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Arsenolite from
Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Arsenolite
Formula:As2O3
Habit:octahedral crystals to 0.6mm
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Pharmacolite
Realgar
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arsenolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:136750
Long-form Identifier:1:3:136750:8
GUID (UUID V4):34f31e38-8b73-4a80-ac7a-c6053e832733
Localities for Arsenolite in this Region
Summer Camp pit, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Turquoise Ridge Mine, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Turquoise Ridge Underground Mine (Getchell Underground; Hansen Creek pit), Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Arsenolite
0.7km (0.4 miles) Turquoise Ridge Mine, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Hansen Creek Deposit, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Turquoise Ridge Underground Mine (Getchell Underground; Hansen Creek pit), Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Summer Camp pit, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
85.2km (52.9 miles) Carlin Gold mine, Elko, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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,
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Corporate Document
:1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I THE GETCHELL PROJECT FMG, INC. I I I I I I I I I 1• I I I...of financing, developing and operating a gold mining conducting exploration transferred to project...which outstanding prior to a on the Getchell property and Getchell property was Mississippi in exchange...Inc. is a Nevada Corporation based in Reno and is the operating corporation for Getchell Hine. First...gas and Mississippi marketing the development mining Corporation's of specialty production, commercial
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Newfoundland] at 12:22 30 January 2015 MURRAY MINE, ELK0 COUNTY, NEVADA A ntimony is an interesting metal with...produced as a byproduct from many localities where mining of base metals has occurred. As a primary commodity...specimen from this source, the Murray gold mine in Elk0 County, Nevada, has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...1951); Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Fritz Island, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922);...1922); the Rutherford mine, Amelia County, Virginia; Granville County, North Carolina (Genth 1891); and
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)
light to a powder composed of pararealgar or arsenolite and orpiment. Optical Properties: Transparent...clay sedimentary rocks. Association: Orpiment, arsenolite, other arsenic minerals, calcite, barite. Distribution:...Schneeberg, Saxony, and at St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains. In the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland...Japan. In the Shimen mine, 33 km southeast of Shimen, Hunan Province, China. In the USA, fine large crystals...crystals at the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., Nevada; in Tooele Co., Utah, at Mercur; in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by secondary minerals, Summer Camp pit, Getchell mine, Nevada R.J. Bowella,*, J.V. Parshleyb a SRK Consulting...Reno, Nevada NV89502, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract At the Summer Camp pit of the Getchell mine in...in northern Nevada, the sulfate mineralogy is complex and includes gypsum, jarosite, pickeringite–halotrichite...Keywords: Secondary minerals; Mine pit lakes; Evapoconcentration; Getchell mine 1. Introduction Over the...the last two decades, significant improvements in mining and metallurgical operations have led to the development
Journal (issue)
Mandarino Famous mineral localities: the Ichinokawa mine, Japan ............. 229 ': Rotors w^c; ; 'v Tampa...Bancroft Mineralogy of the Bandora mine, South Mineral Creek, San Juan County, Colorado ..................... Calcium arsenate minerals new to the Getchell mine, Nevada ..........................................world’s best, were discovered in the Ichinokawa mine more than a hundred years ago. Though collected...mineral collectors. E LOCATION The Ichinokawa mine is located approximately 7 kilometers east of Saijo
Catalog/List
crystal section. ¼"$2. 50. ANDORITE San Jose mine, Oruro, Bolivia. Select rich gray metallic mass...11 $2. 00, $2. 50 and $3. 50. ARGENTITE Ra.yas mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Choice dull gray modified cubic...¾x½11 $3. 50 and $5. 00. ARSENOLITE White Caps mine, Manhattan, Nye Co., Nevada. Select lustrous snow-white...Excellent for both BERYL - GOLDEN Ekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, USSR Deep golden-yellow partially hexagonal cr...crystal section. ¾ to¾" $3.CD. 11 BIXBYITE San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Select black lustrous highly modified
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Report (issue)
Arsenolite As2 O3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group:...sulfides in hydrothermal veins; may be formed in mine fires or in burning coal seams. Association: Claudetite...Loire, and elsewhere in France. From the Dolcoath mine, Cambourne, the Phoenix United mines, Linkinhorne...Plaka mine, Laurium, Greece. In Italy, at Sondalo, Sondrio, and Borgofranco, Torino. In the USA, from...Co., in the Ophir mine, Comstock Lode, Storey Co., at the Getchell mine, Humboldt Co., and from Simon
Report (issue)
tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, duranusite, arsenic, arsenolite, sulfur, lepidocrocite, pyrite. Distribution:...Washington, Comox district, on Vancouver Island [TL]; at Siwash Creek, in the Kamloops district; and from the...Area, Lillooet district; from Ontario, in the Hemlo gold deposit, Thunder Bay district. From the Golconda...Golconda and Getchell mines, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA. At the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain Lincoln County, Georgia Robert B. Cook, Jr. Department of Geology...multiply twinned rutile crystals. Active kyanite mining over the past several decades has resulted in a
Book
ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
7-AsS formed from both natural and (AsrSr)and arsenolite(As,Or) (Battey, 1972; Sinkankas, synthetic realgar...lessstablethermodynam- land and the Gray Rock property, Lillooet district. Robically than realgarand thus has a higher equilibrium...quartz and white calcite matrix, from the Getchell mine, Nevada, in the collection of one of the authors...As-Sphasediagram(Blachniket al., 1980). from Humboldt County in Nevada. Kutoglu (1976) reacted pure S and As...as specimensremoved directly from the underground mine (no light), had identical X-ray patterns, and there
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
long-known localitl' for realgar, the Pampa Larga mining district, near Copiap6, Atacama Province, Chile (Segerstrom...Specimensfrom the dumps and accessible adit exposuresof the mine have since been found b-v the author to 1 B. G....incision of the Quebrada La Cortadera, in which the mine iies, into the Upper Miocene Atacama Pediplain (Clark...surfaces of specimenscollected from the dumps of the mine or from the walls of the adit has a strong reddish-orangehue...three hours causedno structural modification. Arsenolite (AssOs)is fairly widespread as a superficial
Catalog/List
363 3601 A.JOITE CRYSTALS New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Hydrated copper aluminum silicate...and S7. 50. BOURNONITE COGWHEEL CRYSTALS Keystone mine, Crested Butte, Colorado. A lead copper antimony...xls on matrix, T/N $. 50, $1. 00 AMOSITE Penge mine, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. A basic...50, $7.50 and $9. 50. ARSENOLITE CRYSTALS White Caps mine, Manhattan, Nevada. Arsenic trioxide. Very...00 and $7. 50. ALLEMONTITE Samson mine, Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany. An intergrowth or arsenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenic, in the environment (e.g., weathering; acid mine drainage). As-rich pyrite, commonly called “arsenian...Na2HAsO47H2O (P98.5%), As2O3 (P99.8%), realgar (Getchell Mine, Nevada, USA; G27204), arsenopyrite (Panesqueira,...we neglected the effect of As substitution on the peak intensity, since substitution of 50 at.% of the...the subsequent analyses, and that the calculated peak shapes tend to be sharper than the experimental...Native arsenic Arsenopyrite Realgar Orpiment Arsenolite A of compounds containing cationic As species
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are pararealgar (different As4S4 polymorph) and arsenolite (As2O3). Because of the chemical unbalance the...sulfide phases, realgar, q -As4S4, pararealgar, arsenolite, alteration, X-ray powder diffraction, Rietveld...commonly considered to be orpiment As2S3 and arsenolite As2O3. However it becomes clear that the formation...(from above to below) pararealgar, q -As4S4, arsenolite, and realgar, respectively. transformation process...term along the q As4S4-alacranite series, and arsenolite (As2O3). In fact the two weak extra peaks at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA § Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science...(Czech Republic) in association with scorodite, arsenolite, coquimbite, sulfur, kaatialaite, and pharmacosiderite...this study, were described for the Christbescherung mine near Großvoigtsberg in Saxony, Germany (Witzke and...jarosite in the lake pit of the former mine Getchell in Nevada (USA) (Bowell and Parshley, 2005). No other... Bukovskýite was also found at the Golden Point mine in New Zealand, where it occurs together with scorodite
Report (issue)
Geology of the Carlin Gold Deposit, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1267 /Ju l/ /Ea..... 041).- Geology of the Carlin Gold Deposit, Nevada By ARTHUR S. RADTKE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Arthur S., 1936— Geology of the Carlin gold deposit, Nevada. (Geological Survey professional paper ; 1267)...no.: I 19.16:1267 1. Gold ores—Nevada—Carlin region. 2. Geology—Nevada—Carlin region. I. Title. II. Series...� 5 Previous work � 6 History of the Lynn mining district � 7 Geology � 8 Sedimentary rocks � 8 Paleozoic
Book
copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...dendritic aggregates come fron1 Mednorudnyansk, Ural mountains, Russia; crystals up to 30 mm ('3/i6in) were found...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates
Catalog/List
limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal aggregates in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exposure to light to a mixture of orpiment and arsenolite.” Although this is generally not true, the error...such wellknown arsenic sulfide localities as Getchell, Nevada. It should be pointed out that the occurrence...Conference (December) P. 0.Box 884 Lead, SO 57754 USA phone: (605) 484-4008 ernail: tloomis@dtgnet.com
 
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