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Epidote from
West orebody, Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Classification
Species:Epidote
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epidote data
Locality Data:Click here to view West orebody, Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:284145
Long-form Identifier:1:3:284145:8
GUID (UUID V4):b216d3d4-b25a-4e5d-bea7-220bd428bb0d
References
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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
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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
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• SPOKANE, Washington--U.S. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside Ave .. • ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Rm. 101...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
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St. SPOKANE, Washington-US. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside Ave.. ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Rm. 101,4230... Chapter E Gold in Porphyry Copper Systems Gold in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold...the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine...Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County...County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and DAVID W. BLAKE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1857
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOLD METALLOGENY OF NORTHERN NEVADA Richard M. Tosdal editor Open-File Report 98-338-6...Contributions to the gold metallogeny of northern Nevada Preface R.M. Tbsdfl/.............................understanding the crustal structure near the Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral trend from geophysical constraints...Regional crustal structure beneath the Carlin Trend, Nevada, based on deep electrical geophysical measurements...and its relation to gold belts in north-central Nevada: Overview and progress report V.J.S. Grawc/i..
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Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Two epidote-quartz-calcite-magnetite orebodies, controlled...magnetite + rutile ± hematite and by iron-rich epidote (pistacite = 0.31), to log fO2 = −24 to −26 (at...magnetite + rutile ± ilmenite and by low iron epidote (ps = 0.25). The high oxygen fugacity stabilized...buffered by pyrite ± pyrrhotite. In the SE skarn, copper precipitated mainly as intermediate solid solution...produced). Hannan South is one of at least four epidote-calcite-magnetite ± actinolite skarns associated
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concentration of metallic values from the ores of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, graphite, molybdenum...so successful. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Mining Machinery Dept. OFFICES For Canadian MILWAUKEE...Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...service from Superior Jaw Crusher Worthington mining equipment the from the standpoint of first cost...most wear, Worthington meets the needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from
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Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf...Though most famous for azurite, malachite and other copper minerals, Bisbee has produced more than 200 different...Introduction Bisbee is located in the Warren mining district of Cochise Coun­ ty, Arizona. Situated in the...picturesque community has grown up along the steep canyon walls. Once a city of 25,000 (Cox, 1938), it is...common in the areas surrounding the town. Active mining began late in 1877 and continued with only minor
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versus Iron Oxide-Cu-Au-(REE-U) Chengyu Wu Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration, Beijing Representative Office,...wt RE2O3) and 1 Mt Nb (0.13% Nb). The Bayan Obo Mine produced 55,300 tons of RE2O3 in 2005, accounting...divided into the Main, East and West orebodies, which lie along an east–west zone more than 18 km long. They...although layered siderite is present in the West Orebody. REE occur dominantly as monazite and bastnasite...associated fenitic alteration in the Bayan Obo ore district (Le Bas et al., 1992; Yang et al., 2000) suggests
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