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Acanthite from
Providence Mine, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Providence Mine, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1468267
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1468267:0
GUID (UUID V4):5da10af6-19c1-4abd-ba1d-a13093b439ad
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
41.1km (25.5 miles) Silver Bell Mine, Wauconda Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
41.9km (26.0 miles) American Flag Mine, Wauconda Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
45.6km (28.4 miles) Highland Bell Mine, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
45.8km (28.5 miles) Sally Mine, Wallace Mountain, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
45.9km (28.5 miles) Bell Mine, Highland Bell Mine, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
49.2km (30.6 miles) Knob Hill Mine, Republic Mining District, Ferry County, Washington, USA
53.1km (33.0 miles) Republic Mine, Republic Mining District, Ferry County, Washington, USA
65.0km (40.4 miles) Rich Bar Prospect, Oroville Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
68.1km (42.3 miles) Horn Silver Mine, Nighthawk Mining District, Okanogan County, Washington, USA
74.6km (46.3 miles) Dankoe Mine (Utica Mine; Horn Silver Mine; Cawston), Keremeos, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
References
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Run Press Ltd, Exeter. Introduction Cornwall's mining history stretches back 2,000 years; its mineralogy...first recorded fronm Cornwall and 136 whose first British recorded occurrence was in Cornwall, a further...locality) BI First recorded in the British Isles at this site. BM(NH) British Museum (Natural History) JRIC...Spencer's first and second supplementary lists of British minerals. SLBM3 L.J.Spencer (1958) Min.Mag. 31...31. 787-805. Third supplementary list of British minerals. SLBM4 P.G.Embrey (1978) Min.Mag. 42, 169-177
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PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
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Photographs January/February: Gold and quartz, Eagle's est mine, Placer County, California. Tana Daugharthy specimen...Eldorado Creek, near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. Mark Mauthner specimens, JeffScovil photo. May/June:...Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy Acanthite, SilverKing Mine, Park City, Utah, R. B. Cook. 112-16...Colorado, 225, 322; Nevada, 49; Wisconsin, 411 Canada, gold, Red Lake, 94-99; Yukon Territory, 100-109...Q. Wight, 13S China, quartz. 118-23; Yaogangxian mine, 258 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5, 85-87
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mineral provinces: 1) the Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County...Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls and pipes; red and yellow...from many sites for pottery. The earliest known mining operation in the Colonies was for limestone from...the coal seams on the site. History of Mines and Mining F. W. ("Bill") Miller has collected in Rhode Island...Governor Hopkins of Rhode Island owned an active iron mine, in which the ore consisted of "hematite, limonite
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cultural standpoint. These are localities rich in mining history and regional flavor; the old drifts and...content: Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London, England Richard C. Erd U...Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard...Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur Roe Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Abraham Rosenzweig...2 Germany An historical perspective on silver mining in G erm any.................. by W. Lieber and
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been plentiful , and says Mr. Fletcher of the British Museum , occasionally received by a whole nation...regard to this , will find Kitcher's guide to the British Museum Collection of Meteorites most interest ing...confined to a single pocket in a mine , as seemed to be the case at the Minnie Mine , Leadville , where a single...sponge - like bunches of native silver . The Elkhorn Mine , Montana , produces beautifully crystallized silver...Alene mines of Idaho , and from the Chas . Dickens mine in the same State ; there is now in Salt Lake ,
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u t t g e n b a c h i t e( S . choep)....... Acanthite, argentite. (Emmons, S t o c k w e l l , a nJ...(EmChromeore, Md. (Shannon).. . . Argentite and acanthite. 38 Chrysotile,radiated. (Foshag).. . 326 mons...Emmons, R. C., ftockwell, and Jones, Argentite,acanthite... seeWinchell,A. N.. Euxenite-polycrase. (Ellsworth)...Strain structure in qlu;fitz.. 67,206 Kensington mica mine, Md., mineralsfrom. (Shannon) 35 Kimura, K 137 219...minerals . . Magnetoplumbite. (Aminofi) Mahopac mine, Brewster, N.Y., minerals of (Gillson) Mallard's
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston...working in pure white clay at Eureka V ALABAMA. 7 mine 4 miles northeast of Valley Head. Etowah County
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Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 by P. Tarassoff...annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: CANADA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chairman:...matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in this issue on this famous...purchase the collection were forthcoming from the mining company CRA Ltd., as its contribution to Victoria’s
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pearceite– polybasite (Fig. 2x). Au- and Se-bearing acanthite is associated with galena, chalcopyrite, and electrum...from the Koryu deposit is mostly associated with acanthite with slightly less (10.03–15.86 wt %) Se content... (Cu,Ag)–Bi–Pb–S ! Cu–(As,Sb)–S. aguilarite/acanthite (Fig. 2p–s). The general shift of sulfosalt mineralization...(proustite–pyrargyrite), pearceite–polybasite ! aguilarite/acanthite (Fig. 2t–x). The general shift of sulfosalt mineralization...Pearceite–polybasite, pyrargyrite–proustite, aguilarite (and acanthite) were identified in this system. Pyrargyrite is
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associatedwith nativesilver,nativearsenic,and argentiteor acanthite stability temperaturesof the various assemblages...l•ccface-centeredcubic, bcc----body-centeredcubic, ac ----acanthite, pru -----proustitc, xan -- xanthoconite,smtt--...theAg-As-Ssystem at 150ø C in thepresence of vapor. ac= acanthite, xan: xanthoconite, trech= trechmannite, rl =...assemblagesare supergeneand would not persist with mining depth. An excellentexampleof proustite occurringwith...significance: UnpublishedPh.D. thesis, Brown University, Providence, R.I.,p. 172. , 1968, Synthesis of two new silver
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were advertised by a certain manufacturer in Providence, B. I., who is still engaged in their production...which will outlast a hundred of the celebrated Providence wabblers, while the expense incurred is considerably...until 1842, and while aboard the Peacock near the Columbia river, the boat was wrecked and the party obliged...A COLOBED GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE EMPIRE STATE. British teachers of geology congratulate themselves that...may be that the vast area of Laurentian rocks in Canada and our Adirondack highlands is the oldest portion
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one-half inch across has lately occurred in a Colorado mine at a great depth. Beautiful greenish yellow trans...filled with a iquid, an interesting fact, since the mine is exceedingly dry, no water ever being taken from...black, has lately oc curred at the Copperopolis mine, and in very fine crystals. Pharma- cosiderite,...crystals I have seen, has also just been found at this mine. Some of these crystals are about \ inch across...more in gold per ton, have been found at the Vulcan mine, near Gunnison, Colo. This is a new combination
Report (volume)
possessions of the United States, the provinces of Canada, and well-known physiographic areas like the Atlantic...are: ALABAMA, ALBERTA, CANADA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, NEVADA, UNITED STATES. CANADA and UNITED STATES are headings...gas potentialities would be indexed only under CANADA and not under each province discussed in the paper...society. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...Journal of the Hydraulics Division; Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division; Journal of the Soil Mechanics
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........................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish...Canadian mineral occurrences, by K. A. A. Johnston, Canada Geol. Survey Dept. Mines Mem. 74, Geol. Ser. 61
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Dunn Smithsonian Institution Peter G. Embrey British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological...2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...Brazilian localities, Virgem da Lapa and the Golconda mine, have produced remarkable crystals of hydroxyl-herderite...Company spodumene mine, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine,...Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (3)* 71-90% Golconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil (6) 53% Waldstein, Fichtelgibirge
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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...ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson) 15:8994...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
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play on words! Ed. SME - AIME NEWS The Society of Mining Engineers of AIME will hold their Fall Meeting...THE JOHN PARNAU COLLECTION REDLEDGEITE REDLEDGE MINE, NEAR WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA. THIS MATERIAL WAS...CHRISTIANSON MINERALS 200 Napier St. Barrie, Ontario, Canada HAND SPECIMENS & M ICR0M 0UNTS Why not give us...Panasqueira, Portugal. See M. R. 2, 2, p. 73. The mine operators are now vending specimens although they...terminated crystal l by 4 cm) from the Dallas Gem mine, San Benito County, California. New veins of this
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Zorzi (2008). ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex...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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:{• � �_� edllor & publisher John S. While, Jr. Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian Institution Wendell...Bideaux Mineralogist Paul E. Desautels Supervisor. Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian lnstllut1on Peter...Peter G. Embrey Curator of Minerals The British Museum (Natural History) Richard V. Gaines Mineralogist...on words! Ed. SME - AIME EWS The Society of Mining Engineers of AIME , ill hold their Fall Meeting...THE JOHN PARNAU COLLECTION REDLEDGEITE REDLEDGE MINE, NEAR WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA. THIS MATERIAL WAS
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Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario Ml P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen...P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University...California, and published in the fourth and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning in 1914 with a volume...at the University of California, Berkeley, the Division of Mines and Geology published new editions in...Cliffton H. Gray and Wilma L. Ashby of the California Division of Mines and Geology Los Angeles Office, who provided
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by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Martino & A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection... or $324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription
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M1P Van Nostrand Reinhold 17 Queen Street 2E7, Canada Australia Pty. Ltd. Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia...P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining the at College of California, parent to the...mineralogist of California, and pub- and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning volume prepared...professor versity of California, Berkeley, the Division of in of mineralogy at the Uni- Mines and Geology...Cliffton H. Gray and Wilma L. Ashby of the California Division of Mines and Geology Los Angeles Office, who
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vols. 9, 10. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...Botanical Gazette, vols. 79-82. Chicago, 111. British Columbia, Bureau of Mines: Annual Report of the Minister...Minister of Mines for 1924, 1925. Victoria, British Columbia. Bulletins of American Paleontology, vol....11, 12. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 79, 94-97. San Francisco...Stations: Bulletin, vol. 2, nos. 5-9. Berkeley, Calif. Canada, Geological Survey: Summary report for 1924, 1925;
 
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