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Sylvanite from
Ashanti Mine, Obuasi Gold Project, Ashanti Region, Ghana


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sylvanite
Formula:AgAuTe4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sylvanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ashanti Mine, Obuasi Gold Project, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:605670
Long-form Identifier:1:3:605670:4
GUID (UUID V4):c88b5373-b86d-48d0-882f-feadd0d06a6c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Telluride mineralization at Ashanti gold mine, Ghana R. J. BOWELL, R. P. FOSTER Department of Geology...Road, London SW7 5BD Abstract Gold mineralization at the Ashanti Mine occurs in shear zones which are...zone. However, gold-rich telluride mineralization in veins in the hangingwall of the Obuasi ore zone at...at Ashanti appears to have post-dated development of the major gold-bearing shear zone. Complex assemblages...goethite, chalcocite, coloradoite, calaverite, sylvanite, kostovite, petzite, stutzite, hessite, altaite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfide Oxidation and Production of Gossans, Ashanti Mine, Ghana R. J. Bowell a a Department of Geology...Sulfide Oxidation and Production of Gossans, Ashanti Mine, Ghana, International Geology Review, 36:8, 732-752...Sulfide Oxidation and Production of Gossans, Ashanti Mine, Ghana1 R. J. BOWELL Department of Geology,...the Justice mine, in the Ashanti goldfields of southwestern Ghana, chemical weathering of gold-bearing sulfide-rich...geochemical features that are diagnostic. In this type of gold mineralization, the most abundant sulfides are arsenopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Supergene gold mineralogy at Ashanti, Ghana" Implications for the supergene behaviour of gold R. J. BOWELL*...Southampton SO9 5NH Abstract A t the Ashanti concession, Ghana, gold-bearing quartz veins and disseminated...hypogene ore zone. In the unweathered hypogene orebody, gold occurs as free grains in quartz, as sub-microscopic...disseminated arsenopyrite, as gold tellurides and as aurostibite. The gold is released from the hypogene...complexing. Dissolution and reprecipitation of the gold appears to have taken place largely in situ with
Report (issue)
From gold- and tellurium-bearing replacement copper deposits (Chelopech, Bulgaria; Campbell mine, Arizona...hessite, sylvanite (Buckeye Gulch, Colorado, USA); tellurium, altaite, calaverite, sylvanite, petzite...Chelopech deposit, Sofia, Bulgaria [TL]. In the Campbell mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, and at Buckeye Gulch...Kochbulak gold deposit, Chatkal-Kuramin Mountains, eastern Uzbekistan. In the Guilaizhuang gold deposit...Shandong Province, China. At the Ashanti gold deposit, Obuasi, Ghana. Name: To honor Professor Ivan Kostov
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volume 99, pages 1171ā€“1174, 2014 Letter Microporous gold: Comparison of textures from Nature and experiments...Abstract Recent experiments have shown that microporous gold can be obtained via the oxidative dealloying of...calaverite (AuTe2), krennerite (Au3AgTe8), and sylvanite [(Au,Ag)2Te4] under mild hydrothermal conditions...The same Au textures have been found in natural gold-telluride ores from the Late Miocene epithermal... Russia. This confirms that natural microporous gold can form via the replacement of telluride minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Africa: Evidence for Two Distinct Styles of Orogenic Gold Mineralization DAVID M. LAWRENCEā€ ,1,*, PETER J....JE2 4WJ Abstract Loulo is a world-class orogenic gold mining district in the Birimian terrane of western...shear zone, with gold mineralization largely linked to a transtensional event. The mine camp is divided...divided into two distinct styles of gold deposit on the basis of differing geologic characteristics. One group...tourmalinization (pre-, syn- and postmineralization). Gold lodes are Fe-rich (dominated by nickeloan pyrite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of native gold and electrum, the gold telluride calaverite may well be the most important gold ore mineral...development of all other Colorado gold districts. Unlike most gold deposits, weathering of those characterized...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...tellurides. Sylvanite, another important gold telluride, was featured in a previous Connoisseurā€™s Choice (Cook
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom Gold (Holdings) Ltd, 3rd Floor, Unity Chambers, 28 Halkett...the ultimate source of the ore fluids in orogenic gold deposits, with the metals scavenged from the same...sedimentary rocks, ca. 2110-2100 Ma Ahaufo, Yamfo Obuasi N 6Āŗ Bonikro Tarkwa, Iduapriem Golds deposit...2135-2100 Ma Archean rocks, Kenema-Man Domain Gold deposit size skarn Eburnean basin orogenic Eoeburnean...data Exploration targets 235E 230E 225E Au mine Gefa Faults, fractures and shear zones from drilling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Original Article (Au, Ag)Te2 Minerals from Epithermal Gold Deposits in Japan Kosei KOMURO1 and Masataka NAKATA2...calaverite (AuTe2), sylvanite (AuAgTe4) and krennerite ((Au, Ag)Te2) in epithermal gold telluride ores from...tellurium, to sylvanite, in the order of crystallization. A sample from Kawazu contains sylvanite and native...gray quartz part. The Teine sample also contains sylvanite and native tellurium with barite and quartz. The...patterns of XRD of calaverite, krennerite and sylvanite from Suzaki are almost identical to that of JCPDS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2015 Keywords: Gounkoto gold deposit Fluid inclusions Stable isotopes Orogenic gold mineralisation Birimian...ounce orogenic gold deposits, situated along the Senegalā€“Mali Shear Zone. This west Malian gold belt represents...represents the largest West African orogenic gold district outside Ghana. The Gounkoto deposit is hosted to the...the south of the Gara and Yalea gold mines in the Koļ¬ Series metasedimentary rocks. The ore body is structurally...deposits as well as numerous satellites. With the Loulo Mine (Gara and Yalea deposits) to the north, the Gounkoto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
38, pp. 1265-1281 (2000) CHEMICAL SPECIATION OF GOLD IN ARSENOPYRITE LOUIS J. CABRIĀ§ Canada Centre for...ABSTRACT The speciation of Au in gold-bearing arsenopyrite (FeAsS) from four gold deposits (Olympiada, Sentachan...mass spectrometry analyses and images. ā€œInvisibleā€ gold in arsenopyrite occurs in two apparently mutually...Bento and Sheba deposits contains chemically bound gold. With comparable constituent electronegativities...being covalent rather than ionic. The invisible gold in arsenopyrite from the Olympiada deposit, on the
Report (issue)
2 osmium 190.2 iridium 192.2 platinum 195.1 gold 197.0 mercury 200.5 thallium 204.4 lead 207.2............................. R6 Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits............................................................................. R9 Orogenic Gold Deposits......................................................................... R11 Carlin-Type Gold Deposits..................................................................................... R15 Mine Waste Characteristics..........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the polychronous nature of the giant Muruntau gold deposit from wall-rock alteration and ore paragenetic...on the polychronous nature of the giant Muruntau gold deposit from wall-rock alteration and ore paragenetic...on the polychronous nature of the giant Muruntau gold deposit from wall-rock alteration and ore paragenetic...in north-central Uzbekistan is one of the biggest gold deposits in the world with 45200 t of contained...KEY WORDS: intrusion-related gold, Muruntau, ore genesis, orogenic gold, Paleozoic, Uzbekistan. INTRODUCTION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stabilitiesof binary silvertelluridesandternary gold-silvertelluridescannotbe calculateddue to a lack...assemblages,to determinethe physicochemical conditionsof gold-silvertelluride formation.For example,the mutual...of reactionsin the systems dynamic data for most gold and/or silver tellurides. Te-O-H, Au-Te-C1-S-O-H...to understand the originof the BessieG epithermal gold telluride deposit.Unfortunately,details con-AG logKT-...stability of temperature: aqueoustelluriumspeciesand gold-silvertellurides in the systems Te-O-H, Au-C1-S-Te-O-H
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
control on gold distribution in As-free pyrite from the Dongping, Huangtuliang and Hougou gold deposits...February 2009 Editor: D. Rickard Keywords: Invisible gold As-free pyrite Tellurides In situ laser-ablation...Pyrite from the Dongping, Huangtuliang and Hougou gold deposits, Hebei Province, China, was investigated...invisible gold in As-free pyrite. The dataset shows excellent correspondence between measured high gold values...(Huangtuliang). Invisible gold is only at trace levels in the Hougou and gold-bearing telluride minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C) constraints on the genesis of the Pedra Branca gold deposit, Troia Massif, Borborema Province, NE Brazil:...Brazil: an example of hypozonal orogenic gold mineralization Felipe Grandjean da Costa, Evandro Luiz Klein...C) constraints on the genesis of the Pedra Branca gold deposit, Troia Massif, Borborema Province, NE Brazil:...Brazil: an example of hypozonal orogenic gold mineralization, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...C) constraints on the genesis of the Pedra Branca gold deposit, Troia Massif, Borborema Province, NE Brazil:
Journal (issue)
His family came to the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining District in the early 1890s where they mined...mineral, and fossil collecting in the Pikes Peak region. The Pebble Pup program participates with the Future...like me used to single syllable Fig. 1. Bradbury Gold and Silver certificate from Custer words like dog...never issued certificate printed by the Bradbury Gold and Silver Company (Fig.1). Their principal place...locate information on any success of the Bradbury Gold and Silver Mining Company. Perhaps a visit to the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev Gold mineralization in the Guilaizhuang deposit, southwestern...2013 Keywords: Gold mineralization Sulļ¬de Telluride Selenide Phase relation Guilaizhuang gold deposit China...Guilaizhuang gold deposit is composed of limestone- and breccia-type ores. In the limestone ores, gold is hosted...whereas in the breccia ores, tellurides are the main gold carriers. Selenium often isomorphously substitutes...by phase diagrams at 250 Ā°C, the temperature for gold precipitation in the Guilaizhuang deposit. According
Report (issue)
~I . ā€¢ -WAR PERIOD ~ 7.7.. . ~4-2 . I OJL GOLD ā€¢ (1913- 1919) ā€¢ ā€¢ ' LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED...technical information) relative to the production of Gold will form a part of the volume or volumes on the...Chairman of the .Lt\.dvisory Technical Committee on Gold. . (Signed) R. A. 8. REDMAYNE, Chairman of Governors...OF GOLD ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ 8 MARKETING OF GOLD IN RECENT YEARS ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ 9 PRICE OF GOLD . -...ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti ... Nigeria ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ Rhodesia
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...copper, 51 700 tonnes of silver and 1,9 tonnes of gold. Photo: Olof Martinsson, LuleƄ University of Technology...Petrology of low-sulphide PGE ores of the Norilsk region ................................................Norman Pearson, Jan Kramers & Dmitry Kuzmin Orogenic gold deposits .. ................................................................... 1085 The orogenic gold mineral system . . ............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the coupled behavior of gold and silver in hydrothermal processes: Gold ļ¬neness, Au/Ag ratios and their... Rickard Keywords: Hydrothermal gold deposits Ore geochemistry Gold ļ¬neness Au(Ag)-bearing pyrite Thermodynamic...modeling Au/Ag ratios a b s t r a c t An estimation of gold ļ¬neness deposited from aqueous sulphideā€“chloride...of hydrothermal gold deposits of different types are summarized. Wide ranges of gold ļ¬neness and low...ore-forming solutions (types Iā€“III). High ļ¬neness gold and high values of (Au/Ag)ore ratio of Auā€“Te, Auā€“As
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Invisible Gold Paragenesis and Geochemistry in Pyrite from Orogenic and Sediment-Hosted Gold Deposits...pyrite in ten gold deposits is used to determine the precise siting of invisible gold within pyrite,... and thus the timing of gold introduction relative to the growth of pyrite and related orogenic events...events. A spectrum of invisible gold relationships in pyrite has been observed which suggests that, relative...relative to orogenic pyrite growth, gold introduction in some deposits is early at the start of pyrite growth;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
355ā€“386 Geochronological Constraints on the Tropicana Gold Deposit and Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia...Phillips,7 and Birger Rasmussen2 1 AngloGold Ashanti Ltd., L13 St. Martins Tower, 44 St. Georges Terrace...Victoria 3010, Australia Abstract Gold mineralization at the Tropicana mine occurs within the Plumridge terrane...conditions by the time of economic gold mineralization. The major gold-bearing pyrite-biotite-sericite mineralization...considered to provide the best direct measurement age of gold mineralization. The Tropicana Gneiss was derived
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was carried out in the San Luis Alta telluriderich gold deposit, mid-south Peru, to contribute towards determining...mineralization is considered an intrusion-related gold deposit located in the Arequipa segment of the Coastal...pyrite with minor chalcopyrite and galena. Native gold and telluride minerals are abundant. Mineral chemistry...mineralogy of veins was classified into four stages. Gold occurs in the three last stages either in large... more frequently, in grains of less than 10 Āµm. Gold appears as grains encapsulated in pyrite, Fe oxides
Book
15 ADVANCES IN GOLD ORE PROCESSING i Cover photograph (C) Mike Adams, 2005. Gold pour at AGR Matthey... DEVELOPMENTS IN MINERAL PROCESSING 15 ADVANCES IN GOLD ORE PROCESSING MIKE D. ADAMS MUTIS LIBER PTY LTD...& Associates, Perth, Australia S. Ellis Barrick Gold of Australia, Perth, Australia S.L. Chryssoulis...Goldstrike Mines Inc, Elko, USA S. Flatman AngloGold Ashanti, Ergo Operation, South Africa vi Contributors...Lakeļ¬eld, Ontario, Canada T. Gibbons AngloGold Ashanti Australia Limited, Perth, Australia S. Gray Gekko
 
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