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Marcasite from
McDermitt Mine, Opalite Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view McDermitt Mine, Opalite Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:279278
Long-form Identifier:1:3:279278:1
GUID (UUID V4):61aac669-f855-4558-a7b4-bec87007c946
Nearest other occurrences of Marcasite
14.3km (8.9 miles) Aurora Uranium Prospect, Opalite Mining District (McDermitt Mining District), Malheur County, Oregon, USA
15.7km (9.8 miles) Bretz Mine, Opalite Mining District (McDermitt Mining District), Malheur County, Oregon, USA
21.0km (13.0 miles) Blum shaft, National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
21.1km (13.1 miles) Auto Hill, National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
21.2km (13.2 miles) Birthday vein, National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) National Mine (National vein), National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
22.3km (13.9 miles) Caustin mine, National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
25.5km (15.9 miles) Bell vein, Buckskin Mountain, National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
26.6km (16.5 miles) Buckskin National mine, Buckskin Mountain, National Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
32.2km (20.0 miles) Moonlight Mine, Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MC DERMITT CALDERA, NEVADA-OREGON By James J. Rytuba Menlo Park, California...standards Geology and Ore Deposits of. the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada-Oregon <. By James J. Rytuba Menlo Park...California ABSTRACT The McDermitt caldera is a Miocene collapse structure along the Nevada-Oregon border. The...mines of Bretz, Cordero, McDermitt, Opalite, and Ruja and the Moonlight uranium mine. The mercury mines are...adjacent to ring fracture faults, and the uranium mine and other uranium occurrences are located within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry of abandoned mercury mines in West-Central Nevada, USA John E. Gray*, James G. Crock, David L. Fey US...80225, USA Abstract The Humboldt River is a closed basin and is the longest river in Nevada. Numerous...mines into surrounding ecosystems, including the Humboldt River, is of environmental concern. Samples of...the mines. Sediment samples collected from the Humboldt River basin contain 40.28 mg Hg/kg. Leachate samples...were found in water samples collected from the Humboldt River system, and these were below the 0.012 mg/l
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HUANCAVELICA DISTRICT, PERU DONALD C. NOBLE Mackay Schoolof Mines, Universityof Nevada-Reno,Reno,Nevada89557...assemblageoccursmainly as impregnations of the district have been describedby Yates et al. in the quartzite...re presentin surmine, the mostimportantin the district (Fig. 1), is roundingareas.Pyrite and tetrahedriteare...chalcedonicsilica,and clay.Tracesof barite, temptsof bulk mining. marcasite,galena, and sphaleritewere observedin Mineral...SANTABARBARA MINE ChaclatoconoOpen Pi• D FIG.1. Mapofa partoftheHuancavelica district,largelygeneralized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium deposits in northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, USA Stephen B. Castor ) , Christopher...NV 89557, USA Received 14 June 1999; accepted 24 September 1999 Abstract Northwestern Nevada and southeastern...peralkaline rocks in the McDermitt and Virgin Valley calderas. At McDermitt, major deposits are along...ŽKings River. and northern ring fractures ŽBretz–Opalite. of the caldera complex. The Kings River deposits...contemporaneous with igneous activity. The Bretz–Opalite deposits, which include the large Aurora resource
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)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Lithium-Rich Claystone in the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada, USA: Geologic, Mineralogical, and Geochemical...D. Henry * Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA; vgerboa@gmail...Lithium deposits in tuffaceous sediments of the McDermitt caldera constitute possibly the world’s largest...and origin are not established. The 40 × 25 km McDermitt caldera collapsed during the eruption of ~1000...illite; smectite; diagenesis; tuff; hydrothermal; McDermitt caldera 1. Introduction Lithium, essential to
Report (issue)
Data for Environmental Studies of Mercury Mines in Nevada by John E. Gray, Monique G. Adams, James G. Crock...Geochemical data for sediment and rock samples in the Humboldt River study............. Table 5. Geochemical...Geochemical data for calcine samples collected in the Humboldt River study............... Table 6. Geochemical data...data for water samples collected in the Humboldt River study................. 10 11 12 22 31 40 FIGURES...districts studied and samples collected from the Humboldt River and Rye Patch Reservoir................
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 (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...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,
Report (issue)
geochemistry of the Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada an interim report By J. T. Nash , W. C................................................. Mining and exploration history......................................................................... Mine geology...........................................Figure 1. Location and geology setting of the Sleeper mine. Regional geology is simplified from Wilden (1964)... 3 Figure 2. Generalized geology of the Sleeper mine area and western foothills of the Slumbering Hills
Report (volume)
Host Rocks, Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada Geology and Geochemistry of Tertiary...Host Rocks, Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada By J. Thomas Nash, William C. Utterback...host rocks, Sleeper gold-silver deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada I by J. Thomas Nash, William C. Utterback...Gold ores-Geology-Nevada-Humboldt County. 2. Silver ores-GeologyNevada-Humboldt County. 3. Geology, St...Stratigraphic-Tertiary. 4. GeologyNevada-Humboldt County. I. Utterback, W.C. II. Trudel, Wayne S. III.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
showed that lowsulfidation deposits in northern Nevada could be divided into two subtypes based on their...ve Ri Yellowstone Hot Spot Wyoming 0 Ma 40° Nevada S ie GREAT BASIN rra NNR Utah Ne da va California...the northern Nevada rift. The heavy star at the north end of the rift is the McDermitt caldera (M) and...Walker Lane belt from Stewart (1988). NNR = northern Nevada rift, SM = Steens Mountain. mineral assemblages...in the Atlanta, Fairview, Tuscarora, and Wonder mining districts that are hosted by late Eocene to early
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)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources (for example, the Humboldt River drainage...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PreciousMetal Vein Systemsin the National District, Humboldt County, Nevada PETER G. VIKRE ASARCOInc., Great...Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract The National district, 20 miles (33 km) southeastof McDermitt, Nevada, produced...of the Owyheevolcanicplateau. Wall rock in the district is progressivelyhydrolyzed and sulfidized to assemblages...southeastof McDermitt (Fig. 1). It encompasses preciousmetal veins near the deserted THE National district is... and 34, T 46 N, SantaRosaRange,HumboldtCounty,Nevada,about R 39 E) and on the eastern slope of Buckskin
Report (issue)
of Docs, no.: I 28.27: 2. Mercury mines and mining. 1. Mercury industry and trade. 3. Strategic materials...resources Foreign resources 7 8 9 9 10 11 11 Mining 1 12 12 13 13 13 15 15 15 17 Beneficiation ...'Physical scientist inow with Office of Surface Mining. Pittsburgh, PA). "Geologist. Minerals Availability...the current domestic production comes from one mine which has an expected life of 5 to 8 yr. Owing to...assistance was provided by Victor Botts, manager, Nevada Operations, Placer U.S., Inc. WA. COMMODITY OVERVIEW
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)
particularly IS epithermal orebodies in any particular district, irrespective of whether or not paleosurface features...alteration peripheral to the La Coipa HS-IS gold-silver district, Chile. f Hydrothermal breccia, generated by shallow-seated... Hycroft [Crowfoot-Lewis], and Florida Canyon, Nevada; Wood 1991; Ebert and Rye 1997; Fifarek et al....developed by supergene oxidation of pyrite ± marcasite are commonplace. Much of the silica precipitated...Coipa HS-IS gold-silver district (Fig. 4e), in the Fresnillo IS silver district, Mexico (Albinson 1988;
Report (issue)
............................................H22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................H25 Mine Closure...........................................and hydrothermally altered rocks of the McDermitt caldera, Nevada.........................................microgram of manganese per liter Å angstrom AMD acid mine drainage ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and...byproduct of the mining of other mineral commodities—mainly zinc, copper, and aluminum—and the mining technologies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, Elko County, Nevada E. D. LEAVITT,† Department of Geological Sciences...Sciences, Mail Stop 172, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557-0001 T. L. SPELL, Department of...Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 P. M. GOLDSTRAND...GOLDSTRAND, Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation, 333 W. Nye Lane, Carson City, Nevada 98706 AND G. B...Geological Sciences, Mail Stop 172, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557-0001 Abstract The Midas
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Some Current Research in Eastern Nevada and Western Utah by the U.S. Geological Survey...posters or oral presentations at a meeting in Elko, Nevada, on September 19 and 20, 1991, sponsored by the...the Elko Chapter of the Geological Society of Nevada. The purpose of the meeting was to present some of...activities of the U.S. Geological Survey in eastern Nevada and western Utah. Edited by Charles H. Thorman1...Volcanic Rocks at the Sleeper Gold-Silver Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, by J. Thomas Nash and Mark W. Bartlett
Report (issue)
Resources Area, Humboldt of the Harney County, Pueblo County, Mountains Oregon, Nevada Pueblo study...HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON COUNTY, NEVADA Steven R. Munts By and Spencee MOUNTAINS STUDY AND HUMBOLDT L... (OR-002-81/NV-020-642), Harney County, OR, and Humboldt County, This open file report will be summarized...mineralized areas and occurrences prospects, claims Mining history . . Sites examined . ae Appraisal of mineral...ae , ‘ and Nevada . . area, Geologic map of the Pueblo Mountains study Oregon and Nevada : Mines, prospects
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, North-Central Nevada DAVID A. JOHN,† U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield...Company, Yanacocha, Peru Abstract The Mule Canyon mine exploited shallow, low-sulfidation, epithermal Au-Ag...the west side of the Northern Nevada rift in northern Lander County, Nevada. Mule Canyon consists of six...alteration types contain abundant pyrite and/or marcasite ± arsenopyrite. Field relations indicate that...consist of disseminated and vesicle-filling pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite in argillically altered or weakly
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...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
 
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