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Pyrite from
Meikle Mine, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Baryte8 photos of Pyrite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Millerite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Millerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Meikle Mine, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:88782
Long-form Identifier:1:3:88782:5
GUID (UUID V4):2d7f2391-a5c1-459b-bc16-bc9b8f1efb4d
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
1.7km (1.1 miles) Screamer deposit, Betze-Post pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Deep Post orebody, Betze-Post pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Betze-Post pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Purple Vein prospect, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) Greater Goldstrike- North Mines, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Post Deposit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Deep Star mine, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Dee North Mine, Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Dee Mine (Boulder Creek Mine), Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Blue Star Mine, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Mineralogy of the Northernmost Carlin Trend, Nevada TED G. THEODORE,† BORIS B. KOTLYAR, DONALD A. SINGER...King Midas Resources, Ltd., 3841 Amador Way, Reno, Nevada 89502 AND ANDREA L. FOSTER U.S. Geological Survey...deposit include arsenopyrite overgrowths on small pyrite crystals in 50- to 75-µm-wide clay-carbonate veinlets...recrystallized diagenetic pyrite, and partial replacement of diagenetic pyrite by tennantite. Some of these...interpretations of geochemical halos in the Carlin trend. District-scale geochemical patterns of several elements
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Igneous and Sedimentary Rock Sources in Northern Nevada: Implications for Fluid and Metal Sources* R. M...J. S. CLINE, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89104 C. MARK FANNING, Research...conventional techniques and of ore-stage arsenian pyrite using the Sensitive High Resolution Ion-Microprobe...10-µm-diameter spot SHRIMP analyses of ore-stage arsenian pyrite. These values approximately correspond to 206Pb/204Pb...compositions over the same range as in ore-stage arsenian pyrite are similar to those of Ordovician to Devonian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Genesis of the Meikle and Neighboring Carlin-Type Deposits, Northern Carlin Trend, Nevada POUL EMSBO,†...Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, Nevada 89801 AND RICHARD W. HUTCHINSON Department...Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401 Abstract The Meikle mine exploits one of the world’s highest grade Carlin-type...exceed 400 g/t. Several geologic events converged at Meikle to create these spectacular gold grades. Prior...mineralization, a Devonian hydrothermal system altered the Bootstrap limestone to Fe-rich dolomite. Subsequently the
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/.............................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.....autochthonous rocks that host gold along the Carlin trend, Nevada Augustus K. Armstrong, Ted G. Theodore, Robert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calcite and Barite at the Meikle Gold Deposit, Northern Carlin Trend, Nevada POUL EMSBO† AND ALBERT H...event in a complicated hydrothermal history at the Meikle gold deposit was gold deficient but caused extensive...are indistinguishable from those of the host Bootstrap limestone, indicating that CO2 in the fluid was...suggest that dissolution and brecciation of the Bootstrap limestone occurred where H2S-rich fluids encountered...sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Intense fracturing in the mine area by previous structural and hydrothermal events
Report (issue)
Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada By Stephen G. Peters1, Gregory C. Ferdock2...Mackay School of Mines, MS-176, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 of Geological Sciences, Mackay...Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 3Mine Geology Department, Barrick Goldstrike...Goldstrike Mines, Inc., P.O. Box 29, Elko, Nevada 89803. 2Department Oreshoot Zoning in the Carlin-type...Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada by Stephen G. Peters1, Gregory C. Ferdock2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Location map for the MeiMe mine and the Murray mine. Prepared by William B. Besse. Downloaded...The golden barite from the Meikle mine and the stibnite from the Murray mine are among the best of their...encounter crystallized mineral specimens while mining for ore usually treat the non-ore asset mineral...while mining underground for gold, have encountered voids with crystallized barite, calcite (Meikle mine)...mine), and stibnite (Murray mine). Although not considered an asset in the same way as gold, the specimens
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)
Gold at the Betze-Post Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, United States Jared D. Lubben,1,* Jean S. Cline...University 2 Mineral of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010 Deposit...quartz are spatially associated with Au-bearing pyrite; both lack luminescence. Two generations of post-ore...drusy quartz, along with Au and trace element-rich pyrite. Fluid-rock reaction, dissolution, and replacement...realgar precipitated in open space as ore-stage pyrite precipitation declined. The hydrothermal system
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magmatism in Gold Mineralization of the Carlin Trend, Nevada MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD C. NOBLE, Department...Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...Geology, Mail Stop 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Gold...Gold Company, P.O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Beast, low-grade (7.3 Mt @ 0.7 g/t), disseminated...disseminated Au deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, is unique among Carlin-type Au deposits in having
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)
Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801...T R A C T Keywords: Carlin-type gold deposits Nevada Huijiabao trend Fluid inclusion gas analysis Carlin-type...Carlin-type gold deposits in north-central Nevada occur in a region that was the locus of igneous and/or...quartz in mining districts with complex origins. 1. Introduction Since discovery of the Carlin mine in Nevada...the complex tectonic history that north-central Nevada experienced E-mail address: johnagroff@yahoo.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Millerite from Barrick Goldstrike’s Meikle Mine, Elko County, Nevada All that glitters is not barite and...KULINSKI Barrick Goldstrike Mines 354 W. Oak Street Elko, Nevada 89801 spook1@citlink.net All photos by Casey...visit to the Meikle mine, we saw an interesting pyrite specimen. Actually, it wasn’t in the mine but was setting...desk of a mine electrician in the Meikle administration building. We inquired where in the mine it had come...area,” an area that covers a lot of ground. The Meikle geology staff helped us pin down the exact level
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... . 217 by A. R. Kampf The Dee North mine, Elko County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....crystal cluster, 13.6 cm, from the famous Malmberget mine, Gällivose, Lapland, Sweden. Peter Lyckberg collection;...had also performed in a consulting capacity for mining operations around the world. Jim was both mineral...Jackson to take over the operation of the Rock Candy mine (the subject of a 1981 article by Joe in the Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
like the worldclass Carlin-type gold deposits of Nevada, proximal alteration is limited to carbonate dissolution...*Present address: Barrick Gold Corporation, Elko, Nevada 89801 **Present address: School of Science,...al., 1980), Twin Creeks (Stenger et al., 1998), Meikle (Emsbo et al., 2003), and Pipeline (Arehart and...Silurian-Devonian Roberts Mountain Formation & Bootstrap limestone 8 Hanging wall to the Roberts Mountains...Formation aul 10 is f nes Ge -116.400 40.950 t Nevada 0 1 2 Kilometers Fig. 1. Geology of the northern
Report (chapter)
formation of Carlin-type gold deposits in north-central Nevada J O H N L. M U N T E A N j, M I C H A E L P. C...Geology, Mail Stop 178, University o f Nevada, Reno, N V 89557-0088, USA (e-mail: munteanj@unr, edu) 2Ries-Coward...trends of Carlin-type gold deposits in north-central Nevada. Some of these structures probably resulted from...Carlin-type gold deposits. Abstract: North-central Nevada is one of the world's most important gold provinces...tonnes of gold have been produced or identified (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology 2004). The vast majority
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil...Scovil photo. March/April: Gold, Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark...calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen, Jeff...July/August: Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan...SeptemberlOctober: Calcite with hematite inclusions, Lei Ping mine, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Werner Lieber specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
347–383 Igneous Geology of the Carlin Trend, Nevada: Development of the Eocene Plutonic Complex and...Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 AND CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY† Nevada Bureau of Mines and...and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088 Abstract The Carlin trend contains the largest...several major gold-producing areas of north-central Nevada and contains the greatest concentration of Carlin-type...*Present address: Newmont Mining Corporation, 337 W. Commercial Street, Elko, Nevada 89801. 0361-0128/06/3579/347-37
Report (issue)
best of the classic smithsonites from the old Kelly mine in New Mexico. Associations of aurichalcite, kipushite...come from a recent find in Sounion mine #6 (also known as the Exi mine, “Exi” being Greek for “six”) in...in the ancient Laurium mining district of Attika, Greece. On the website of his always-interesting Greek...Cu-rich smithsonite, 2.7 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks specimen...=============== The same discovery in Sounion mine #6 has also produced larger specimens which show
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Special Issue Devoted to Gold Deposits in Northern Nevada: Part 2. Carlin-Type Deposits Preface ALBERT H...Economic Geology devoted to gold deposits in northern Nevada. Readers interested in a general overview of these...important to the genesis of gold deposits in northern Nevada and five papers that present detailed studies of...crust below these mineral belts (Howard, 2003), district- to deposit-scale stream sediment and lithogeochemical...al., 2003), and stratigraphy and structure of a district located along a northeast-striking lineament (Peters
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposit, Carlin Trend, Nevada DEAN G. HEITT,† W. WARREN DUNBAR, Newmont Mining Corporation, P.O. Box 669...669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 TOMMY B. THOMPSON, Center for Research in Economic Geology, Mail Stop 169...Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND ROBERT G. JACKSON 150 East...East Flora Lane, Spring Creek, Nevada 89815 Abstract Deep Star is a high-grade Carlin-type gold deposit...Gold is hosted in As-rich rims on marcasite and pyrite within a kaolinite and quartz matrix. Postore stage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CARLIN TREND, NEVADA—A DISCUSSION G. D. LANGSTAFF† 3575 Gypsum Lane, Suite 6, Reno, Nevada 89503 Sir:...anomaly and Cretaceous dikes occur in the Carlin mine (summarized by Hofstra et al., 1999). An anomaly...deposits of the Carlin trend and elsewhere in northern Nevada with Eocene dikes and plutons argues for a genetic...Barneys Canyon, Melco, Cove, and the Battle Mountain district. Mako (1999) showed that Mercur is younger than...established.” The purported Au-As zone for the Bingham district occurs only north of the stock, in contrast to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...309 Brochantite, New Hampshire, 416 Brookite, Dodo Mine, Subpolar Urals, Russia, R. B. Cook, 192-95 Buchholz... Tourmaline Discovery at the CryoGenie Mine, San Diego County, California, 156-68 Clifford Frondel (1907-2002)
Journal (issue)
hall that was not quite so large. The theme was pyrite, and there were some spectacular displays with...spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books...Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had...some clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite
 
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