Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Pyrrhotite from
Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:735004
Long-form Identifier:1:3:735004:7
GUID (UUID V4):c05dfc82-ebcf-4afa-801f-1aec74816cfb
Localities for Pyrrhotite in this Region
Diamond mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Prospect Mountain tunnel, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Fad shaft, Ruby Hill, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
3.3km (2.0 miles) Fad shaft, Ruby Hill, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Prospect Mountain tunnel, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
6.5km (4.1 miles) Diamond mine, Prospect Ridge, Eureka Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
25.3km (15.7 miles) Antelope claims (Eather mine; Fish Creek Wells), Fish Creek Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
35.9km (22.3 miles) Mount Hope mine, Mount Hope Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
35.9km (22.3 miles) Lorraine workings, Mount Hope mine, Mount Hope Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
68.5km (42.6 miles) Keystone mine, Roberts Mining District, Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
83.9km (52.1 miles) Veteran mine (Veteran pit), Tripp-Veteran pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
86.5km (53.8 miles) Ruth pit, Robinson Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, USA
91.5km (56.8 miles) Cortez Hills underground, Cortez Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
The Eureka Mining District Nevada By THOMAS B. NOLAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 406 Prepared..._ Pogonip group _____________________________ _ Eureka quartzite ___________________________ _ Hanson...of the ores _______________________ _ Mines and mining ______________ __________________ _ Production...the Eureka mining district, Nevada. 2. Geologic sections of the Eureka mining district, Nevada. 3. Geologic...Geologic structure map of the Eureka mining district, Nevada. UI 24 25 26 26 26 26 27 27 27 27 28 28
Report (issue)
Replacement Deposits Part I Bald Mountain Gold Mining Region, Northern Black Hills, South Dakota By JAMES...City Mining District, Utah By CALVIN S. B ROM FIELD Gold in the Eureka Mining District, Nevada By DANIEL...and THOMAS B. NOLAN Gold in the Central City Mining District, Colorado By ALAN R. WALLACE U.S. GEOLOGICAL...bibliographies. Contents: pt. 1. Bald Mountain gold mining region, northern Black Hills, South Dakota / by...City mining district, Utah / by Calvin S. Bromfield. Gold in the Eureka mining district, Nevada / by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE SUNNYSIDE MINE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT SAN JUAN COUNTY, COLORADO TOM ROSEMEYER Box 586 Ouray, Colorado...the late 1800s and early 1900s, at the height of mining activity, the sprawling Sunnyside mine complex...in the camp without going outside. In the 1960s, mining was carried out on the Washington vein above the...labeled as follows: Sunnyside mine, Eureka min­ ing district, San Juan County, Colorado. In 1973, diamond drilling...thought to be barren (Bird, 1986). Subse­ quent mining of the orebodies over the next six years pro­ duced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGISTS 1980 MultistageVein Ores of the Lake City District, Western San Juan Mountains,Colorado John,• F...Abstract Polymetallic vein ores of the Lake City district, in the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado,have...the Ute-Ulay mine, the largest producerof the district, titis assemblagehas been divided into four stages(from...massiverhodochrosite'and Id, late quartz-carbonate-fluorite.On a district-wide scale,the quartz-basemetal assemblage showsa...ed in minerals from many veins throughout the district. All observedinclusionsare simpleliquid-vaportypeswithout
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calcite, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har­ din County, Illinois. Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col­ orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen...November-December: Gold, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. California State Mining and Mineral Exhibit specimen;...Tourmaline from Little Cahuilla Mountain, Riverside County, California, K. Gochenour, 440 Borates, 488 Bornite...Metamict Samarskites from the South Platte Pegmatite District, Colorado, 458 British Columbia, quartz, 459 Brunet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract The Sunnysidemine, in the Eureka mining district, San Juan County, Colorado, produces700 tons/day...veinsfilling faultsandfracturesalongthe northernsideof the Eureka graben,whichformedduring resurgent doming of the...northerlyflow until they encountered the structuresof the Eureka graben. Here the primary mechanismof precipitationwas...depositionat the Sunnysidemine, Eureka mining district, San Juan County, Colorado (Fig. 1). The rediscoveryin... Summary of Production,SunnysideMine, San Juan County, Colorado Metal 1974t Average ore= grade--1974
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Wemer Lieber...quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...LOCALITY INDEX BOULDER COUNTY Caribou Mine Caribou (near Nederland), Caribou District (Silver, Uraninite... Copper Rock Ward District (Azurite, Malachite, Cerussite, Galena) Gold Hill Gold Hill District (Nagyagite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
102, pp. 1129–1155 Bald Mountain Gold Mining District, Nevada: A Jurassic Reduced Intrusion-Related Gold...Colorado 80209 Abstract The Bald Mountain mining district has produced about 2 million ounces (Moz) of...with exhumation made them amenable to open-pit mining and processing using cyanide heap leach methods...methods. Introduction MINERAL DEPOSITS in Nevada account for about 70 percent of the Au produced in the United...Carlin-type Au deposits in the Carlin, Battle Mountain-Eureka, Getchell, and Independence (Jerritt Canyon) trends
Report (issue)
The Stratigraphic Section in the Vicinity of Eureka, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 276 The... The Stratigraphic Section in the Vicinity of Eureka, Nevada By T. B. NOLAN, C. W. MERRIAM, and J. S. WILLIAMS...the pre- Tertiary stratigraphy of east-central Nevada UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...Ninemile formation. _____ Antelope Valley limestone. Eureka quartzite_______ Hanson Creek formation. _ Western...dolomite__________... Devonian system.__________-_-_-__--_____. Nevada formation_________--______--. Beacon Peak dolomite
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Franklin County; at Coventry and Irasburgh, Orleans County; and at Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont... at Keene, and southeast of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, and elsewhere in New Hampshire and is reported...from Haddam, Middletown, and Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. In Rhode Island, rhodonite has been...in manganese prospects at Cumberland, Providence County. Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 20:02 10...and, to a lesser extent, Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey (Palache 1935). Here, it occurred in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonate-Hosted Replacement Deposits of the Kassandra Mining District, Northern Greece: Evidence for Late Oligocene...Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA 2 Eldorado 3 Geology 4 Mineral Gold Corporation...University of New York, Cortland, New York 13045, USA Deposit Research Unit, University of British Columbia...massive sulfide orebodies of the Kassandra mining district belong to the intrusionrelated carbonate-hosted...with skarn and replacement sulfide throughout the district have isotopic compositions that are consistent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 J. N. CHRISTENSEN, Lawrence Berkeley...Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, Nevada 89803. 0361-0128/01/3326/235-14 $6.00 deposits...techniques. 114° 42° JC Carlin-type deposits in Nevada GT CT Elko C Reno AB BM 39° Great Basin...deposits in Nevada. Deposits and major prospects are shown by circles. Deposit or district locations mentioned...deposits in Utah, about 200 km east of the Utah-Nevada border); C = Cortez; CT = Carlin trend (includes
Report (issue)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....within the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ourselves.An idealized pattern of vein ter pyrrhotite, and pyrrhotite inclusionsin chalco- compositionand wall-rock...gradualreplacemuchof the marcasitewasderivedfrom pyrrhotite. in the basalt.In the chloriThoughtheseobservations...arsenopyrite,althoughthesephasesmayhavebeenprecededby pyrrhotite(Stillwell,1949). Sphaleriteappearsto be later...sphaleriteprecipitate,yielding an assemblage of pyrrhotite + pyrite + arsenopyrite 2H20(1) + Ca+2+ Mg+•+...andIV isthengivenby the pyrite-pyrrhotite The phasespyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite,and boundaryat 250øC:
Report (issue)
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088, U.S.A. Eiji Izawa, Department of Mining, Faculty of Engineering...S.A., 72 p. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, jLn Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...Tertiary volcanic centers in central Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 19, p. 49-66. Ashley...between volcanism and ore deposition at Goldfield, Nevada, in Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial Symposium...International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits; Nevada Bureau of Mines Report 33, v. 2, p. 77-86. Ashley
Report (issue)
discoveries in South Dakota, Alaska, Colorado, and Nevada provided new sources to help finance the country's...gold price increase in 1934 again stimulated gold mining. An all time high in annual gold production of...World War II. The government order restricting gold mining in the United States during the war resulted in...bonanza-type deposits such as the Comstock Lode in Nevada and Cripple Creek in Colorado, and recently, a...a variety of disseminated deposits mostly in Nevada. This series describing the geology of gold deposits
Report (issue)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOLD METALLOGENY OF NORTHERN NEVADA Richard M. Tosdal editor Open-File Report 98-338-6...Contributions to the gold metallogeny of northern Nevada Preface R.M. Tbsdfl/.............................the crustal structure near the Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral trend from geophysical constraints V.J...Regional crustal structure beneath the Carlin Trend, Nevada, based on deep electrical geophysical measurements...and its relation to gold belts in north-central Nevada: Overview and progress report V.J.S. Grawc/i..
Report (issue)
and Butler, G. M.-Arizona lode gold mines and mining: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 137, 1934...Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 148, 1941. Apache County 2: 17 Gregory, H. E.-Geology Prof. Paper 93, 1917...the Navajo country. U.S. Geol. Survey Cochise County 3:04 Ransome, F. L.-The geology and ore deposits...Tombstone district, Arizona: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 1938. Gila County 4:03 Ransome...Ransome, F. L.-Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 12, 1903. 4:19
Report (issue)
Replacement Deposits Part II Gold in the Tintic Mining District, Utah By HALT. MORRIS Gold Deposits in the...Bird Mining Districts, San Juan Mountains, Colorado By FREDERICKS. FISHER Gold in the Alma Mining District...R. SHAWE Precious Metals in the Leadville Mining District, Colorado By TOMMY B. THOMPSON Part I is Chapter...bibliographies. Contents: pt. 1. Bald Mountain gold mining region, northern Black Hills, South Dakota / by...Tintic Mining District, Utah / by Hal T. Morris. Gold in the Sneffels-Telluride and Camp Bird mining districts
Report (issue)
.............. Monzonite porphyry dikes of the Eureka area The Sylvanite composite stock............................ Bedding-plane faults of the Eureka district Interpretation of original conditions along...deposits................ Deposits of the Sylvanite district......................... ' Types of deposits....structural features............ Deposits of the Eureka district .............................. Types of deposits...features............ Zonal relations between the Eureka and Sylvanite districts.......................
Report (issue)
Geology and development of the Hishikari mine: Mining Geology, v. 36 (2), no. 196, p. 117. Adams, S....46, p. 9-24. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, in Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...Tertiary volcanic centers in centraT~Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 19, p. 49-66. Ashley...between volcanism and ore deposition at Goldfield, Nevada, in Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial Symposium...International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits: Nevada Bureau of Mines Report 33, v. 2, p. 77-86. Ashley
Report (volume)
east-west, northwest, and northeast within the district. Hawkins (1982) postulated that the east-west­...upper- and lower-plate rocks in the Jerritt Canyon district is thought to be a high-angle fault. Exposure...cover in the district. REGIONAL STRATIGRAPHY Most of the rocks in the Jerritt Canyon district are Paleozoic...the Enfield Bell mine, Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada. � Geology of the Enfield Bell Mine...Mine and the Jerritt Canyon District, Elko County, Nevada 97 Lower-plate rocks Lower-plate stratigraphy
Report (issue)
Geology of the Carlin Gold Deposit, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1267 /Ju l/ /Ea..... 041).- Geology of the Carlin Gold Deposit, Nevada By ARTHUR S. RADTKE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Arthur S., 1936— Geology of the Carlin gold deposit, Nevada. (Geological Survey professional paper ; 1267)...no.: I 19.16:1267 1. Gold ores—Nevada—Carlin region. 2. Geology—Nevada—Carlin region. I. Title. II. Series...� 5 Previous work � 6 History of the Lynn mining district � 7 Geology � 8 Sedimentary rocks � 8 Paleozoic
 
Mineral and/or Locality  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: April 25, 2024 15:04:19
Go to top of page