Fluid Inclusion Noble Gas Data from Goldfield and Tonopah Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits

Twenty-five ore and gangue mineral separates from the Miocene-age Goldfield and Tonopah epithermal Au-Ag deposits in southwestern Nevada were analyzed to determine the helium, neon, and argon (He, Ne, and Ar) isotopic compositions contained in fluid inclusions. Four mineral separates from the Butte Main Stage vein deposit and two from the Bingham pyrite-enargite vein deposits were also analyzed. Fifteen separates are from hand samples collected from underground mine workings and the remaining 16 are from mine tailings piles and pits excavated within the past 100 years. The separates consist dominantly of pyrite, enargite, and quartz, with lesser amounts of sphalerite, galena, potassium feldspar, bismuthinite, marcasite,...

Categories: Data; Tags: 3He/4He, Ar, Bingham Copper Mine, Bingham pyrite-enargite vein deposit, Butte Main Stage vein deposit, All tags... CMERSC, Central Minerals and Environmental Resources Science Center, Goldfield Mining District, Goldfield epithermal Au-Ag deposit, He, MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Mineralogy, Montana, Ne, Nevada, Tonopah Mining District, Tonopah epithermal Au-Ag deposit, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, alunite, argite, argon, bismuthinite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, economy, epithermal Au-Ag deposit, fluid inclusions, galena, gangue minerals, geoscientificInformation, gold, helium, isotopes, isotopic ratios, marcasite, mineral deposits, mineral separates, neon, noble gas elements, ore, ore formation, potassium feldspar, pyrite, quartz, rhodonite, sphalerite, vein deposit, volatiles, Fewer tags

Data to accompany U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1099: Petrographic, geochemical and geochronologic data for Cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield Mining Districts, Nevada

This dataset is the assembled analytical results of geochemical, petrographic, and geochronologic data for samples, principally those of unmineralized Tertiary volcanic rocks, from the Tonopah, Divide, and Goldfield mining districts of west-central Nevada. Much of the data presented here for the Tonopah and Divide districts are for samples collected by Bonham and Garside (1979) during geologic mapping in and around those districts, whereas much of that for samples from the Goldfield district were obtained by Ashley (1974; 1979; 1990). Additional data were derived from samples collected between 2012–2017, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program funded project titled: “Magmatic-tectonic history...

Categories: Data; Tags: Ar, Divide mining district, Economic Geology, Esmeralda County, Fraction Tuff, All tags... GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Goldfield mining district, Heller Tuff, ICP–AES, ICP–MS, LA-ICPMS, MRP, Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources Program, Nevada, New Mexico Geochronology Research Center, Nye County, Pb, SHRIMP-RG, Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe with Reverse-Geometry, Siebert Tuff, Tonopah mining district, U, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Walker Lane geologic province, argon, geochemistry, geochronology, geoscientificInformation, inductively coupled plasma—atomic emission spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma—mass spectrometry, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma—mass spectrometry, lead, petrography, precious metal deposits, uranium, volcanic rocks, wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Fewer tags