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Acanthite from
Mount Royal Mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA


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 Mount Royal Mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1454570
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1454570:4
GUID (UUID V4):f546edd6-3bbf-4a7b-801a-b40089704ed7
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Jim Crow Mine, Jim Crow-Imperial, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Imperial Mine, Jim Crow-Imperial, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Jim Crow-Imperial, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Alabama Mine, Vanderbilt Peak, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) New Year's Gift Mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
4.4km (2.8 miles) Center Mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Laura Mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Carlisle Mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Ontario Claim, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) Golden Nugget, East Camp, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
deposits of the Steeple Rock and Duncan mining districts, Grant and Hidalgo Counties, New Mexico, and Greenlee...Greenlee County, Arizona By D.C. Hedlund 1 Open-File Report 90-0239 1990 This report is preliminary and..... Mining districts, mines, and mineralization............................. Steeple Rock district......subdistrict................................... Duncan district.................................................areas, New Mexico.... Index maps showing locations of principal mines and prospects in the Steeple Rock
Report (issue)
and sections of the Steeple Rock quadrangle, Grant and Hidalgo Counies, New Mexico By David C. Hedlund1...and silt containing fragments of Tertiary volcanic rock. Thickness generally less than 10 ft (3 m) Fan deposits...angular, poorly sorted fragments of Tertiary volcanic rock. Thickness commonly less than 80 ft (25 m) thick...with chiefly angular fragments of Tertiary volcanic rock. Lag deposits are derived from the underlying weathered...thickness but locally as much as 100 ft (30 m). Whole rock potassium-argon age of 18.6 m.y. is reported from
Report (issue)
Skinner, EDITOR, Economic Geology, 91-A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Leadville-type ore (top) with rod-textured...picture are paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom)...veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn Sacco, Peabody...Carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits of the central Colorado mine ral belt: Introduction, general discussion, and...Johansing Leadville district: Geology and the origin of ore deposits in the Leadville district, Colorado: Part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Interior Platform; rugged country of hard, resistant rock cut by innumerable lakes and rivers comprises the...land surface and boasts one of the most productive mining areas in the world. Rich deposit of copper, nickel...from Newfoundland to New York, but further south a flat plain of sedimentary rock separates them from...his business partner, Gunar Penikis, sent to the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto for identification. Curators...examples of rare phosphate minerals, some of which were new discoveries in the mineral “kingdom”. Although the
Report (issue)
ing in Canada" appeared in Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, vol. VII, Sec . III, and was...MINERALS AND THEIR OCCURRENCES A CANT HITE Acanthite, the orthorhombic form of Ag2S , is stable at...are there fore valid for acanthite and are so recorded here . Most acanthite probably crystallized originally...inverted to acan thite on cooling. Pseudomorphs of acanthite after argentite are common. Orthorhombic crystal...gold at the Jewel and other mines in the Greenwood Mining Division (R. Bell , 1902-3: Geo l. Surv. Can .
Journal (issue)
Haupt Volcanic zeolites and associated minerals from New South Wales .......................................Sutherland Minerals of the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ....................................... 407 by A. Pring Broken Hill, New South Wales; a brief review .......................Minerals from the Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales .......................................der Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory .....................
Book (volume)
Dana's System of Mineralogy (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1944). These corrections, together with others...beginning The degrees of . . . should be made a new para- graph. 43 Ref. 24, footnote 48 9, 48...up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...synonomy after New and CoUingwood, New Zealand. Loellingite, for Pharmokopyrit read Pharmakopyrit. in bottom
Book
variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle. Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by...Ken Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil
Report (issue)
Cover illustration Native silver, Castle-Trethewey mine, Gowganda. The specimen measures 9 cm by 5 cm. National...GSC 1999–003A Native gold in quartz, Hoyle Pond mine, Timmins. The specimen measures 6 cm across. National... Frontispiece. The original Hollinger (Timmins) mine, 1910, before it was destroyed by fire in 1911....Northland mine Net Lake (Barton) mine Cedar Lake (Trebor, Cuniptau) mine Little Dan mine Sherman mine Temagami...Temagami (Copperfields) mine 16 16 19 20 20 22 23 23 25 26 26 27 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 31 31 32 32 34 35
Report (issue)
Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral identification based on X-ray diffraction...ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...................................4 BAY OF FUNDY, NEW BRUNSWICK..............................................................4 Todd (St. Stephen Nickel) mine................................................
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1970, Proc.- V. 2, Chemical and isotope analysis: New York, and Oxford, England, Pergamon Press (Geochim...A discussion of the alternating field method and new paleointensity measurements of the Miocene geomagnetic... tars, and pitches, A. J. Hoiberg, editor-v. 1: New York, Intersci, Publishers, P: 213-288, illus., tables...Toshihisa. Construction of continuum theories for rock by tensor testing [abs.]: Dissert. Abs. Internat...of rocks, Chap. 18 in Rock mechanics, theory and practice - 11th Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Berkeley
Report (volume)
4, 5, 8; Museum Paper, nos. 5, 6; County Report, no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...vols. 3-12. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Technical Publication...nos. 1-157; Transactions, vols. 60-76. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Science...Science, 4th ser., vols. 47-50; 5th ser., vols. 1-16. New Haven, Conn. American Mineralogist, vols. 4-13. Menasha...38-55; Memoirs, new ser., vol. 3, pts. 2, 3; American Museum Novitates, nos. 1-337. New York. See also
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Science by Academic Press. London, England, and New York, N.Y. Akad. Nauk SSSR Doklady- Akademiya Nauk...Sci. - American Journal of Science. University. New Haven, Conn. Botanical Sdciety of America. Kline...Natural History. New York, N.Y. Am. Mus. Novitates - American Museum Novitates. History. New York, N.Y. American...Production Practice Drilling and Production Practice. New York, N. Y. Am. Philos. Soc. Proc. Philadelphia,...Scientist- American Scientist. Society of the Sigma Xi. New Haven, Conn. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers Proc., Jour
Book
carbonatite complex The Oka carbonatite complex Mont Royal Mont Saint-Bruno (Montarville) Mont Saint-Gregoire...minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire: a chronological list of new mineral species discovered and first described from...investigate, and new species to discover. Structural and compositional data on three new species submitted...submitted to the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical...in such a small volume of rock, and the discovery of so many minerals new to science. The 434 mineral
Report (volume)
Advancement of Science A. I. M. E__ American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk__ Aardrijkskundig...cientifica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...Devonian development diagram Direcci6n Dissertation district distribution division Doctoral, Document Doctoral...Meteorological, etc. microscopic, etc. Mimeographed Mineral, Mining mineral resources Mineralogic, etc. Meddel_ _...Monatsschrift manuscript Mount Meeting Mountain Mountains Museo, Museum, etc. n______:_ new internac___ internacional
Report (issue)
cabochon set in silver. Cut and set by Jim Robertson, New Liskeard, Ontario. The cabochon measures 12 mm by...dyke, Purdy mine, 1942. Photograph by N.B. Davis, courtesy of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy...road log South March feldspar mine March mica mine Humphreys feldspar mine Currie barite occurrence Pakenham...Galetta) mine Stanton lead occurrence Bell’s mine Calabogie area Bluff Point mine Calabogie iron mine Blithfield...(Caldwell) mine Clyde Forks mine Radenhurst and Caldwell mine Virgin (Dempseys) Lake celestine mine Tatlock
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Miners' Association Cal St :M Bur California State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M...St S Com Maine State Survey Commission Mex I G .Mexico, Instituto GeolOgico Miss G S .Mississippi State...Mines N :r G S New Jersey Geological SUrvey N Y G S New York Geological Survey NY St Mus New York State ...S Oklahoma Geological Survey Ont R Com Ontario, Royal Commission. Oreg B :M Oregon Bureau of Geology and
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Report (volume)
Geographical Society: Bulletin, Vols. XXIV-XXXI. New York, N. Y. American Geologist, Vols. IX-XXVT. Minneapolis...Minn. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions, Vols. XX-XXIX. New York, N. Y. American Journal...Science, 3d ser., Vols. XLIII-L; 4th ser., Vols. I-X. New Haven, Conn. American Museum of Natural History:...Bulletin, Vols. IV-XIII; Memoirs, Vol. I, Parts 1-5. New York, N. Y. American Naturalist, Vols. XXVI-XXXIV...of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Vols. XXXIX-XL. New York, N. Y. American Society of Naturalists: Records
Book
years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and...structure are acceptable as separate species. 2. A new zeolite mineral cannot be defined solely on the basis
Book
years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and...structure are acceptable as separate species. 2. A new zeolite mineral cannot be defined solely on the basis
Report (volume)
Cover illustration Beryl crystal in quartz, Lacorne mine. The crystal is 39 mm long and 18 mm wide. National...2359J Molybdenite crystal in quartz, Moly Hill mine. The crystal is 33 mm across. National Mineral Collection...Baldwin (Kelmac) mine Swastika (Crescent Kirkland) mine Lucky Cross (Golden Gate) mine Adams mine Boston molybdenite...Boston Creek gold mine Barry-Hollinger (Patricia) mine Boston-McRae mine Planet Gold mine Miller Independence...Independence mine Kennedy-Boston mine Cathroy Larder (Yama) mine Macassa mine Kirkland Lake gold mine Teck-Hughes
Report (issue)
appeared i n T r a n s a c t i o n s o f t h e Royal S o c i e t y o f Canada, Vol. V I I , Sec. 111...1889. The l a t t e r list, which included some 180 mine,ral s p e c i e s and an a d d i t i o n a l 95...e n t i f i c record. The need t o undertake a new r e v i s i o n o f t h e Geological Survey o f Canada...e t r i c system; and t o i n c o r p o r a t e new d a t a compiled s i n c e 1974. I n t h e p r e... DESCRIPTIONS OF CANADIAN MINERAL OCCURRENCES ACANTHITE A c a n t h i t e , t h e orthorhombic form o
Report (Issue volume)
and more accessible regions. A large part of the new knowledge has been gained in the course of systematic...Canada but also by provincial organizations, the mining and petroleum industries, con¬ sultants, and the...and also by the National Research Council. Whole new fields of endeavour and extensions to the old established...non-geologist with a brief and handy refer¬ ence to new and important facts, concepts, and interpreta¬ tions...familiar to him and stimulate the development of new The increased knowledge has resulted from a larger
Report (issue)
la Dune du Sud Dune du Sud Dune du Nord Seleine mine La Grosse Île Brion Island Rochers aux Oiseaux Île...Cap-aux-Meules to Havre-Aubert Magdalen Manganese mine Butte du Vent L’Étang-du-Nord Baie du Havre aux...Physiographic regions Geological history Mineral deposits Mining history Collecting on the island 40 40 43 44 44...(Shoal Bay) mine Witless Bay shoreline occurrences Midnight Rock Wabana mine Foxtrap mine Manuels River...occurrence Workington (Lower Island Cove) mine Silver Cliff mine Cuslett barite occurrence Cross Point barite
 
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