 | Hazen, R. M., Golden, J., Downs, R. T., Hystad, G., Grew, E. S., Azzolini, D., Sverjensky, D. A. (2012) Mercury (Hg) mineral evolution: A mineralogical record of supercontinent assembly, changing ocean geochemistry, and the emerging terrestrial biosphere. American Mineralogist, 97 (7) 1013-1042 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3922 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ma. Since the first terrestrial appearance of cinnabar more than 3 billion years ago, mercury minerals...effectively sequestered as insoluble nanoparticles of cinnabar (HgS) or tiemannite (HgSe) during the period of...biosphere at ~400 Ma. Keywords: Ocean geochemistry, cinnabar, tiemannite, biosphere, supercontinent cycle,...contain linear S–Hg–S configurations, for example in cinnabar, which has infinite helical chains (–S–Hg–S–)∞...(see Table 2 for key) Oldest (Ma) Youngest (Ma) Cinnabar HgS >2000 known localities: AU02, AU04, AT02, |  | | Catalog/List | | Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will be satisfactory...at the pristine source underground ar an fresh quarry faces and the like. Very aften though, such source...malachite. About 2-3 nm. BABINGT(}IITE, Goose Creek Quarry near Leesburg, Virginia. Sharp, blad< crystals...Small specimens. 132 BIOTITE, Laacher See, Rhineland, Germany. Sharp prismatic crystals 1tith nosean crystals...CHALCOPYRITE, Dreislar, near Medebach, Westphalia, Germany. Sphenoidal crystals on barlte crystals an crystalline |  | | Book | | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...were supplied by the mineral kingdom: minium, cinnabar, and limonite (ochre). The black color was soot...fibrous sphalerite from Diepenlinchen, near Aachen, Germany. PLATE Vo I~ .·• / ~1 rhyolite 37 r . ...chalcopyrite from Herdorf, Siegerland, Germany. Center. Pyrrhotite. Harzburg, Germany. Below Massive chakopyrite...porphyry feldspars (Na, Ca) diorite hornblende andesite *porphyry dioriteporphyry dioriteaplite feldspar |  | Cooper, D. C., Cameron, D. G., Young, B., Cornwell, J. D., Bland, D. J. (1991) Mineral exploration in the Cockermouth area, Cumbria. Part 1: regional surveys. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report 118. British Geological Survey | Report (issue) | | occurrences in panned concentrates Location of cinnabar occurrences in panned concentrates and mercury...etallic) and south of Stockdale (Zn, Pb). Gold and cinnabar were reported for the first time from this area...southern Scotland and the north-east Lake District. Cinnabar was identified in 22 concentrates and is believed...limestone", are also common. In places, e.g. Moota Quarry, massive limestones pass cyclically upwards into...baryte mineralisation is in the abandoned central quarry [NY 1620 3624] at Clints near Bothel. Here coarsely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | euhedral rhombohedra have been found in basalt, andesite, and diabase. It is a rare constituent of mica...from a silicocarbonate sill exposed at the Francon quarry and from the alkali syenite complex notably exposed...of siderite after serandite from the Poudrette quarry, measuring 22.5 cm high (fig. 7). (Katherine Dunnell...(left). Siderite after serandite, from the Poudrette quarry, Quebec Province, Canada. The specimen is 22.5...combinations. As with England, the list of localities in Germany would require a separate article to cover adequately; |  | | Book | | by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...azurite, green malachite, yellow sulphur or red cinnabar. Most minerals occur in several colours. For example...pyrargyrite, niccolite, linnaeite, zincblende, cinnabar, argentite, acanthite, stibnite. 3. Halides Potassium—magnesium...prisms and pyramids. Occurrence: England, Scotland, Germany, Alps, Urals, Brazil, Madagascar. Quartz is important |  | | Book | | other iron oxides create reds and browns, while cinnabar and minium give us bright red and malachite is...manganese oxide on limestone, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany * 11.5 x 24 x 0.5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A... Europe: Cornwall, England; Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Asia: Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Ural Mountains...rocks. Arsenic, Sankt Andreasberg, Lower Saxony, Germany * 5 x 7 x 1 cm Wyoming; salt deposits in Louisiana...Wolfsburg and Sankt Andreasberg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Asia: Akatani Mine, Japan. Sulfur, Cianciana |  | | Book (edition) | | environment it was found in, whether in a limestone quarry, an ore vein, a stream bed, and so on. Only...of.8.1)..(see.12 sa.).... .» .cbcens em on es cinnabar 4b. Streak reddish-brown; luster part earthy;...G6). SAVIO, . cs « Secroenees ome pelnene HgS cinnabar 12b. Streak browish-red; hardness 3.5— CUPRITE...CERUSSITE (white. lead) (light yellow, r barite cinnabar white, gray) eK cleavage fibrous os — white...or by deep rock mining. Other minerals, such as cinnabar (the ore of mercury), and realgar and orpiment |  | | Journal (issue) | | host rock is very tough, brownish-grey pyroxene andesite with porhyritic texture. Quartz, biotite, and...of Markaz, showing the collecting site 3 The andesite excavated by the road cut is strongly eroded....different zone, in a much harder, unweathered andesite. Only 5-6 boulders (about a size of a human head)...now covered with the road. The hard, brighter andesite often has both large and small cavities, ranging...locality. Tschernichite in a small cavity in andesite 4 There are three distinct types of tschernichite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | formation of the Moschellandsberg mercury deposit, SW Germany R.E. Krupp Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitfit...Abstract. The Moschellandsberg mercury deposit ( S W Germany) is hosted in a Permo-Carboniferous volcanic caldera...Permo-Carboniferous Saar Nahe basin of southwest Germany (Pfalz district), of which many have been known...sediments; CONGL., conglomerate marker; ANDESITE, basaltic andesite stock; PYROCL. BR., pyroclastic breccia;...commonly impregnated with cinnabar while mechanically strong wall-rocks like andesite or silicified sandstone |  | | Report (volume) | | of swelling and contraction of colloidal.gels. Cinnabar was introduced during each of the pulses of mineralization...conditions warrant, it will be worthwhile to search for cinnabar in areas of sedimentary rock that show evidence...data on the map of the Weiser Cove quadrangle. Cinnabar has been reported also from prospects (fig. 9)...described a large area that includes all the cinnabar deposits here described. His work constituted...the present investigation.QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS Cinnabar was apparently first recognized in this area in |  | | Report (volume) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andesite flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andesite porphyry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Formation and intruded by plugs, dikes, and sills of andesite porphyry. Uplift of the anticlinorium was rejuvenated...present drainage pattern was partly developed, andesite flows were extruded from several centers and flowed...volcanic rocks: (1) fine-grained and porphyritic andesite and basalt that resemble flow rocks in the formation; |  | | Report (volume) | | HOWEL WILLIAMS ABSTRACT Commercial quantities of cinnabar were discovered in the Horse Heaven district,...about 150 flasks. Four prospects contain some cinnabar that may be mined for quicksilver in the future...altered rocks at tho margin of a plug of augite andesite. A small outlier of pre-Tertiary metamorphic rocks...The oldest rocks close to the mine, however, are andesite flows, tuffs, and tuffaceous sedimentary rocks...volcanic rocks. The oldest consists of basaltic andesite, followed after a period of erosion by biotite |  | | Report (issue) | | to it as part of be volume. 1. On Hyperstheno-Andesite and on Triclinic Pyroxene in Augitic Rocks, by...deposits XV. On the solution and precipitation of cinnabar and other ores 387 419 XVI. The origin of the...investigations were undertaken that the deposition of cinnabar was probably still taking place at Sulphur Bank...what conditions the solution and precipitation of cinnabar and the accompanying minerals occurred. The problems...deposit results which I American miners that cinnabar might be looked for under very different conditions |  | | Report (volume) | | report on the geology and on the occurrence of cinnabar in the area UNITED STATES GOVERNM'ENlT?EIJir...the southeastern part of Mineral County, Nev; Cinnabar was first discovered.in 1913, and intermittent...produced moderately complicated structures. , The cinnabar mines and prospects, with one exception, are all...northward-dipping, low-angle thrust faults, the Cinnabar Canyon and Lost Steers thrusts. These faults probably...structural control for the cinnabar mineralization in the district. The cinnabar, the only important ore |  | | Report (volume) | | Mines and of the University of California. HISTORY Cinnabar was discovered in both districts in the fifties...rocks and pyroxenite, (2) gabbro, and (3) augite andesite and related rocks. The uralitic and pyroxenitic...district they consist mainly of tuff, pyroxene andesite, and relatively silicic flows, in part rhyolite...Lake are flows of rhyolite, dacite, obsidian, andesite, and basalt, breccias of varied composition, and...some petrographers prefer to call it an augite andesite. It is of this rock that the low hill called |  | | Report (volume) | | ______________________________________ Baldbutte, Cinnabar Mountain, and Sullivan prospects.___ Hobart B...formation._________________________________ 10 5. A, Andesite cut and replaced by anastomosing veinlets of silica-bearing...Photomicrograph of altered andesite. 26 6. A, Veinlets of calcite and siderite cutting altered andesite; B, Photomicrograph...irregular specks of siderite cutting silicified andesite; B, Photomicrograph of rhombshaped masses of siderite...siderite enclosed in altered andesite_____. 26 11. A, Andesite breccia riddled with veinlets of carbonate; B |  | | Book | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4 Rhyolite/Andesite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 11.2.3 Basalt/Andesite/Dolerite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Eastern Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.2 Slate quarry, eastern United States . . . . . . . . . . . ....also experimented with the minerals saltpeter, cinnabar, pyrite, orpiment, and galena and the chemical...remedies were included from the earliest times. Cinnabar, alum, saltpeter, hematite, and amethyst were |  | | Report (volume) | | mercurian tetrahedrite (schwatzite), chalcopyrite, and cinnabar, the latter being the only producer of mercury...host of secondary minerals an earthy mixture of cinnabar and "limonite" is of particular interest because...chalcopyrite is abundant, and a little primary cinnabar is present. 19 20 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC...central part of the district northward, primary cinnabar increases in relation to the other sulfldes until...separates the siliceous lavas from the younger andesite and basalt; along the opposite side the sinuous |  | | Report (issue) | | Uplift and change in trend of folding. _ _ _ Marble Quarry thrust. _________________ Ashby thrust.- .__ ____..._. _ Later thrusting________. ________________ Cinnabar Canyon thrust. __ ___-__._.. West Ridge thrust_-_____--__-...northwest of Garfield Flat, showing relations of Marble Quarry and Garfield Flat thrusts.-__-.--..-..-----_-____________-_-__...studied in detail, the mafic varieties (largely andesite) will be referred to as greenstone and the more...beds. Unconformable on these is a thick series of andesite and andesitic agglomerate, presumably of Pliocene |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | epidote, hornblende, diopsite, 427 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, danburite, 171; durangite, I72 Chycornish...Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet, 427 Dean quarry, The Lizard, djurle'ite, I72; analcime, adularia...penwithite (= neotocite), 279 and M26 Devon Meldon quarry, Okehampton, greenovite, 172; priceite, 175 Ramsley...Cannington Park quarry, djurlei'te, I72 Combe Farm quarry, Henbury, wulfenite, 298 Merehead quarry, Shepton...35 IRELAND Gortdrum mine, Tipperary, amalgam, cinnabar, I7O Inishdawros, Callow, Ballyconneely, Connemara |  | | Report (issue) | | Washoe Valley opposite Mount Rose, at which point andesite flows begin to cover and obscure the continuation...earth. Sandstone was mined from the State Prison quarry for the erection of the Capitol and other State...Portland Cement Company is located. (Figure 2.) The quarry, which supplies this plant, is just over the Pershing...andesites. (Figure 3.) Low-grade cinnabar occurs associated with Tertiary andesite flows and tuffs in the Lone...canyon a water-laid breccia with well-rounded acu andesite boulders is exposed in the stream cuts. Southward: |  | | Book | | Doctor's degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1972). He is a Member of the Romanian Academy... pit jama. šachta akna wyrobisko. odkrywka quarry lom kőfejtő kamienioiom river feka folyó...vershyna. pik pit put šachta shakhta. karyer quarry carieră (de piatră) lom karyer river râu ...deserve special mention, where rocks of intermediate andesite composition contain xenoliths bearing cordierite... and corundum. The pres ence of gehlenitc in andesite xenoliths at both Potná/ and Piliss/enllás/lo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | volcanic and sedimentary rocks of Cenozoic age. Cinnabar with silica minerals, dolomite, native mercury...Fluid inclusions and hot springs suggest that cinnabar precipitated from CO2-H20 fluids with < 2 wt%...in western California (Cargill et al., 1980). Cinnabar at New Almaden was mined by Californian indians...rediscovered in 1824 by Luis Chaboya who, believing that cinnabar was a silver ore, tried unsuccessfully to extract...active since the Miocene has deposited basalt, andesite, rhyolite, and pyroclastic rocks on top of the |  | | Report (volume) | | weighing more than a few pounds each, although, as cinnabar is very irregularly distributed in most of the...of that metal. The more recent dis- covery of cinnabar led to the locating of a block of 18 claims by... consists of red to nearly black fine-grained andesite lava interbedded with and underlain by light-colored...may perhaps belong stratigraphically with the andesite. Mineralized bodies. The mineralized bodies in...composed is reliably reported to contain a little cinnabar, but a sample chipped from it at one spot yielded |
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