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Bismuthinite from
Big Gossan Mine, Gunung Bijih District (Grasberg District), Mimika Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bismuthinite
Formula:Bi2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bismuthinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Big Gossan Mine, Gunung Bijih District (Grasberg District), Mimika Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:841812
Long-form Identifier:1:3:841812:8
GUID (UUID V4):a97ee81f-2b82-42a4-bb48-8b9a83bca9fb
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evidence from the Big Gossan and Wanagon Gold Deposits, Ertsberg District, Papua, Indonesia KYLIE PRENDERGAST...Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract The Ertsberg district hosts multiple skarn and porphyry-related deposits...in the world. Earlier skarn Cu-Au deposits at Big Gossan and 2 km along strike to the northwest at Wanagon...estimated 2 million ounces (Moz) of gold; reserves at Big Gossan are 33 million tonnes (Mt) at 2.63 percent Cu...g/t Au, and 15.72 g/t Ag. Phlogopite from the Big Gossan occurrence is younger than 2.82 ± 0.04 Ma, based
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits of the Ertsberg(GunungBijih)District,IrianJaya,Indonesia* JEFFREY N. RUBIN** ANDJ.RICHARD KYLE...fineness anda Cu-Fesulfidehostfor mostAg in the Gunung BijihTimurcomplex of Cu-Auskarndeposits, theBigGossan...fromGrasberg samples is -<930fine(avg= 960).Fineness of Big Gossan Auranges from540to960(avg= 830),although compositional...800ppm)andwithno detectable Pd. Fire assay of Grasberg ore reveals tracebut detectable (10 ppb < [Pd]<...ns of Pd andno detectable Pt. NativeAu fromthe Gunung BijihTimurcomplex averages twiceasmuchCu asthatfromGrasberg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Jiguanzui in Hubei Province and Tianmashan, Xingiao and Sanpu in Anhui Province, have been discovered...dolomitic limestone and dolomite; in the Sanpu district of northern Anhui, they are Middle and Upper Cambrian...lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Sanpu district — are located in upper mantle anomalies ĆœZhao...limestone and dolomitic limestone; in the Tongling district, besides the for- The intrusions related to the...sulfide Ćœpyrite " pyrrhotite. deposits; in the Sanpu district, northern Anhui, Au– Cu skarn deposits may be
Book
Geology of the Kucing Liar Ore Body, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Sugeng Widodo, Noris Belluz, Nur Wiwoho, Bowo.................... 61  The Mankayan Mineral District, .Luzon Philippines. Artemio F Disini, Bruce M...Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au DepositCatamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration...and Rosario Copper Porphyry Deposits, CoUahuasi District Chile. Claudio Bisso B, Manuel Durdn andAquiles...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
like the giant deposits in the Grasberg–Ertsberg district in Indonesia (Mainert et al., 1997; Pollard...fractures in them, showing its later formation. Bismuthinite, tetradymite, scheelite, galena, and Ni and...lamellar molybdenite grains with inclusions of bismuthinite (white) associated with carbonate, magnetite...It is intimately associated with scheelite, bismuthinite, galena, tetradymite, minerals of the Fe–Co–...and fluid evolution of the Big Gossan Cu–Au skarn deposit, Ertsberg District, Irian Jaya, Econ. Geol.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1972). AL Then, part of the deposit (“Veselyi Mine”) was described by Ettlinger and Meinert (1991)... collisional) processes. 3. District geology The mineralized district that hosts the Sinyukhinskoe deposit...hedleyite, melonite, tetradimite, wittichenite, bismuthinite, petzite, calaverite, stĂŒtzite and other minerals...related to CuAu porphyry analogies within a larger (district- to regional-scale) skarn-porphyry mineralized...(1994) for the Ertsberg Cu-Au skarn and porphyry district. This may reflect an influence of deeper-seated
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the RĂ­o Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos, Brian...N. Moreto, AndrĂ© Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrences of rock hand specimen from the open-pit mine of the Tiger Mouth orebody; (d) vuggy quartz in...and open cut mining is currently also applied to mine these ores in the Tiger Mouth and Bwet Taung orebodies...(pyrite, chalcopyrite, tennantite, bornite, bismuthinite, enargite, galena), oxides (magnetite, hematite)...in the skarn zone at the Bwet Taung orebody. Bismuthinite is an isolate occurring in the retrograde skarn...chlorite, quartz, and calcite. The ore minerals are bismuthinite, tellurobismuthite, chalcopyrite (being the
Book (edition)
Belle Gold Mines in Kalgoorlie, PT North Mining Indonesia in Jakarta, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, ETH ZĂŒrich.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting... . . 6.3.1 Ladolam Gold Deposit, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Rica Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.2 Bajo...de La Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.3 Bingham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Laos PDR, Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra (Indonesia), Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan (China). This special...280–270 Ma; Liu et al., 2012) and the Sepon gold mine in southern Laos (ca. 295–288 Ma) (Cromie et al...in the northern part of the belt through Loei Province in Thailand through Phetchabun in central Thailand...volcanogenic sedimentary rocks in the Chatree District. The age of this mid-Carboniferous sedimentary...(and associated rhyolites) of the East Malaya Province (e.g., Jaafar, 1979; Ghani, 2009; Searle et al
Journal (issue)
garnet from the San Juan chimney in the El Mochito mine, Honduras. The upper photograph shows a small chapel...office of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (8th district of Arizona) and was there at the time of the tumultuous...Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy) and scenic (Big Sur and St. George, Utah) marathons in the United...middle), Rainer Newberry (on the right), and the mine geologist examining skarn mineralogy in the Chino...syntheses. Most skarn deposits that are economic to mine are related to magmatism, meaning that investigation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tungsten deposit in the South China metallogenic province. The wolframite-bearing quartz veins mainly occur...Yaolanzhai tungsten deposits in the southern Jiangxi province. Furthermore, the Xintianling and Yaogangxian...Xianghualing tungsten-tin deposits in the southern Hunan province; and the Jubankeng, Dajinshan, Yaoling, and Meiziwo...deposits in the Guangdong province occur in the South China metallogenic province. These deposits are distributed...WNW-, NE-, and ENE-striking faults in the ore district (Fig. 2b). The ore-bearing quartz veins are mainly
Report (volume)
porphyry copper deposit in the Panagyurishte ore district, Srednogorie zone, Bulgaria: U-Pb zircon geochronology...activity of the Madjarovo base-precious metal ore district, eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria 137 KROHE, A. &...High Atlas (Morocco): the High Seksaoua mining district. 247 YAKUBCHUK, A. The Baikalide-Altaid, Transbaikal-Mongolian...single ore district. They find that volcanism in the Madjarovo volcanic complex and ore district in Bulgaria...Belt of Southwest Iberia, set within the larger province of the western Variscides. Tornos et al. show
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mainly focused on the central part (southern Hunan Province) and Tiantangshan deposit, as well as bring some...future the north‐eastern part (northern Jiangxi Province). However, few research and exploration of Sn–W...Nanling Range. Guangdong Province which borders on the southern Jiangxi Province), as the existing W–Sn...Mesozoic granites occurred on the County, Guangdong Province, south‐eastern China (Figure 1a,b) and Cathaysia...Shu & Wang, 2006; Zhou & Li, 2000). The widely province, is situated within the north‐western margin of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pb–Zn–Ag veins at the Shizhuyuan deposit, Hunan Province, southeastern China Shenghua Wu 1,2 & Jingwen...about 15 km southeast of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, within the Nanling W–Sn metallogenic belt (Fig...characterized by the giant Yanshanian igneous province that crosses the entirety of the Cathaysian block...Qianlishan granite and the Shizhuyuan polymetallic district (after Mao et al. 2011a, 2013) Cretaceous rift... and AuKα, PETH), molybdenite (MoKα, PETJ), bismuthinite (BiKα, PETJ), and herzenbergite (SnKα, PETJ)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
across the central Yukon, and into the Fairbanks district, Alaska. We studied intrusion-hosted sheeted vein...and pyrite, with locally coarse and abundant bismuthinite. Native gold, with negligible 568 silver...qualitative SEM spectra, is associated with bismuthinite, bismuth tellurides, and/or native bismuth....arsenopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, native bismuth, bismuthinite, bismuth telluride phases, bismuth-lead sulfosalts...mineralogy to past mined veins in the Keno Hill district (Lynch 1989; Hitchins and Orssich 1995). Scheelite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mined for Au and Ag in the Haenam metallogenic province. These deposits have no previously documented...Moisan-Eusan Gasado mine area 36°40ÂŽ Tongyoung Au-Ag mine Kwangyang Au-Ag mine 34°N Moisan Ogmaesan...actively being worked to produce Au and Ag. The Gasado mine is closed. The main orebodies of the deposits consist...ïŹssure Chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena bismuthinite, Au-rich electrum, Quartz, adularia, calcite...gold-silver ore deposits of the Haenam metallogenic province. Sample no. Weight g Minerala 3 10 a b c
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
km northwest of the city of Shangri-la, Yunnan Province (Fig. 1). The potential for Cu mineralization...accounts for 90% of the copper reserves in the district. This paper primarily focuses on these two ore...associated with skarntype alteration zones (~80%; Yangla mine staff, pers. com., 2011) and, to a lesser extent...Chlorite Pyrrhotite Molybdenite Bornite Chiviatite Bismuthinite Pyrite Quartz Chalcopyrite Sphalerite Galena...chalcopyrite, locally with chiviatite (Fig. 6I) and bismuthinite. Some Cu mineralization also occurs in the hornfelsed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction The Tien Shan Gold Belt, a metallogenic province in the Paleozoic orogenic systems of Central Asia...Deposita Mo porphyry deposits of the Almalyk ore district, where mineralized intrusions yielded whole-rock... Tetrahedrite-tennantite, bismuth minerals (bismuthinite, native Bi, tellurobismuthite, tetradymite)...River-Jinshajiang alkaline igneous belt, western Yunnan Province, China. Mineral Petrol 96:43–58 Biske YS, Seltmann...example of the Kairagach deposit (Kurama mineralized district, Middle Tien Shan). Geol Ore Deposits 2:115–128
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Yukon and composing the Tintina gold-bearing province are the most famous and well-studied gold deposits...(CuFeS2 ), cinnabar (HgS), greenockite (CdS), bismuthinite (Bi2 S3 ), stilleite (ZnSe), altaite (PbTe)...tetrahedrite; less widespread are marcasite, tennantite, bismuthinite, lollingite, alloclasite, siegenite, scheelite...(k) molybdenite veinlet in quartz. Ochunogdin district of the Kultuma deposit; (l) arsenopyrite–chalcopyrite–...Mo—molybdenite; Fhl—fahlore; Sp—sphalerite; Bis—bismuthinite; Au—native gold; (a–k) Nic. //; (l)—Nic. +.
Book (edition)
from Ore to Metal Dr. Karlheinz Spitz Greencorp, Indonesia John Trudinger Trudinger Consulting, Australia...Australia Cover photo: Abandoned Open Pit Copper Mine, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA Courtesy of Jim Wark © Jim...122 References 126 Chapter 05 The Anatomy of a Mine 127 5.1 It All Begins in the Earth 129 5.2 Exploration–From...Project Impacts 344 10.7 Cultural Heritage Sites and Mine Development 353 10.8 The Special Nature of Community...and Social Impact Statement 446 15.2 Environmental Mine Audits 450 15.3 Sometimes Things Go Wrong 456 References
Book
Contents 4.6.5 Candelaria, Punta Del Cobre District, Chilean Coastal Belt. . . . . . . . . . . . ...5.3.2 Ladolam Epithermal System, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Deposit, Abitibi-Wawa Greenstone Belt, Superior Province, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . 992 9.7.2 Central Australian Heat Flow Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995 9.8 An Unusual Amagmatic...deposit, ore deposit, mineral occurrence, prospect, mine, reserves and resources are familiar, but more rigorous
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
Book
Iron Skarn Deposit, Qiman Tagh Mountains, Qinghai Province Springer Theses Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D...Iron Skarn Deposit, Qiman Tagh Mountains, Qinghai Province Doctoral Thesis accepted by Peking University...ïŹeldwork in the Qiman Tagh Mountains, Qinghai Province, under the guidance of Researcher Chengyou Feng...anomalies in the Qiman Tagh Mountains, Qinghai Province. After exploration on the basis of the 1:50000–1:5000...Iron Skarn Deposit, Qiman Tagh Mountains, Qinghai Province . . . . . . . 235 References . . . . . . . .
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...& Nigel J. Cook The Nihe iron deposit, Anhui Province, eastern China: skarn, IOCG or porphyritic iron...the ages of Baiyanghe Be-U deposit in Xinjiang province, northwest China ..............................through polycyclic orogeny: the example of the Litsa district, Russia Anne-Sylvie André-Mayer, Michel Cuney...mantle-crustal ore-forming systems of the Pechenga ore district (Fennoscandian shield) .....................
 
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