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Jarosite from
Sleeper mine, Awakening Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Jarosite
Formula:KFe33+(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Jarosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sleeper mine, Awakening Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:654556
Long-form Identifier:1:3:654556:7
GUID (UUID V4):7b2377c1-bef6-45b1-b65d-ba3e6713f4e0
Nearest other occurrences of Jarosite
50.1km (31.1 miles) Dutch Flat mine, Dutch Flat Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
50.1km (31.2 miles) Golden Eagle mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
51.8km (32.2 miles) Moonlight Mine, Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
57.4km (35.7 miles) Horse Creek prospect, Disaster Mining District, Montana Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
67.3km (41.8 miles) Cordero Mine, Opalite Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
67.8km (42.1 miles) Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
67.9km (42.2 miles) Golconda Mine, Golconda Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
68.2km (42.4 miles) McDermitt Mine, Opalite Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
68.6km (42.6 miles) Summer Camp pit, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
72.9km (45.3 miles) Golconda Summit, Golconda Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Tertiary Volcanic Host Rocks, Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada Geology and Geochemistry...Tertiary Volcanic Host Rocks, Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada By J. Thomas Nash, William...Tertiary volcanic host rocks, Sleeper gold-silver deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada I by J. Thomas Nash, William...Gold ores-Geology-Nevada-Humboldt County. 2. Silver ores-GeologyNevada-Humboldt County. 3. Geology, St...Stratigraphic-Tertiary. 4. GeologyNevada-Humboldt County. I. Utterback, W.C. II. Trudel, Wayne S. III.
Report (issue)
and geochemistry of the Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada an interim report By J................................................. Mining and exploration history......................................................................... Mine geology...........................................Figure 1. Location and geology setting of the Sleeper mine. Regional geology is simplified from Wilden....... 3 Figure 2. Generalized geology of the Sleeper mine area and western foothills of the Slumbering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Correlations at Buckskin Mountain, National District, Humboldt County, Nevada PETER G. VIKRE† U.S. Geological Survey...Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 Abstract At Buckskin Mountain...Mountain (elev 2,650 m, 8,743 ft), Humboldt County, Nevada, a hydrothermal system, imposed on a middle Miocene...BUCKSKIN MOUNTAIN in the National district, Humboldt County, Nevada, altered and mineralized volcanic...combined to reveal much of the hydrothermal system; mine workings and exploration drill holes provide additional
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)
Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science...Science, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA; burkeml2@miamioh.edu Correspondence: saundja@auburn.edu;...discovery of the bonanza Au-Ag deposit in the mid-1980s Nevada, and the previous work on the “gold colloid theory”...topic. The discovery of the bonanza epithermal Sleeper Au-Ag deposit in the mid-1980s in transport can...systems. Further, Herrington and Wilkinson [15] Nevada, and the discovery of nanoparticulate textures
Report (issue)
Mineral Resources Mount Nutt Wilderness Study Mohave County, Arizona U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 737-...of the Mount Nutt Wilderness Study Area, Mohave County, Arizona By FLOYD GRAY, ROBERT C. JACHENS, ROBERT...of the Mount Nutt wilderness study area. Mohave County, Arizona / by Floyd Gray ... [et al.]. p. cm. (U...Nutt Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-Q24), Mohave County, Arizona. CONTENTS Summary Dl Abstract Dl Character...resources D6 Methods D6 Mining and mineral exploration history D6 Mines and prospects, mining claims and leases
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
REVIEWS Minerals of Nevada. STEPHEN B. CASTOR AND GREGORY C. FERDOCK. 502 Pp., 1 map. Nevada Bureau of Mines...Publication 31, University of Nevada Press. 2004. Price US$75. Nevada is well known for its numerous...Carlintype gold deposits that help make Nevada one of the foremost mining regions in the United States. Less...minerals identified in Nevada are 37 minerals that were first described in Nevada. These include several...(Hg3S2Cl2). Minerals of Nevada describes the complex and unusual mineralogy of Nevada and presents 102 color
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
409–424 Geology of the Ivanhoe Hg-Au District, Northern Nevada: Influence of Miocene Volcanism, Lakes...Geological Survey, MS 176, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Abstract The mercury-gold...mercury-gold deposits of the Ivanhoe mining district in northern Nevada formed when middle Miocene rhyolitic volcanism...west-central part of the district. Thus, although mineralization in the district took place during a span...shorter. The low-sulfidation deposits of the Ivanhoe district formed at the same time and under similar conditions
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been............................................. 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL............................Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, North-Central Nevada DAVID A. JOHN,† U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield...Company, Yanacocha, Peru Abstract The Mule Canyon mine exploited shallow, low-sulfidation, epithermal Au-Ag...the west side of the Northern Nevada rift in northern Lander County, Nevada. Mule Canyon consists of six...e-mail, djohn@usgs.gov *Present address: Newmont Mining Corp., PO Box 388, Valmy, NV 89438. 0361-0128/01/3335/425-39...basalt-rhyolite magmatism in the Great Basin, such as Sleeper, Midas, and Buckhorn. Major differences at Mule
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1989).The Great Au-Agdeposit,locatedin northwestern Nevada,nearthe Basinof thewesternUnitedStatesissusceptible...ficial acidsulfatealteration. CurrentAu-Ag(Hg) mining pandedandcontracted according to palcoclimatic...SpringGoldCorporation, 4650SierraMadre#813, fate alteration Reno, Nevada 89502. silicification, resulting in theleaching...fresh-water Sleeper 41'15' -tog Ranch >z Sulphur (abandoned) o ø e.> HUMBOLDT COUNTY ß-r' PERSHING...PERSHING COUNTY ... I I ;rofoot/Lewis Mine the basin 12 km north of the Crofoot-Lewismine (Garside et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Company, 9670 Gateway Drive, Suite 200, Reno, Nevada 89521. 0361-0128/07/3685/923-26 et al., 1995;...for rocks surrounding epithermal deposits at Sleeper, Nevada, United States, and Mount Muro, Kalimantan...San Cristóbal 54Ma El Peñón 52-53Ma property/ district 24° La Escondida deposit El Soldado 51-53Ma...minerals consisting of kaolinite, gypsum, alunite, jarosite, and Fe and Mn oxyhydroxides that fill vugs and...Muro, Indonesia, and Sleeper, Nevada, United States The Mount Muro and Sleeper epithermal Au-Ag deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
precious-metal mineralization in the southwestern Nevada volcanic field, USA S t e p h e n B. C a s t o r a a n d...i s s b "Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Mackay School of Mines, Universityof Nevada, Reno, NV 89557...89557. USA bDepartment of Geological Sciences, Mackay School of Mines, Universityof Nevada, Reno. NV...NV 89557, USA (Received August 27, 1991; accepted after revision January 27, 1992 ) ABSTRACT Castor, S...southwestern Nevada volcanic field, USA. Ore Geol. Rev., 7: 193-223. The southwestern Nevada volcanic field
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/jgeoexp The occurrence of gold at the Getchell mine, Nevada R.J. Bowell a,Ł , M. Baumann b , M. Gingrich...Getchell Gold Corporation, Getchell Mine, P.O. Box 220, Golconda, NV 89414, USA c Institute of Earth Studies...The Getchell mine, owned by the Getchell Gold Cooperation, is located in northwestern Nevada along the east...deeper parts of the Getchell Main Underground (GMU) mine. The third appears to be a rare occurrence largely...largely restricted to reactivated breccias in the GMU mine and is probably negligible in terms of bulk tonnage
Report (issue)
Analyses of Ore and Host Rocks, Sleeper Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada by J.T. Nash,* D.L. Fey................................................ 1 Mine geology...........................................localities in the Sleeper mine and vicinity........................ In pocket Map A-Sleeper mine Map B-Area...east of Sleeper mine Figure 1. Map showing location and geologic setting of the Sleeper mine, Humboldt...Humboldt County, Nevada........................................... 2 2. Generalized geology of the Sleeper mine
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hydrologic/landscape features that can result from open pit mining for metals, coal, uranium, diamonds, oil sands...guidance on the application of models within the mine life cycle. The purpose of this paper is to better...prepare stakeholder, including future modelers, mine managers, consultants, permitting agencies, land...for metals will be met in large part by open pit mining techniques where considerable volumes of ore and...groundwater pumping to maintain a dry mining surface. Once mining concludes, pumping wells are turned off
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June 24, 2015 The hydrogeochemical dynamics of mine pit lakes R. J. B O W E L L S R K Consulting, Windsor...Cardiff C F l O 3BX, U K Abstract: On cessation of mining open pits or opencast workings that extend below...develop a mine pit lake (MPL). This body of water remains as a permanent feature on the mine site and...considering environmental impact on a closed or abandoned mine facility. The controls on a MPL will vary over time...quality. Open-pit mining has become a common place method for extraction in the mining industry in recent
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g., Hishikari, Japan: Izawa et al., 1990; Sleeper, Nevada: Saunders, 1994), with giant deposits containing...Cross, New Zealand: Simpson et al., 2001; Comstock, Nevada: Hudson, 2003). Alteration intensity, mineralogy...Brathwaite and Christie, 1996). By contrast, underground mining of the Martha deposit between 1883 and 1952 recovered...Moz; Christie et al., 2007). Part of this long mining success was due to the introduction in 1894 of...larger veins (Brathwaite and McKay, 1989). Open-pit mining (Fig. 3) began in 1988 and through December 2006
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
Report (issue)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources (for example, the Humboldt River drainage...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
Report (volume)
and Gold Depo~its, Tonopah.l,0 X,2° Qu.adrangle, Nevada~ Description and Applications to Exploration~ ...and gold deposits, Tonopah 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada: description and applications to exploration I...3:2077 1. Gold mines and mining-Nevada-Tonopah region. 2. Gold mines and mining-Nevada-Tonopah region. I. Title................................. . Northumberland Mine ................................................................................... . Wall Canyon Mine ...............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogical studies conducted on samples from the active mine workings indicate that Hg and precious metals occur...and bromargyrite [BrAg]; or as sulfates of the jarosite group (i.e., argentojarosite [AgFe3(SO4)2 (OH)6])...calomel (Hg2Cl2), and sulfate minerals of the jarosite group (Dutrizac and Eno, 1981) through the following...approximately 24 km NW of Seville (Spain). The mining project is currently operated by Cobre Las Cruces...Cruces, a local subsidiary of the Immet Mining Corporation and Leucadia National Corporation. The present
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....................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .................................. 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...........................Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico ..................................
Report (issue)
Sonora, Mexico Greg E. McKelvey, Phelps Dodge Mining Company Brenda B. Houser, Past-President, Arizona...explore the mining history and mineral deposits of one of the country's most important mining regions; further...cyanide and toxic metals released from the Summitville mine on downstream water supplies and crops. The distribution...distribution and movement of metals from mining districts of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, and Rio Tinto, Spain...analysis to investigate the environmental impact of mining in the southeastern San Juan Mountains and adjacent
 
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