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Sericite from
Cove Mine, McCoy Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cove Mine, McCoy Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1550634
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1550634:0
GUID (UUID V4):18883206-f3cf-4ca8-9cd9-42a3383dd725
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Cove mine (McCoy-Cove mine; McCoy mine), McCoy Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Fish Creek prospect, Fish Creek Mountains, McCoy Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Tomboy Mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
23.3km (14.5 miles) Buffalo Valley Molybdenum Prospect, Lander County, Nevada, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Betty O'Neal mine, Lewis Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
32.3km (20.1 miles) Turquoise King prospect, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Copper Basin, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
33.7km (21.0 miles) Copper Basin Mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
37.7km (23.5 miles) Big Mike Mine, Tobin and Sonoma Range Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology of the Cove Mine, Lander County, Nevada, and a Genetic Model for the McCoy-Cove Hydrothermal System...Inc., 240 South Rock Boulevard, Suite 117, Reno, Nevada 89502 TOMMY B. THOMPSON, Ralph J. Roberts Center...Research in Economic Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID L. EMMONS, Round Mountain Gold...Mountain, Nevada 89045 AND KEITH JONES Small Mine Development, P.O. Box 251, Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820...89820 Abstract The McCoy Au-Ag skarn and Cove Au-Ag deposits are located in the northern Fish Creek Mountains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization at the Lone Tree Mine, Battle Mountain District, Nevada Elizabeth A. Holley,1,† Justin...Michael J. Pribil3 1Department 2Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1600 Illinois...in the northern Battle Mountain mining district, Nevada. Prior to mine closure in 2006, Santa Fe Pacific...fine-grained quartz and sericite are intergrown with disseminated sulfide minerals (quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration)...an adularia 40Ar/39Ar age of 40.14 ± 0.74 Ma. Sericite intergrown with arsenopyrite-rimmed pyrite in
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
Report (issue)
CIRCULAR 10 THE McCOY MINING DISTRICT AND GOLD VEINS IN HORSE CANYON LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA Papers by F...CIRCULAR 10 THE McCOY MINING DISTRICT AND GOLD VEINS IN HORSE CANYON LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA Papers by F...Washington 1934 F'7V6 Contents Page The McCoy mining district Introduction Location and topography Geology...Mines and prospects Gold Dome mine nig Four mine McCoy Consolidated mine McCoy-Strong lease Dewitt lease...10 12 13 Illustrations Figure 1. View of McCoy district, showing mines, Fish Creek Mountains, and topography
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 (volume)
Georgia have been the major sources of barite since mining began there in 1872, 1902, and 1914 respectively...Deposits in Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico have been developed extensively...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL RESOURCES production, mining and treatment of ore, as well as some descriptions...states. State references describe deposits and mining and milling techniques practiced within a particular...occurrences may be in the vicinity. In the Cartersville district, Georgia, the deposits are listed as residual
Thesis/Dissertation
the Buffalo Valley Gold Deposit, Battle Mountain, Nevada by Kathryn Sechrist A Prepublication Manuscript...midTertiary gold-(copper) deposits in northern Nevada that contains porphyry dikes fringed by skarn....pyrite and arsenopyrite deposited during quartz+sericite+pyrite alteration. Within pervasively clay altered...porphyry-related systems. 4 Introduction Northern Nevada is a major gold province and contains a variety...additional deposits are located nearby, such as Cove-McCoy (Brooks et al., 1991; Johnston, 2000; Johnston
Report (volume)
geology of the deposits, with consideration of mining methods and exploration, and estimates ofreserves...geology of the deposits, with consideration of mining methods and exploration, and estimates of reserves..._-_-_-________ Mountain Pass district, California..-____-.-_.._______ Central district, Missouri.._________________________..._________________________ Hansonburg district, New Mexico___________________ Kings Creek district, South Carolina.._______________..._______________ Del Rio district, Tennessee....____...-_.____.__.___ Middle Tennessee district __--__-__-_--_-_-_____
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)
Accepted Manuscript Gualcamayo Mining District, Argentina: An Example of Carlin-like Au Deposits Natalia...as: N.E. Bruno, T.B. Thompson, Gualcamayo Mining District, Argentina: An Example of Carlin-like Au Deposits...apply to the journal pertain. Gualcamayo Mining District, Argentina: An Example of Carlin-like Au Deposits...Argentina Tommy B. Thompson, CREG, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Abstract In the mid-1990’s Minas Argentina...Exploration, began a reevaulation of the Gualcamayo district that included a drilling program. Low-grade gold
Report (issue)
Taylor, Candelaria, Star Pointer, Cove deposits; White Pine district, Nevada; Tecoma Utah; Vekol, Tombstome...chalcopyrite, pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite; at Cove deposits stannite and canfieldite. GANGUE MINERALS:... Star Pointer, Cove), and decalcification (Star Pointer) of carbonate rocks; sericite-clay in clastic...cerargyrite forms bonanza deposits (White Pine district, Nevada; Vekol, Arizona). GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURE(S):...SIGNATURE(S): Ag±Pb±Zn±Cu±Sb±As; Mn introduced at Cove, Candelaria, and Star Pointer. Ag:Au ratios are highly variable:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
347–383 Igneous Geology of the Carlin Trend, Nevada: Development of the Eocene Plutonic Complex and...Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 AND CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY† Nevada Bureau of Mines and...and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 Abstract The Carlin trend contains the largest...several major gold-producing areas of north-central Nevada and contains the greatest concentration of Carlin-type...*Present address: Newmont Mining Corporation, 337 W. Commercial Street, Elko, Nevada 89801. 0361-0128/06/3579/347-37
Book
Bagby US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA William Bagby received a Ph.D. in Earth Science from...rocks in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. His mining industry experience includes porphyry copper exploration...at the USGS has been focused on gold deposits in Nevada and a mineral-resource assessment of Costa Rica...Berger US Geological Survey, Spokane, Washington, USA Byron Berger has been involved in exploration for...experience focused on Carlin- type deposits in northern Nevada, and during his tenure with the USGS he has conducted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lower crust-derived felsic magma. The Jiurui ore district is located in the western part of the Middle-Lower...of China showing the location of the Jiurui ore district, and Tongjing Cu-Au deposit (T), MiddleLower Yangtze...(MLYRB). (B) Simplified geologic map of the Jiurui district showing ages of granitic rocks related to Cu-Au...situated in the westernmost part of the Jiurui ore district, and two contrasting types of mineralization have...alteration is widespread and intense in the Cu-Au skarn mining area and consists of skarn and carbonate alteration
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been...epithermal deposits (Comstock epithermal vein, quartz-sericite-adularia) (models 25c and 25d of Cox and Singer...Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource
Report (issue)
Gold in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W...Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie...Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and...Gold in the Bingham District, Utah / by Edwin W. looker Gold in the Butte District, Montana / by Edwin...Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada / by Laurence P. James The Tomboy-Minnie
Report (volume)
sections of Au-skarn deposits in north-central Nevada 8 Map showing distribution of Au-skarn districts...zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...five Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of pyroxene...three Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 17 Photomicrograph showing massive garnet partly...north-central Nevada 59 · Representative data for minerals in gold skarns from north-central Nevada 60 Chemical
Report (issue)
PEAK AND ADJACENT QUADRANGLES, ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, AND BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH BY David M. Miller and Andrew...north-trending Pilot Range is located along the Nevada-Utah border about 80 km (50 mi) south of Idaho...southward from the Pilot Range throughout most of Nevada (Fig. 1). Northward and northwestward from the...Pilot Range the typical basin-range topography of Nevada is subdued in a regional highland that contains...matrix. One small body about 2 km south of China cove contains abundant phenocrysts of plagioclase and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGMATISM IN GOLD MINERALIZATION OF THE CARLIN TREND, NEVADA—A REPLY MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD C. NOBLE, Department...Sciences/172, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and... University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Mining Corporation, P.O...O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 We appreciate the comments of G.D. Langstaff and the opportunity to...relations with pre-, syn-, or postmineral rocks in Nevada have demonstrated that major deposits in all trends
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magmatism in Gold Mineralization of the Carlin Trend, Nevada MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD C. NOBLE, Department...Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...Geology, Mail Stop 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Gold...Gold Company, P.O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Beast, low-grade (7.3 Mt @ 0.7 g/t), disseminated...disseminated Au deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, is unique among Carlin-type Au deposits in having
Report (issue)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ......
Report (issue)
decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
 
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