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Pentlandite from
Alta Mine, Low Divide, Low Divide Mining District, Klamath Mountains, Del Norte County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pentlandite
Formula:(NixFey)Σ9S8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pentlandite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alta Mine, Low Divide, Low Divide Mining District, Klamath Mountains, Del Norte County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:138719
Long-form Identifier:1:3:138719:3
GUID (UUID V4):b2a35f2a-52ef-4c4d-9a58-dcab45fd730b
Nearest other occurrences of Pentlandite
1.5km (0.9 miles) Union Mine (Salt Lake-California Mine), Low Divide, Low Divide Mining District, Klamath Mountains, Del Norte County, California, USA
44.1km (27.4 miles) Josephine Creek placers, Josephine Creek Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
58.4km (36.3 miles) Illinois River Sulfide Occurrence, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
References
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Report (issue)
_______ _ Sudbury district _______________________ ~ Discovery and present mining _______ _ General geology...lacers-------------------------------Tulameen district __________________ _ Other placers ______________________...ores ____________ _ Placers of the Witwatersrand district __ History and production _____________ _ General...---------------N oril'sk district ____________ -----_---- _____ _ Petsamo district ___________________________...and production _____________________ _ Intendencia del Choc6 ______________________ _ GeographY--------
Report (issue)
11.74 Z = 12 X-ray Powder Pattern: Del Norte Co., California, USA. 2.09 (100), 2.66 (60), 1.719 (50)...47 Total 98.10 98.0 100.00 (1) Del Norte Co., California, USA. (2) Cranbourne meteorite. (3) FeS...FeS. Occurrence: In serpentine (Del Norte Co., California, USA); with Fe–Cu–Ni sulfides in a layered ultramafic...nodules in meteorites. Association: Pyrrhotite, pentlandite, mackinawite, cubanite, valleriite, chalcopyrite...(meteorites). Distribution: From the Alta mine, Del Norte Co., California, USA. In the Wannaway Fe–Ni–Cu deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcocite. Many lessersulphidessuchas molybdenite,pentlandite, marcasite,cubanite,enargite,tetrahedrite,and...Russia (xoo) .................. Alamo District, Lower California ,.• • ,.• 0 x x x x x x x x x...(65) .... x x x x x x x x x x x x x Ashley Mine, Ont. (95) ................. Atikokan, Ont. (45)...(9) ..................... x x x x x x x Beattie Mine, Que. (30) ................ x x x x x Several...x Altenberg, Saxony, Germany (58) ....... Alexo Mine, Ont. (97) .................. Anyox, B.C. (II3)
Book (volume)
..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
Report (volume)
............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Report (issue)
Project 161, ' U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Department of Geology, University of Minnesota...compiled at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, under the auspices of Project 161 of the International...cobalt or platinum or pentlandite mineralization or ore deposit or dissemination or mine ultramafic or ultrabasic...Chromium and platinum discovery in HE Minnesota: Mining Review, v. 74, no. 27, p. 8. 1985, Chromium and...Photogeology of Cook County, Minnesota: University of Minnesota, M.S. thesis, 64 p. Skillings* Mining Minneapolis
Journal (issue)
S STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES RICHARD SACHSE, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist January, 1941 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 95183 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF- CALIFORNIA DAV I 1 DIVISION OF...A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas
Report (issue)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1934 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE HARRY HAMMOND. STATE...SACRAMENTO. 1934 10323 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF« CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 DIVISION OF MINES EXECUTIVE AND TECHNICAL...Olaf P. C. A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards. Menlo Park, California 1984 Contents Summary 1 Introduction 2...(2.1, 2.2) 9 Molybdenum porphyry climax type; low fluorine type (2.3, 2.4) 12 Copper skarn (2.6)...Au-rich 8 4. Molybdenum porphyry-Climax type, low F 11 5. Copper skarn, lead-zinc skarn 13 6....for hot spring gold-silver deposits, commonly of low grade but large tonnage. Reconnaissance mapping and...unusally complex mineralogy (such as the California-Vetas district) would be useful, not only for exploration
Report (edition)
OF THE PLATINUM METALS MonE OF OccuRREN0E • • MINING AND CONCENTRATION l\t!ETAT,I,URGY • • • • •...as in the alluvial gold workings of the Choco district, it was usually thrown away as worthless, although...this time, c1·ude platin11m was known as Platina del Pinto, the term referring to the small silver-like...known as platina. The first specimens of Platina del Pinto reached Engla11d in 17 41. The remarkable properties...metal, and towards the middle of the 19th century mining was carried on in the town of Quibd6, Colombia
Journal (issue)
by R. W. Eveleth S tib n ites o f the Stayton district, H o llister, C a lif o r n ia .................emphasis or clarity, and (d) proper names, e.g., mine levels. 8. Credits. Caption data for specimen photos...years. He was bom February 22, 1927, in Ramona, California. In his youth he collected Indian artifacts;...with his uncle, Robert Dye, one of the early California mineral dealers; they traveled together to the...the Four Peaks area in Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains and collected gem-grade amethyst. After serving two
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ovoid geopetal structures with pyrrhotite and pentlandite at the base, chalcopyrite and cubanite at the...of the droplets and from which pyrrhotite and pentlandite subsequently exsolved. The remaining copper-rich... 1996; Barnes et al., 1997). Pyrrhotite and pentlandite † Corresponding author: e-mail, Prichard@cardiff...evidence suggests that, in Ni-rich systems, pentlandite can coexist with the sulfide liquid in peritectic...relationships and therefore much of the coarse pentlandite observed in sulfide ores may represent a primary
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN T. HANNUM, Director DIVISION OF MINES...State Mineralogist JANUARY Vol. 42 1946 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...STATE MINERALOGISTS REPORT XL1I printed in California state printing office B4257 'DAVIS 1 DIVISION...Tucker, District Mining Engineer Logan, District Mining Engineer Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer...Engineer J. C. O'Brien, District Mining Engineer Arthur A. Center, Associate Metallurgical Engineer John
Report (volume)
Colorado-- Federal Center, Bldg. 810 MENLO PARK, California--Bldg. 3, Rm. 3128,345 Middlefield Rd. • RESTON... Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555 Battery St. SPOKANE...of porphyry Mo, low-F, by Ted G. Theodore 120 Grade and tonnage model porphyry Mo, low-F, by W. David...model of low-sulfide Au-quartz veins, by Byron R. Berger 239 Grade and tonnage model low-sulfide Au-quartz...from California and Oregon, U.S.A. 41 PGE grades of pediform chromite deposits from California and Oregon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary
Book (edition)
OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright © 2015, 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...medium bluegrey; 16.31 Roquesite Berzelianite low pronounced strong orange to greenish or bluish grey...yellowish to bluish white white, faint yel- weak, low tint; 50.36 white with bluish tint to faint reddish...blue yellowish grey; 40.36 very light yelyellowish low; 40.00 to light grey distinctive yellow, occasionally...tarnishes to pinkish brown; 38.25 yellowish grey; very low 37.84 strong yellowish, brownish, and bluish grey;
 
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