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Metacinnabar from
Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Metacinnabar
Formula:HgS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Metacinnabar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:287431
Long-form Identifier:1:3:287431:9
GUID (UUID V4):dc06e9ce-6a0a-4fda-b183-77fd3870f39e
Nearest other occurrences of Metacinnabar
55.8km (34.6 miles) ⓘSilver Cloud Mine, Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
55.8km (34.7 miles) ⓘSilver Cloud Mine (New Verde Mine), Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
68.3km (42.5 miles) ⓘBuckskin Mountain, National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
77.4km (48.1 miles) ⓘMeikle Mine, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
78.5km (48.8 miles) ⓘPurple Vein prospect, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
77 (As3.34 Sb0.42 )ÎŁ=3.76 S12.00 . (2) Getchell mine, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds...deposits. Association: Pyrite, stibnite, cinnabar, metacinnabar, aktashite, enargite, wakabayashilite, orpiment...orpiment, getchellite, fluorite, quartz (Getchell mine, Nevada, USA). Distribution: From the Gal-Khaya mercury...Range. In the USA, in Nevada, large crystals from the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co.; at the...the Carlin mine, 50 km northwest of Elko, and the Goldstrike and Rodeo mines, Lynn district, Eureka Co
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
19:59 08 January 2015 Near Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada U ntil what seems like only a few years ago...discovery of unusually fine cinnabar in northern Nevada in the late 1970s signaled the beginning of the...well-crystallized specimens. One of the best of these “new era” Nevada specimens has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...been reported. Cinnabar is trimorphous with metacinnabar and hypercinnabar. Pseudomorphs of cinnabar...tetrahedrite, dolomite, stibnite, sphalerite, barite, metacinnabar, and even fossil shells have been described
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
Report (issue)
getchellite, sphalerite (Getchell mine, Nevada, USA); galkhaite, stibnite, cinnabar, metacinnabar, sphalerite, fluorite...France [TL]. In the USA, at the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., Nevada. From the Chauvai...structure and second occurrence from the Getchell mine, Nevada. Amer. Mineral., 68, 235–244. (4) Stepanov
Report (issue)
) X-ray Powder Pattern: B and B deposit, Idaho, USA. 3.08 (vs), 1.888 (s), 3.16 (ms), 1.608 (ms), 3.60...5 26.7 Total 102.1 (1) B and B deposit, Idaho, USA; by electron microprobe, average analysis of 15 grains...deposit, Idaho, USA). Association: Stibnite, cinnabar, mercurian sphalerite, zincian metacinnabar (B and B...deposit, Idaho, USA); realgar (Getchell mine, Nevada, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from the B and...Big Creek district, Valley Co., Idaho [TL], and in the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., Nevada
Report (issue)
hydrothermal As–Sb–Hg deposits. Association: Cinnabar, metacinnabar, realgar, mercurian tennantite, mercury, cubanite...deposit, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia [TL]. At the Tyute mercury deposit, Altai Mountains, Russia. In the...Bay district, Ontario, Canada. At the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA. Name:...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 143827. References: (1) Gruzdev, V.S., N.M. Mchedlishvili
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Val,. S X X I T II I 1)ECEBIIIElZ 1944 No. 5 GEOLOGY AND MINING SERIES No...No. 41 er Deposits In Nevada BY EDGARH. BAILEY and DAVID A. PHOENIX Geologists, U. S. Geological Survey...Survey PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY NEVADA STATE BUREAU OF MINES IN COOPERATION WiTH UNITED STATES OEOLOOlCAL...SURVEY PRICE ONE DOLLAR j sin PUBLICATION OF THE NEVADA STATEBUREAUOF MINES A N D THE MACKAY &HWL OF MINES...THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO, NEVADA Entered in the Post Office at Reno, Nevada, as second-class matter
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
species exemplify principles of mineral evolution. Metacinnabar (HgS) and native Hg are the only two species...other Hg halide-sulfides, and HgS4 tetrahedra in metacinnabar and hypercinnabar (the wurtzite and sphalerite...Hypercinnabar HgS KG02, ZA02, US-CA01, US-NV06 2900 0 Metacinnabar HgS >220 known localities: AT02, AT05, GE01...2005). The world’s largest Hg deposit, the AlmadĂ©n district of central Spain, is representative of concentrations...AlmadĂ©n and New Idria in California, the largest Hg mining districts in North America, represent post-Miocene
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Three specimens of galkhaite from the Getchell mine (G), Nevada, USA; the Gal-Khaya As-Hg-Sb deposit (Gk)...crystal structure using a crystal from the Getchell mine, Nevada, USA, and detected the presence of a site...its type locality GalKhaya and from the Chauvay mine, Kyrgyzstan, have been reported by Vasil’ev et al...structural data for the specimen from the Chauvay mine. A review of the history of studies of galkhaite...from the Kara-Archa area in the Khaidarkan ore district. These latter authors proposed the idealized chemical
Journal (issue)
VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 }'ort Vancouver Way Vanc-ouver...informally by a pay-your-own dinner at the Old County Buffet by those who wish to attend. Any one wanting...llANFF, ALBERTA IHRVEY GORIJOI'O MINERALS, RENO, NEVADA LEHH:H MINERALS, BOUNTIFUL, UTAH OXCART MINERALS...fluorescence. Are photos?" "Recent work at the Rogerly Mine. Weardale, England" .lec,sc Fisher ''The gem and...simple to the sublime.'' Don Newsome "Progress on mining heulandite at Challis, Idaho" LannY Ream "Fluorescent
Report (volume)
east-west, northwest, and northeast within the district. Hawkins (1982) postulated that the east-west­...scale east-west-trending faults in the Enfield Bell mine are are the Marlboro Canyon, Bell, and Ridge faults...exposed the lower plate as windows in the Roberts Mountains thrust (fig. 58). In most areas, the contact between...Jerritt Canyon district is thought to be a high-angle fault. Exposure of the Rob­ erts Mountains thrust is...cover in the district. REGIONAL STRATIGRAPHY Most of the rocks in the Jerritt Canyon district are Paleozoic
Catalog/List
S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV‱t- tor cr11‱t‱J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...crystals on \/ad. 104 ADAMITE, Quartz Mountain, Nevada. Pale blue to colorless nearly equant crystals
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology...multiply twinned rutile crystals. Active kyanite mining over the past several decades has resulted in a
Journal (issue)
paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............plus an interesting range o f rare species. The mine, first opened in 1903, continues to produce fine...Three mine is one of several mines located on the Little Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego...Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed in the Little Three main dike, one...material produced from the Mursinka-Alabashka District, Urals, and the Volyn pegmatites in the Ukraine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
named after the type locality, but also honors the mining engineer Vladimir Vasilyevich Vorontsov. The second...Vorontsovskoe gold deposit, but also honors the mining engineer Vladimir Vasilyevich Vorontsov (1842–after...was the superintendent of the Bogoslovskiy mining district where he organized an extensive geological...several deposits, including an iron deposit. The mining settlement founded nearby in order to exploit that...in 1985 and is currently operated by the Russian mining company “Polymetal International PLC” for high-grade
Book
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...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PT 1. Introduction The Turya-Auerbakh mineral district in the Krasnoturyinsk area, Ekaterinburg region...Uralian Fault in the west (Fig. 1). The mineral district, including the Vorontsovka Au deposit, covers...mineralisation. For the Turya-Auerbakh mineral district, copper±iron-skarn and gold (Vorontsovka) deposits...intergrowths with Hgsulphides (cinnabar HgS, metacinnabar HgS, and polhemusite (Zn,Hg)S), Hg-sulphosalts...process, mercury forms sulphides (cinnabar, metacinnabar) and telluride (coloradoite). The native gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tuscarora Au-Ag District: Eocene Volcanic-Hosted Epithermal Deposits in the Carlin Gold Region, Nevada STEPHEN...B. CASTOR,† Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID...Reno, Nevada 89511 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno...Reno, Nevada 89557 JEAN S. CLINE, Geoscience Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010...Mexico Bureau of Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 RICHARD
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Catalog/List
limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal aggregates in
Catalog/List
Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, ÂŁ3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl ÂŁ5 1x2 ÂŁ10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl ÂŁ4 1x2 ÂŁ7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl ÂŁ10 14 x 54 ins ÂŁ5...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins ÂŁ4 063 CAVANSITE
Book (volume)
ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...1 MAR 06 200 MAR 2 „ 2001 | NEVADA STATE LIBRARY CARSON CITY, NEVADA Digitized by the Internet Archive...(1933) AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME AIME TRANSACTIONS MINE PLANT VOLUME 112, MILLING METHODS (1933) (1934)...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND
 
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