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Tellurium from
Tuvatu Mine, Navilawa, Viti Levu, Fiji


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Tellurium
Formula:Te
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tellurium data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tuvatu Mine, Navilawa, Viti Levu, Fiji
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:267568
Long-form Identifier:1:3:267568:8
GUID (UUID V4):90a220a7-f5a8-4ee5-969e-53836c3e49b3
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The goldā€“vanadiumā€“tellurium association at the Tuvatu goldā€“silver prospect, Fiji: conditions of ore...Springer-Verlag 2006 Editorial handling: N. Cook Summary The Tuvatu goldā€“telluride prospect is one of several epithermal...along the >250 km northeast trending Viti Levu lineament, Fiji, which are genetically associated with...formation of the telluride-native gold stage at Tuvatu (250  C, Au Ā¼ 1 ppb, Te Ā¼ 1 ppb, S Ā¼ 0.001...that these minerals were deposited together at Tuvatu and likely explain the common coexistence of roscoelite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Inclusion Characteristics of the Tuvatu Gold-Silver Telluride Deposit, Fiji: Comparisons with the Emperor...State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 Abstract The Tuvatu gold-silver telluride deposit with reserves of...of 13 t Au is the second largest gold deposit in Fiji after the large Emperor gold telluride deposit (production...occur along the >250-km east-northeastā€“trending Viti Levu lineament. They are spatially associated with...along the margins of the Tavua volcano whereas the Tuvatu deposit may occur adjacent to an eroded shoshonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
low-sulfidation epithermal Emperor gold deposit, Vatukoula, Fiji D. W. Pals and P. G. Spry Department of Geological...low sulfidation Emperor gold telluride deposit in Fiji, hosted by Late Miocene-Early Pliocene shoshonitic...Matanagata, Matanagata East, and R1 reveal that tellurium-bearing minerals, sylvanite, calaverite, krennerite...petzite, hessite, coloradoite, melonite, native tellurium, and rare benleonardite, formed during various...rocks is the Emperor goldā€“silver telluride deposit, Fiji, which contains approximately 10 Moz of Au. The
Report (issue)
00 100.2 100.00 (1) Red Cloud mine, Colorado, USA. (2) Campbell mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA; by electron...deposits. Association: Gold, silver, antimony, tellurium, tellurantimony, galena, pyrite, hessite, nagyaĢgite...list. Selected localities are: in the Zavodinskii mine, near Ziryanovsk, Altai Mountains, Kazakhstan [TL]...Western Australia. In the Fiji Islands, in the Tuvatu Auā€“Agā€“Te deposit, Viti Levu. From the Bulawan deposit... in the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina; the Red Cloud mine, Gold Hill, Boulder
Report (issue)
Total 101.26 100.00 100.00 (1) Tellurium mine, Virginia, USA. (2) Oya mine, Japan. (3) Bi2 Te3 . Polymorphism...[TL]; in the Tellurium mine, Fluvanna Co., Virginia; in New Mexico, from the Little Mildred mine, near Hachita...Hachita, Grant Co.; at the Campbell mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona; in Colorado, from near Whitehorn...occurrences, as at the Hunter mine, Khutze Inlet, near Swanson Bay; from the Lucky Jim mine, Quadra Island, and...the Ashloo mine, near Squamish, Howe Sound, British Columbia; from the Robb-Montbray mine, Montbray Township
Report (issue)
14.62(2) Ī² = 145.35(5)ā—¦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Fiji Islands. 3.05 (100), 2.15 (50), 2.25 (30), 1.989...Ural Mountains, Russia. In Canada, from the Dome mine, Porcupine, Ontario. In the USA, in California,...from the Mayflower mine, Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison Co., and the at Gies mine, Judith Mountains,...the San Francisco mine, 145 km north of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. At the El Indio mine, east of La Serena...From the Emperor mine, Vatukoulu, and in the Tuvatu Auā€“Agā€“Te deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. Name: From
Report (issue)
12.726(6) Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Moctezuma mine, Mexico. 2.936 (100), 12.7 (70), 2.608 (35), 2.158...10 7.20 Total 100.0 99.06 100.00 (1) Moctezuma mine, Mexico; by electron microprobe, average of 14 analyses...(Moctezuma mine, Mexico); in a limestone-hosted disseminated Auā€“Agā€“Te deposit (Mayflower mine, Montana...between alkaline intrusives and sediments (Gies mine, Montana, USA). Association: Silver, acanthite,...quartz (Moctezuma mine, Mexico); tetrahedrite, hessite, gold, sphalerite (Mayflower mine, Montana, USA);
Report (issue)
Te1.00 . (4) HgTe. Occurrence: In hydrothermal tellurium-bearing precious metal veins. Mineral Group:...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...Potosi district, Humboldt Co.; from the Outlaw mine, Round Mountain district, Nye Co.; and at the Gus Schave
Report (issue)
Total 99.62 100.00 100.30 100.00 (1) Zavodinskii mine, Kazakhstan. (2) San SebastiaĢn, Mexico. (3) BotesĢ§...altaite, petzite, empressite, rickardite, gold, tellurium, pyrite, galena, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite. Distribution:...near Zlatna. In Kazakhstan, from the Zavodinskii mine, near Ziryanovsk, Altai Mountains. In the Bereznyakov... In the Emperor mine, Vatukoula, and in the Tuvatu Auā€“Agā€“Te deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. At the...Occidental, Phillipines. In Chile, from the Condorriaco mine, near Coquimbo, and in the Wendy open pit, El Indio-Tambo
Report (issue)
corresponds to (Au1.02 Ag0.02 )Ī£=1.04 Te2.00 . (2) Moose mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA; Fe is from pyrite;...coloradoite, sylvanite, krennerite, petzite, hessite, tellurium, gold, pyrite, quartz. Distribution: In Romania...mines in Cripple Creek, Teller Co.; the Smoky Hill mine, Boulder Co.; the Central City district, Gilpin...Campbell mine, Bisbee, and at Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona; from the Golden Sunlight mine, near Whitehall...Jefferson Co., Montana. In Canada, at the Bencourt mine, Louvricourt, Quebec. At Kalgoorlie and Mulgabbie
Report (issue)
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...the Date mine, Hokkaido, and the Susaki mine, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In the Emperor mine, Vatukoula...Vatukoula, and in the Tuvatu Auā€“Agā€“Te deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. At the Bulawan deposit, Negros Occidental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Mariposa County, California, USA). In the Janggun mine area, Republic of Korea, V-bearing muscovite (5...of the gold-vanadium-tellurium association at the Tuvatu gold-silver prospect, Fiji, Spry & Scherbarth...Scherbarth (2006) showed that the most common mica at Tuvatu is roscoelite rather than V-bearing muscovite. In...cleavage fragment of roscoelite from the Stuckslager mine, Coloma, El Dorado County, California (type locality...curve: roscoelite (GRR 1927) from the Stuckslager mine, Coloma, El Dorado County, California, USA, 0.040
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and references therein). The association among tellurium, selenium and gold is long recognized, and is...Spry (1994a) calculated the stability of aqueous tellurium species, plus calaverite and Preface ā€“ Special...(Zhang and Spry, 1994b; Spry et al., 1997), Emperor, Fiji (Pals and Spry, 2003), Kalgoorlie, Australia (Shackleton...measurement of the abundance of known aqueous tellurium species up to 350  C, McPhail (1995) reported...ā€˜epithermal goldā€“tellurideā€™ deposits include Emperor (Fiji), Ladolam (Papua New Guinea), occurrences in Boulder
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and the primary Uā€“V ores from the Mounana uranium mine in Gabon (Gauthier-Lafaye & Weber 2003). It is also...hematiteā€“barite ore within dolomite in the Buca della Vena mine in northern Tuscany (Orlandi et al. 1997). Vanadian...Baikal (Koneva 2002), Outokumpu (Long et al. 1963), Tuvatu (Spry & Scherbarth 2006), Mounana Ā­(Geffroy et...2002), the Vā€“Cr oxides from the Tuvatu goldā€“ silver prospect in Fiji (Spry & Scherbarth 2006) and the...geochemical studies of the Emperor gold telluride deposit, Fiji. Econ. Geol. 83, 345-370. Hurlbut, C.S., Jr. (1969):
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to āˆ’11.5, respectively. The highly oxidized, tellurium-enriched hydrothermal fluid, which formed the...aikinite, and native tellurium. The Cl-bearing minerals are associated with native tellurium or Te-oxide, and...replace altaite, is a mixture between native tellurium and Pb-Cl minerals. (c) An altaite and Pb-Cl-Te...the sericite-pyrite seams and it is enriched in tellurium relative to antimony compared with the stoichiometric...tetradymite from the Bellerophon deposit is enriched in tellurium and depleted in sulfur. Native Te/Te-oxide and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ores are mostly attributed to breakdown of early tellurium-bearing phases (i.e., Ī³- and Ļ‡-phases) during...1985; Spry et al. 1997), the Emperor deposit in Fiji (Ahmad et al. 1987; Pals and Spry 2003; Scherbarth...Muhling 2013). Discussions Initial phase of tellurium mineralization Previous studies demonstrate that...necessary to distinguish the initial phase of tellurium precipitated from hydrothermal fluid. The most...likely dominant tellurium species in ore solution (Fig. 10d). Possible source of tellurium Numerous studies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Voudouris, 2006) Dikes (this study) Dacite 6 Tuvatu monzonites (Scherbarth and Spry, 2006) Andesite...associated with porphyry-epithermal mineralization at Tuvatu (Scherbarth and Spry 2006), Lepanto-Far Southeast...1000 (Pe-Piper et al., 2009) Dikes (this study) Tuvatu monzonites (Scherbarth and Spry, 2006) 10 1 ...its crosscutting dikes superimposed on data from Tuvatu (Scherbarth and Spry 2006). Data are from this...its crosscutting dikes superimposed on data from Tuvatu (Scherbarth and Spry 2006). Data are from this
Book (edition)
. . . . . . . 6.3.2 Emperor Gold Deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji. . . . 6.3.3 Dinkidi Copper-Gold Deposit, Didipio...New Guinea, 13 Roumania, 14 Mariana Islands, 15 Fiji, 16 Kuril Islands, 17 Vanuatu, 18 Sunda Arc, 19.... . Samples from oceanic arcs (Lihir Island, Viti Levu, Goonumbla) plotted on the (TiO2/10)(Lax10)-(P2O5/10)...Geological overview of the Emperor gold deposit, Fiji. Modified after Setterfield et al. (1991) . . ....Australia, at the main development level of the mine. The position of the Whenan Shaft is shown. Note
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/oregeo The Engineer Mine, British Columbia: An example of epithermal Au-Ag...Roscoelite Vanadium a b s t r a c t The Engineer Mine epithermal precious metal deposit in British Columbia...style of epithermal mineralization at the Engineer Mine we conducted detailed petrographic, mineralogical...studies. The principal ore assemblage of the Engineer Mine epithermal veins precipitated in response to boiling...meteoric water. Based on these results the Engineer Mine is classified as an epithermal low-sulfidation deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between the two ore occurrences is the absence of tellurium deposition in the Apigania Bay. Possible explanations...mineralizating fluid, in the absence of available tellurium content due to pre-deposition in the Panormos...which may have played a catalytic role and helped tellurium to condense. Experimental studies have showed...et al. 1998), dolomite and Mg-chlorite (Emperor, Tuvatu; Ahmad et al. 1987; Scherbarth and Spry 2006),...2004) and Mg-chlorite and manganese ores (Sunnyside mine; Casadevall and Ohmoto 1977). The Apigania Bay system
Report (issue)
112.4 indium 114.8 tin 118.7 antimony 121.8 tellurium 127.6 iodine 126.9 xenon 131.3 55 56 72 ...............................................U22 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................U25 Mine Closure...........................................V/L microgram of vanadium per liter AMD acid mine drainage Ga giga-annum HSLA high-strength, low-alloy...reserves Source of data ID Deposit 1 Lueca Mine Angola NA Vanadate ā€“7.92 13.65 n.d. n.d.
Book
occurs with quartz crystals at the Ellenville Lead mine, granite at Topsham, Maine. Figure 20. A thumbnail-sized...Mountain, Georgia, and at the Champion andalusite mine, Mono County, California (Cook 1985, Cook 2003Š°;...rutile crystal about 3 cm tall, from the Onganja mine, Namibia. RJL331 I Many of the finest anatase and...colorless quartz, from the Shingletrap Mountain mine, Montgomery County, North Carolina. Note the color...the soil in the vicinity of a it is economical to mine the Ti-rich sands by dredging on a decomposing granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Email address: manuel.keith@fau.de Abstract Tellurium has a wide variety of applications, most importantly...Porgera and Ladolam (Papua New Guinea) and Vatukoula (Fiji) (Richards and Kerrich, 1993; Kelley et al., 1998;...Martin et al., 2019; Pokrovski et al., 2019). Tellurium and Au are typically enriched in As-rich (arsenian)...(2) Cresson (Ruby stockpile) and (3) the historic mine site of Vindicator Valley (Fig. 1). The sample set...to be close to 100% extracted by aqua regia. Tellurium concentrations analyzed by XRF and ICP-MS using
Book (edition)
. . . . . . . 6.3.2 Emperor Gold Deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji . . . . . . . . 6.3.3 Dinkidi Copper-Gold Deposit...resources of 200,000 oz. gold both at Kanowna Belle Gold Mine, Australia, and at the Jabal Shayban Gold Project...New Guinea, 13 Roumania, 14 Mariana Islands, 15 Fiji, 16 Kuril Islands, 17 Vanuatu, 18 Sunda Arc, 19...Geological overview of the Emperor gold deposit, Fiji. Modiļ¬ed after Setterļ¬eld et al. (1991) . . . ....e mineralization from the Emperor gold deposit, Fiji (mineral collection of TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
may have precipitated in early relatively high tellurium concentration stage preceding gold mineralization...directly in the breccia ores, but can buffer the tellurium fugacity, and thus inļ¬‚uence the gold precipitation...Cooke and McPhail, 2001). The association among tellurium, selenium and gold has long been recognized by... bismuthite for Bi, and native gold, silver, tellurium, copper, zinc, nickel, cobalt, and selenium for...Previous studies also reported native silver, tellurium, electrum, frohbergite, altaite, clausthalite
 
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