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Hessite from
Russell Mine, Ophir, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hessite
Formula:Ag2Te
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hessite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Russell Mine, Ophir, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:480584
Long-form Identifier:1:3:480584:7
GUID (UUID V4):28235f49-360e-4ff0-95cc-9291ece03163
Nearest other occurrences of Hessite
21.1km (13.1 miles) Star Mine (Reynolds Mine), Carolina Slate Belt, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
102, pp. 239–256 The Russell Gold Deposit, Carolina Slate Belt, North Carolina TERRY L. KLEIN,† U.S....Abstract Gold deposits have been mined in the Carolina slate belt from the early 1800s to recent times...mines in South Carolina. The Russell mine, one of the larger producers in North Carolina, is located in...tonne (g/t), with higher-grade zones reported. The Russell deposit is interpreted to be a sediment-hosted...mapping has shown that a rhyolitic dome near the Russell mine was extruded during the deposition of the lower
Report (volume)
State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accepted December 21, 1987 Summary Electrum, hessite, petzite and sylvanite have been recorded from...quartz veins 200 m to the west of the Tyndrum Pb + Zn mine (Fig. 1) which contain up to 4.32 oz/ton Au and...to 20 gm across and inclusions 10-20 gm across. Hessite (AgzTe) is present, occurring as irregular inclusions...a similar occurrence to hessite, sometimes forming intergrowths with hessite and chalcopyrite. It has... However, the optical properties are those of hessite and therefore the high Te may be due to analytical
Journal (issue)
Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California...............................S. Burr Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland ..........................collectors interested in visiting the Blanchard mine or other mines in the Hansonburg mining district...signed in at Bingham for entry to the Blanchard mine area for surface collecting. Underground collecting...strictly prohibited due to the hazardous nature of the mine workings, and visitors are required to acknowledge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
locality at the Empress Josephine mine, Kerber Creek district, Saguache County, Colorado, remains the only...occurrences. A new analysis of material from the May Day mine, La Plata district, Colorado, confirms the above...analysis locality and the Golden Fleece mine, Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colorado. INrnooucrrox Stuetzitewas...presenceof a binary phase with the compositionof hessite(AgzTe) and a secondphasevariously assignedthe formulae...measuredspecificgravity of natural material (7.61) and the 325 RUSSELL M. IIONEA calculatedvalue (8.07) while maintaining
Report (volume)
.---.--.--...-.-.-...---.-.....-...--........ Hessite.......-..---,..-....-...-..----..-......--.--....Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...[BULL. 220. POLYDYMITE. A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25...STROMEYERITE. From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...of deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills...(Malcolm, 1912), galena was widely considered by mine operators to be correlated with better gold grades...was described in a carbonate quartz veinlet in one mine in the Mother Lode system (Knopf, 1929). Method
Journal (issue)
Nugget," collected in 1865 at the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California, by Jules Fricot and donated...providing information and photos. The article on North Carolina gold is not intended to be as com­ prehensive...the subsequent search for specimens, two fine North Carolina thumbnails were found at Har­ vard and graciously...Harper’s article. John Dysart, Manager of the Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site, sent much additional information...provided a review of gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, Peter Bancroft provides a report on a new specimen
Report (issue)
5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Lapis International, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut USA Collection 'Alan Table of Contents What Is Gold...Weiner Page 4 North America's First Gold Rush: Gold Fever in the Southeastern USA . . . . . . . .P...Dermot Henry and Bill Birch The Rush for Gold Turns North to Canada and Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogical literature (Anonime 1984; Mollfulleda 1979; Montgomery 1971; Wilson 1984). He managed to assemble, during...specimens found there in the ore cars and in the mine itself. Even today Sr. Folch’s collection is, by...Arthur Russell, as both of them were founding members of the British Mineralogical Society. Russell, with...museum professionals, worldwide, such as Arthur Montgomery, Paul Desautels, John Sinkankas, and Pierre Bariand...7 × 5 cm, Egremont, West Cumberland iron field, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England
Book
(41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite...n1useun1. Kunz created a 1nagnificen t collection of North Ainerican ge1ns and precious stones as one of Tiffany's...HgS 57 Stibnite Sb2S3 58- 59 Calaverite AuTe2 60 Hessite Ag 2Te 61 HALIDES 62- 70 Halite NaCl 62 Cuprite...Octahedral Diamond Crystal in Kimber lite Premier Mine, Kimberley, South Africa On loan from Mrs Charles... ~ 29 Native Gold Sheet on Quartz El Dorado County; California 30 5 cm (2 In.) high Native Gold
Journal (issue)
KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...257 COVER: CLINOCLASE, 3.9 cm, from the Mammoth mine, Tintic District, Utah. Rock Currier collection;...ensuring our future. HISTORICAL BENEFACTORS Arthur Montgomery (deceased) Randolph S. Rothschild (deceased)...sample of a pascoite group mineral at a mine in Grand County, Utah. Died, Alex Earl, 26 Jayson Alexander...over the American West. A trip to the Blue Bell mine near Baker, California, in 2016 was particularly
Book
the pitchblende. not been for several^years the mine is not worked at present and has distribution in...Peaks; crystallized at Bergen's ; Ranch, Jefferson County; on Boulder Peak. Agate,— See Quartz. — At Quartzville...Almandite. See Garnet. Boulder County. City Gold — Allophanite. —Franklin Mine, in Gilson Gulch Fowler Branch...following result. The specimen was from the Red Clbud Mine: (1) Qnnrtz Gold Silver Copper Lead Zinc Iron... connection with coloradoite in the KeyBoulder County. AMBER.— (One specimen found near the head of Cherry
Report (issue)
--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --...-----------------------------Pima County -------------------------------Pinal County -------------------------------Santa...-------Santa Cruz County --------------------------'ravapai County -----------------------------'ruma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kg Au, production 1884-1990, Russell, 1991), in the Kendall deposit, North Moccasin * Presentaddress:Vijay...fromLewistown(Fig. 1). Goldwasfirstdiscov- eament and a north-northeast-trendingstructural ered in the area in...Terrocksintrudeda sequence of sedimenCompany.The mine closedin 1991. The average tiaryigneous goldgrademinedwas13...JudithMountainsbut are espe- ' Tkqm Tkt Gies Mine LEGEND LAte' Paleoc,ene(Tg• •?.••aKau granite... brecciasas replacementbodies(e.g., Giltedgeand mine are almostidenticalto dataderivedby Wallace Maginnis
Report (issue)
eoresofo0000kell Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado The Memoir Series of The Geological...America, Inc. Memoir 109 Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado WILLIAM C. KELLY EpwINn N. GODDARD Department...former mining engineer in Boulder, and by Professor Russell Honea. Electron probe microanalyses were performed...47 47 Vil Vili TELLURIDE ORES OF BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO }.'1C=}(0)4)| ae aaa ene eens eee es...RE = hes eer ae Interpretations of thes Boulder: County Ores ee Lack#otameltingsphenomenag eens ee ee ee
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Taum Sauk Caldera, southeastern Missouri, USA G. R. LOWELL1,* 1 2 AND P. D. NOLL JR2 Department...Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701, USA Actinide Analytical Chemistry, C-AAC, MS G740, Los...Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA ABSTR ACT Stromatolitic carbonate in moat-fill...replacement skarn in t he Mesoproterozoic belt of North America; (2) it formed by interaction between stromatolitic...deposit appeared on 16th September, 1897 in the Iron County Register newspaper announcing discovery of Au,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MELONITE IN BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO EnNnsr E. Wanr,srnow, Uniaersity of Colorado,Bouliler, Colorad'o...mixture of quartz, hessite, altaite, and, possibly, native tellurium from the Stanislaus mine in the Mother...in telluride ore from the Forlorn Hope mine in Boulder County, Colorado. Additional occurrenceshave been...(1946), who found that melonite in the RobbMontbray Mine appears in patches up to 20 mm. wide associatedwith...certain mines in the Magnolia District in Boulder County consistently yield small amounts of nickel, and
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold, with Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County. Denver Museum of a constant price of $20.67 per...money was key to turning a prospect into a producing mine. Even when all of these factors are taken into consideration...traveled north to the Arkansas River where they followed the Santa Fe Trail, and then turned north again...group, now usually referred to as the Cherokee-Russell party, was made up of 104 men traveling in groups...prospectors who chose to stay were led by William Green Russell, and included his brothers Levi and Oliver, cousins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals, sylvanite, calaverite, krennerite, petzite, hessite, coloradoite, melonite, native tellurium, and rare...occurs on the western flank of the Tavua Caldera in north-central Viti Levu (Fig. 1). Although much of the...structures (< 45 )), in the central part of the mine, Ahmad et al. (1987) proposed eight stages (I–VIII)...Plan-view of the ore bodies at the Emperor gold mine projected to the surface. Open circles indicate...Plan-view of the ore bodies at the Emperor gold mine projected to the surface. Open circles indicate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phyllosilicate intergrowths, 340 ALDERTON, D. H. M., hessite and electrum, 179 AL-HERMEZl, H. M., MCKIE, D....ENGLAND, SW, Permian lavas, 481; CORNWALL,Restormel mine, waylandite, 731; CUMBRIA, Lake District, tourmalinization...picrite dyke, 27; see also HUTCHISON, R., 559 Hessite, Scotland, 179 Hollandite-type structure, 709 HORAK...chrysotile and polygonal serpentine, 301; Buca della Vena mine, V-bearing derbylite, 328; Mazzano Romano, ranci6ite...MACDONALD,R., ROCK, N. M. S., RUNDLE, C. C., and RUSSELL,O. J., late Caledonian magmas, 547 McDOWELL, S
Report (issue)
occurrences of the Goldville District of Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Seven of the volume's papers deal with...32 The Royal Vindicator Gold Deposit, Haralson County, Georgia: A Metamorphosed Epithermal Hot-Springs...in the Lilesville Sand and Gravel Deposits, North Carolina (James R. Craig and John E. Callahan) .......Mason Mountain Sperrylite Occurrence, Macon County, North Carolina (Robert B. Cook and James R. Bumell) ....Central Piedmont Metallogenic Province, South Carolina (Steven K. Mittwede) ........................
Report (volume)
and indexes, particularly the "Bibliographies of North American Geology," covering 1785-1957. These were...recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed as...feldspar, and mica, occur in some form in every county in the State. Among mineralogists, Colorado is...mineral belt that extends southwestward from Boulder County to the southern limits of the San Juan Mountains...minerals in the lava flows of North and South Table Mountains, lefferson County, the contact-metamorphic minerals
 
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