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Acanthite from
Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Silverⓘ1 photo of Acanthite associated with Silver at this locality.
Arsenopyriteⓘ1 photo of Acanthite associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13002
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13002:8
GUID (UUID V4):4c5d1b0e-e727-4deb-824d-4901e16149d5
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
27.1km (16.8 miles) ⓘHellyer-Que River Mines, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
33.5km (20.8 miles) ⓘWilson River mineral field, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
34.1km (21.2 miles) ⓘHampshire Silver Mine, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania, Australia
38.3km (23.8 miles) ⓘRosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
39.2km (24.4 miles) ⓘRenison Bell Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
49.5km (30.8 miles) ⓘOonah Mine, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
49.7km (30.9 miles) ⓘRed Lead Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
51.0km (31.7 miles) ⓘSpray Mine, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
70.0km (43.5 miles) ⓘMount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
70.3km (43.7 miles) ⓘPrince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Queenstown district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Corporate Document (Series)
A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker...Baker Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources E>...rossi'oilittes PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone (03) 6233 8377 Fax (03) 6233 8338 Email info@mrt...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrttas.gov.au ŠCopyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved
Journal (issue)
Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 1, Number 1 June 1995...Feature Articles: The Minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania... 3 f. Haupt, R. Bottrill & S. Sorrell...Some mines of the Mt Isa District, Queensland Part 1 - The Great Australia Mine ........... 23 B. Day &...Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria resolved to pro­ duce a mineralogical...your collection: Cape Grim zeolites, Sir Dominic Mine azur­ ites or Whim Creek wulfenites, to mention
Survey Bulletin 73 A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill...Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ŠCopyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved...the publisher in writing. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Bottrill, R
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Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia
Journal (issue)
F. L. Sutherland & G. Webb Minerals of western Tasmania ................................................the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ..............................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land
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ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1ďż˝):9-11 Definition... A. 2(1):21-24 Heulandite from the Illawarra District, NSW. Carr, P., Perkins, M., Chenhall, B., Pemberton...Minerals from. tďż˝ Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70...2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell, S. 1(1):3-19...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenic in amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite...reported. It occurs as an alteration product of acanthite, dyscrasite, and silver. Pyrargyrite is relatively...suggest. It is commonly associated with proustite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite, polybasite...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
Journal (issue)
stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series...recent find is certainly notable. From the Boldul Mine in Cavnic there was a find of attractive calcit
Journal (issue)
Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting but the rain twice wiped out those...also had a 7 by 9 cm mottled with white point from Magnet Cove. No small rounded brookite crystals, but it...not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will...erroneous detailed location data. The Sweet Surrender mine near Story is located near the northwest end of...Show. We might have done better buying a bucket of mine run quartz and cleaned it at home. These run from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
16 August 2017 A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker; Tasmanian Geological...description of all minerals known to occur in Tasmania complete with many color photographs, maps, appendices...Geology of Tasmania” (complete with a full-page color geologic map) and “Mining in Tasmania.” There follows...better known Tasmanian occurrences, such as Magnet mine, Mount Bishoff, Mount Lyell, and Heazlewood,...mineralogy scattered throughout. For example, Magnet mine minerals are mentioned on no less than 63 pages
Journal (issue)
were some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army...Army had closed the area in the 1940s. The "mine" was really a prospect as it consisted of a trench cut through
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Proustite DELORES MINE, CHANARCILLO, CHILE 344 ROCKS & MINERALS I ... 3 3 3 3 3 3 Figure I. Proustite, Delores mine, Chanarcillo, Chile. Chanarcillo proustites are...most desirable for the species, and the Delores mine is the best known of the old workings there with...Banner district, Boise County; the Lava Creek dis­ trict, Butte County; the Atlanta district, Elmore...County, Idaho. One such mass, found in the Poorman mine, weighed approximately 500 pounds and exhibited
Book
com Australian agent/distributor: Pan Macmillan Australia; tel. 1300 135 113; fax 1300 135 103; customer...out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural...thicker E.g barite, linante. r& iJ NDE RSTA NDING MINE RAL S MI NERAL PROPERTIES: PHYSICAL Every 1nineral...'Malleable' minerals like native copper, gold and acanthite (below) can be harnmered into sheets. 'Sectile'...nberlites of South Africa and the lamproites of Australia. Above: Diamonds look unremarkable when rough
Catalog/List
(2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm) 81B06 STILPNOMELANE, Sterling Mine, Antwerp, N.Y. (a) very nice (7 x 11 cm) Botryoidal...millerite spray) ••• $20.00 81B07 CHALCOCITE, Magma Mine, Superior, Arizona. Sharp (1 mm) chalcocite crystals...KIMZEYITE (Garnet), Ca zr (Si0)~. Kimzey Farm, Magnet Cove, Arkansas. (a) single 3 2 black 1-2 mm kimzeyite...above more than one crystal •.. $22.50 81B12 ACANTHITE, Ag s, Saint Andreasberg, Harz Mts., East Germany...Germany. (a) excellent 2 x 2 3 x 2 cm acanthite paramorphic after argentite crystal cluster. Cuba-octahedral
Catalog/List
price paid for the mineral(s). CTINCX..ITE: M179. Mine Mompti, Spain; (a) rich vuggy intergrown prisms...an rock; 1.5-3 cm-$1.50 NHYDRITE: M204. Campiano Mine, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy; good for species; pale...shaped rock; 6xS.3x3-S12.50 -~ AUTUNITE:M95. Oaybreak Mine, Spokane, Washington; (a) 5 xls & groups, 1-1 .8...(e) 6x3.6x1 .5-$20.00 AZURITE:M37. United Verde Mine, Jerome, Arizona; (a) lustrous ball af intergrcwn...intergrcwn xls; 1 .B-3.2 cm-$2.25 M65. Hanover Mine, near Fierro, New Mexico; (a) T/N; nice balls to rosettes
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A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
Journal (issue)
Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...Texas 77036 Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite...collecting locality for brookite and smoky quartz in Magnet Cove for many years. The exploration for vanadium...zone during exploration drilling at the Brewer Gold Mine in South Carolina in the early I990s. Those crystals...Arkansas minerals occur. with most quartz, localities. Magnet Cove., etc., only $14.95 plus $1.50 s&h. order
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July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, John...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht...see Twentieth Rochester Mineralogical Symposium Acanthite, 25 Actinolite, Colorado, 302 Aegirine, Arkansas...Colemanite, 367 Collecting Microminerals at Cove Creek, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, A. E. Smith, Jr., 180-85 Collecting...India, 248-50; Uranocircite, Sao Pedro Mine, Malacacheta District, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 320-22; Vivianite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Martha and 700 m at Karangahake. Electrum and acanthite are the main ore minerals, although pyrite, sphalerite...veins in 1861 in what was to become the Kapanga mine (Fig. 2, Table 1). Prospecting elsewhere in the...ended with the closure of the underground Martha mine at Waihi in 1952, although Maratoto and Tui were...gold mining began in 1988 with the Martha open-pit mine at Waihi, which to December 2006 has produced 55...currently under development as an underground Au-Ag mine with an indicated plus inferred resource of 18,468
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
average•4S valuesfor the sulfidesand sulfosaltsin the Magnet Cove depositare all negative, ranging from -0.97•...large massive cryptocrystallinebarite body in the Magnet Cove depositoriginatedmainly by replacementof beddedgypsumand...circulating brines. The sulfidesand sulfosaltsin the Magnet Cove depositappear to have been derived from sulfate...The Missi,ssippianrocks consist of a mine is the Magnet Cove mine developedon the de749 lower series...Dmeston• do/om/•e, TENNYCAPE F• sandy.•ha/o • MAGNET COVE EVAPORATE FM anhvdr•te MA CUMBER FMS '
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CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sé ... CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold...Classic mineral localities of the world, Asia and Australia. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and...resources—Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Australia. 3. Mines and mineral resources—Soviet Union
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
name but a few, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite...tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, ConcepciĂłn del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and...exceptional 9-cm tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave...fingers black if handled carelessly. The Georgetown district, also in Clear Creek County, has produced some...gotten to them.) From the Yankee Girl mine, Silverton district, San Juan County, tennantite has been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are indexed. Ablykite. (Sedletzky, Yussupova). Acanthite, crystal system and unit cell. (Ramsdell).. ....liquids. 299 Bowley, H Boxhole meteoritic iron, Australia. (Madigan, man) 829 JTJ central Alder154 INDEX...Carbonate-apatites. III. Carbonateapatite from Magnet Cove, Arkansas. (McConnell, Gruner) Cascade andesites...Chkalovite. (Gerasimovsky) 311 Chuquicamata copper mine. (Head) 377 Cinnabar, spectrographic study of...tonite. . with McConnell, D. Carbonate-apatite from Magnet C o v e , A r k a n s a s . . . .. .. . . . . 1
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Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...secondary cementation origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...County, California, USA and in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Fine dendritic aggregates occurred in the Hope's
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CHALMERS, Cuwrator, Australian Museum, Sydney, AUSTRALIA & ROCK CURRIER, photographer and collector, Ardsley...U.S. A. ye ALBERT CHAPMAN, collector, Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum...stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal
 
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