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Tellurium from
Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Tellurium
Formula:Te
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tellurium data
Locality Data:Click here to view Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:288413
Long-form Identifier:1:3:288413:4
GUID (UUID V4):5e817d79-097c-4e4e-a0db-0aae0208b86b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cretaceous and Eocene Alteration, Twin Creeks Carlin-Type Deposit, Nevada C. M. HALL, STEPHEN E. KESLER,†...for adularia, illite, and muscovite from the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. All illite samples were...with previous measurements on adularia from Twin Creeks, but our Cretaceous dates are considerably older...previous studies of the nearby Getchell district, particularly the Osgood stock, which has a date of 98 to 92...92 Ma. Our results suggest that the Osgood stock is part of a more protracted Cretaceous igneous-hydrothermal
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Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, North-Central Nevada JEAN S. CLINE† University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway...Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 Abstract Pregold mineralization at the Getchell Carlin-type...galkhaite at Getchell and adularia at the nearby Twin Creeks mine, respectively, most closely approximate the...gold production is supplied by the state of Nevada (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1999), and most...from more than 100 Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada. In spite of this activity, there is no widely
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource
Report (issue)
Te1.00 . (4) HgTe. Occurrence: In hydrothermal tellurium-bearing precious metal veins. Mineral Group:...In the USA, in Colorado, at the Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Gunnison Co.; in the La Plata district, La Plata...the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Teller Co.; in California, at the Norwegian mine, near Tuttletown...Jamestown mine, Tuolumne Co.; in Nevada, at the Twin Creeks and Getchell mines, Potosi district, Humboldt...Outlaw mine, Round Mountain district, Nye Co.; and at the Gus Schave property, Olinhouse district, Washoe
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
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Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of sulfur in the Betze-Post-Screamer Deposit, Nevada, USA Received: 28 June 2004 / Accepted: 29 March...concentrations of arsenic, antimony, mercury, tellurium and other elements of environmental interest,...Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 48109 E-mail: skesler@umich.edu L. C. Riciputi Oak...Laboratory MS6365, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA involvement of hydrothermal solutions of sedimentary...Carlin-type deposit Æ Gold Æ arsenian pyrite Æ Nevada Introduction Carlin-type deposits, which are among
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE Ore‐forming physicochemical conditions of tellurium–gold deposits: A case study from the Guilaizhuang...University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China 3 Tellurium–gold deposits differ from normal gold mineralization...mineralization in their significant content of tellurium‐bearing minerals with a close relation between Au and...Te. The Guilaizhuang gold deposit is a major tellurium–gold deposit in the Shandong Province of China...argentite. Tellurides contain native tellurium, Guilaizhuang Mining Company, Shandong Gold Conglomerate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal release and transport in flooded pre-oxidized mine tailings—Paul H. Simms, Ernest K. Yanful, Lue St-Arnaud...geochemistry of a reactive barrier for treatment of mine drainage—Roger B. Herbert, Jr., Shawn G. Benner...arsenic-bearing gold deposits on water quality in Zloty Stok mining area (SW Poland)—H. Marszalek and M. Wasik 888...Sandiford, and Martin Hand 706 EXPLORATION AND MINING GEOLOGY 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 2295 The...Vol. 38, No. 7, 2000 Geology of Owl Creek gold mine, Timmins, Ontario—P.R. Coad, D.I. Brisbin, R.J.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOL. 98 May 2003 NO. 3 Invisible Gold and Tellurium in Arsenic-Rich Pyrite from the Emperor Gold Deposit...Te occurs as invisible tellurium or submicrometer-size inclusions of tellurium in arsenian pyrite, as...as visible native tellurium, and as tellurides. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron probe microanalysis...As in marcasite from the Getchell gold deposit, Nevada (Cline, 2001) as well as up to 3 wt percent Au...structures dipping <45o) in the central part of the mine, Ahmad et al. (1987) estimated that one-third of
Report (issue)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOLD METALLOGENY OF NORTHERN NEVADA Richard M. Tosdal editor Open-File Report 98-338-6...Contributions to the gold metallogeny of northern Nevada Preface R.M. Tbsdfl/.............................Regional crustal structure beneath the Carlin Trend, Nevada, based on deep electrical geophysical measurements...and its relation to gold belts in north-central Nevada: Overview and progress report V.J.S. Grawc/i.....autochthonous rocks that host gold along the Carlin trend, Nevada Augustus K. Armstrong, Ted G. Theodore, Robert
Report (issue)
mineralized areas prior to mining, and conditions that result from mining and mineral processing. Other...as climate, and anthropogenic factors (including mining and mineral processing methods) mostly modify the...exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...from mining, mineral processing, and smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site...readily soluble secondary salts associated with mine waste. The "environmental effects" of mineral deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Matanagata, Matanagata East, and R1 reveal that tellurium-bearing minerals, sylvanite, calaverite, krennerite...petzite, hessite, coloradoite, melonite, native tellurium, and rare benleonardite, formed during various...amounts. The average gold grade since commencement of mining in the early 1930s has been about 9 g=t but with...structures (< 45 )), in the central part of the mine, Ahmad et al. (1987) proposed eight stages (I–VIII)...Plan-view of the ore bodies at the Emperor gold mine projected to the surface. Open circles indicate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
andTextures of Gold-Bearing Arsenian Pyrite, TwinCreeks,Nevada: Implications for Deposition of Gold in Carlin-Type...of eachparagenetic stage(Table1). SometemperThe Twin Creeksmine,whichis approximately 70 kin atureswereobtained...studyof Groff(1996)by cornortheast of Winnemucca, Nevada(Fig. 1), hasan annual relatinghisobservations withtheparagenesis...quartznearthe TC faultthatappearto be associated with TWIN CREEKS DEPOSIT.'Au GEOCHEMISTRY & TEXTURES 407 KEY... •TWlN CREEKS LITHOLOGIC FAULT CONTACT 50000 NEVADA 'DZFAULT TWIN 48OOO CREEKS MINE e ß e•
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 3Centre...Turquoise Ridge, Getchell Trend, located in northern Nevada. NanoSIMS maps reveal that gold occurs in two discrete...West Banshee, two Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada. Clear patterns of chemical zoning in the pyrite...world-class Carlin-type gold deposits of northern Nevada provide 9 percent of global gold production (Cline...development (Bettles, 2002). Subsequent exploration and mining delineated bodies of refractory gold that is submicroscopic
Report (issue)
Sonora, Mexico Greg E. McKelvey, Phelps Dodge Mining Company Brenda B. Houser, Past-President, Arizona...explore the mining history and mineral deposits of one of the country's most important mining regions; further...reinterpreting the igneous geology of the Tucson Mountains and studying the relation of mineralization, rock...cyanide and toxic metals released from the Summitville mine on downstream water supplies and crops. The distribution...distribution and movement of metals from mining districts of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, and Rio Tinto, Spain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
may have precipitated in early relatively high tellurium concentration stage preceding gold mineralization...directly in the breccia ores, but can buffer the tellurium fugacity, and thus influence the gold precipitation...Cooke and McPhail, 2001). The association among tellurium, selenium and gold has long been recognized by... bismuthite for Bi, and native gold, silver, tellurium, copper, zinc, nickel, cobalt, and selenium for...Previous studies also reported native silver, tellurium, electrum, frohbergite, altaite, clausthalite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ⫹ .00 doi:10...University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, USA Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas...Microtrace, 1750 Grandstand Place, Elgin, IL 60123, USA 4 Advanced Mineral Technology Laboratory (AMTEL)...(1993) for Gold Quarry, Simon et al. (1999b) for Twin Creeks, Cline (2001) for Getchell, Ye (2001) for Screamer...spectroscopic data for arsenian pyrite samples from Twin Creeks (CTW150/898: Au⫹1⬃100%; and CTW12/822: Au0 ⬃62%)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Keywords: gold, copper, silver, arsenic, selenium, tellurium, pyrite, sector zoning, high sulfidation, element-distribution...Mots-clés: or, cuivre, argent, arsenic, sélénium, tellurium, pyrite, zonation sectorielle, fort degré de sulfuration...the trace elements for isomorphic substitution. Tellurium, which forms a sensibly larger anion, was incorporated...the staff at Compañia Minera Nevada for providing full access to the mine and samples. This research was...Structures. Shape Software, Kingsport, Tennessee 37663, USA. E LSETINOW , A.R., G UÈVREMONT , J.M., S TRONGIN
Journal (issue)
24-25—Annual Rodeo, Needles, California. Nov. 28-30—Nevada State Farm Bureau Convention, Ely. Nov. 30—Square.... 31 NEWS From here and there on the desert 32 MINING Current news of desert mines 37 URANIUM Latest...train my slothful eye. I find new prayers where mountains stand serene, Then send them high like shining...stand before the Candles of the Lord! Las Vegas, Nevada So long as desert hills shall stand Unchanged as...ON THE DESERT By MILDRED BREEDLOVE Las Vegas, Nevada The desert is a paint pot, Boasting every shade
Report (issue)
Deposits in the People's Republic of China and in Nevada, USA Zhiping Li1 and Stephen G. Peters 2 Open-File...Economic Geology, MS-172, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047. (or Tianjin Geological Academy...Mackay School of Mines, MS-176, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Jift, AU, AS, sbin B, U...Deposits in the People's Republic of China and in Nevada, USA Zhiping Li1 and Stephen G. Peters 2 Open-File...Economic Geology, MS-172, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047. (or Tianjin Geological 2 Academy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1100 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48509-1005, USA 5 Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu...main host for Au in Carlin-type Au deposits in Nevada (Arehart et al., 1993; Cline et al., 2005). "Invisible"...pyrite from Sulitjelma deposit (Norway), and Grace Mine, Pennsylvania (US) (Craig et al., 1998). The Au...18.6 wt. % for Betze Post and 7.7 wt. % for Twin Creeks. Also, highest concentrations of Au (0.19 wt...or other minerals) from Carlin-type deposits in Nevada. This is due to the small size of the fluid inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
primary host phase for Au in Carlin-type deposits in Nevada, the chemical and structural state of the Au has...from the Screamer deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, using analytical and high-resolution TEM and high-angle...the deposit. INTRODUCTION The Carlin-trend in Nevada hosts some of the worldʼs largest Au deposits,...deposit in Carlin trend located in northeastern Nevada (Leonardson and Rahn 1996; Ye et al. 2003). The...applicable to the concentration and recovery of Au in mining operations. ACKNOWLEGMENTS C. Palenik would like
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were collected from drill cores and underground mining, and they comprise all 153 the mineral assemblages...associated with rapid pyrite precipitation. 304 Tellurium (Te) is highly soluble in hydrothermal fluids...Epithermal Au-Ag-Te mineralization, Acupan, Baguio district, Philippines: numerical simulations of mineral...Carlin-type deposits, 414 north Carlin Trend, Nevada. Econ. Geol. 98, 1069–1105. 415 Fleet, M.E.,...Henry iron oxide copper gold deposit, Cloncurry District, NW Queensland. Explor. Min. Geol. 16, 125–143
 
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