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Acanthite from
Socorro Mine, Alisos, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Socorro Mine, Alisos, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:130424
Long-form Identifier:1:3:130424:4
GUID (UUID V4):9d6cc9c7-0b1d-4e4d-bbd0-f53bb439fcbe
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.0km (0.0 miles) ⓘSanta Sophia Mine, Alisos, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.1km (5.6 miles) ⓘSan Miguel Mine, Satevó, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.9km (6.2 miles) ⓘSan Rafael Mine, Cerro San Antonio, San Miguel, Batopilas, AndrĂ©s del Rio mining district, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.9km (6.2 miles) ⓘNew Nevada Mine (Nevada Valenciana), Cerro San Antonio, San Miguel, Batopilas, AndrĂ©s del Rio mining district, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.9km (6.2 miles) ⓘBatopilas, AndrĂ©s del Rio mining district, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.9km (6.2 miles) ⓘSanto Domingo Mine, Cerro San Antonio, San Miguel, Batopilas, AndrĂ©s del Rio mining district, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.9km (6.2 miles) ⓘSan Nestor Mine, Cerro de los Tajos, San Miguel, Batopilas, AndrĂ©s del Rio mining district, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
31.2km (19.4 miles) ⓘRosario Mine, Urique, Urique Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
34.3km (21.3 miles) ⓘBolivar Mine, Urique Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
40.7km (25.3 miles) ⓘCieneguita Mine, Urique Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wire Silver Kongsberg, Norway Wire Gold Ground Hog Mine, Gilman, Colorado S ince the dawn of civilization...4. Wire gold, 11.7 cm tall, from the Ground Hog mine, Gillman district, Eagle County, Colorado. Harvard...calcite, and other gangue minerals including acanthite, graphite, pyrite, galena, and silver-antimony...Schneeberg (Lieber and Leyerzapf 1986). The HimmelsfĂŒrst mine in the Freiberg district, for example, has produced...specimens exceeding 10 cm in length. St. Andreasberg, a mine in the Harz Mountains that has yielded some very
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :Ÿ MEXICO r - ·‹-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < ‱‱ ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO ‱ ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...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...i.. is deJicated tu the people of Mexico and to the three people who directly affected me and this project
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
untarreplaced by various silver halides, ruby silvers, acanthite, and stephanite are known. Similarly, silver has... 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
Book
anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...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...Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of Dana’s Tratado de Mineralogia...a. ie = Maes Lie Auadado = ae MINERALS OF MEXICO Vv | Oona tA. IMPORTANT MINING DISTRICTS
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
Journal (issue)
localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson Batopilas Famous mineral localities:...localities: the Batopilas District, Chihuahua, M e x ic o ................................................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
Journal (issue)
(rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been...ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the
Journal (issue)
particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)... Figure 20. An engraving of the School of Mines in Mexico City, opened in 1795, from Calderon de la Barca
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico VIRGIL W. LUETH,† New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New...New Mexico 87801 PETER K.M. MEGAW, IMDEX, Inc., Tucson, Arizona 85728 NICHOLAS E. PINGITORE, AND PHILIP...West camps of the Santa Eulalia district, Chihuahua, Mexico. The silver occurs as a coupled substitution...district of northern Mexico (Fig. 1). Other silverbearing phases include minor acanthite and rare occurrences...geochemical, and metal zoning at the San Antonio mine in the East camp and their results were incorporated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S. DEMARK...New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico mineral-specimen...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia...(1979-91), some of which have been published in New Mexico Geology, were also extensively used for current
Book (volume)
INDEX Acanthite La Sirena Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 18 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi...Malachite) Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, 60 (on Malachite) Milipilas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 56 (with Malachite)...Malachite) Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona, 31 Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 46 Beryl (see also Aquamarine...Linopolis Dist., Minas Gerais, Brazil, 37 Calcite 884 Mine, Huangpolong, near Leiping, Guangxi Prov., Prov...Prov., China, 8 (on Barite with Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee, 29, (on Barite) 55 (Manganocalcite)
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Book (volume)
ERAL INDEX Acanthite San Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango...Durango, Mexico, 47 (Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite...Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39 Barite...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee...India, 40 (on Copper) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 49 Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Pref,, Yunnan
Journal (issue)
noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly
Journal (issue)
Trucco mining district, Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero, Mexico .................................... .401 by J...mineral localities: The Refugio mine, Municipio de Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico ................................mineral localities: Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico .................................................Ferry ~alace of Jlline_s The Palace of Mines in Mexico City .................................... .497...Smithsonite, 4 cm wide, from the Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. William Dameron collection; Jesse Fisher
Journal (issue)
Mexico ineralogical Record November-December 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 6 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Angles Mexico Special Issue III Los Lamentos Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los...Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ...................................... 4 by W. E. Wilson Fresnillo...Famous Mineral Localities: Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico .............. 36 by T. C. Wallace & M. K. Hall-Wallace...Famous Mineral Localities: Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico .............. 55 by W. Lieber & Gerhard Frenzel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...photo. May/June: Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum...Scovil photo. September/October:Gold, Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History...Symposium: Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy Acanthite-argentite, Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite...C., see In Memoriam Barite, Colorado, 308; New Mexico, 385; Utah, 244; Witwatersrand, 395 Barite from
Catalog/List
REFERENCEMINERALSLIST ADAMITE Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Select golden-yellow to blue-green 1 to 3 mm terminated...Amelia mine, Boleo, Baja California, Choice bright blue single cubic crystals. covering Mexico 1 to 2...to lxl-1/2" 5 Specimens $ 10.00 CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia Bright orange-red crystalline...with minor black $ 15.00 FLUORITE Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico Superb pale green lustrous intergrown stepped...00 crystals HEMIMORPHITE Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico Superb lustrous milky white 3 to 6 mm terminated
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
Journal (issue)
MINERAL CORNUCOPIA 24 Collectors find variety in New Mexico. By Mark Leatherman 36 ARSENIC FAMILY MINERALS...long in clusters were mined at the Mashamba copper mine, in Zaire. When they were introduced at major shows...Arizona, comes to mind immediately, as the Southwest mine produced some of the most handsome, multi-inch,...world’s finest—have come from the Milpillas mine, in Sonora, Mexico. Actual mining of this deep deposit started...were discovered there, and from 2006 to 2012 the mine produced huge quantities of the world’s finest azurites
Journal (issue)
with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite
Journal (issue)
localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific...quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine, Mr. Walker, seeing the cabinet, said that the piece
Journal (issue)
EUCLASE with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See...DENVER MART EXPO HALL ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA...skeletal quartz, drusy amethyst, wire silver, acanthite, pyrargyrite, stephanite, barite, calcite, aragonite...tabular barite, pink-purple diaspore crystals, acanthite, and the type specimens of hodrusite. Calvary...1751 was funded mainly by donations from wealthy mine owners and from simple mining families. Modem times
Report (issue)
Rock quadrangle, Grant and Hidalgo Counies, New Mexico By David C. Hedlund1 Open-File Report 90-0240...basaltic andesite in the vicinity of the Thanksgiving mine. Angular sand-size clasts of andesite and dacite...Locally highly crossbedded as near the Carnation mine. Angular sand-size clasts of dacite and andesite...of celadonite. Some outcrops, as near the Center mine, are silicified and sericitized. Some units are...semiquantitative spectrographic analysis of the ore from the mine dump showed 700 ppm Ag, 20 ppm Au, 700 ppm Cu, 1
Journal (issue)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Acanthite from Linqiu, Shanxi Province, China. Compliments...Compliments of Mineralpedia, Dakota Matrix. Acanthite from Cobalt-Gowganda dist., Ontario, Canada, Compliments...VICE PRESIDENT: Virgil Lueth; New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place , Socorro NM 87801-4796; vwlueth@nmt.edu...Pegmatite Mine The early-day history (1896-1913) of gem tourmaline mining at the Himalaya mine, San Diego...“The Early Mining History of the Himalaya Pegmatite Mine,” as described above was serialized in the January
 
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