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PhotosAcanthite - Daybreak Mine, Mount Kit Carson, Spokane Co., Washington, USA
22nd Mar 2012 00:14 UTCKarl Volkman Expert
22nd Mar 2012 02:27 UTCRock Currier Expert
22nd Mar 2012 14:31 UTCBart Cannon
Nothing but white Cenozoic alaskite host (granite) autunite, and purported micron uraninite.
The Midnite Mine on the Spokane Indian Reservation, 70 or so miles away had a far more complex mineralogy with sulfides, but no acanthite. It is hosted in Proterozoic schists. As I have mentioned in the past noted indian author and filmaker from Wellpinit on the Spokane Reservation wrote a poem about being able to "smell the uranium" on the Rez. He was smelling oxidizing pyrite. I corrected him, and he corrected his poem.
Just over the hill from the Midnite Mine is the Queen Seal Mine. Fracture surfaces there contain native silver and blebby xls of acanthite along with a suite of other silver minerals.
Bart
22nd Mar 2012 19:39 UTCRock Currier Expert
I have added your comments to the caption of the acanthite and silver specimen in question in the Smithsonian Institute.
22nd Mar 2012 21:52 UTCBart Cannon
It would interesting to learn who sold or traded the acanthite to the Smithsonian, and who was the curator at the time.
Bart
20th Apr 2012 16:50 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
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20th Apr 2012 19:57 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
21st Apr 2012 03:06 UTCRock Currier Expert
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