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Acanthite from
Rose Mine, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Formation:Primary, Secondary
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rose Mine, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1454955
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1454955:1
GUID (UUID V4):26994336-be1d-4129-a60d-7b7259f844a4
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.9km (0.5 miles) Alhambra Mine, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Granada prospect, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Good Hope Mine, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Black Hawk Mine, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Hobson Mine, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Beaumont Shaft, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Jersey Lily Mine, Little Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
13.9km (8.7 miles) Snowflake Mine, Little Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Full Moon Mine, Little Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
15.2km (9.4 miles) Old Man Mine, Fleming Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
References
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BLACK HAWKNewDISTRICT Mexico Minerals of the Downloaded by [McGill University Library] at 10:10 18 December... Because most of its mine development occurred in the late 1800s, this district, with its approximately...collections. THE BLACK HAWK (also known as Bullard Peak) district is the largest district of the silver...Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada; Batopilas, Mexico; Chafiarcillo, Chile; Joachimstal, Czechoslovakia;...Norway; Bou Azzer, Morocco; and the Consols mine at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. These deposits
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leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...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
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exceed 2 cm on edge. inated by the great Andes Mountains. Consequently, in keeping with the When pure,...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...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the
Book
MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines
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with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary
Report (issue)
and Duncan mining districts, Grant and Hidalgo Counties, New Mexico, and Greenlee County, Arizona By..... Mining districts, mines, and mineralization............................. Steeple Rock district............. Twin Peaks-Mayflower subdistrict................................... Duncan district................. Generalized geologic map of the Summit Mountains and Canador Peak areas..........................stratigraphic sections, Summit Mountains-Canador Peak-Redrock Canyon areas, New Mexico.... Index maps showing
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Sidney A. Williams Richard A. Bideaux Raymond W Grant PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Wendell E. Wilson Published...photographs has been generously funded by a special grant from the Phelps Dodge Corporation. • CONTENTS...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St
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Everyone noticed a couple new finds , three actually. The first was the new supply of erythrites from...Society and a pioneer in UV lamps, demonstrated his new TripleBright lamp and graphed many factors to consider...results. Earl Verbeek, assistant curator of the new Thomas Warren Museum of Fluorescence at Sterling...rine occurrence. 7 x 10 inch format. 126 page . 90 black & white illustrations and I 8 color photograph ;...has perfected the art of hydraulic -triinmers! New design with single handle operatio11 • Features a
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Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Sidney A. Williams Richard A. Bideaux Raymond W. Grant PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Wendell E. Wilson Published...photographs has been generously funded by a special grant from the Phelps Dodge Corporation. (ngs * Prien’...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.
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FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS HARVEY W. JONG JAN C. RASMUSSEN...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones... Data Names: Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others]... MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION Introduction Many new mineral species have been documented in Arizona since...Mineralogy of Arizona was published in 1995. This new edition adds to the extensive work of the previous
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Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special...Kerry Cooper Barbara Muntyan Christi Cramer Jason New Jean des Revières Pinal Geology Museum John Ebner... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical
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crimson to peach-red color, which may vary to a pale rose or pink. It exhibits a subadamantine luster that...localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut; the Franklin... Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York; Pennsylvania...in Lebanon County, the French Creek iron mines and Wheatley lead mines in Chester County, and the Dyer...Berks County. It is reported from the Alberene and Old Dominion soapstone quarries, Albemarle County, Virginia;
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...2023 Articles The Bairendaba Deposit, Keshiketen District, Inner Mongolia, China................................363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran........................................................411 What’s New in Minerals Tucson Show 2023 by T. P. Moore........only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription
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Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose to the positions of professor and curator of the...thirty-five scientific papers and discovered sixteen new mineral species, naming two of them after his co-authors...co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position
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kristalle.com • Email: info@kristalle.com Harz Mountains, Germany by Günter Grundmann Thomas P. Moore... Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany ................................ 302 History 1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315 Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317 Collecting....................... 419 By W. E. Wilson What’s New in Minerals: Tucson Show 2017 ..................
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the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose to tbe positions of professor and curator of the...thirty-five scientific papers and discovered sixteen new mineral species, naming two of them after his co-authors...co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...He has discovered and helped to describe several new Arizona 111inerals which appear in this volume. For
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then Curator of Minerals and Physical Geology at New York's American Museum of Natural History from 1935...1952, and was later Director of the Santa Barbara County Museum of Natural History. He was a prolific author...from Clay Canyon, Utah. (Continues on page 2) Acanthite FredPoughandSkipSimmonssharinglibationsatthe...laeliason@msn.com From a historic perspective, acanthite is a minor mineral of little importance and it...proper to label all specimens of silver sulfide as acanthite today; some are properly termed paramorphic or
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................ 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................... 5...5 by W. E. Wilson Minerals first described from New M ex ico ...................................... 9...Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico ............................................ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...................................
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amazonite, 11.8 cm, from the "Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008;...stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...long and happy history in the state. The Rocky Mountains of westem Colorado are a treasure house of great...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states
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~ ) : • ,- '1-/Challis r--, - qa'wtooth Mountains r i ~ Elmore'~. -C- -J'-,/,_~, ~ l I ...L- - - l. - -r-\ __ I ....-~-.~, L.... : Twin FaIlSr-J i .... _ .... _ •. -J!~i~l~s. -l. __...specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest
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scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia, a new gold rush drew more than 30,000 prospectors, and...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...B. Casto, Gen1stones of Nevada 72 Christopher Rose and Gregory C. Fcrdock Nevada Meteorites 84 David
 
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