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Acanthite from
Treasure Mountain, Tulameen River Area, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Treasure Mountain, Tulameen River Area, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1507147
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1507147:3
GUID (UUID V4):269433bc-281e-4a59-94f1-e0dbf175f637
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
78.9km (49.0 miles) Great Excelsior Mine, Mount Baker Mining District, Whatcom County, Washington, USA
85.1km (52.9 miles) Gold Hill Mine, Slate Creek Mining District, Whatcom County, Washington, USA
References
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Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard Himes, and Gonzalo Jara...July/August: Quartz cluster (Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York...Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Ed Raines photo. Acanthite, Colorado, 337, 382 Actinolite, Bahia, Brazil... R. L., Scepter Quartz Crystals from the Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine near Little Falls, Herkimer County... S. C., Scepter Quartz Crystals from the Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine near Little Falls, Herkimer County
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peo- ple settled in the area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state...produce nonmetallic ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock...regained its preeminent status in precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage...KL - Klondyke district KM - Killie mine, Spruce Mountain district IH JA - (SM) Lewis district Maggie...(DE) Aspen district Austin district (now Reese River, RR) Aurora district Bullfrog district Broken Hills
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Granite State, is one of our smaller states, with an area of just 9,304 square miles and is one of the lowest...large scale, there has been enough prospecting and mining activity to uncover many important mineral localities...collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the turn of the twentieth...pegmatite prospecting and mining were revived during World War II, with some mining continuing into the early...January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz (crystals), sillimanite
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(deceased) Eric D. Long SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2014) Mineralogical...under the following major headings: the US and Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the former Soviet...card information 797 A ACANTHITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Beaverdell [Highland Bell]...mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining district of southern British Columbia, near the village of Beaverdell...The chief ore minerals of the silver veins are acanthite and native silver, and the latter is found in
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1410 Birchmont Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen...rift that extends from Mexico along the Rocky Mountain Front to possibly the North Slope of Alaska. In...Mountains Jarilla Mountains Santa Rita Area and the Central Mining District, Grant County Burro Mountains...District Hansonburg District Socorro Area New Placers District Grants Area Nacimiento Uplift Harding Pegmatite...Sneffels-Telluride District Red Mountain District Cement Creek Tungsten Area Ouray (Uncompahgre) District
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Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...owned by Richard Bideaux’s Arizona Exploring and Mining Company for quite a few years. Bideaux and Wayne...to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro National Monument...thorn in the side of environmentalists and anti-mining interests in the state. The issue was finally resolved...purchased the claim from Arizona Exploring and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now
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(deceased) EricD. Long SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2014) Mineralogical...Mountains in what used to be known as the Empire Mining District, about 9 miles south of the town of Pantano...Pacific Railroad about 5 miles away. The Total Wreck Mining and Milling Company was formed in 1881 and issued...inclined shaft was sunk to a depth of 330 feet, with mining on three levels, and miners began hauling out 50...70 tons of ore a day, ranking it with the major mining camps in Arizona Territory. The first shipment
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Madison, Carroll County, briefly describing the mining history and my experiences collecting there was...Cooks pond. My sketch ha'i no scale but the whole area is less than several hundred feet in any direction...cottage (called the A. E. Reynolds cottage) and the area of the other mine buildings, now completely obliterated...guessed it- intense bottle green. Terry Ledford of Mountain Gems and Minerals offered a lot of self-collected...per year, or $46.00 for two years; addresses in Canada and Mexico are US$48.00 per year, or US$90.00 for
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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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or $315 / three years, (Canada) $180 / one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription...Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017) Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) Gunter Grundmann (2018) Richard...part-time while working as a geologist for various mining companies including Halferdahl and Associates (1974-1980)...of Toronto, and they mounted field trips to British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Yukon and...an acre of land overlooking the tidal Parrsboro River. The house has a turret, and room for a store. As
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is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"...ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex is an intrusive... r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself...drainage flows west-southwest from a mountain massif to join the Reuss River at the town of Amsteg, subordinate...attacking it once again as a blizzard began on the mountain, Isseponi lay down on the freezing ground and
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for the names of States and for the provinces of Canada are given in Part I.] Anon anonymous papers, placed...State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M Br Canada, Mines Branch Can Pari Canada, Parliament...(F P), 94; Phalen. 08c: Pratt, Olh; US G S, 83; Canada: McLeish, 10, 14 Absaroka folio, Wyo. (no. 52):·Hague...56a American geological science, indebtedness to Canada: Dawson (J W), 87 Antiquity of man: Penck, 09a...to geology: Rice (W N), 07 Cretaceous system in Canada: Whiteaves, 94 Crystalline rocks of the Northwest:
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Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...North Dakota and Washington, and began working as a mining geologist in 1950. During World War II he had served...800-634-4000, code SGE0699 June 4 - 6,1999 ★ MINING ★ GEOLOGY ★ GEMSTONES ★ MINERALOGY ★ JEWELRY ★...a t u r e 1998 Ernest H. Nickel* Division of Exploration & Mining, CSIRO Private Bag, P.O. Wembley,...Sciences Division Canadian Museum of Nature P.O. Box 3443A, Station ‘D ’ Ottawa, K IP 6P4 Canada The Commission
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or $324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...Countiss (2019) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2020) Mineral Association...by monarchs, aristocrats, physicians, scholars, mining men and ordinary private citizens since the 16th...B8000, Argentina. Email: analaurarl @hotmail.com 2 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California...Mineralogical Record, volume 51, March–April, 2020 a large area. During the first two years of production, 22 tons
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or $324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...Lucking (2020) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2020) Mineral Association...CENTER APRIL24-26 INESITE HALE CREEK MINE MAD RIVER ROCK, COASTAL RANGE, TRINITY CO., CALIFORNIA THOMAS...monarchs, aristocrats, physi­ cians, scholars, mining men and ordinary private citizens since the 16th...B8000, Argentina. Email: analaurarl @hotmail.com 2 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California
Report (issue)
e ds in the Leadville Dolomite, Leadville-Gilman area ................................... . . . . . ....into th e area (Blair, 198 0). These so-called " Fifty-Niners" established most of th e mining districts...rush to Leadville ensued, and as a result of heavy mining pr essure, the Leadville placers were essentially...districts were partiall y removed by erosion p1·ior to mining. 4. Significant reserves remain in the Leadville...Leadville district. In co1nparison to other mining districts around the world, the carbonate-hosted sulfi.de
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The Advancement of Science. Published for the British Association for the Advancement of Science by Academic...State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines and Geology Geochemical Report. Juneau...State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines and Geology Geologic Report. Juneau,...Geography, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Am. Antiquity- American Antiquity. Society for...Engineers, Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division. New York, N.Y. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers Proc
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or $324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...Diana Bruce (2019) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2018) Mineral Association...have survived over 200 million years of orogenic (mountain-building) activity, uplift, weathering, freezing-thawing...regional capital, on the right bank of the Chikoy River. As of 1902, there was a school, post office, telegraph...eastward along the picturesque valley of the Chikoy River, and then a final 20 km northward by jeep to the
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SURVEY Study made in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board PROFESSIONAL PAPER...1017 Study made in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board Description of the...the ore deposits and geologic setting of a mining district that is the leading source of zinc in Colorado...1017) Study made in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Board. Bibliography: p. 83 Includes...Levering, Tom Gray, 1921-joint author. III. Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board. V. Series: United
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Advancement of Science A. I. M. E__ American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk__ Aardrijkskundig...diagram Direcci6n Dissertation district distribution division Doctoral, Document Doctoral Dissertation dolomite...Meteorological, etc. microscopic, etc. Mimeographed Mineral, Mining mineral resources Mineralogic, etc. Meddel_ _...Monatsheft Monatsschrift manuscript Mount Meeting Mountain Mountains Museo, Museum, etc. n______:_ new ...Meetings. Washington, D. C. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Contributions 1-112
 
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