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Dolomite from
Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:283881
Long-form Identifier:1:3:283881:6
GUID (UUID V4):b83587ae-4d18-475b-9515-8923df053755
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
6.6km (4.1 miles) Chimney Creek Mine (Chimney Prospect), Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
7.5km (4.6 miles) Summer Camp pit, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
33.8km (21.0 miles) Kramer-Silver King mine, Golconda Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
35.0km (21.8 miles) Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
54.3km (33.8 miles) Marigold mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
64.2km (39.9 miles) Rossi Mine (Sage Hen group), Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
70.4km (43.8 miles) Meikle Mine, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
71.4km (44.4 miles) Purple Vein prospect, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
71.4km (44.4 miles) Betze-Post pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
78.5km (48.8 miles) Leeville mine (West Leeville orebody; Four Corners orebody; Turf orebody), Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfidation and Gold Deposition, Twin Creeks Carlin-Type Deposit, Nevada JOHN FORTUNA,* STEPHEN E. KESLER...deposition of gold in the Megapit area of the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. Sedimentary rocks in and...Megapit contain ferroan dolomite, largely as overgrowths on iron-poor dolomite. Iron to form these overgrowths...sericite, which released iron to form ferroan dolomite in the sedimentary rocks. Comparisons show that...potassium. These results suggest that ferroan dolomite in sedimentary rocks is not solely a product of
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Igneous and Sedimentary Rock Sources in Northern Nevada: Implications for Fluid and Metal Sources* R. M...J. S. CLINE, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89104 C. MARK FANNING, Research...Turquoise Ridge Carlin-type gold deposits (Osgood Mountains) require contribution from two different Pb...calcareous rocks around the Carlin trend in northeast Nevada. Petrologically similar rocks host the Getchell...the Carlin trend and from the Jerritt Canyon mining district have Pb isotope characteristics similar to
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Cretaceous and Eocene Alteration, Twin Creeks Carlin-Type Deposit, Nevada C. M. HALL, STEPHEN E. KESLER,†...for adularia, illite, and muscovite from the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. All illite samples were...with previous measurements on adularia from Twin Creeks, but our Cretaceous dates are considerably older...previous studies of the nearby Getchell district, particularly the Osgood stock, which has a date of 98 to 92...92 Ma. Our results suggest that the Osgood stock is part of a more protracted Cretaceous igneous-hydrothermal
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Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, North-Central Nevada JEAN S. CLINE† University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway...Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 Abstract Pregold mineralization at the Getchell Carlin-type...galkhaite at Getchell and adularia at the nearby Twin Creeks mine, respectively, most closely approximate the...gold production is supplied by the state of Nevada (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1999), and most...from more than 100 Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada. In spite of this activity, there is no widely
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
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Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource
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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
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MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA... MS 176, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557-0047 CONTENTS Introduction........................................ Northern Nevada Rift ............................................assessment of BLMadministered lands in northwest Nevada and northeast California. The project area is composed...(RAs), totalling 13.5 million acres, in northwest Nevada and northeast California (figs. 1, 2). The SonomaGerlach
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Special Issue Devoted to Gold Deposits in Northern Nevada: Part 2. Carlin-Type Deposits Preface ALBERT H...Economic Geology devoted to gold deposits in northern Nevada. Readers interested in a general overview of these...important to the genesis of gold deposits in northern Nevada and five papers that present detailed studies of...crust below these mineral belts (Howard, 2003), district- to deposit-scale stream sediment and lithogeochemical...al., 2003), and stratigraphy and structure of a district located along a northeast-striking lineament (Peters
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Carlin-type Deposits on the Getchell Trend, Nevada John A. Groff PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(17)30626-1...in Carlin-type Deposits on the Getchell Trend, Nevada, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10...Mineralization in Carlintype Deposits on the Getchell Trend, Nevada John A. Groff Department of Earth and Environmental...Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 Email:...Eocene gold mineralization at the Getchell and Twin Creeks deposits is indicated by cogenetic liquid-rich
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of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data—Implications... Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA ABSTRACT ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...imagery over a 389 km × 387 km area in northern Nevada (38.5°–42°N, 114°–118.5°W) was analyzed to evaluate...cool, and generally smaller amounts of calcite or dolomite by other mechanisms. To identify and map quartz...carbonate mapping identified thick sequences of dolomite, limestone, and marble, as well as small hot spring
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Roleof Sulfidation and Deearbonation at Twin Creeks, Nevada DAVIDP. STENGER, •' STEPHEN E. KESLER, •...databases thatwereprepared by minestaff. Countryrocksat Twin CreeksincludeOrdovician-age interlayered calcareous...our understanding of the geology and Mining Company Twin Creeks mine field tripguide,October, mineralogy...the Twin CreeksMine tionswithinformation fromtwolargegeochemical databases The Twin Creeks mine is located...TwinCreeksCarlin-type the Osgood Mountains justwestof the Pinson,Preble,and deposit nearWinnemucca, Nevada(Fig.1). Getchell
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J. Scovil photo. In this issue also: Twin Creeks mine, USA Scott KLEINE, Bryan K. LEES & Malcolm SOUTHWOOD...Paul Cragan (USA) Malcolm Southwood (Australia) Associated Photographer: Jeff Scovil (USA) Contact: s...Spectacular orpiment specimen from Cut 62 in Twin Creeks mine, Nevada, USA; 9.6 cm high. Azurite Corporation specimen...well-crystallised orpiment at the Twin Creeks mine in Northern Nevada, USA, and it's subsequent extraction...corporations; one of them the mining company that owns and operates the mine, and the other a company that
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
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Figure 1. Location map for the MeiMe mine and the Murray mine. Prepared by William B. Besse. Downloaded...golden barite from the Meikle mine and the stibnite from the Murray mine are among the best of their species...encounter crystallized mineral specimens while mining for ore usually treat the non-ore asset mineral...and AngloGold Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture, while mining underground for gold, have encountered voids with...crystallized barite, calcite (Meikle mine), and stibnite (Murray mine). Although not considered an asset
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Major Mines of Nevada 2016 Mineral Industries in Nevada’s Economy NEVADA COMMISSION ON MINERAL RESOURCES...active mines in Nevada and maintains the State’s mine registry. Information concerning mining operations and...activities on both public and private lands in Nevada. Staff also monitors production of oil, gas, and...resources to ensure proper management and conservation. Nevada is a member of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact...Compact Commission. The Division’s abandoned mine lands program provides for public safety by identifying
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOLD METALLOGENY OF NORTHERN NEVADA Richard M. Tosdal editor Open-File Report 98-338-6...Contributions to the gold metallogeny of northern Nevada Preface R.M. Tbsdfl/.............................Regional crustal structure beneath the Carlin Trend, Nevada, based on deep electrical geophysical measurements...and its relation to gold belts in north-central Nevada: Overview and progress report V.J.S. Grawc/i.....autochthonous rocks that host gold along the Carlin trend, Nevada Augustus K. Armstrong, Ted G. Theodore, Robert
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...G. R. Rossman Orpiment from the Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt County, N e v a d a ........................ 311 by B. K. Lees The Purple Passion mine, Yavapai County, A rizona.................. 323 by E. Davis...Stanislaus County, C alifornia 333 by G. E. Dunning Brookite from Hale Creek, Trinity County, California...Brookite and anatase from near Georgetown, El Dorado County, C alifornia..................................
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MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources (for example, the Humboldt River drainage...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
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Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard... near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen...SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold at the Betze-Post Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, United States Jared D. Lubben,1,* Jean S. Cline...University 2 Mineral of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 Deposit...is one of several major trends in northeastern Nevada that contain more than a hundred Carlin-type deposits...(74.1 Moz; Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 2010), demonstrating that northeastern Nevada forms the...0361-0128/12/4059/1351-35 and Australia in 2009 (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 2010). Significant
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Florida] at 23:45 31 December 2014 Realgar Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Hunan Province, China T here has been...rocks and has been identified as a product of coal-mine fires. Commonly associated minerals include orpiment...mines at Paris, Oxford County, Maine, and the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton County, New Hampshire. It occurred...jordanite in zinc ores mined at Balmat, Edwards County, New York (Jensen 1978). It was a rare mineral...mineral in zinc ores at Sterling Hill, Sussex County (Palache 1941) and was an unusual mineral occurring in
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alteration: Screamer zone, Betze-Post deposit, Nevada Received: 1 July 2001 / Accepted: 24 January 2002...the same formation and underlain by the Roberts Mountains Formation, both of which contain much smaller...Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA E-mail: Skesler@umich.edu P.B. Zohar Barrick Goldstrike...Elko, NV 89803, USA J.L. Borhauer SNC Lavalin America, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, NV 8903, USA horizontal... Keywords Betze-Post deposit Æ Carlin Æ Gold Æ Nevada Introduction The relation between gold grade and
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which is hosted by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and organized by the New Mexico...San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities
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Connecticut] at 04:22 12 October 2014 Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada he general association of arsenic...United States. such ;IS Nev;ida’s wellknown Getchell mine, have produced good arsenic sullide specimens for...were encountered at the %in Creeks gold mine in Huinholdt Coonty, Nevada. Fortunately for collectors...everywhere, the mine management has entered into an agrcenient with ;I commercial specimen-mining company. Collector’s...fumaroles. It has also been identified as a product of mine fires. Commonly associated minerals include stibnite
 
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