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Orpiment from
Conical seamount, Lihir Island area, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea


Locality type:Seamount
Classification
Species:Orpiment
Formula:As2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orpiment data
Locality Data:Click here to view Conical seamount, Lihir Island area, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:307421
Long-form Identifier:1:3:307421:3
GUID (UUID V4):ee3d9769-e433-4b2b-975a-2f16a6cb37ad
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 809-818 (2001) ALACRANITE, As4S4: A NEW OCCURRENCE, NEW FORMULA, AND DETERMINATION OF THE CRYSTAL...the seafloor around Lihir Island in Papua New Guinea. Sampling of Conical Seamount resulted in the discovery... structure determination, Conical Seamount, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. SOMMAIRE Entre le 20 juillet...de l’üle de Lihir, en Papouasie Nouvelle GuinĂ©e. L’échantillonnage du guyot dit Conical a menĂ© Ă  la dĂ©couverte...d’arsenic, dĂ©termination de la structure, guyot Conical, Ăźle de Lihir, Papouasie Nouvelle GuinĂ©e. * § Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Mineralization Near Lihir Island, New Ireland Fore-Arc, Papua New Guinea SVEN PETERSEN, PETER M....mineralization have been recovered from the top of Conical seamount, a shallow (1,050-m water depth) submarine...km south of Lihir island, Papua New Guinea. Grab samples from the summit of Conical seamount contain the...veins at Conical seamount are distinct from sea-floor massive sulfide deposits and represent a new style...proximity of Conical seamount to the giant Ladolam epithermal gold deposit on nearby Lihir island also raises
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Mineralization: Conical Seamount and the Ladolam Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea J. BRUCE GEMMELL,†...Abstract Conical seamount is a submarine alkali basalt volcano situated 10 km south of Lihir Island in the...the Tabar-Feni island chain, Papua New Guinea. Polymetallic (Zn-Pb-Ag-Au-As-Sb) veins, pyritic stockwork...altered rocks discovered on the summit of Conical seamount represent a unique example of submarine gold...in the crater of an alkali stratovolcano on Lihir Island. Portions of the epithermal mineralization and
Report (issue)
hydrothermal deposit on a submarine seamount (Conical Seamount, Papua New Guinea); as sublimates on a burning...(Kateƙina mine, Czech Republic). Association: Realgar, orpiment, smithite, arsenic, sulfur, stibnite, pyrite,...quartz, calcite (Alacrán mine, Chile); realgar, orpiment, uzonite, stibnite, cinnabar, pyrite, sulfur (Uzon...chalcopyrite, amorphous silica (Conical Seamount, Papua New Guinea); orpiment, sulfur, amorphous As-S alloy... Germany. On Conical Seamount, ten km south-southeast of Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. From the Nishinomaki
Report (issue)
concentrations of gold have recently been found in a new type of seafloor mineral deposit previously only...21°N in 19791,2 confirmed that the formation of new oceanic crust through seafloor spreading is intimately...spreading propagates into the continental crust of Papua New Guinea27. Today, more than 100 sites of hydrothermal... tennantite, tetrahedrite, cinnabar, realgar, orpiment, and complex, non-stoichiometric Pb-As-Sb sulphosalts...amorphous silica anhydrite, barite galena, sulphosalts orpiment, realgar tennantite, tetrahedrite gold pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral occurs closely associated to smithite, orpiment and arsenolamprite. Although the main properties...were defined by Clark (1970), the proposal of a new mineral species corresponding to the natural -As4S4...– IMA Commission (Popova et al.,1986). Later, a new arsenic sulphide was found at the Uzon caldera (Kamchatka...recent sampling of the seafloor around Lihir Island (Papua New Guinea), a specimen mainly consisting of pyrite...arsenic sulphides, was recovered at the top of Conical Seamount (Percival et al., 1999). According to these
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits from the same district or geological province. Based on the general review and the case studies...Doyon-Bousquet-La Ronde) Okinawa Trough Conical Seamount 0° Manus Basin ( DESMOS, PACMANUS) Lau Basin...Basin Panorama Mount Morgan White Island Mt Read 60° 0 5000 km 0° 60° 120° 180° 240° 300°...and Lowenstern (1994) showed that in the White Island geothermal system, more than 1 Mt of Cu metal was...Hellyer; (12) Crandon. The grey box corresponds to the area of the plot where deposits <0.5 Mt of both Cu and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This latter mineral, therefore, should receive a new name. INTRODUCTION Alacranite, As8S9, was first...P2/c. During seafloor sampling around Lihir Island (Papua New Guinea), a specimen consisting mainly of pyrite...arsenic sulfides, was recovered from the top of Conical Seamount (Percival et al. 1999). According to these...Percival (2001) showed that the mineral from Papua New Guinea was structurally and chemically identical...2.216–2.232 Å in the natural b-phase from Papua New Guinea, Burns and Percival 2001; 2.23–2.26 Å in pararealgar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Associate Editor: A. Christy] ABSTRACT Bonazziite is a new mineral from Khaidarkan deposit, Kyrgyzstan and represents...The new mineral has been approved by the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals...composition, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, new mineral, molecules, bonazziite. Introduction SYNTHETIC...leading to the deïŹnition and description of this new mineral, which was named bonazziite after Paola Bonazzi...International Mineralogical Association (IMA) Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and ClassiïŹcation (IMA No
Book (edition)
mineralization worldwide, which is reflected in numerous new case studies and research papers that have been published...Edition in 2016. This new updated and enlarged Fifth Edition incorporates new data and references from...Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including new maps and sections and additional colour plates of...major deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. The new edition does not only incorporate the latest literature.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.3 Oceanic (Island) Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pb–Zn–Cu–Au–Ag–Te mineralization on western Milos Island, Aegean Volcanic Arc, Greece: Mineralogical, geological...Tellurides Western Milos Island Aegean Volcanic Arc a b s t r a c t Milos Island contains several epithermal...Reviews 53 (2013) 159–180 1. Introduction Milos Island, located in the southern Aegean Sea, is part of...Tombros et al., 2007; Voudouris et al., 2011). Milos Island is one of the most densely mineralized areas in...(Plimer, 2000). Metallic mineralization on Milos Island was the subject of several mineralogical and geochemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfides at the Palinuro Volcanic Complex, Aeolian Island Arc, Italy Sven Petersen,1,† Thomas Monecke,2 Anne...cone is 2131 PALINURO VOLCANIC COMPLEX, AEOLIAN ISLAND ARC, ITALY 14°00'E Adriatic Sea Southern Apennines...the location of the working area. The black rectangle indicates the area where a high-resolution multibeam...and sulfide deposit. Black rectangle denotes drill area enlarged in (C). C. Close-up view of the bathymetry...P412). 2133 PALINURO VOLCANIC COMPLEX, AEOLIAN ISLAND ARC, ITALY The discovery of living tube worm colonies
Book
Polymetallic Nodules Of the International Seabed Area Prepared by: Office of Resource and Environmental...Polymetallic Nodules of the International Seabed Area ii Published in Jamaica 2004 by the International...polymetallic nodules of the International Seabed Area : proceedings
 p. ; ill., maps ; cm. ISBN: 976-610-647-9...Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Chapter 2* Seafloor Massive Sulphide...Report on the Data and Information Requirements of Papua New Guinea’s Seafloor Massive Sulphide Deposits.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Au and Ag grades difficult. However, important new data are coming to light on the actual concentrations...different types of seafloor hydrothermal have provided new clues to the causes of Au enrichment, with important...include both intraoceanic and Btransitional^ or island arcs. Intraoceanic arcs are developed mainly on...subducted sediments and hydrated oceanic crust. Typical island-arc basalt (IAB) differs from MORB by having higher...located on the Izu-Bonin arc (43 g/t Au at the Suiyo Seamount), in the Mariana back-arc (13.3 g/t Au at the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
200 fracture zones in a summit area of the southeastern slope of seamount 13◩ 200 N at a water depth of...of 2700–2850 m (Figure 1). The seamount 13◩ 200 N is an oceanic core complex (OCC) in the form of a smooth...collected together with massive sulfides in the area of the Irinovskoe HSF. The 230 Th/U age of massive...structure and geological relationships in the HSF area after [22] (an approximate position of the of structure...structure and geological relationships in the HSF area after [22] (an approximate position of the hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Field at Suiyo Seamount, Izu–Bonin Arc, West Pacific Ocean Katsumi Marumo1...caldera on the summit of the Suiyo Seamount in the Izu–Bonin Island Arc, south of Japan. This deposit...front of an island arc. The mineralization and hydrothermal alteration below the 300 × 150-m area of active...2–9 m below the sea floor. Drilling beneath the area of active venting recovered a sequence of altered...Electron probe microanalyzer indicated that realgar, orpiment, and mimetite were major As-bearing minerals.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Solwara 1 deposit in the national waters of Papua New Guinea. SMS deposits at both active and inactive...shallow-water (200 m) Calypso vent field north of New Zealand that is characterized by abundant native...Other samples include those from the ASHES (Axial Seamount Hydrothermal Emissions Studies) vent field located...SMS are not observed. Both Pacmanus (Satanic Mills area) and Palinuro are distinct from other hydrothermal...Palinuro Location Manus Basin, Pual Ridge, Papua New Guinea (03◩ 43’S, 151◩ 40’W) Palinuro Volcanic Complex
Book
appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of...work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific, China, Greenland.... 5.3.2 Ladolam Epithermal System, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 5.3.3 Hauraki Goldfield, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand 5.3.4 The Epithermal Systems of the Biga...2 Geothermal Systems of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
North American plate margin in MĂ©xico. It is this province that is the subject of the paper by Ferrari et...for the first time, a comprehensive view of the province, including its structural and stratigraphic characteristics...of the magmatic and tectonic evolution of the province as well as a discussion of the age-old debate...The Mesa Central (Mexican Plateau) is a geologic province whose stratigraphy and structure are very different...propose the crustal structure of this geologic province, taking into account the tectonics of the oceanic
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
integration for interpretive bedrock mapping in the Giyani area (South Africa) .. .................................. 494 Cornel E.J. de Ronde Alteration in the area of the Kristineberg VHMS deposit, Skellefte district...Pinto & Ricardo Fonseca Mineralogy, textures and new sulphur isotope data of the Cerro de MaimĂłn VMS deposit...mobility within the upper Tyrone arc, Northern Ireland: identifying VMS-prospective stratigraphic horizons...and exploration for VHMS deposits, Kristineberg area, Skellefte District, Sweden ...................
Book
Series editor Karoly Nemeth, Palmerston North, New Zealand Editor-in-Chief IAVCEI, Barcelona, Spain...Bologna Italy Bruce Christenson GNS Science Lower Hutt New Zealand Franco Tassi Earth Sciences University of...Congress Control Number: 2014957163 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg...Statement    B. Christenson GNS, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 1 K. Németh CS-INR, Volcanic Risk Solutions...Solutions, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Volcanic lakes are amongst the most spectacular
Book
heavyelement-enriched matter to the interstellar gas from which new stars are formed. The mass fraction of our solar...achieved in this regard as a consequence of a wealth of new information of cosmic abundances—spectroscopic properties...clouds and galaxies at high redshifts—pouring in from new groundand space-based observatories. Given that,...enrich the interstellar media of galaxies, from which new stars are born. A brief review of the mechanisms...the meteorites in which the grains are found. This new field of astronomy has grown to an extent that not
 
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