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Sylvanite from
Tuvatu Mine, Navilawa, Viti Levu, Fiji


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sylvanite
Formula:AgAuTe4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sylvanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tuvatu Mine, Navilawa, Viti Levu, Fiji
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:267573
Long-form Identifier:1:3:267573:2
GUID (UUID V4):1d197dce-82d6-4d11-9bdc-15cc43a9c95a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
goldā€“vanadiumā€“tellurium association at the Tuvatu goldā€“silver prospect, Fiji: conditions of ore deposition P. G...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)
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...and R1 reveal that tellurium-bearing minerals, sylvanite, calaverite, krennerite, petzite, hessite, coloradoite...arsenian pyrite and tetrahedrite group minerals. Sylvanite followed by krennerite are the two most common...rocks is the Emperor goldā€“silver telluride deposit, Fiji, which contains approximately 10 Moz of Au. The
Report (issue)
Sylvanite (Au, Ag)2Te4 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point...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
Report (issue)
00 100.2 100.00 (1) Red Cloud mine, Colorado, USA. (2) Campbell mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA; by electron...galena, pyrite, hessite, nagyaĢgite, tetrahedrite, sylvanite, petzite, calaverite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite...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 99.62 100.00 100.30 100.00 (1) Zavodinskii mine, Kazakhstan. (2) San SebastiaĢn, Mexico. (3) BotesĢ§...massive pyrite deposits. Association: Calaverite, sylvanite, altaite, petzite, empressite, rickardite, gold...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;...tellurides. Association: Calaverite, coloradoite, sylvanite, krennerite, petzite, hessite, tellurium, gold...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)
vein-controlled gold deposits. Association: Gold, hessite, sylvanite, krennerite, calaverite, altaite, montbrayite...and Norwegian mines, Tuttletown, and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne Co., in the Stanislaus and Melones mines...other mines along the Mother Lode; from the Buster mine, Olinghouse district, Washoe Co., and elsewhere...Nevada. In Canada, at the Hollinger mine, Timmins, and the Lake Shore mine, Kirkland Lake, Ontario; in Quebec...the Robb-Montbray mine, Montbray Township, the Noranda mine at Rouyn, the Horne mine at Noranda, and many
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tellurides, which are mainly composed by petzite, sylvanite and to a lesser extent, hessite, calaverite, altaite...1985; Spry et al. 1997), the Emperor deposit in Fiji (Ahmad et al. 1987; Pals and Spry 2003; Scherbarth...and are principally dominated by petzite and sylvanite and to a lesser extent, hessite, calaverite, altaite...stage are characterized by pyritechalcopyrite-sylvanite (Fig. 5a), chalcopyrite-sphaleritegalena (Fig...coexists with the assemblages of petzite-hessite and sylvanite-calaverite. Rare native gold, electrum and tellurides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
telluride, probably derived from the decomposition of sylvanite (AuAgTe4) and petzite (AuAg3Te2), the only two...krennerite ((Au,Ag)Te2), sylvanite (AuAgTe4) and petzite (AuAg3Te2) (Fig. 13). Sylvanite and petzite are stable...Ć¾ 3H Ć¾ 2:25O2 ā†’AuAg3 Te2 Ć°petziteƞ Ć¾ 4:5H2 O: Sylvanite and petzite are unstable as temperature decreases...composition on the tie lines among calaverite, sylvanite and petzite, as the plotted dots shown in Fig...krennerite and sylvanite. The plotted dots on the tie lines among calaverite, sylvanite and petzite in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sandaowanzi Cripple Creek Panormos Bay Emperor and Tuvatu deposit Sacarimb deposit The Northern Great Xingā€™an...China Colorado, USA Tinos Island, Cyclades, Greece Fiji Golden Quadrilateral, Romania Baguio district,...Furtei Au deposit Sardinia, Italy Tertiary Viceroy Mine Harare-Bindura-Shamva greenstone belt, Zimbabwe...Genetically related Genetically related No Commoner Mine 2.7 Ga Hes, Alt, Ptz, Syl, Mlt, Kos, Clr, Stz...Twemlow (1984) THE CANADIAN MINERALOGIST Acupan gold mine Location Relations with intrusions TABLE 5.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Au-bearing tellurides, respectively. Hessite, sylvanite, altaite, native tellurium, stĆ¼tzite, cuprian...combination of fluid inclusion microthermometry and sylvanite geothermometry suggests that the hydrothermal...hessite-sylvanite (AgAuTe4)-altaite-native tellurium, stĆ¼tzite (Ag5-xTe3)-sylvanite, sylvanite-hessite...stĆ¼tzite-hessite, and cuprian cervelleite-hessite-sylvanite (Tombros et al., 2004). Middle stage V is characterized...laggisite, niccolite, gersdorffite StĆ¼tzite, sylvanite, melonite, rickardite, vulcanite, weissite, calaverite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aforementioned ore in the absence of calaverite, sylvanite, krennerite and a low abundance of petzite. In...(I) selenide and Sebearing, (II) telluride (sylvaniteā€“calaverite), (III) telluride (petziteā€“hessite)...Sulfidation Epithermal Emperor Gold Deposit, Vatukoula, Fiji, Mineral. Petrol., 2003, vol. 79, pp. 285ā€“307. Prokofā€™ev...Vanadium Silicates and Oxides in the Tuvatu Goldā€“Silver Telluride Deposit, Fiji, Mineral. Petrol., 2006, vol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
StrĆ¼verite Suanite Sugilite Sulfur native Svanbergite Sylvanite Sylvite Synchysite Szaybelyite Taaffeite Tachyhydrite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...you look for a mine look near a mineā€. This includes the imperative ā€œif you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is ļ¬rst and foremost recognized...According to the Raw Materials Group (Sweden), the world mine production in 2005 stood at 19.3 m t metal content
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
StrĆ¼verite Suanite Sugilite Sulfur native Svanbergite Sylvanite Sylvite Synchysite Szaybelyite Taaffeite Tachyhydrite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...you look for a mine look near a mineā€. This includes the imperative ā€œif you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is ļ¬rst and foremost recognized...According to the Raw Materials Group (Sweden), the world mine production in 2005 stood at 19.3 m t metal content
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyā€™s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
 
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