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Calaverite from
Robb-Montbray Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calaverite
Formula:AuTe2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calaverite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Robb-Montbray Mine, Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:112885
Long-form Identifier:1:3:112885:7
GUID (UUID V4):03a37db2-2a8b-4df3-be12-9b2b9e9bb515
Nearest other occurrences of Calaverite
17.9km (11.1 miles) Waite-Ackerman-Montgomery Mine (Old Waite Mine), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
24.1km (15.0 miles) Horne Mine (Noranda Mine), Rouyn-Noranda TE, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
41.3km (25.7 miles) Upper Canada mine, Gauthier Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
46.1km (28.6 miles) Bidgood-Kirkland Mine, Lebel Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
53.6km (33.3 miles) Boston-McRae mine, Pacaud Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
53.6km (33.3 miles) Miller Independence mine, Pacaud Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
54.1km (33.6 miles) Toburn Mine (Tough-Oakes Burnside Mine), Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
55.2km (34.3 miles) Kirkland Rand mine (Ontario Kirkland; Hudson Rand), Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
55.3km (34.4 miles) Wright Hargreaves Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
56.1km (34.9 miles) Lake Shore Mine, Kirkland Lake Township (Teck Township), Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda – Val-d’Or, Ontario...Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 77 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Kirkland Lake – Rouyn-Noranda...in Right of Canada, 2003 Catalogue No. M41-8/77E ISBN 0-660-19062-1 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
publication of Contributions to Canadian Mineralogy in Canada. fn order to preservethe continuity and integrity...342 TELLUKIDE MINERALS AND THEIR OCCURRENCE IN CANADA 343 erals of the Transylvanian deposits have been...study of these minerals and their occurrencein Canada. Mnr,Eoos on Srunv The study of a speciescommencedwith...minerals, together with a catalogue of occurrencesin Canada. The descriptions emphasize the characters that...principal metal constituents: gold (montbrayite, calaverite, krennerite); gold and silver (petzite, sylvanite);
Report (issue)
2.32 (60), 7.31 (50), 1.893 (50) Chemistry: Ag Au Te Hg Cu (1) 41.37 23.42 33.00 2.26 0.16 (2) 41.87...Association: Gold, hessite, sylvanite, krennerite, calaverite, altaite, montbrayite, melonite, frohbergite...the Byn’govsk Au–Te deposit, Central Ural Mountains, Russia. In the Zhana-Tyube Au–Te deposit, northern...and Norwegian mines, Tuttletown, and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne Co., in the Stanislaus and Melones mines...from the Buster mine, Olinghouse district, Washoe Co., and elsewhere in Nevada. In Canada, at the Hollinger
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mile suggests that Sb and Bi substitute in both the Te and Au sites. For montbrayite from other localities...montbrayite to (Au,Ag,Sb) 2(Te,Sb,Bi) 3 or, more likely, (Au,Ag,Sb,Bi) 2 (Te,Sb,Bi) 3. Key words: montbrayite...Peacock & Thompson (1946) from the Robb-Montbray mine, Quebec, Canada. Since this study, montbrayite has...because Au2Te3 was metastable at the expense of calaverite (AuTe2) and native gold. Peacock & Thompson (1946)...reported that natural montbrayite from the Robb-Montbray mine contained 2.8 wt.% Bi, 1.6 wt.% Sb, 0.6 wt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analysis of the mineral montbrayite from the Robb-Montbray mine, Queb6c, yielded the empirical formula (Aur...leading to deviations from the stoichiometric Au and Te content, is considered responsible for the stability...species,recently discoveredin ore from the Robb-Montbray mine, Queb6c,and first describedby Peacock and...and Sb in substitutionalsolid solution for Au and Te up to about 6 percent.Since gold and silver telluridesoccurwith...negativeresults,the compoundbeingunstablewith respectto calaverite (AuTe2) and gold, although the mineral occurs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and petzite. Analysis by J. R. Williams: Au 44.32, Te 49.80, Bi 2.81, Pb 1.61, Sb 0.90, Ag 0.55, Fe trace;...chalcocite, and marcasite, in the Robb-Montbray mine, Montbray township, Abitibi County, Quebec. The mineral...gold produced by the RobbMontbray mine in Montbray township, Abitibi County, Quebec, during the period...gouge-filled slip between the first and secondlevels of the mine. The material at our disposal consisted of several...colour which is slightly lighter than that of calaverite. The mineral is very brittle and it breaks with
Report (issue)
104◦230 β = 97◦ 300 X-ray Powder Pattern: Robb-Montbray mine, Canada. 2.087 (100), 2.983 (80), 2.922 (60)... 7.363 (20), 11.2 (10) Chemistry: Au Ag Pb Sb Bi Te (1) 44.32 0.55 1.61 0.90 2.81 49.80 (2) 46.66 0...49.28 Total 99.99 99.76 100.00 (1) Robb-Montbray deposit, Canada; corresponds to (Au1.73 Bi0.10 Sb0.06...almost free from gangue (Robb-Montbray mine, Canada). Association: Calaverite, gold, tellurobismuthite...marcasite (Robb-Montbray mine, Canada). Distribution: From the Robb-Montbray mine, Montbray Township,
Report (issue)
Bi Pb Ag (1) 37.4 15.4 1.2 (2) 38.1 13.6 1.1 Sb Te (1) 1.0 43.9 (2) 2.9 44.2 Total 98.9 99.9 (1)...tellurobismuthite, volynskite, calaverite, hessite (Ashley deposit, Canada); altaite, galena, volynskite...Southern Ural Mountains [TL]; at the Alekseevskoye mine, Sutam district, Stanovoi Range, southeast Yakutia;...USA, at the Campbell mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona; from the Hesperus mine, La Plata Co., Colorado;...Colorado; in the Olinghouse mine, Olinghouse district, Washoe Co., Nevada. In Canada, from the Ashley deposit
Report (issue)
c = 5.265 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Robb-Montbray mine, Canada. 2.82 (100), 1.549 (60), 2.06 (50), 1...Pt (1) 18.31 (2) 11.3 7.4 3.7 (3) 18.70 Ag Bi Te Total (1) 0.86 (2) (3) 80.75 14.4 65.2 81.30...Stanislaus mine, California, USA; corresponding to (Ni0.99 Ag0.02 )Σ=1.01 Te2.00 . (2) Strathcona mine, Canada;...deposits. Association: Altaite, petzite, hessite, calaverite, coloradoite, krennerite, tellurobismuthite,...Calaveras Co., and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne Co.; in Colorado, at the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co
Report (issue)
Calaverite AuTe2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group:...1.758 (3), 1.689 (3), 1.506 (3) Chemistry: Au Ag Te (1) 41.66 0.77 57.87 (2) 42.15 0.60 57.00 (3)...Co.; at the Spotted Horse mine, Maiden, Fergus Co., and the Mayflower mine, Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison...the San Francisco mine, 145 km north of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. At the El Indio mine, east of La Serena...Thunder Bay district, Ontario; and the Robb-Montbray mine, Quebec, Canada. From the Lake View and North Kalgoorlie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Michigan State University] at 02:13 13 March 2015 CALAVERITE Cripple Creek, Colorado W ith the exception...native gold and electrum, the gold telluride calaverite may well be the most important gold ore mineral...Connoisseur’s Choice (Cook 2005), and its sibling, calaverite, has rightly been suggested for this issue, much...much of which is devoted to Colorado minerals. Calaverite is a yellowish to silver-white, metallic mineral...the addresses above.   96*2: 405,9(3: Calaverite is simple gold telluride (AuTe2), but most analyses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
increasein thefTedfs2 ratio, mostlikely dueto inputof H•Te froma magmaticsource.In someveindepositssuchasBoulderCounty...andsubsequent bufferingoffT• and.• by reactions suchas 2PbS+ Te• = 2PbTe + S•. This bufferingmay exert considerablecontrolon...the presenceand relative abundanceof gold and calaverite,and the presenceor absenceof native tellurium...0361-0128/88/790/395-1052.50 Phaserelationsin the systemAu-Ag-Te (Cabri, 1965), coupled with fluid inclusionthermometry...py-hm (2) Te saturation (3) hs-sz,ga-at, Au-hs Kelley andGoddard (1969) Bukula, USSR Te, tb, hs, Bi
Report (issue)
1.484 (30), 1.244 (30), 1.090 (30) Chemistry: Hg Te (1) 60.95 39.38 (2) 61.0 38.7 (3) 61.12 38.88...Group: Sphalerite group. Association: Altaite, calaverite, krennerite, petzite, gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite...Distribution: In the USA, in Colorado, at the Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Gunnison Co.; in the La Plata district...the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Teller Co.; in California, at the Norwegian mine, near Tuttletown...Tuttletown, and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne Co.; in Nevada, at the Twin Creeks and Getchell mines, Potosi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
could be classified into six mineral groups: calaverite (AuTe2), sylvanite [(Ag,Au)2Te4], montbrayite...minerals are tabulated in Table 1. Among them, Calaverite was the simplest and most common association...Colour Specific gravity Mohs hardness scale Calaverite AuTe2 Silver white to brassy yellow 9.10-9...Similarly, cyanide leaching tests on synthetic calaverite (AuTe2) and sylvanite (AuAg)Te2 result in lower...Jayasekera et al. [6] studied the dissolution of calaverite electrochemically in both acidic and alkaline
Book (edition)
cream-white; 53.4 cream to bluish white; 52.84 Calaverite Algodonite light cream; 63.27 cream; 62.67... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intergrowths with native gold (Au–Ag), Au tellurides (calaverite), unnamed phases (AuSe, Au2TeSe and Au oxide)...gave an average composition: Au 34.46, Se 16.76, Te 47.23 and S 0.84, total 99.29 wt.%, corresponding...on synthetic analogue is: Au 34.20, Se 19.68 and Te 45.42, total 99.30 wt.%, corresponding to Au2.90Se4...intergrowths with native gold, calaverite, unnamed phases of AuSe–AuTe and Te–Se solid solutions, and sulfosalts...‘mustard gold’, complex Au oxides [(Au,Ag)–(Sb,As,Te,S)–O], senarmontite, tripuhyite, rooseveltite, tiemannite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pampaloite, AuSbTe, a new mineral from Pampalo gold mine, Finland A. VYMAZALOVÁ1,*, K. KOJONEN2, F. LAUFEK1...give an average composition: Au 44.13, Sb 27.44, and Te 28.74, total 100.31 wt.%, corresponding to the empirical...synthetic pampaloite is: Au 44.03, Sb 27.26, and Te 29.08, total 100.38 wt.%, corresponding to Au0.99Sb1...mineral is named for the locality, the Pampalo gold mine in Finland. Keywords: pampaloite, AuSbTe phase...new AuSbTe mineral gold mine by Endomines AGM (Endomines 2007). The Pampalo mine (Fig. 1) is located in
Report (issue)
Front cover top: 5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin...Photo Robert Gambee Below: Crystallized gold from Canada Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo extraLapis...and Bill Birch The Rush for Gold Turns North to Canada and Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....photo Stefan Weiss Lower Right: Round Mountain gold mine, Nye County, NV, USA 2.5 cm wide; Ron Pellar collection;...collection; Jeff Scovil photo Below: Olinghouse gold mine, Washoe County, Nevada, USA 12. 7 cm across; collection
Report (issue)
Ontario, Canada and R. M. THOMPSON The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada NEW YORK... ; - Te ne ee a ore (pe t wh anee hapodalml dupe lore...and the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC); Mines Branch, Ottawa, Canada; E. D. Taylor, Ottawa; Frank...identification of minerals by means of x-rays, Royal Soc. Canada, Trans., 35, [4], 105-113 —— (1947): Indexed...004 ~—«:1.021 134 0,037 024 «©0.913 224 0.834 115 te 0.786 10 19.0 2 22.0 6 32.0 @ Maser 2 40.45 An sis
Book (edition)
Sylvanite II/D.16-20 374 Krennerite II/D.16-30 376 Calaverite II/D.16-40 378 Villamaninite II/D.17-20 380 Pyrite...01-70 Anyuiite Cu (Fe,Ni)2P Ag Au Cu3Au AuCu (Au,Te,Pb)3(Cu,Fe) (Au,Ag)2Pb Au(Pb,Sb)2 – 4/m 3 2/m 2/m...Anyuiite A B C D E Cu (Fe,Ni)2P Ag Au Cu3Au AuCu (Au,Te,Pb)3(Cu,Fe) (Au,Ag)2Pb Au(Pb,Sb)2 – 4/m 3 2/m 2/m...Anyuiite A B C D E Cu (Fe,Ni)2P Ag Au Cu3Au AuCu (Au,Te,Pb)3(Cu,Fe) (Au,Ag)2Pb Au(Pb,Sb)2 – 4/m 3 2/m 2/m...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold is native and some is in gold tellurides (calaverite, nagyagite, etc.), which are associated with...Darasun [8], etc. Type II deposits are common—Robb-Montbray [23], Goldfield [4], Vatukoula [22], Zod, Kochbulak...2016 to a depth of 0.5-1.5 km in boreholes and mine workings. Most of the mineralization is concentrated...Sb, Hg and Tl in the ores decreases, and Te increases; the Te/Se ratio in the ores increases from 2-4...antimony sulfosalts of Pb, and fahlores (without Te, Bi, Se). The ores are very poor in Mn, Ba, Se, Sn
Book
corroboration. With nitrogen, telluriun1 forn1s the nitride Te 3 N 4 in the reaction of TeCl1 on ammonia at 80°C... Tellurium Canada U.S. 5 8 36 70 30 76 97 130 97 3 5 21 59 24 66 86 116 77 Canada 6 27 54 Deficient...information is available only for the United States and Canada (Table 1). The principal sources of selenium and...-ium (since 1931) and tellurium (since 1934) is Canada. Two huge plants are operated here, viz.: that...left in refining copper derived from ores of the Noranda and Flin Flon deposits. This latter plant ranks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE Early Fimiston and late Oroya Au–Te ore, Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie: 4. Mineralogical...droplets together with tellurantimony, altaite, calaverite, montbrayite and petzite. As fluid temperature... Kalgoorlie Syncline (KLS). The coordinates are mine grid. The inset map of Western Australia shows the...disseminated. Ore bodies in the Paringa South mine The Paringa South mine (Fig. 1) produced 4.0 Mt at 19.4 g/t...composition between alteration styles in the Paringa South mine (ESM App. 4). The outer part of the pre-sulfide
Report (issue)
PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
Journal (issue)
..... 337 by D. J. Mossman The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of...2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 7QB Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...she and Brooks became part owners of the Old Yuma mine nearby. After a few years her strong love of minerals...ventures in Mex­ ico (particularly the San Francisco mine in Sonora). Many extraor­ dinary specimens passed...fuse cutting pliers, and plunger-type detonators. Mine bells and the bell signal sign that accompanied
 
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