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Sperrylite from
Rambler Mine, Red Mountain, Encampment, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sperrylite
Formula:PtAs2
Comments:Probably confusion with the New Rambler mine.
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sperrylite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rambler Mine, Red Mountain, Encampment, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:110764
Long-form Identifier:1:3:110764:7
GUID (UUID V4):a52e6750-4f99-487c-8abc-65bb050d6dca
Nearest other occurrences of Sperrylite
59.8km (37.2 miles) Blanche mine, New Rambler Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
60.2km (37.4 miles) New Rambler mine (Rambler Mine; Holmes Mine; Electrolytic Mine; Great Rambler Mine), New Rambler Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Elements at the New Rambler Mine and Vicinity Albany and Carbon Counties Wyoming Platinum and Associated...Elements at the New Rambler Mine and Vicinity Al-bany and Carbon Counties Wyoming By P. K. Theobald, Jr...____ 2 3 Sampling and analysis of mine waste, New Rambler mine ________________________________________...Bow Mountains___ 2. Map of mine waste in the vicinity of the New Rambler mine______________________________________...spectrographic determinations for selected elements in mine waste_____________________ 5. Histograms of analyses
Report (issue)
WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Ronald C. Surdam, State Geologist GUIDE TO PROSPECTING AND ROCK HUNTING...HUNTING IN WYOMING by W. Dan Hausel Information Pamphlet 11 LARAMIE, WYOMING 2004 WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL...Freudenthal, Governor Randi S. Martinsen, University of Wyoming Don J. Likwartz, Oil and Gas Supervisor Ronald...Assistant This and other publications available from: Wyoming State Geological Survey P.O. Box 1347 Laramie,...use this publication should contact the Editor, Wyoming State Geological Survey at (307) 766-2286. TTY
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THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING Gary B. Glass, Executive Director and State Geologist ADVISORY BOARD...Governor Terry P. Roark,President, University of Wyoming Donald B. Basko, Oil and Gas Supervisor Appointed...Cheyenne, Wyoming. This and other publications available from: The Geological Survey of Wyoming P.O. Box...University Station LaIanlle, Wyoming 82071 (307) 766·2286 Front Cover - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the...recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button
Report (issue)
Sperrylite PtAs2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 2/m...a = 5.967 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada. 1.801 (100), 0.777 (90), 1.148...42.8 (2) 43.44 Total 99.68 100.00 (1) Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada; by electron microprobe, corresponding...mines, Algoma district, near Sudbury, Ontario. In the USA, at the New Rambler Cu–Ni mine, Medicine Bow...east of Encampment, Albany Co., Wyoming; in the Key West mine, east of Moapa, Bunkerville district, Clark
Report (issue)
Developed and Undeveloped Mineral Resources of Wyoming A statistical compilation and industrial evaluation...producers of Wyoming. By C. S. DIETZ Deputy State Geologist First Edition---I,oOO Copies WYOMING GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CHEYENNE, WYOMING 1929 Price $1.00 Post Paid v Contents Page IX Preface PART I Chapter...Magnesium Sulphate ·11 The Chemical Deposits of Wyoming Can Be Profitably Exploited 45 Chapter 1 Chapter...61 Chapter XI Mineral Pigments Carbon Black and AsphaIL Rawlins Red Other Natural Pigments 65 65 65
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70.58 Total [100.0] 98.9 100.00 (1) Rustenburg mine, South Africa; by electron microprobe, recalculated...Moncheite, melonite, kotulskite, michenerite; sperrylite, laurite, cooperite; chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite...South Africa, in Transvaal, from the Rustenburg mine, in the Merensky Reef, Bushveld complex [TL]; and...Iles complex; in the Thierry mine, near Pickle Lake; at the Sudbury district; from the Geordie Lake intrusion...elsewhere. In the USA, from the Stillwater complex, Montana; the New Rambler Cu–Ni mine, Medicine Bow Mountains
Report (issue)
Pd0.28 )Σ=0.88 (Te1.56 Bi0.44 )Σ=2.00 . (2) Impala mine, Transvaal, South Africa; by electron microprobe...Bi0.28 )Σ=2.00 . (3) Stillwater complex, Montana, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponding to Pt0.06...sobolevskite, michenerite, kotulskite, froodite, sperrylite, cooperite, laurite, braggite, insizwaite, gold...Tundra, Kola Peninsula [TL]; and at the Oktyabr mine, Noril’sk region, western Siberia. In South Africa...Transvaal. In the USA, at the Stillwater complex, Montana; from the New Rambler Cu–Ni mine, Medicine Bow
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discovery of platinum-bearing gold ore at the Boss mine, in southern Nevada, was brought to the attention...LOCATION. The Boss mine is situated in the Yellow Pine mining district, Clark County, Nov., near the extreme...part of the State. The main settlement of the district is Good Springs, distant 8 miles from Jean, a...side of a desert range known as Spring Mountain, but the mine is situated on.the west slope, 12 miles...range through a low pass. A few miles from, the mine is the abandoned settlement known as Sandy (Ripley
Report (issue)
47.18 28.80 Total 99.7 99.8 100.00 (1) Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Canada; by electron microprobe, corresponding...kotulskite, melonite, sobolevskite, hollingworthite, sperrylite, hessite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite, cubanite...Sudbury district; at the Pipe mine, Manitoba; in the Wellgreen deposit, Yukon Territory. In the USA, from...the New Rambler Cu–Ni mine, Medicine Bow Mountains, east of Encampment, Albany Co., Wyoming; and in the...Luis Province, Argentina. In Russia, at the Oktyabr mine, Noril’sk region, western Siberia; from the Monchegorsk
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the New RamblerMine, MedicineBow Mountains,Wyoming* M. E. McC^t.t.u•r, R. R. Lc•ucI(s,R. R. C^m.soN...elsewherein the region. mining district ,of the Medicine Bow Mountains in southeastern Wyoming,approxi.mately...Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming, showing the location of the New Rambler mine with respectto the Mullen...activeintermittently through Laramide time. Shear zone rocks the mine is a mylonitic biotite-epidote-plagioclase comprisea...mafic plutoniccomplexesand ortho- prevalentin the mine vicinity. Most abundantare metadioriteand metagabamphibolites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 17:41 09 June 2016 TaEnaleh, Noril’sk District, Siberia, Russia U ntil a few years ago, the...to one of the group’s few collectible species, sperrylite, only small single crystals were occasionally... but virtually never on matrix. So rare were sperrylite matrix pieces that, despite its discovery in...not available represented the only significant sperrylite matrix localities until about ten years ago,...fine Talnakh sperrylite was nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Sperrylite is a tin-white
Report (issue)
PLATINUM NEAR CENTENNIAL, WYOMING By FRANK L. HESS INTRODUCTION . During the winter of 1923-24 numerous...of platinum discoveries near Centennial, Albany County, Wyo., appeared in the press. Startling claims...Centennial Ridge. (See fig. 4.) Centennial, a small mining town about 2 miles northeast of the prospects,... Centennial Ridge is a crescentic flat-topped mountain, concave to the west, where the Middle Fork of...Map of Centennial Ridge, the Rambler mine, and vicinity, Albany County, Wyo. 1, Cliff fraction; 2, Empire
Report (volume)
----...-.---.-..--.--.....-...---.....-.-. 15 Sperrylite-...--..-.-----.----..--- ............. .-...-..................... ..................... .... Wyoming..............-.-.-..--. .........................82 82 83 83 83 83 83 86 87 87 93 NijniTagilsk district............... ILLUSTRATIONS. .Page. PLATE...the Colorado River, Colombia; C, Sperrylite crystals from Vermillion mine, Ontario .................. ....chromite. in part in octaheclra, from Tulameen district, British Columbia . III. A, Polished nugget of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HydrothermalSolutions'A Thermodynamic Approach* BRUCE W. MOUNTAIN AND SCOTT A. WOOD Departmentof Geological Sciences...shearzonesin metagabbroic rocks,suchasthoseat New Rambler,Wyoming, and RathbunLake, Ontario,precludePt and Pd...their production.However,a hydro- Ramblermine,Wyoming(McCallumet al., 1976),a thermaloriginwassuggested...Waterberg positwithina majorshearzone.TheRathbun Lake district of South Africa as early as 1929 (Wagner, occurrence...Edgar, 1986), is Introduction similar to New Rambler. Platinum and palladium * A contributionof the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
94 Sperrylite crystals from the Transvaal. By L. J. SsE~cs~, }I.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. Assistant-Keeper in... 1926.] V E R Y fine and unusual crystal of sperrylite, recently presented by Mr. G. H. Beatty of Johannesburg...about 10 roues I~I~W. of Potgietersrust, Waterberg district, Transvaal. I t had been found embedded in copper-stained...1"294 grams. I t is thus far larger than any sperrylite crystal fi'om the few localities ~ previously...has been given (previous to the finding of the sperrylite) by P. A. Wagner, Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa
Report (volume)
the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...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...Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming.........Mr. C. E. Jamison, Cheyenne. Those members
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Wengeqi mafic–ultramafic complex, Guyang County, Inner Mongolia, China Shangguo Su & C. Michael...Springer-Verlag 2011 Abstract The Wengeqi complex in Guyang County, Inner Mongolia, is one of several Pd–Pt-mineralized...netite– (pentlandite) assemblages with minor sperrylite, sudburyite, and kotuskite. Textural relationships...Wengeqi mafic–ultramafic complex is located in Guyang County of Inner Mongolia, in the central part of northern...(2012) 47:197–207 Fig. 1 a Location of Guyang County (red square) along the northern margin of the North
Report (issue)
_______ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present mining _______ _ General geology...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________... Chuck mine ___________________ _ Placers-------------------------------Goodnews Bay district _____________
Report (issue)
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS, State Geologist BULLETIN 51 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE...ROCKS AND MINERALS OF WYOMING by William H. Wilson THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS,...' 0 MINERALS OF WYOMING By WILLIAM H. WILSO. UN IVERSITY OF WYOMING LARAMIE, WYOMING A GUST, 1965 This...the Department of Geology at the University of Wyoming ( 19 17-631. For more than fift y years his life...life has been devoted toward the understanding of Wyoming geology. but perhaps more important has been his
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
94Ni0.01Fe0.01Hg0.03)0.99 (Sb0.95Te0.06)1.01], sperrylite [(Pt0.94Ag0.01Ni0.01Fe0.09)1.05As1.95], temagamite...94Ni0.01Fe0.01Hg0.03)0.99(Sb0.95Te0.06)1.01], sperrylite [(Pt 0.94 Ag 0.01 Ni 0.01 Fe 0.09 ) 1.05 As...Paleoproterozoic volcanic-rock-hosted massive sulfide (VMS) district in the world, with production and reserves exceeding...sudburyite, telluroan sudburyite, and one unknown PGM. Sperrylite, temagamite and merenskyite are rare and generally...mm in diameter). It is anomalously anisotropic (red to brown). It is commonly included in chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bismuthotellurides and pipesby platinum-iron alloy,sperrylite,geversite, andRh-Ir sulfarsenides. Thereare distinct...andosmiridium; (2) inclusions in nativealloysand sperrylite may provide information onthemineralogy of p...platinum able information on the ores from the Union mine platinumdeposits.When onebf us (EFS) pubby Kingston(1966)...excellentwork oœBrynard et al. (1976), cent sperrylite. At Union mine, laurite and ferroVermaakandI-Iendriks(1976)...Atok, Mineral Platinum-iron alloy (Pt, Fe) Sperrylite PtAs2 Geversite PtSb2 West- north- ern east
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................. Wyoming..................................................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
Report (volume)
as the principal commodity or as a byproduct of mining other metals, based on a review of worldwide information...quartz-alunite gold (25e) Other hydrothermal deposits: *New Rambler copper-gold-PGE Olympic Peninsula-type volcanogenic...descriptive models were based on a single deposit or district and therefore lacked grade-tonnage distributions...tracts (map 1, pi. 1)......................... Wyoming (tract 15, map 1)................................Colombia, and more recently as byproducts from mining of sediment-hosted copper deposits in the Kupferschiefer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2 ppm Pd, and 6 ppm Ag were recovered. Near the mine,layeredgabbroicrocksare intrudedby a massiveclinopyroxenitic...predominantly kotulskite(PdTe)as singlegrainsor with sperrylite(PtAs2),palladiumantimonyminerals,and gold;the...Alaska(55o38' N; to occurin the ore duringthe early yearsof mining 132ø33' W; Fig. 1). Previousauthorshave included...ttentlybetween1905 and Cu, Ag, and Au aroundthe mine and in other areas 1941 and producedabout 0.3 million...minewasmappedat 1:4,800 scale.In addition, one level of the mine and an abandonedexplorationadit were alsomappedat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zone. The most stable of them are paolovite and sperrylite, which both accumulated in placers derived from...maximum thickness at the eastern flank of the Rudniy district (Fig. 1). Petrological zoning is characterized...been detected in minerals such as a Pt-Fe alloy, sperrylite and cooperite. Although overall concentration...palladoarsenide paolovite Pt-Fe alloy sobolevskite sperrylite stibiopalladinite sudburyite galenite hauchecornite...paolovite Pd-Sb and Pd-Bi oxides sobolevskite sperrylite stibiopalladinite sudburyite More common minerals
 
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