Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them: A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United States — John Shaqi
Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them: A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United StatesOrton, James
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Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them: A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United States
Orton, James
Mineralogy, Determinative; Prospecting
LOCALITIES.--Found in _Serpentine_. Bare Hills, Cooptown and north part
of Cecil County, Md.; Nottingham, W. Goshen, Williston, Fulton, Mineral
Hill, Texas and Unionville, Pa.; Jay, New Fane, Westfield and Troy, Vt.;
Chester and Blanford, Mass.; Loudon County, Va.; Yancy County, N. C.;
North Almaden, New Idria and Coloma, Cal.
21.--CINNABAR.
Occurs in granular or earthy masses; resembles iron-rust, but is a
yellowish-red; powder scarlet; easily cut with a knife; thrown on
red-hot iron, evaporates, giving off odor of sulphur; rubbed on copper,
“silvers” it; gravity 9, or about as heavy as _Copper_.
VALUE.--The source of mercury (containing eighty-four per cent.) and
vermilion.
LOCALITIES.--Found in slate and limestone rocks. Centreville,
Coulterville, New Idria and New Almaden, and Lake and San Luis Obispo
Counties, California; Idaho.
22.--COBALT PYRITES.
Occurs crystallized and massive; does not scratch glass easily; metallic
lustre; tarnish, copper-red; powder, blackish-gray; brittle; heated on
charcoal gives off sulphur fumes; heated with borax gives a blue glass;
gravity 5.
VALUE.--An ore of cobalt, yielding twenty per cent.
LOCALITIES.--Usually found in slate or granite rocks with _Copper
Pyrites_. Mineral Hill, Md.; Mine-la-Motte, Mo.
23.--COPPER.
Occurs in irregular masses; metallic lustre; can be cut with a knife;
malleable; ductile; fusible; gravity 8.8.
VALUE.--A source of copper and silver.
LOCALITIES.--Most abundant in the trap and “freestone” regions. New
Brunswick, Somerville, Schuyler’s and Flemington, N. J.; Whately, Mass.;
Cornwall and Shannonville, Pa.; Polk County, Tenn.; Keweenaw Point, Lake
Superior; Calaveras, Amador and Santa Barbara Counties, Cal.; on Gila
River, Ariz.
24.--COPPER GLANCE.
Occurs crystallized and massive; color, blackish lead-gray, often
tarnished blue or green; nearly as hard as marble; brittle; a splinter
will melt in a candle, giving off the odor of sulphur; dissolved in
nitric acid, it will coat a knife-blade with copper; metallic lustre;
gravity 5.5.
VALUE.--An ore of copper, yielding seventy-five per cent.
LOCALITIES.--Found at copper-mines. Simsbury, Bristol and Cheshire,
Conn.; Schuyler’s Mines, N. J.; Orange County, Va.; near Newmarket, Md.;
Lake Superior copper-region; La Paz, Arizona; Washoe, Humboldt, Nye and
Churchill Counties, Nev.
25.--COPPER NICKEL.
Occurs in masses; metallic lustre; color pale copper-red; tarnishes gray
to black; powder pale brownish-black; brittle; on charcoal melts giving
the odor of garlic; becomes green in nitric acid; gravity 7.5.
VALUE.--An ore of nickel (containing forty-four per cent.) and arsenic.
LOCALITIES.--Found in granite regions. Chatham, Conn.
26.--COPPER PYRITES.
Occurs in crystals and masses; color brass-yellow; tarnishes green;
metallic lustre when freshly broken; can be cut with a knife; brittle;
powder greenish black; on charcoal melts giving off sulphur fumes;
dissolves in nitric acid, making a green liquid; gravity 4.2.
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