 | Smith, Robin S., Wiederhold, Jan G., Jew, Adam D., Brown, Gordon E., Bourdon, Bernard, Kretzschmar, Ruben (2014) Small-scale studies of roasted ore waste reveal extreme ranges of stable mercury isotope signatures. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 137. 1-17 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.037 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the environment, mainly due to large volumes of mine waste material disposed of on-site. The application...variations in calcine collected from the closed New Idria Hg mine, San Benito County, CA, USA. The calcine samples...17 to 0.21&. The l-XAS analyses suggested that cinnabar and metacinnabar are the dominant Hg-bearing phases...al., 2008). One such mine in the SF Bay watershed is the closed New Idria Hg mine, San Benito County,...Range and elsewhere. During operation of the New Idria and other Hg mines, Hg was extracted from the HgS |  | | Report (issue) | | sulphides, cinnabar and metacinnabarite, are importa.n t as sources of the· metal. 1 Cinnabar usually has... metacinnabarite, has the same composition as cinnabar, but is gr,e yish-black and gives a black stre...hardness of 3, and a specific gravity of 7·8. Cinnabar generally occurs massive and granular, but a.Iso...is found also in tetrahedral crystals, whereas cinnabar crystals are trapezohedra,l. G·lo,bules of free...often found in the upper portions. of cinnabar veins. Cinnabar occurs in rocks of all kinds and ages |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have established the widespread occurrence of cinnabar in ore slimes, as well as of zones of antimony-arsenic-mercury...Republic. Ore deposits are also known to occur in North and South America, in Canada, the United States...scattered deluvial-proluvial placer deposits of cinnabar have been worked on a very small scale in the...the chief ore mineral is the sulfide of mercury, cinnabar. The majority of hydrothermal mercury deposits...formation of Hg-Sb-As ores, whose composition includes cinnabar (HgS), stibnite (Sb2S3), realgar (AsS) and orpi |  | | Journal (issue) | | VOLUME 36 NUMBER 4 $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)... . . . . . 317 by B. Cairncross The Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California: A unique mercury...Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A... 4.9 cm, from O Stope, 31st Level of the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. William Pinch collection; Jeff Scovil...1979) after Walter Richard Kahn of Bayersoien, Germany, a well known mineral collector specializing in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 0016-7037/87/53.00 + .Jo Mercury ores from. the New Idria Mining District, California: Geochemical and stable...mercury ores of the New Idria Mining District are composed of metacinnabar and cinnabar with minor amounts...Metacinnabar from the main ore zone at the New Idria Mine contains Fe as a major impurity (0.96 to 2.80...and cinnabar in partly transformed crystals, thus increasing the barrier to nucleation of cinnabar and...pyrite and marcasite crystallized earlier than cinnabar and in rare cases contain nuclei of framboidal |  | Tsantini, Evanthia, Minami, Takeshi, Cau Ontiveros, Miguel Ángel, Takahashi, Kazuya, Melgarejo, Joan Carles (2020) Sulfur Isotope Analysis to Examine the Provenance of Cinnabar Used in Wall Paintings in the Roman domus Avinyó (Barcelona) Minerals, 11 (1) 6 doi:10.3390/min11010006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Isotope Analysis to Examine the Provenance of Cinnabar Used in Wall Paintings in the Roman domus Avinyó...Isotope Analysis to Examine the Provenance of Cinnabar Used in Wall Paintings in the Roman domus Avinyó...study examines the sulfur isotope ratios of the cinnabar used in Roman wall paintings sampled from the...various Spanish cinnabar/mercury mines. The results exclude the possibility of the cinnabar being imported...few possible sources for the pigments. Keywords: cinnabar; origin; isotope; sulfur; ICP-MS; wall paintings; |  | | Report (issue) | | CALIFORNIAN OCCURRENCES ON GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, AND MINE EQUIPMENTS ^ PUBLICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA STATE MINING...quicksilver from the New Idria mine Hot salino-sulphur water flowing from tunnel of Elgin mine Furnace at New Mercy...Mercy (Pacific) mine Drawing off burned ore, New Mercy mine Cuddeback cinnabar mine near Tehachapi Micro-photograph...Micro-photograph of porphyritic rhyolite carrying cinnabar, from Cuddeback mine Ten-ton Scott fine-ore furnace and condensers...Big Injun mine Fifty-ton Scott furnace at the Helen mine Panoramic view of the Sulphur Bank mine Page |  | | Journal (issue) | | Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Ottermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Harold and...0026-4628 ‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ..............................by B. Cairncross Famous mineral localities: The Idria mines, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ......................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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COOK Department of Geology Auburn University Cinnabar Downloaded by [National Taiwan University] at...seems like only a few years ago,well-crystallized cinnabar specimens were unavailable to collectors and for...American localities. The discovery of unusually fine cinnabar in northern Nevada in the late 1970s signaled...nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Cinnabar is a hexagonal mineral, crystallizing in the ...exhibiting prominent trapezohedra have been reported. Cinnabar crystals are best known as twins in which the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | that has been exacerbated by largely unchecked acid mine drainage (AMD) (Sarmiento et al. 2007). Surface...1% of the Zn, 3.13% In 2015, a major release of mine waste occurred in the of the Cu, and 0.15% of the...tailings dam wide. Approximately 20–25 Bt of solid mine wastes are failures have occurred in many mining...must utilize cost-effective technologies because mine waste mental impact, one stemming from thousands...drainage; (5) the type of microbial community present at mine-waste sites. Examples of why such knowledge is important |  | | Journal (volume) | | California 16 Geologic and topographic map, Friday mine-Inspiration Point area, near Julian 20 4. Geologic...California 46 2. 7. map and sections, Friday mine, near Julian 24 map and section of the Gorman tin...three years (1942-1945) on the staff of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company, San Benito County, doing...are now in press Quicksilver Deposits of the New Idria District, by E. B. Eckel and W. B. Myers, and Quicksilver...Quicksilver Deposits at the Sulphur Bank Mine, Lake County, by D. L. Everhart. : In preparation Two |  | | Report (issue) | | by William M. Fontaine. XVI. Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by J. S. Newbcrry. XVII. Description of...Marsh. The Penokee-Gogebic Iron- Bearing Series of North Wisconsin and Michigan, by Roland D. Report on the...Spencer. A Catalogue of Geological Maps of America (North and South), 7. Mapotcca Geologica Americana. Jules... Price 5 cents. 111. On the Cambrian Faunas of North America. Preliminary studies, by Charles Doolittle...Fresh-water Miocene, and other Fossil Molhisca of Western North America, by Charles A. White. 1885. 8. 20pp. 3 pi |  | | Report (volume) | | exploration possibilities at the New Almaden quicksilver mine, Santa Clara County, Calif.: U. S. Geol. Survey...1952, Eleven maps of the New Almaden quicksilver mine area: U. S. Geol. Survey open-file rept., no text...Everhart, D. L., 1949, The New Almaden quicksilver mine, Santa Clara County, Calif.: U. S. Geol. Survey...*Baneroft, Rowland, 1910, Notes on the occurrence of cinnabar in central western Arizona: U. S. Geol. Survey...industry in 1915 [Iditarod district, antimony-cinnabar lodes]: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 642, p. 66. * |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | wallrockalteration,and ore mineralizationof the Mt. Jackson mine, California, are summarizedand are consideredtypical...follows: Serpentinite-typ½Culver Baer mine, California; Mt. Jackson mine, California; New Almaden district...Sandstone-serpentinite-type--Buena Vista mine, California; Mt. Diablo mine, California; New Idria district, California.... Sandstone-type•New Idria mine, California. Volcanic-type--Codero mine, Nevada. Opalite-type--Bretzmine...Following the practiceof Williams, Turner, and Gilbert mine and in generalto all serpentinite-type (1955) and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology and Mineralogy of The New Idria District San Benito and Fresno Counties, California WILLIAM...California Santa Barbara, California 93106 THE NEW IDRIA DISTRICT is at the southern end of the Diablo Range...the years. General History of District The New Idria district was established with the discovery in 1853...life of the New Idria mine, about 570,000 flasks of mercury were produced. The mine closed in the early...minerals have been Synopsis of the Geology of the New Idria District The Diablo Range lies along the west side |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | volcanic and sedimentary rocks of Cenozoic age. Cinnabar with silica minerals, dolomite, native mercury...Fluid inclusions and hot springs suggest that cinnabar precipitated from CO2-H20 fluids with < 2 wt%...Almaden and New Idria districts in western California (Cargill et al., 1980). Cinnabar at New Almaden...late 1700's. The mine was rediscovered in 1824 by Luis Chaboya who, believing that cinnabar was a silver...tried unsuccessfully to extract silver from the mine (Bailey and Everhart, 1964). In 1845 Andres Castillero |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposit down to handspecimen scale. They range for cinnabar and pyrite from )19.1 to +22.8&, and from )22...from different sources. The peak of d34S values of cinnabar and pyrite close to 0& is compatible with ore...stratigraphic trends of the d34S values of both cinnabar and pyrite suggest a minor contribution of sedimentary...deposits (Fig. 1). The Idrija mine has been the second largest mercury mine in the world, having produced...(Mlakar 1974), and is surpassed only by the Almadén mine (Spain) in the total metal quantity. Mining works |  | Hazen, R. M., Golden, J., Downs, R. T., Hystad, G., Grew, E. S., Azzolini, D., Sverjensky, D. A. (2012) Mercury (Hg) mineral evolution: A mineralogical record of supercontinent assembly, changing ocean geochemistry, and the emerging terrestrial biosphere. American Mineralogist, 97 (7) 1013-1042 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3922 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ma. Since the first terrestrial appearance of cinnabar more than 3 billion years ago, mercury minerals...effectively sequestered as insoluble nanoparticles of cinnabar (HgS) or tiemannite (HgSe) during the period of...biosphere at ~400 Ma. Keywords: Ocean geochemistry, cinnabar, tiemannite, biosphere, supercontinent cycle,...contain linear S–Hg–S configurations, for example in cinnabar, which has infinite helical chains (–S–Hg–S–)∞...(see Table 2 for key) Oldest (Ma) Youngest (Ma) Cinnabar HgS >2000 known localities: AU02, AU04, AT02, |  | Smith, Christopher N., Kesler, Stephen E., Blum, Joel D., Rytuba, James J. (2008) Isotope geochemistry of mercury in source rocks, mineral deposits and spring deposits of the California Coast Ranges, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 269 (3) 399-407 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.029 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Fig. 1) contains the largest mercury deposits in North America, as well as thermal springs and The Geysers...mercury deposits in this zone, New Almaden and New Idria, the fourth and fifth largest mercury deposits in...impingement of the Mendocino Triple Junction on the North American plate at 29 Ma (Atwater, 1970). Formation...decrease from 15 Ma in the south to 0.01 Ma at the north end in the Geysers–Clear Lake area (Fig. 1A) (Fox...included material from the New Almaden and New Idria deposits to the south (Fig. 1A) for purposes of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | for the Hg deposit of Almad&. The spread of the cinnabar &34Sis narrow within each of the three orebodies...possibly processes. The unweighted mean for all cinnabar samples is 5.6%0 and the S source is considered...However, the high ?js4Svalues of the San Francisco cinnabar cannot be explained without addition of heavy...seawater within the sediments. Associated pyrite and cinnabar were deposited under isotopic disequilibrium,...because the low solubility of cinnabar caused rapid precipitation of cinnabar. The different mo~hological |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | paper Fluid inclusion study of the Horní Luby cinnabar deposit, Saxothuringian Zone, Bohemian Massif:...represented by cinnabar disseminated within the phyllite and by lenticular bodies rich in massive cinnabar (lenses...strike varying from less than 1 m up to 20 m). Cinnabar is accompanied by pyrite and locally also siderite...hydrothermal pyrite crystallized at 220–210 °C and cinnabar at 195–160 °C. The formation of the richest ore...quartz in phyllites by the cinnabar in weakly alkaline solutions. The cinnabar is pure phase, free of admixtures |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | processes by which these minerals were produced. Cinnabar? the red sulfide of mercury: metacinnabar. the...channel below the springs.1 The metacimlabar and cinnabar occur as thin coat’ings on calcareous tufa and...much as one-tenth of an inch thick. Overlying the cinnabar is a thinner layer of sooty metacinnabar. The...layer of mercuric sulfide and the proportion of cinnabar to metacinnabar decrease progressivel>- away from...nearly all the mercuric sulfide is in the form of cinnabar. ,4 few specimens from Amedee show wispy layers |  | | Report (issue) | | the current domestic production comes from one mine which has an expected life of 5 to 8 yr. Owing to...German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Kampuchea, North Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the U.S...than 2,300 yr, mercury has been recovered from cinnabar (HgS) deposits throughout the world. While mercury...dominated world mercury production: Almaden in Spain, Idria in Yugoslavia, and Santa Barbara in Peru. Four major... California in the United States, Almaden, and Idria, have supplied most of the world's mercury pro- |  | | Book | | Minerals of the Mercury Ore Deposit Idria Funding: Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia...done in a project collaboration with the Mercury mine Idria during 2004-2012. Slovenian Book Agency. Co-financing...Herlec (geologist); Partners from the Mercury mine Idria: Bojan Režun and Martina Peljhan. The materials...were contributed by: Municipal Museum Idria, Mercury Mine Idria, Faculty of Natural Sciences in Ljubljana... Aleksander Recnik ˇ Minerals of the Mercury Ore Deposit Idria Aleksander Recnik ˇ Department for Nanostructured |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | slopes of the respectIve mountains; and to the north of the Bay of San Francisco, it is found .in the...volcanic matter, as shown by the working'! of the mine to that depth. Serpentine and its allied rocks aecompany...INC 3'75. I constant as MAROH 10, 1883. the cinnabar. The country rocks are largely sandstones and...(New Almaden and Great western). The deposits of cinnabar are veins; for they have a regular hanging wall...a grand development in some of the mi nes. The cinnabar does not impregnate the entire gangue, but lies |
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