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Polydymite from
Key West Mine, Whitney Pocket Basin, Bunkerville Mining District, Virgin Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Polydymite
Formula:Ni2+Ni23+S4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Polydymite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Key West Mine, Whitney Pocket Basin, Bunkerville Mining District, Virgin Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:289297
Long-form Identifier:1:3:289297:9
GUID (UUID V4):a3075baf-b26c-4c17-84ee-946b256f4306
Nearest other occurrences of Polydymite
1.8km (1.1 miles) Great Eastern mine, Bunkerville Mining District, Virgin Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (volume)
__ __________________ __ _________ Linnaeite, polydymite, siegenite, and violarite_____________ Other...---------------------------------- Lynn Lake district----------------------------------------Thompson-~oak...-----Alexo Nickel mine ____________________________________ - ___ Kenora district ______ ----- _____...___ ------------------------------------U nga va district ______________________________ - _- ---------UI...---------------------------------------Bohemia Basin, 1rakobi Island______________________________ Brady
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY JUNE-JULY, ORES FROM x924. KEY WEST No. 4 MINE, NEVADA. WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND W. MYRON...represent average nickel ore of the Key West Mine, in Southern Nevada, was transmittedto us by Dr. CharlesL...and their relations. The Key West Mine, in Clark County, in Southern Nevada, was briefly describedby...describedby Bancroft in z9o9.• The district lies abouttwenty-fourmileseastsoutheast of Moapaon the Salt Lake and...G•ol. Survey, pp. 192-199, I9o 9. in Southeastern Nevada," Bull. 430, lJ. S. 3o9 31o WALDEMAR ANALYSIS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Davy published a description of the Key West nickel mine, Nevada.2 Tliey note the same relationship;...Lindgren, W. and Dary, W. M., Nickel Ores from Key West mine, Nevada' Econ. Geology, vol. 19, pp. 3W-3I9, 1924...the Vermilion mine, Sudbury, Ontario, which for many years has been described as polydymite, and they conclude...question the identity of the Sudbury mineral with polydymite and conclude that it is a new mineral. They propose...publishing his own paper, Buddington examined the Key West specimens collected by Lindgren and Davy and found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
acceptedas the Fe-rich limit of the violarite-polydymite solid solutionseries. However, violarite with...positionsapproximately(Fe, Ni)aS4; the terms "greigite"and "polydymite" will be restrictedto the be•litepipe(Desborough...apparently forms a continuoussolid solutionserieswith polydymite (ideal formula, NiaS4), and together they form...(mediumgray) betweenviolarite (2) (white) and polydymite (light gray). Plane polarized light, oil, 500X...around pyrite grains (grayishwhite) enclosedin polydymite (light gray). Plane polarizedlight, oil, 200X
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
greigite, indite, kalininite, linnaeite, malanite, polydymite, siegenite, violarite, and xingzhongite. The...and they can represent important guides to the mining exploration (e.g., Heimann et al. 2005). Some spinels...cube-octahedral crystal with calcite from Kambove District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga, Democratic...occurrence at the Buena Vista Hills, Lovelock, Nevada, U.S.A. (Radtke 1962). Crystal structure data on...after the city of Filipstad, near which the Långban mine is 3+ 2+ located. The ideal chemical formula is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occunncncr: Found as a matted massof small prisms in a pocket in augitesyeniteat Narsarsuk,Greenland,associated...LrxocnnN and Mvnox Davv: Nickel Ores from the Key West Mine, Nevada. Econ. GeoI., 19, 3O9 (1924). Na.un: From...the Key West The Sudbury Mine, Clark Co., Nevada, as a replacement of the pentlandite. polydymite is shown...annabergitein the upper workings of the Hudson Bay Mine, Colbalt, Ontario. DrscussroN: Suggestedto be the...Maxce. Radioactive Chrysocolla from the Benade Padru Mine. Ann. Chim. Appli,cata, A, 123 (1924). Nllra. Suggested
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SULFIDE PARAGENESIS IN THE EASTERN METALS MONTMAGNY COUNTY, QUEBEC DEPOSIT, D. W. POLLOCK ABSTRACT The...studyinga suiteof specimens from the Eastern Metals mine in the Eastern Townships of the Provinceof Quebec...of nickelwasfirst reportedin 1949and in I95I the mining rights were purchasedby Ascot Metals Corporation...writer's visit. It has sincebeenacquired by Mogul Mining Corporation. The depositattractedattentiondue to...possibleorigin of the deposit. Location.---The Eastern Metals mine is situated in Rolette township, Montmagnycounty
Book
indexing is based "key words" in the titles, so that the user need remember only one key word from a title...come. Wendell E. Wilson Tucson May 24, 1995 5 KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS The following abbreviations and...ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
Report (volume)
occurs in minor amounts in the following sulfides: Polydymite, millerite, siegenite, bravoite, and violarite...of nickel are those being mined in the Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada. Vast nickeliferous laterites...BIBLIOGRAPHY Aaron, C. H., 1882, Nickel and cobalt: Mining Sci. Press, v. 44, no. 12, p. 196. Acad. Sci. U...Manitoba ; Canadian Mining Metall. Bull. 461, p. 509-514; Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans...Cost of mining 55 tons of copper-nickel ore at the Great Eastern prospect, Bunkerville, Clark County, Nev
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 the frequent association of violarite with polydymite (NiaSa)and the similarity of their compositions...of violarite and development of the violarite-polydymite solid solution at: A-500"C, B-450'C, C-400oC...Ni)Sz, and vaesite,(Ni, Fe)Sz,have been taken from Clark and Ktillerud (1963) who extrapolated data from...reach FeNizSaat 356+3oC, the upper stability of polydymite (Kullerud and yund, 1962). HomogeneousFeNirS+-NisSi+solid...pyrite-millerite tie hnes. The violarite and polydymite anall'seslisted by Tarr (1935) and by Buchans
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is located at Alistos, in the Badiraguato mining district, Sinaloa, Mexico, near the boundary of Sinaloa...the nickel-gold deposit near Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington, a serpentinized peridotite is intrusive...no native gold, the Copper King mine near Gold Hill, Boulder County, Colorado, more nearly resemblesthe...(9). The ore consists of the nickel minerals polydymite, pentlandite, millerite, niccolite, bravoite...schist of the Idaho Springs formation, half a mile west of the border of a small batholith of the pre-Cambrian
Report (volume)
Bulletin nos. 26, 27; Museum Paper no. 7; County Report no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...Geologists: Bulletin, vols. 7, 8. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...Mineralogist, vols. 8, 9. Menasha, Wis. American Mining Congress: Reports of 25th and 26th Annual Conventions...nos. 1-28. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos 91-93. San Francisco, Calif...vols. 37, 38. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 25, 26; Monthly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
very little unidentified material) Etna mine, Napa County, Calif. Roebling Collection 617, Westerwald...Saxony Holden Collection 82030, Lammerichskaule mine, Westphalia, Germany Violarite (on cinnabar) Iron...noted by Calkins (1916) and by Hudson (1922) as "polydymite," by Tolman and Rogers (1916) as "pentlandite...(1916), An occurrence of nickel ore in San Diego County, California: U. S. GeoI Stuvey, BuIl. 640, 77-82...& Davy, W. M. (1924), Nickel ores from Key West mine, Nevada: Econ. G e o l o g y , 1 9 , 3 0 93 1 9
Report (volume)
Bulletin, vol. 45. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, UOS. 73-84; Transactions,...4th ser., vols. 35, 36. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, 15th Ann. Session;... 265-454. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau : Bulletin, no. 63. San Francisco, Cal....Transactions, vol. 10, pt. 1. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Quarterly Bulletin, no. 22; Journal...General Index, vols. 1-10. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 34. Toronto and Montreal. Canada
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
....................... 25 26 26 History of Mining ........................................ 26 Previous...locatednearthe southeast corner of the stock about 1.5 miles west of Loon Hill. The site of theseoperations is the...operations, butsurveys madein 1710show"MinePit" and"Mine 28 WILLIAM H. DENNEN. Pit Hill," andit is quitepossible...depositwasworkedas early as the Sturbridge,Massachusetts mine openedin 1640. Accountsdiffer, but it seemsprobablethat...re deflectedby the pyrrhotite,abundanton Nickel Mine Hill. It is said that in 1726 a shallowshaft was
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous............................... Maryland and the District of Columbia.....................................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike..................................... 2. Crystal Falls district, Michigan.................................. ....................... Schist from the Aragon iron mine............................... ill 17 .18 18 19
Journal (issue)
to: Mrs. Juanita Curtis, Executive Secretary 609 West 36th Street, Long Beach, Calif. 90806 NORTHWEST...thru 5. Three Rivers Mineralogy Society. Columbia Basin Show. Richland Community House. 400 George Washington...customers MINIMUM ORDER $5.00 • WE PAY POSTAGE USA on Items This Ad e 10 DAY RETURN PRIVILEGE e SATISFACTION...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County. 8th Annual " Bouquet of Gems and Minerals" Show...4.00 I 6.00 I 8.00 110.00 110.50 S16.50 126.00 MINE RUN OPAL SPECIAL 10 OUNCES FROM COOBER PEDY 10
Report (volume)
FROM THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TABULATED BY F. W. CLARK 114, CHIEF CHEMIST WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook 'County 2. Miscellaneous rocks5 v New Hampshire 5 Vermont...rocks New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland and the District of Columbia 1. Peridotite and pyroxenite 2. Gabbro...Carolina Georgia Kentucky 1.. Elliott County dike 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma...1. Marquette region, Michigan 2. Crystal Falls district, Michigan 5 3. Keweenaw Point, Michigan 4. Menominee
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...Salzburg. Wyoming read Nevada. Near Burns, Oregon. for Wyoming read Nevada. for delete for pageite...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the top
Journal (issue)
... . ....... . . . .. 16 Ontario's Deloro Gold Mine by W. D. Christianson .............. . .. . ......to: Mrs. Juanita Curtis, Executive Secretary 609 West 36th Street. long Beach, Callf. 90806 NORTHWEST...by Floyd Oles ... . ............ 22 Sidewinder Mountains Marble Quarries by Mary Frances Strong .........Portland, Or. 92719. CLUB SHOWS Feb. 4 thru 6. Gila County Gem and Mineral Society. 15th Annual Show. Gila...Verde Improvement Atto• c l1tlon. 2nd Annual Show. Clark Way, Palo Verde . Ca. (20 ml. southwest of Blythe
Book (edition)
waters-Summary- Interpretation of ·water analyses-Mine waters-Chloride waters- Carbonate waters-Sulphate...deposits in the United States-Brazil-India-West Indies-West Africa-Production and uses-Residual bariteResidual...veins in basic lavas-General features-The l(ennecott mine, Alaska-Copper sulphide veins in intrusive basic...·veins-1\tlincral association- Origin-Mine \vatcrs-Rock alteration-Mining and srnelting operations-The copper...\1exico-Black Mountains, Arizona-Gold-quartz veins in rhyolite-Argentite-gold-quartz veins-Tonopah, Nevada-The
 
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