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Halite from
West orebody, Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Classification
Species:Halite
Formula:NaCl
Comments:In fluid inclusions
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Halite data
Locality Data:Click here to view West orebody, Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:285284
Long-form Identifier:1:3:285284:3
GUID (UUID V4):78d679f1-c734-42c8-84fa-d09a58c79760
References
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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
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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
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. Fluid-Inclusion Petrology Data from PorpHyry Copper Deposits and Applications to Exploration COVER...14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N.Y. Chromite, chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...rhodochrosite 8. Aluminum ore, bauxite, Georgia 9. Native copper ore, Keweenawan Peninsula, Mich. 10. Porphyry molybdenum...Carolina Fluid-Inclusion PetrologyData from Porphyry Copper Deposits and Applications to Exploration By]. THOMAS...THOMAS NASH GEOLOGY AND RESOURCES OF COPPER DEPOSITS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 907-D
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‱ SPOKANE, Washington--U.S. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside Ave .. ‱ ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Rm. 101...sections of Au-skarn deposits in north-central Nevada 8 Map showing distribution of Au-skarn districts...zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...five Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of pyroxene...three Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 17 Photomicrograph showing massive garnet partly
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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/.............................understanding the crustal structure near the Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral trend from geophysical constraints...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..
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the Midas (Ken Snyder), Sleeper, DeLamar, Mule Canyon, Buckhorn, National, Hog Ranch, Ivanhoe, and Jarbidge...Jarbidge districts; high-sulfidation gold and porphyry copper-gold deposits are absent. Both high- and low-sulfidation...low-sulfidation gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold deposits are affiliated with the western andesite assemblage...production continues today from large deposits at Round Mountain, Midas, and Rawhide (Fig. 2). As shown by many...showed that lowsulfidation deposits in northern Nevada could be divided into two subtypes based on their
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versus Iron Oxide-Cu-Au-(REE-U) Chengyu Wu Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration, Beijing Representative OfïŹce,...wt RE2O3) and 1 Mt Nb (0.13% Nb). The Bayan Obo Mine produced 55,300 tons of RE2O3 in 2005, accounting...divided into the Main, East and West orebodies, which lie along an east–west zone more than 18 km long. They...although layered siderite is present in the West Orebody. REE occur dominantly as monazite and bastnasite...associated fenitic alteration in the Bayan Obo ore district (Le Bas et al., 1992; Yang et al., 2000) suggests
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BSc, PhD, MIMM, FGS Fonnerly Senior Lecturer in Mining Geology University of Leicester THIRD EDITION...PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ UK 550 Swanston... 345 References, 347 Index, 379 Orthomagmatic copper-nickel-iron (-platinoid) deposits associated with...former in response to the changing situation in tin mining following the recent tin crisis and the latter...students often develop erroneous ideas of what an orebody looks like, ideas often based on a study of mineralogical
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mineralized areas prior to mining, and conditions that result from mining and mineral processing. Other...as climate, and anthropogenic factors (including mining and mineral processing methods) mostly modify the...exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...occurrences of a valuable commodity (such as gold or copper) or mineral (such as gems or industrial minerals)...from mining, mineral processing, and smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site
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1445–1472 Porphyry Gold Deposits of the Refugio District, Maricunga Belt, Northern Chile JOHN L. MUNTEAN†...Refugio district and similar deposits in the Maricunga belt contain the lowest known copper to gold ratios...predominate, grades are typically 0.1 wt percent hypogene copper and 0.5 to 1 ppm gold. Banded quartz veinlets are...hypogene copper. Most of the differences between porphyry gold deposits at Refugio and porphyry copper deposits...compared to 1.5 to 4 km that is typical for porphyry copper deposits. Shallower depths resulted in lower sulfide
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Logan, District Mining Engineer McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer...Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas. V. Averill, District Mining...Statistician and Curator Herbert A. Franke, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) — Sacramento San Francisco...REPORTS OF DISTRICT MINING ENGINEERS 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 Gold...Mines of Placer County 7 San Francisco Field District 07 Los Angeles Field District 97 GEOLOGIC BRANCH
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gold deposits in proximity to porphyry gold (± copper) deposits. The spatial association suggests a genetic...mostly <1 ppm gold and 0.1 to 0.4 percent hypogene copper. Banded quartz veinlets occur mostly above A-veinlets...contain 0.5 to 2 ppm gold and <0.1 percent hypogene copper. D-veins are pyrite veins with quartz-sericite-pyrite...Aldebarån shares many characteristics of porphyry copper deposits worldwide, whereas Verde at Refugio is...formation of copper-sulfides in banded quartz veinlets and, therefore, resulted in high gold/copper ratios
Book
PhD, CEng, MIMM, MIGeol, FGS Senior Lecturer in Mining Geology University of Leicester RUMOR WELISCIENTIFIGCRUBLICA... EH1 2QH 52 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA 214 Berkeley Street, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia...with basic and ultrabasic rocks, 77 Orthomagmatic copper-nickel-iron (-platinoid) deposits associated with...students often develop erroneous ideas of what an orebody looks like, ideas often based on a study of mineralogical...awareness, such as a realization that companies in the West operate on the profit motive. This little essay
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Publication Number 16 Geology and Genesis of Major Copper Deposits and Districts of the World: A Tribute...Publication Number 16 Geology and Genesis of Major Copper Deposits and Districts of the World: A Tribute...label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...contribution to the understanding of the world’s major copper deposits SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, INC...Geologic Setting and Evolution of the Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum and CopperGold Deposits at Los Pelambres
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Pretorius 117 Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Deposits of Copper, Lead, and Zinc. . Lewis B. Gustafson and Neil...Lead Deposits and their Relationship to Red-Bed Copper and CarbonateHosted Lead-Zinc Deposits.A. Bjfirlykke...Bjfirlykke and D. F. Sangster 179 Porphyry Copper Deposits Part I. Geologic Settings, Petrology, and Tectogenesis...and Sherman P. Marsh 775 Electrical Methods in Mining Geophysics.Gerald W. Hohmann and Stanley H. Ward...making a profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated
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SUPER PORPHYRY COPPER & GOLD DEPOSITS VOLUME 1 GENERAL I SOUTH AMERICA I NORTH AMERICA O th er...Hydrothermal Copper & Gold Deposits: A Global Perspective ISBN 0-908039-71-9 Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold...Volume 1 I SBN 0-9580574-0-0 Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold & Related Deposits: A Global Perspective -...- Volume 2 ISBN 0-9580574-1-9 Super Porphyry Copper and Gold Deposits: A Global Perspective - Volume... www.portergeo.com.au/bookshop SUPER PORPHYRY COPPER AND GOLD DEPOSITS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Volume
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Geological Society of CIM as VOLUME 46 by the OF MINING, METALLURGY SPECIAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE NORTHWEST...INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM Suite 1210, 3400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal,...— porphyry copper (+ Au+Mo) deposits of the calc-alkalic suite; Part C — porphyry copper (+Au) deposits...and 1970s were decades of mineral exploration and mine development unprecedented in the northwestern Cordillera...modern era of copper-molybdenum mining in British Columbia dawned in 1954 when Bethlehem Copper Corporation
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and the strike of this belt is approximately east–west. The Micangshan anticlinorium is located on the...northeast-trending Longmenshan nappe structural belt to the west, the Dabashan arc nappe structural belt to the east...southern flank, where it approximately trends east–west (Figure 1b). In both flanks of the anticlinorium...the metallogenic belt strikes approximately east–west, and the strata in the southern flank dips to the...structures are relatively well developed in the mining area and mainly comprise a decollement belt and
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Greisen, Nova Scotia, Canada . 4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta...Complexes. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold-Rare Earth Elements-Uranium Mineral Systems... Contents 4.6.5 Candelaria, Punta Del Cobre District, Chilean Coastal Belt. . . . . . . . . . . . ...Epithermal Systems in the Northern Great Basin, USA. 5.3.8 The Oldest Epithermal Systems, Archaean Pilbara...Geysers-Clear Lake Geothermal System, California, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968...1968 and the current mining depth is 430 m. The open pit is c. 3 km long and 1.1 km wide. The production...million tonnes of ore containing 67 100 tonnes of copper, 51 700 tonnes of silver and 1,9 tonnes of gold...at the Early Devonian basalt-boninite basement of west Magnitogorsk Arc, the Southern Urals, Russia .....through polycyclic orogeny: the example of the Litsa district, Russia Anne-Sylvie André-Mayer, Michel Cuney
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1889. The l a t t e r list, which included some 180 mine,ral s p e c i e s and an a d d i t i o n a l 95...e Jewel and o t h e r mines i n t h e Greenwood Mining D i v i s i o n (R. B e l l , 1902-3: Geol. Surv...49O03'N, 119°41'W, 16 km west-northwest of Osoyoos on R i c h t e r Mountain (B.C. Dept. Mines and P e...e t . Res.; Geol., Exp. and Mining i n B.C., 1973, p. 43). J e t black a c a n t h i t e , with a b r...l s i n vugs a t t h e Highland B e l l Mine, Wallace Mountain, n e a r B e a v e r d e l l , 37 km e
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CANADA Pergamon of Canada Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1, Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust...Kronberg-Taunus Pferelstrasse 1, Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany Copyright © 1976 John Drew Ridge All Rights...Morocco 3 Nigeria 1 Rhodesia 4 South Africa 20 South West Africa... 1 Tunisia 1 Zaire 3 Zambia _2 35 This...Abbreviation No. of References American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (and Australian Institute of Mining Engineers) (Aust. Inst
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Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA: the itemfee code for this publication is 0305-8719/04/$15...Bodmin, UK Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore PO Box 979 Tulsa OK 74101-0979 USA Orders: Tel. +1 918 584-2555...E-mail bookstore@aapg.org India Affiliated East-West Press PVT Ltd G-1/16 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New...Palaeozoic dolomite reservoirs in the Permian Basin, SW USA: stratigraphic 309 distribution, porosity, permeability...detailed account of reservoir analogues in the Lake District of England. The references suggest that the study
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Ping-Hua Liu, and Jia Cai 181 Paleoproterozoic Copper System in the Zhongtiaoshan Region, Southern Margin...facies. The micro-blocks are, in turn, from east to west, the Jiaoliao (JL), Qianhuai (QH), Ordos (ODS),...supracrustal rocks in North China Craton Archean District E.Hebei Anshan(NE China) Wutaishan-Taihangshan...
 7 Fig. 1.6 Geological proïŹle of Daxingshan orebody at the depth of −75 m in Xingshan BIF ore deposit...similar to the ÎŽ18O value of quartz in BIF from Isua, West Greenland and the ÎŽ18O value of SiO2 in the Archean
 
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