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Acanthite from
Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite3 photos of Acanthite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Silver1 photo of Acanthite associated with Silver at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:254116
Long-form Identifier:1:3:254116:7
GUID (UUID V4):58d0b874-d7a4-461e-b270-4b712c91c943
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Giovanni Bonu Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
2.7km (1.7 miles) Masaloni Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
4.5km (2.8 miles) Bacu Arrodas Mine (Baccu Arrodas Mine; Bacu Arrodas-S'Arrexini Mine), Muravera, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
7.2km (4.5 miles) S'Arcilloni Mine, Burcei, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
7.9km (4.9 miles) Brecca-Genna Flumini Mine (Brecca Mine), San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
9.0km (5.6 miles) Nicola Secci Mine, Burcei, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
9.1km (5.7 miles) Tacconis Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
13.2km (8.2 miles) Serra s'Ilixi Mine, Sinnai, Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
14.8km (9.2 miles) Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
17.3km (10.7 miles) Tuviois Mine (Axareddu Mine), Sinnai, Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
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...Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891); and mines of the...abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite, although...whereas others that contained important amounts of acanthite produced no good specimens (Eckel 1997). Some...coated with acicular crystals of primary acanthite. Masses of acanthite to about 0.5 kilogram and groups of
Report (issue)
hydrothermal silver deposits. Association: Proustite, acanthite, silver, tetrahedrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite...Přı́bram, and Třebsko. In Italy, fine twins from Monte Narba, near Sarrabus, Sardinia. In England, as twinned...Keno Hill Mines, and fine examples from the Husky mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory. In the USA, in Nevada, as...Chañarcillo, south of Copiapó, Atacama, Chile. In Bolivia, from Colquechaca, Potosı́. At San Cristobal...Cristobal, Peru. From Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Name: In honor of the Archduke Victor Stephan (1817–1867)
Report (issue)
oxidized portions of mineral deposits. Association: Acanthite, chlorargyrite, embolite, silver sulfosalts, gold...(Joachimsthal), Czech Republic. In Italy, from Monte Narba, Sarrabus, Sardinia. In the USA, on the Keweenaw...Co., Colorado; and in Arizona, in the Silver King mine, Pinal Co. In Canada, in large amounts from Cobalt;...Chañarcillo, south of Copiapó, Atacama, Chile. In Australia, at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Name:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
flattened on { 11 1 }. areas, including much of western South America, specifically that portion domCrystals rarely...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...collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the
Book
(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...comparative ethnology include areas of North and South America and of Polynesia for comparison. The Museum...Tetrahedrite Tetrahedrite Hessite Hauchecornite Galena Acanthite Manganite Hematite Skutterudite Zinckenite Stephanite...Senarmontite Cassiterite Cassiterite Manganite Scheelite South Africa St Andreasberg, Harz, FRG Shikoku, Japan...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...secondary cementation origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and...to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...secondary cementation origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and...to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Book (edition)
HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier... complicates identification (e.g., argentite-acanthite). - The Compositional Series notes related minerals...due to decreasing temperature (e.g., argentite-acanthite). • Lamellar pressure twins, commonly of equal...(medium grey, large grain) to form an argentite/acanthite reaction rim (darker grey); the formation of such...forms yes strong red Stilleite Mottramite Acanthite Hollandite mosaic and polysynthetic Crednerite
Journal (issue)
situation seems to have been noted at the Husky mine in Canada. Regarding the current status of this...out of the same areas we mentioned for silver, acanthite, pyrargyrite and polybasite. This suite of minerals...Colorado Calumet claims all the way to the Two Point mine. As far as I know, this area is un-comparable to...&it (swth) from 1-405. On Bristol - Just South of the South Cowl Plaza Shopping Center. MartinZinn Expositions...Cornwall. England and good crystals at Monte Narba, Sardinia, Italy. But, as with all the other minerals
Book (edition)
Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford – Paris San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore – Sydney – Tokyo Elsevier...Rickardite II/B.04-20 Argentite II/B.05-02 II/B.05-10 Acanthite Naumannite II/B.05-30 Hessite II/B.05-40 Jalpaite...reaction rim of argentite (greenish grey); Monte Narba, Sardinia, Italy [b]; Nic. // Anhedral silver (medium...scratches) in galena (dark, some scratches); Monte Narba, Sardinia, Italy [b]; Nic. + Myrmekitic intergrowth of...(light cream); West Driefontein, Johannesburg, South Africa [c]; Nic. // Irregular gold grain (yellow)
Book (volume)
and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...preferred position. in the figure labeled 461 San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. insert...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...Mining Soc. South Africa, J. /Free. Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, Johannesburg
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa
Book (edition)
MEXICO GOLD AND : SILVER COPPER Mercury TIN SOUTH AMERICA . BRAZIL GoLmp OrHER . METALS Cyalibal...Penney : 11.—Profile section across ‘Last Chance”. Mine, Utah 12.—Section of Argentiferous Sandstone bed...Knockmahon, tee 37.—Fragment of lode, Bergmannstrost Mine, Clausthal 38.—“ Pebble,” Huelgoét. 39.—Section...Extended Hustlers’ Mins 55.—Section across New Chum Mine 56.—Diagrammatic section across Broken Hill Tage...Varaldso ; after Vogt 67.—Cross-section of the “South Vein” at Rio Tinto 68.—Standard Lode and Carbonas
Book (edition)
from the poles of the spherical projection to the south pole of the sphere. The points in which these lines...will fall the stereographic projecAll north and south tion. meridians of the spherical projection will...locate the pole of a face lying on a known north and south great circle, (1) angular distance from the center...of a great circle which is not a north (2) and south meridian or the equator. The projections of three...locate the position of the pole of not a north and south meridian, its 36 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY II s i
Book (edition)
Ernest H. Nickel, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia, and Monte C. Nichols published by Aleph Enterprises, Box 213...England. Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of Mineralogy...Short Hills, New Jersey. Renato Pagano: Milan, Italy. Ole V. Petersen: Geologisk Museum, Copenhagen,...Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...10. India 11. South east Asia 12. Middle East 13. African Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15
Book
limited to a small district near Muzo in Colombia, South America. Minerals containing specific groups of...feet long and 5 feet in diameter; Black Hills, South Dakota. Transparent aquamarine crystal; weight 243...long; weight estimated at 90 tons; Etta Mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. PHLOGOPITE MICA: Crystal 33 feet...14 feet wide; weight approximately 90 tons; Lacy Mine, Ontario, Canada. QUARTZ: Milky white crystal; close...atoms. One-ton crystal; Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, South Dakota. COLUMBITE: Transparent crystals;
Book
places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border... galenobismuthite and bismuthinite in Vulcano, Italy, described by B E R NAUER (1939). I n the hydrothermal...described especially by B E R N A U E R from Vulcano, Italy (1939). A late Tertiary deposit of this type is
 
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