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Realgar from
Mercur Quarry, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Realgar
Formula:As4S4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Realgar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mercur Quarry, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:516937
Long-form Identifier:1:3:516937:5
GUID (UUID V4):fc2575c7-bd3a-48fc-83b9-ace401a11b51
Nearest other occurrences of Realgar
0.3km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Mercur Mine No. 8, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Mercur Prospect No. 6, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Mercur Mine No. 7, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Porphyry Knob Prospect No. 3, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Mercur Prospect No. 9, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Porphyry Knob Prospect No. 1, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Mercur Mine No. 3, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Mercur Mine No. 2, Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Unknown Mercury - Gold (MRDS - 10012696), Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Mercur Disseminated Gold Mine (Marion Hill pit), Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new thallium arsenicsulfosalt from the Mercur gold deposit, Utah J.lNrnsR. lVrr,soN Department of Geology...Geology, Weber State College,Ogden, Utah 84408-2507,U.S.A. P.q,uLD. RonrNsoN Department of Geology, Southern...University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183,U.S.A. L.tnnv W. Sr.lscnn Barrick Mercur Gold Mine,... P.O. Box 838, Tooele, Utah 84704, U.S.A. Glnv L. S,ql.NroN Department of Geology, Southern Illinois...minerals that are found at the Mercur gold deposit, Tooele County, Utah. The mineral is found as cleavablemassesup
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material; indeed...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[University of West Florida] at 23:45 31 December 2014 Realgar Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Hunan Province, China T...now appropriate to discuss its sister species, realgar, one of the most intensely red of all minerals...unusual sources. When occurring in good specimens, realgar is relatively easy to recognize because of its...welldeveloped cleavage on {101}, {100}, {120}, and {110}. Realgar is monoclinic (2/m) and occurs in variably striated...incrustations and inclusions in other minerals. Realgar is simple arsenic sulfide (AsS). Published chemical
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new thallium arsenic sulfosalt from the Mercur Au deposit, Utah, and revised optical data for gillulyite...Department of Geology, Weber StareUniversity, Ogden, Utah 84408, U.S.A. Pnaorp K. SBNGurraf Departmentof...minerals that occur at the Mercur disseminated Au deposit, Tooele County, Utah. The mineral is describedon...occurs at the Mercur Au deposit in the southern Oquirrh Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, approximately...microprobe study and the southwestof Salt Lake City. The Mercur deposit is a sedsynthetic material describedin
Book
;.s.>i<Ā»^ f HAHOLO B. "-' I. " - PHOVO. UTAH qv Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011... Ts.'Mf ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE MEROUR MINING DISTRICT, UTAH, BY J. EDWARD SPURR. /' \ WITH INTROr>UCTION...HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY BRIOHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITV PROVO, UTAH \ CONTENTS. Page. ā€” Introduction. The Oquirrh...development of mining districts Production of mining districts Camp Floyd or Mercur mining district 349 349...370 370 371 372 374 Mercur district Conclusions Chapter I. ā€”The Mercur District Structure Lower Blue
Report (issue)
Ī² = 10.07(2)ā—¦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Mercur deposit, Utah, USA. 3.077 (100), 2.814 (100), 3.63 (90),...28.4 39.3 2.2 28.7 Total 98.6 (1) Mercur deposit, Utah, USA; by electron microprobe, average of five...Orpiment, realgar, lorandite, raguinite, pyrite, barite, calcite. Distribution: From the Mercur gold deposit... about 56 km southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele Co., USA [TL]. Name: To honor James C. Guilluly (1896ā€“1980)...Geological Survey, who worked in the area of the Mercur deposit. Type Material: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Book (edition)
TN 2.4-' Bixby j| atalogue of Utah minerals and localities THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...for Collectors MAYNARD BIXBY A CATALOGUE OF UTAH MINERALS AND LOCALITIES With Descriptive List,...Collectors. -byMAYNARD Salt Lake BIXBY. City, Utah. 1904. Copyright, 1902, by MAYNARD (Third ...& CO., ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. WRITE FOR PRICES. YOU WANT A GOOD MINE! MANY...MAYNARD BIXBY. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MINERAL LOCALITIES. BEAVER COUNTY. (Vy Beaver City, near; hyalite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
45%0 (sulfates). Ore-related sulfides (pyrite, realgar) fall at the upper end of the range reported for...high-grade portions of these deposits, such as at Mercur, have been mined since the last century (Jewell...most important fossil hydrothermal systems in the USA. Until the past few years, the prevailing hypothesis...location of many of the major SHDG deposits in western USA. The characteristics of many of these deposits are...Alligator Ridge; CN = Carlin; P = Post/Betze; GQ = Gold Quarry, Rain; CZ = Cortez; GA = Gold Acres; G = Getchell;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Netherlands 245 [3] GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE MERCUR GOLD DEPOSIT (UTAH, U.S.A.) PAUL W. JEWELL* and W.T. PARRY...Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (U.S.A.) (Received April...Geochemistry of the Mercur gold deposit (Utah, U.S.A. ). Chem. Geol., 69: 245265. The Mercur gold deposits...deposits of west-central Utah are disseminated "Carlin-type" deposits which are hosted by the upper portion of...the Topliff Member. Hydrothermal alteration at Mercur can be separated into replacement and vein alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
November 2014 SALT LAKE COUNTY, UTAH LEONARD WOLFF 2456 E. Rockview Sandy, Utah 84092 mustangcar3@msn.com...GERRY AUSTIN 14583 South Oak Point Drive Bluffdale, Utah 84065 gerry.austin@att.net All photos by Gerry Austin...William Besse. T hrough open-pit mining methods Barneys Canyon Mining Company, which is a subsidiary of...spectacular orpiment specimens have come from Newmont Mining Corporationā€™s Twin Creek mine and Placer Domeā€™s...Getchell mine, both of which are in Humboldt County. In Utah, however, specimen-quality orpiment is far
Journal (issue)
/4 /04 (!Jctol,.,., f9J/.J/. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................DESCLOIZITES COME FROM NEW MEXICO ORPIMENT AND REALGAR FROM MERCUR, UTAH .................. GEM WERNERITE FROM...c:iation ROCKS AND MINERALS 302 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ROCKS & MINERALS Rates High! Editor R & M: Please...weighing hundreds of pounds, is often uncovered during mining operations. Fine specimens of dark gray crystals...Quicksilver District of Brewster County, Texas, pp. 325-332). Recently, the Esperado Mining Company acquired
Report (issue)
Realgar AsS c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: 2/m...Andreasberg, Harz Mountains. In the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland. In Romania, from...Province, China. In the USA, fine large crystals at the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., Nevada;...Nevada; in Tooele Co., Utah, at Mercur; in Washington, in the Monte Cristo district, Snohomish Co., and...(1972) Refinement of the crystal structures of realgar, AsS and orpiment, As2 S3 . Zeits. Krist., 136
Report (issue)
079(9) Z = 4. X-ray Powder Pattern: Mercur deposit, Utah, USA. 2.813 (vs), 3.99 (s), 2.264 (ms), 4.14...11 9.18 15.71 Total 100.4 100.00 (1) Mercur deposit, Utah, USA; by electron microprobe, average of analyses...Association: Pyrite, realgar, orpiment, calcite. Distribution: From the Mercur gold deposit, southern... about 56 km southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele Co., USA [TL]. Name: In honor of Dr. Jen-Ho Fang (1929ā€“...Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Type Material: National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 17071. References:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HYDROTHERMAL COMMUNICATIONS ALTERATION OF THE MERCUR GOLD DEPOSIT, UTAH PAULW. JEWELL*ANDW. T. PARRY Departmentof...Departmentof Geologyand Geophysics, Universityof Utah,SaltLake City, Utah 84112 This communicationgivesa detaileddiscussion...detaileddiscussion of the hydrothermal alteration of the Mercur deposits. The term "Carlin-type" deposithasbeen...geochemistryat brought into production in the western United Mercur as well as allowingcomparisonwith alterof other...somerespectsto present-daygeothermalsystems. The Mercur mining district in west-centralUtah containsa numberof
Report (issue)
THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Tooele IĀ°x2Ā° Quadrangle, Northwest Utah A CUSMAP Preassessment Study by...Mel H. Podwysocki2 Prepared in cooperation with Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Open-File Report......................... CURRENT STATUS OF MAJOR MINING DISTRICTS......................... 28 28 37 39................................................. Mercur......................................................................................... Recent Mining Activity References...........................
Report (issue)
(1ā€“2) AlsĢŒar, Macedonia. (3) Carlin mine, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, average of five analyses...relatively low temperatures. Association: Stibnite, realgar, orpiment, cinnabar, vrabite, greigite, marcasite...Iran. From the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland. In the USA, at the New Rambler Cuā€“Ni...Elko, Lynn district, Eureka Co., in the Jerritt Canyon mines, Independence Mountains district, Elko Co...Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co.; in the Mercur gold deposit, Tooele Co., Utah. Name: For EoĢˆtvoĢˆs
Journal (volume)
2008. However, total production of oil and gas in Utah for 2.009 is projected to continue the upward trend...highlights the breadth of energy expertise within the Utah Geological Survey (UGS). In addition to conducting...oil shale and tar sands, the UGS also manages the Utah State Energy Program (USEP) which is responsible...energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Utah. The largely non-regulatory role of the UGS enables...secure and affordable energy supply for State of Utah Gary R. Herbert, Governor Department of Natural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
04:22 12 October 2014 Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada he general association of arsenic with...tlepohits are known for the common arsenic sulfides realgar and orpinienr, sometimes i n unusually fine specimens...into an agrcenient with ;I commercial specimen-mining company. Collectorā€™s Edge Minerals, Inc., to recover...orpiment analyses. It is ;in ;ilteration procliict of realgar, native arsenic. and, less coininonly, arsciiopyrite...Commonly associated minerals include stibnite. realgar, native arsenic,calcite, barite, and gypsum. It
Journal (issue)
Occurrence of irhtemite and adelite at the Mercur Mine, Tooele Co., Utah; the western hemisph ere's first occurrence...lorandlle recovered from the Mercur Mrne (a Carlin-type gold deposit), Tooele Co., Utah, a white, s ilky, fibrous...maj or mineral assemblage of lorandile, calcite, realgar, orpiment, flu orite, quartz. stibnite, s tibiconite...associated with adelite and picropharmacolite at Mercur. A ll occur as white fibrous masses associated...Several Chinese d ealers brought large specimens of realgar sta lac tites. I have no t seen them before and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
space-filling realgar and calcite, with minor quartz, stibnite, and framboidal pyrite. Realgar conforms to...euhedral crystal faces of quartz, fluorite, and realgar. Significant textural observations argue against...calcite and realgar are in contact with ore-stage quartz containing gold-bearing pyrite, realgar and calcite...calcite enclose gold-bearing pyrite grains. Massive realgar and calcite distal from these contacts do not contain...gold-bearing pyrite. The presence of ore pyrite in realgar, calcite, and jasperoid requires close timing of
Journal (issue)
worden deze maand specimen s van getchelliet, realgar en auripigment aangeboden (zie artikel in di t...Getchell Mine, ten N.D . van Golconda, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA . Foto P . Tambuyser (1982) . Zie artikel...Bergkristal, van enkelkristal tot museumstukken, Arkansas, USA Amethist, Agaat, Toermalijn, Brazili Ć« ApophylIiet...(Blankenberge) verkoopt mineralen uit Arizona, Turkije, Utah, Noorwege n en BraziliĆ« uit, samen zo'n 180 soorten...calciet, jamesoniet, apatiet, okeniet, ulexiet, realgar . apophylliet enz . GeĆÆnteresseerden nemen (vooraf)
Journal (issue)
to preserve and promote the unique geologic and mining heritage of Wisconsin while underscoring the importance...history are welcomed additions to my ā€œmineral and mining memorabiliaā€ collection. If you have some of these...become a reality. Figure 5 (Left) - Wisconsin Mining Display. Both are authorā€™s images. Figure 6 (Right)...(Right) - Sheet Copper ā€“ Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2ā€”Dr. Weisā€™s Personal Memorabilia. Authorā€™s... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry blast or create an earthquake you will be able
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlin trend and for the Barneys Canyon deposit in Utah. Complete resetting of sericite by hydrothermal...some of these deposits, such as at Getchell and Mercur, have been 235 236 AREHART ET AL. 120Ā° 42Ā°...major prospects are shown by circles. Deposit or district locations mentioned in the text are as follows:...Canyon, Bingham, Melco, and Mercur deposits in Utah, about 200 km east of the Utah-Nevada border); C = Cortez;...in the Au stage are arsenic sulfide minerals (realgar and orpiment) that postdate alteration minerals
 
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