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Andorite from
Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Vatukoula Gold Field (Tavua Gold Field), Viti Levu, Fiji


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Andorite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AgPbSb3S6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Vatukoula Gold Field (Tavua Gold Field), Viti Levu, Fiji
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:389004
Long-form Identifier:1:3:389004:2
GUID (UUID V4):1212a92d-c4eb-4cf6-9fd5-9399b7de209d
References
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the low-sulfidation epithermal Emperor gold deposit, Vatukoula, Fiji D. W. Pals and P. G. Spry Department...The epithermal, low sulfidation Emperor gold telluride deposit in Fiji, hosted by Late Miocene-Early Pliocene...western flank of the Tavua Caldera. Gold is largely in the form of ā€˜ā€˜invisibleā€™ā€™ gold in arsenian pyrite...pyrite but 10 to 50% of gold is in the form of precious metal tellurides. Gold mineralization occurs in steeply...where the flatmake intersects steep structures. Gold-rich tellurides preceded the formation of silver-rich
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from hundreds of localities worldwide, and unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more...to be the third metal widely utilized by humans (gold and copper were the first). The earliest known siIver...The Iliad. In ancient times silver was rarer than gold. This probably reflects the fact that the earliest...in the ancient world, was considerably rarer than gold. Chlorargyrite appears to have been the fvst silver...King Solomon is said to have received shipments of gold and silver from ā€œTharshish and the Isles,ā€ thought
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2005 Invisible Gold from the Hishikari Epithermal Gold Deposit, Japan: Implication for Gold Distribution...presence of invisible gold was confirmed in arsenian pyrite from the Hishikari epithermal gold deposit, Kagoshima...analyses. The relative concentration of invisible gold may be positively correlated with As contents (0...having higher As contents accompanied by invisible gold occur dominantly in the middle stage of fine-adularia-quartz...Keywords: invisible gold, arsenian pyrite, Au, As, correlation, EPMA, SIMS epithermal gold deposit, located
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crystal cluster on matrix, 6 cm tall, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Sandor Fuss collection (2004)...Vug,ā€ discovered on the 12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see ā€œThe...kaolinite; sacked and shipped it yielded up to $16,000 in gold per ton (at 1914 prices). In ā€œthe cave of sparkling...walls, interspersed with thumbnail-size leaves of gold. In one month 1,400 sacks of crystals and flakes...carefully scraped from the walls, bringing $378,000 in gold values from the (ouch) smelter. One specimen seen
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FRO NT COVER: Richard W . Thomssen Gold from the St. Josefs mine, Verespatak, Romania (left) Associate...(top); and silver Eric Offermann from the Anton mine, Wieden, West Germany. Harold & Erica Van Pelt...private collections, provide locations o f local mine dumps, and may even send you off with a letter o...Schemnitz) is very old. Celtic tribes first worked the gold, silver, lead, copper and zinc orebodies which surfaced...rebuilding o f the town. It also ordered that all gold and silver be sold to the Erarā€™s mint-office in
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their mineralogy, particularly when working in the field. The industrial demand for minerals continues to...in the pools that formed. The Star of the Congo mine near Lubumbashi, in particular, (famous among mineralogists...rosette of deep yellow shabaite from the Kamoto East mine. This beautiful matrix specimen was pictured in...favorite locality, the mineralogically complex Kipushi mine. He wrote ā€œLa collection des . . . chantillons minĆ©ralogiques...Katanga minerals. Joseph also wrote ā€œThe Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaireā€ (with coauthors G. Gauthier and V
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1umankind since prehistoric times such as quartz 1nd gold, but also ~minerals first described quite :ecently...Crystals up to 140mm (5Ā½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...electronics, electrical engineering, ingredient in gold alloys. 9 Silver Ag CUBIC ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ Properties: C...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...electronics. Gold, 48 mm, El Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US
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difficulty. Fortunately, after theĀ· Symposium and the field excursions had been completed and the financial...Chairnian, Eastern Field Excursions ............ R. A. Laurence Chairman, Western Field Excursions .. ....Mineralization, Petrogenesis,and Tectonic Evolution of Fiji ........ .. .... ... ... .. ...... .. ........ ... B., Epithern1al Au-Ag Mineralization, Maratoto Mine, New Zealand: Stable Isotopes and Fluid Inclusions...Facies Control of Stratiform Ore at the Magmont Mine, Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri .. ........
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humankind since prehistoric times such as quartz and gold, but also minerals first described quite recently...Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...electronics, electrical engineering, ingredient in gold alloys. f I Silver Ag CUBIC ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ Properties:...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...electronics. Gold, 411 mm. El Dorado, California. U.S.A. Gold Au CUBIC ā€¢ ā€¢ Properties: C gold-yellow;
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bright metallic luster and opaqueness of metals. Gold and copper absorb and re-emit orange to red colors...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana Mā€™Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, JosĆ© Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
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COLLECTIONS- OF RUSSIA ļæ½-==--- ---===--===--====--==-_,. Mine ral o g i c al Al m a nac v o lum e 2/2000 FOURTEEN...epoch were named after amateur mineralogists: andorite, vonsenite, heulandite, seligmannite, yedlinite...organizes lecture of professional mineralogists, field work. and educationĀ­ al work hops. The re peered...es on mineralogy, practical lessons, collective field t rips over qua rrie and o u t Ā­ crops i n the vicinity...Yod in koye sulfur deposit, at the M ikhailovsk mine of the K u rsk Magnetic A nomaly . and other localities
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of Penzance. In 1906 he was awarded the Bolitho gold medal by the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall...the several minerals described by him as new, andorite, semseyit% and ]orandite have stood the test of...investigati()lls. Krem~erite, the rare tellurlde of gold and silver, bears his name. LACH.~A~'N (Richard)...geology when in the summer of 1889 he acted as field assistant under J. P. Iddings oil the U . S . Geological...December 3, 1918. During the war he served in a field hospital and latel' as geologist. He was a promising
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chequered history. During the Austrian regime, the emperor Josef II acquired some of the cabinets for the...Wyartite, Vandenbrandeite, Becquerelite Uraninite, gold Veszelyite Scorzalite Shinkolobwe, Shaba, Za'ire...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining...worn by mine officials of Saxony on ceremonial occasions. A special attraction is a model mine, 20m below...N. from the main railway station, landmark is a mine headframe. Tues.- Fri. 8.30-17.30 hrs.; Sat.- Sun
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b} (of Chesnokov) calcium iron oxide from burning mine dump Acid Aluminium Phosphate = (of Marchand) inadequately...Chesnokov) calcium chloro-oxy-silicate from burning mine dump Afanerita, Afonesa, Afanesite, Afanezit, Afonite...Chesnokov) calcium chlorosilicate from a burning mine dump Albriltonite = an artificial hydrated cobalt...(of Jusli) m ixture of Chlorargyrite and Calcite? [Mine d'Argent Alkaline] Alkalidavyn, Alkalidavyne =...Stone = Aluminite Alliage d'Or et Rhodium = rhodian Gold Alling ite = fossilized tree resin [Retinile] Allite
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from black smokers of the Rainbow hydrothermal field (MidAtlantic Ridge), vanadium hematite associated...nickelinebreithauptite mineral series from the Norilsk ore field. Features of bismuth mineralization of the Djimidon...revealed. The results of study of metacolloidal gold and delhayelite crystals are published. In the Ā«Mineralogical...from Black Smokers of the Rainbow Hydrothermal Field (MidAtlantic Ridge, 36Ā°14'N) . . . . . . . . ....Metamorphogenichydrothermal Veins of the Norilsk Ore Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jixiang Sui Geochemistry of Tourmaline from the Laodou Gold Deposit in the West Qinling Orogen, Central China:...Polufuntikova and Lyudmila Yu. Kryuchkova Disseminated Goldā€“Sulļ¬de Mineralization in Metasomatites of the Khangalas...Kardashevskaia Types of Tellurium Mineralization of Gold Deposits of the Aldan Shield (Southern Yakutia,...Bukhanova, Galina A. Palyanova and Valery M. Chubarov Gold Mineralization at the Maletoyvayam Deposit (Koryak...Borovikov, Nikolay Karmanov and Sergei Kuznetsov Native Gold in the Chudnoe Au-Pd-REE Deposit (Subpolar Urals
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crown of Saint Wenceslas, made for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, featured a large red ā€œrubyā€. This stone...identified, more tourmaline associations were found. Gold-bearing tourmalineā€“quartz veins were discovered...for altered dioritic porphyries associated with a gold deposit (Bačƭk et al. 2015). 4.3. Isotope geochemistry...altered diorite porphyry from the Biely Vrch porphyry gold deposit (Slovakia). Canad Mineral 53: 673ā€“691 Badalov...(2000) Complexly zoned fibrous tourmaline, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil: a record of evolving magmatic
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pleased about the growing interest in my special field of study. I t was my idea to start the work for...were collected by the writer himself during his field trips and journeys. The Locality Index has again...form of this book will also win new friends in the field of ore-microscopy. A prerequisite is always t h...accomplished, of possible means by which problems in this field are to be handled, and of some aids to the work...Quartz alone in just one group of ore deposits (the gold-quartz deposits), and he will not expect t h a t
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5 Cover 1. Hambeigite. Ranglad 'skoye pegmatite field, E. Pamirs. 8x 4 cm. Specimen:A.M. Skrigitil'. Photo:...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...mapping and prospecting works were conducted here for gold, diamonds, platinum, phlogopite mica, and rare and...outstanding scientist, a discoverer of the Kolyma gold-bearing region, started his labour and scientific...relation of primary gold deposits to Post-Jurassic intrusions and discovered a gold deposit. This alone
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by R. Z. Kothavala Rare minerals of the Kombat mine, Namibia ................................ 421 by....439 by S. Petrussenko Minerals of the Beltana mine, Puttapa, South A ustralia 449 by P. Elliot Columns...sees instead a rare opportunity to indulge in a field where the sciences, history and the humanities meet...ichigan 49930 (906) 482-9560 Michigan native copper; mine owner; wholesale, retail 411 Museum o f Geological...Tu-Sun. Specialties: Calif. & w orldwide minerals, gold, gem crystals, colored gemstones Support organization:
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ecord Articles Rare sulfosalts from the Van Silver mine, British C olum bia...............................Balacko Famous mineral localities: The Brownley Hill mine, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England....................COVER: ATACAMITE in GYPSUM, 6.8 cm, from the Lily mine, lea, Peru. Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo...British Columbia the Silver Tunnel o f the Van Silver mine has produced hundreds o f rare and beautiful crystal...were first observed in Canada at the Van Silver mine, and it is the second reported occurrence in Canada
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Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous...ilmenite crystals as described here for the Dodo mine. In general, ilmenite crystals from the Subpolar
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museums, universities, commercial establishments, and field collections by officers of the Geological Survey...Feldspar Group ALGODONITE Cu3 As Loe.: Ref.: Ahmeek Mine, Michigan, U . S . A. A.S . T.M., No. 2 - 1266.... p. 163. ANDESINE - - See Plagioclase Group ANDORITE Pb Ag Sb3 S6 Loe.: Ref.: Oruro, Bolivia. Nuffield...AUROSTIBITE AuSb 2 Loe.: Ref.: Giant Yellowknife Mine, Yellowknife, N. W. T., Canada. Graham, A.R. and...AZURITE Cu3 (OH)2 (C03)2 Loe.: Ref.: Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee,Arizona, U.S.A . de Assuncao, Carlos Torre
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[ [ 23 I 1992 [ 65-128 65-136 65-128 1-96 GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEEā€¢] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ...ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Alabama (by H. Barwood & B. Hajek) 9:388391 Notable gold occurrences of Georgia and Alabama (by R. B. Cook
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from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho (see vol. 13, no. 5) and wulfenite from the 79 mine, Arizona (see vol....of bad experiences with collectors. Consequently field collecting opĀ­ portunities for the common collector...Sophisticated Field Collectors In comparison with earlier decades, modern mineralogical field collectors...always been a few highly skilled and sophisticated field collectors. But today there is a small army of such...for study. It is critically important that all field collectors carry personal acĀ­ cidental injury, disability
 
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