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Chalcocite from
Empress Mine, Tokop Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Empress Mine, Tokop Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1540405
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1540405:1
GUID (UUID V4):4c579728-61ce-425c-ad77-cd4bc2cd6c36
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
11.4km (7.1 miles) Bullfrog-George prospect, Gold Point Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
28.4km (17.6 miles) Tri-Metallic Mining Company Property, Cuprite Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
28.4km (17.7 miles) Copper Bell Shaft, Cuprite Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
55.1km (34.2 miles) Bullfrog Mine (Original Bullfrog Mine), Bullfrog Mining District, Bullfrog Hills, Nye County, Nevada, USA
55.3km (34.4 miles) Original Bullfrog Mine, Bullfrog Mining District, Bullfrog Hills, Nye County, Nevada, USA
58.9km (36.6 miles) Barrick Bullfrog Gold Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA
62.4km (38.8 miles) Ubehebe Mine [1](Copper Bell Mine; Ubehebe Lead Mine), Teakettle Junction, Ubehebe Mining District, Cottonwood Mountains, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo County, California, USA
64.9km (40.3 miles) Fairday Mine, Cactus Springs Mining District, Cactus Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
67.9km (42.2 miles) Blue Jay Mine (Bluejay claim; Apex; Jarosite claim group; Jarosite lode group), Ubehebe Peak, Ubehebe Mining District, Cottonwood Mountains, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo County, California, USA
77.3km (48.0 miles) Cuprotungstite claim (Right of Way; Cuprotungtite; Birthday Gift), Big Dodd Spring, Ubehebe Mining District, Cottonwood Mountains, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo County, California, USA
References
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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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GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BONANZA DISTRICT SAGUACHE COUNTY COLORADO By HORACE B. PATTON 1915 DENVER.................................... 69 The Rawley mine......................................... 69 Location.................. . . . . . 69 Rock formations in mine and tunnel................... 74 Vein systems ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Chalcocite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...tunnel.......... . . . . . . . . . 86 The Antoro mine....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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
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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
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169 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BONANZA MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY W. S. BURBANK WITH A SECTION...Prepared in cooperation with the COLORADO METAL MINING FUND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...Geography _ ______________ ___-__-__ Situation of the district _ _ _________________ Topographic features. ....Previous geologic and topographic work in the district. ____ ___________._-__-______--__. Field work...Gulch____.._____-----Sosthenes Gulch and Antoro mine __..-.-_ Vicinity of Round Mountain ____________
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.... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...visit the gun and knife show at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona. Here are some items culled
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discovered in the ore of the Good Hope Mine, Vulcan, Gunnison County, Colorado, by Dr. Loui Weiss, and was...at the Empress Josephinemine, Bonanza, Colorado (Patton, 1916,p. 108), the San Sebastian mine, Salvador...348), the Junction mine, Warren, Arizona (Crawford, 1930,p. 272),the Kalgurli mine, Kalgoorlie, Western...Australia (Stillwell, 1931,p. 186), and the Horne mine, Noranda, Quebec(Price, 1934,p.132); but thesereports...sections, which are light grey like ordinary chalcocite in reflected light, with practically no reflection
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‘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
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and Ore Depostts of the Darwin Quadrangle Inyo County, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared... Geology and Ore Deposits ofthe Darwin Quadrangle Inyo County, California By WAYNE E. HALL and E. M. MAcKEVETT...lead-silver-zinc district ______________ _ Geochemical prospecting ___ ._ ____________ _ Future of the district ___________________...___________________ _ Zinc Hill district ___________________________ _ Lee district _______________________________...Hills-----------------------------------Santa Rosa mine ______________________ _ Deposits in the Talc City
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Geological Survey Department ……………………………………………………… Mining Industry News ………………………………………………………………. News about...Map’. We can only encourage all you geologists and mining houses to steer your Autocad mapping work in her...Geological Survey, the Geology Department and within the mining industry in general. When all is said and done...highlighted the importance that Government gives the mining industry because of its contributions to the development...meet old colleagues and to make new friends. The mining industry is stabilizing as a result of the political
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States Department of the Interior Department of Mining, Stanford University liCD LIBRARY 1948 : ...Sierra Nevada, by George R. Heyl 77""V" Zinc-Copper Deposits of the Big Bend Mine, Butte County, California...Geology of the Lilvama and Pioneer Mines, El Dorado County, and California, by Manning W. Cox, Donald C. Wyant...California, County, Newton Copper Mine, Amador R. Heyl and John H. Eric ""~V" Pemi Zinc-Copper Mine, Calaveras...Calaveras County, California, by George R. Hevl, Manning W. Cox, and John II. Eric The Gravhouse Area, Amador
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location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...however, because it contains lists of the mines and mining districts that were active at the time in Clear...only reports the early history and status of the mining industry, but includes a list of all the species
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Spanish-English, English-Spanish glossary of gem, mineral and mining terms. BY PAUL WILLARD JOHNSON Price $2.00 r...El Antimonio District Cananea District ...... Arizpe District ........... Nacozari District ...... Moctezuma...Moctezuma District ... Hermosillo District ... Alamos District ........ San Bernardo Area Alistos District...SECTION 2 — Highway 45 Sabinal District ............... Los Lamentos District.... Placer de Guadalupe Puerto...Aire District Chihuahua .......................... Santa Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine.....
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Editors. SPENCER . . R. TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both...where no maps were available. In southern Yuma County he even discovered and named a whole new range...specific mention are the mapping in southern Yuma County, studies on gold lode and placer deposits, work...Range Province, and work on a number of individual mining districts and on numerous mineral commodities....establish Tucson, Arizona, as the hub of the copper mining industry of the United States. In fact, an inscribed
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RhodesiaCopperbelt................................... Mufulira Mine ................................................................................... Roan Antelope Mine ............................................. 909............................ 915 920 922 923 The Mine Series ...........................................mineral exploration for RhodesJanSelection Trust Mine Services Ltd., and from 1962 to 1963 he was SeniorGeologistfor...KATANGA SYSTEMS Kundelungu Series BASEMENT SYSTEMS Mine Series KATANGA SYSTEM Undifferentiated IGNEOUS
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the tellurides are unusually interesting to the mining geologist and the prospector, as compounds of gold...severalspectacularspecimensof ore from the Robb-Montbray Mine, Montbray Township, Quebec; to Dr. M. H. Frohberg...Hopkins for specimens from the Wright-Hargreaves Mine, Kirkland Lake, Ontario; to Dr. E. P. Henderson...specimen of hessite and petzite; to the several mining companies in Ontario and Quebec for supplying specimensof...Occurrence:This species was found at the Robb-Montbray Mine, Montbray Township, Quebec, and described in detail
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Tombstone district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...in Castle Dome district; common in silver veins. ANTIMONY ORES. See Jamesonite and Stibnite. ARGENTITE...ARGENTITE (silver glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton...districts; Pinal County, at Silver King; Santa Cruz County, at Montezuma and Empress of India mines, Tyndall
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...within a skarn complex on privately owned patented mining claims which cover the mountain’s top, upper sides...Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les Presmyk
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said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely
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and Butler, G. M.-Arizona lode gold mines and mining: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 137, 1934...Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 148, 1941. Apache County 2: 17 Gregory, H. E.-Geology Prof. Paper 93, 1917...the Navajo country. U.S. Geol. Survey Cochise County 3:04 Ransome, F. L.-The geology and ore deposits...Tombstone district, Arizona: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 1938. Gila County 4:03 Ransome...Ransome, F. L.-Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 12, 1903. 4:19
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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...platinum - have been found mainly in the Sierra Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These mountain...are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...PLATEAU I7 COAST RANGES 7 GREAT VALLEY :2f SIERRA NEVADA ~ BASIN RANGES Ell MOJAVE DESERT II TRANSVERSE
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along the shearzoneare, Jane,Bluff, Fairview, Empress,and Victoria. The total productionof copperfrom...SalmonRiver, Premier Mine, Engineer Mine of Atlin, Bear River, Dolly Varden Mine o.f Alice Arm, Hazelton...Vertical Sectionof Fairview Mine. Theargillaceous quartzite intheJane mine usually carries the mineralization...accordingto J. A. Bancroft and as a sill at the Premier mine. 3 The Silica Rock.---The largestwedgeof all, the...well as from the fact that the other wedgesof the Empress and Victoria mines do not show silicificationto
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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...— gold and platinum — have been found mainly in Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain...species are reported by 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible, locations of mines...within a township is illustrated by Figure 1-1. county of occurrence. Map *M. Fleischer’s 1980 Glossary
 
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