Report (issue)
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication MI-2006 The Nevada Mineral Industry 2006 Metals...Oil and Gas Geothermal Exploration Development Mining This report, twenty-eighth of an annual series...and geothermal activities and accomplishments in Nevada in 2006: production statistics, exploration and...of mines and mills are included. Processing Nevada System of Higher Education 2007 Board of Regents...Whipple James E. Rogers, Chancellor University of Nevada, Reno Milton D. Glick, President College of Science
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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
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Report (issue)
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication MI-2007 The Nevada Mineral Industry 2007 Metals...Oil and Gas Geothermal Exploration Development Mining Processing This report, the twenty-ninth of an...and geothermal activities and accomplishments in Nevada in 2007: production statistics, exploration and...directories of mines and mills are included. 2008 Nevada System of Higher Education 2008 Board of Regents...Geddes James E. Rogers, Chancellor University of Nevada, Reno Milton D. Glick, President College of Science
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CASTOR a GREGORY C. FERDOCK MINERALSOF NEVADA Nevada has been blessed by nature with an extraordinary...first discovered within the state, some unique to Nevada, and some the focus of human exploitation since...silver deposits spurred most of the settlement in Nevada in the nineteenth century; subsequently, minerals...high-tech mining of gold deposits, such as those along the Carlin trend, constitutes a mining boom that... Minerals of Nevada is the first synoptic catalog of ~ BE OP he SEE EN he ~ Nevada minerals, listing
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silver Peak Range and Adjacent Areas, West-Central Nevada David S. Diamond & Raymond V. Ingersoll To cite...Silver Peak Range and Adjacent Areas, West-Central Nevada, International Geology Review, 44:7, 588-623, DOI:...Silver Peak Range and Adjacent Areas, West-Central Nevada DAVID S. DIAMOND1 AND RAYMOND V. INGERSOLL2 Downloaded...Abstract The Silver Peak region of west-central Nevada provides a unique opportunity to study the history...Cretaceous to Paleogene attenuation faults. The Esmeralda basin evolved in the hanging wall of the detachmentfault
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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
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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
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Report (issue)
Index of Granitic Rock Masses in the State of Nevada By FLORIAN MALDONADO, RICHARD W. SPENGLER, W.F....on 205 areas of exposed granitic rock masses in Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1831 DEPARTMENT...Data Index of granitic rock masses in the state of Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1831) Bibliography:...Docs. no.: I 19.3:1831 1. Granite-Nevada. 2. Intrusions (Geology) -Nevada. I. Maldonado, Florian. II...Clark County 9 Geology 9 Plutons 9 Lincoln County 1S Geology 1S Plutons 1S Southern Nye County 17 Geology
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Report (issue)
Geochemistry of the Tonopah 1 o x 2° Quadrangle, Nevada, Based on Analytical Results from Stream-Sediment...geochemistry of the Tonopah 1ox 2° quadrangle, Nevada, based on analytical results from stream-sediment...Geochemistry-Nevada-Nye County. 2. Geochemistry-Nevada-Esmeralda County. 3. River sediments-Nevada-Nye County-Composition...County-Composition. 4. River sediments-Nevada- Esmeralda County-Composition. I. Title. II. Series. QE75...Range 19 San Antonio Range 20 Toiyabe Range 20 Lone Mountain 21 Monte Cristo Range 22 Royston Hills 22 Cedar
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Report (issue)
RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS.................................-- - --Prospect Mountain quartzite................................... ............................................. Lone Mountain limestone......................................................................... Mountain ranges and mining districts...................................................... Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location
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Report (issue)
STATE OF NEVADA Open-file Report 79-235 1979 Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Nevada Operations...SURVEY INVENTORY OF GRANITIC MASSES IN THE STATE OF NEVADA Compiled by Richard W. Spengler, Florian Maldonado...-----------------------------------------Clark County-----------------------------------------------...---------------------------------------Lincoln County-----------------------------------------------...----------------------------------Southern Nye County-----------------------------------------------
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND THE NANNIE'S PEAK INTRUSIVE, LONE MOUNTAIN, ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA BY DONALD W. LOVEJOV ABSTRACT The...facies, composed of carbonate rocks, in eastern Nevada and western Utah, and a western facies, composed...cherts, and volcanic rocks, in central and western Nevada. Major thrust faults have moved the rocks of the...fault is exposed on the flanks of Lone Mountain in Elko County, Nevada. The rocks of the eastern facies...by Silurian siltstone. The thrust fault at Lone Mountain is domed up by intrusive rocks of probable Miocene
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Book (edition)
and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level plains of the United States contain...gems. Lava is essentially the same material as granite, but so fine grained that its constituent minerals...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining is tedious and expensive, the amateur will usually...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...geologically into the mountain areas of the east and west, and the plains between them. The mountain regions in
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Report (issue)
Pegmatites in the Ruby Mountains and Other Areas in Nevada and Northwestern Arizona By JERRY C. OLSON and...acknowledgments.--------.---------------------Pegmatite mining in the region...________-__-__--__.______-_-_-General..._____________________ Dawley Canyon area, Elko County-______--_--_------_-_-_-_-_---_-_ Location and...----Biotite-muscovite granite._.____-_-_--_--------_--__---_---Albite granite and aplite.-..--------...-----_--_---_------_ Errington-Thiel (Big) mica mine.--------------------------Other localities.____________________
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Report (issue)
Assessment of the Tonopah 1° by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada by Greta J. Orris and Frank J. Kleinhampl U.S...Tonopah 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada, covers over 19,000 km2 in central Nevada. The region is largely dominated...by the alternating north-trending valleys and mountain ranges of the Basin and Range physiographic province...about 50 percent of the total area. The major mountain ranges and valleys are shown in figure 2. Pre-Tertiary...and compose the deformed rocks of the Roberts Mountain and Golconda allochthons. To the east, the allochthonous
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
behavior between calcite and dolomite marbles, Lone Mountain, Nevada Received: 1 February 1994 / Accepted: 12...to Cambrian carbonate rocks from Lone Mountain, west central Nevada, record multiple post-depositional...metamorphism, related to the emplacement of the Lone Mountain granitic pluton and (4) Tertiary hydrothermal...significant lowering of the d18O values of Lone Mountain carbonates is inferred to have occurred during...indicate that meteoric fluids interacted with Lone Mountain marbles during the Tertiary. Partial oxygen
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Report (issue)
of the Tonopah 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada Presented at Reno, Nevada September 26, 1986 Compiled by Donald...Report 86-467 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary........ 1 The mineral inventory project of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology in the Tonopah 1° x...Paradise Range and northern Pactolus Hills, Nye County, Nevada, by David A. John............................Program. The project was supported in part by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. The Tonopah project
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Report (issue)
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...museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included,...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal
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Report (issue)
The Dividend group of prospects in the Windypah district. .. _.... _._................ 117 117 Genetic.... . . . . 119 120 Genetic relations of the Lone Mountain group of mines .................... _. . . ...MAGMATIC QUARTZ..... 129 129 Crystallization of granite ................... _............... _....... __...fringing mountains .. ___ 28 IV. A, Wash apron, Lone Mountain region; B, Layering of subaerial wash, edge...zone; B, Entrance to upper workings, Drinkwater mine ___________ . _________ .. __________ . _________________
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GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT NEVADA BY HENRY G. FERGUSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT..._____1________ Summary_____________ _______________ Esmeralda formation____ _____!_______________ Hedwig breccia...Diamond King member______________________ Bald Mountain lake beds member_______________ Quartz latite...1 136 Bald Mountain prospect____________________,.____ 136 Buckeye prospect Wall mine ___________...Four mine___________ __________________ Mayflower mine _____________________________ Riley Fraction mi
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