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Petzite from
Freiberg Mine, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Petzite
Formula:Ag3AuTe2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Petzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Freiberg Mine, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:492747
Long-form Identifier:1:3:492747:1
GUID (UUID V4):2a229b40-6567-492d-b26c-98e66f65b281
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
oresofo0000kell 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...SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC. Colorado Building, P.O. Box 1719 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Printed in the United...assembling a representative collection of the Boulder ores. Dr. T. S. Lovering of the U.S. Geological...and numerous ore samples were donated by local mining men, particularly Fred Dopp, H. M. Williamson,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
no other group of minerals has more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great...from hundreds of localities worldwide, and unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more...recovered as a byproduct of low-grade copper and lead mining. This fact, coupled with the historically low price...utilized by humans (gold and copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia...was rarer than gold. This probably reflects the fact that the earliest silver mining amounted to gathering
Catalog/List
the western states. Colorado and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...country as well as exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...and amethyst in Creede, Colorado, azurite and malachite in Jerome, Arizona, gold in Wickenburg, Arizona
Report (issue)
"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer...5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...photo Left: A wall of gold bricks in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's gold vault Photo Robert Gambee...Crystallized gold from Canada Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo extraLapis English No. 5 Gold The Noble...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint
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OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright © 2015, 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...University, Calcutta - 700 032, India TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Mineralogy, Department of Economic...Economic Geology, Brennhausgasse 14, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden...Average Hardness Soft minerals, such as galena or gold, are very difficult to polish without any scratches;...certain degree of bending, while some metals, such as gold, may be deformed into very thin sheets. The term
Journal (issue)
Romania Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum, USA Gheorghe UdubaÅŸa, University of Bucharest, Romania...classification of native gold and Au-Ag-mineral samples 10 1. Historical highlights of gold mining in Romania 10...10 2. Overview of the gold mining in Romania 12 3. The metallogenic subprovince related to the Neogene...Mare metallogenic district 64 5. Other sources of native gold from Romania in Brad Gold Museum 65 6.... Alluvial gold occurences 67 7. Gold from occurrences across the world in Brad Gold Museum 68 Characterization
Journal (issue)
White Development Officer William D. Panczner GOLD! Associate Editors written content Paul E. Desautels...Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Collecting gold mining memorabilia....................................323 by W. E. Wilson and R. Bentley Nova Scotian gold ..................................................Mossman The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of crystallized gold ........... 347 by A. R. Kampf and P. C. Keller Harvard gold ...............................................
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Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................had achieved considerable fame, and the right to mine diopside was obtained that year by G eorge L. English...thereafter. In 1971 both the land and the right to mine diopside were purchased by the present owners, Schuyler...Alveum, R obert Dow, and G eorge Robinson. T he mine is now being worked interm ittently each year for
Journal (issue)
Germany. Richard C. Erd Collection o f the Freiberg Mining Academy. Donald R. Peacor Photo by Jurgen...FRO NT COVER: Richard W . Thomssen Gold from the St. Josefs mine, Verespatak, Romania (left) Associate...(top); and silver Eric Offermann from the Anton mine, Wieden, West Germany. Harold & Erica Van Pelt............................... 18 Freiberg M inin g Academ y Freiberg, East G erm any ..................meteorites. Some museums also feature priceless antique mining documents and memorabilia, and libraries stocked
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showing a fibrous radiating structure. Opposite: gold on quartz from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...large speci¬ mens; at Freiberg, E. Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...copper ores, and at Butte, Montana, as well as Colorado, Arizona and Idaho. In Canada it occurs at Cobalt...Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at Corocoro
Report (issue)
Gold in Minerals and the Composition of Native Gold Gold in Minerals and the Composition of Native...Native Gold By Robert S. Jones and Michael Fleischer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Washington 1969 CIRCULAR 612...considerations ----------------------------------------Gold in minerals ------------------------------------------------------...------------- _ Composition and the fineness of gold ---------------------------- ___ References cited...Analyses of gold in minerals made since 1954 --------------------10 4. Variation in fineness of gold with depth
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Place Tucson, AZ 85741 ‘ Continued on page 111 Gold! Introduction G old notes from the e d i t o r ...Birch 5 California The history of crystallized gold in C a lif o r n ia ................ 33 by W. C...G. M . A llgood, R. W. A llgood & J. Pradenas Colorado Fam ous m ineral localities: Breckenridge, C olorado...otable gold occurrences of G eorgia & A labam a . . . . 65 by R. B. C ook N o rth C arolina gold ........hat's new in gold? Venezuelan gold (by W. E. W ilson) .......................... 89 A rizona gold (by W. E
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2) - idiomorphic crystal (9 mm); Thomas Range (USA) Text by Rudolf Dud'a and Lubos Rejl Revision of...use. Later, when he became acquainted with ores (gold, copper, tin, iron, etc.), he began looking eagerly...Magnus (1193-1280). Later, all known facts about mInIng, metallurgy, mineralogy and ores were recorded...sand on a beach) are formed, such as deposits of gold, monazite or ilmenite. Lighter, non-metallic minerals...insoluble and less prone t o oxidation, such as gold, platinum , cassiterite, w olframite, magnetite
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[ [ 23 I 1992 [ 65-128 65-136 65-128 1-96 GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ...193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in... read 99.72. 345 23, down for Goat Hill read Great Hill. 80 read 81 3313 Colusite,for Cu3(Sn,Te...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the
Book (edition)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK First edition 2008 Copyright...Silicides Copper I/A.01-10 4 Silver I/A.01-20 6 Gold I/A.01-40 8 Auricupride I/A.01-50 10 Amalgam I/A...Alloys and Alloy-like Compounds, with Copper, Silver, Gold and Nickel Algodonite II/A.01-10 Domeykite II/A...Eucairite II/B.06-40 Fischesserite II/B.07-50 Petzite II/B.07-60 Argyrodite II/B.08-10 Canfieldite II/B...Tellurium < 1:1, Tellurides with Copper, Silver and Gold Linnaeite II/D.01-20 320 Polydymite II/D.01-30 322
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illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and... 2) — idiomorphic crystal (9 mm); Thomas Range (USA) Text by Rudolf Duda and Luboé Rej Revision of the...use. Later, when he became acquainted with ores (gold, copper, tin, iron, etc.), he began looking eagerly...Magnus (1193—1280). Later, all known facts about mining, metallurgy, mineralogy and ores were recorded...sand on a beach) are formed, such as deposits of gold, monazite or ilmenite. Lighter, non-metallic minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
renierite-germanite-tennantite ore from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. The new mineral name is for Professor...Collection at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany (catalogue...erosenbuschite group from the Langesundsfjord district, Norway: definition and crystal structure. Eur...the island of Vesle Arøya in the Langesundsfjord district, Vestfold, Norway. The pegmatite was heavily blasted...second new phosphate mineral from the Silberbrünnle mine in the central Black Forest. Der Erzgräber, 18,
Journal (issue)
Tpmoorel@cox.net A gold specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado County, California, and a little...with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...(deceased) Peter L. Via Salim Edde Daniel Trinchillo Lyda Hill Scott A. Rudolph Daniel J. Record Gail & Jim Spann...mineral room wall. And in 2016 we began presenting gold medallions-large pins with a magnetic clasp--that...very rare loose crystal. Ossining, Westchester County, New York. wckport, New York. Ex. Coll. : New
Report (issue)
1. GOLD—Au Cubic, On°-Fm3m; a = 4.078; Z = 1116 (Cu/Ni)—artificial; same pattern given by gold from...4.080; Z = 4 2496Q (Cu/Ni)—East Gold mine, Bowser River district, Portland Canal area, B.C. Composition... (fire-assay). Pattern very similar to that of gold Cell edge by L. G. Berry. S. A. Forman obtained...Cubic, On,5-Fm3m; a = 4.085; Z = 4 235Q* (Cu/Ni)—Freiberg, Saxony (QU, native wire silver) Cell edge...silver Cell Studies, the same (a) 0, 0, S Z = mine, Coantimony). edge by Peacock (Univ. Toronto Geol
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Number Two Articles Cuprian elbaite from the Batalha mine, Paraíba, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...by W. E. Wilson Stibnite from the Wuling antimony mine, Jianxi province, China . . . . . . . . . . . ....Mandarino Gallery Reviews: Pacific Mineral Museum Gold Show 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....etch pits and corrosion surfaces, from the Medra mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Keith Proctor collection;
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tetrahedrite, cuprite, and some native elements such as gold, silver, copper, and diamond. Crystals bounded by...surface. Cementation zones are usually enriched with gold, silver, and some other metals, whose content in...materials. They are as follows: gold-bearing formations composed of native gold, arsenopyrite, and pyrite in...veins; quartz veins containing antimonite and native gold; tinwolfram-molybdenum ores in quartz veins with...contains approximately 0.01 per cent copper. Apart from gold, it was one of the first metals used by primitive
Book
tetrahedrite, cuprite, and some native eJements such as gold, silver, copper, and diamond. Crystals bounded by...surface. Cementation zones are usually enriched with gold, silver, and some other metals, whose content in...materials. They are as follows: gold-bearing formations composed of native gold, arsenopyrite, and pyrite in...veins; quartz veins containing antimonite and native gold; tinwolfram-molybdenum ores in quartz veins with...contains approximately 0.01 per cent copper. Apart from gold, it was one of the first metals used by primitive
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Front Range Colorado By T. S. LO\'ERING and E. N. GODDARD GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund ~ oopr is...__________________________________________ _ 1 Summary of mining districts---.---------------------Introduction..._ Quartz diorite and associated hornblendite_ Boulder Creek granite _________________ _ Pikes Peak granite...Pre-Cambrian deposits _________________________ _ Mine descriptions __________________________ _ 39 39
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tetrahedrite, cuprite, and some native elements such as gold, silver, copper, and diamond. Crystals bounded...surface. Cementation zones are usually enriched with gold, silver, and some other metals, whose content in...materials. They are as follows: gold-bearing formations composed of native gold, arsenopyrite, and pyrite in...veins; quartz veins containing antimonite and native gold; tinwolfram-molybdenum ores in quartz veins with...contains approximately 0.01 per cent copper. Apart from gold, it was one of the first metals used by primitive
 
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