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Acanthite from
Halifax Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 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 Halifax Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1568836
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1568836:1
GUID (UUID V4):378b99ba-6099-4227-9334-071084874875
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.5km (0.3 miles) North Star Montana-Tonopah Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Mizpah Mine (Mizpah shaft), Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Mizpah Extension Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Rescue Mine (Rescue-Eula Mine), Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Tonopah Mining Company, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Tonopah - California Shaft, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) King Tonopah Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Jim Butler Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
2.3km (1.5 miles) Tonopah Extension Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exceptionally sharp 4.2-cm acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis...1878); the Baker quarry near Billmeyer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where it occurs as an alteration...Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891); and mines of...of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the...abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite, although
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... Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal
Report (issue)
Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm 504, 555 Battery...Goldfield Gold District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Tonopah Precious-metal...Precious-metal District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY The Republic Gold District, Ferry...Ferry County, Washington By MORTIMER H. STMTZ and ROBERT C. PEARSON The Comstock Lode Precious-metal District...District, Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada By WILLIAM C. BAGBY and ROGER P. ASH LEY U.S. GEOlOGICAl
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................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
Book
ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Journal (issue)
to 22nvn from 3 ---- - - ----- Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED...Sponsors: SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIETY PEAK DISTRICT MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SO�IETY UK Journal of Mines
Journal (issue)
..........191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...commonality: They can be very dangerous. Each year mine rescue specialists and conventional search and rescue...Statistically, shafts are the most dangerous part of any mine; 90 percent of all accidents and entrapments in
Journal (issue)
by R. W. Eveleth S tib n ites o f the Stayton district, H o llister, C a lif o r n ia .................emphasis or clarity, and (d) proper names, e.g., mine levels. 8. Credits. Caption data for specimen photos...to the Four Peaks area in Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains and collected gem-grade amethyst. After serving...from the New Nevada mine in Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico and legrandite from the Ojuela mine in Mapimi,...sig­ nificant mining properties, including, but not limited to, the Sar Francisco mine in Sonora, the
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Journal (issue)
Crystals at Lake Tahoe, Nevada Martin Jensen '--?300 High Terrace Drive Reno, Nevada 89509 A surprising...was made recently near scenic Lake Tahoe on the Nevada/California border. Within a zone about I 000 meters...dikes associated with the emplacement of the Sierra Nevada batholith (88 mya). The pegmatites are generally...the basin along its southeastem portion on the Nevada side. Indeed. when one travels this route (state...hotel room rates typically double during the event (mine going from a standard $99 a night to an unwarranted
Journal (issue)
SAN O IE G U FREEWAY (406) L/l____ _ TO LOS AMiE L I S / ______________________ V'-. V FineMinerals...Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner... G. Adolffson Curetonite, a new phosphate from Nevada .......................219 by S. A. Williams Memoirs...people: COVER: AURICHALCITE from the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. Photo (first place winner in Tucson...slides) 4. Shadow boxes (for display of minerals or mining memorabilia) 5. Three-hour photochemical light
Journal (issue)
10 4EB. L.K . JOURNAL MANAGER: Rex Cook. '13 Halifax Road . Nelson, Lancashire BB9 OEQ, U.K. EDITORrAL...from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 Growth of acanthite on native silver...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral... INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall (Fig. I), although
Report (issue)
5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Lapis International, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut USA Collection 'Alan Table of Contents What Is Gold...First Gold Rush: Gold Fever in the Southeastern USA . . . . . . . .P. 16 R. Chris Tacker California and.... . . . . . . . . . P. 90 A Photo Gallery Gold Mining and Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
of Science A. I. M. E____ American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk---. Aardrijkskundig...cientlfica 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 min. res_ _ _ _ _ mineral resources Mineralog_____...Meeting ' Mtn__________ Mountain Mts....------ Mountains Internat. _____ International, etc. Mus________-_
Journal (issue)
....................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .................................. 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...........................Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico ..................................
Journal (issue)
articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...imaees in the article on fluorite from the Rogerley Mine, Weardale, in the last edition of this journal....problematic, the famous blue fluorite from Florence Mine in west Cumbria commonly register a dirty pink on...any mineral cabinet. In Scotland, the Cairngonn Mountains lend their name to a variety of dark smol')' quartz...photoDavidGreen. working of the Strontian Barite mine. The habit, bipyramids with large prism faces, is
Journal (issue)
articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...aragonite is commonly found in caves and on the walls of mine levels. A considerable amount of research has been...the material that is exposed during quarrying, mining, or by coastal erosion. This should not be taken...offset the fall in production from traditional mining operations. Whether this continues into the twenty...nature, concentrating on the minerals of a few mining districts or geographical areas. It would be difficult
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petersburg, 195220, Russia 5 Oxford Instruments plc., Halifax Road, High Wycombe, Bucks HP 12 3SE, UK e-mail...Crystal structure; Komsomolsky mine; 31 Talnakh deposit; Noril'sk district, Russia. 32 33 34 35 36 37...050 39 40 41 Abstract 42 mine of the Talnakh deposit, Noril'sk district, Russia. It forms small (from...grains in intergrowths of polarite, sobolevskite, acanthite, and 44 unnamed (Pd,Ag)5BiS2 in aggregates (up...intrusion (eastern part of the 74 Komsomolsky mine). Mineralization represents the outermost part of
Report (issue)
, Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops in HALIFAX - 1735 Barrington Street MONTREAL - 1182 St . Cath...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)
paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............e e M Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological...plus an interesting range o f rare species. The mine, first opened in 1903, continues to produce fine...Three mine is one of several mines located on the Little Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego...Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed in the Little Three main dike, one
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hunted and exploited a range of metal create new mountains. So the world is least 10,000 years ago. They...though, it required a real knowledge of German mining engineer Georgius breaks in the rock sequence...water, earthquakes and volcanoes, which have worn mountains down and risen new ones up. Yet it is only in...how rocks are made and remade over again, how mountains are built and knocked down, why volcanoes erupt...mid-ocean. The continental ocean trenches. The famous San boundary is where earthquakes start. crust is actually
Report (issue)
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