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Tonopah, NV: Barren Quartz

Dates

Dataset Reference Date
2020-07-01
Info Date
1930

Summary

Index No: MRTN103750; Collected By: Thomas B. Nolan; Sample Type: hand sample; thin section; Notes: Location taken from Belmont Mine shaft; Dense, mostly dark, fine-grained quartz of variable appearance and poorly defined boundaries between different types. The quartz is dense, barren and usually thoroughly shattered. An older coarsely crystalline quartz is veined and embayed by very fine-grain quartz which locally has considerable sericite.

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  • ReSciColl Archive

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Type
NGGDPP
Reference Item
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Sample Collection Database
Reference File
corescuttings_nggdpp_2020.csv

Additional Information

Alternate Titles

  • MRTN103750

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title Parent-5494ba35e4b0a2b9adad8ee3 Tonopah, NV: Barren Quartz

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alternateGeometryTonopah

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