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Illite from
Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Illite
Formula:K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Illite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:285826
Long-form Identifier:1:3:285826:5
GUID (UUID V4):cda81058-ada0-409a-a473-356a4e97586c
Nearest other occurrences of Illite
3.0km (1.9 miles) Rabbit Creek Mine, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Chimney Creek Mine (Chimney Prospect), Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
7.5km (4.6 miles) Summer Camp pit, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
31.5km (19.6 miles) Midas Mine (Reco Mine; Big Chief group; King Midas claim; Dixie claim), Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
43.2km (26.9 miles) Kramer Hill Mine, Golconda Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
51.9km (32.3 miles) Hollister deposit (Ivanhoe/USX; Butte; Velvet; Clementine), Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
69.4km (43.1 miles) Copper Basin, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
70.4km (43.8 miles) Meikle Mine, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
70.9km (44.0 miles) Deep Post orebody, Betze-Post pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
71.4km (44.4 miles) Betze-Post pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cretaceous and Eocene Alteration, Twin Creeks Carlin-Type Deposit, Nevada C. M. HALL, STEPHEN E. KESLER,†...for adularia, illite, and muscovite from the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. All illite samples were...caused by detrital illite and muscovite in sedimentary rocks. Interpretation of the illite-age spectra was...models for the behavior of argon in fine-grained illite. The results indicate that all adularia (in the...area) formed at about 42 Ma (Eocene), whereas most illite in the Megapit area and muscovite in alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfidation and Gold Deposition, Twin Creeks Carlin-Type Deposit, Nevada JOHN FORTUNA,* STEPHEN E. KESLER...deposition of gold in the Megapit area of the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. Sedimentary rocks in and...involved destruction of the iron-rich chlorite by illite or sericite, which released iron to form ferroan...possible sources of iron were evaluated for the Twin Creeks deposit, where sulfidation associated with gold...most likely source of iron for sulfidation. At Twin Creeks, however, iron could have been derived from sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 J. N. CHRISTENSEN, Lawrence Berkeley...adularia is contemporaneous with Au at Twin Creeks, but Twin Creeks is the only Carlin-type deposit where...Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, Nevada 89803. 0361-0128/01/3326/235-14 $6.00 deposits...techniques. 114° 42° JC Carlin-type deposits in Nevada GT CT Elko C Reno AB BM 39° Great Basin...deposits in Nevada. Deposits and major prospects are shown by circles. Deposit or district locations mentioned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fracture-Controlled Fluid Flow in Carlintype Gold Deposits, Nevada John A. Groff PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(19)30820-0...Fracture-Controlled Fluid Flow in Carlintype Gold Deposits, Nevada, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10...Fracture-Controlled Fluid Flow in Carlin-type Gold Deposits, Nevada John A. Groff Department of Earth and Environmental...Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy, Socorro, New Mexico 87801...with chalcedonic quartz from the Getchell and Twin Creeks mines. Fluid inclusions in Main-stage jasperoid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, North-Central Nevada JEAN S. CLINE† University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway...Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 Abstract Pregold mineralization at the Getchell Carlin-type...galkhaite at Getchell and adularia at the nearby Twin Creeks mine, respectively, most closely approximate the...gold production is supplied by the state of Nevada (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1999), and most...from more than 100 Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada. In spite of this activity, there is no widely
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............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource
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 (issue)
Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225 2Lone Tree Mine, Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation, P.O. Box 388...Pinson, Getchell, and Twin Creeks disseminated gold deposits in northern Nevada.........................4960 ft bench in the Mag pit at the Pinson Mine, northern Nevada.. 4 TABLES Table 1. Particle size distribution...Disseminated gold ore from the Pinson Mine in northern Nevada was collected, prepared, and analyzed as...Geological Survey reference standard, DGPM-1. The Pinson Mine was chosen as the collection site for the standard
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)
Roleof Sulfidation and Deearbonation at Twin Creeks, Nevada DAVIDP. STENGER, •' STEPHEN E. KESLER, •...databases thatwereprepared by minestaff. Countryrocksat Twin CreeksincludeOrdovician-age interlayered calcareous...our understanding of the geology and Mining Company Twin Creeks mine field tripguide,October, mineralogy...the Twin CreeksMine tionswithinformation fromtwolargegeochemical databases The Twin Creeks mine is located...TwinCreeksCarlin-type the Osgood Mountains justwestof the Pinson,Preble,and deposit nearWinnemucca, Nevada(Fig.1). Getchell
Report (issue)
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/.............................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.....autochthonous rocks that host gold along the Carlin trend, Nevada Augustus K. Armstrong, Ted G. Theodore, Robert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evolution of Vein Sets at the Pipeline Gold Mine, Nevada Nigel J. F. Blamey 1,2, *, Andrew R. Campbell...Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, USA; campbell@nmt.edu (A...June 2017 Abstract: The origin of sediment-hosted Nevada gold deposits has been highly debated, especially...Cretaceous. We examined the Pipeline gold mine in north-central Nevada, focusing on data from the four vein...matching the dates of gold-associated epigenetic illite. Ore fluids enriched in CO2 and H2 S caused decarbonation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data—Implications... Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA ABSTRACT ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission...imagery over a 389 km × 387 km area in northern Nevada (38.5°–42°N, 114°–118.5°W) was analyzed to evaluate...identification of quartz and carbonate minerals, Nevada System (EOS) Terra satellite launched in 2000 provides...km) area of the central Great Basin in northern Nevada. The quartz and carbonate mineral maps were overlain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration: Screamer zone, Betze-Post deposit, Nevada Received: 1 July 2001 / Accepted: 24 January 2002...the same formation and underlain by the Roberts Mountains Formation, both of which contain much smaller...Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA E-mail: Skesler@umich.edu P.B. Zohar Barrick Goldstrike...Elko, NV 89803, USA J.L. Borhauer SNC Lavalin America, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, NV 8903, USA horizontal... Keywords Betze-Post deposit Æ Carlin Æ Gold Æ Nevada Introduction The relation between gold grade and
Report (issue)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources (for example, the Humboldt River drainage...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
Report (issue)
Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada By Stephen G. Peters1, Gregory C. Ferdock2...Mackay School of Mines, MS-176, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 of Geological Sciences, Mackay...Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 3Mine Geology Department, Barrick Goldstrike...Elko, Nevada 89803. 2Department Oreshoot Zoning in the Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka...Eureka County, Nevada by Stephen G. Peters1, Gregory C. Ferdock2, Maria B. Woitsekhowskaya1, Robert Leonardson3
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...matrix surrounding jigsaw-fit clasts of quartz-, illite-, barite-, and adularia-altered siliciclastic rock...reported for Eocene porphyry systems elsewhere in the district. Nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry analyses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold at the Betze-Post Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, United States Jared D. Lubben,1,* Jean S. Cline...University 2 Mineral of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 Deposit...is one of several major trends in northeastern Nevada that contain more than a hundred Carlin-type deposits...(74.1 Moz; Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 2010), demonstrating that northeastern Nevada forms the...0361-0128/12/4059/1351-35 and Australia in 2009 (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 2010). Significant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the ageof the golddeposits in the Jerritt Canyon district. Datedigneous rocks withwell-documented crosscutting...deposit in the Carlintrendand TheJerrittCanyon district(Fig.1)hasaccounted forabout consider many Carlin-type...Creta10percentof thegoldproduction in theregion.The district ceousin age.Ilchik(1995)prefersa lessthan39 Ma... (1996)favor golddeposits in theJerrittCanyon district havebeenthesub- the Post-Betze an age of ~95 Ma...80 to 90 Ma agefor goldmineralization Getcheil,Nevada,andconclude thatgoldmineralization was spatially
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corporation, Elko, Nevada 89801 Abstract Many Carlin-type gold deposits in northern Nevada are found adjacent...giant carbonate rock-hosted Carlin-type deposit in Nevada. We sampled deep drill holes within, below, and...epigenetic Carlin-type gold deposits of northern Nevada are commonly found adjacent to steeply dipping...ca *Present address: Gold Fields, St. Ives Gold Mine, Kambalda WA 6442, Australia. **Present address:...Pipeline Carlin-type gold deposit in north central Nevada (Fig. 1). This giant deposit is characterized by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Province, China, with Carlin-type gold deposits, Nevada, USA Zhuo-Jun Xie 1,2,3 & Yong Xia 1 & Jean S. Cline...with the Cortez Hills Carlin-type gold deposit, Nevada, USA. Similarities include the structural and stratigraphic...the following: (1) The gold-bearing mineral in Nevada is arsenian pyrite. However, gold-bearing minerals... 3 University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 454010, USA 4 Zijin Mining Group Northwest Co...Co., LTD. Mining Geology Survey Institute, Urumqi 830026, China 5 No. 105 Geological Party, Guizhou
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
103, pp. 759–782 Geology of the Cove Mine, Lander County, Nevada, and a Genetic Model for the McCoy-Cove...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...northern Fish Creek Mountains, Lander County, Nevada. Through the end of mining in 2001, large-scale
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
measurements on gold-bearing arsenian pyrite from the Twin Creeks Carlin-type gold deposits show that gold is present...electron microscopy (HRTEM) analyses show that illite and quartz are not important hosts for gold (Chao...gold-bearing pyrite from Twin Creeks, Nevada. SAMPLES FROM THE TWIN CREEKS DEPOSIT This typical, large...large Carlin-type deposit in northwestern Nevada, produces about 500 000 ounces of gold annually. Pyrite...was obtained from the northernmost part of the Twin Creeks deposit (north of the TC fault in the northern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cover in Nevada: Examples from the Cortez Mine JOHN MUNTEAN1,† AND PAUL TAUFEN 2,* 1 Nevada Bureau of...of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, 89557-0178 2 Consultant, Littleton, Colorado...covered Carlin-type gold deposits in the Cortez mine area with the expressed aim of identifying and evaluating...discover Au ore under transported alluvial cover in Nevada. Orientation tests were designed to assess the...and “footprints” associated with deposits at the district scale. Detailed surveys were completed over the
 
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