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Cooperite from
Tulameen River, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:River
Classification
Species:Cooperite
Formula:PtS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cooperite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tulameen River, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:792409
Long-form Identifier:1:3:792409:5
GUID (UUID V4):007a9f7f-23aa-4134-b440-19cd5e256b6c
Localities for Cooperite in this Region
Placer Deposits, Tulameen River, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM FIVE PLACER DEPOSITS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA ANDREI Y. BARKOV§ AND MICHAEL E. FLEET...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...platinum-group-element (PGE) placer deposits in British Columbia have been analyzed using the electron-microprobe...Trace amounts of PGE sulfides and sulfarsenides: cooperite PtS, Ni-rich cuproiridsite (Cu,Ni,Fe)(Ir,Rh,Pt)2S4
Journal (issue)
Explor. Mining Geol., Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 73-167, 1996 Copyright © 1996 Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy...CABRI Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology 555 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0G1...HARRIS* Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A0E8 THOROLF W. W EISER...Crescent, Nepean, Ontario, Canada, K2G fX l Panning for platinum, Tapitangan River, Banggi Island, North...North Borneo, Malaysia Explor. Mining Geol., Vol. 5, No. 2, 1996 Abstract—Mineralogical studies of platinum-group
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 (article/letter/editorial)
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 (issue)
__________ _ Placers-----------------------------------Canada---------------------------------------Sources and..._______________________ ~ Discovery and present mining _______ _ General geology __ -----------------Intrusive...west Territories ______________________ _ British Columbia __________________________ _ Lodes-------...--------Placers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers _...of gold-platinum placer deposits, Tulameen Valley, British Columbia----------------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wide array of other unusual minerals, including cooperite, laurite, kotulskite, merenskyite, iridium-osmium...rhodolite garnet and corundum during alluvial gem mining in streams draining Mason Mountain, Macon County...what is now the famous Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada. He named it for Mr. Francis L. Sperry, chief chemist...(Copperfields) mine east of Timagami. Elsewhere in Canada sperrylite has been reported from the Donaldson...along the Tulameen River; and in black sands of the Fraser River near Lytton, British Columbia. COLOR
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...in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five or so years, colleagues...to and immediately following my retirement from Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Resources (CANMET)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the two types. Sperrylite, laurite, irarsite, cooperite, tulameenite, and isomertieite occur infrequently...area, the Tertiary sediments along the Chindwin River are fine sand to silt; in the Uyu Anticline between...field near Nawngpusawng (T 3 terrace) on the Uyu River, the Manawtha gold field (Y4) , the Tanga gold field... the last three sites being along the Chindwin River (Fig. 1). A sample was also taken from alluvium...the Uyu River. b) Os-Ir-Ru alloy; Hwephugon gold field, 6 km NW of Manawtha on the Chindwin River. c) Os-Ir-Ru
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage (erlichmanite, Rh–Ir–Pt thiospinels, cooperite, unknown Rh–Ir-bearing base-metal sulfides, pyrrhotite...sulfures (erlichmanite, thiospinelle à Rh–Ir–Pt, cooperite, sulfures de métaux de base contenant Rh et Ir...to the alloy Pt2.5(Fe,Ni,Cu)⌺1.5 reported from Tulameen and tentatively ascribed to isoferroplatinum (Nixon...assemblage of PGM (erlichmanite, PGE-thiospinels, cooperite) and base metals (pyrrhotite, pentlandite and...pentlandite (Cabri et al. 1981, Garuti et al. 1995). Cooperite has a constant composition close to (Pt0.98Pd0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage (erlichmanite, Rh–Ir–Pt thiospinels, cooperite, unknown Rh–Ir-bearing base-metal sulfides, pyrrhotite...sulfures (erlichmanite, thiospinelle à Rh–Ir–Pt, cooperite, sulfures de métaux de base contenant Rh et Ir...to the alloy Pt2.5(Fe,Ni,Cu)⌺1.5 reported from Tulameen and tentatively ascribed to isoferroplatinum (Nixon...assemblage of PGM (erlichmanite, PGE-thiospinels, cooperite) and base metals (pyrrhotite, pentlandite and...pentlandite (Cabri et al. 1981, Garuti et al. 1995). Cooperite has a constant composition close to (Pt0.98Pd0
Book
and Gold in the Ophiolite-Related Placer of the River Bolshoy Khailyk, Western Sayans, Russia Reprinted...PGM and PGE–Au phases found in alluvium along the River Bolshoy Khailyk, in the western Sayans, Russia,...gabbroic complexes, ophiolitic chromitites from Canada, USA, Russia, and other localities worldwide. Typically...and gold in the ophiolite-related placer of the River Bolshoy Khailyk, Western Sayans, Russia. Minerals...Cuprorhodsite CuRh2 S4 , Malanite CuPt2 S4 , Cooperite (PtPdNi)S, Braggite (PtPdNi)S, Vysotskite (PtPtNi)S
Book
d s Distributors for the United States and Canada: ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHING C O M P A N Y INC...in Chapter 8. book is aimed at the professional mining geologist, interest to those in natural resource... Rh Ru Ir Total Propn SUPPLY South Africa Canada Others USSR (sales) 2320 150 40 230 1010 190...prospects. 8 Impala is administered by the General Mining Union Corporation Group. The operating subsidiary...completely integrated operation and includes the mining and refining of the PGE, nickel, copper and cobalt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
group, RhAsS-IrAsS 15 Stibiopalladinite PdsSb2 Cooperite PtS Laurite RuS2 Stump~lite Pt (Sb, Bi) Braggite...I e t a/. (1973) in their investigations of Tulameen River, B.C., platinum. However, measurements performed...7.5 Placer d e p o s i t s , R i a m K a n a n River, SE Borneo (Stumpft+ Tarkian 1973) Fel0.7 • Driekop...also been found in platinum deposits in Siberia, Canada and Papua-New Guinea. The lattice parameters of...of the material concerned. Work hardening during river transport results in low-Fe placer platinum being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Other examples of limited solid solution are cooperite and braggite/vysotskite, osmium and iridium, ruthenium...Bowieite Braggite Cabriite Chengdeite Cherepanovite Cooperite Crerarite Cuproiridsite Cuprorhodsite Erlichmanite...placer deposit, southern British Columbia. Thesis, University of Alberta, Canada (unpublished) Augd T (1988)...mineralogy, geology, recovery. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Montreal, pp 1-4 (CIM Spec Vol...mineralogy, geology, recovery. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Montreal, pp 83-150 (CIM Spec Vol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PGE sulfides [laurite, malanite, cuproiridsite, cooperite, and an unnamed base metal – (Ir,Pt) monosulfide]...platine (EGP) [laurite, malanite, cupro-iridsite, cooperite, et un monosulfure contenant métaux de base et...Complex (Schneiderhöhn 1929). The majority of placer mining was then carried out in Russia, particularly in...Betekhtin 1961). Over a period of about 180 years, mining operations yielded about 330 tonnes of platinum...well as from Quaternary sediments of the Kondyor River in the center of the Kondyor massif (L–204, nuggets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Witwatersrand (Feather 1976) and from Tulameen River (Cabri and Feather 1975) which confirm isoferroplatinum...been found in nature so far. Physical data of cooperite, braggite and vysotskite have been studied by...concluded that, while it is possible to distinguish cooperite from Compositional Variations and Reflectance...Reflectance 177 Table 4. Microprobe Analyses of Cooperite (numbers 1~) and Braggite (numbers3~) from the Merensky...\1o "\ ~' 50 ~' 70 ~' 90 \NiS Fig. 6. Cooperite, braggite and vysotskite plotted in the system
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
erlichmanite, isoferroplatinum, tetraferroplatinum, cooperite, cuprorhodsite, malanite, geversite, sperrylite...The early PGM (erlichmanite, (Pt-Fe) alloys, cooperite) were deposited from a fluid-rich system slightly...fluid phase. These minerals extensively replace cooperite and locally remobilize the PGE stock. Isoferroplatinum...and cobaltite. They are extensively replacing cooperite, but are in equilibrium with geversite-sperrylite...erlichmanite, isoferroplatinum, tetraferroplatinum, cooperite, cuprorhodsite, malanite, geversite, sperrylite
Report (issue)
....................... 14 Gendong concession, River Woyla, Tutup, Aceh........................... 14...Figure 3. The remains of dredging operations in the River Woyla, Tutup area, Riau, Sumatra. Figure 4. Map...PGM, Goodnews Bay, Alaska and Choco district, Columbia. Chondrite normalized PGE diagrams for analyses...normalized PGE diagram for analyses of chromitite, Tulameen Complex. 5/14/91 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Summary...sands of Cilacap. Currently, P.T. Aneka Tambang is mining 300,000 tons/year of iron-rich black sand from
Report (issue)
Bonaccordite Braggite Bultfonteinite Clairite Cochromite Cooperite Djerfisherite [*) Effenbergerite Ferro-actinolite...zeolite Blue-Ironstone Bushmanite Columbomicrolite Cooperite Y Dutoitsp anite Erinite (of Van der Lingen) Framesite...Trinicdibisulite Tripalstibite Braggite Niggliite Cooperite Platarsite Geversite Stumpflite Niggliite Hollingworthite...Modderite (1924) Afwillite (1925) Maghemite (1927) Cooperite (1928) Stibiopalladinite (1929) Braggite (19321...is described from Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada (Pan and Fleet, 1991 ). Another recently documented
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pt2CuFe Pt (Ir, Os) (Os, Ir) Ru Cu3Pt Braggite Cooperite Laurite Rhodian pentlandite Fe – Ni – Rh monosulphide...1930, but the Driekop mine was re-opened by Otavi Mining between 1956 and 1958. Schneiderhöhn (1931) reported...from Raicevic & Cabri (1976), found in the Tulameen river as inclusions in Pt – Fe alloy grains; the...other hand, sulphides such as laurite, braggite, cooperite, bowieite and miassite are common in the placers...chromitite, mainly carry PGE sulphides (braggite, cooperite, laurite, malanite) and Pt-Fe alloy phases, in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l a c e r gold has been rec o v e r e d f r o m river b e d s in the granulite c o m p l e x o f F i n...Cu; the natural minerals laurite for Ru and S, cooperite for S and pentlandite for Ni. The X-ray lines...corresponds to the unnamed Au-Cu-Pt alloy from the Tulameen river area (Cuo49PdoPto iiAuo4o) (A.J. Aubut, 1979...reduction of sperrylite or cooperite. Sperrylite is a very common mineral, and cooperite, too, is frequently
Report (volume)
as the principal commodity or as a byproduct of mining other metals, based on a review of worldwide information........................................... Green River Formation (tract 11, map 2).......................Colombia, and more recently as byproducts from mining of sediment-hosted copper deposits in the Kupferschiefer...Europe and the Copperbelt of central Africa and mining of quartz-pebble conglomerate golduranium deposits...and placer volume, in some cases, depend more on mining method than on traditional placer classifications
Book
book is available from the Library of Congress British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue...catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-12-802041-8 For information...international exploration entities, namely, Goldstream Mining NL/IMX Resources Ltd, Australia, and Binani Industries...mines and exploration camps of Australia–Tasmania, Canada, the United States, Germany, Portugal, France,...Jordan, and Israel. He is a life fellow of The Mining Geological and Metallurgical Institutes (MGMI)
Report (issue)
RUSSIA ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA SIGNIFICANT...2-Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks 3-Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver...2-Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks; '-Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver;...deposit closest to this type in Alaska is at Lost River. The largest deposit of this type in the southern... Fluvial and glaciofluvial deposits form where river velocities lessen at hydraulic flexures, on the
Book
New York, N.Y. 10020 Published simultaneously in Canada by Van Nostrand Reinhold Ltd. 15 14 13 12 11 10...crystallographers, geologists, petrologists, geochemists, mining engineers, mineral assayers, curators, collectors...In the Americas, persons from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, and...invention. smithsonite, James Smithson (1765-1829), British chemist and mineralogist; studied the chemistry...Louis Cordier (1777-1861), French geologist and mining engineer; student of Haiiy; helped enlarge the
 
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