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| | 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
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) | | 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
| | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE
DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT...and consump
tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey
ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists,
mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout
creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are
more faulted und...prong of Canoe
creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb
county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to | 👁 Image
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MIMING DISTRICTS
and
MINERAL RESOURCES
of
NEVADA
by
FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN
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MINING DISTRICTS
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MINERAL RESOURCES
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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 | 👁 Image
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102
District of Columbia ............................................................................
187
Nevada..................................................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 | 👁 Image
| | Book | | and Collecting
Hazards
A Third Dimension
Map of Mining Locations
The Gallery
List of Plates
The Plates...SWITZERLAND ^ david WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, u. S. A ^ C. DOUGLAS woodhouse,
Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum,
Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining
Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country...of them;
many superb clusters are destroyed in mining; poor handling causes a major portion
of all specimens | 👁 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...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 | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | in Colorado
at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining
areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and
Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi
Mine,
Mine...Chartres
In Australia, at Mount Morgan
Towers
district,
from Hillgrove,
from Hill End, and large production...Also near Luning and Cuprite in Nevada;
at Sulphur
Bank
mercury
mine
and
California. Sharp well-shaped...Missouri. Fairly large crystals in Clear Creek
County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | ‘Continued on p. 247
Articles
The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ........................................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto
The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................Valley Road
Watsonville, California 95076
The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f
rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has
been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have
been identified from the mine and studies continue on the
sulfosalt mineralogy | 👁 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...RANSOM
1875-1948
An Eastern '‘Schoolmarm”
to the
Mining Camps of the Old West
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4... CONTENTS
Preface
ix
PART I
1
Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy
3
2
Preparation for Mineral Collecting | 👁 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
| | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood.
BUFFALO COUNTY
KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood.
CASS COUNTY
WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils.
CHERRY COUNTY
VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood.
DAWES COUNTY
CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods,
etc.
DAWSON COUNTY
GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood.
DEUEL COUNTY
CHAPPELL, all regional | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | May–June, 2017
Contents
The St. Andreasberg Mining District,
Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.......................... 302
History
1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315
Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317
Collecting...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869).
The
Mining District
Western Harz Mountains
Niedersachsen, Germany...minrecord@comcast.net
The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an
outsized reputation: it | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | 26, 1881.]
THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL.
ENGINEERING and MINING
XXXII.
ROSSITER
RICHARD
tion...Magnesia
Refractory
GENERAL
COAL
356
360
Mining Stocks.......... 361
both Phosphoric and Titanic...subjects and
stated that much prominence
given
mining, the matter deserves some attention
this country...construc- are admitted
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ENGINEERING
AND ‘MINING JOURNAL.
dangerous, both
the acknowledged high...standing
that newspaper
and
the best interests
our mining industries.
not our province
discuss the business | 👁 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
| | Book | | and Collecting
Hazards
A Third Dimension
Map of Mining Locations
The Gallery
List of Plates
The Plates...SWITZERLAND j& DAVID WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, U.S. A ¥% C. DOUGLAS WOODHOUSE,
Professor, University...Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum,
Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining
Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country...of them;
many superb clusters are destroyed in mining; poor handling causes a major portion
of all specimens | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig
Tampa, Florida
Richard W. Thomssen
Reno, Nevada
photography
Nelly Bariand
Paris, France
Wemer Lieber...
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...significant mineral localities in
C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete
listing o f all...type localities, and an alphabetical
cross-index by mine name.
T
INTRODUCTION
In the Spring of 1976 a group | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | RECONNAISSANCE
OF
SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER,
AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA
BY
WILLIAM H. EMMONS.............................
Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................
Midas or Gold Circle district........................................
Location...geology.............................................
Mine descriptions......................................44
44
45
46
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47
47
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48
48
48
48
49
50
Rex mine..................:............................. | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig
Tampa, Florida
Richard W. Thomssen
Reno, Nevada
photography
Neily Bariand
Paris, France
Werner...minerals at the Line Pit, State Line
chromite district, Pennsylvania and Maryland ..................149...L yko Minerals and Gems (El Paso, TX)
M ad Rat Mining and Minerals (Ontario, CA)
M ike Madsen Minerals...Minerals
The Showcase (Sudbury, MA)
Sierra Nevada Mining Co. (Reno, NV)
Silvy's R ock Barn (Bath, NY)...seemed that every gas station in Utah, Arizona and Nevada had a
small display o f minerals for sale in those | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | from the
Bunker Hill mine, Idaho (see vol. 13, no. 5) and wulfenite from the
79 mine, Arizona (see vol....ground is
forever gone as well.
Modern Mining Technology
Modem mining technology has become so automated...have greatly diminished. In addition, many
modem mining companies preoccupied with efficiency now actively...been ac
companied by a progressive improvement in mining and beneficiation
technology which allows ever...incentive for mining people to
preserve specimens. And it has helped to convince mining executives
that | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | Articles
Native gold from the Jamestown mine,
Tuolumne County, California...............................Baranda
Some pegmatite minerals from the
Zomba district, Malawi ........................................Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry,
Howard County, Maryland .......................................visiting the Blanchard mine or other
mines in the Hansonburg mining district near Bingham, New Mexico...signed in at Bingham for entry to the Blanchard mine area for
surface collecting. Underground collecting | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | Weber
Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Articles
Collecting gold mining memorabilia......................................337
by D. J. Mossman
The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California:
a modem source of crystallized...experiences her interest in mining and minerals
began to grow. In 1929 she moved to the mining town of Bisbee and...she and Brooks
became part owners of the Old Yuma mine nearby. After a few
years her strong love of minerals...well known for his mining ventures in Mex
ico (particularly the San Francisco mine in Sonora). Many extraor | 👁 Image
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I.As CmSPAS MINE, SONORA, MEXlCO ........................... ......of
quiries have been received regarding the the District of Columbia, to whom a
trip - did the Editor have...the Directors
of the Hellenic and of the French Mining Companies. We were accompanied to
Laurium by Mr...unusual interest.
Laurium Silver Mine-2400 Yean Old
The Mining District of Laurium lies
near the S. E....in a rough
mountainous region. The rocks of the
district are mostly eruptive or metamorphic-diorite, trachyte |
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