Gold - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Gold R070279

Name: Gold
RRUFF ID: R070279
Ideal Chemistry: Au
Locality: Agua Fria Canyon Mine, Mariposa County, California, USA
Source: Michael Scott S104564 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Metallic gold yellow thin nugget
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Copper (13) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R070279.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Au_0.985Ag_0.010Cu_0.005)_Σ=1
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample; no Raman activity because of crystal symmetry

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R070279

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample; no Raman activity because of crystal symmetry

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R070279.1

Sample Description:

Hammered into thin foil

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.0792(2)Å b: 4.0792(2)Å c: 4.0792(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 67.879(9)Å³ Crystal System: cubic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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	Cell Refinement Data
	Cell Refinement Output Data
	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
	RRUFF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Gold
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]
Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]
Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]
Boyle R W (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh annual meeting: Origin of the gold and silver in the gold deposits of the Meguma Series, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 662-662 [view file]
Cabri L J, Rucklidge J C (1968) Gold-silver tellurides: Relation between composition and X-ray diffraction data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 547-551 [view file]
Wells J D, Mullens T E (1973) Gold-bearing arsenian pyrite determined by microprobe analysis, Cortez and Carlin Gold mines, Nevada, Economic Geology, 68, 187-201
Crocket J H, Teruta Y (1976) Pt, Pd, Au, and Ir content of Kelley Lake bottom sediments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 58-61 [view file]
Toma S A, Murphy S (1978) Exsolution of gold from detrital platinum-group metal grains in the Witwatersrand auriferous conglomerates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 641-650 [view file]
Naldrett A J, Hoffman E L, Green A H, Chou C L, Naldrett S R, Alcock R A (1979) The composition of Ni–sulfide ores, with particular reference to their content of PGE and Au, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 403-415 [view file]
Dupuy C, Dostal J, Leblanc M (1981) Distribution of copper and gold in ophiolites from New Caledonia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 225-232 [view file]
Shikazono N, Shimizu M (1988) Mercurian gold from the Tsugu gold-antimony vein deposit in Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 423-428 [view file]
Suh I-K, Ohta H, Waseda Y (1988) High-temperature thermal expansion of six metallic elements measured by dilatation method and X-ray diffraction, Journal of Materials Science, 23, 757-760
Crocket J H (1990) Noble metals in seafloor hydrothermal mineralization from the Juan de Fuca and Mid-Atlantic ridges: a fractionation of gold from platinum metals in hydrothermal fluids, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 639-648 [view file]
Groen J C, Craig J R, Rimstidt J D (1990) Gold-rich rim formation on electrum grains in placers, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 207-228 [view file]
Honma H, Shikazono N, Nakata M (1991) Hydrothermal synthesis of gold, electrum and argentite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 217-221 [view file]
Stone W E, Fleet M E, Crocket J H, Kingston D M (1992) Platinum-group minerals in pyroxenite from the Boston Creek flow basaltic komatiite, Abitibi greenstone belt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 109-119 [view file]
Wood S A, Mountain B W, Pan P (1992) The aqueous geochemistry of platinum, palladium and gold: recent experimental constraints and a re-evaluation of theoretical predictions, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 955-982 [view file]
Neumayr P, Cabri L J, Groves D I, Mikucki E J, Jackman J A (1993) The mineralogical distribution of gold and relative timing of gold mineralization in two Archean settings of high metamorphic grade in Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 711-725 [view file]
Hannington M D, Tivey M K, Larocque A C L, Peterson S, Rona P A (1995) The occurrence of gold in sulfide deposits of the TAG Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1285-1310 [view file]
Sheets R W, Craig J R, Bodnar R J (1995) Composition and occurrence of electrum at the Morning Star deposit, San Bernardino County, California: evidence for remobilization of gold and silver, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 137-151 [view file]
Arne D C, Bierlein F P, McNaughton N, Wilson C J L, Morand V J (1998) Timing of gold mineralisation in western and central Victoria, Australia: New constraints from SHRIMP II analysis of zircon grains from felsic intrusive rocks, Ore Geology Review, 13, 251-273
Cabri L J, Newville M, Gordon R A, Crozier E D, Sutton S R, McMahon G, Jiang D T (2000) Chemical speciation of gold in arsenopyrite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1265-1281 [view file]
Steele I M, Cabri L J, Gaspar J C, McMahon G, Marquez M A, Vasconcellos M A Z (2000) Comparative analysis of sulfides for gold using SXRF and SIMS, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1-10 [view file]
Arne D C, Bierlein F P, Morgan J W, Stein H J (2001) Re-Os dating of sulfides associated with gold mineralization in central Victoria, Australia, Economic Geology, 96, 1455-1459
Palacios C, Hérail G, Townley B, Maksaev V, Sepúlveda F, de Parseval P, Rivas P, Lahsen A, Parada M A (2001) The composition of gold in the Cerro Casale gold-rich porphyry deposit, Maricunga Belt, northern Chile, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 907-915 [view file]
Carrillo Rosúa F J, Morales Ruano S, Fenoll Hach-Ali P (2002) The three generations of gold in the Palai-Islica epithermal deposit, southeastern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1465-1481 [view file]
Arehart G B, Chakurian A M, Tretbar D R, Christensen J N, McInnes B A, Donelick R A (2003) Evaluation of radioisotope dating of Carlin-type deposits in the Great Basin, western North America, and implications for deposit genesis, Economic Geology, 98, 235-248
Cabral A R, Lehmann B, Kwitko-Ribeiro R, Jones R D, Rocha Filho O G (2003) On the association of palladium-bearing gold, hematite, and gypsum in an Ouro Preto nugget, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 473-478 [view file]
Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]
Baker D E L, Seccombe P K (2004) Physical conditions of gold deposition at the McPhees deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1405-1424 [view file]
Márquez-Zavalía M F, Southam G, Craig J R, Galliski M A (2004) Morphological and chemical study of placer gold from the San Luis Range, Argentina, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 169-182 [view file]
McClenaghan S H, Lentz D R, Cabri L J (2004) Abundance and speciation of gold in massive sulfides of the Bathurst mining camp, New Brunswick, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 851-871 [view file]
Reich M, Kesler S E, Utsunomiya S, Palenik C S, Chryssoulis S L, Ewing R C (2005) Solubility of gold in arsenian pyrite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 2781-2796
Thibault Y, Pratt A R (2011) An assessment of the potential benefits of ion implants as trace-element reference material for electron probe X-ray microanalysis: The case of invisible gold, American Mineralogist, 96, 53-59 [view file]
Ciobanu C L, Cook N J, Utsunomiya S, Kogagwa M, Green L, Gilbert S, Wade B (2012) Gold-telluride nanoparticles revealed in arsenic-free pyrite, American Mineralogist, 97, 1515-1518 [view file]
Gill S B, Piercey S J, Layton-Matthews D (2016) Mineralogy and metal zoning of the Cambrian Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1307-1344
Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) Inclusions in an isoferroplatinum nugget from the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 577–592

REFERENCES for Gold

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]

Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]

Boyle R W (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh annual meeting: Origin of the gold and silver in the gold deposits of the Meguma Series, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 662-662 [view file]

Cabri L J, Rucklidge J C (1968) Gold-silver tellurides: Relation between composition and X-ray diffraction data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 547-551 [view file]

Wells J D, Mullens T E (1973) Gold-bearing arsenian pyrite determined by microprobe analysis, Cortez and Carlin Gold mines, Nevada, Economic Geology, 68, 187-201

Crocket J H, Teruta Y (1976) Pt, Pd, Au, and Ir content of Kelley Lake bottom sediments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 58-61 [view file]

Toma S A, Murphy S (1978) Exsolution of gold from detrital platinum-group metal grains in the Witwatersrand auriferous conglomerates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 641-650 [view file]

Naldrett A J, Hoffman E L, Green A H, Chou C L, Naldrett S R, Alcock R A (1979) The composition of Ni–sulfide ores, with particular reference to their content of PGE and Au, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 403-415 [view file]

Dupuy C, Dostal J, Leblanc M (1981) Distribution of copper and gold in ophiolites from New Caledonia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 225-232 [view file]

Shikazono N, Shimizu M (1988) Mercurian gold from the Tsugu gold-antimony vein deposit in Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 423-428 [view file]

Suh I-K, Ohta H, Waseda Y (1988) High-temperature thermal expansion of six metallic elements measured by dilatation method and X-ray diffraction, Journal of Materials Science, 23, 757-760

Crocket J H (1990) Noble metals in seafloor hydrothermal mineralization from the Juan de Fuca and Mid-Atlantic ridges: a fractionation of gold from platinum metals in hydrothermal fluids, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 639-648 [view file]

Groen J C, Craig J R, Rimstidt J D (1990) Gold-rich rim formation on electrum grains in placers, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 207-228 [view file]

Honma H, Shikazono N, Nakata M (1991) Hydrothermal synthesis of gold, electrum and argentite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 217-221 [view file]

Stone W E, Fleet M E, Crocket J H, Kingston D M (1992) Platinum-group minerals in pyroxenite from the Boston Creek flow basaltic komatiite, Abitibi greenstone belt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 109-119 [view file]

Wood S A, Mountain B W, Pan P (1992) The aqueous geochemistry of platinum, palladium and gold: recent experimental constraints and a re-evaluation of theoretical predictions, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 955-982 [view file]

Neumayr P, Cabri L J, Groves D I, Mikucki E J, Jackman J A (1993) The mineralogical distribution of gold and relative timing of gold mineralization in two Archean settings of high metamorphic grade in Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 711-725 [view file]

Hannington M D, Tivey M K, Larocque A C L, Peterson S, Rona P A (1995) The occurrence of gold in sulfide deposits of the TAG Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1285-1310 [view file]

Sheets R W, Craig J R, Bodnar R J (1995) Composition and occurrence of electrum at the Morning Star deposit, San Bernardino County, California: evidence for remobilization of gold and silver, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 137-151 [view file]

Arne D C, Bierlein F P, McNaughton N, Wilson C J L, Morand V J (1998) Timing of gold mineralisation in western and central Victoria, Australia: New constraints from SHRIMP II analysis of zircon grains from felsic intrusive rocks, Ore Geology Review, 13, 251-273

Cabri L J, Newville M, Gordon R A, Crozier E D, Sutton S R, McMahon G, Jiang D T (2000) Chemical speciation of gold in arsenopyrite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1265-1281 [view file]

Steele I M, Cabri L J, Gaspar J C, McMahon G, Marquez M A, Vasconcellos M A Z (2000) Comparative analysis of sulfides for gold using SXRF and SIMS, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1-10 [view file]

Arne D C, Bierlein F P, Morgan J W, Stein H J (2001) Re-Os dating of sulfides associated with gold mineralization in central Victoria, Australia, Economic Geology, 96, 1455-1459

Palacios C, Hérail G, Townley B, Maksaev V, Sepúlveda F, de Parseval P, Rivas P, Lahsen A, Parada M A (2001) The composition of gold in the Cerro Casale gold-rich porphyry deposit, Maricunga Belt, northern Chile, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 907-915 [view file]

Carrillo Rosúa F J, Morales Ruano S, Fenoll Hach-Ali P (2002) The three generations of gold in the Palai-Islica epithermal deposit, southeastern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1465-1481 [view file]

Arehart G B, Chakurian A M, Tretbar D R, Christensen J N, McInnes B A, Donelick R A (2003) Evaluation of radioisotope dating of Carlin-type deposits in the Great Basin, western North America, and implications for deposit genesis, Economic Geology, 98, 235-248

Cabral A R, Lehmann B, Kwitko-Ribeiro R, Jones R D, Rocha Filho O G (2003) On the association of palladium-bearing gold, hematite, and gypsum in an Ouro Preto nugget, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 473-478 [view file]

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]

Baker D E L, Seccombe P K (2004) Physical conditions of gold deposition at the McPhees deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1405-1424 [view file]

Márquez-Zavalía M F, Southam G, Craig J R, Galliski M A (2004) Morphological and chemical study of placer gold from the San Luis Range, Argentina, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 169-182 [view file]

McClenaghan S H, Lentz D R, Cabri L J (2004) Abundance and speciation of gold in massive sulfides of the Bathurst mining camp, New Brunswick, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 851-871 [view file]

Reich M, Kesler S E, Utsunomiya S, Palenik C S, Chryssoulis S L, Ewing R C (2005) Solubility of gold in arsenian pyrite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 2781-2796

Thibault Y, Pratt A R (2011) An assessment of the potential benefits of ion implants as trace-element reference material for electron probe X-ray microanalysis: The case of invisible gold, American Mineralogist, 96, 53-59 [view file]

Ciobanu C L, Cook N J, Utsunomiya S, Kogagwa M, Green L, Gilbert S, Wade B (2012) Gold-telluride nanoparticles revealed in arsenic-free pyrite, American Mineralogist, 97, 1515-1518 [view file]

Gill S B, Piercey S J, Layton-Matthews D (2016) Mineralogy and metal zoning of the Cambrian Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1307-1344

Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) Inclusions in an isoferroplatinum nugget from the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 577–592