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Cinnabar from
Prairie Creek, Nahanni River area, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Cinnabar
Formula:HgS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cinnabar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Prairie Creek, Nahanni River area, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1230502
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1230502:3
GUID (UUID V4):20273544-478f-4aa2-80dc-55f631628b39
References
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Mercury-Bearing Sulfides 1985). Zinc deposits with cinnabar therefore Sphalerite is the chief host for mercury...wt% Hg, has deposits. The rare association of cinnabar and been synthesized at 250 to 280°C (Tauson and...mercury concentrations from cinnabar-free amounts in zinc deposits. Cinnabar is the major zinc deposits...sp) References VOLCEX, SEDEX, and MVT deposits (Canada, USA) 0.29 0.26 0.3 Jonasson and Sangster (1975)...4 3 Canada Canada Sweden Canada Finland Sweden Australia Australia Australia Canada Canada Japan
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States-Public lands. 3. Mines and mineral resources-Canada. 4. Canada-Public lands. I. Cargill, S.M. U. Green, S...Geological Survey (USGS) and the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Thus, when staff of our two agencies first...The Leesburg Workshop was the developments in this area, the time seemed right. result. For some time now...A. Price Director General Geological Survey of Canada III CONTENTS Page Preface .••••••••••••••••••••••••...development in northern ••••••••••••••••••• 23 Canada, by G. N. Faulkner Problems and opportunities facing
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GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA SIGNIFICANT METALLIFEROUS AND SELECTED NON-METALLIFEROUS...Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks 3-Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver 4-Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan...Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks; '-Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver; 4-Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan;...and (or) mine. Metallogenic belt. A geologic unit (area) that either contains or is favorable for a group... chalcopyrite. argentitc. galena, sphalerite, cinnabar, and stibnite. Associated minerals include electrum
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1912. One of these, that near the mouth of Prairie Creek, has been known to geologists since 1842. The...were found August 1, 1906, in the area near the moutji, of Prairie Creek, and, according to D. B. Sterrett...carats, are reported to have been found in this area up to 1913. Since the first discovery of diamonds...Glenn, L. C., Arkansas diamond-bearing peridotite area [abstract]: Bull. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 23, 1912...than that of the area first discovered. They lie, as is shown in figure 58, within an area of 1 square mile
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to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author was Don Alfredo, in...located near Sulphur Canyon in the San Andres Mountains. The problem was that it was within the boundaries...mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army had closed the area in...year surface, $32.00 per year air, First Class to Canada and Mexico $25.00, rates include sales taxes as...a quick tour. There arc a number or mines n the area including the 85 Mine (largest), Banner, Henry Clay
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from area to area, being dependent on the rock types present and the geologic history of that area or region...Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the West Gulf Coastal Plain, and the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain (figure...together make up less than 1 % of the total surface area of the state. Possibly the easiest way to understand...Plateaus region today consists of flat-topped mountains capped by resistant rock units with valleys rang­...Incised meandering streams and rivers drain this area (figure 2). Karst topog­ raphy is often developed
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other island possessions, but not the trust territories of the United States. A few articles published...Calif. Canada Dominion Observatory Pub.-Canada Dominion Observatory Publications. Ottawa. Canada Geol.... Survey Bull.; Geophysics Paper; Mem.; Paper-Canada Geological Survey Bulletin; Geophysics Paper; Memoir;...Bulletin. Ottawa. Geol. Assoc. Canada Proc.-Geological Association of Canada Proceedings. Toronto, Ontario...Council Canada, Assoc. Comm. Soil and Snow Mechanics Tech. Memo.-National Research Council of Canada, Associate
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of the Interior for development of the Missouri River basin, and work done partly on behalf of the U.S...of the Interior for development of the Missouri River basin, and work done partly on behalf of the U.S...______________ _ Highland Mountains area ___________ _ Mount Fleecer-Johnson Creek area __ _ Southern Melrose...Trusty Lake syncline _______________ _ Trapper Creek syncline _____________ _ Dillon district ______...to Beaverhead Rock area ________________________________ _ Pioneer Mountains area ________________ _
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would like to thank my mineral friends in the Coon Creek Association for their good companionship during...—i J • N N S C A L E , im i l l s ' 20 40 PRAIRIE SCOTT I PULASKI I LONOKE A— STIBNITE B— BARITE...P b f « . f ^ i l \ M . C I ^1 ULEVELANOJL M— CINNABAR Mn— C R Y P T O M E L A N E OESHA N— M i l I I...Baxter County Michigan Mine, 1 mile east of Buffalo River; fractured Everton Dolomite; shallow cuts; smithsonite...sphalerite (Stroud et al., 1969). West Sugarloaf-Halden Creek District, includes the Bo­ nanza, Cave (Singleterry)
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MARCH-APRIL, 1943 No. 2 QUARTZ VEINS IN THE OUACHITA MOUNTAINS OF ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA (THEIR RELATIONS TO STRUCTURE...of the total geologic history of the Ouachita Mountains is revealed by the quartz veins and crystals....y. The metalliferous depositsof the Ouachita Mountains appear to have been formed at the time of the...mineralresources, andothergeologicfeatures of the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas and south- easternOklahoma...dutieshave permittedonly occasionalbrief trips to the area during the past 15 years. Quartz veins'are numerousand
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Virgin Islands---------------------------------Canada -------------------------------------------------Alberta...an-------------------------------------Northwest Territories ----------------------------Franklin Di...Keewatin District_____________________________ Mackenzie District---------------------------Yukon Territory...Additional meetings were held in L'Esterel, Quebec, Canada, in 1967 and in Guatemala City in 1969 to resolve...North America referred to above. It is an equal-area map on a bipolar oblique conic conformal projection
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Fork Little Sheep Creek................................... West Fork Little Sheep Creek........................................ Big Sheep Creek-Hidden Pasture Trail............................. Dalys Spur............................................ Wigwam Creek............................................................ Odell Creek...................................................... Cinnabar Mountain..........summer of 1983. GEOLOGIC SETTING In the study area shown in figure 1, the westernmost outcrops of the
Report (edition)
been most cited is his mineralogy of the Green River Formation of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado and the...his enthusiastic participation in the annual Coon Creek excursions to mineral collecting localities in Arkansas...Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the West Gulf Coastal Plain, and the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain (fig...comprise less than 1 percent of the total surface area of the state. BENTON MA RION BOONE CA RROLL ...ODRUF F MISSISSIPPI YE LL ST. FRANCIS PERRY RIVER PRAIRIE SCOTT LONOKE PULASKI LEE MONROE ALLUVIAL
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Australia 25 1.10 Important diamond localities in Canada 28 2.1 Structure of diamond 34 2.2 Theoretically...center of the Crater of Diamonds vent complex, Prairie Creek, Arkansas 134 7.4 Geological sketch map and...southwest Africa 150 8.2 The drainage area of Orange River through major kimberlite fields of South...recovered from beach sands from the mouth of the Orange River northward 151 10.1 Thermodynamic conditions of...pipes, dikes, and sills that may crop out over an area of a few hectares at the most. Other diamondiferous
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-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin Index of Surface-Water Records to December...-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin By H. P. Eisenhuth Geological Survey Circular...-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin By H. P. Eisenhuth INTRODUCTION This report...Pacific slope basins in Oregon and lower Columbia River basin for which records have been or are to be published...one each for the States of Alaska and Hawaii. The area of the other 48 States is divided into 14 parts
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the states, territories, and possessions of the United States, the provinces of Canada, and well-known...Examples of geographic headings are: Alabama, Alberta, Canada, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Mississippi...Mississippi Valley, Nevada, Ontario, United States. Canada and the United States are headings used to index papers...Canada's oil and gas potentialities" is. indexed under Canada and not under each of the provinces discussed...________;___ Names of minerals or systems. Subject, area, or individual. Individual names. Chiefly areas
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13. British Columbia ores, zoning: Geology in Canada: Hume, G. S., Gunning, H. G., 5. California, southern...L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay, R. L.,L Geophysicist in...MissisJoralemon, I. B. Engineering geology, research: sippi River, Pleistocene history: Trowbridge, A. C.,1. Eckel...processes: Perry, ter, J. D., 3. T. G., 3. Mississippi River and Gulf Industrial minerals: Gillson, J. L , 5...United Alaska, evaluation of soil and States and Canada: Levorsen, permafrost conditions: Frost, A. I.
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-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 584 Index of...-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin By H. P. Eisenhuth GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Washington...-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin By H. P. Eisenhuth INTRODUCTION This report...Pacific slope basins in Oregon and kwer Columbia River basin for which records have been or are to be published...one each for the States of Alaska and Hawaii. The area of the other 48 States is divided into 14 parts
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been most cited is his mineralogy of the Green River Formation of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado and the...his enthusiastic participation in the annual Coon Creek excursions to mineral collecting localities in Arkansas...minerals, especially the phosphates of the Ouachita Mountains. Thanks for being able to look at your collection...Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the West Gulf Coastal Plain, and the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain (Figure...comprise less than 1 percent of the total surface area of the state. The Ozark Plateau province is underlain
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mines showing grayly on the flanks of ragged mountains and crumbling ghost towns wrapped in sage and...imputed to the gods. Gold was well known over a wide area of the Near East as early as 5000 B.C., and by the...melt during the action of igneous intrusions. The area surrounding Table V Metamorphic Rock Types Consolidated...Some outcrops may be residual bodies, even small mountains of resistant silica rocks, such as quartzite,...may be rich in collectible minerals. In almost any area, outcropping rocks are most likely to catch your
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46 47 47 * Indiana Stone-Salem Limestone River-Wabash River 49 50 * Iowa Rock-Geode DZ * Kansas...gardnerae Dinosaur-Astrodon johnstoni Gem-Patuxent River Stone * Massachusetts Gem-Rhodonite Fossil-Dinosaur...Rock-Prairie Agate Gemstone-Blue Agate Fossil-Mammoth Soil-Holdrege Series River-Platte River * Nevada...Soils Geosymbols of the Canadian Provinces & Territories Glossary Selected Readings Web Sites Graphic...adjacent states and Canada contain large iron ore deposits, the Red and Lookout Mountains of Alabama are especially
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California. Geologic map and (A-B) of Mercy mine area. Sketch map and section (C-D) of South Hill workings...County, California PLATE IV — Valley Lea-Grant mine area, San between pages 28-29 View mine, San Benito...California. Geologic section of Valley View mine area. Sketch maps and map and section of PLATE V ...andalusite-sillimanite minerals of the White Mountains in the Inyo Range, Mono County, California were...minerals. This discovery in 1919 in the Inyo Mountains of California which prepared the way for today's
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Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen...with digging vast quantities of coal, leveling mountains of iron ore, and tapping subterranean lakes of...and Technical Surveys of the Geological Survey of Canada, while specific Canadian locality information was...deposits. Permission to visit other mines in the Pala area was kindly granted by Charles Reynolds of Lilac...Hill—Ellijay area . Map of Cowee Creek area . Cowee Creek gravel washing . Yogo Gulch Mine . Rock Creek, Montana
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-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 664 Index of...-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and lower Columbia River Basir GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Washington 1971 CIRCULAR...-Pacific Slope Basins in Oregon and Lower Columbia River Basin INTRODUCTION This report lists the streamflow...Pacific slope basins in Oregon and lower Columbia River basin for which records have been or are to be published...one each for the States of Alaska and Hawaii. The area of the other 48 States is divided into 14 parts
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promising diamond fields being vigorously explored in Canada and the United States. Experts agree that in several...diamond-bearing kimberlite bodies, most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing...crystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah are to be mined by conventional open-pit...members. Searches could be confined to terrains and creek beds that expose vil Preface types of rocks...from government sources in the form of detailed area reports and corresponding geological maps. I have
 
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