| .............................................1 Alaska ..............................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................................14 Arizona – Apache Co. Mining Districts .............................................................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ...........................................24 Arizona – Northern half of Coconino Co. Mining Districts ..............................25 Arizona |
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Beste, Bob (1996) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States (2nd ed.) Vol. 1 - Part I - Alabama to Idaho. |
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| .............................................1 Alaska..................................................Randolph Co., no communities shown on map but various mining districts overlap into Randolph Co.: c Dyne Cr... 11 E, first gold-bearing quartz discovery in _district_⎯Gold; f Valdor property, Sec. 3, T. 17 S, R. 11...Chulafinnee Placer, Sec. 14, 15, 16, T. 17 S, R. 9 E (mining mostly along Chulafinnee Dr. in gravels which were...occurrences are from veins in schist. (The Rockford mining district runs about 8 mi. E and 8 mi. W of Hissop, embracing |
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Beste, Bob (2005) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States (3rd ed.) Vol. 1 - Part I - Alabama through Idaho. |
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| .............................................1 Alaska..................................................Randolph Co., no communities shown on map but various mining districts overlap into Randolph Co.: c Dyne Cr... 11 E, first gold-bearing quartz discovery in _district_⎯Gold; f Valdor property, Sec. 3, T. 17 S, R. 11...Chulafinnee Placer, Sec. 14, 15, 16, T. 17 S, R. 9 E (mining mostly along Chulafinnee Dr. in gravels which were...occurrences are from veins in schist. (The Rockford mining district runs about 8 mi. E and 8 mi. W of Hissop, embracing |
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Runnells, Donald D. (1969) The mineralogy and sulfur isotopes of the Ruby Creek copper prospect, Bornite, Alaska. Economic Geology, 64 (1) 75-90 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.64.1.75 |
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| SulfurIsotopesof the Ruby Creek CopperProspect,Bornite,Alaska DONALD D. RUNNELLS Abstract The Ruby Creek...the western Brooks Range, 300 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. The dominantstructureof the districtis...There is a closerelationship be- is now called Bornite for postal purposes)lies on the northern flank...Creekin his summaryof the geologyand ore depositsof Alaska. The reader is referred to Herreid (1961) for an...criticizedthe manuscript. The personnelof Bear Creek Mining Company were helpful and cooperativeduring the |
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Murdoch, Joseph, Webb, Robert W. (1960) Supplement to Minerals of California For 1955 Through 1957. Bulletin 173a. California Division of Mines |
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| , M. D.) L. D. Clark (1) p. 17. Inyo County: district, 2, As radial clusters near Lippincott mine...found, after an aerial survey of the Mojave Mining district where an anomaly appeared in section 10. shaft...SW A XW WXW Lassen County: 1, From Siskon Mining Lease near Dovle ( S. M. B. 21658). Los Angeles...at Ubehebe mine, which is 6 miles toward the northwest and in other mountains. 4, Coarse-grained axinite...1.3 mi. N. 16° E. of Big Dodcl Spring, Ubehebe district, McAllister (4) p. 55. CYRTOLITE San Bernardino |
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Ransom, Jay Ellis (1964) A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals - How and Where to Find Valuable Ores and Minerals in the United States. Harper & Row, New York. |
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| stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting...purposes, or for cabinet display. Although the basic mining and underground geology were known some two to |
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Albanese, John S. (1960, July) Notes on the Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey Vol. 1 (4) |
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| Richard Wayne Parker, of Newark, N ..J., acquired a mining lease from Charlotte Rutherford, Executrix of John...permanent steam hoisting plant was installed, and the mining operations continued. This open water seam extended...in the adjacent country ceased to flow. Modern mining methods at Mine Hill and Sterling Hill were not...early period of mining. Gradually, improvement in the equipment and operations of mining advanced with...hoisting, were now applied in the mining industry. The early mining at Mine Hill was confined to the |
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Anonymous, (1937) Abstracts of papers presented at the Eighteenth annual meeting. Economic Geology, 32 (8) 1069-1081 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.32.8.1069 |
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| MANGANESE BATESVILLE H. D. MISER DEPOSITS DISTRICT, AND D. F. OF THE ARK.* HEWETT. Since its...its discovery, about x849, the Batesville district has been the sourceof a large quantity of manganeseoxidesthat...bodies contain considerablehausmannite,as well as bementite and' neotocite. Accessoryminerals include hematite...completelydismissed. The wide- spreadpresence of bementite, whichis onlyknownin deposits of hydrothermalorigin...secondarysulphideore is almost entirely chalcocite,but a little bornite and covellite are found. Malachitecommonlyrepl |
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Runnells, Donald D. (1964) MINERALOGICAL NOTES:. American Mineralogist, 49 (1-2) 158-164 |
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| {INERALOGICALNOTES CYMRITE IN A COPPERDEPOSIT,BROOKSRANGE, ALASKA DoNar,n D. RuNxnr-ts, Department of Geology,Haraaril...Ruby Creek, in the Cosmos Hills, Brooks Range, Alaska, *-ray and optical examination shows the presence...157'00' W. longitude, about 300 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Cosmos Hills comprise one of the...mineralized and contains pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, sphalerite, galena and cymrite, together...chlorite, fluorite, pyrrhotite, dickite, and bementite, Mns(OH)oSirOto(?). Calcite, muscovite and quartz |
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Adolfsson, Stig (1970) The Langban Mines at Varmland, Sweden. Rocks & Minerals, 45 (2) 119-121 doi:10.1080/00357529.1970.11763820 |
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| Magnusson of SGU, Stockholm. The rocks of the Langban district belong to four great divisions: the supercrustal-formation...and manganese ore occurrences within the Langban district belong to the limestone - and dolomite-bearing...of the older Archean granites, in the Langban district represented by the Horrsjo granite. ROCKS AND...sphenomanganite, pyroaurite, quenselite, inesite, bementite, dixenite, harnatolite, armangite, ekdemite, finnemannite...chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, molybdenite, bornite, chalcocite and domeykite. Very interesting is |
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Murdoch, Joseph, Webb, Robert Wallace (1966) Minerals of California - Centennial Volume (1866-1866) Bulletin 187. California State Mining Bureau |
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| Yankee is NUGGET said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...besides being professor of mineralogy, geology, and mining at the "College of California", parent to the University...reestablished and at that time designated as "The State Mining Bureau" and placed in charge of a "State Mineralogist" |
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(1987) September - October 1987. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 18 (5) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| November). Tht museum features fossil, gemstone, mining and mineral exhibits, with about 1800 mineral specimens...ing international mineral symposia and foreign mining experts were invited to visit Chinese mines. China...valleys. Dense brush and timber cover much of these _northwest_-southeast trending ranges. Heavy rainfall is common... prices increased during World War II, making mining profitable. Trask (1950) states that during the...1944, the tabular orebody had been depleted and mining ceased. The massive manganese orebody occurred |
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Brown, Vinson, Allan, David, Stark, James (1987) Rocks and Minerals of California (3rd ed.) Naturegraph Publishers, Happy Camp, CA. |
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| common CODDELFOIe> 3. - Sc eh mariachi eee CusFeS4 bornite 19b. Color a peculiar reddish-bronze; usually magnetic...after many centuries of erosion or by deep rock mining. Other minerals, such as cinnabar (the ore of mercury)...in the copper mining districts, though smaller quantities are found in the gold mining districts and...minerals as pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and bornite may be carried to higher levels, while galena...gradually change (alter) chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) to bornite (CusFeS4, then to covellite (CuS), then chalcocite |
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Cannon, Bart (1975) Minerals of Washington. Cordilleran, Mercer Island, WA. |
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| insula. Only in Washington's Olympic Peninsula do Bementite and Hausmannite form prominent and potentially...transect the country rock of Fidalgo Island. Quartz, bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and other sulphides exist...margins of the intrusions. In the Slate Creek District, near Harts Pass, native gold and tellurides ...-- Occurs in grains under 1mm with hausmanlte, bementite, rhodocrosite, inesite etc. (51) ALBITE Varieties:...occasionally in pegmatites. CHELAN COUNTY Blewett District — Reported to occur here. (63) KING COUNTY Green |
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Palache, Charles (1935) The minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. Professional Paper 180. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp180 |
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| ______________________---_---_.__ The Franklin mining district. _.---.-----_-----_-_--_ General features.--_---...19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 The Franklin mining district Continued. The ore deposits Continued. Paragenesis...Page PLATE 1. Geologic map of the Franklin mining district, showing principal mineral localities.:______...Crystals of phlogopite in limestone; B, Layers of bementite on wall of calcite vein. 19. A, Botryoidal mass...described in this paper, have been found in the district, 32 of which were first found there, and 30 are |
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(1960, February) The Picking Table Vol. 1 (1) The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society |
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| Axinite Azurite Barite Barylite Barysilite Bementite Bornite Brandtite Brookite Brucite Bustamite Cahnite...group name, includes antigorite, chrysotile, bementite species. Titanite - modern name is sphene . Vesuvianite...Axinite Azurite Barite Barylite Barysilite Bementite Bornite Brandtite Brookite Brucite Bustamite Cahnite...and Sterling Hill mines and will briefly discuss mining methods at our March 26th meeting. Mr. Don McKechnie |
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(1991, Spring) The Picking Table Vol. 32 (1) The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society |
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| Delos (1927) Historical Notes of the Iron and Zinc Mining Industry in Sussex County, New Jersey. Privately...Notes Research Reports: Baumite discredited 14 Bementite 14 Humite-group minerals 14 Manganese-rich...caving of the surface, is characteristic of certain mining methods. One such method was employed at Franklin...of feet long. Something is going to happen. The mining method selected for the Franklin Mine in the 20th...sections from footwall to hanging wall, and initially mining every other section by conventional means, proceeding |
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Ransom, Jay Ellis (1974) Gems and Minerals of America - A Guide to Rock Collecting. Harper & Row. |
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| to Find Gems and Minerals in L.\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...Seattle and San Francisco for the Klondike and Alaska thirty-one centuries later. By 500 B.c. the Greeks...miners were unbelievably careless in their hasty mining of only the highest-grade ores. Rock hunters today |
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Pabst, Adolf (1938) Minerals of California. Bulletin 113. California State Mining Bureau |
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| 1 D E J •LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since...published as Bulletin 91 of the California State Mining Bureau. Many additional species were included,...minerals discovered in California came from the gold mining region of the Sierra Nevada, beginning with the |
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(1961, February) The Picking Table Vol. 2 (1) The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society |
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| oxides 2321 Chalcocite sulfates 7122 Goethite 243 Bornite 7211 Soinel 2611 Galena 28, 3.1, Barite 7213 C-ahnite...Kyanite Datolite btilpnomelane Antigorite Bementite Chrysotile Zoisite Epidote Allanite Hancockite...Admission to Buckwheat Dump is provided by the Borough of "Franklin on payment of a fee (ll.OO per day...Mr. D. S. McKechnie, New Jersey Zinc Company, "Mining at Sterling Fill". Display: Minerals of Sterling |
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(1987, Spring) The Picking Table Vol. 28 (1) The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society |
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| Franklin in 1906 from South Africa to modernize the mining operations, he was amazed to observe that injured...johnbaumite do not occur at Langban; tephroite and bementite are better at Franklin; manganberzeliite crystals...BAUMHAUERITE BAUMITE -1975 BEMENTITE -1887 BERTHIERITE BIOTITE BIRNESSITE BORNITE BOSTWICKITE -1983 BRANDTITE...SULFIDES & ARSENIDES - 26 ACANTHITE ARSENOPYRITE BORNITE CARROLLITE CHALCOCITE CHALCOPYRITE COVELLITE DIGENITE...borate) BANNISTERITE BARYLITE BARYSILITE BAUMITE BEMENTITE BIOTITE BOSTW1CKITE BULTFONTEINITE MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE |
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Schwartz, George Melvin (1938) Review of the application of microscopic study to metallurgical problems. Economic Geology, 33 (4) 440-453 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.33.4.440 |
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| combinedin the comparatively rare manganesesilicate bementite (SMnO'5H.oO' 7SiOn. 4• Only a chemicalmethodcould...CopperQueen ore are recoveredin the followingorder: bornite (?), chalcopyrite,chalcocite,pyrite, malachite...I913. 2. RAY, J. C.: The reflecting microscopein mining geologyand metallurgy. Min. and Sci. Press, vol...: Petrology and its applicationin industry. The Mining Handbook,Geol. Surv. West. Australia, pp. 4-5,...microscopicdetermination of chalcopyrite, chalcocite,'bornite, and pyrite in a porphyry ore. U.S. Bur. Mines |
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Pemberton, H. Earl (1983) Minerals of California. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. |
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| P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining the at College of California, parent to the...mineralogist of California, and pub- and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning volume prepared...in 1775-1778 in placers of the Potholes first District of Imperial Yuma, Diego County, County, near...Then in on the western 1835; and in the Piru District, Ventura County, in the early 1840s. 1848 the...Sierra term that has a first used by in the northwest side of the state (See J. much more R. Browne |
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Pemberton, H. Earl (1983) Minerals of California. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. |
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| P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University...California, and published in the fourth and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning in 1914 with a volume...California in 1775-1778 in placers of the Potholes District of Imperial County, near the Colorado River about...Francisquito Canyon, in 183 5; and in the Piru District, Ventura County, in the early 1840s. Then in 1848...came from the Klamath Mountains Province in the northwest side of the state (See Map 1-1). The Sierra Nevada |
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Bowen, Oliver E. Jr. (1962) Rocks and Minerals of the San Francisco Bay Region. University of California Press. |
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| is also found at River's End, Sonoma County, northwest of Jenner. Diallage is a relatively soft pyroxene...commonly is it where manganese, resin-yellow bementite cate), and pink rhodonite (also a ( manganese...local collecting area is the Ladd-Buckeye mining district astride the Alameda-Stanislaus County line...the San Francisco Bay region district, yet some of our mines have been mining as a among the most lucrative...from mine refuse in almost all of the quicksilver mining districts. Active mines such as the Guadalupe near |
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