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Montmorillonite from
Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:154253
Long-form Identifier:1:3:154253:0
GUID (UUID V4):af401bc3-7b08-4849-a857-fea6aae6b135
Localities for Montmorillonite in this Region
Tusc pit (Tusc ore body), Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Maggie Creek Open Pit Gold Mine, Maggie Creek Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Copper King Mine, Schroeder Mt, Maggie Creek Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Tusc pit (Tusc ore body), Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
16.5km (10.3 miles) Leeville mine (West Leeville orebody; Four Corners orebody; Turf orebody), Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
20.0km (12.4 miles) Fish Creek mine (Big Three mine; Roan claims; Chaliebois; Big Four), Swales Mountain Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
21.3km (13.2 miles) Blue Star Mine, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles) Number Eight mine (Blue Star mine), Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Genesis pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
46.6km (29.0 miles) Hollister deposit (Ivanhoe/USX; Butte; Velvet; Clementine), Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
47.5km (29.5 miles) Modarelli mine, Modarelli-Frenchie Creek Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data—Implications... Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA ABSTRACT ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...imagery over a 389 km × 387 km area in northern Nevada (38.5°–42°N, 114°–118.5°W) was analyzed to evaluate...hydrothermal quartz were detected in or near known Carlin-type gold deposits, distal disseminated Au-Ag deposits...province is the world’s second leading producer of gold and is also host to a wide variety of ore deposits
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GoldDeposition (I). Carlin Gold Deposit,Nevada' The Role of Carbonaceous Materialsin Gold Deposition ARTHURS...carbonatehost rocks and unoxidized gold ores of the Carlin mine indicatethat gold, quartz,barite, pyrite, and...interactingwith gold complexes to form goldorganiccompounds.Althoughthe exactstructureof the gold organiccompound(s)is...stablegold chelates. Subsequent oxidationof the gold organiccompounds destroysthe organiccomponent and...importance in determining the chemicalstateand amountof gold deposited in carbonaceous limestone,althoughsuchfactorsas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Carlin Trend, Nevada: Development of the Eocene Plutonic Complex and Significance for Carlin-Type...Carlin-Type Gold Deposits MICHAEL W. RESSEL* Department of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada...CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY† Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 Abstract...Abstract The Carlin trend contains the largest concentration of Carlin-type gold deposits in the world...world. Two major controversies about these giant gold deposits have been their age, which is now firmly established
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Introduction Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura...Basin district-- -Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact...Contact district Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide...Canyon area-----Gold Basin district Gold Circle district Good Hope district ---Goose Creek -district Halleck
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Importance of Eocene Magmatism in Gold Mineralization of the Carlin Trend, Nevada MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD...Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...178, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Gold Company, P.O. Box...Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Beast, low-grade (7.3 Mt @ 0.7 g/t), disseminated Au deposit...deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, is unique among Carlin-type Au deposits in having as much as 50 percent
Report (issue)
low-temperature secondary origin (McDermitt mine, Nevada, USA); in an oxidized hydrothermal deposit (Arzak...radtkeite, montmorillonite, quartz, cristobalite, orthoclase, plagioclase (McDermitt mine, Nevada, USA); cinnabar...Russia). Distribution: In the USA, in Nevada, from the McDermitt mercury mine, Opalite district, Humboldt...Paradise Peak mine, Fairplay district, Nye Co.; and in the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Maggie Creek district...district, Eureka Co. From the Arzak and Kadyrel mercury deposits, Tuva, Siberia, Russia. In the Khaydarkan
Report (volume)
Characteristics of Sediment-and Volcanic-Hosted Disseminated Gold Deposits Search for an Occurrence Model U.S. GEOLOGICAL...terrain. Three conspicuous basin-and-range fault sets trend east-west, northwest, and northeast within the district...scale east-west-trending faults in the Enfield Bell mine are are the Marlboro Canyon, Bell, and Ridge faults...(Devonian and Silurian) Contact SOhc� Hanson Creek Formation (Silurian and Ordovician) Fault dashed...Enfield Bell mine, Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada. � Geology of the Enfield Bell Mine and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Basin: Evidence for Distinctive Fluid Evolution Gold-ProducingHydrothermal Systems PETER T. HOLLAND,...northernGreat Basinis basedon 65 samplesfrom 10 Carlin-type gold depositsand 22 similarbut apparentlybarren...dominantcomponentin mostsamplesfrom the Carlin, Gold Quarry, MaggieCreek, Pinson,and Prebledeposits.It...are at leasttwo geochemicallydiscernibletypesof gold depositsin the northernGreat Basin.Thesetypes are...Windfall deposit(factor 2) at one extremeand by the Gold Quarry deposit(factor3) at the other. Other deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
391–404 Gold-Bearing Breccias of the Rain Mine, Carlin Trend, Nevada CINDY L. WILLIAMS, Newmont Mining Company...University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0232 JON. L. POWELL, AND W. WARREN DUNBAR Newmont Mining Company...Company, P.O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Rain mine includes two mined-out open pits that contained...contained 36.4 t (1.17 Moz) gold, averaging 1.8 g/t gold, and underground reserves, including underground...underground production, estimated at 4.9 t (157,000 oz) gold averaging 7.7 g/t. Rain orebodies are localized
Report (issue)
the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Some Fossil Data...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada By THOMAS E. MULLENS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...host rock for the large gold ore deposits at the Carlin and Cortez mines, Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...the Roberts Mountains Formation, North-Central Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1063) Bibliography:...Stratigraphic Devonian. 3. Petrology Nevada. 4. Paleontology Nevada. 5. Geology Nevada. I. Title. II. Series: United
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
High-Grade Gold Deposition and Collapse Breccia Formation, Cortez Hills Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, USA...Parkway, Box 454010, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 2 California 3 Earth Resources...48109 4 Barrick 5 Nevada Gold Exploration Incorporated, 293 Spruce Road, Elko, Nevada 89801 Bureau of...University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 Abstract The Cortez Hills breccia zone, a Nevada Carlin-type gold...gold deposit located in the Cortez district on the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend, formed within a high-grade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Characteristics and origin of sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposits: a review Greg B. Arehart * Wairakei...Sediment-hosted disseminated gold (SHDG) deposits comprise a major portion of the gold production and reserves...world gold production. These deposits are characterized by extremely fine-grained disseminated gold, hosted...indicate the ore fluids were probably near neutral and gold was likely carried as a bisulfide complex. The depositional...isotopes as seen at Post and fluid inclusion data from Carlin may be indicative of some phase separation ('boiling')
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogic logging of drill samples from gold and copper mining operations D.M. Hausen and J.R. Odekirk...Wakara Way, Suite 210, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA (Accepted after revision April 27, 1990) ABSTRACT...mineralogic logging of drill samples from gold and copper mining operations. In: W. Petruk, A.H. Vassiliou...includingporphyry deposits as well as disseminated gold deposits. Metallurgical ore types as well as lithologic...b ), the American Eagle breccia pipe at Copper Creek (Guthrie and Moore, 1979; Hausen et al., 1989),
Report (issue)
Oreshoot Zoning in the Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada By Stephen G. Peters1...Mackay School of Mines, MS-176, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 of Geological Sciences, Mackay...Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 3Mine Geology Department, Barrick Goldstrike...Elko, Nevada 89803. 2Department Oreshoot Zoning in the Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka...Eureka County, Nevada by Stephen G. Peters1, Gregory C. Ferdock2, Maria B. Woitsekhowskaya1, Robert Leonardson3
Report (issue)
Sediment-Hosted Gold Deposits of the World—Database and Grade and Tonnage Models By Vladimir I. Berger...Bliss, J.D., and Moring, B.C., 2014, Sediment-hosted gold deposits of the world—Database and grade and tonnage............................................... 8 Mining Methods .................................................................................... 27 Carlin Subtype Grade and Tonnage Model ........................... 33 Grade and Tonnage Differences of Carlin and Chinese Subtypes .........................
Report (issue)
1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....within the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties...commodity. Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Report (issue)
Geology of the Carlin Gold Deposit, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1267 /Ju l/ /Ea...7 0;.:?04N .. 041).- Geology of the Carlin Gold Deposit, Nevada By ARTHUR S. RADTKE U.S. GEOLOGICAL...study of one of the largest disseminated-replacement gold deposits in North America UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Radtke, Arthur S., 1936— Geology of the Carlin gold deposit, Nevada. (Geological Survey professional paper... no.: I 19.16:1267 1. Gold ores—NevadaCarlin region. 2. Geology—NevadaCarlin region. I. Title. II.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anomalies related to deep gold zones, Carlin Trend, Nevada J. Kelly Cluer† Altan Nevada Minerals Ltd., 1287...Street, Carson City, Nevada 89703 Abstract A near-vertical fracture set in Miocene Carlin Formation tuffaceous...a deep Carlin-type gold ore zone of Eocene age at the Ren property on the northern Carlin trend, Nevada... are filled with brown montmorillonite clays and contain a distinctive Carlin-type geochemical assemblage...passage of the plume immediately north of the Carlin trend would have provided increased heat flow, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of us (P. D. P.) at CopperKing mine, Maggie Creek district, Eureka County, Nev., and was sent to the u...Copper King mine in which faustite is found is in the Maggie creek (also known as Susie creek or Schroeder)district...northwest of carlin, Eureka County, Nev. The district has been mined for lead, silver, gold, antimony,...considerablequantity a few miles to the southeast.The mine is in sedimentary rocks of paleozoic age that dip...no primary copper mineralization visible in the mine. Directly down the rake of the main ore shoot on
Report (issue)
USE OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY IN EXPLORATION FOR AND MINING OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKHOSTED AU DEPOSITS By Stephen...ground control, grade control, safety issues, and mine planning. District- and regional-scale structural...structural geology to be directly applied to the mining and exploration of sedimentary rockhosted Au deposits...have practical and empirical application in most mining districts where they are of use in the exploration...deposits are in the large Betze deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada and in the Lannigou, Jinlongshan, and Maanqiao
Report (issue)
and geochemical maps of the Buckhorn mine area, Eureka County, Nevada By John D. Wells and James E. Elliott...location of the Buckhorn mine area.-2G --Geologic map of the Buckhorn mine area. 3.--"-Cross section...A-A 1 of the Buckhorn mine area. 4.--Cross section B-B 1 of the Buckhorn mine area, 5.--Cross section...C-C 1 of the Buckhorn mine area. 6. Distribution of gold of the Buckhorn mine area. 7.--Distribution...silver of the Buckhorn mine area. 8.--Distribution of mercury of the Buckhorn mine area. 9.--Distribution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Epithermal Deposits in the Carlin Gold Region, Nevada STEPHEN B. CASTOR,† Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology...University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID R. BODEN, 1445 High Chaparral Drive, Reno, Nevada 89511...CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 JEAN...Geoscience Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 ALBERT H. HOFSTRA, U.S. Geological...Mexico Bureau of Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 RICHARD
Journal (issue)
Golden Triangle of Southeast China: Another Carlin Trend? Andy Wilde† (SEG 1998 F), Predictive Mineral...Triangle of SE China: Potential for another Carlin trend, which appeared in the inaugural SGEG Newsletter...focuses on gold deposits of the Carlin trend in northern Nevada. INTRODUCTION Numerous gold deposits and...with sedimentary rock-hosted or “Carlin-type” deposits of northeast Nevada (e.g., Li and Peters, 1998), and...at least one major multinational mining company has explored for Carlin-type deposits in this area. Such
 
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