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Bismuthinite from
Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismuthinite
Formula:Bi2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuthinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:215633
Long-form Identifier:1:3:215633:0
GUID (UUID V4):a36f5d0d-b2cf-449a-abe7-cb400bce9974
Nearest other occurrences of Bismuthinite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Jumbo Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Combination Mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Jumbo Extension mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Goldfield Consolidated Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Mushette lease, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Laguna Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) January mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Goldfield Mine, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Rogers Syndicate Mine (Rustler No. 2 Mine; Rogers Syndicate lease; Red Hills shaft), Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Florence Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Diffraction Pattern: Mohawk mine, Goldfield district, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA. 2.974 (100), 1.821 (32)...24.84 100.00 (1) Mohawk mine, Goldfield mining district, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA; average electron...calaverite, bismuthinite, bohdanowiczite, a Ag-Bi-(S,Se) phase (cotype). Distribution: From the Mohawk mine...mine, Goldfield mining district, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA. Name: Prefix, stibio, identifies the analog
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
species from the Mohawk mine, Goldfield mining district, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA. It occurs as metallic...material) and with quartz, pyrite, calaverite, bismuthinite, bohdanowiczite, and the Ag–Bi–(S,Se) phase... tellurium, crystal structure, Goldfield mining district, Nevada, USA (Received 3 November 2021; accepted...(Cu4□2)Cu6Te4S13; its type locality is the Mohawk mine, Goldfield, Nevada, USA. In fact, chemical data available...specimens classified as goldfieldite from the Mohawk mine, the phase corresponding to the end-member Cu12(Sb2Te2)S13
Report (issue)
PAPER 66 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOLDFIELD, NEVADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME ASSISTED IN THE..._____ . ___________________ . _. Situation of the district.-~ ............... _..... ______ .. ________________________...______ ..... __ ........... _·_..... History of mining ....................... ............ . __ .. _.......... ............... . Correlation of the Goldfield rocks with those of the surrounding region_ .... . . . . . . . CHAPTER X.-MiJ?-eralogy of the district ................... .............. r • • • • •
Report (issue)
10.263–10.38 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Goldfield, Nevada, USA. (ICDD 29-531). 2.97 (100), 1.819 (60)...(Te3.23 As1.13 Sb0.03 )Σ=4.39 S12.75 . (2) Goldfield, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds to...As1.13 Sb0.93 )Σ=3.87 S13.84 . (3) Tramway mine, Montana, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds to Cu11...kuramite, bismuthinite, pyrite, sphalerite. Distribution: In the USA, in Nevada, from Goldfield, Esmeralda...Esmeralda Co., in the Mohawk [TL] and Claremont mines; at the Tramway mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...October 2014 deposits), 1900-1920 (Tonopah and Goldfield), and 1980 to the present (Carlintype deposits...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE RICH ORES OF GOLDFIELD, C. F. TOLMAN NEVADA. • A•D J. W. AMBROSE. INTRODUCTION RICH gold and..."bonanza"goldoresnoneare moreinteresting than thosefrom Goldfield,Nevada. They are extraordinarily richin freegold...Ransome,F. L.: The Geologyand Ore Depositsof Goldfield,Nevada. U.S. Geol. Surv., Prof. Paper 66, •9o9. 255...metacolloidaltextureswere recognized. THE RICH ORES OF GOLDFIELD, NEV./ID./I. 257 ALUNITE AND THE THEORY OF...but possibly before it had entirely cooled,the district and part of the surrounding region was subjectedto
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...fissure fillings, i.e., deposits in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon...ore is associated with some veins in the Sierra Nevada and was locally worked with the vein deposits (Clark...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills (Knopf, 1929). Newhouse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY AND ORE-DEPOSITS DISTRICT, OF THE GOLDFIELD NEVADA2 F. L. RANSOME. PART II. MINES AND...divisions,which may be cohvenientlydesignatedthe "Goldfield" and "Diamondfield" groups. Of these the first... of the output of the district and includessuch well-known mines as the Mohawk, Combination, Florence...in rhyolite; a very importantgroup northeastof Goldfield,which is mainly in dacite, although latite is...found in the deeperlevels, and includesthe Red Top, Mohawk, Combination,January and Jumbo minesof the Gol
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ASSOCIATION THE OF GOLDFIELD ALUNITE DISTRICT, WITH GOLD IN NEVADA. • FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME...on Calico Peak near Rico,4 in the NationaI Belle Mine near Silverton, 5 and at CrippleCreek,ø all in Colo•...TresCerritos, Ma[iposa County,California. • Mr. W. Lindgren2 found alunite in the Ryerson mine near Morenci,...oxidized ore, and, like the kaolinite of that district,is probablySecondary with referenceto the original...in geneticrelationwith ore-veins." In the Goldfield district alunite is so abundant and so gener- ally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphicrocks which accompanies this paper, severalin• Mining engineerand geologist,IO4 John Street, New York...pegmatiteand Lindgren2 a vein. In the early days of mining geology, the great distanceto which impregnationand...concentrates. The siliceousores of the Ragged Top District in the Black Hills carryingfrom $•oo to $200 in...the state of Colorado, Rickard says: "Profitable mining for gold and silver has been performedin formationsbelongingto...known in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado,Idaho, Unga Island, Unalaska, Japan
Report (issue)
Elen1ents Near Ore Bodies in the Oxidized Zone at Goldfield, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL SPOkANE~...at Goldfield, Nevada By R. P. ASHLEY and]. P. ALBE~S GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE GOLDFIELD MINING...MINING .DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 843-A An evaluation of nine elements...prospecting in the hydrothermally altered area at Goldfield ·.': '• !.'· UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTIN·G...zone at Goldfield, Nevada. (Geology and geochemistry of the Goldfield Mining District, Nevada) (Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrenceshave been briefly described and illustrated in Mining and Scientific Press, January 26 and June 8, x9o7...and Kemp). Yavapai C•mnty,Arizona (Kemp). Goldfield,Nevada(with aluniteandquartz;Ransome, S.). Calif...Mothe.rLodesystem, California(calcite,S.). Shasta County, California (Kemp). One occurrencein Black Hills...HancockCounty,Maine (calcite and quartz,Kemp). Yale District, British C,elumbia(Kemp). Jalisco, Mexico (Kemp)...writer. W. 24 J. SHARWOOD. Minas Geraes district, Brazil (Henwood). Clogau and St. David's gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
g{x Spring Creek Area Last Chance Mining District Plumas County, California Gail E. Dunning 773 Durshire...1905 and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities of copper and...minerals are recorded in the literature from Plumas County. Smith (1970) recorded trace amounts of the element...Map showing the location of the Last Chance Mining District. The results of our study indicate that a...El Dorado mine collapsed adit. LOCATION The copper mines of the Last Chance mining district are located
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STUDIES OF THE EPITHERMAL ß DEPOSITS AT GOLDFIELD, H. NEVADA. D. B. WILSON. ABSTRACT. Approximately...material and wallrock from the ore depositsof Goldfield, Nevada, were quantitatively analyzed by means of...wallrock sample from a vein. Vertical zoning at Goldfield is evident with respectto 'tin, less definite...rarer elements in veins and rocks. In the Goldfield district the ore is char- acteristicallydistributedin...centactuallypresentfor one EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS AT GOLDFIELD, NEVADA. 39 elementwhile the sameratio for anotherelementmay
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JamesA. Noblefor the resultsof yearsof work in the mine and laboratory. Noble'sresultsin generalagree with...in magnetite. In someof the outlyingparts of the mine there is no closerelationbetweengold and arsenopyrite...associations of native gold. In the Bridge River district Cairnesx4 found free gold commonwith acicularcrystalsof...a studyof assaysof ore from theGeorgeGold-Copper Mine of Stewart,BritishColumbia, showsthat gold is associated...amountof arsenopyrite in the ore. In someareasof the mine arsenopyrite carriesmore gold than in others,but
Journal (issue)
Lapidary and Minerals ............... 4 Legendary Goldfield—Short but Sweet! ............................... 15 Manganese Nodules and the CIA’s Deep Ocean Mining Venture ....................... 16 Drop of Water...I can remember, my family has always had a gold mine claim. But during the Second World War, all gold...silver had been mined, but it was not like other mining areas such as Virginia City which followed a vein...know where to dig next. They mentioned that other mining had occurred there many years ago, such as for
Report (volume)
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...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................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)
_____ ________ 44 Miscellaneous occurrences in Nevada __ __ ______ 48 Tres Cerritos, Cal______________________________...__ 49 Cl if ton-Mo reuci district, Ariz__________ ,______ 50 Beaver County, Utah __ _____ _ ______ 50...about 7 miles due southwest of Marysvale, Piute County, Utah. It is located in and near sec. 16, T. 28...S., R. 4 W., and so far as known is covered by mining-claim locations. Marysvale is the present terminus...control of the Florence Mining & Milling Co., lessee of the Utah Gold Mountain Mining Co., including the so-called
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an alteration product of ehalcopyrite in the Alma mine, Leona Heights, Alameda Co., California. Named after...after Mr. G. Chalmers, the super, intendent of the mine. C hocolate-stone. See lacroisite. Chromocyclite...F%Os . 4H~O. Found in earthy limonite in Esmeralda Co., Nevada. l~erropallidite. R. Scharizer, Zeits. Kryst...orthorhombic crystals, associated with chalcopyrite, bismuthinite, &c., at Ringville, Tasmania. Described as a...pinkishbrown colour and metallic lustre, from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw Co., 3~ichigan. Analyses agree approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
obtained when S is stendardized on tetrahedrite, bismuthinite or stibnite. The prefened procedure for calculating...le soufre s'effectue sur la t6tra6drite, la bismuthinite ou la stibnite. Le protocole recommand6 pour...Ransome et al. (1909) n ores from the Mohawk mine at Goldfiel4 Nevada. Thompson (1946) summarizedthe controversy... tetrahedrile + calaverite, or famatinite + bismuthinite + calaverite or sylvanite), even if it appeared...goldfieldite specimen from the Claremont mine at Goldfield, he obtained an X-ray pattem analogous to
 
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