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Acanthite from
Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Comments:Identified as minute black crystals and crusts on native solve on a single specimen and considered to be post-mining in origin.

Ref: Famous British Mineral Localities: Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. N Elton, D Green, J Hooper & S Weiss. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No 24 2004, pp 9-28
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22:2
GUID (UUID V4):0b8db748-0e89-4d10-b1c1-f68b7b8dd458
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
11.0km (6.8 miles) Wheal Brothers (Wheal Duchy), East Cornwall Silver Mines (St Vincent Great Consols; incl. Wheal Emily; Wheal Georgiana; Wheal Mercer), Wheal Langford (New Wheal Langford; Baring and Langford Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
11.1km (6.9 miles) Wheal St Vincent (East Cornwall St Vincent Mine; Wheal David), East Cornwall Silver Mines (St Vincent Great Consols; incl. Wheal Emily; Wheal Georgiana; Wheal Mercer), Wheal Langford (New Wheal Langford; Baring and Langford Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
11.2km (6.9 miles) Wheal Fortune (Wheal Newton and Queen; South Harrowbarrow Mine; incl. Wheal Newton (Wheal Barnard); Wheal Queen), Harrowbarrow Mine (Harrowbeer Mine; Wheal Goodluck; East Wheal Brothers), Harrowbarrow & Prince of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin and Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
11.2km (7.0 miles) Wheal Langford (New Wheal Langford; Baring and Langford Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
11.5km (7.2 miles) Darley Ford Quarry, Darley, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK
13.3km (8.3 miles) New Trelawny Mine (Gang Mine), Gang, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
15.5km (9.6 miles) Wheal Wrey, Wrey and Ludcott United Mines, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
15.9km (9.9 miles) Wheal Ludcott, Wrey and Ludcott United Mines, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
16.3km (10.1 miles) Wheal Jewell, Mary Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
62.2km (38.6 miles) Wheal Mexico (Trebellan Mine; incl. Treworthy Mine), Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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Book
Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although
Journal (issue)
LevantSectionof GeevorMine,Cornwall. Crystalsto 15 mm. EDITORIAL Digital Micro-Photography The UK Joumal ef Mi11esa11dMi11erals...SPONSORSHIP Peter J. Briscoe Tony Stubbins 9 GREYSTONE QUARRY, CORNWALL CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean C....rendition. Other coloured fluorites from northern England arc also problematic, the famous blue fluorite...the specimen). or ditc and pharmacosiderite from Cornwall almost neYer photograph properly, perhaps due...which is possible using the technique. David Green UK Juurnal of Miucs & Minerals No. 24 -2- MICRO MINERALS
Journal (issue)
copper mineral assemblages at Botaliack, St Just. Cornwall R.J. Bowell 45 The composition of stolzite from...from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon 66 Growth of acanthite on native silver...COPPER MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AT BOTALLACK, ST JUST, CORNWALL R.l. BOWELL Department of Mineralogy, The Natural...mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall (Fig. I), although not renowned for substantial...The supergene leaching of copper in south-west England has been recorded in numerous studies, although
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of mi nes UK & minerals summer 1997 number 2----------EDITORIAL Dtlf.!idGreen COVER: Chalcodte...Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum. The UK Journal ofM;nts...Nom1an Thomson 17 SPONSORSHIP James Catmur ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM Roger Penhallurick 33 The views and opinions...Ryton SL, Work$op, Notes. S80 ZAY Tel (01909) 476906 UK journal of mines & minerals No. 18 Sponsors: SUSSEX...SOCIETY PEAK DISTRICT MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SO�IETY UK Journal of Mines & �linerals No. 18 -1- EDITORIAL
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INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue...ISSN 0952-2409 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -2- AUTHORS UK Journal of Mines
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned...theLakeDistrictandCornwall (izoklakeite}" WhealCock,StJust,Cornwall SouthTerrasmine,StStephen•in-Brannel. Comwa!I
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RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field of view 13 mm x 9 nun. Roy Starkey specimen...from Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation...Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES Valentinite
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surface and the are was obtained by open work, quarry fashion, here and at Black House. Also saw Crokes...suppose this abandoned spot, with its overgrown quarry and trial shaft, is a memorial to these endeavours...quarries at Gorsley: Greens Quarry (SO 677259) and Linton Parish Quarry (SO 677255), are still accessible... cyanotrichite from Cornwall R.E. STARKEY starkey, R.E. 1986. . Cyanotrichite from Cornwall. J. RusseLL Soa...from Cornwall is reported; it has been found in situ in a tin-rich stockwork in Lanivet, Cornwall, associated
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followed, they spread Barite Argenta, Clipper. and Greystone mines. Lander out from Virginia City, discovering...formed from geothermal or hydrothermal fluids Acanthite, polybasite, electrum, uytenbogaardite.* Comstock
Report (issue)
Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district Quartz epimorph...Descloizite Cuprite on Copper Nevadaite, Gold Quarry Mine Vanadinite, Ruth Mine Epidote Opal after...silver-bearing sulfides as “sulphuret of silver” (acanthite), stephanite, polybasite, and pyrargyrite came...continental accretion. In southern and eastern Greystone, and Argenta deposits near Battle Mountain and...types: “sulphuret ore” containing silver glance (acanthite) and ore containing chloride of silver (chlorargyrite)
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ustrations COLOR PLATES (follow,ng puge 242 I Acanthite -\gardite Aln1andine-Spessarttne Annabergi te...Millerite Mi1netite Naumannite Ncvadaite, Gold Quarry Mine ()pal after wood Opal, faceted Orpin1ent,...silver-bearing sulfides as "sulphuret of silver" (acanthite), stephanite, polybasite, and pyra rgyrite ca1nc...of barite, including the Devonian-age Clipper, Greystone, and Argenta deposits near Battle Nlountain and...Polymetallic vein Sandstone Goldstrike Mine Ruth Pit Gold Quarry Mine Consolidated Virginia Mine Iwin Creeks Mine
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the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...the heyday of geological research in northern England and it was not long before spectacular new ideas...site: Bedford Utd. Mine, Dean Quarry, Gravel Hill Mine, Greystone Quarry, Gunheath Claypit, Me/don Quarries
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resemble kidneys. Hematite, Frizington, Cumbria, England « 6 x 9 x 5 cm Ye 4m Quartz (smoky variety),...ABOVE: Medallion, William Smith and Charles Eaton (England, c. 1834-70), lead and copper alloy, 6x 4.5 cm...Serra Pelada, Par4, Brazil. Europe: Hope’s Nose, England; Transylvania, Romania. Africa: Ashanti, Ghana;...cigarette cases were being made in Russia, France and England. Russian cases of that period exhibited floral...Sonora, Mexico; Corocoro, Bolivia. Europe: Cornwall, England; Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Asia: Yekaterinburg
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without surcharge, to the following people: England: Roger S. Harker 2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire...wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire, LE7 70B England. from Mexico. Office - 314-569-0842 Residence...DRAKEWALLS, G U N N IS L A K E , C O R N W A L L , ENGLAND. 6262 Busch Blvd. Columbus, O hio 43229 (614)...(c) Ferroaxinite, Botallach mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England; <7= {151}. (d) Manganaxinite, Franklin, Sussex...Madera Co. (1) Stinson Beach, Marin Co. (1) City quarry, Riverside, Riverside Co. (1) North Hill, Riverside
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J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park...fluorine-rich leucogranite from the St. Austell pluton, Cornwall. E3 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 1093-1100...brewsterite, edingtonite. Laytonville quarry [also known as Shamrock Ranch quarry]—5 miles south of Laytonville...Silverado m ine]—3 to 6 miles north of Calistoga. Acanthite, chlorargyrite, silver. The M in e r a lo g ic...natrolite, prehnite, scolecite, stilbite, thomsonite. Greystone claim —5 miles NE of Genesee. Clinozoisite, manganaxinite
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om ubiensis (Cornubia being the Latin nam e for Cornwall), pub­ lished in London in 1778, is a prime collectible...Europe before the year 1500, any book printed in England before 1600 and any book printed in Am erica before...Michigan copper was removed and a new chapter on Cornwall added! In addition, there were French, Germ an...EDITION. The first edition of a book published in England. This term should never be used to denote the first...the foster-brother of King Richard the First of England (Coeur-de-Lion). In a chronicle form erly existing
Report (volume)
Elder post office; and in Lee County at Chewacla quarry, near Opelika. Marble (noncrystalline). Variegated...Saline counties; many quarries. Whittington's on Quarry Mountain ships to all parts of country; used by...County, elseolite syenite quarried at Diamond Jo quarry in Magnet Cove region; suitable for ornamental...(soapstone). Pulaski County, at Wallis'a soapstone quarry. Saline County, has been quarried between Little...several places in Death Valley; Riverside County, in quarry near Riverside; San Bernardino County, Funeral
Book (edition)
Typesetting Services Ltd, Wallington, Surrey, England. Contents Preface Historical Perspective Acknowledgments...of Earth Sciences, Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, England. Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San...of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, London, England. Rock H. Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin...Minerals, Monograph 4, Mineralogical Society (England), 1974 J. W. Salisbury, L. S. Walter, N. Vergo...Crystallography, Vol. 1, Kynoch Press, Birmingham, England and more recent editions Journal of Applied Crystallography
Report (volume)
Elder "post office; and in Lee County in Chewacla quarry, near Opelika. Marble (noncrystalline). Variegated...camp (large body). Yavapai County, Miller Bros, quarry. Quartzite. Greenlee County, quarried for converter...Searcy, and Stone counties; Searcy County, small quarry worked for marble and lime at St. Joe. Marl. Calcareous...and near Summit for whetstones and on North or Quarry Mountain for concrete. Commercially known as Arkansas...County, elseolite syenite quarried at Diamond Jo quarry in Magnet Cove region; suitable for ornamental
Book (edition)
although in this shape it is the great ore of England. There is a sort of auxiliary ore of this variety...Stephanite, Antimonial Silver, MiarGYRITE, POLYBASITE, ACANTHITE, STROMEYERITE, FRIESLEBENITE—SILVER SAVING—SILVER...throughout with silver chloride, and they just quarry the trachyte and send it to mill. They don’t succeed...from Malacca, Banca, Tasmania, Australia, and Cornwall. Some tin is found in Mexico, and is irregularly...taking out and piling up so much of it in good quarry shape that they are ruining their market for years
Report (volume)
Resources and world development: Chichester, England, John Wiley and Sons, p. 1-12. National Research...Canada ..... . Foss-Ben Eagach ............ . Greystone .................... . Great Britain .......... and silver occurs primarily as cerargyrite, acanthite, and native silver (Thomason, 1986; John and others...(table 1) appear sufficient to supply the New England market well into the future (Manheim and Hess,...program-A study of New Jersey and northern New England coastal waters: Shore and Beach, p. 12-16. Duane
 
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