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Galena from
Tuvatu Mine, Navilawa, Viti Levu, Fiji


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tuvatu Mine, Navilawa, Viti Levu, Fiji
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:267588
Long-form Identifier:1:3:267588:6
GUID (UUID V4):604cf468-37ee-4a99-bbba-3d0dcef8228a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Au- and Porphyry Cu-Style Mineralization, Navilawa Caldera, Fiji Nathan A. Forsythe 1 , Paul G. Spry 1,...Abstract: The Navilawa caldera is the remnant of a shoshonitic volcano on Viti Levu, Fiji, and sits adjacent...low-sulfidation Tuvatu epithermal Auā€“Te deposit. The caldera occurs along the Viti Levu lineament, approximately...from the Tuvatu Auā€“Te deposit towards the central, northern, and eastern parts of the Navilawa caldera...Auā€“(Te) vein systems, including the Banana Creek and Tuvatu North prospects. Chalcopyrite, and minor bornite
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...rocks is the Emperor goldā€“silver telluride deposit, Fiji, which contains approximately 10 Moz of Au. The...western flank of the Tavua Caldera in north-central Viti Levu (Fig. 1). Although much of the gold in the Emperor...Generalized geological map of the Tavua Caldera, Fiji (modified after Eaton and Setterfield, 1993; Begg
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... altaite, hessite, petzite, acanthite, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, quartz, ā€œchalcedonyā€...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...Gold, silver, antimony, tellurium, tellurantimony, galena, pyrite, hessite, nagyaĢgite, tetrahedrite, sylvanite...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)
petzite, gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, tetrahedriteā€“tennantite. Distribution:...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§...empressite, rickardite, gold, tellurium, pyrite, galena, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite. Distribution: In Romania...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wainaulo Cu-Au Porphyry Deposit, Namosi District, Fiji* Evan A. Orovan,1,2,ā€  David R. Cooke,1,2 Anthony...Wainaulo Cu-Au porphyry deposit of the Namosi district, Fiji, hosts distinct styles of alteration and mineralization...part of the Namosi district in southeast Viti Levu Island, Fiji. The district is confined within the Special...177Ā°E Mt. Kasi 0.24 Moz Au1 B N 2.5 km Vanua Levu Yasawa Islands 1 2 3 Taveuni 4 17Ā°S Emperor...Mamanuca Islands 18Ā°S Koro Sea 18.25Ā°S Suva Tuvatu 0.46 Moz Au 19Ā°S 179Ā°E 178Ā°E 18.00Ā°S A OROVAN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metallic minerals consist of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, bornite, sphalerite, molybdenite, and iron oxides...veins containing pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, enargite, bournonite, tetrahedrite-tennantite...magmatic-hydrothermal fluids. Sulfur isotope values of pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and molybdenite range from Ī“34S0āˆ’6... pyrite, and chalcopyrite (for Fe, Cu, and S), galena (for Pb), molybdenite (for Mo), sphalerite (for...are given in Tables 4 and 5. Pyrite, sphalerite, galena, molydbenite, and barite used for sulfur isotope
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...acanthite Ā± hessite Ā± dyscrasite Ā± stibarsen Ā± galena and an unidentified Ag-rich phase were deposited
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)
veins are mainly pyrite, with trace chalcopyrite, galena, rare sphalerite, and molybdenite. The pyrite is...fills the interstices between the other minerals. Galena is mostly found enclosed by pyrite, whereas sphalerite...grains. (c) A mineral assemblage of native gold, galena (Gn), tellurobismuthite, buckhornite (Buh), and...crystals associated with larger petzite grains. (g) Galena and aikinite (Aik) enclosed by pyrite in a qua...quartz-albite-carbonate-pyrite vein. The relations between galena and aikinite indicate exsolution or an immiscibility
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1985; Spry et al. 1997), the Emperor deposit in Fiji (Ahmad et al. 1987; Pals and Spry 2003; Scherbarth...standards of chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, CoNiAs, SnO2, MnTi and native Ag, Sb, Au, Se,...ores, which mainly include pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite (Fig. 5a-c) and minor bornite and pyrrhotite;...6-chalcopyrite (CM17/90 m), 7-bornite (CM23/130 m), 8-galena (CM20/130 m), 9-sphalerite (CM23/130 m), 10-Zn-tetrahedrite...sphalerite and both of them are replaced by galena; c Galena is intergrown with chalcopyrite and sphalerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
well-developed comb textures, and contain up to 20 vol.% galena. Later stages of evolution of an epithermal system...tetrahedrite (tetr) (scale bar = 500Ī¼m); c Stage III galena (g) with argentiteā€“acanthite inclusions (arg) (scale... tetrahedrite, tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, CoNiAs, 179 SnO2, MnTi, and native Ag, Sb, Au...albite and sericite, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite and galena. Representative compositions of vein fill and alteration...Famatinite Rammelsbergite Laggisite Cassiterite Galena Acanthite Polybasite Argentopyrite Covellite Anglessite
Report (issue)
............................................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....ā€“25.63 27.78 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. 54 Mapochs Mine South Africa Bushveld Igneous Complex, Limpopo
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)
Porgera and Ladolam (Papua New Guinea) and Vatukoula (Fiji) (Richards and Kerrich, 1993; Kelley et al., 1998;...(2) Cresson (Ruby stockpile) and (3) the historic mine site of Vindicator Valley (Fig. 1). The sample set...higher abundances in individual samples (Fig. 3). Galena and sphalerite often show a close association with...(Wedepohl, 1995). Chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena are the main hosts for Cu, Zn and Pb, respectively...in all other trace elements compared to pyrite. Galena is also known to incorporate trace elements in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
samples of pyrite, chalcopyrite, gallium arsenide, galena, pentlandite, and sphalerite, and pure Co, Sb,...(ppm) are found in low-temperature pyrites, such as Tuvatu (Se = 867; 250 ĖšC; Scherbarth and Spry, 2006; Spry...104222 and Zn-bearing mineral inclusions, such as galena and sphalerite, respectively (Griffin et al., 1991;...However, in addition to the Pb and Zn in the form of galena and sphalerite inclusions, recent studies on pyrite...Henney, P., 1995. Characterization of gold from Fiji. British Geological Survey, Technical report WC/95/41
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
base metal deposit BanskĆ” HodruÅ”a at the RozĆ”lia Mine (Slovakia) Alexander Kubač1 Rastislav Vojtko6 Ā·...minerals include low Fe sphalerite (~ 1.25 wt%), galena, chalcopyrite, and pyrite. The wall rock alteration...Computed tomography Ā· Low angle shear zone Ā· RozĆ”lia Mine Ā· HodruÅ”a-HĆ”mre Ā· Å tiavnica stratovolcano Introduction...Mn-silicates, common base metal sulphides (sphalerite, galena, tetrahedritetennantite, chalcopyrite) and predominance...base metal deposit of BanskĆ” HodruÅ”a at the RozĆ”lia Mine has several unique characteristics. The major distinct
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
while the distribution of Bi is controlled by galena and chalcopyrite inclusions, and pyrite chemistry...located next to the main entrance of the old Bruneau mine. The area was mined for Cu, Au, and Ag in the late...Formation (old Cu-Au-Ag Bruneau mine) Bruneau Formation (near the old Bruneau mine) Bruneau Formation Bruneau...and correspond to pyrrhotite, sphalerite, and Ā± galena. The silicates and oxide inclusions are the main...(highest Bi/Te ratio) because it contains Bi-enriched galena inclusions identified by a Bi-Pb correlation R2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
observed in carbonate, pyrite, sphalerite, and galena. Gold grains ranges from hundredths of a millimeter...S), coloradoite (Hg), metallic bis muth (Bi), galena (Pb), stibnite (Sb), and synthetic CdSe (Se). The...the selvages. The minor minerals are sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, and tennantiteā€“tet rahedrite; zinkenite...cassiterite, and scheelite are rare. Sphalerite, galena, tennantiteā€“tetrahedrite, and stannite overgrow...confined to the sphaleriteā€“galena aggregates. Zinkenite frequently replaces galena. The crystals of sphalerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
display well-developed open-space filling textures. Galena and sphalerite (ā‰ˆ20 vol %) are the main metallic... tetrahedrite, tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, CoNiAs, SnO2, MnTi, and elemental Ag, Sb, Au,... epidote, muscovite, albite, ankerite, barite, galena, sphalerite, native gold, and native silver. The... epidote, muscovite, albite, ankerite, barite, galena, sphalerite, and native precious metals. The outer...and IV and were subsequently replaced by stage VI galena (containing up to 6.0 wt % Te and 0.3 wt % Ag)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contrast, gold in the Mt. Charlotte underground mine is found mostly as ā€œvisibleā€ gold grains, whereas...Mt. Percy open pits and Hidden Secret underground mine (Clout et al. 1990; Mueller and Muhling 2013). Fimiston...stages based on detailed mapping in the Paringa mine: (1) Early chert-like quartz-chloritecarbonate associated...(Hagemann and Vielreicher 1999) and the Paringa mine (Mueller 2018; this issue). We correlate our stages...(2015) and Mueller (2018; this issue). The location (mine grid coordinates), host rock, mineralization style
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marcasite for Fe and S, GaAs for As, stibnite for Sb, galena for Pb, cinnabar for Hg, bismuthite for Bi, and...in ore deposits, such as pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, stibnite, chalcopyrite and bornite. These mineral...Loellingite (Lo) Arsenopyrite (Apy) Cinnabar Molybdenite Galena Stibnite Herzenbergite Ottemannite Vaesite Sphalerite...goldā€“vanadiumā€“tellurium association at the Tuvatu goldā€“silver prospect, Fiji: conditions of ore deposition. Mineral...Rules and Prospecting Direction of Guilaizhuang Gold Mine in Pingyi County in Shandong Province. Shandong
 
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