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Altaite from
Melones Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Altaite
Formula:PbTe
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Altaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Melones Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:656604
Long-form Identifier:1:3:656604:3
GUID (UUID V4):7819e055-d715-4f45-b187-b4226e567d7a
Nearest other occurrences of Altaite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Morgan-Melones Mine (Morgan Mine), Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Carson Hill, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) French and Wood Mine (French & Wood Mine; Frenchwood Mine), Altaville, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
10.7km (6.7 miles) Bonanza Mine (Little Bonanza Mine; Fairview Mine), Gold Hill, Sonora, Sonora Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) O'Hara Mine (Franklin Mine), Sonora, Sonora Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
11.8km (7.3 miles) Sell Mine, Sonora, Sonora Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) Golden Rule Mine, Jumper & Golden Rule group (Jumper Mine; Jumper claim; Jumper deposit; New Era claim), Jamestown Mine (Jamestown group), Jamestown, Jamestown District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
35.3km (22.0 miles) McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
37.9km (23.5 miles) Oro Rico Mine (Penon Blanco Mine), Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
References
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Field Trip Notes
Q E S5 W63 1994 EART ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER LODE 1994 Gregg Wilkerson...| LIBRARY UNIVERSITY or California … • * * ** ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY º OF THE MOTHER...Field Trip Program Mother Lode '94 Bakersfield District Office Bureau of Land Managmement 3801 Pegasus...Altaville to Mokelumne Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Mokelumne Hill to Plymouth. . . . ..... . . 14 TV QFºo 5-M/43 ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER |*4 EART LODE Gregg Wilkerson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of native gold and electrum, the gold telluride calaverite may well be the most important gold ore mineral...Cripple Creek district, essentially subsequent to the development of all other Colorado gold districts.... Unlike most gold deposits, weathering of those characterized by relatively abundant telluride minerals...fine-grained and dull, mustard-colored secondary gold that is disbursed as tiny particles as the individual...most exciting gold occurrences are either dominated by or contain significant amounts of gold tellurides
Report (issue)
University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/minesandmineral02clar MINES AND...RESOURCES OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By WILLIAM B. CLARK, Mining Geologist California Division of...of Mines and Geology and PHILIP A. LYDON, Mining Geologist California Division of Mines and Geology...Geology County Report 2 CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, 1962 UNIYERSITY...UNIYERSITY OF CALIFOI DAVIS STATE OF CALIFORNIA Edmund G. Brown, Governor THE RESOURCES Hugo AGENCY
Report (issue)
., Prepared in cooperation with the California State Mining Bureau ..!' . ,(".1\\. lit ~.'..JI...Professional Paper 157 rfHE MOTHER LODE SYSTEM OF CALIFORNIA BY ADOLPH KNOPF 6-332 (February 1939) Prepared...Prepared in cooperation with the California State Mining Bureau Class,_ _ _ __ Book _____ GPO 16-50254-1...____________ Previous geologic studies of the district- _ _ ________________________________________..._____________________________________ Output of gold ___ • ________ ________ __ ______ ___ ___ _______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
23:14 19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume...globe, they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly...specimens of essentially massive gold tellurides associated with coarse native gold. Cripple Creek, on the other...that resemble cuneiform characters. Sylvanite is gold-silver telluride with the composition (Au,Ag)2Te4...published analyses commonly show minor variations in the gold and silver content, and the presence of such other
Report (issue)
5.265 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Robb-Montbray mine, Canada. 2.82 (100), 1.549 (60), 2.06 (50), 1.918...Stanislaus mine, California, USA; corresponding to (Ni0.99 Ag0.02 )Σ=1.01 Te2.00 . (2) Strathcona mine, Canada;...Ni–Cu–PGE magmatic sulfide deposits. Association: Altaite, petzite, hessite, calaverite, coloradoite, krennerite...montbrayite, gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite, pyrrhotite. Distribution: In the USA, in California, from...the Melones [TL] and Stanislaus mines, Carson Hill district, Calaveras Co., and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. 3.02 (10), 2.09 (8), 2.20 (4), 2.93 (3), 1.758 (3)...100.30 99.75 100.00 (1) Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. (2) Kalgoorlie, Australia. (3) AuTe2 . Polymorphism...mediumand high-temperature deposits. Association: Altaite, coloradoite, krennerite, rickardite, other tellurides...the USA, in California, at the Stanislaus [TL], Morgan, and Melones mines, Carson Hill district, Calaveras...Co.; at the Spotted Horse mine, Maiden, Fergus Co., and the Mayflower mine, Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison
Report (issue)
Kalgoorlie, Australia. (2) Mother Lode district, California, USA. (3) Ag3 AuTe2 . Occurrence: With other...vein-controlled gold deposits. Association: Gold, hessite, sylvanite, krennerite, calaverite, altaite, montbrayite...and Baia Sprie (Felsőbánya). At the Kochbulak gold deposit, Chatkal-Kuramin Mountains, eastern Uzbekistan...Au–Te deposit, northern Kazakhstan. In the USA, at Gold Hill, Boulder Co., Lake City, Hinsdale Co., and...Colorado; from California, in the Golden Rule and Norwegian mines, Tuttletown, and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne
Report (issue)
00 99.73 100.00 (1) Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. (2) Kalgoorlie, Australia. (3) (Au, Ag)2 Te4 with...last minerals formed. Association: Gold, calaverite, krennerite, altaite, hessite, petzite, acanthite, pyrite...At Glava, Värmland, Sweden. In the Bereznyakov gold deposit and the Yaman-Kasy Cu–Zn–pyrite deposits...the Dome mine, Porcupine, Ontario. In the USA, in California, at the Melones and Stanislaus mines, Carson...Carson Hill district, Calaveras Co.; in Colorado, in abundance at Cripple Creek, Teller Co., and important
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
Journal (issue)
Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, NV Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand...Promotions and Book Sales Gale Thomssen RO. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702 Desion Wendell E. Wilson Subscriptions...Place Tucson, AZ 85741 ‘ Continued on page 111 Gold! Introduction G old notes from the e d i t o r .............. by B. Birch 5 California The history of crystallized gold in C a lif o r n ia ...........otable gold occurrences of G eorgia & A labam a . . . . 65 by R. B. C ook N o rth C arolina gold .....
Report (issue)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...Director DIVISION OF MINES WALTER W. BRADLEY State Mineralogist OIAF GEOLOGIC BFL^NCH Ferry Building...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE
Journal (issue)
Suite C Carson City, NV 89701 702-883-2598 Bookstore Marilee Chirila 1601 Fairview Dr., Suite C Carson City...of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
StableIsotopeStudiesof SeveralGold Mines in the Mother Lode, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties, California R. H. WEIR, JR....16802 Abstract Gold-bearingquartzveinsin the southernpart of the Mother Lode, California,formed from fluidswhich...focusedinto permeable fault zones. In the Coulterville district of the Mother Lode, these fluids altered ser-...galena,tellurides(Pb, Ni, Ag, Au-Ag), and native gold precipitated last amongthe vein minerals. Observations...fluidswhichwere probablylaterthan, andunrelatedto, the gold-mineralizing fluids. Oxygenisotopevaluesof vein
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Avenue, 162600 Cherepovets, Russia Institute of Mining, Geology and Geotechnology, Siberian Federal University...locality, the Melones mine, at Carson Hill in the Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA (Genth...accessory constituent of the ore at the Robb-Montbray mine in northwestern Québec, Canada. Although melonite...addition, there are intergrowths of melonite with altaite, hosted by chalcopyrite. The melonite solid-solution...melonite from: Stanislaus mine, California, USA (Pemberton, 1983); Strathcona mine (Rucklidge, 1969), Sudbury
Journal (issue)
White Development Officer William D. Panczner GOLD! Associate Editors written content Paul E. Desautels...Rosenzweig Univ. of So. Florida Richard W. Thomssen Carson City, Nev. photography Nelly Bariand Sorbonne,...Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Collecting gold mining memorabilia....................................323 by W. E. Wilson and R. Bentley Nova Scotian gold ..................................................Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of crystallized gold ..............
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...of Mines and Geology mineral exhibit in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL...Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines and Geology Francisco
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF...RESOURCES DEWnT NELSON, DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF San Francisco... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ... VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE* Copyright © 1983...1983 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Library of Congress Catalog Card Inc. Number: 81-15963 ISBN: 0-442-27488-2...of America Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020
Book (volume)
..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Report (issue)
"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer...5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...photo Left: A wall of gold bricks in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's gold vault Photo Robert Gambee...Crystallized gold from Canada Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo extraLapis English No. 5 Gold The Noble...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by... MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY ~ NEW...MELBOURNE ' Copyright© 1983 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Caid Number: 81-15963...of America Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. L35 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020...Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Limited Molly Millars Lane Wokingham, Berkshire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2176-2199 Gold Quartz Veins and AuriferousGranite at the Oriental Mine, AlleghanyDistrict, California RAYMONDM...three fissureveins at the Oriental mine, Alleghanydistrict,California,containsmallhigh-gradeore shootscarryinghundredsof...contain an averageof 0.2 ouncesof gold per ton. In the veinsmost native gold is associated with arsenopyrite...mineralization,when mosthydrothermalalterationand gold depositionin granite probablyoccurred,temperatureswere...equivalent NaC1 contentsof fluid inclusions suggest that gold may havebeencomplexedwith sulfuror arsenic,ratherthan
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced its own gold rush, largely...largely unprofitable, although gold may still be panned in the regional streams. Most of the rest of the...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
 
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