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Acanthite from
Sunshine Mine, Pershing 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 Sunshine Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:277497
Long-form Identifier:1:3:277497:8
GUID (UUID V4):933dc250-4234-4940-9a87-31e5c0da04b0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side...LEVYNE, PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular...grossular, malachite, powellite, and scheelite. Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim...and stilbite. Copper Bo~' mine, Seven Devils district: epidote. Helena mine (reportedly just northwest
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
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Peak Range Wilderness Study Area, Esmeralda County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1731-G Chapter...Peak Range Wilderness Study Area, Esmeralda County, Nevada By WILLIAM J. KEITH, ROBERT L. TURNER, RICHARD...MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: CENTRAL NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...Peak Range Wilderness Study Area, Esmeralda County, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1731-G Bibliography...: I 19.3:1731-G 1. Mines and mineral resources Nevada Silver Peak Range Wilderness. 2. Silver Peak Range
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
Journal (issue)
Mine Vol. 35 No. 1 January 2019 News The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Albert Edward Foote...Congress representing the Anti-Monopoly Party (Sioux County Herald I 874). Luckily, he was unsuccessful at...NewYork. Silver Ore from the Eagle Mine Red Cliff District, Eagle County, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet...location. The specimen came from the well-known Eagle Mine (fig. 2 on page 3) of Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary...subsidiary of New Jersey Zinc Company. The mine is located at Gilman, Red Cliff District (also known as
Book (edition)
or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a...there may be others. The biggest problems are with mine names and occasional1y mining district names. Mining...come from one ore zone, but not others. So if the mine is still operating, some of the minerals may not...Mountains / 52 Part 2. Mineral Descriptions A. Acanthite - Azurite / 97 B. Barite - Brookile / 120 C. Calcite
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moving. Sallie Bassham, the Librarian of the Northern Mine Research Society has kindly agreed to take over...field as you collect - Grid Ref, mine or quarry name, locality in mine or quarry, in situ or loose, diagram...to Professor Schultz. The Mines and Minerals of Nevada, 15 February Another joint meeting, this time...with some superb specimens and enjoyable photos. Nevada is 'the silver state'. Its state mineral is silver...goldfieldite (a Te rich tetrahedrite). Currently mined in Nevada are Au, Ag, Cu, W, Sn, Pb, Zn, As, F, Ba, coal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1995). Calaverite is known from the Star mine in Montgomery County, North Carolina, where it occurs rarely...sections of ores from the Royal Vindicator mine, Haralson County, and the Consolidated and Singleton mines...mines of the Dahlonega district, Lumpkin County, Georgia. Although similarly almost unknown in the north-central...lathlike crytstals in quartz at Rib Mountain, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Calaverite is an important ore mineral...districts. It is best known from Cripple Creek, Teller County, where it is the most abundant telluride in those
Report (issue)
00 99.73 100.00 (1) Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. (2) Kalgoorlie, Australia. (3) (Au, Ag)2 Te4 with...calaverite, krennerite, altaite, hessite, petzite, acanthite, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, quartz...Russia. In Canada, from the Dome mine, Porcupine, Ontario. In the USA, in California, at the Melones and...and important in the Magnolia, Gold Hill, and Sunshine districts, Boulder Co., and elsewhere; in the...from the Mayflower mine, Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison Co., and the at Gies mine, Judith Mountains,
Report (issue)
........ Black Colt mine.......................................... Comstock mine............................. Lady Franklin mine....................................... Superior mine.........................mines..................................... Iron King mine........................................... Brush...States mines......................... Ingersoil mine........................................... 1 1...deposits Continued Gypsy mine............................................... Virginia mine..................
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..... 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico .....................................Hanson Ilmenite expitaxial on bixbyite from Sierra County, New Mexico .....................................COVER: FLUORITE from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico. (See the article on page 47.) The...from a single locality: smithsonite from the Kelly mine. Probably ever since the 1860’s, when “Old Hutch”
Report (issue)
Paragenesis of the Pride of America Mine, Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colorado by Richard F. Sanford........... Geology of the mine area..................................... Mine workings and production history...PARAGENESIS OF THE PRIDE OF AMERICA MINE, LAKE CITY, HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO By Richard F. Sanford,...and Hugh O'Brien ABSTRACT The Pride of America Mine exposes two classic fissure-type veins in the Eureka...small mine in the Galena District principally produced Ag, which occurs in freibergite, acanthite, and
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Wemer Lieber... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...type localities, and an alphabetical cross-index by mine name. T INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1976 a group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
galena and epithermal Ag minerals that include acanthite, stephanite, and polybasite. Introduction EARLY...177°C, temperature of bcc-Ag S transition to acanthite 2 Mia Prg bcc Ag2S 1 0361-0128/98/000/000-00...hexagonally close-packed (hcp) modifications of acanthite and chalcolcite produced by secondorder transitions... nonquenchable high-temperature polymorph of acanthite) and Sb2S3 (stibnite, Stb) at 400° and 275°C to...vein of the Sunshine mine, from the Lucky Friday and Gold Hunter veins of the Lucky Friday mine, and from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ⫹ .00 doi:10...28430 NE 47th Place, Redmond, Washington 98053-8841 USA (Received March 3, 2004; accepted in revised form...gaps observed in high-Ag fahlores from the Husky Mine (Yukon, Canada) approximate a temperature of 170°C...Ag-Pb-Zn ores from the Coeur d’Alene district, Idaho, USA and Julcani, Peru. Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd...hydrothermal ore deposits and for resource evaluation by mine geologists. It is a database of end-member Gibbs
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
Report (issue)
Contact t Fault Bar and ball on downthrown side V9 Mine 1. Frank Hough 2. Polar Star 3. Mammoth 4. Palmetto...the study area, in the vicinity of the Sunnyside mine (fig. 2), where it intersects faults thought to...of exploration. The Frank Hough mine (fig. 3) was probably the only mine to produce a substantial profit...deposit (Kelley, 1946). In contrast, the Polar Star mine (fig. 3), which was the second largest producer...replacement mineralization unique to the Frank Hough mine; (2) quartz-silverlead-zinc-copper veins that contain
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Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn photo. 6 Supplement... Summit County, Colorado. Ken Donn photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall...Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958; Ken Donn photo. Chalcedony on chrysocolla...azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken Donn photo. Cerussite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 14:12 03 February 2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas...(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...(chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold, hematite...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite
Book
museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone
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Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ........minrec.org Front Cover WULFENITE from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico; 6.6 cm...gathering around a natural amphitheater amid the mine buildings and headframes in order to hear what we...Mexico-II having been devoted to the famous Ojuela mine). Covered here are four more important and prolific...and Arizona Company, then managed the New Cornelia mine at Ajo with great success. While still working for
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Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it... N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg- und Huttenmannische Zeitung, Frei­ burg...(Laubanite?) Type Locality: near Manhattan, Nye County This species was never recognized by anyone except
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal...Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll The Cameron Area 85 Breccia...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee
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COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful...crystallized species, unusual associations, or individual mine localities. Similarly, the popular journals are
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to 22nvn from 3 ---- - - ----- Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED...cm olivenite specimen, said to be from Tincroft mine, but more probably from either Wheal Gorland or...classic Cornish copper secondaries at Ting Tang mine. This includes fine specimens of that most desirable
 
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