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Epidote from
Gold Acres mine, Bullion Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
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 Gold Acres mine, Bullion Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:289306
Long-form Identifier:1:3:289306:8
GUID (UUID V4):d26e79b3-6e43-4621-92c1-36a9ab92ff97
Nearest other occurrences of Epidote
7.6km (4.7 miles) 39A zone, Robertson - Triplet Project, Bullion Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
39.9km (24.8 miles) Cove mine (McCoy-Cove mine; McCoy mine), McCoy Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
40.3km (25.1 miles) Keystone mine, Roberts Mining District, Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Tomboy Mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
45.3km (28.1 miles) Fortitude mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
46.3km (28.8 miles) Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
46.7km (29.0 miles) Copper Basin Mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
47.0km (29.2 miles) Carissa pit, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
47.1km (29.3 miles) Contention mine, Copper Basin, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
47.2km (29.3 miles) Surprize Mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hilltop, Lewis, and Bullion Mining Districts, Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend, Nevada CHRISTOPHER R. KELSON...and Bullion mining districts, located within the northern Shoshone Range, Lander County, Nevada, are...vein-hosted gold ± base metal mineralization (e.g., 38.3 ± 0.1 Ma: Gray Eagle mine, Bullion district) and nearby...mineralization within the Hilltop, Lewis, and Bullion mining districts. Introduction THE Battle Mountain-Eureka...wide variety of deposit types within these trends, gold has been recovered mostly from disseminated, sediment-hosted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 66, 1971, pp. 14-33 Gold-Bearing Depositsin North-CentralNevadaand Southwestern Idaho R, nPri J...Plutonism in North-Central Nevada MILES L. SILBERMAN AND EDWIN H. MCKEE Abstract Gold-bearingdepositsin n... late Tertiary. Three major epigenefic groupsof gold-bearing deposits are recognized:replacement deposits...and peripheralgold-silverdeposits.The disseminated gold depositsseemto be intermediate in mineralogy betweenthe...ve yielded significant production in only one district, Battle Mountain (Copper Canyonand CopperBasin)
Report (issue)
ALTERED ROCKS ALONG THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN-EUREKA, NEVADA MINERAL BELT USING LANDSAT IMAGES by M. Dennis...18 Copper Basin ..................... 18 ' Gold Acres ...................... 19 i DESCRIPTION OF...infrared composite of north-central s j | 9 Nevada including area of the Battle Mountain -Eureka mineral...U-2 color aerial photograph of the Copper Basin mine and surrounding area .......... 3 38 Figure 11...specimen of welded Cataeno tuff located south of Gold Acres. ..... | . i 53 ~* * Figure 18 - Laboratory
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)
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)
multispectral scanner was flown over the Gold Acres mining district, Nevada, as part of a joint NASA-Jet PropulsionLaboratory...supergenealteration, such as those that occur at the Gold Acres and Tenabo districts, are characterizedby a combinationof...fieldsamplesitesdiscussed in thetext. MSDS site 021, Lander County, Nevada. Data Acquisition TABLE 1. Multispect...GoldAcresminingdistrictin the easternShoshone Range,Nevada (NASA test site 4 021). The test site is approximately...Limonitic tailings; Gold Acres Illite > Fe chlorite No reflectance work done mine 16B Clay; highly
Report (issue)
___________________ -_-----Lode and placer gold deposits, Mohave County _______________________ _ California...Mother Lode, Amador County __________ _ Tertiary gravels, Nevada City area, Sierra Nevada ________________..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Gold in Castle Rock Conglomerate ________ Ore deposits..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dahlone ga gold belL ___ - - - - - - - - - - - - - M~ne _______..._________________ Massachusetts _____________________ _ Gold in ores from ewburyport district_ ____ Montana
Report (issue)
IGNEOUS GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN SHOSHONE RANGE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER .465 Tectonic...Igneous Geology of the Northern Shoshone Range Nevada By JAMES GILLULY and OLCOTT GATES With sections...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 465 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...thrust in the northern Shoshone Range__ __ 98 Gold Acres window_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...the lower plate of the Roberts thrust___ 109 Gold Acres window_________________________ 109 . I Structural
Report (issue)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties. Table 2...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Report (issue)
Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PA...MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT AND SURROUNDING AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA FRONTISPIECE. Buckingham area. Group...Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, DAVID W. BlAKE, THOMAS...COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...containing small amounts of silver, tungsten, copper, and gold UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON
Report (volume)
Characteristics of Sediment-and Volcanic-Hosted Disseminated Gold Deposits Search for an Occurrence Model U.S. GEOLOGICAL...east-west, northwest, and northeast within the district. Hawkins (1982) postulated that the east-west­...scale east-west-trending faults in the Enfield Bell mine are are the Marlboro Canyon, Bell, and Ridge faults...upper- and lower-plate rocks in the Jerritt Canyon district is thought to be a high-angle fault. Exposure...cover in the district. REGIONAL STRATIGRAPHY Most of the rocks in the Jerritt Canyon district are Paleozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 2Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro...Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA (Received June 1I, 1992; accepted in revised form October 15, 1992) Abstract-Rhenium...alteration. Propylitic alteration (chlorite + epidote + calcite) is peripheral to phyllic/argillic alteration...Porphyry Base Metal Deposits Copper Creek, Arizona, USA Molybdenites from porphyry base-metal deposits are...total surface area scanned. American Eagle, Arizona, USA The hypogene core ofthe porphyry system at Copper
Book
Pale-blue turquois; Gove Turquois mine, near Cottonwood, San Bernardino County, Cal. Fie. . Turquois matrix;...Turquois mine, m Nye County, near Millers, Nev. Fia. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev...Azure mine, Burro Mountains, N. Mex. Fic. . Cobweb turquois matrix; Southwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral...Myers and Bona Turquois mine, 13 miles north of west of Millers, Esmeralda County, Nev. -7. Split veinlet...student at Yale University; Los Angeles Gem Co. mine, Mineral Park, Ariz. Fia. Fi. Fic. Fic. Fic. ia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
High-Grade Gold Deposition and Collapse Breccia Formation, Cortez Hills Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, USA...Parkway, Box 454010, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 2 California 3 Earth Resources...48109 4 Barrick 5 Nevada Gold Exploration Incorporated, 293 Spruce Road, Elko, Nevada 89801 Bureau of...University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 Abstract The Cortez Hills breccia zone, a Nevada Carlin-type...Carlin-type gold deposit located in the Cortez district on the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend, formed within a high-grade
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Book
Gold Metallogeny and Exploration Edited by R.P. FOSTER Senior Lecturer in Economic Geology Department...the high and continuing demand for gold has prompted a global gold rush on a scale never before seen,...heady days of Ballarat, California and the Yukon. Gold is being sought on every continent and, with very...genetic modelling for the many different types of gold deposits now recognized. This proliferation of data...aspects of gold metallogeny and exploration, ranging from the chemical distribution of gold in the Earth's
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Report (issue)
Grade and tonnage model of tungsten skarn deposits, Nevada by David A. John1 and James D. Bliss2 Open-File...tungsten skarns in Nevada, primarily worked during times of war Tungsten skarns in Nevada, primarily worked...(1986, fig. 32) (fig. 11 herein) Tungsten skarns in Nevada have WOs grades indistinguishable from the tungsten...herein) Sizes and WOs grades of tungsten skarns in Nevada are independent of pluton composition as defined...tungsten skarns in Nevada are independent of pluton age Size of tungsten skarns in Nevada are independent
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOLD METALLOGENY OF NORTHERN NEVADA Richard M. Tosdal editor Open-File...OF CONTENTS 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...Crustal structure and its relation to gold belts in north-central Nevada: Overview and progress report V.J.................................^ 34 Carlin-type gold deposits Preliminary facies analysis of Silurian
Book
Turquoia mine, near Cottonwood, San Bernardino County, Cal. Turquois matrix; Royal Blue Turquoie mine, in...in Nye County, near Millers, Nev. Turquois matrix; Weber mine, Belmont, Nye County, Nev. Dark-blue turquoisj...turquoisj AzUJ'8 mine, Burm Mountains, N. Mex. Cobweb turquois matrix; Southwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral Park...Myen &nd Bona Turquoia mine, 13 miles north of we!Jt of Yillen,, EsmentJda County, Nev. • Flo. 7. Split...Gem Co. mine, Mineral Park, Ariz. Flo. 8. Pendant of turquoia matrix; ~ti.thwest Turquois Co. mine, Mineral
Report (issue)
Porphyry Copper Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL ) SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Porphyry Copper Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and DAVID W. BLAKE GEOCHEMISTRY...COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Structural and stratigraphic features of the mining district Geology of the Copper Canyon area ...........Altered granodiorite of the Wilson-Independence mine area ..........................................
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
 
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