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Proustite from
San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Proustite
Formula:Ag3AsS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Manganese-bearing Calcite3 photos of Proustite associated with Manganese-bearing Calcite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Proustite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Galena1 photo of Proustite associated with Galena at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Proustite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna mining district, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:67289
Long-form Identifier:1:3:67289:8
GUID (UUID V4):85cbabe4-c713-463f-9426-1bc5f35cbabe
Nearest other occurrences of Proustite
14.5km (9.0 miles) Palomo mines, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
TSKnerals of i'eru ! Indian miner, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 1869 (Simonin, 1869). J3E(mes and J3E(merals...crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection; Jeff Scovil............................... History of Peru Mining in Peru The Mineral Specimen Business C o l l e c....................... Quiruvilca district, Santiago de Chuco province, department of La Libertad PASTO.......................... Pasto Bueno district, Pallasca province, department of Ancash R a u r a -H u
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mexico B x years ago this column featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family...important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Peru. When fresh...It is more widespread and far more common than proustite, occurring as an important if not dominant ore...might suggest. It is commonly associated with proustite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite...However, the development of numerous gold and silver mining districts in the westem states during the latter
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs at the Palomo mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru. It is a low-temperature...van der Waals forces, Palomo mine, Peru. Introduction THE mines of Peru have yielded mineral riches for..., 1997). During its years as an active mine, the Palomo mine was not known as a specimen producer; however...cessation of mining operations in 2000, a few independent miners began working the mine for mineral specimens...some of the finest crystals of realgar known from Peru, as well as unusual pseudomorphs of orpiment after
Journal (issue)
Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese
Book
2 . P')76m Purser, W I' C 198T- , • Metal-mining in Peru, put and present 1by1 W. F . C. Purser. New...NIOUro.. Peru. . l. Tltle- TN~9.P8T. . -· ' • 18,50 '18-182'81 Metal-Mining in Peru, Past and...social, and political development. Metal-Mining in Peru, Past and Present -a :'O > m C) m ::D...of the mines of Peru. Part~ of the book sketches the background of Peru and its mining history. The mines...divided into five chapters for the five mining areas of Peru. Part III is concerned with the economic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Proustite DELORES MINE, CHANARCILLO, CHILE 344 ROCKS & MINERALS...pick? I suspect that many of us would choose proustite, the lighter red of the two most familiar members...silver family. The acquisition of even a good proustite specimen in a size larger than a thumbnail is...truly difficult-to-acquire collectible species. Proustite is well known for its scarlet to vermillion color...relatively dense with a specific gravity of about 5.6. Proustite is uniaxial and exhibits strong anisotropism.
Book
Gemstonesof Peru . TO ' ..J.O[_)(ON '\J./ITI1 KY Be-51 R~GAF-P5 f JaroslavHyrsl Gemstonesof...Gemstonesof Peru GRflnil © 2012 Text by Jaroslav Hyr~I © 2012 Photos by Jaroslav Hycll (166), Fidel Salinas...Coll. Z. Rosales. Photo J Hyrsl. 6 Introduction Peru is a country rich in minerals, with numerous very...Crowley et al. (1997) and most recently in the book "Peru, Paradise of Minerals" (Hyrsl et al., 2011 ). N...deals with faceted gemstones, which are very rare in Peru. And finally, the reader can find the bibliography
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3749/canmin.50.1.101 BAUMSTARKITE FROM THE KORYU MINE, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN Arashi KITAKAZE Yamaguchi University...as aggregates of euhedral crystals in the Koryu mine, Hokkaido, Japan. The optical properties, chemical...(2002) based on samples from the San Genaro mine (Huancavelica department, Peru). A crystal structure study...unknown Ag-Sb-As sulfosalt mineral from the Koryu mine in Hokkaido Japan was described as “arsenian aramayoite”...system Ag 2SSb2S3-As2S3 are discussed. The Koryu mine in Hokkaido, Japan, is an epithermal gold-silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rises to 6,272 meters (20,577 feet), Huascaran in Peru is 6,768 meters (22,205 feet), Tocorpuri on the...from placer deposits and mining and smelting oxidized copper ores in central Peru about 1500 B.C. By the...(tucuna), which implies a rudimentary knowledge of mining and mineralogy. The mineral wealth was an integral...Uchucchacua, Peru; emeralds from Muzo, Colombia; pink fluorite and huge pyrites from Huanzala, Peru; 25-cm...pyrargyrites from Hauncavelica, Peru. The combination of awe-inspiring topography, mining, and mineral specimens
Journal (issue)
except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping to get the permit system properly...still very much a 'frontier place'. One supposed mine was started by a character called Otto van Stryk...Stryk who thought he had found a huge iron mine. Alas, he never got any useable ore out of it. Rick went... So now it is recognised as a potential uranium mine! Another anecdote involved a light plane brought...amethyst, fluorapatite and tourmalines. Rossinguranium mine, a uraniferous granite, was also mentioned. Rick
Report (issue)
Himmelsfürst mine, Erbisdorf, near Freiberg, Saxony. From Hiendelaencina, Guadalajara Province, Spain. At...Hecla Rosebud mine, Rosebud district, Pershing Co., and from the Reese River district, Lander Co.; in...in Idaho, in the Poorman mine, Silver City district, Owyhee Co. In Canada, from Cobalt, Ontario. In Bolivia...Atacama, Chile. At San Cristobal, Junin, and in the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica, Peru. From Broken Hill...edition), v. I, 362–366. (2) Toulmin, P. (1963) Proustite–pyrargyrite solid solutions. Amer. Mineral., 48
Report (issue)
= 90.22(2)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: San Genaro mine, Peru; similar to aramayoite. 2.798 (100), 3.425...99.5 (3) 36.72 41.45 21.83 100.00 (1) San Genaro mine, Peru; by electron microprobe, average of 22 analyses;...corresponding to Ag2.97(Sb2.91As0.09)Σ=3.00S6.03. (2) Koryu mine, Hokkaido, Japan; electron microprobe analysis,...hydrothermal hypogene origin coating miargyrite (Peru); in an epithermal goldsilver quartz vein cutting...pyrite (Peru); pyrargyrite-proustite, miargyrite (Japan). Distribution: From the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Assistant Director Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans
Journal (issue)
.89 by W. E. Wilson The Palomo mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .95 by J. Hyršl Pseudomorphs from Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....White Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil . ....BaCa2(CO3)2F2, a new mineral species from the Kirovskii mine, Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Russia . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, atanga, Republic of the Congo. Rob Lavinsky (The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
suggestionsfor this colunrn and c m be from Uchucchacua, Peru. Stuart Wilensky specimen, Jeff Scovil contacted... occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................& A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ...........387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x 3.4 x 1.9cm orders@crystalclassics
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ...........1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...CONVENTION 8c EXPO CENTER APRIL24-26 INESITE HALE CREEK MINE MAD RIVER ROCK, COASTAL RANGE, TRINITY CO., CALIFORNIA
Catalog/List
, £14.00 S. ARAMAYOITE. Sa n GenLlrQ Min8 , Huancavelica , Pe=u. Oright Silvery- grey sharp cryst Llls...C: txtxt" , £20.00 5. AURICHALCITE . wet Groves Mine, Wens leydale , Yorksh ire. Turquoise blue sprays...Specimen C: 1tx1 ", £2.S0p 7. AURICHALCITE . 79 Mine , Gil a Co. , Arizona, U.S .A. ChOice turquoise...C: 1tx1 " ,£2.S0p 9. OAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hi lary , Co r nwall _ Lime green crystalline...11;-x1" , £1.S0~ 2 13. OOULANGERITE . Tres ungers Mine , St . Ende llion , Cornwa ll. Smal l cavities in
Book
MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
Catalog/List
dull reddish proustite crystals and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral...2x2½xt!' $125. 00. 7. GOLD Mina St. Georges, Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite and quartz mat...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue...2¼x2¼xh" $150. 00. 34. BECQUERELITE Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba, Zaire. Superb bone,-yellow to brownisbgolden
Catalog/List
dull reddish proustite crystals and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral...2x2½xt!' $125. 00. 7. GOLD Mina St. Georges, Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite and quartz mat...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue...2¼x2¼xh" $150. 00. 34. BECQUERELITE Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba, Zaire. Superb bone,-yellow to brownisbgolden
Personal Communication
Wilson) 1082 Dept. 82 LIMA 1 - TELF. 239465 PERU 13th September 1983 Dear l\fr Cooper, Thank...reeeived the visit of your colleago.e v;ho is eoming to Peru in September or oetober, but if, ho1ever, you should...pyrite 7 to ..... Tetrahedrite ITicro proustite( 5. 6. Proustite-pyrar[p-itc 1.tiotingo Fyrarfyrite single...crtst~ls UHL pyrite 0thers, .... 10 from San genaro) ✓ 8. 10 2000 15 to 15000 4. Thc .......LCTlU C ' A CASILI.A 2987 LE'If. This 12.tter PERU 1 meo.ns of cor:tm.unj_ction iu ens nti ...
Journal (issue)
tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...Valley. It serves as the center of a very active mining area; a narrow-gauge railway for hauling ore passes...(The name simply means “most distant or remote mining tow n”) HISTORY The area around Dal’negorsk was...the area and purchased the rights to the Verchniy mine. Operations to extract copper, lead and zinc began...mines, and in 1924 the mining rights were sold to a British company, Tetyukhe Mining Corporation. The lease
Journal (issue)
s t twe nty yea rs I o nly mi s sed Miinch e ner Mine ralientage twice a nd have witnessed the changes...morganite tha t had arrived from Pech , Kunar Province. A few m o re purchased in addition to the previous...The locals had a ll worked in num<.:ro us marbl e mine until the recent few mo nth when the govern ment...Asia as a medicina l product. S ince a number of mine ra l dealers were among them, we knew that anything... winds. That evening and the next day we viewed mine rals in Skardu. There was surpris ingly little available
Journal (issue)
& Advertising Manager Thomas P. Moore COVER: PROUSTITE, 3.5 cm, from St Andreasberg. Germany, found in...May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.......................... 302 History 1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315 Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317 Collecting...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany
 
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