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Birnessite from
Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Gold Hill Mining District (Clifton Mining District), Tooele County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Birnessite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.5(Mn4+,Mn3+)2O4 · 1.5H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite5
Austinite2
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Birnessite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Gold Hill Mining District (Clifton Mining District), Tooele County, Utah, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:190880
Long-form Identifier:1:3:190880:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Birnessite in this Region
300 foot level, Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Gold Hill Mining District (Clifton Mining District), Tooele County, Utah, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Birnessite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘ300 foot level, Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Gold Hill Mining District (Clifton Mining District), Tooele County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA ‱ Tel: +1 949 494 5155 ‱ Email: info@kristalle.com...gressman@minrec.org The Tintic District: Juab and Utah Counties, Utah..................................CLINOCLASE, 3.9 cm, from the Mammoth mine, Tintic District, Utah. Rock Currier collection; Jeff Scovil...(deceased) Peter L. Via (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2022–2023) Gail & Jim Spann...D. Long (2022) SENIOR FELLOWS Salim EddĂ© Lyda Hill Daniel J. Record Dr. Robert Lavinsky Wilbert A.
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94305-2115, USA G. E. Brown Jr Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC, 2575 Sand Hill Road, MS...MS 69, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA compounds (such as axinite and birnessite) provides a quantitative estimate...hausmannite (Mn(II)Mn(III)2O4; Baron et al. 1998) or in birnessite (*(Na,Ca,K)x(Mn(IV),Mn(III))2-xO4 1.5(H2O); see...were collected on beamline 11-2 at SSRL (Stanford, USA) using the SPEAR2 storage ring. XANES data were collected...Kajlidongri mine, Madhya Pradesh, India (Mn)Mn6SiO12 II + III Franklinitec Franklin, NJ, USA Zn0,61Mn0
Book
1-72 97-176 1-96 20th ANN.] 177-256 257-320 GOLD-I ] [ 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400...NEWMEX.] 21 / 1990 22 I 1991 65-136 65-128 SlLVER] GOLD-II] [ 261-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 103-166 1-102 [...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
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Spence FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11...mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL THE FUTURE...for hard-core, as has been happening at Frongoch Mine for years. Collector pressure is perhaps less of...where I am based, than in, for example, the Lake District. although one site. the famous brookite-bearing...generation loses out. The commercial e>..-ploitationof mine sites by mineral dealers is an even thornier topic
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Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
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his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and...Copper-Related Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and
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Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - ‱ Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
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Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART
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OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright © 2015, 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...Average Hardness Soft minerals, such as galena or gold, are very difficult to polish without any scratches;...certain degree of bending, while some metals, such as gold, may be deformed into very thin sheets. The term...pyrite, and irregular late stage pore-fillings of gold (yellow). Right: Finely laminated iron oolith with...Mineral lamellar faint, red yes brown bright green gold-yellow, silver-white (Ag) to copper-red (Cu); 72
Report (issue)
Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Trace Element...Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 982-D...1974, Murataite, a new complex oxide from El Paso County, Colorado: American Mineralogist, v. 59, nos. 1-2...Gate Canyon and Ralston Creek areas, Jefferson County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 320...and Havens, R. G., 1962, Thalenite from Teller County, Colorado, Art. 121 in Geological Survey Research
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McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
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Cardiff. H. L. Douch and R. D, Penhallurick at the County Museum, Truro, Cornwall John Turner of Glenjoy...Cubic Octahedral crystals Variable Adamantine Gold Au Cubic Massive Yellow Metallic Graphite...| 1-0-1-5 74 Soluble in HNO, with a residue of gold Perfect in one direction | 1-5~2.0 35 Soluble...residue of gold powder 25-30 8-7-9-02 Decomposes in HNO, with the separation of gold Nvo STREAK...OR H,0 Decomposes in HNO, with the separation of gold Crumbly Good in one direction 1.0-2-0 41 Soluble
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Cardiff. H. L. Douch and R. D. Penhallurick at the County Museum, Truro, Cornwall. John Turner of Glenjoy...Cubic Octahedral crystals Variable Adamantine Gold Au Cubic Massive Yellow Metallic Graphite... 10-1-5 7-4 Soluble in HN03 with a residue of gold Pale lemon-yellow Irregular Perfect in one direction...2-5-3 0 9 24 Decomposes in HN03 with residue of gold powder Subconchoidal Good in one direction 2-5—3...8-7-9-02 Decomposes in HN03 with the separation of gold Pale brownish-black Black Yellowish to greenish-grey
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(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
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the state more than a thousand years ago. Gold and silver deposits spurred most of the settlement...high-tech mining of gold deposits, such as those along the Carlin trend, constitutes a mining boom that...offer a geologic history of Nevada; a history of mining and mineral study in Seat thestate;descriptions...Press Photographs Press, Reno, Nevada 31 89557 USA by Stephen B. Castor, Jeff Scovil, Storm Sears,...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK First edition 2008 Copyright...Silicides Copper I/A.01-10 4 Silver I/A.01-20 6 Gold I/A.01-40 8 Auricupride I/A.01-50 10 Amalgam I/A...Alloys and Alloy-like Compounds, with Copper, Silver, Gold and Nickel Algodonite II/A.01-10 Domeykite II/A...Tellurium < 1:1, Tellurides with Copper, Silver and Gold Linnaeite II/D.01-20 320 Polydymite II/D.01-30 322...750 IV/F.11-20 752 Chalcophanite IV/F.11-30 754 Birnessite IV/F.14-10 756 Quenselite IV/F.15-10 758 Söhngeite
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Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...Memoir 122. "Clay Mineralogy," by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968). "Crystal Data: Determinative Tables," Third...cubic centimeter; water has a density of 1 g/cm 3 , gold 19.3 g/cm 3 . diffraction The process whereby the...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,
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31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest
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3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...PART IV PART II MINERAL DEPOSITS Carlin-1:,. pe Gold Depo!:>its Nevada Mineral Catalog 47 (Jresor}'
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah; (lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left...Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia; (lower, right) gold, Amazonas...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left...center) mimetite, Tsurneb, Namibia, (lower, right) gold, Amazonas, Brazil All specimens from the collection...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...cubic centimeter; water has a density of 1 g/cm 3 , gold 19.3 g/cm 3 ‱ diffraction The process whereby the
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and Mines of the East Tintic Mining District, Utah and Juab Counties, Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...and Mines of the East Tintic: Mining District, Utah and juab Counties, Utah By H. T. MORRIS and T. S. LOVERING...LOVERING With sections on THE GEOLOGY OF THE BURGIN MINE By A. PAUL MOGENSEN, W. M. SHEPARD, H. T. MORRIS... and S. M. SMITH and THE GEOLOGY OF THE TRIXIE MINE By A. PAUL MOGENSEN, H. T. MORRIS, and S. M. SMITH...mines of a highly productive silver, gold, and base-metal mining district in the east-central Great Basin
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known. For simplification by AGI the Sections on County Index and Rock Unit Index were merged into a broader...bibliography can be searched by location, i.e. the county or by the subject material or the rock unit name...Uranium Seminar. New York, NY: American L1stitute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, L1c.ISSN:...Parkville, Victoria: The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. ISSN: 08144346. Australian and...Geology. ISSN: 00264555, CODEN: CGEOAQ. California Mining Journal. 00081299. Santa Cruz, CA: [s. n.]. ISSN:
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First published in 1975 by Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION:...milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please
 
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