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Adularia from
Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:K Feldspar var: Adularia
Formula:KAlSi3O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Adularia data
Locality Data:Click here to view Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:288412
Long-form Identifier:1:3:288412:7
GUID (UUID V4):780d6539-b3c6-4f76-a292-eb87c2f02873
Nearest other occurrences of Adularia
7.9km (4.9 miles) Riley Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) Redhouse Barite Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
30.7km (19.1 miles) Ken Snyder Mine (Midas Mine), Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
31.5km (19.6 miles) Midas Mine (Reco Mine; Big Chief group; King Midas claim; Dixie claim), Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
31.6km (19.6 miles) Jackson Mine (Big Chief group; King Midas claim; Dixie claim), Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
37.3km (23.2 miles) Eastern Star Mine (ASARCO Star claims), Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
42.6km (26.5 miles) Lone Tree Mine, Buffalo Mountain Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
51.9km (32.3 miles) Hollister deposit (Ivanhoe/USX; Butte; Velvet; Clementine), Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
54.8km (34.0 miles) Crown mine (Adelaine Crown mine), Gold Run Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
64.2km (39.9 miles) Rossi Mine (Sage Hen group), Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cretaceous and Eocene Alteration, Twin Creeks Carlin-Type Deposit, Nevada C. M. HALL, STEPHEN E. KESLER,†...here new Ar-Ar dates for adularia, illite, and muscovite from the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. All...fine-grained illite. The results indicate that all adularia (in the Megapit area) formed at about 42 Ma (Eocene)...date for adularia is in complete agreement with previous measurements on adularia from Twin Creeks, but our...previous studies of the nearby Getchell district, particularly the Osgood stock, which has a date of 98 to 92
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlin-Type Mineralization in the Getchell and Twin Creeks Deposits, Nevada John A. Groff PII: DOI: Reference: ...Carlin-Type Mineralization in the Getchell and Twin Creeks Deposits, Nevada, Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi: https://doi...Carlin-Type Mineralization in the Getchell and Twin Creeks Deposits, Nevada John A. Groff Department of Earth and...Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, New Mexico... mineralization in the Getchell and Twin Creeks deposits, Nevada was undertaken to determine the origin(s)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfidation and Gold Deposition, Twin Creeks Carlin-Type Deposit, Nevada JOHN FORTUNA,* STEPHEN E. KESLER...deposition of gold in the Megapit area of the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. Sedimentary rocks in and...possible sources of iron were evaluated for the Twin Creeks deposit, where sulfidation associated with gold...most likely source of iron for sulfidation. At Twin Creeks, however, iron could have been derived from sedimentary...of Twin Creeks Mineralization The Twin Creeks mine is located on the eastern flank of the Osgood Mountains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, North-Central Nevada JEAN S. CLINE† University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway...Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 Abstract Pregold mineralization at the Getchell Carlin-type...and galkhaite at Getchell and adularia at the nearby Twin Creeks mine, respectively, most closely approximate...gold production is supplied by the state of Nevada (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1999), and most...from more than 100 Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada. In spite of this activity, there is no widely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fracture-Controlled Fluid Flow in Carlintype Gold Deposits, Nevada John A. Groff PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(19)30820-0...Fracture-Controlled Fluid Flow in Carlintype Gold Deposits, Nevada, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10...Fracture-Controlled Fluid Flow in Carlin-type Gold Deposits, Nevada John A. Groff Department of Earth and Environmental...Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy, Socorro, New Mexico 87801...with chalcedonic quartz from the Getchell and Twin Creeks mines. Fluid inclusions in Main-stage jasperoid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Carlin-type Deposits on the Getchell Trend, Nevada John A. Groff PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(17)30626-1...in Carlin-type Deposits on the Getchell Trend, Nevada, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10...Mineralization in Carlintype Deposits on the Getchell Trend, Nevada John A. Groff Department of Earth and Environmental...Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 Email:...Eocene gold mineralization at the Getchell and Twin Creeks deposits is indicated by cogenetic liquid-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralizafion in skamisrelated tothe99,Ma Osgood Mountains stock. Secondary K feldspar andserieite in... portionof thismanuscript, the GetcheilandTwin Creeks RegionalGeology deposits sharethefollowing characteristics...withdeposits on The tectonic evolution of northern Nevada is characterized by multipleorogenies andthrusting...-72 km northeast NumerousCretaceous of Winnemucca,Nevada,where Paleozoicrocksare intruded zoicstrata.Theseincludethe...dacitedikescompositionally the Getcheil and Twin Creeks mines includes the Cambrian the granodiorite
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............................deposits (Comstock epithermal vein, quartz-sericite-adularia) (models 25c and 25d of Cox and Singer, 1986)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 J. N. CHRISTENSEN, Lawrence Berkeley...similar manner, adularia is contemporaneous with Au at Twin Creeks, but Twin Creeks is the only Carlin-type...Carlin-type deposit where adularia has been reported. Several other techniques (U-Pb, ReOs, Sm-Nd) have been...Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, Nevada 89803. 0361-0128/01/3326/235-14 $6.00 deposits...techniques. 114° 42° JC Carlin-type deposits in Nevada GT CT Elko C Reno AB BM 39° Great Basin
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... MS 176, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557-0047 CONTENTS Introduction........................................ Northern Nevada Rift ............................................assessment of BLMadministered lands in northwest Nevada and northeast California. The project area is composed...(RAs), totalling 13.5 million acres, in northwest Nevada and northeast California (figs. 1, 2). The SonomaGerlach
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)
Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801...T R A C T Keywords: Carlin-type gold deposits Nevada Huijiabao trend Fluid inclusion gas analysis Carlin-type...Carlin-type gold deposits in north-central Nevada occur in a region that was the locus of igneous and/or...quartz in mining districts with complex origins. 1. Introduction Since discovery of the Carlin mine in Nevada...the complex tectonic history that north-central Nevada experienced E-mail address: johnagroff@yahoo.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Roleof Sulfidation and Deearbonation at Twin Creeks, Nevada DAVIDP. STENGER, •' STEPHEN E. KESLER, •...databases thatwereprepared by minestaff. Countryrocksat Twin CreeksincludeOrdovician-age interlayered calcareous...our understanding of the geology and Mining Company Twin Creeks mine field tripguide,October, mineralogy...the Twin CreeksMine tionswithinformation fromtwolargegeochemical databases The Twin Creeks mine is located...TwinCreeksCarlin-type the Osgood Mountains justwestof the Pinson,Preble,and deposit nearWinnemucca, Nevada(Fig.1). Getchell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/jgeoexp The occurrence of gold at the Getchell mine, Nevada R.J. Bowell a,Ł , M. Baumann b , M. Gingrich...Getchell Gold Corporation, Getchell Mine, P.O. Box 220, Golconda, NV 89414, USA c Institute of Earth Studies...The Getchell mine, owned by the Getchell Gold Cooperation, is located in northwestern Nevada along the east...east flank of the Osgood Mountains approximately 70 km northeast of Winnemucca. The deposit comprises...deeper parts of the Getchell Main Underground (GMU) mine. The third appears to be a rare occurrence largely
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
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data—Implications... Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA ABSTRACT ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...imagery over a 389 km × 387 km area in northern Nevada (38.5°–42°N, 114°–118.5°W) was analyzed to evaluate...identification of quartz and carbonate minerals, Nevada System (EOS) Terra satellite launched in 2000 provides...km) area of the central Great Basin in northern Nevada. The quartz and carbonate mineral maps were overlain
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard... near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen...SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the ageof the golddeposits in the Jerritt Canyon district. Datedigneous rocks withwell-documented crosscutting...igneous rocksrangefrom35to 33 Ma.Hydrothermal adularia fromtheTwinCreeksdeposit yieldssimilar4øAr/a•Ar...deposit in the Carlintrendand TheJerrittCanyon district(Fig.1)hasaccounted forabout consider many Carlin-type...Creta10percentof thegoldproduction in theregion.The district ceousin age.Ilchik(1995)prefersa lessthan39 Ma... (1996)favor golddeposits in theJerrittCanyon district havebeenthesub- the Post-Betze an age of ~95 Ma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization at the Lone Tree Mine, Battle Mountain District, Nevada Elizabeth A. Holley,1,† Justin...Michael J. Pribil3 1Department 2Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1600 Illinois...in the northern Battle Mountain mining district, Nevada. Prior to mine closure in 2006, Santa Fe Pacific...jigsaw-fit clasts of quartz-, illite-, barite-, and adularia-altered siliciclastic rock. The timing of main-stage...bracketed between the emplacement of the dikes and an adularia 40Ar/39Ar age of 40.14 ± 0.74 Ma. Sericite intergrown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evolution of Vein Sets at the Pipeline Gold Mine, Nevada Nigel J. F. Blamey 1,2, *, Andrew R. Campbell...Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, USA; campbell@nmt.edu (A...June 2017 Abstract: The origin of sediment-hosted Nevada gold deposits has been highly debated, especially...Cretaceous. We examined the Pipeline gold mine in north-central Nevada, focusing on data from the four vein...analysis; stable isotopes; argon geochronology; Nevada; gold 1. Introduction The Pipeline deposit is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
measurements on gold-bearing arsenian pyrite from the Twin Creeks Carlin-type gold deposits show that gold is present...gold-bearing pyrite from Twin Creeks, Nevada. SAMPLES FROM THE TWIN CREEKS DEPOSIT This typical, large...large Carlin-type deposit in northwestern Nevada, produces about 500 000 ounces of gold annually. Pyrite...was obtained from the northernmost part of the Twin Creeks deposit (north of the TC fault in the northern...solution. Cross-cutting relations suggest that the Twin Creeks deposit was the site of a series of six hydrothermal
 
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