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Acanthite from
Monte Cristo Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey 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 Monte Cristo Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1600154
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1600154:1
GUID (UUID V4):0fa5fe6f-ad64-425f-a886-bab00108cf33
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Butters Mill, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Scorpion Shaft, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Best & Belcher Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Union Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Pet Claim, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) C and C Mine, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Sierra Nevada Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.7km (1.6 miles) Mexican Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Consolidated Virginia Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
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collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be­ cause of its large oil and gas exploration...Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district...minerals. Mining here was contin­ uous from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please spare... SULPHIDE LENSES IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS (Mackinaw Mine) Pentlandite, chalcopyritc, pyrite, raaucherite
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...Indianapolis. Iowa.............. Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas............Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal
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localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut; the Franklin...mines, Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York;...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;...in the Martin mine of the Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district, Lafayette County, Wisconsin; and
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada............................................................................................... Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...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...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
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McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
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Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...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.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologyand K-Ar Geochronologyof the ParadisePeak Mine and the Relationship of Pre-BasinandRangeExtensionto...Precious Metal Mineralization in West-Central Nevada DAVID A. JOHN, U.S. GeologicalSurvey,345 MiddlefieldRoad...Low-anglenormalfaultsare present5 km northeastof the ParadisePeak mine,buttheyformedmorethan2 Ma afterformation of theParadise...theFMC and more detailed studies of the Paradise Peak mine 1986, 1987; unpublished mapsby Corporationin the...volcanicrocksandhydrothermal clude Comstock,Tonopah, Goldfield, Bodie, and vicinity of the mine. We utilize thesedata
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 (article/letter/editorial)
at 11:52 22 December 2014 Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece E rythrite, an attractive secondary...green encrustations on chloanthite at the old cobalt mine dumps below Great Hill near the East Hampton–Portland...Jackson County, North Carolina. It has been reported from the Fredericktown district in Madison County, Missouri...with nickel arsenides in the Mohawk No. 2 mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Annabergite has been found at...Cliff district, Custer County; the Gem mine at Gem Park, Fremont County; Elk Park, San Juan County; and
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Cunningham, J. B., and Butler, G. M.-Arizona lode gold mines and mining: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull....Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 148, 1941. Apache County 2: 17 Gregory, H. E.-Geology Prof. Paper 93, 1917...the Navajo country. U.S. Geol. Survey Cochise County 3:04 Ransome, F. L.-The geology and ore deposits...Tombstone district, Arizona: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 1938. Gila County 4:03 Ransome...Ransome, F. L.-Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 12, 1903. 4:19
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his 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...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express
Book (edition)
his 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...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
Journal (issue)
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...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,
Report (issue)
production figures in Bulletin 140. Lode deposits Cochise County-Warren (Bisbee) and Turquoise districts...silver, and lead. Tombstone district, with lead-silver ores. Pearce district, with silver ores. Dragoon...Dragoon Mountains, Manzoro district. Dos Cabezas Mountains, Dos Cabezas and Teviston districts. Huachuca Mountains...Mountains. Swisshelm Mountains. Gila County-Globe-Miami district, with ores of copper and silver. Dripping...Mountains, Barnes district, with ores of copper, lead, and silver. Payson district. Graham County-Galiuro Mountains
Report (volume)
location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...however, because it contains lists of the mines and mining districts that were active at the time in Clear...only reports the early history and status of the mining industry, but includes a list of all the species
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United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...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
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and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...SWITZERLAND j& DAVID WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, U.S. A ¥% C. DOUGLAS WOODHOUSE, Professor, University... % ALSO 4 EDWIN ALLABOUGH, collector, Cathedral City, California, U.S A. yx EDWARD BANCROFT, collector...Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country
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and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...SWITZERLAND ^ david WILBER, dealer and collector, Reno, Nevada, u. S. A ^ C. DOUGLAS woodhouse, Professor, University...^ ALSO ^ EDWIN allabough, collec­ tor, Cathedral City, California, U.SA. ^ edward BANCROFT, collector...Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country
 
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