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Altaite from
Bessie G Mine, La Plata Mining District (California Mining District), La Plata County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Altaite
Formula:PbTe
Comments:Gunnar Farber specimen
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Altaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bessie G Mine, La Plata Mining District (California Mining District), La Plata County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1412323
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1412323:8
GUID (UUID V4):359271e6-48b6-45e3-8205-39fa47033bec
Nearest other occurrences of Altaite
10.3km (6.4 miles) ā“˜May Day Mine, La Plata Mining District (California Mining District), La Plata County, Colorado, USA
54.2km (33.7 miles) ā“˜Brooklyn Mine, Brown's Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
60.9km (37.9 miles) ā“˜Gold King Mine (Gold King Extension), Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
64.8km (40.2 miles) ā“˜Camp Bird Mine, Imogene Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
80.2km (49.8 miles) ā“˜Sweet Home Mine, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
87.0km (54.1 miles) ā“˜Golden Fleece Mine, Lake City, Lake City Mining District, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and Cripple Creek, Colorado. Although on opposite sides of the globe, they...they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly quite...ROCKS & MINERALS the Golden Circle mine at Sorrento and the Cline mine at Hancock, Maine, and from a vaguely...vaguely described locality near Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut. A compilation of telluride mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
02:13 13 March 2015 CALAVERITE Cripple Creek, Colorado W ith the exception of native gold and electrum...Cripple Creek district, essentially subsequent to the development of all other Colorado gold districts...suggested for this issue, much of which is devoted to Colorado minerals. Calaverite is a yellowish to silver-white...associated altaite, a lead telluride. Analyses of calaverite from the Kirkland Lake district, Ontario,...accompanied by a variety of other tellurides such as altaite, coloradoite, krennerite, rickardite, and sylvanite;
Report (issue)
Tenacity: Brittle. Hardness = 2.5ā€“3 VHN = 197ā€“213 (100 g load). D(meas.) = 9.10ā€“9.40 D(calc.) = 9.31 Optical...0703(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. 3.02 (10), 2.09 (8), 2.20 (4), 2.93 (3), 1...Total 100.30 99.75 100.00 (1) Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. (2) Kalgoorlie, Australia. (3) AuTe2 . Polymorphism...mediumand high-temperature deposits. Association: Altaite, coloradoite, krennerite, rickardite, other tellurides...the USA, in California, at the Stanislaus [TL], Morgan, and Melones mines, Carson Hill district, Calaveras
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
goldā€“silver prospect, Fiji: conditions of ore deposition P. G. Spry and N. L. Scherbarth Department of Geological...Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Received October 23, 2005; revised version accepted...in the Stuckslager gold deposit, Coloma district, California. Roscoelite and vanadium muscovite, are...respectively (Heinrich and Levinson, 1955) and 172 P. G. Spry and N. L. Scherbarth by roscoelite exhibiting...Creek deposit, Colorado (Jensen and Barton, 2000), Boulder County deposits, Colorado (Lindgren, 1907;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold-telluride deposit, Fiji Andrew P. Fornadel, Paul G. Spry, Simon E. Jackson PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(19)30219-7...gold-telluride deposit, Fiji Andrew P. Fornadela,b, Paul G. Sprya,*, Simon E. Jacksonc aDepartment of Geological...50011-3212, USA bShimadzu Scientific Instruments, 7102 Riverwood Drive, Columbia, MD 21046, USA cGeological...Drive, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3212, USA E-mail address: pgspry@iastate.edu (P.G. Spry) Keywords:...gold-silver telluride deposits in Colorado (Cripple Creek, Boulder County, and La Plata) with Emperor, and the narrow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2006; # Springer-Verlag 2006 Editorial handling: P. G. Spry Summary Several magmatic-hydrothermal systems...Hessite, stā‚¬utzite, sylvanite, petzite, coloradoite, altaite, unnamed Ag-sulfotelluride, native tellurium and...2003; Cripple Creek, Colorado, Thompson et al., 1985; La Plata County, Colorado, Saunders and May, 1986;...1986; Boulder County, Colorado, Saunders, 1988, 1991; Golden Sunlight, Montana, Spry et al., 1997; Spry...intermediate sulfidation deposits in the Baguio District, Philippines (Cooke and McPhail, 2001), Golden
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p a c if ic COAST HIGHWAY Gold-Nevado Co. California Hours: Tues-Sar. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution Peter G. Embrey British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Richard C. Erd...Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan Whatā€™s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ...............................................
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hydrothermal ore deposits Andrew P. Fornadel, Paul G. Spry, Mojhgan A. Haghnegahdar, Edwin A. Schauble...hydrothermal ore deposits Andrew P. Fornadela,b, Paul G. Sprya*, Mojhgan A. Haghnegahdarc, Edwin A. Schaublec...Drive, Columbia, MD 21046, U.S.A. c University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Earth, Planetary, and...tellurates, respectively (e.g., Otto Mountain, California; Housely et 15 al., 2011), Te is commonly found...e., 150-400Ā° C) and minerals from the same ore district can 33 show disparate Ī“130/125Te values. Furthermore
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quartz vein-style AuMo deposit, Xiaoqinling gold district, China: Implications for phase relationships and...Dahu Au-Mo deposit, with an average grade of 6.8 g/t for 38 tons Au, and an average grade of 0.24% for...carbonate-barite. The telluride minerals are mainly altaite, tellurobismuthite, and tetradymite, and to a minor...2012; Jian et al., 2015) and the Xiaoqinling gold district (compiled from Li et al., 2011; Zhou et al., 2014)...vein-style Au deposit (Li et al., 2002), and monazite LA-ICP-MS U-Pb ages of 124 to 119 Ma for the Qinnan
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deposit, disĀ­ covered in 1985, is located in Chongli County, northern Hebei Province, about 160 km northĀ­ west...minĀ­ eralized veins have been discovered in the mine, but only five attain economic concentrations. These...FIG. 2. Simplified geological map of the Dongping mine. relationships: Stage I is white quartz-K-feldspar-pyrite...telluride minerals, including calaverite, tellurium, altaite, and tellurobismuthite, are developed in Stage...coarse-grained alteration is developed extenĀ­ sively in the mine. The second stage is bronzecolored and occurs along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Epithermal Au-Ag-Te Mineralization, Acupan, Baguio District, Philippines: Numerical Simulations of Mineral...inclusion and mineralogical studies of the Acupan gold mine, a large gold-silver-tellurium-bearing low-sulfidation...similar to those observed in shallow levels of the mine and in deep-level, late-stage barren vein fill....from adularia-carbonate vein assemblages in deep mine levels to sericite-bearing assemblages in shallow...from condensation of magmatically derived H2Te(g) and Te2(g) into deep-level chloride waters. The minor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401. **Present address: Placer...the start of production in 1990 and June 2001, the mine is a significant gold producer in the southwest...to 113 million tons (Mt) of ore at a grade of 3.5 g/t. The total contained gold at Porgera is thus ~20...high-grade domain referred to as zone VII, up to 1,000 g/t Au occurred in quartz-roscoelite breccias; this...5-2.5 g/t 2.5-3.5 g/t >10 g/t FIG. 2. Schematic north-south cross section through the Porgera mine, showing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
epithermal veinsystem formedat 0.65 Ma at Acupan,Baguio district, Philippines, duringa periodof highK magmatism...Baseline Road, alteration Suite 202, Boulder, Colorado 80303. Baguiodistrict(Aokiet al., 1993).In this...oneof several centralandsouthern sections of the mine(Fig. 2). It is the epithermal deposits in the B...workings hasrevealed thatalgoldveinsin theBaguio district areflanked to thoughepithermal veinstransect the..., 1993).Thisis similarto theagedetermined for district(Cooke,1990,1991).The primitiveearlyto middle Miocene
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