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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Aktashite
Formula:Cu6Hg3As4S12
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aktashite 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:277866
Long-form Identifier:1:3:277866:2
GUID (UUID V4):6c0ee808-f525-47a0-8e98-a12ed0041efe
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
77 (As3.34 Sb0.42 )Σ=3.76 S12.00 . (2) Getchell mine, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds...Association: Pyrite, stibnite, cinnabar, metacinnabar, aktashite, enargite, wakabayashilite, orpiment, realgar...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)
Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, USA Lindsey R. Clark Maroun,1,2 Jean S. Cline,1,† Adam Simon,3 Page Anderson...Parkway, Box 454010, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 2 California 3 Earth Resources...48109 4 Barrick 5 Nevada Gold Exploration Incorporated, 293 Spruce Road, Elko, Nevada 89801 Bureau of...University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 Abstract The Cortez Hills breccia zone, a Nevada Carlin-type...Carlin-type gold deposit located in the Cortez district on the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend, formed within a high-grade
Report (issue)
= 6.480 X-ray Powder Pattern: White Caps mine, Nevada, USA. 6.28 (100), 3.488 (80), 4.78 (70), 3.239...7 39.5 Total 99.6 99.7 (1–2) White Caps mine, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe. Occurrence: As fibers...pyrite (Nishinomaki mine, Japan); realgar, orpiment, calcite (White Caps mine, Nevada, USA); chabournéite...routhierite, aktashite, realgar, orpiment (Jas Roux, France). Distribution: In the Nishinomaki mine, Gumma...Manhattan district, Nye Co., and in the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA. At the
Report (issue)
Smithite, stibnite, pierrotite, parapierrotite, aktashite, realgar, wakabayashilite, sphalerite, pyrite...realgar, stibnite, getchellite, sphalerite (Getchell mine, Nevada, USA); galkhaite, stibnite, cinnabar, metacinnabar...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)
Aktashite Cu6Hg3As4S12 Crystal Data: Hexagonal, pseudocubic. Point Group: 3. Rare crystals resemble...Aktash mercury deposit, Kosh-Agach district, Kurai Range, Altai Mountains [TL]; in the Gal-Khaya deposit...Caucasus Mountains; from the Vorontsovskoye gold deposit, Serov district, Northern Ural Mountains. At the...(Bambolla) mine, 12 km south of Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. At the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humbolt...Humbolt Co., Nevada, USA. In the Hemlo gold deposit, Thunder Bay district, Ontario, Canada. From the Jas Roux
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
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 (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)
ZW01 Vaughanite Tl[Hg1+]Sb4S7 CA01 2638 2621 Aktashite§ Cu6[Hg2+]3As4S12 CA01, CN05, FR03, IR01, KG01...age of primary mineralization listed here. § Aktashite and arzakite are inadequately described species...2005). The world’s largest Hg deposit, the Almadén district of central Spain, is representative of concentrations...Almadén and New Idria in California, the largest Hg mining districts in North America, represent post-Miocene...reworking of the mercury-hosting rocks of the Almadén district (primary mineralization 427–380 Ma) led to at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
XV. (Tl-Ag)-bearing rouxelite from Monte Arsiccio mine: occurrence and crystal chemistry C. BIAGIONI1,*...the baryte-pyrite-Fe oxides ore of Monte Arsiccio mine, near Sant’Anna di Stazzema (Apuan Alps, Tuscany...mercury, silver, thallium, sulfosalt, Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. Introduction ROUXELITE...sulfosalts have been described from the Pollone mine (sterryite, parasterryite, carducciite and meerschautite;...assemblage has been found at the Monte Arsiccio mine, with the description of Hg-Tl-Pb-Sb-As-Cu-Ag sulfides
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)
GalKhaya deposit (Yakutia, Russia) and Chauvay Mine (Kyrgyzstan) has been examined by electron microprobe...and Chau vay Mine, respectively. The crystal structure of galkhaite from the Chauvay Mine (cubic, I43m...reported the second finding of galkhaite at the Getchel Mine in the United States and gave the extended formula...The structural data on galkhaite from the Getchel Mine (Divjakovi′c and Nowacki, 1975) and Gal Khaya deposit...96(AsS3)8 was given for galkhaite from the Getchel Mine. Formula HgAsS2 was used to resolve the mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
8Ag0.2)Hg2Tl(As1.4Sb0.6)S¼2S6, from Monte Arsiccio mine: occurrence and crystal structure CRISTIAN BIAGIONI1...baryteþpyriteþiron oxide ore from Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. Routhierite occurs...in pyrite-rich dolostones, in association with aktashite, baryte, boscardinite, cymrite, protochabournéite...crystal structure of routhierite from Monte Arsiccio mine was refined to R1 ¼ 0.030 in the I-42m space group...Sb-rich nature of routhierite from Monte Arsiccio mine. The Sb/(SbþAs) atomic ratio is 0.31, to be compared
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...HgS, and polhemusite (Zn,Hg)S), Hg-sulphosalts (aktashite Cu6Hg3As4S12 and laffittite AgHgAsS3), and native...mercury-containing assemblages (e.g., table S3), aktashite is found (table S2). PT Sphalerite composition
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vorontsovskoe gold deposit is located in Krasnoturyinskiy district of Sverdlovsk Oblast (Northern Urals, Russia)...metasomatites) alteration gold deposits. The ore district combines two magmatic-hydrothermal systems [1]:..., chlorite-sericites. 12—ore bodies with run-of-mine grades of gold content; 13—enriched ore pillars;...cemented by ore minerals— pyrite, realgar, stibnite, aktashite, boscardinite, parapierrotite, routhierite and...found among the ore cement minerals and include aktashite, bernardite, boscardinite, weissbergite, vrbaite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
this type are located in the US (Carlin, Cortez, Getchell, Bell, Knoxville, etc.) (Radtke et al., 1980;...deposit is being operated by "Northern Urals Gold" mining company (subsidiary of “Polymetall”) with the ore...“Nikolet 6700” of «Thermo electron corporation» (USA), in the range of 4000-400 cm-1. NMR spectra were...method (infrared laser MIR-10-30, New Wave Research, USA). Reproducibility of δ18O values was 0.1 ‰ (1σ)....(klerite), X phase (Mn- TE As-Sb-S); Hg sulfosalts (aktashite), Tl (ruterite, pierrotite, chabourneite), Pb
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................published, a sample article (the recent Red Cloud mine article— click on the specimen photos and blow them...family, which had owned and operated the Las Chispas mine near Arizpe, Sonora. The family sent Schmitter a...trained as a geological engineer specializing in mining geology. His first job took him to Madagascar,
Journal (issue)
Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...popularity in the world, while it is the leader in the USA. Recently, well known jewelry stones have been joined...graduating from the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Mining Institute. Working here for nearly a year, the
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34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria 8 CSIRO-Exploration & Mining, PO Box 5, Wembley, Western Australia 6913, Australia...contains small amounts of Sn, Cd, and In in the Potosi district (Bolivia), whereas in Romania the characteristic...Nowackiite, Cu6 Zn3 As4 S12 STR: Marumo (1967). Aktashite, Cu6 Hg3 As4 S12 STR: Kaplunnik et al. (1980)...1 of the final conclusion) Species A Aikinite Aktashite Aleksite Andorite IV Andorite VI Angelaite Aramayoite...gold telluride deposit of Sacarîmb, Metaliferi Mountains, western Romania. Eur. J. Mineral., 16, 835-838
Journal (issue)
‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ........................................J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence o f rare and...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...More than 30 minerals have been identified from the mine and studies continue on the sulfosalt mineralogy
Book
variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil
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Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors appreciate the advice and kind assistance...City, Nevada, USA; Peter Embrey, London, England; Jessie Hardman, Long Beach, California, USA; and Barbara...Barbara Nichols, Livermore, California, USA. All of these colleagues made helpful comments and substantive...Enterprises PC Box 213 Livermore California 94551 USA Elemental Table “Element” Aluminum Amide Ammonium
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crystallographers, geologists, petrologists, geochemists, mining engineers, mineral assayers, curators, collectors...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius...Louis Cordier (1777-1861), French geologist and mining engineer; student of Haiiy; helped enlarge the...described numerous new minerals. adamite, Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881), French mineralogist; de¬ scribed many...space, 1961. humboldtine, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, early nineteenth-century German scientist and
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin
 
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