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Acanthite from
Miami Mine, Miami-Inspiration deposit, Miami, Miami-Inspiration Mining District, Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Comments:Occurs replacing galena.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Galena
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Miami Mine, Miami-Inspiration deposit, Miami, Miami-Inspiration Mining District, Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:276139
Long-form Identifier:1:3:276139:8
GUID (UUID V4):dd037aac-e558-4a0f-8335-6135fe6cb34d
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
11.2km (7.0 miles) Stonewall Mine (Dime deposit; Stonewall Jackson; Old Stonewall), Dime & Stonewall deposits (Dime-Stonewall veins), Black Peak area, Copper Hill, Globe Hills Mining District, Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Rescue Mine (Rescue vein; Rescue patented claim MS 313), Rescue Canyon, Globe Hills Mining District, Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
18.2km (11.3 miles) Raven group (Apache group; Windy Hill; Silver Lake; Silver Plume; Old Whelan property), Richmond Basin Mining District, Apache Peaks, Gila County, Arizona, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) Richmond Basin, Richmond Basin Mining District, Apache Peaks, Gila County, Arizona, USA
19.7km (12.3 miles) Pioneer Mine (Great Republic Mine; Old Pioneer; White Metal; White Metal Mining Co. claims; Great Republic patent MS 370; Devine property; Pioneer South patent MS 374), Pioneer Mountain, Pinal Mountains Mining District, Pinal Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
20.7km (12.9 miles) Silver King Mine, Comstock Wash, Kings Crown Peak area, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
22.6km (14.1 miles) Silver Creek Mine (Hanna property; Old McGraw property; Manifest Mining Co. claims), El Capitan Mountain, El Capitan Mining District, Mescal Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
23.1km (14.4 miles) Belmont Mine (Belmont Copper property; Goodwin Mine; Monte Carlo claim; Smith lease; Doggs Mine; Lone Star Mine), Belmont Canyon, Apache Leap, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Stonewall Jackson Mine (McMillan Silver Mines group; McMillan-Stonewall Mine; Stonewall Jackson-Little Mac Mine), McMillanville Mining District (McMillanville), Globe Hills Mining District, Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
33.9km (21.0 miles) Orphan Boy Mine (Sunset Mine; Silver Queen Mine), Bell Butte area, Mineral Mountain Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
References
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Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals-Arizona. I. Anthony, John W (John Williams), 1920-. QE375...HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a
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/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings...Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard...Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose
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0.C D.?~•.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee...Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
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OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
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LES PRESMYk PO Box 1273 Gilbert, Arizona 85299 presmyk@cox.net JOHN TAYLOR 209 Sherwood way Bloomington...Figure 2 (below). The Ajo, Arizona, townsite and smelter complex ca. 1910. Arizona 100 years of Statehood...Statehood 150 years of Mining As Captured by Early Photographers A rizona’s history as a territory was considerably...Apaches and other lawless individuals roamed the Arizona deserts and mountains until the mid1870s, when...copper ore into railcars at the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona. Before trucks became commonplace, railroads
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of...University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the long-standing booklet on MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic...Dr. Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions...released in its Fourth Edition as Bulletin 181, Arizona Bureau of Mines. The comprehensive coverage of
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Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...EXPOSITIONS, Ll.C. ARIZONA * Show Schedule * FEBRUARY 2 - 16, 2008 MINERAL ARIZONA MINERAL & FOSSIL...not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will
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Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only in some...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded...the moniker: “Boron Moron.” Rockhounding in Ajo, Arizona, 1948. minerals from the But Rock persevered...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans
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RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was
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Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit...Volume Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona ................................Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
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M. HONEA D e p a r t m e n t of G e o l o g y , Miami University, Ox£ord, Ohio, U. S. A. The system Ag--Sb--S...compositions on the AgzS--Sb2S a join, but in the Cobalt district, Ontario, it is frequently intergrown with allargentum...antimonial silver from the Temiskaming mine, Cobalt district, which contained 6.78 wt. percent antimony...miargyrite, or stibnite. Agantbite-argentite(AgzS). Acanthite is the lowtemperature monoclinic polymorph of...mixtures) to the body-centered cubic polymorph. Acanthite is essentially stoichiometric Ag=S. Argentite
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