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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 | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | ~De_p"oSits. 'o.f. the' .· .· ·
: eese River·:District
.ander County. .
eVada ···· . ·, ·. ·· .·.
"
-
'·...Geology and
Ore Deposits of the
Reese River District
Lander County
Nevada
By CLYDE P. ROSS
GEOLOGICAL
..._______ ___ __ __ _______
The Manhattan Silver Mining Company and its contemporaries_
The interim pe...___________________ ~- _____ .., __________________ _
Mine descriptions _________________________________________________...Mines of the Austin Silver Mining Company _____________________ _
Mines on Lander HilL ____________________________________ | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | 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 | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | the
Antler Peak Quadrangle
Humboldt and Lander
Counties, Nevada
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 459-B...the
Antler Peak Quadrangle
Humboldt and Lander
Counties, Nevada
By RALPH J. ROBERTS and D. C. ARNOLD
GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA
GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY
PROFESSIONAL
PAPER
459-B
Summary...precious-metal deposits
in the Battle Mountain mining district
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING
OFFICE...__________
Cambrian System_______________________
Scott Canyon Formation_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ordovician System | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Soientifio America
tablishea 1845.
x V., No. 20.
New Series, Vol.
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PRINTING PRESSES AT THE CENTENNIAL...printed sheets. In 1853, Victor Beaumont., of New
York, patented the serrated cutting blade set lengthwise...nearly two years 'in collecting specimens from every mine of
importance in these States.
The greater part...in the National Museum.
The mineral exhibit from Nevada outshines that of any
other State represented in...tite and pyrargyrite), associated with stephanite, from the
Reese River district, Lander County.
Among | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | BULLETIN 594
SOME MINING DISTRICTS
IN
NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND
NORTHWESTERN NEVADA
BY
JAMES M. HILL...BULLETIN 594
SOME MINING DISTRICTS
IN
NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND
NORTHWESTERN NEVADA
BY
JAMES M. HILL...of the ore deposits
2
27
30
Mining districts
2
Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal
2
30
30
Location and accessibility...filling
3
42
CONTENTS.
Mining districts—Continued.
Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued.
Ore deposits—Continued...shoots
Milling
High Grade district, Modoc County, Cal
Location
History of mining
Accessibilty
Previous descriptions | 👁 Image
| | 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...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven.
Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal.
New Jersey...... .Dr. H | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | .......................................
102
District of Columbia ........................................
187
Nevada...................................................................
New Hampshire.....
190
201
New Jersey...............................................................
New Mexico.....................................................
New York. ...............................................F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several
thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | made in the study of a particular topic in
one district would aid in the study of the same topic in the...regional report, it must
be remembered that for each district only such information could
be used as was readily...work in
the encouragement which they offer to deep mining, irrespective of
more purely scientific results...the work near Ouray the writer was accompanied by Chase
Palmer, chemist, of the United States Geological...Fred Carroll,
of the Atlas mine, Ouray; Mr. F. G. Farish, of the Humboldt mine,
^iear Telluride; Mr. L. | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA
By
Roscoe M. Smith
Prepared in cooperation with
Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment
-2
Mining districts
3
Commodities
3
Production
10
Descriptions of mining districts
.
19
Alder...Alder district-19
Aura district -21
Beaver district
25
Black Mountain district
27
Bootstrap district
27...27
Burner district
28
Burns Basin district-- -- 30
Carlin district
32
Cave Creek district
----- 35
Charleston...district_--35
Coal Mine district~ 38
Contact district
- 39
Cornucopia district - -45
Corral Creek district
- - 48 | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | Wetallurgy,
Vorume I.
NuMBER 16.
NEW
IMPRVEMENTS IN FURNACES.
—
YORK,
JANUARY
cal Society, recently...perfect combustion of fuel, and | ceous rocks in the district of Sinai has been surmised
to this end it is...admitted to the
fuel by the ca-
|
Fossil Ivory.
New Siberia and the Isle of Lakon are, for the most
part...Hill &
same
route, all
Co. of 19 John
St., New York,
by the introduction _ into
their
furnaces
of...JOURNAL
OF MINING,
which appears in the Annales du Conservatoire ImpeAmerican company’s mine is now completed | 👁 Image
| | 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...Inlet-Susitna region --------------------Copper River region -------------------------Kuskokwim region...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee | 👁 Image
| | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and
stake your own mining claim? Indeed it
to
and in
is,
author
of
this...prospecting, he points
out,
is
in
abandoned mining
districts,
where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by
state,
county,
township,
and geologic
range.
For easy identification...Jay Ellis Ransom
)'
HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS
New York, Evanston, and London
A RANGE GUIDE TO MINES...Publishers, Incorporated,
49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y.
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FIRST EDITION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig
Tampa, Florida
Richard W. Thomssen
Reno, Nevada
photography
Nelly Bariand
Paris, France
Wemer Lieber...Switzerland
photomicrography
Julius Weber
Mamaroneck,
New York
COLORADO ISSUE #2
Articles
Colorado locality..................... 323
by B. L. Muntyan
What’s new in Colorado minerals? .............................
Famous mineral localities: the
Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................quartz, 10
cm tall, from the Yucca
Hill claim, Park County,
Colorado. Richard A.
Kosnar specimen;
photo by | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists.
of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet
thick in the north.
ALEXANDER COUNTY
FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d
RR siding of Clay⎯agate.
CALHOUN COUNTY
AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals).
CRAWFORD COUNTY
PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite.
EDWARDS COUNTY
AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite.
FULTON COUNTY
FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized
gastropods | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists.
of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet
thick in the north.
ALEXANDER COUNTY
FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d
RR siding of Clay⎯agate.
CALHOUN COUNTY
AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals).
CRAWFORD COUNTY
PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite.
EDWARDS COUNTY
AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite.
FULTON COUNTY
FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized
gastropods | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | 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..._________________ ___ 217
Ely, Nevada, by A. C. Spencer_________________ 219
Santa Rita, New Mexico____________________...Mexico____________________ 22J
Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222
, Cananea, Mexico
__________________... Utah, by B. S. Butler_________ 229
Yerington, Nevada _______________1________ 231
Jerome, Arizona, by | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Mineralogy has been
published. A tremendous amount of new data on the elements,
sulfides, sulfosalts and oxides...Bulletin 149 to conform to
that appearing in the new System, in spite of the fact that Volume
I covers...the described species. This has
been done, and all new mineralogical data on the elements, sulfides, sulfosalts...revision of Dana's Manual of Mineralogy. In addition, new data on many species, also obtained
from the Manual...extent to which it can be kept up to date. Many new occurrences
of an important or unusual nature come | 👁 Image
| Doebrich, Jeff L., Albino, G.V., Barker, C.E., Duffield, W.A., Dunn, V.C., Hanna, W.F., McFarlan, J.P., McGuire, D.J., Miller, M.S., Peters, S.G., Plouff, Donald, Raines, G.L., Sawatasky, D.L., Spanski, G.T. (1994) Resource assessment of the Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1994 (94-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr94712 | Report (issue) | | MANAGEMENT'S
WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST
NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047
2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in
northwest Nevada and...impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater
resources (for example, the Humboldt River drainage...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource
Area or for other planning units such | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | said to have been found in the mining town
of Yankee Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...of California: Minerals and mineral lists
517
Mining Districts of California
543
Unvalidated entries...decade. In addition, the publication of data on new minerals (which surprisingly are
still found in ever-increasing... are reported for
the decade 1954-1964. Several new sections have been added. Tributes
to serious students...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | .................................
The Tonopah district. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .
Hypogene (?) veinlets and "breccias" of
pyrargyrite ........................... .
:Minute textural...Arsenopyrite ........................... .
Arsenical pyrargyrite ................... .
Argyrodite (?) ..........Polybasite .................. ·............. .
Pyrargyrite ............................. .
Silver haloids...hypogene ore from
Murray vein, Tonopah Extension mine.
PLATE X. A, Photomicrograph showing tuffaceous | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau.
vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...of all mineral occurrences already listed, of all new entries
representing old occurrences not previously...supplements of the Bulletin, and information
on new or omitted occurrences, and corrections, are solicited...grains),
recrystallization, or the formation of new minerals by a re-combination
of elements already...added due to the action of igneous intrusions. Many new compounds are formed in this way, especially by the | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 133-144; Transactions,
vols. 57-59. . New York.
American Journal...Journal of Science, 4th ser., vols. 45, 46. New Haven, Conn.
American Mineralogist, vol. 3. Philadelphia...18; Memoirs, new ser,, vol. 2, pt. 1; New York.
American Naturalist, vol. 52. New York.
American Philosophical...nos. i-7. San Francisco, Calif.
California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 76-78, 82, S3; Preliminary...Ont.
Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 69-80. Ottawa, Out.
Canadian Mining Journal, vol |
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