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Pyrite from
Gratz Mine, Owen County, Kentucky, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gratz Mine, Owen County, Kentucky, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:660622
Long-form Identifier:1:3:660622:0
GUID (UUID V4):fd4d84cb-01d2-46d8-87d2-e924542cf46b
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
32.1km (20.0 miles) Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, USA
33.3km (20.7 miles) Ohio River alluvials, Florence, Switzerland County, Indiana, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) Wm. Davis Vein, Scott County, Kentucky, USA
48.8km (30.3 miles) Railroad cut, Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, USA
62.1km (38.6 miles) Hanson Aggregates Cooper Lane Quarry, Clark County, Indiana, USA
69.6km (43.3 miles) Sellersburg Stone Quarry, Clark County, Indiana, USA
71.4km (44.4 miles) Atkins Quarry, Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, USA
71.8km (44.6 miles) Atkins Plant & Quarry, Clark County, Indiana, USA
80.9km (50.3 miles) Bullitt County Quarry (Bells Mills Quarry; Rogers Group), Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA
81.5km (50.7 miles) Sheperdsville Quarry (Quality Stone - Ready Mix), Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kentucky Kentucky Mineral Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [Dalhousie University] at 18:01 27 December...Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are...nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden
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ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy
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Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 8572 I. USA Abstract-Values of 637Cl can now be routinely measured...ROCK AN0 MINERAL LEACHATES Mineral Sample Type pyrite pynte quartz quartz quartz WL WL WL WL WL 868...Sample Location KNOX GROUP, TENNESSEE Sl Gordonsville mine 52 53 s4 55 S6 P102592 P102630 P102649 sphalerite...salinities were 7-9 eq. wt% NaCl ( ROEDDER, 197 1b; GRATZ and MISRA, 1987). The host Mascot Dolomite, part...around Elmwood and Gordonsville (Fig. 3), including mine water from Gordonsville, brine from two wells in
Report (volume)
Elements In Sphalerite and Wallrocks From Central Kentucky, Tennessee And Appalachian Zinc Districts GEOLOGICAL...Elements In Sphalerite and Wallrocks From Central Kentucky, Tennessee And Appalachian Zinc Districts By JANICE...paragenesis in the central Kentucky mineral district ____________ _ 3. Sketch of Faircloth mine adit showing location...analyses of selected sphalerites from the central Kentucky, central Tennessee, and other mineral districts...gallium content of sphalerites from the central Kentucky mineral district showing distribution by zone
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ore-stage calcite: Application to the Illinois-Kentucky and Central Tennessee Mississippi Valley-type...Geological Sciences Building, Columbia, MO 65211, USA Received 13 June 2017; accepted in revised form 16...calcite. This method was applied to the Illinois-Kentucky and Central Tennessee districts, which both contain...with the calcite structure. For both the Illinois-Kentucky and the Central Tennessee district, predicted...of the observed amounts of Zn in the Illinois-Kentucky and Central Tennessee districts within ranges
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
various forms of investigation in the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district has establishedcertain requirementsto...AWNEETOWN M I LES HICKS/ DOME KOFIN MINE FiG. 2. Illinois-Kentucky fluorspardistrict and somestructural...studiesof homogenAn aeromagnetic surveyof Hardin County (Mc- izationtemperatures of the fluid in crystalinclusions...the silica was taken into A secondarea in Hardin County is the Central solutionby the ore solutionsand...specificdetailssuch The third area, locatedin Kentucky,is in the vi- as faulting and folding. The stratigraphyindicates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorite, barite, and sphaleritefrom the Central Kentucky, Central Tennessee,and Sweetwater barite districts...differently colored outer millimeter of one Central Kentucky fluoritehad low salinity (4-6 percent). The data...methane. Coy mine, had three large primary inclusionsin it. Fro. 3. Fluorite, Coy Mine, Mascot-JeffersonCity...samesample. ER 65-114. Fro. 4. Fluorite, Ballard mine, Sweetwater barite district, East Tennessee. Both...rehealing. ER 65-106. Fro. 5. Fluorite, Ballard mine, Sweetwaterbarite district, East Tennessee.Small
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occur at shipping many tons and the mine shows the old Lane bismuth mine, at Monroe, promise of being another...(fluorDELAWARE — Gray cleavable masses ite) from this mine is of all colors and of orthoclase have been found...just like a 20 inch quartzite band which has been mine. I have been informed so many injected and locally...Georgia. The Cobb p:bbles have been found in Chicago, County specimen was collected by Bob Cook Co., III., on...away." Delphi is in the western part of Carroll County in the central part of the state. IOWA — A nice
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state...state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GordonsvilleZinc Deposit, Central Tennessee JEFFREY F. GRATZ*ANDKULAC. MISRA Departmentof Geological Sciences...samplesfor this studywere collectedfrom the Gordonsville mine. Most of the sampleswere obtainedfrom stopeswhich...this studyshouldbe applicable menced at the Elmwood mine in 1975 and at the to the nearbyElmwood depositwhich...-7--35 Surfaceveins Fluorite 64-151 Ehnwood mine Fluorite 99-126 Elmwood-Gordonsville mines Sphalerite...The Ehnwoodmineis locatedclose to the Gordonsville mine,nearthe apexof the Nashvilledome.The otherimpor
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and associated cover sequence, SE Pennsylvania, USA Joseph M. Pyle Department of Earth and Environmental...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180-3522, USA Received 14 February 2005; accepted 16 August 2005...Paleozoic Chester Valley Sequence (CVS) (SE PA, USA) reveals overprinting of primary major and accessory...Lithos 88 (2006) 201–232 ed monazite–xenotime (Gratz and Heinrich, 1997; Heinrich et al., 1997; Pyle...Mesoproterozoic Honey Brook Upland (southeastern Pennsylvania, USA) and its Paleozoic sedimentary cover, the Chester
Report (issue)
indicated by changes in the aggregate square miles per county of mined-out areas in the three main coal beds:...comprising parts of Indiana, Illinois, and western Kentucky, were identified by the panel as having the highest...http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1625d/ State databases: Kentucky http://kgs.uky.edu/kgsweb/DataSearching/Coal/...preparation procedure and residence of mercury in pyrite removed by coal preparation. In addition to coal...basin extend into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. In Illinois, the most economically important
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe Oxide-(Y + REE) Deposit, Southeast Missouri, USA* Daniel E. Harlov,1,2 Corey J. Meighan,3 Ian D. Kerr...the St. Francois Mountains, southeast Missouri, USA. It consists of a series of altered zones composed...Mineville orebody, Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA (McKeown and Klemic, 1956; Lupulescu and Pyle, 2005...after magnetite, phlogopite, actinolite, talc, pyrite, and chalcopyrite (see Hofstra et al., 2016, fig...fillings of quartz, fluorapatite, barite, calcite, pyrite, specular hematite, and synchysite. Rutile also
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
al., 2016a). Hydrothermal pyrite samples handpicked from Illinois coals, USA, have M near-zero Δ199Hg...Wulantuga Ge-hosted coal deposit is an open pit mine of lignite located at the southwestern margin of...northwestern Huaibei Coalfield is an underground CE mine covering 28 km2, and is situated at the intersection...the southern than the northern part of the coal mine. The magmas are thought to derive from the southern...mainly M composed of quartz, kaolinite, gypsum and pyrite (Fig. S2). This mineralogical ED combination
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silver specimens are not uncommon at the Monte Cristo Mine. To reach the Monte Cristo, take road to Constallation...drives. There is a store at Crown King; Crown King Mine is no longer in operation. Good Pyrites of Iron...National Gypsum Co. plant. The new plant, fed by a mine 1700 feet long, will turn out enough wallboard in...scheduled to take part in the dedication, inspect the mine and watch the town's hour-long parade were Gov...."Have been trying to get you a specimen from this mine but no luck so far."— note from Mr. Reeves attached
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wisconsin-Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA d State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry...(472–1010 ngg1), intermediate concentrations in pyrite (195–342 ngg1) and the lowest in galena (65–310...Gantner et al. (2009), Gehrke et al. (2009; 2011), Gratz et al. (2010), Sherman et al. (2012), Sonke et al...and metamorphic) from the California Coast Range (USA), which vary from 17 to 288 ppb and –1.70 to 1.61‰...of chimney precipitates from the Guaymas Basin (USA), and hypothesized that it could represent the mantle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA Department of Geological Sciences, University of...of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 1410, USA Received: December 1, 1991 / Accepted: June 15, 1993...including detailed sampling of one stope from each mine, and focuses on the characterization of the sand...exception is the Central Tennessee zinc district (Gratz and Misra 1987), the only other active zinc district...in which each identifiable lithologic unit in a mine is named according to its elevation relative to
Report (issue)
the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of Central Kentucky By EARLE R. CRESSMAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... PAPER 768 Prepared in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey A desc1·ijJtion of a Middle...Stratigraphic sections of the Lexington Limestone. central Kentucky, showing ranges of fossils along1. Line A-A'....stratigraphic sections of Lexing'~n Limestone, central Kentucky. Generalized composite fence diagram of Lexington...Lexington Limestone and equivalent formations, central Kentucky, 1 showing facies relations. • Block diagrams
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1993; Seeger et al., 2001). Although the Pea Ridge mine closed in 2001 and all underground workings became...earlier work, and drill core stored at the Pea Ridge mine and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources...surveys, mining began in 1964 and continued until the mine closed in 2001; total ore production was 136 Mt...38 º Steelville pluton Caldera boundary No Data Mine or prospect for Fe, Mn, Cu, Co, and/or REEs Potosi...vein adjacent to a breccia pipe underground in the mine, are directly applicable to the present study. Whole-rock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Survey, P.O. Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Plaza M. Meca...Keywords: Mercury isotopes Retorting Cinnabar ore Mine waste calcine Mass dependent fractionation a b...measure Hg isotopic compositions of cinnabar ore, mine waste calcine (retorted ore), elemental Hg (Hg0(L))...concentrations of Hg (N1% in some areas) present in discarded mine wastes, including calcine at these sites (Gray et...Center, P.O. Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225 USA. Tel.: +1 303 236 2446; fax: +1 303 2363200. E-mail
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe) IN SPHALERITE FROM THE TENNESSEE MVT DEPOSITS, USA, BY COMBINED EMPA, LA-ICP-MS, RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY...Mississippi Valley and the Appalachian Mountains in the USA. Two main mining districts can be distinguished:...Callahan 1977, Fischer 1977, Gaylord & Briskey 1983, Gratz & Misra 1987, Gaylord 1995). The mineralization...calcite, fluorite, baryte, and some traces of galena, pyrite, and marcasite (Gaylord 1995). Calcite is the main...districts. mineralizing fluids has been studied by Gratz & Misra (1987) using fluid inclusions found in the
Book (volume)
seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Wisconsin-Madison, NU 2 Madison, WI, 53706, USA State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and...is mainly observed in atmospheric samples CE (Gratz et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2012; Sun et al., 2016)...centimeters thick, and contains rip-up PT clasts of pyrite, phosphorite and a phase composed mainly of Mo...examined two Early Cambrian black shale units from two mine sites in Guizhou, SW China: (1) the polymetallic...important pathway for depositing atmospheric Hg (Gratz et al., 2010). D MIF of odd Hg isotopes is believed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the world’s biggest tin deposits, the Siglo XX mine, Salvadora stock, Llallagua, Bolivia. The Llallagua...University, 118 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, USA 2 GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg...consist mainly of quartz-tourmalinesericite and pyrite (Sillitoe et al. 1975). Tourmalinization is most...(former Llallagua mine general manager) at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. These were collected...by Bandy when he was the chief geologist at the mine (Hyrsl and Petrov 2006). They also include samples
 
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