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Iridium from
Placer deposits, Similkameen River, Princeton, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Iridium
Formula:(Ir,Os,Ru)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Iridium data
Locality Data:Click here to view Placer deposits, Similkameen River, Princeton, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:489952
Long-form Identifier:1:3:489952:5
GUID (UUID V4):3f4d508f-3631-49f2-8276-3c5ae0887e13
Nearest other occurrences of Iridium
2.2km (1.4 miles) Placer Deposits, Tulameen River, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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elements that includes platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium, and ruthenium; the platinum-group of minerals;...together, and alloys of several of them (osmium and iridium, for example) as major components in a single specimen...consists of grains or nuggets derived from placer deposits in which gold was the primary commodity. Despite...the platinum-group consists of only the species iridium, palladium, platinum, and rhodium. Platinum is...ultramafic magmas. Economic platinum deposits include lodes of the Sudbury (Canada) type and disseminated or rarely
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PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS FROM FIVE PLACER DEPOSITS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA ANDREI Y. BARKOV§ AND MICHAEL...London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada GRAHAM T. NIXON¶ AND VICTOR M. LEVSON British Columbia Geological Survey,...9320, Stn. Prov. Govt., Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9N3, Canada ABSTRACT Platinum-group minerals...and platinum-group-element (PGE) placer deposits in British Columbia have been analyzed using the electron-microprobe...electron-microprobe (EMP). The PGM placer grains (n = 70, 0.1–1.5 mm in size) principally comprise various
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µm-thick layer on the outermost surface of the placer gold. A prismatic face may be formed by {001} and...forms through the weathering of mercury-bearing placer gold by involvement of self-electrorefining. This...Keywords: aurihydrargyrumite; Au6 Hg5 phase; gold; placer; self-electrorefining; Ehime; Japan 1. Introduction...identification have been reported from the placer deposit from the Palakharya River, Bulgaria [3,4]. They are polymineral...also found in Pleistocene alluvial deposits along the Snake River near Blackfoot, Idaho [6]. The X-ray
Report (issue)
' ' • ' THE l\1INERAL .INDU'STRY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND • ' • " • • I • ,, • • •...RESOURCES BUREAU THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF . THE BRITISH ·. EMPIRE AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES . . • . • ...Africa .. •· ••• . . ·• • •• ••• • •• 21 Canada ... •• • •• • ••• ••• • •• ••• ••• •• •...inmn n1etaJs '' include pla:t int1m, pa1ladium, iridium, rhodium, ruthenium and osmium, which are usually...e en ·11·5 and 12·26, while those of platinum, iridium and osmium range from abot1t 21·5 to 22·48. All
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depaltment ol Energy, Mines and Resources,Ottawa, Canada, KlA OGI CLIVE E. FEATHER Anglo American ResearchLaboratories...natural samples from the Tulameen and Similkameen rivers, British Columbia, from Witwatersrand gold mines 1ocated...There are also some magnetic Samplesfrom placer and primary deposits,as transformations. but none of these...solution exists beMines, whereas those from British Columbia tween Pt and Fe (shown as y in Hansen & Anand...and the odds of finding a site occupied by an iridium, palladiurn, and nickel metals ,and syn- Fe atom
Report (issue)
summary report on the geology of the platinum deposits of the world, with a discussion of the chemistry...compounds of platinum metals ______ _ Platinum deposits _______________________________ ---Distribution...__________ _ Placers-----------------------------------Canada---------------------------------------Sources and..._______________________ ~ Discovery and present mining _______ _ General geology __ -----------------Intrusive...west Territories ______________________ _ British Columbia __________________________ _ Lodes-------
Book (volume)
Field Guide to GOLD, GEMSTONE & MINERAL SITES ot British Columbja “ee 7 Oat | I; Se Rees ce « to...Field Guide to GOLD, GEMSTONE & MINERAL SITES of British Columbjz Volume 2 Sites Within A Day’s Drive of...1947— Gold, gemstone and mineral sites of British Columbia Includes bibliographical references and index...resources — British Columbia — Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Prospecting — British Columbia. I. Title. II... Title, Gold, gemstone & mineral sites of British Columbia. TN27B9H82 1997 553.4’09711 ©C96-910287-9
Journal (issue)
Explor. Mining Geol., Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 73-167, 1996 Copyright © 1996 Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy...Platinum-group Mineral (PGM) Placer Deposits of the World LOUIS J. CABRI Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy...Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0G1 DONALD C. HARRIS* Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A0E8 THOROLF W. W EISER Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources...Crescent, Nepean, Ontario, Canada, K2G fX l Panning for platinum, Tapitangan River, Banggi Island, North
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514 Queen Elizabeth Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 3N4, Canada; lcabri@sympatico.ca Correspondence: ore-minerals@mail...various geological settings and types of deposits, both lode and placer occurrences. They included representatives...ophiolitic chromitites, and numerous placers from Canada, USA, Russia, and other localities worldwide. Pt–Fe...statistical observations is much greater for the placer occurrences, since they represent the end-product...contrast to the lode deposits, the distribution of Ir, Rh, and Pd is fairly chaotic in placer Pt–Fe grains.
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Unnamed Pt(Cu0.67Sn0.33) from the Bolshoy Khailyk River, Western Sayans, Russia, and a Review of Related...CA 94720-8229, USA; ntamura@lbl.gov Institute of Mining, Geology and Geotechnology, Siberian Federal University...Krasnoyarsk 660025, Russia; g.shvedov@mail.ru Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California...Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8, Canada; robert.martin@mcgill.ca Correspondence: ore-minerals@mail...Unnamed Pt(Cu0.67 Sn0.33 ) from the Bolshoy Khailyk River, Western Sayans, Russia, and a Review of Related
Report (edition)
. Reports on the Mineral Industry of the . . British Empire and Foreign Countries. . ,. PLATINU •...the resou1'ces of 1·aw material throughout the British Empire. Public Exhibition Galleries.- The galleries...and industries of the various countries of the British Empire overseas are shown in the Cinema daily....OF THE PLATINUM METALS MonE OF OccuRREN0E • • MINING AND CONCENTRATION l\t!ETAT,I,URGY • • • • •...HALL-MARKING PLATlNUM METALS rn •• •• • 34 36 THE BRITISH EJ\1:PmE: United Kingdom . . .. • • Kenya Colony
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of platinum-group minerals in placer deposits of British Columbia, Canada A. Y. Barkov1, R. F. Martin1...Montreal, Canada Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 3 B.C...Mines and Petroleum Resources, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 2 Received November 3, 2005; revised...platinumgroup minerals (PGM; 0.1–1 mm in size) from 11 placer samples collected from Holocene fluvial placers...paleochannel placers at various localities in British Columbia. These grains principally comprise Pt-Fe-(Cu)
Report (volume)
3:2049-A 1. Platinum ores United States. 2. Placer deposits United States. 3. Sedimentary basins United...of environments favorable for the occurrence of deposits within the United States that may contain PGE...environments for the occurrence of PGE-bearing deposits (Zientek and others, 1988). This series of publications...illustrate those environments on a series of maps, deposits and occurrences that are known to have concentrated...concentrated PGE were identified. These include deposits known to have produced PGE, either as the principal
Report (volume)
ores-Alaska-Goodnews Bay Region (Bay). 3. Placer deposits-Alaska-Goodnews Bay Region (Bay). 4. Magne...(PGE) occur in ferromagnetic concentrates from placer deposits in the Goodnews Bay district, Alaska, and analyses...(1966), through geochemical means, of economic deposits of disseminated micrometer-sized gold at Cortez...magnetite would readily accumulate in alluvial deposits with other heavy minerals. Even in rocks where...and through the cooperation of the Goodnews Bay Mining Company, Mertie sent to the writers two suites
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT © 2002 CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY...de Maisonneuve Boulevard West Montréal, Québec, Canada H3Z 3B8 ISBN 1-894475-27-5 Papers in this volume...Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, Special Volume 54, p. 483-506. PRINTED IN CANADA by Marc Veilleux...price rise led to a frenzy of exploration for PGE deposits all over the world, especially for Pd-rich mineralization...in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or so years, colleagues
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which are characteristic only of PGE–chromite deposits of the Uralian–Alaskan and Aldanian types. Keywords:...sulfide–chromite (Bushveld and analogues) and chromite deposits (mafic-ultramafic complexes of Uralian–Alaskan...Aldanian types). The formation of PGE-bearing sulfide deposits in S-saturated magmas can be explained by a high...are three main hypotheses for the genesis of PGM deposits: crystal fractionation, liquid immiscibility and...1998, 2001, 2004, Okrugin et al. 2006) from placer deposits in the Siberian platform and their bedrock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals (PGM) nuggets from alluvial-eluvial placer deposits in the concentrically zoned mafic-ultramafic...2 Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Str. Pochtovy...Halsbrückes Str. 34, 09599 Freiberg, Germany 4 Ural State Mining University, Str. Khokhryakova, Ekaterinburg, Russia...studied nuggets were sampled in alluvial-eluvial deposits from three small valleys, with temporary water...for a relatively short distance from their lode deposits. The nuggets characterized by a rounded shape
Book
HOLLAND and U. PETERSEN HYDROTHERMAL URANIUM DEPOSITS 10. G.B. FETTWEIS WORLD COAL RESOURCES Methods...and Results 1 1 . R G . TAYLOR GEOLOGY OF TIN DEPOSITS M.H.K. GUPTA GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES An Energy Alternative...GEOCHEMICAL PROSPECTING FOR THORIUM A N D URANIUM DEPOSITS 17. G.R. PARSLOW(Editor) ' GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION...BÔHMER PROSPECTING A N D EXPLORATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS (second completely revised edition) 2 2 . N. DEKUN...MINERAL EXPLORATION 2 4 . TA.P. KWAK W - S n SKARN DEPOSITS And Related Metamorphic Skarns and Granitoids
Book
Platinum Group Minerals (PGM) Inclusions in Chromite Deposits of the Urals Reprinted from: Minerals 2018, 8...Source of Platinum-Group Minerals in the Sisim Placer Zone, Eastern Sayans, Russia Reprinted from: Minerals...V. Kiseleva Platinum-Group Minerals of Pt-Placer Deposits Associated with the Svetloborsky Ural-Alaskan...Elements and Gold in the Ophiolite-Related Placer of the River Bolshoy Khailyk, Western Sayans, Russia Reprinted... a New Mineral from the Talnakh and Oktyabrsk Deposits, Noril’sk Region, Russia Reprinted from: Minerals
Report (issue)
... 3 Platinum deposits in South Africa ............. 3 Major platinum deposits in Russia .......... 5 Platinum deposits in Canada ................ 6 Platinum deposits in Columbia ..................their associated Ni-Cu-platinum-group metal ore deposits, the major features and characteristics of platinum-group...OF THE PLATINUM-GROUP METALS The major minable deposits of the platinum-group metals occur with nickel-copper...ultramafic rocks and as residual concentrations in placer deposits. General references to the geology and geochemistry
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Koptyuga, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia 3 Institute of Mining, Geology and Geotechnology, Siberian Federal University...3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8, Canada ______________________________________________...ophiolitic source. The first is located along the River Rudnaya in the Western Sayan province, Krasnoyarskiy...Krasnoyarskiy kray, and the second pertains to the Miass placer zone, Chelyabinsk oblast, in the southern Urals...the order of occurrence osmium, ruthenium, and iridium. The remainder consists of Pt– Fe alloys and species
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platinum-group minerals (PGM) and gold found in the Llorente river and its tributaries draining the area west of the...common in the study area drained by the Llorente river and its tributaries in the Eastern Bicol-Eastern...detrital gold grains suggest epithermal gold vein deposits or gold-bearing porphyry copper mineralization...hydrothermal mineralization, different from the gold lode deposits, in mafic/ ultramafic rocks of the ophiolite belt...Keywords: Philippines, Samar island, ophiolite, placer, Pt-Fe alloy, Os-Ir-Ru alloy, laurite–erlichmanite
Report (issue)
........ 8 Workshop on Platinum-group element deposits and environments......................... 10 Platinum-Group.......................... 14 Gendong concession, River Woyla, Tutup, Aceh........................... 14...Sumatra.................... 21 Bengkalis Au-PGM placer deposits, Riau....................................21.......................... 55 Diamond-Au-PGM placer deposits along Riam Kanan, Kiwa, Kusan and their tributaries............................ 7 6 Tertiary-Recent deposits..............................................
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MINERALS FROM A PLACER DEPOSIT IN BURWASH CREEK, KLUANE AREA, YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA Yana FEDORTCHOUK§...Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada William LeBARGE Yukon Geological Survey, Ministry...Resources, PO Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6, Canada Andrei Y. BARKOV Department of Earth and Planetary...3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, Canada Luca FEDELE and Robert J. BODNAR Department of...University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, Canada Abstract Five placer grains of Pt–Fe alloy, ca. 0.5 to 2
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3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7, Canada 2 Box 3921, Duke University Medical Center, Durham...collection (~1890s) of placer material from Trinity Co., California. Osmium, iridium, ruthenium, and rutheniridosmine...PGE-rich alloys form part of a very old collection of placer minerals, owned by one of the authors (M.N.F.)...crystallization history of these alloy minerals, placer grains of which were probably derived from the...is hexagonal with Os as the major element; (2) iridium is cubic with an Ir-dominant composition; (3) ruthenium
 
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