| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Native Tellurium from Epithermal Gold Deposits in Japan Masataka Nakata1 and Kosei Komuro2 1 Department...Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Abstract The chemistry and mode of occurrences...Kobetsuzawa, Mutsu, Kawazu, Suzaki and Iriki in Japan are examined. Mineral assemblages in contact with...quartz-hessite-sylvanite-tellurantimony at Kobetsuzawa, quartz at Mutsu, quartz-stutzite-hessite-sylvanite-tetradymite...Te-Ag assemblage of tellurium-hessite, and native telluriumstutzite-hessite-sylvanite, respectively. The | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Ag)Te2 Minerals from Epithermal Gold Deposits in Japan Kosei KOMURO1 and Masataka NAKATA2 1 Graduate School...Sciences, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan Abstract Chemical composition and mode of occurrences...sylvanite and native tellurium with stutzite, hessite and tetradymite in the coarser gray quartz part...divided into four types: native gold–calaverite at Date and Agawa, krennerite( native tellurium) at Osore-zan...Osore-zan and Mutsu, sylvanite–native tellurium–hessite at Teine, Kawazu, Kobetsuzawa, and Kato, and polyminerallic | | | Report (issue) | corresponds to (Au1.02 Ag0.02 )Σ=1.04 Te2.00 . (2) Moose mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA; Fe is from pyrite;... coloradoite, sylvanite, krennerite, petzite, hessite, tellurium, gold, pyrite, quartz. Distribution:...Creek, Teller Co.; the Smoky Hill mine, Boulder Co.; the Central City district, Gilpin Co., and several...Campbell mine, Bisbee, and at Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona; from the Golden Sunlight mine, near Whitehall...Jefferson Co., Montana. In Canada, at the Bencourt mine, Louvricourt, Quebec. At Kalgoorlie and Mulgabbie | | Andreeva, Elena D., Matsueda, Hiroharu, Okrugin, Victor M., Takahashi, Ryohei, Ono, Shuji (2013) Au-Ag-Te Mineralization of the Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Aginskoe Deposit, Central Kamchatka, Russia. Resource Geology, 63 (4) 337-349 doi:10.1111/rge.12013 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University, Sapporo, Japan, 2The Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 3Insitute of...School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Abstract Mineralogic studies of major ore minerals...these veins are native gold, altaite, petzite, hessite, calaverite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite. Minor...Emperor, Fiji, by Ahmad et al., 1987; Kushikino, Japan, by Shiga & Urashima, 1988; Received 9 November...University, Sapporo 060-0808 Kita ku, Kita 8, Nishi 5, Japan. Email: kamchatka.alena@yahoo.com © 2013 The Society | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Telluride Mineralization in Southwestern Hokkaido, Japan Euis T. YUNINGSIH*, Hiroharu MATSUEDA** and Ildrem...Museum, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–0810, Japan Tellurium–bearing gold, silver, and base metal...epithermal mineralization in southwestern Hokkaido, Japan. The telluride deposits in this district consist...the studied area consist of native tellurium, hessite, stutzite, petzite, sylvanite, calaverite, tellurobismuthite...native tellurium, stutzite, petzite, sylvanite and hessite are followed by calaverite, coloradoite, tellurobismuthite | | Tamas, C. G., Bailly, L., Ghergari, L., O'Connor, G., Minut, A. (2006) NEW OCCURRENCES OF TELLURIDES AND ARGYRODITE IN ROSIA MONTAN A, APUSENI MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA, AND THEIR METALLOGENIC SIGNIFICANCE. The Canadian Mineralogist, 44 (2) 367-383 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.44.2.367 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | associated with abundant tellurides, among which hessite, altaite, sylvanite, petzite and cervelleite. An...subordinate, and mainly observed as micro-inclusions in hessite. A Te-rich argyrodite with a mean composition close...marcasite est complétée par d’abondants tellurures, hessite, altaïte, sylvanite, petzite et cervelleïte. Un...Au–Ag se présente sous forme d’inclusions dans la hessite. Une variété d’argyrodite riche en Te, de composition...2,282 t Ag. The proven and probable reserves to date (Leary et al. 2004) contain about 218 Mt at an average | | Gu, Xiang-Ping, Watanabe, Makoto, Hoshino, Kenichi, Shibata, Yasuhiro (2003) New find of silver tellurosulphides from the Funan gold deposit, East Shandong, China. European Journal of Mineralogy, 15 (1) 147-155 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2003/0015-0147 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Kagamiyama 1-3-1, Higashi Hiroshima City, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan *Corresponding author, e-mail: watanabe@geol...in close association with galena, chalcopyrite, hessite, cervelleite (?), acanthite and native silver....silver minerals, including acanthite, stromeyerite, hessite and native silver, have been described (Yang &...gold deposit, located about 145 km north of Qingdao city, is situated in the middle of the ZhaoyuanLaizhou...galena, and trace amounts of gold-silver alloy, hessite, acanthite and native silver. Secondary minerals | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the Hydrothermal System of Southwestern Hokkaido, Japan Euis T. YUNINGSIH1,2 and Hiroharu MATSUEDA2 1...Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Abstract Shin-Otoyo, Suttsu, Teine, Date, Chitose, and Koryu are sites...deposits, and located in southwestern Hokkaido, Japan. The deposits are predominantly hosted by the Green...different from those of Shin-Otoyo, Suttsu, Teine, and Date due to their lack of Sn (tin) and Bi (bismuth) mineralization...follows: 1, Shin-Otoyo; 2, Suttsu; 3, Teine; 4, Date; 5, Chitose; 6, Koryu. Various kinds of fissure | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Solberg 1995). Calaverite is known from the Star mine in Montgomery County, North Carolina, where it occurs...polished sections of ores from the Royal Vindicator mine, Haralson County, and the Consolidated and Singleton...of twinned calaverite crystals from the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. Dave Bunk...Conundrum mine, and thin-bladed crystals were found in the Captain stopes in the Portland mine. Elsewhere...Last Dollar mine. Calaverite partially altered to emmonsite was reported from the WPH mine. Subsequent | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | massive sulphide. TELLURIDES Altaite (PbTe), hessite (AgaTe), calaverite (AuTe2) and petzite (AuAg3Te)...bornite (bn) which replaces chalcopyrite; (c) hessite (he), galena, tennantite, chalcopyrite, electrum...and petzite (pe) in barite (ba); (d) electrum in hessite in a galena pool in barite (ba); and (e) zoned...(Figure 4a) or with chalcopyrite (Figure 4c). Hessite is the second most abundant telluride mineral....also been remobilized into late quartz veinlets. Hessite is a significant, if not dominant, host to silver | | | Journal (issue) | won the national trophy for minerals in Salt Lake City. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Alice....to consolidate these reports to provide an upto-date report on the procedures currently followed by the...210125 Torino, ITALY. E-mail: ferraris@dsmp.unito.it Japan: Dr. Satoshi Matsubara, Department of Geology, National...Museum, 3-21-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160. JAPAN. E-mail: matubara@kahaku.go.jp Netherlands: Dr....pharmacosiderite Femandinite Prismatine Pseudorutile Flambeau Mine Merlino et al.: Am. Min. 79 (1994), 1185 Leake | | | Book | been carried out. Epithermal vein-type deposits in Japan have also been well-studied. More than 1,000 papers...on Kuroko and epithermal vein-type deposits in Japan will be summarized in Chapter 1. The descriptions...study epithermal vein-type and Kuroko deposits in Japan. I learned from them an importance of the integration...fluid inclusion studies of vein-type deposits in Japan were especially valid and useful to writing this...Sato, H. Shimazaki, Y. Kajiwara, M. Watanabe, J. Date, K. Kase, S. Doi, T. Urabe, T. Mizuta, K. Hattori | | | Book | characteristic such as the “Japan-Law” twinned rock crystals from Japan. Even though most of the classic...deposits have been worked for many years — some date back several millennia — there are many that are...Localities of Asia Japan The Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Iyo Province, Ehime Prefecture, Island of Shikoku...Shikoku Ashio Mine, Shimotsuke Province, Tochigi Prefecture, Honshu The Ani and Arakawa Mines, Ugo Province...Akita Prefecture, Honshu The Obira Mine, Bungo Province, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu; The Toroku Mine, Hyuga | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Telluride mineralization at Ashanti gold mine, Ghana R. J. BOWELL, R. P. FOSTER Department of Geology...5BD Abstract Gold mineralization at the Ashanti Mine occurs in shear zones which are second-order components...calaverite, sylvanite, kostovite, petzite, stutzite, hessite, altaite, rickardite, weissite and henryite were...relatively simple assemblage of altaite-petzite-hessite + sylvanite + coloradoite. Precipitation occurred...in the period between 1898 and September 1986 the mine produced 584 t (18.7 Moz) of gold from 25.9 million | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Potential for Base and Precious To Metal Deposits in Japan 2020) Antonio ARRIBAS and Toshio MIZUTA Faculty...University, Akita, Japan Abstract There are no known porphyry copper deposits in Japan. Attempts were made...latter option. In this article, we focus on Akita Prefecture and the surrounding areas and consider the potential...northern Honshu and that it serves as a proxy for Japan in general. Akita is rich in mineralization styles...the late 1800s. Osarizawa, the last active vein mine, closed in 1978. Kuroko deposits, the main source | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in Montana commonly spatially associated with hessite and tetrahedrite. In these deposits, it is Cu-bearing...KEYWORDS: benleonardite, cervelleite, Mayflower mine, Gies mine, Montana. Introduction BENLEONARDITE was identified...that it was associated with silver, acanthite, hessite, cervelleite (Ag4TeS), pyrite and sphalerite. Three...presence of a A g - T e - S mineral at the Mayflower mine that has a composition close to, but not identical...kg of Au have been extracted from the deposit to date but it remains open at depth (Cocker, 1993). Grades | | Fornadel, Andrew P., Spry, Paul G., Haghnegahdar, Mojhgan A., Schauble, Edwin A., Jackson, Simon E., Mills, Stuart J. (2017) Stable Te isotope fractionation in tellurium-bearing minerals from precious metal hydrothermal ore deposits. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 202. 215-230 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.12.025 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Received Date: Revised Date: Accepted Date: 12 February 2015 2 December 2016...krennerite) and (Au,Ag)2Te 9 minerals (i.e., petzite, hessite). In general, 10 130/125 Te fractionations as...Ag)2Te4], 26 petzite (Ag3AuTe2), native tellurium, hessite (AgTe2), and stützite (Ag5-xTe3). Analyses of tellurites...calculation 22 using the mineral pair calaverite-hessite at T = 373K: 23 24 ∆130/125Te = (δ130/125Te (calaverite)...∆130/125Te = (δ130/125Te (hessite) - δ130/125Te (H2Te)*1000 28 ∆130/125Te (hessite) = (1.00104-1.00104) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 251-268 THE OCCURRENCE ACUPAN OF TELLURIDE GOLD MINE, MINERALS MOUNTAIN AT THE PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES...1928 in very high grade ore from the Antamok gold mine. Recently, tellurides were recognizedin high grade...the Acupan gold mine. The examination of other patchesof high-grade ore in this mine has shown the associationof...a general one. The tellurides include petzite, hessite,altaite, calaverite, sylvanite and coloradoite...INTRODUCTION THE Acupangold mine,formerlyknownas the Balatocgold mine, is situated in the Baguiodistrictin | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in: Ore Geology Reviews Received date: Revised date: Accepted date: 6 March 2015 10 July 2015 15 July...was collected from high-grade mine dumps and in situ from adits and mine faces. Such material is characteristically...hostrock is predominant due to the exhaustion of the mine workings. The mineralized quartz MA vein structures...within Fe-Cu sulfides. The silver telluride, hessite (Ag2Te), some of which is selenium-rich, or both...selenium-rich occurs in both Fe-Cu sulfides and quartz. Hessite is commonly observed as trails of elongate inclusions | | Tamas, C. G., Grobety, B., Bailly, L., Bernhardt, H.-J., Minut, A. (2014) Alburnite, Ag8GeTe2S4, a new mineral species from the Rosia Montana Au-Ag epithermal deposit, Apuseni Mountains, Romania. American Mineralogist, 99 (1) 57-64 doi:10.2138/am.2014.4557 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and tellurides (hessite, altaite, and sylvanite). Associated gangue minerals...irregular inclusions hosted mainly by tetrahedrite, hessite, and rhodochrosite. Due to the small size of alburnite...rarely, chalcopyrite), and tellurides, mainly hessite but also altaite and sylvanite. Associated gangue...Figure 3. Appearance and physical properties To date, alburnite has been observed only under the microscope...hosted usually in tetrahedrite, as well as in hessite or located at the contact between these two minerals | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mining works of level XVIII (224 m ASL), Băit, a mine. Other samples (e.g., Figure 2f) were selected from...hosted by bornite; (e) electrum associated with hessite, digenite, and wittichenite hosted by bornite;...chalcopyrite, Dg: digenite, El: electrum, Gn: galena, Hs: hessite, Sp: sphalerite, Wtc: wittichenite. Wittichenite...size hosted by bornite and intimately related to hessite (Figure 3e). Electrum was also observed as small...orebodies (b–f); (a) electrum associated with hessite and digenite; (b) the void within wittichenite | | Jian, Wei, Lehmann, Bernd, Mao, Jingwen, Ye, Huishou, Li, Zongyan, Zhang, Jinge, Zhang, Hai, Feng, Jiangwei, Ye, Yongzhe (2014) TELLURIDE AND Bi-SULFOSALT MINERALOGY OF THE YANGZHAIYU GOLD DEPOSIT, XIAOQINLING REGION, CENTRAL CHINA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 52 (5) 883-898 doi:10.3749/canmin.1400007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | assemblage comprises Phase A, sylvanite [(Au,Ag)2Te4], hessite [Ag2Te], petzite [Ag3AuTe2], calaverite [AuTe2]...its natural occurrence has not been reported to date. Phase B, with the empirical formula of Cu20FePb11Bi9S37...observed in an intergrowth aggregate together with hessite, galena, chalcopyrite, bornite, and buckhornite...microprobe compositions for tellurobismuthite, hessite, altaite, calaverite, and petzite (Bi et al. 2011a...identified. Tellurides include sylvanite [(Au,Ag)2Te4], hessite [Ag2Te], petzite [Ag3AuTe2], calaverite [AuTe2] | | | Book | Distributor: Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702, USA N. Bariand 90/91; British Museum...varies widely: 31 by universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards...single private collection incorporated at a specific date, this aspect is given preferential treatment. In...Vautierstraat 29, B-1010 Brussels 02-6480475 SE of City centre, near the "Pare Leopold" . Daily, from 9...Notes Since 1970, the Natural History Museum of the city of Aschaffenburg has been housed in the "Schonborner | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | polymetallic sulfide-quartz veins at the Christiana no. 132 mine at Kamareza in the Laurion District, Attika, Greece...OH), a new mineral from the Ananai mine, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. J. Mineral. Petrol. Sci., 103, 400–406...and Hohnomori deposits at the Ananai mine, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. The mineral occurs as prismatic crystals...piemontite breccia at the Hohnomori deposit. The Ananai mine deposits are lenticular bodies in a red metachert...the museum at the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (Mineral-07400). P.C.P. A potentially new species | | Spence-Jones, Carl P., Jenkin, Gawen R.T., Boyce, Adrian J., Hill, Nyree J., Sangster, Christopher J.S. (2018) Tellurium, magmatic fluids and orogenic gold: An early magmatic fluid pulse at Cononish gold deposit, Scotland. Ore Geology Reviews, 102. 894-905 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.05.014 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in: Ore Geology Reviews Received Date: Revised Date: Accepted Date: 9 January 2018 14 May 2018 20 May...through the paragenesis, correlating with decreasing hessite (Ag2Te) abundance. This suggests the Au–Ag alloy...systems. The planned development of the Cononish gold mine in the Scottish Highlands (estimated reserves of...also cuts the dyke. 6 7 Figure 2. Simplified mine plan of the 400 mL adit level adapted from plans...inclusions. The fractures contain the assemblage hessite (Ag2Te) + Au–Ag alloy + galena ± altaite (PbTe) |
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