The Mercur District: A History of Ut''s Top Gold Camp ...
The individual gold deposits occur as lenses associated with the destruction of carbonate minerals (decalcification) and clay alteration of the limestone host rocks above this basal jasperoid. The most common minerals associated with the gold ore are pyrite, marcasite, orpiment, realgar, barite, stibnite, cinnabar, and a few very rare thallium ...