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Acanthite from
Sierra Nevada Mine, Shoshone County, Idaho, 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 Sierra Nevada Mine, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:217383
Long-form Identifier:1:3:217383:2
GUID (UUID V4):fa4ada84-4e01-4f54-bb97-8cead2218a44
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
1.9km (1.2 miles) Bunker Hill Mine, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
7.0km (4.3 miles) Big Creek Apex Mine, Evolution Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
7.3km (4.6 miles) Sunshine Mine and mill, Evolution Mining District, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
48.0km (29.8 miles) Conjecture Mine, Lakeview, Lakeview Mining District, Bonner County, Idaho, USA
72.5km (45.0 miles) Talache Mine (Blacktail; Keystone; Armstead; Little Joe Brown Bear; B. F. and H.), Pend Oreille Mining District, Bonner County, Idaho, USA
73.7km (45.8 miles) Copper King Mine (Mascot Mines), Thompson River Mining District, Sanders County, Montana, USA
80.9km (50.3 miles) Spar Lake Deposit (Troy Prospect), Troy Mining District, Lincoln County, Montana, USA
References
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r------' .--. !i i , i ' i Boundary '---~ IDAHO Bonner_j l--;~u:d{ene\, I , L~ Coeur'cI'Alene...Coeur'cI'Alene Min. Dist. ~ Kellbgg. ~~~-i " Shoshone' • '---:.:.:cJ ' , '-------'\ I. ILatah I , Moscow r...its pyromorphite, Idaho also boasts many other mineral species. ( :\.. -~:/ Idaho <....: (_ ", I...Power i..r v. ) 't,.,. 1. r': ~ Caribou Idaho 83816-2043 , • c-vz..J. '. 2",_J'-1 '\ o, ...INDEX BRIEFLY DESCRIBES the mineral localities in Idaho; all known localities that may have produced well-crystallized
Book (edition)
Idaho Minerals The complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho Lanny R. Ream 1!11, ) a...PISTOLS Idaho Minerals Idaho Minerals The Complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho with Special...Rerun Publishing P .O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Ale ne, Idaho 83814 Copyright © 1989 by L.R. Ream Publishing...R Ream Publishing P.O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814 (208) 667-0453 To those collectors who are...information and specimens available to others. vi IDAHO MINERALS Acknowledgements A book of this magnitude
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Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner...Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J...by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano...Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford P. O. Box N Osbum, Idaho 83849 and Jack
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
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showed that lowsulfidation deposits in northern Nevada could be divided into two subtypes based on their...High Idaho Oregon r SM e ak Sn lain P M ve Ri Yellowstone Hot Spot Wyoming 0 Ma 40° Nevada S ie...tectonic features. Heavy line indicates the northern Nevada rift. The heavy star at the north end of the rift...Walker Lane belt from Stewart (1988). NNR = northern Nevada rift, SM = Steens Mountain. mineral assemblages...RC MC FC B WM ST FL GB Reno Elko Northern Nevada rift axis Salt Lake City 39°N MN San Francisco
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towns, Nevada is a wonderful state for rock and mineral enthusiasts. T he geology of Nevada is the...human history. The overall geologic history of Nevada, which spans more than 2.5 billion years (table...Many of the range-bounding faults remain active. Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the...or greater earthquake has occurred somewhere in Nevada about once every thirty years. Most faults are...(analogous to a tilted deck of cards). However, some Nevada faults are strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Les Farges mine ................................ 261 by A. Brousse... Ferroaxinite from New Melones Lake, Calaveras County, California, a remarkable new locality...........602-299-5274 COVER: GROSSULAR from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec. The crystal measures 1 cm. Specimen...about this locality see the article on the Jeffrey mine in vol. 10 (1979), no. 2, p. 69-80. n o te s fr...newly mined tourmaline specimens from the Himalaya mine. Eidahl had been an employee of Pala In­ ternational
Report (issue)
ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral...Talapoosa and Olinghouse districts and the Gooseberry mine. Northeast of Lovelock we pass through Roberts'...LovelockAustin belt which contains the Rochester and Nevada Packard bulk-tonnage silver deposits hosted in
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Miocene Bodie Hills Volcanic Field, California and Nevada Edward A. du Bray1,*, David A. John2, Brian L....Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047, U.S.A. 2 Abstract The southern...Hills volcanic field (BHVF), astride the California-Nevada border north of Mono Lake, is one of the largest...the Bodie Hills north of Mono Lake, in western Nevada and eastern California, represents a large (>700...plutonic rocks in California (Kistler 1990) and Nevada (Tosdal et al. 2000). Blue dashed line is the 208Pb/204Pb
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Spring Creek Area Last Chance Mining District Plumas County, California Gail E. Dunning 773 Durshire Way Sunnyvale...minerals are recorded in the literature from Plumas County. Smith (1970) recorded trace amounts of the element...and cornubite. Figure 2. Scene of the El Dorado mine collapsed adit. LOCATION The copper mines of the...area topography is typical of the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, consisting of steep mountains with...intrusions. The major producing areas have been the Sierra Nevada Foothill belt, the Shasta area and the Plumas
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Comstock District, Nevada DONALD M. HUDSON† 1540 Van Petten Street, Reno, Nevada 89503 Abstract The...the world-renowned Comstock district of western Nevada constitute one of several superimposed Miocene...northwest-trending belt of Miocene andesitic rocks in western Nevada (Fig. 1) and is one of the more celebrated epithermal...previous work to interpret 114oW 42oN 120oW O Elko NEVADA Reno O Comstock District CA LI FO RN IA ...belt of 6 to 17 Ma andesitic volcanism in western Nevada and eastern California. After Stewart and Carlson
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and platinum - have been found mainly in the Sierra Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These...are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...PLATEAU I7 COAST RANGES 7 GREAT VALLEY :2f SIERRA NEVADA ~ BASIN RANGES Ell MOJAVE DESERT II TRANSVERSE...,o Map 1-2. Outline map of California showing county boundaries. __ _) 4 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA...composition between acidic and basic rocks. drift mine Adit(s) driven into gravel. euhedral Characterized
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first of these was the Comstock lode in western Nevada. In the summer of 1858, two groups of prospectors...working gold placers on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, on a small rise known as Gold +I.The group...in June 1859 and was shown to be acanthite. Thus, the famous Ophir mine was born. For a time, the Comstock...hot and wet. Square-set stoping was developed to mine bonanza orebodies more than 100 feet wide and subsequently...kilograms (1 metric ton) was found at the Smuggler mine. Pearceite was a principal ore in the district,
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— gold and platinum — have been found mainly in Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain...major classifications — elements, species. the Sierra sulfides, oxides, and so on. Within each major...species are reported by 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible, locations of mines...within a township is illustrated by Figure 1-1. county of occurrence. Map *M. Fleischer’s 1980 Glossary...MODOC PLATEAU COAST RANGES S GREAT VALLEY SI SIERRA NEVADA 21 BASIN RANGES 3Zm MOJAVE DESERT IX TRANSVERSE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIKRE ASARCO, Inc., 510 East Plumb Lane, Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract The Comstocklode, a world-classpreciousmetal...Comstockdistrict 15 mi (24 km) southeastof Reno,Nevada,formed 13.7 Ma in Mioceneeruptiverocksof the Alta...consists of quartz,electrum,silverminerals(mainly acanthite),pyrite,basemetalsulfides, andminoramounts of... COMSTOCKLODE, FLUID-MINERALRELATIONS 1577 B NEVADA ENO 8000 ELEVATION IN FEET 3OOO •-• PO8TANDUPPER...volcanichistory and stratigraphyin westcentral Nevada (Fig. 3C) illustratesregionalspatial relationsamongMiocene
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...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...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
Report (volume)
E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralizationin the RochesterDistrict, PershingCounty, Nevada PETER g. VIKRE Incorporated,Southwestern ExplorationDivision...Range hasbeen about 25 miles northeastof Lovelock,Nevada (Fig. 1). Within the district preciousmetals valued... SILVER MINERALIZA TION, ROCHESTER DIS TRICT, NEVADA weredeposited in the vicinityof NenzelHill. Post-MioWINNEMUC%A...rhyolite,the RochesterFormation,is predominantly NEVADA tuff, with subordinateflow and clasticrocks.It...emplacement of granFIG. 1. Index map of PershingCounty, Nevada, showingthe ite stockswas accompaniedby eruption
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith...silver mines at all in Asia. He does mention a silver mine in Macedonia that used to yield a talent of the...January-February, 1986 Figure 2. Interior of a German silver mine, 1830s. Photo Deutsches Museum, Miinchen. hillside
Journal (issue)
articles on a timely basis. - Editor. New Moroccan Acanthite Discovery By Dave Bunk dave@davebunkminerals...After hearing about a new find of octahedral acanthite crystals from Morocco, I decided to see for myself...many mineralogical discoveries, particularly in Nevada and Utah where he has collected extensively. The...excaliburmineral.com Micromineralogy of the Blue Monster Mine, California Paul M. Adams 126 South Helberta Ave...Redondo Beach, California 90277 The Blue Monster Mine is located in Section 17,T I 2S, R37E on the east
Report (volume)
the Red Mountain Mining District, Es:meralda County, Nevada By W. J. KEITH ---~---------------------...the Red Mountain mining district, Esmeralda County, Nevada (Geological Survey Bulletin 1423) Bibliography:...e. 2. Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.-Nevada-Esmeralda Co. 3. Geology-Nevada-Esmeralda Co. I. Title. II. Series:...of the Red Mountain mmmg district, Esmeralda County, Nevada --------------------------------------- In...Canyon, Red Mountain mining district, Esmeralda County, Nevada ------------------- In pocket FIGURE 1. Map
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states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Butte, Montana, as well as Colorado, Arizona and Idaho. In Canada it occurs at Cobalt, Ontario. Treatment...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area...area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico. Treatment...and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often obtained by individual prospectors
Report (volume)
.......................................... Sierra Nevada»and Pacific Coast region ............................................................... Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast region ........................................................... 114 Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast region.................................................................... Idaho...... ...................................................................................... Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast region...................
Report (volume)
.............................................. Idaho........................................................................................... 187 Nevada..................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
 
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