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Acanthite from
Peregrina mine, Cerro Negro mining district, Chilecito, Chilecito department, La Rioja Province, Argentina


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 Peregrina mine, Cerro Negro mining district, Chilecito, Chilecito department, La Rioja Province, Argentina
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:132269
Long-form Identifier:1:3:132269:9
GUID (UUID V4):ddbf27ed-ceb8-4c00-a4dd-fb8dde5d4a16
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘCerro Negro mining district, Chilecito, Chilecito department, La Rioja Province, Argentina
8.4km (5.2 miles) ⓘNevados de Famatina Cu-Au deposit, La Mejicana mining area, Famatina Department, La Rioja Province, Argentina
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COMPENDIO de LAS ESPECIES MINERALES DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA Compilado y parcialmente actualizado por...por Milka K. de Brodtkorb En base a la edición de los tomos 1(2002), 2(2006) y 3(2007) cuyos autores...Ramos y S. Poma, y en la edición Roberto Miró ASOCIACIÓN MINERALÓGICA ARGENTINA FUNDACIÓN EMPREMIN 2015...y 3 (2007) de LAS ESPECIES MINERALES DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA se encuentran agotados y a pedido de numerosos...COMPENDIO DE LAS ESPECIES MINERALES DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA Con respecto a la versión anterior se han agregado
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Heidelberg 2013 Abstract The Guanajuato epithermal district is one of the largest silver producers in Mexico...northwest–southeast: the central Veta Madre, the La Luz system to the northwest, and the Sierra system...is available to authorized users. H. Mango (*) Department of Natural Sciences, Castleton State College...e-mail: helen.mango@castleton.edu G. Arehart Department of Geological Sciences, MS-172, University of...Oreskes Department of History, 0104, University of California—San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla,
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C O NNOISSEUR'SCHOICE ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama...[Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...& Minerals, is a professor of geology in the Department of Geology and Geography at Auburn University
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GuanaiuatoMining District, Mexico* W. PETRUK AND D. Owens Abstract The silver ores in the Guanajuato mining district...Introduction Tt‱. ores in the Guanajuatomining district, Guanajuato, Mexico, occur as mineralized quartz-calcite...in diameter. It consistsof gray quartz, cal(3) the La Luz vein system(Fig. 1). Three types cite, nontronite...carbonateand silicate disseminated grains of pyrite, acanthite,polybasite, minerals occur in ore shoots in the...writer collectedfour samplesfrom four veinsin the Peregrina gray colorto the dark gray material. The samples
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Berkshire RG 11 2PY, England Yan Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS ‱ Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral
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northwest-trending fault systems,the Sierra, Veta Madre, and La Luz. Orebodiesin the Sierra and Veta Madre were arbi-...Spanishprospectorsdiscoveredsilver and gold at Guanajuatoin veinsat La Luz in 1548 and at Rayas in 1550,but the major productionin...and a 200 m.t.p.d. mining plant has been in continuousoperation at the E1 Cubo mine since 1906. With...With more than 400 years of almostcontinuous mining activity, it is understandable that the record According...and to geologicalmapsat 1: 10,000 of part of the district published in 1964 and an earlier map of the Cubo
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Berkshire RG11 2PY, England Van Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in MĂ©xico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in MĂ©xico, which produce fine mineral
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followingerosionandpreservedin the centralandsouthernpart of the district,the continentalGuanajuatoConglomeratewas overlainby...previouslyknownnorthwest-striking Sierravein systemin the Cubo mine. Theseveinscut the Peregrinarhyolite domelocatedin...severalparallel gold-richveinsin the easternpart of the district parallel or occupynortheast-trending fracturesthat...fracturesandbrecciasin the northwestern part of the district andbeyondthe calderalimits.It ischaracterized...ithinthe volcaniccenterandcentral part of the district,northwestward andperipheralto the economicorebodies
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deposits and maïŹc lava ïŹ‚ows is seen at the top of Cerro El Cubilete, which is one of the highest point in...vein in the central part of the Guanajuato mining district. Hydrothermally altered rocks were characterized...of undiscovered orebodies in the Guanajuato mining district and elsewhere where similar mineralization...(Smirnov, 1962, 1963, 1976, Vassallo, 1981). The district has a 450 year history of production. Estimated... 2009a,b). Hydrothermal mineralization in the district is hosted in several vein systems, but by far
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Railroad Company Upland Industries Corporation U.S. Department of Energy ^ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication...80301 Cover Photo: Chapter 20. 10 La Caridad Copper Mine, I. Salas, Guillermo P. 90-28579 ■ ...R. 15 . 5. Main geothermal fields of Mexico; Cerro Prieto geothermal field, Baja California . A. Pelayo...geothermal field, Puebla F. Romero R. . 77 8. La Primavera geothermal field, Jalisco . Saul Vengas...173 15. Baja California Peninsula Metallogenic Province . 177 16. Summary of structural and stratigraphic
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crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In my view they are...collected April or May 2006 in the Cigana Mine (used to be Jocao Mine) (Galilea, Minas Gerais, ‱ Brasil). The...crystals on prehnite from Da Liang Shan (Sichuan Province. China) but never saw them myself, but I did see...novelty. Vesuvianite crystals from Da Ye (Hubei Province) were new to me. The crystals are about 1 cm,...the vendors said the material comes from a copper mine - they are unusual in metamorphic, calc-silicic
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....... 87 by T. Moore T he S ilv e r m in es district, C o u n ty Tipperary, I r e l a n d ...........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...subject of the 1999 Mineral Symposium. Mexico has a mining specimen collecting history dating back nearly...geologic environments present, the multitude of major mining districts, and the high level of specimen exploitation
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is rarely mentioned in many references. The Husky mine in the Yukon Territory near Elsa (Canada) has crystal...stephanite is often associated with pyrargyrite, acanthite and other silver sulfosalts. Mexico is very well-known...the marketplace in the future; at least until the mining methods shift and put an end to most specimen recovery...display as recently as December 2005 of silver, acanthite and polybasite. Bancroft ( 1973) illustrated a...as Freiberg and St. Andreasberg where silver, acanthite and pyrargyrite also occur. Bancroft ( 19730 illustrates
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epithermal Ag-Au mineralization in the La Luz area, Guanajuato Mining District, MĂ©xico Daniel Moncada, Darcy Baker...epithermal Ag-Au mineralization in the La Luz area, Guanajuato Mining District, MĂ©xico, Ore Geology Reviews (2017)...epithermal Ag-Au mineralization in the La Luz area, Guanajuato Mining District, MĂ©xico Daniel Moncada1,3, Darcy...Darcy Baker2 and Robert J. Bodnar1 1 Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA...Street, Vancouver, Canada. 3 current address: Department of Geology and Andean Geothermal Center of Excellence
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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
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These practices surrounding minerals depend on mining, museum and private collecting, and scientific...form, and physical properties.1 —Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms From this definition...something else, in the form of by-products of ore mining, scientific specimens, collectors’ specimens, religious...with three fields where minerals are valued: ore mining, mineral collecting, and mineralogy. All of the...store at the munic­ ipal museum in Mapimí, a dusty mining town in northern Mexico whose population has shrunk
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had the good fortune isiting the old and famous mining town of Freiberg, Saxony, thanks largely to the...made around I 168, the Erzgebirge [Ore-Mountains) mining started in this area and led to the foundation...Northern Germany. Over the course ofFreiberg's long mining history with . ,._ -.... several highs - especially...Bergakademie [School of Mining] Saxony was established in 1765. Long before that, a "mining office" for Saxony...the School of Mining. The scientific and economic impact of the Freiberg Mining district is based on rich
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SMITHSONIAN CURATOR Dr. Jeffrey E. Post, Chairman, Department of Mineral Sciences and Curator, National Gem...birthstones Mask of Agamemnon ORGANIC GEMS Pearl La Peregrina Shell Mother-of-pearl Nautilus cup High society...discoveries are ongoing. Diamond Opal Precious beryl Argentina Rhodochrosite Zimbabwe Peridot Chrysoberyl...COME FROM? 025 Mining for gems Revealing the treasures of the Earth Large-scale mining for precious materials...malachite and turquoise, as by-products. Much gem mining is relatively small scale, however, and is often
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S. Vincent, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA. Introduction This fifth edition of the...level 3 under mining geologyO). UF closed mines SA land subsidence SA mines SA mining geology SA reclamation...Superior Province BT Canadian Shield SA Blake River Group SA Ontario SA Quebec SA Sigma Mine SA Timiskaming...USSR Aberfeldy Term introduced in 1989. Town and mining region in Tayside, central Scotland; oil field...Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory NT Leningrad Mining Institute NT Moscow University NT Ohio State University
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Gulf of Mexico Basin Edited by Amos Salvador Department of Geological Sciences The University of Texas...Corporation Upland Industries Corporation U.S. Department of Energy Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication... 1991 Chapter 1 Introduction Amos Salvador Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas...Vaca, published in Spain in 1542 under the title La Relacion, includes some of the earliest and more...the north. In 1682, Rene Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle, sailed down the Mississippi River from the
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Reys photo Feature Articles 708 Coloured Stone Mining and Trade in Brazil: A Brief History and Current...diamonds in Canada was marked by a special issue of Mining North magazine with the theme ‘25 Years of Diamonds’...blood ruby, royal blue and cornflower sapphire, old mine/ Muzo green emerald, sunrise and sunset padparadscha...are recovered as a by-product of alluvial gold mining. The rubies are light-to-medium purplish red (Figure...as other gem minerals. The mining area is situated in the Kyaukme District of northern Shan State, approximately
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information should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New...the late Horace Winchell of Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Brian J. Skinner...AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH...British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Monogr The Mineralogical Society, 1980 Bulletin de la Commission Geologique de Finlande XXXVii XXXViii
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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...North American plate margin in México. It is this province that is the subject of the paper by Ferrari et...for the first time, a comprehensive view of the province, including its structural and stratigraphic characteristics
Report (volume)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Hubert Work, Secretary U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY George Otis Smith, Director...vols. 9, 10. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...11, 12. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 79, 94-97. San Francisco...Francisco, Calif. California, University of, Department of Geology: Bulletin, vol. 15, nos. 5-11; vol. 16, nos...39, 40. Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 27, 28; Bulletin
Report (volume)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY George Otis Smith...vols. 3-12. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Technical Publication...1-157; Transactions, vols. 60-76. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Science, 4th...vols. 9-17. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletins 79, 85-101. San Francisco, Calif...GEOLOGY, 1919-1928 California, University of, Department of Geology: Bulletin, vols. 12-17; Seisinographic
 
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