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Pearceite from
San Carlos Mine, La Luz, Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pearceite
Formula:[Ag6As2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pearceite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Carlos Mine, La Luz, Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:117788
Long-form Identifier:1:3:117788:6
GUID (UUID V4):fc274d38-70bc-4eb8-8226-5f303175c986
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 15:54 20 December 2014 FOR WHICH MEXICO IS THE TYPE LOCALITY MALCOLM E. BACK JOSEPH A...sixty valid mineral species first described from Mexico. This article consists of two lists: the first...two other minerals were originally described from Mexico. One of these, bustamite, is a valid species, but...material from a non-Mexican locality. “Percylite” from Mexico was described, but it is considered a dubious mineral...thr the liftern minerals found at the Moctezuma. mine, Moctezuma. Sonorti. We have tried to eliminate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
“new” silver mineral specimens on the market. Only Mexico, Peru, and, to a lesser extent, Kazahkstan have...Himmelsfurst, and the Elizabeth. In 1521, Spain conquered Mexico, and the world’s economy changed forever. In a...at Taxco, Pachuca, Zacatecas, Fresnillo, and Guanajuato were discovered. In 1535, Pizarro conquered Peru...World will never be known, but from 1500 to 1800 Mexico had probably produced one-third of the total silver...developments in silver mining occurred at Pachuca, Mexico. In 1550, a merchant from Seville named Bartolome
Report (issue)
09 c = 7.76 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Guanajuato, Mexico. 2.43 (100), 2.88 (50), 1.48 (40), 2.23 (30)...City, Idaho, USA. (2) Guanajuato, Mexico. (3) San Carlos mine, Guanajuato, Mexico; by electron microprobe...proustite, pearceite, calcite, quartz. Distribution: In Mexico, from Guanajuato, in the San Carlos mine [TL]...[TL] and others; at the Chontalpan mine, Taxco, Guerrero. In the USA, in Idaho, from Silver City, Owyhee...Owyhee Co., and at the 4th of July mine, Yankee Fork, Custer Co.; from the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Storey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GuanaiuatoMining District, Mexico* W. PETRUK AND D. Owens Abstract The silver ores in the Guanajuato mining district...district in Mexico consistof disseminated silver sulfides,selenides,and electrum in quartz-calciteveins and...Tt•. ores in the Guanajuatomining district, Guanajuato, Mexico, occur as mineralized quartz-calcite veinsand...diameter. It consistsof gray quartz, cal(3) the La Luz vein system(Fig. 1). Three types cite, nontronite...samples from the Cebadamine are specimensof high-grade mine (two of type 2 and two of type 3 ore in the silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and J. A. Mandarino. 1999. Minerals for which Mexico is the type locality. Rocks & Minerals 74:12-14...locality is the San Carlos mine, Guanajuato. Ponciano Aguilar was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and also died...the construction of the La Esperanza dam and the tunnel in the city of Guanajuato. He was 0 f the many...many people honored by having minerals from Mexico named for them, I have prepared biographical sketches...either Mexican by birth or who worked extensively in Mexico. The only one about whom little or no information
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...Berkshire RG 11 2PY, England Yan Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i
Book
anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...Berkshire RG11 2PY, England Van Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...del Castillo’s Cuadro de Especies Mineraloégicas; Carlos F de Landero’s Sinopsis Mineralogica and Catalogo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGIST, VOL .52,SEPTEMBER OCTOBER, 1967 THE PEARCEITE AND POLYBASITE SERIES1 H. T. H.r.r.r.,Department...phases are end members of two distinct series: pearceite-antimonpearceiteand polybasite-arsenpolybasite...7.6 weight percent copper at 200'C. Synthetic pearceite is homogeneousfrom 5.5 to 19.7 weight percent...that found in natural material. INtnooucrroN Pearceite and polvbasite, with similar pseudohexagonalor...of the specific properties of polybasite and pearceite are known, there are still some gaps and uncertainties
Book
K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits...Hermosillo District ... Alamos District ........ San Bernardo Area Alistos District ........... Magdelena...Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 17:35 07 October 2014 Fresniflo, Zacatecas, Mexico B x years ago this column featured proustite...mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Peru. When fresh, pyrargyrite...in the early years of mining in the Jo Reynolds mine and in smaller though well-formed crystals in the...the siliceous vein exploited in the Nabob mine at Lawson, Clear Creek County. Bastin (1923) reported crystals...occurring locally in vuggy masses, in the Cortland mine, Gunnison County. Both pyrargyrite and proustite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 92, pages 918–925, 2007 The pearceite-polybasite group of minerals: Crystal chemistry...di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy Laboratoire de Chimie...IMN, UMR C6502 CNRS, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP32229, 44322 Nantes CEDEX 3, France...existing nomenclature for minerals belonging to the pearceite-polybasite group. Thirty-one samples of minerals...of polytypes and for all members to be named pearceite or polybasite. The main reason for doubling the
Book (volume)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, MEXICO The Geology of North America O r > W 4^ *1^ ^ ^ \ \ f ax4 u \ \...of North America Volume P-3 Economic Geology^ Mexico Edited by Guillermo P. Salas Geologo Consultor...Centro Minero Nacional Carretera Mexico-Pachuca Pachuca, Hgo., Mexico, D.F. 1991 EXPLORATION LIBRARY...reserved. Geologia economica de Mexico. English. Economic geology, Mexico / edited by Guillermo P. Salas...; v. P-3) Translation of Geologia economica de Mexico. Includes bibliography references and index. ISBN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Orléans Cedex 2, France A. Chauvet (*) Dynamique de la Lithosphère, CNRS-UMR 5573, University of Montpellier...te–galena–tennantite–tetrahedrite–polybasite–pearceite– electrum assemblage. The ore in the main veins...Fault Mineralized vein Caldera margin Lake Main mine Village / Town 70˚W Fig. 1 Simplified geologic...lla jata ayo alipam Qda. C 8 300 000 N SHILA MINE CONCENTRATE MILL COLPA SHILA AREA lle ue aq... 1995; Jannas 1998), apart from the Suyckutambo mine and the recently discovered Chipmo and Poracota
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
­Ag2S0.5Se0.5, was described from the San Carlos Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, considered as its type locality...3Se0.7–Ag2Se series. Minerals of t he polybasite–pearceite ser ies ([(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7][Ag9CuS4]) are sulfosalts...have been mined for sulfides, e.g., at the Kisgruva mine (Fig. 1). The fahlbands Phase Symmetry T stability...Løve Mine, 2: Herzog Ulrich Mine and Johannes Mine, 3: Hellige Trefoldighets Mine, 4: Kisgruva Mine are...sample, which was collected from the Herzog Ulrich Mine in the central-eastern part of the district (Fig
Journal (issue)
microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam­ beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...Show on Saturday, February 13, 1999. Minerals of Mexico were the feature of the 1999 Tucson Show and the...the subject of the 1999 Mineral Symposium. Mexico has a mining specimen collecting history dating back...preeminent geologic research­ ers of Mexico, that set the geologic stage for Mexico and provided a framework for
Report (issue)
Mexicana in the following issues of the Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Volumen Conmemorativo...Tectónicas de México, and no. 2, Aspectos Históricos de la Geología en México, edited by Susana A. Álaniz-Alvarez...F. Nieto-Samaniego; and no. 3, Temas Selectos de la Geología Mexicana, edited by Ángel F. Nieto-Samaniego...Geology—Mexico. 2. Geology, Structural—Mexico. 3. Faults (Geology)—Mexico. 4. Ore deposits—Mexico. I. Alaniz-Álvarez.... . 233 R.S. Molina-Garza and A. Iriondo 8. The San Marcos fault: A Jurassic multireactivated basement
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Taewha mine, K orea...........................................The Collector’s Library, part III: Minerals of Mexico .................................................WULFENITE with mimetitefrom the San Francisco mine near Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. The large crystal is 28 mm...Australian Imports (San Diego, CA) Baltimore Mineral Society (Baltimore, MD) Carlos do Prado do Barbosa...Tom Daugherty (Covington, KY) Dawson’s Minerals (San Marcos, CA) D yck’s Minerals (Mililani, HA) Mercedes
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...Dendritic aggregates from Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, reached up to 150 mm (6 in). Crystals and aggregates...to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...Dendritic aggregates from Batopilas, Chihuahua, .Mexico, reached up to 150 mm (6 in). Crystals and aggregates...to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Journal (issue)
Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...during the warm season. Only a watchman stays at the mine through the winter. Last year, the teamleader Vasilii...georgines - the flowers which he brought to Russia from Mexico. The next contribution to the seminary's Mineralogical...in the Urals, in the settlement of the Frolovskoe Mine, a subsidiary o f the Bogoslovsk Works. His name...1930 during aeroplane photography. Green Monster Mine, Prince of Wales isl.: !1 epidote; limonite after
Journal (issue)
on p. 79 Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California......................the Blanchard mine or other mines in the Hansonburg mining district near Bingham, New Mexico, should be...signed in at Bingham for entry to the Blanchard mine area for surface collecting. Underground collecting...strictly prohibited due to the hazardous nature of the mine workings, and visitors are required to acknowledge...agreement to collect in the area. The Blanchard mine will be closed to the general public until further
Journal (issue)
Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith...silver mines at all in Asia. He does mention a silver mine in Macedonia that used to yield a talent of the...January-February, 1986 Figure 2. Interior of a German silver mine, 1830s. Photo Deutsches Museum, Miinchen. hillside...Wieden Near the village of Wieden is the old Anton mine, records of which date to 1786 (though mining in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isom0rphous with wol]astonite. From Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Prepared artificially by S. Hilpert and P. Weiller...schistose locks near the source of the San Benito River, in San Benito Co., California. Bityite. A. Lacroix...supposed new mineral, found with benitoite (% v.) in San Benito Co., California, which was very soon afterwards...with the neptunite of Greenland. Named from the San Carlos peak, one of the highest points in the locality...contact-metamorphic limestone at Velardefla, Durango, Mexico. Named after Dr. William Francis Hillebrand, of
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...ASG -Archives de Science Geneve BM - Bulletin de la Societe fram;aise de mineralogie et de cristallographie... at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO Mexico, at Kellogg, Shoshone...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald...weakly = = l = = = = brerete, Zacatecas, Mexico. In small crystals at Jachymov, Bohemia, Czech
Book (edition)
a bolcite crystal. Boleo, Baja Califomia Sur, Mexico. Drawing by R. Peter Richards. Preface As I writc...Potassium Praseodymium Radium Radon H In I Ir Fe Kr La Pb Li Lu Mg Mn Hg Mo Nd Ne Ni Nb N Os 0 Pd p Pt ...ASJS,\' Arc:hil-1.•s de Science G,•111.½·e Atti de/la Sod,•ta ltalicma di Scienze Natura/i e del Museo...Bulletin de fa Societe Beige de Geologie 8111/elinde la Societe franraise de Mineralogie 8111/etincie fa...STP CRHSASP Comptes Rendu Academie des Sciences de la terres et des p/anetes Chemica/ Lellers (Japan)
 
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