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Idaite from
Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA


Classification
Species:Idaite
Formula:Cu5FeS6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Idaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:575338
Long-form Identifier:1:3:575338:3
GUID (UUID V4):431295f4-c04e-40e2-8cd7-c354abf605c6
Localities for Idaite in this Region
Bonanza Mine (Kennicott Mine; Erie; Jumbo; Mother Lode; Kennecott unpatented claims), Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
Jumbo Mine, Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
Mother Lode Mine, Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Idaite
4.2km (2.6 miles) Bonanza Mine (Kennicott Mine; Erie; Jumbo; Mother Lode; Kennecott unpatented claims), Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Mother Lode Mine, Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Jumbo Mine, Kennecott, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Erie Mine, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
75 )'1.1)+%#. 5748';  5GSWKO 9CUJKPIVQP Alaska Resource Data File McCarthy quadrangle Descriptions...mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska. o o o o o o o o Distribution of mineral...occurrences in the McCarthy 1:250,000-scale quadrangle, Alaska This and related reports are accessible through...the U.S. Government. OPEN-FILE REPORT 03-404 Alaska Resource Data File MC001 Site name(s): Unnamed...Status: Inactive Workings/exploration: Page 2 Alaska Resource Data File MC001 Only limited surface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the High-Grade Copper Orebodies of the Kennecott District, Alaska Jason B. Price,†,1,* Murray W. Hitzman...Denver, Colorado 80225 Abstract The Kennecott district, Alaska, contained three important copper-(silver)...other small occurrences. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennecott Copper Corporation recovered some 1.18 billion...silver from these deposits. The host rocks for the Kennecott deposits are part of the type section Wrangellia...Important field criteria for the recognition of Kennecott-style deposits include any or all of the following:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INITIAL PRODUCTS OF SUPERGENE OXIDATION, COPIAPo MINING DISTRICT, NORTHERN CHILE R. H. Snr.rroE, Deportnlentof...ABSTRACT In numerous deposits of the Copiap6 mining district of northern Chile copper and copper-iron sulfides...malachite and goethite. rn the oxidation zones of this area, hlpogene chalcopyrite has been converted to normal...covellite; hyrogene bornite to "anomalous bornite", idaite, chalcopyrite, and normal covellite; supergene...supergenealteration of copper deposits in the Copiap6 mining district of northern Chile (Sillitoe, 1969a), in which
Report (issue)
for Environmental Studies at Nabesna and Kennecott, Alaska: Water, Leachates, Stream-Sediments, Heav...AND MINING HISTORY ........ 1 Nabesna ............................................. Kennecott .......Figure 1. Location of the Nabesna and Kennecott mines, Alaska .............. 2 Figure 2. Site locations...locations for samples collected in the Nabesna mine area, Alaska. ..... 5 Figure 3. Detailed site locations...mill, Alaska ... 6 Figure 4. Site locations for samples collected in the Kennecott mine area, Alaska
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu6FeS4; and the other (chalcopyrite) lies within the area bounded by the compositions CuFeS,, CuFe,S3, and...lowering temperature at 507° C, and idaite at 501° C. Idaite-pyrite and idaite-bornite are stable assemblages...501° C. The composition of bornite coexisting with idaite changes gradually towards digenite with decreasing...of idaite in comparison to covellite is attributed to the greater difficulty in nucleating idaite. The...A. YUND AND G. KULLERUD The large single-phase area including Cu^S, Cu^gS, and Cu5FeS4 (Yund & Kullenid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that Cu3.38Fe0.62S4 is one of the two polytypes of idaite. After much discussion (Sillitoe and Clark, 1969)...microprobe studies, this phase was distinguished from idaite and named nukundamite after the † Corrsponding...Nukundamu, Fiji (Rice et al., 1979). The name “idaite” is now reserved for Cu3FeS4. The reader is referred...Seal et al. (2001) for summaries of debates on idaite and nukundamite. Phase equilibria involving nukundamite...electron microprobe analysis but referred to as idaite Lewis (1996) Yauricocha, Peru Porphyryrelated
Report (issue)
Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1995 Julie A. Dumoulin and John E. Gray, Editors...Hills in the foreground. Topographic relief in this area is dramatic (more than 4,800 vertical meters across...associated with low-sulfide, gold-quartz veins in Alaska Richard J. Goldfarb, Cliff D. Taylor, Alien L....the Nabesna gold skarn and Kennecott strata-bound copper deposits, Alaska Robert G. Eppinger, Stephen...environment, Kuskokwim Mountains region, southwestern Alaska Elizabeth A. Bailey and John E. Gray .........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation in the Cornwallis carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada Jordan Mathieu...mineralisation in the Cornwallis carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada, Ore Geology...mineralisation in the Cornwallis carbonate-hosted Zn district: Storm copper deposit, Arctic Canada Jordan Mathieua...Canada c Juniata College, Huntingdon, PN 16652, USA *jy_mathieu@laurentian.ca Abstract The metallogenetically...metallogenetically important Cornwallis Zn district, in Canada’s Arctic islands, includes the past-producing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
although this stream drains the entire main deposit area. The train of mineralized float in the Ok Galor...Regionalsetting 1021 the West Irian border to the area immediatelysouth of Lae on the Huon Gulf. Local...contrastsmarkedly of about 3,000 feet are exposedin the area imwith that of the epicontinentalregion. Immediately...macrofossilsincluding corals and to the north, roughly in the area between the east- bryozoa,and an upperunit of i...et al., 1968; and Davies, 1971). Two addi- crop area of 1 to 4 squaremiles. A few, for extional copperprospects
Book
deposits, can only be considered to some extent. Mining selects, if possible, deposits which are not complicated...Australia (f) G. M. F R I E D M A N , Troy, New York, USA G. FRIEDRICH, Aachen, Germany H . FROHBERG, Toronto...Colorado U. P E T E R S E N , Cambridge, Mass., USA G. M. R A D I S I C S , Toronto, Canada J . R I M... The peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition...of their insignificance from the standpoint of mining, scarcely investigated. The mineral content is
Book
Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy of...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...with Implications for Exploration in Southwest Alaska Geologic Overview of the Oyu Tolgoi Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo...± Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos,
Book (volume)
to g ra p h: The Bingham Canyon open pit, Utah, USA, 1998. Photographs by T M Porter. Ross Lang Andrew...University with a B.Sc. Honours. He completed his PhD in Mining Geology in 1979 at Imperial College, London. His...contributions to economic geology. Stints with Palabora Mining Company, JCI and Anglovaal added to Ross’ southern...After moving to Australia in 】 979, Ross, as a District Manager with CRA Exploration, led the team that...Iran, Cananea in Mexico, and Bingham Canyon in the USA (Clark, 1993). This paper reviews the range o f processes
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IN THE MINING INDUSTRY This Page Intentionally Left Blank APPLIED MINERALOGY IN THE MINING INDUSTRY...nl). by selecting "Obtaining Permissions". In the USA. users may clear permissions and make payments through...Data Petruk, W., 1930Applied mineralogy in the mining industry / William Petruk.-- 1st ed. p. cm. Includes...dedicated mineralogist is essential at most large mining operations; a person who performs applied mineralogy...in the Mineralogy Section focussed on a specific area of research. My main assignment was to support the
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shales, hornfels and granites of the Harzburg district, showed that the amount of boron decreases from...xenocrysts (grain-sized inclusion) in the Yubdo area of Western Ethiopia. Here again we have a mobilization...studies on the mineral parageneses of the Abu Dabbab area (Red Sea region, Egypt) showed that a lithophilic...leuchtenbergite schist from Hada Budussa, Adola District, Ethiopia (described by Augustithis in 1964)....sphalerite associated with silicates in the marginal area of the pyrite crystal- loblast. However, sphalerite
Book (volume)
iirtaoremuir tetal stat ale esabehie otS on rte atte area leerrata pers a verite aote ots 3 POR RO SES se...ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION
Book (edition)
only about distance from a better known town in the area but also about the administrative regional units...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31, ~ = 104°36'...Washington, also at Sulzer, Prince of Wales Is., Alaska. A Zn-Mn-rich variety at Franklin, Sussex co.,
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Deposits Huaripampa and Carahuacra in the Mining District of San Cristobal, Central Peru M. Dalheimer...Ore Deposit in Pucara Sediments of the Atacocha District, Central Peru W. Hirdes . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . 353 La Negra-Coquimbana Manganiferous District, Southern Atacama Desert, Chile M. Pincheira and.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 The Mining District of the General Carrera Lake and the Rosillo...Santa Metallotect in the Huanzala and Pachapaqui Mining Areas in Central Peru R. Carrascal and J. Saez
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT © 2002 CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY...Elements. Edited by L.J. Cabri. Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, Special Volume 54, p...(Ontario), and the formerly producing Salt Chuck mine (Alaska). They, thus, cover a range of deposit types, from...mineralization models. They also review the history of mining in the area and PGE production, reserves and resources...the currently producing mines of the Stillwater Mining Company. The PGE mineralization in the Great Dyke
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meter (m) kilometer (km) 3.281 feet 0.621 mile Area centimeter 2 (cm 2 meter 2 (m 2 ) kilometer 2...Publishing Scripta Company, Washington, DC 20005 USA. Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 1947-, Munksgaard, Noerre...Ohio 43214, USA. American Chemical Society, Journal, 1879-, Washington, DC 20036, USA. American Crystallographic...Penn- USA. American Journal of Science, 1818- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. PREFACE... PREFACE 1909 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA. Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi, 1949-, Almqvist
Book (edition)
Colorado at the Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...ultrabasic rocks. Typical occurrences are found in Alaska (nephrite), California, Idaho (ferroactinolite)...California; in sodalitesyenite in the Julianehaab district, Greenland; in the liparite lavas of the island...the Beresovsk district, Ural Mountains, USSR. Reported from several widely scattered mining districts in...at the Brattfors and Moss mines in the Nordmark district. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Palache , et al. , "Dana's
Book (edition)
Colorado at the Pelican Dives mine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia;...ultrabasic rocks. Typical occurrences are found in Alaska, California, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming...California; in sodalite-syenite in the Julianehaab district, Greenland; in the liparite lavas of the island...slate and metamorphosed dolomite in the Beiyun-Obo district, Inner Mongolia, China, associated with aegirine
Book (edition)
ABBREVIATIONS States, (as in postal usage) Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut...Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod...and quartz veins at Juneau. In Canada, Noranda district, PQ; Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and Larder Lake...deposits, ON; Atlin and Caribou, BC; and Klondike district, YT. In Mexico, Altar and Magdalena, SON; Parral...to depths exceeding 2 miles. Many important gold mining districts in Australia, including Hill End, Hillgrove
Report (issue)
concentrically zoned ultramafic rocks of the Urals and Alaska, which are believed by Taylor and Noble (1960;...metamorphic grades. The zoned ultramafic complexes of Alaska constitute a distinctive group of very high-temperature...trying to map the geology of an inaccessible highland area by looking at the boulders in the bed of an emergent...for the breakdown of hornblende. The light-shaded area represents gabbro or eclogite with a trace of interstitial...andesitic liquid i present through the light-shaded area; basic liquid is produce only within the dark shaded
Report (issue)
Atlantic Refining Company Gulf Oil Corporation Kennecott Copper Corporation Phelps Dodge Corporation Standard...Adirondack Mtns., N.Y. Oligoclase gneiss, Middle Haddam area, Conn. Quartz-mica schists, Littleton Fm., N.H....Middle Haddam area, Conn. Staurolite-garnet and biotite-muscovite schists, Middle Haddam Area, Conn. Chlorite-sericite...The effect of tempera¬ ture on attenuation is one area that needs additional experimental work. In summary...of surface/ = —^—- = 1/298.24 = .003353 (6, 10) Area of surface = 5.101 x 1018 cm2 Volume = 1.083 x 1027
 
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