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Pentlandite from
Boss Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pentlandite
Formula:(NixFey)Σ9S8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pentlandite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Boss Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:289074
Long-form Identifier:1:3:289074:6
GUID (UUID V4):dd53e44e-781c-4d01-97b9-6a7b8df2169e
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...'Ike Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain...Mountain District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite
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)
Platinum, palladium, gold, Pd–Hg compounds; pentlandite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, millerite. Distribution:...Distribution: In Guyana, in placers in the Kangaruma district, Potaro River area, and at Amu Creek, Essequibo...Bay, Alaska, and in the Boss mine, Goodsprings district, Clark Co., Nevada, USA. In the Starchrome chromitite...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 95350. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and
Report (issue)
SOUTHERN NEVADA. By ADOLPH KNOPF. INTRODUCTION. The discovery of platinum-bearing gold ore at the Boss mine...mine, in southern Nevada, was brought to the attention of the Geological Survey by Mr. F. A. Hale, jr....LOCATION. The Boss mine is situated in the Yellow Pine mining district, Clark County, Nov., near the...part of the State. The main settlement of the district is Good Springs, distant 8 miles from Jean, a...east side of a desert range known as Spring Mountain, but the mine is situated on.the west slope, 12 miles
Report (issue)
_______ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present mining _______ _ General geology...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________... Chuck mine ___________________ _ Placers-------------------------------Goodnews Bay district _____________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (edition)
OF THE PLATINUM METALS MonE OF OccuRREN0E • • MINING AND CONCENTRATION l\t!ETAT,I,URGY • • • • •...as in the alluvial gold workings of the Choco district, it was usually thrown away as worthless, although...metal, and towards the middle of the 19th century mining was carried on in the town of Quibd6, Colombia...been found in recent years in the Rustenbu1·g district of 8011th Africa. Next in economic importance...deposits of Tweefontein in the Potgietersrust district have, however, yielded comparatively large crystals
Report (issue)
Sutton) Ti-maghemite Transvaalite (of McGhie and Clark) Transvaal jade Ureyite Vaalite Villiersite Wesselite...Pt-Sb-sobolevskite Pyrandine Rhodie platinum Ru-pentlandite Sidero-calcite (of Recknagel) Sodium tourmaline...E.F. Stumpfl A.A. Hodgson E.F. Stumpf! and A.M. Clark K. Fredriksson and E.P. Henderson L.H. Fuchs A.D...California, U.S.A. (Switzer and Bailey, 1953); Mihara mine, Okayama Prefecture and at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture...kimberlite pipe, Farm Dorst Fontein K 77, Kimberley district, Northern Cape Province (Parry and Wright, 1925)
Report (volume)
nos. 1-8. Boston, Mass. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 109-120; Transactions...Mineralogist, vol. 1. Philadelphia, Pa. American Mining Congress: Report of Proceedings, 18th Annual Session...nos. 1-7. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no. 71. San Francisco, Cal. California...Summary report for 1915. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 45-56; Transactions...Transactions, vol. 18. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 37. Toronto and Montreal, Canada. Canadian
Book (edition)
who have been engaged in the study of our great mining regions, especially in the West, have laid the...now in the active practice of the profession of mining engi neering. J. F. K. DECEMBER, 1899. NO TEXT...125-129; Marquette district, 129-136; Menominee dis trict, 136-139; Penokee-Gogebic district, 139-143; Vermilion...and Sterling, N. J., 251-257; Zinc in the Rocky Mountains, 258, 259: in New Mexico, 259 250-259 CHAPTER...Mile, Summit Co., 266, 267; Ex ample 306, Monarch District, Chart'eeCo., 268; Example 30c, Eagle River, Eagle
Report (volume)
depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Morenci, Arizona. _________________ ___ 217 Ely, Nevada, by A. C. Spencer_________________ 219 Santa Rita...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico... Utah, by B. S. Butler_________ 229 Yerington, Nevada _______________1________ 231 Jerome, Arizona, by
Report (issue)
Hydrocarbons may be present in upper Cook Inlet. Mining of placer gold deposits between 1895 and 1906 preceded...Creek district between 1909 and 1950; production continued into the 1980's. The Willow Creek mining district...come from the Wishbone Hill district; between 1916 and 1952 the district produced 3,284,723 short tons...military bases converted to natural gas in 1967; coal mining ceased until the late 1980's and early 1990's,...in the area so as to provide information to the mining public, to provide mineral resource information
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
Report (issue)
analyses of rocks and minerals from Pilot Knob Mine, Iron County, Missouri............................ Spectrographic...ore and gangue minerals from Iron Mountain Mine, Iron County, Missouri................... Spectrographic...rocks and minerals from Pea Ridge Iron Mine, Washington County, Missouri............ Whole-rock chemical....... Analyses of samples from Silver Mine area, Madison County, Missouri...............................analyses of iron oxides and sulfides, Steelville district, Missouri............................... Spectrographic
Report (volume)
Advancement of Science A. I. M. E__.American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk__. Aardrijkskundig...classn_____ classification Co_______. Company, County Coll______ Collections Conini_____ Committee Cominuii____...Direccion Dissert____ Dissertation dist_______ district distrib_____. distribution Div______ division...etc. Mimeo_____. Mimeographed Min_____ Mineral, Mining min. res____ mineral resources ig________ igneous...Mtg_______ Meeting Mtn______ Mountain Mts______ Mountains Mus______ Museo, Museum, etc. n_______. new
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)
(troilite, pyrrhotite, cubanite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite, talnakhite, sphalerite, and galena), and >120...disseminated minor pockets with troilite and pentlandite aggregates with minor amounts (or without) cubanite...inclusions. The outer parts of the troilite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite aggregates usually host very...transformations of Iss1 are cubanite, troilite, and pentlandite aggregates, and those of Iss2 are cubanite, troilite...Fe-pyrrhotite, and pentlandite. The pyrrhotite and cubanite often host thin pentlandite exsolution lamellas
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gravitational instabilities (e.g., Desch and Connolly, 2002; Boss and Durisen, 2005; Morris and Desch, 2010; Morris...S) and pentlandite ([Fe,Ni,Co, Cr]9-x S8 ) in complex intergrowths. These pyrrhotite–pentlandite intergrowths...primary high-temperature Fe–Ni–S melt, with pentlandite starting to exsolve during cooling at ∼883 K...Schrader et al., 2015, 2016). The pyrrhotite–pentlandite intergrowths studied here were previously determined...bulk composition of the sulfide and abundance of pentlandite exsolved are related to the cooling rate. These
Report (issue)
only sedimentary rock-hosted stratiform copper district that contains significant cobalt. Its presence...with ultramafic rocks, typified by the Bou Azzer district of Morocco, represent another type of primary...west coast, in Alaska, and in the Appalachian Mountains. 2 Cobalt—Properties and Uses • • • Cobalt...(for use in construction, oil and gas extraction, mining, metalworking). 3 Cobalt—Critical Mineral? ...is produced as a byproduct (of copper or nickel mining), which limits the flexibility of producers to
Report (issue)
rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...stone hammers, and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...character of the area, which is in the Turquoise Mountains, T. 16 N., R. 10 and 11 E., S. B. "Sir. T. C....circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Slining Bureau reported at about the
Report (issue)
deposits, by Paul Barton.................... Hot-spring type, large tonnage, low-grade gold deposits, by...of the Southeast Missouri base metal and barite district, by A. V. Heyl..................................structures containing Pags 3 Examples^ Skelletaa District, Sweden Hljura-Kotalenti Belt, Finland Thompson...of magnetite I -Pyrrhotite (50-70 percent), pentlandite (10-35 percent), chalcopyrite (5-15 percent)...Oregon I Organization I Pyrrhotlte, pyrita, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, vallerlte, loelllnglte, nlccollte
 
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